The Rescue of an Old Place 



phy, and the vista through the bushes 

 opens out a moral perspective. 



It is only by what we suffer that we 

 learn what is worth while, and, judging by 

 the amount of suffering our amateur gar- 

 dening gives us, we ought in time to have 

 the wisdom of Solomon, which, ranging 

 from the Cedar of Lebanon to the Hyssop 

 on the wall, must have given him a good 

 deal to undergo. No wonder that he dis- 

 covered that "all is vanity." Probably it 

 was borne in upon him by finding a borer 

 in his own pet Cedar, or a caterpillar crawl- 

 ing over the remains of his last Hyssop. 



We, struggling along after that illustri- 

 ous gardener of Israel, have at least mas- 

 tered one lesson, the important one that 

 Nature, the rudest of task - mistresses, 

 takes pains early to impress upon her 

 pupils, sternly reiterating, 



I teach by killing, let the others learn ! 

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