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Excerpt from Putnam Place
Iopping off of dead branches; many are the hidden bands and props; many the nicely concealed scars of withered limbs; one fract ared tree-trunk has been securely bricked up, and the knot-holes have received a sort of skilful dental work. There is a good deal of discreet make-up in these elm-trees' aspect of well-preserved and comely Old age. Behind the trees stand the houses, with yards in neighborly companionship, yet with the individuality of each preserved and ren dered definite by the variously patterned fences. Thus, before the house of the Hale girls, at the corner next the street, is a white lattice fence. It has been cut away in part, to accommodate an imperious old elm that, with the knowledge that now men folk pass no more in and out of the door under the arbor of honeysuckle, but that only two maiden sisters are left to ex postulate with an elm's inroads, has de manded that the little front yard be used for no purpose but to protect its roots, 8.
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