The popularity of this pleasant method of path-making is, more or less held in check by its cost; but as the expense is mostly accounted for by the skilled workman's time it is one of the things that can be cheaply and quite successfully carried out by the practical amateur. These hints dea\with thg, art in its simplest, but jcertnly not fts least charming form. To begin with, one must possess a large stock of patience, and it is just /as well to have some in reserve—for in the nature of things this is work that will not be hurried.
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