142 THE FRIENDSHIP OF NATURE 



You may grow, however, tender peas 

 in plenty, and all the vegetables that 

 must go direct from earth to table to 

 preserve their flavour; only remember 

 when you plant the lettuce out, to 

 dedicate every fourth head to the wild 

 rabbits, who, even while you plant, are 

 twitching their tawny ears under the 

 bushes, and then you will suffer no 

 disappointment. Once in a time a 

 gardener-naturalist may drift to you, 

 and your garden will then entertain 

 a kindred spirit. Such a man came 

 to this garden, a young Dane, full of 

 northern legend and sentiment, recog- 

 nizing through rough and varied work 

 the motive of the place, — like drawing 

 like; and with him, a blonde-haired, 

 laughing wife, and a wee daughter 

 called Zinnia, for the gay flowers, and 

 he found time to steal among the trees 

 in the June dawns to share in the 



