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THE GARDEN OF EARTH 



It does not do all, for air and rain and sunshine all 

 share in the work, but it does a great deal. 



You have noticed often the different kinds of soil 

 found in different places. Here it is yellow and sandy ; 

 there it is white and chalky. Here it is red ; there it is 

 grey. Here it is coarse and stony; there it is fine and 



GRAND ST. BERNARD IN WINTER. 



soft. And if we go to the top of a high mountain we 

 come upon great spaces of solid rock, with no soil at 

 all worth mentioning. 



At the Grand St. Bernard for instance, in Switzerland, 

 where the monks live and go out with their big dogs 

 to hunt for travellers lost in the snow, it is all hard 

 granite rock with no covering of earth. Nobody can 

 dig there, for you cannot dig rock. 



