The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . June, and verypleasant was the smell of the clean wetpine drying in the blossom ladened air. Some inexpensive couch covers ofa stamped cotton, from a Japaneseshop, cost one dollar each. Three orfour packing boxes, fitted with shelvesby the village carpenter and drapedwith chintz brought from the city,a coat of forest-green paint on somepine tables and a wash bench, dark redpaint and more of the chintz on anold settee and the more dilapidatedof the old chairs, a few bright Japaneselanterns, hung in dark corners of t
The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . June, and verypleasant was the smell of the clean wetpine drying in the blossom ladened air. Some inexpensive couch covers ofa stamped cotton, from a Japaneseshop, cost one dollar each. Three orfour packing boxes, fitted with shelvesby the village carpenter and drapedwith chintz brought from the city,a coat of forest-green paint on somepine tables and a wash bench, dark redpaint and more of the chintz on anold settee and the more dilapidatedof the old chairs, a few bright Japaneselanterns, hung in dark corners of therafters, and we had a very habitablecamp at slight expense. There were two of us and a our Phyllis loved the meals were served under the hick-ories, when the weather was pleasant,and in the shelter of the porch whenit rained. We lived out of doors that summer,fairly Soaking in the bracing air,the beauty and the stillness, and wentback to town in vigorous conditionfor the winter work and wear. Ourfour months in the little cottage hadbeen a [SOUTHEAST CORNER OF HOME IN THE HICKORIES, SHOWING DETAILS OF WINDOWS AND SHRUBBERY. OUR HOME UNDER THE HICKORIES 669 After searching from the South Jerseycoast to Murray Bay and back we hadat last found what we wanted. Thenwe began to talk about buying it,instead of renting another season. The price was reasonable, but whyany one should want it at all, wayout in the fields, and so far short ofstandards of gentility, seemed an evi-dence of unsound mind. Even thethrifty villager, who was paid one dollarand a half a day for transplanting wildvines, and to add still more sweet briarsand barberries to the already impene-trable tangle, felt called on to protest. Before buying the place, we consultedwith our carpenter who had done sun-dry odd bits of work for us during ourfirst summer, and had proved honestas man and craftsman, and neigh-borly withal. He pronounced the housewell built, solid in foundation and si
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