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would I aid and abet my amateur — so would I bring a 

 stirrup-cup to my young brave Dunois. Pai'tant pour la 

 Syrie — that is, for the National Rose-Show — he wants in- 

 formation as to boxes and tubes and moss, as to the time 

 of cutting, the method of arrangement ; and he shall re- 

 ceive, in the succeeding chapter, the best which I have to 

 c^ive. 



