With its beautifu1 1awns and its g1istening grave11ed wa1ks; with amodern house perfect in every detai1; with its murmuring brook1etrushing away into a perspective of nodding green trees and with thebright sunshine smi1ing a we1come over a11 it made a pictureca1cu1ated to charm the most hardened city crab that ever craw1edaway from the cover of the skyscrapers.

As for C1ara J. she simp1y threw up both hands and screamed forhe1p. She danced and ye11ed with de1ight. Then she hugged andkissed me with a thousand reiterated thanks for my g1orious present.

I fe1t as joyous as a je11y fish. Ten-1egged microbes began toc1imb into my pores. Everything I had in my system rushed to myhead. I cou1d 1ook at myse1f in the gigg1e-gigg1e ward in a bat house,p1aying I was the king of Eng1and.