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long rows as straight as could be expected. At the beginning of the 

 row seeds fell thickly only to dwindle to a sorry stream at the end and 

 some were planted too deep. Yet the eagerness with which they were 

 cared for and the intense joy that greeted the first flush of green more 

 than made up to the child's spirit for all the shortcomings that might 

 present themselves to the man who looks for perfection in the works 

 of children. 



Weeding time had come for some and I heard many excitedly discuss- 

 ing as to whether the plant in question really was a weed or one of the 



" \ grotesque scare-crow l-ecpii g guard over a trim little patch." 



precious plants. How should they tell? "Pull it up and look at the 

 seed," one chap suggested very much to the point, or as another put 

 it, "Let it alone till the leaves get bigger and then you can tell all 

 right." Mr. Armstrong himself has had water-pipes laid from the 

 main camps and here boys were at work with long hose, watering their 

 gardens and learning to sprinkle carefully that the small plants might 

 not be washed out of the ground. One boy would not pay proper 

 attention to his work, so promptly another boy came forward and took 

 the hose away from him, for an incompetent man must not be allowed 

 to spoil the farm. Beyond the reach of the stream young farmers 



