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““You have some fine large trees here, and I
have been thinking that, with his permission, I
would like to put up a swing on one of them for
these young people.”

“To be sure, sir! there’s nothing to hinder you,
if you would like to do it. Nobody likes to see
children happy better than my good man.”

You may believe that few propositions could
have been more popular with the children than
this of a swing in a beautiful shady wood