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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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scent oftepid watermelon for the delicious16 breeze from the sea which greets himon his own piazza, where he can sitthrough the afternoon on a longcushioned chair and watch the yachtssail by, waxing proud in his belief thathe is able to distinguish one from an-other. He thinks of the delightful andnumerous drives in every direction,and of the safe beaches and shadedgroves in the enjoyment of which thehue of healtli will be deepened in thefaces of his children and of his wifeand grown-up daughters, provided theydo not wear veils. He thinks, in short,that he will be delightfully comfort-able ; that his household can be keptamiable by out-of-door amusements,while he enjoys the rest which middle-aged human nature ought to enjoy inthe sweltering season, and that if hechances to feel frisky, he can driveover to dine at the Marblehead Club-House, or feast his eyes on the pink-coated pageantry of an aniseseed hunt.And, not to leave the liner sensibilitiesout in the cold — you may be sure he
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DRAWN BY W. T. SMEDLEY. The Pleasure of Handling the Tiller. Vol. XVI,-2

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