46 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



tural papers that will not bear the 

 strictest scientific investigation ; nothing 

 that the youngest child cannot under 

 stand and cry for; nothing that the 

 oldest and wisest men will not need to 

 study with care. 



I need not add, that the care of a gar 

 den with this hoe becomes the merest 

 pastime. I would not be without one 

 for a single night. The only danger is, 

 that you may rather make an idol of the 

 hoe, and somewhat neglect your garden 

 in explaining it, and fooling about with 

 it. I almost think, that, with one of 

 these in the hands of an ordinary day- 

 laborer, you might see at night where 

 he had been working. 



Let us have peas. I have been a 

 zealous advocate of the birds. I have 

 rejoiced in their multiplication. I have 

 endured their concerts at four o clock in 

 the morning without a murmur. Let 



