10 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



fears, which are usually realized ; and so 

 a great moral discipline is worked out 

 for you. 



Now, there is my corn, two or three 

 inches high this ,18th of May, and ap 

 parently having no fear of a frost. I 

 was hoeing it this morning for the first 

 time, it is not well usually to hoe corn 

 until about the 18th of May, when 

 Polly came out to look at the Lima 

 beans. She seemed to think the poles 

 had come up beautifully. I thought 

 they did look well : they are a fine set 

 of poles, large and well grown, and stand 

 straight. They were inexpensive too. 

 The cheapness came about from my cut- 

 ing them on another man s land, and he 

 did not know it. I have not examined 

 this transaction in the moral light of 

 gardening ; but I know people in this 

 country take great liberties at the polls. 

 Polly noticed that the beans had not 



