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4 about 17-35 years but was born in Sharon, Mass. and brought up in Virginia, says that twenty-five years ago a lawn was unheard of here. Well, I guess that is enough for that. We do have breezes coming in to us over the bay almost constantly. As I sit here typing, I can look out across the lawn, down over the banking to the water, with nothing between but trees, lawn, and a tangle of greenery over the banking and below, reaching out to the water's edge, where the cranes, herons and other birds often stand when the tide it out. Squirrels play over the roofs and up and down the trees just as they do in your yard, and blue jays squeak [[strikethrough]] h [[strikethrough]] just the same. But what I especially enjoy in the bird life is the song of the mocking bird. I never tire of his different tunes, late at night, all day long, and early morn-