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When your cousin from another state comes to visit you this spring the first thing you will do will be to take him for a Saturday afternoon walk in the park. The grass is green and there is a large field set apart for playing ball. The fountain plays into a basin where there are darting gold fish, and at one end of the park is a zoo with caged bears, and lions, and a deer preserve. Everywhere in the park are stately old trees, and beds of bright flowers. On the way home from the park you will take your cousin across the new stone railroad bridge and show him the town hall with its gilded weather vane.

"What a beautiful place to live in!" your cousin exclaims when you reach home.

But your town was not always so sightly as it is now. Many years ago it began to be a town in a very plain, useful kind of way. Its first building was a farmhouse, or a sawmill, or a gristmill. Then the farmer or the miller had so much work to do that he was obliged to hire some helpers, and these workmen built homes for themselves. They liked to be neighborly and visit each Rh