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glass dish, the cream being in a ditto pitcher ! I 

 set them four and five feet apart. I set my 

 strawberries pretty well apart also. The reason 

 is, to give room for the cows to run through 

 when they break into the garden, as they do 

 sometimes. A cow needs a broader track than 

 a locomotive ; and she generally makes one. I 

 am sometimes astonished to see how big a space 

 in a flower-bed her foot will cover. The rasp 

 berries are called Doolittle and Golden Cap. I 

 don t like the name of the first variety, and, if 

 they do much, shall change it to Silver Top. 

 You never can tell what a thing named Doolittle 

 will do. The one in the Senate changed color, 

 and got sour. They ripen badly, either mil 

 dew, or rot on the bush. They are apt to John- 

 sonize, rot on the stem. I shall watch the 

 Doolittles. 



