Memories of Our Cottage
To the DelMedico Family... It’s been an absolute pleasure working with you... Kind Regards, Bruce & Mary Johnson
The Cottage A summer cottage is a place Where floors should squeak and doors should bang. As in and out the children race. And bathing suits to dry should hang The rugs should inexpensive be No room should have a fancy chair And every trinket eye can see Should be the kind that you can spare. A summer cottage should be plain Well built, with roof and rafters stout Safe shelter from the wind and rain And screens to keep mosquitoes out. A place of creaking stairs and floors And not a city mansion proud, A spot where shouts and banging doors And noisy happy children are allowed. Edgar A. Guest
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A summer cottage is a place 2
Where floors should squeak and doors should bang. 3
As in and out the children race. 4
And bathing suits to dry should hang 5
The rugs should inexpensive be 6
No room should have a fancy chair 7
And every trinket eye can see 8
Should be the kind that you can spare. 9
A summer cottage should be plain 10
Well built, with roof and rafters stout 11
Safe shelter from the wind and rain
And screens to keep mosquitoes out.
A place of creaking stairs and floors 16
And not a city mansion proud, 17
A spot where shouts and banging doors 18
And noisy happy children are allowed... 19
14 Pinnacle Avenue, Deanlea Beach 21
Summer I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there. ~ John Vance Cheney
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“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” ~Logan Pearsall Smith
© 2011 Bruce Johnson (www.TheHomeHunt.com)
14 Pinnacle Avenue, Deanlea Beach, Ontario