From the Rose Of Sharon, for 1916.


Country Life.
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BIZ MISS s. e EDG


Carving and wheeling, twisting and
turning. up hill and down hull. winds the
village road OF Percy-Dale crossing the
mili>stream AT the feet Of every mil. some
times upon broken bridges. and sometimes
through The channel Of the stream itself (;
now turning a short corner through the
meadow redo.ent with strawberries, and
now mourning precip,tious hill whose
summit seems aspiring to the skies. Ex-
cept at broad noon day. the sun never
shines in uubroken sheets over Percy
Dale, for there is always some little glen
lurking in the shadow of a wooded hill,
where the dew fingers in the hearts ofihe
roses I'LL nighfall. and the convolvuIcus
closes not lis flower cup even in the blaze
of noon.


One cannot wander over those hills in
June without shaking down showers O.
:cse leaves at every step; nor walk through
the tali grass of The meadows without,
crushing beneath the feet. the rirest and
reddest straw berries that ever gladdened
The healt of childhood In short, Ma
ture has been both wonderfully lavish and
dainty in her gifts TO Percy,DaIe and a
more romantic little spot exists not in all
this western continent.


If were an artist, / should sketch down
upon the margin o! my page the loveliest
little scene Ia The whole township. 1t is
HSdgkins' Mills Not very euphonious
name for spot SO beautiful but the Yam
KEGS are a literal people. and as the build.
ings were really mills and their proprietor
Joe fiodgkiRs, what name could be more
py aF hnn
The one wk.ch they had bestowed upon it2
Hodgkins' Mills. therefore is the theatre
Of my little story and will give the rea-
der as clear an image Of 1t as my unskllled
language can convey.


Imagine a narrow dell, shut in by
smooth steep hills, pretlily dotted with
trees.on which callle are feeding or resting,
and at the bases of which, in close compan-
ION ship, wind the mill stream aud the
village road /; the former brawIing over
the stones. and flashing in the sunshine; the
latter bordered by soft grass and multitude
OF dalnty wild flowers Bear in mird that
the dell is very narrow. and the hills
very steep; so that il one were to build
house there. he would be obliged 10 place
1t either In the road or upon the stream, or
pearch IT aloft upon the bill side.


Hodgkins' Mills are comprised in one
building. or rather, they are two buildings
covered by the same roof one apartment
leading 70 the other by descent Of stairs.
These mi lis arevery old and black, but
the roof : green with moss. and . most
u 'uxs'.snt growth Of ivy hangs in fessoons
from ils low. jagged caves. Beside the
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