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Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit

CHAPTER XVI
11/15

Now," continued Mary, "about the pictures on the wall.

Can't we consign them all to the attic?
We might use some of the frames.

I'll contribute unframed copies of 'The Angelus' and 'The Gleaners,' by Millet; and I think they would fit into these plain mahogany frames which contain the very old-fashioned set of pictures named respectively 'The Lovers,' 'The Declaration,' 'The Lovers' Quarrel' and 'The Marriage.' They constitute a regular art gallery.
I'll use a couple of the frames for some small Colonial and apple blossom pictures I have, that I just love, by Wallace Nutting.

Mine are all unframed; 'Maiden Reveries,' 'A Canopied Roof' and a 'Ton of Bloom,' I think are sweet.

Those branches of apple trees, covered with a mass of natural-looking pink blossoms, are exquisite." "Yes," remarked Aunt Sarah, "they look exactly like our old Baldwin, Winesap and Cider apple trees in the old, south meadow in the Spring.
And, Mary, we'll discard those two chromos, popular a half century ago, of two beautiful cherubs called respectively, 'Wide Awake' and 'Fast Asleep,' given as premiums to a popular magazine.


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