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bands, the simple background of an ordinary farm seems somehow strangely unsuited to them. The Pennsylvania farm has been chosen for a winter home because of its great roomy stone barns, the high roofs where even a giraffe need not stoop, the wealth of out-buildings, and the strong fences. Certainly such farm buildings never sheltered more remarkable stock. The