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11 our children. It did not suit me as it was then any more than I suppose your parents home suited them when they first commenced life in it but I suppose they improved their home little by little till it became the lovely spot it now is. So I thought we would improve ours till it was to us the loveliest spot on earth. I had the house built back from the road so that we might have a beautiful yard with trees & flowers shrubs & arbors & in imagination I saw them all there. Our lane I also saw shaded on each side by treas, our hose improved & beautified, our garden & orchard blushing & laden with tempting fruit & I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed it. The improvements, the trees, & flowers, the home itself would be made by us & each would have for us a loing thought. We took it as wild