. L'esca del paese . Il fiit la storia del pomodoro in tre capitoli 67 le sere affollate di libri e sostanze chimiche, per dormire tardi e torisare presto, ma vivendo in libero e aperto, vicino alla terra madre e le sue meraviglie senza precedenti. Gli uccelli stavano arrivando-- swallows, colpi di lancia, bluebirds, che werelooking per l'acqua e bene sapevamo se lo trovassero avrebbero costruito, diventando vicini e benefattori nella loro distruzione di vita di insetto. Sopra nel diario fra i pini, il socio anziano ha trovato, lastFall, un moncone lungo e snello ed ha scavato in un bacino. Al momento pensava a un bagno di uccelli. Ora

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. The lure of the land . The fniit The tomato story in three chapters 67 The evenings busy with books and chemicals, to bed late and torise early, but living in the free and open, close to mother earth andher unparalleled wonders. the birds were coming-—swallows, thrushes, bluebirds, they werelooking for water and well we knew if they found it they would build, becoming neighbors and benefactors in their destruction of insect life. Over in the diary among the pines, the Senior Partner found, lastFall, a stump long and slender and hollowed into a basin. At the timehe thought of a bird bath. Now was the time to fix it. Mike, hitch up Texas and go into the dairy and bring in thatstump; well pipe it to-night and have a fountain in the front lawn. Cant we go too? came the piping voices of wee ones. Of course you may, and Ill go with you for Mike doesnt knowwhere it is, I replied.. The bird bath stump and fountain 68 All that evening by lantern light the plumbers worked, Mike sup-planting the longshoreman, and a wonderful change for the better itproved to be, for Mike had been trained as a pipe fitter. In fact, heseems a jack of all trades: cobbler, carpenter, plumber, farmer: thatnecessary adjunct to a complete home—a handy man. The stumpwas set by the flag-staff Avhere on Decoration Day the flag had beenraised on its new pole to half mast. (The American Flag has alwayswaved at Peace and Plenty.) A very convenient hole in one of thetap roots admitted of a pipe being run through, while a gas-jet as atip threw a fine spray like a fan shaped flame. The stump was inclinedslightly forward, a kerosene barrel, with the bottom knocked out, sunkat the end of the stump; this filled with large stone received thedrip from the fountain. From our next trip to the beach we returnedladened with bright pebbles which the children dropped in the foun^tain bowl to sparkle in the

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