1C6 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



ing to the dearest friend ; they retire 

 within themselves, and hold communion 

 with one of the most pungent and pene 

 trating manifestations of the moral 

 vegetable world. Happy is said to be 

 the family which can eat onions to 

 gether. They are, for the time being, 

 separate from the world, and have a 

 harmony of aspiration. There is a hint 

 here for the reformers. Let them 

 become apostles&quot; of the onion ; let them 

 eat, and preach it to their fellows, and 

 circulate tracts of it in the form of 

 seeds. In the onion is the hope of 

 universal brotherhood. If all men will 

 eat onions at all times, they will come 

 into a universal sympathy. Look at 

 Italy. I hope I am not mistaken as to 

 the cause of her unity. It was the 

 Reds who preached the gospel which 

 made it possible. All the Reds of 

 Europe, all the sworn devotees of the 



