ELEVENTH WEEK. 



ERHAPS, after all, it is not what you 

 get out of a garden, but what you put 

 into it, that is the most remunerative. 

 What is a man ? A question frequently asked, 

 and never, so far as I know, satisfactorily an 

 swered. He commonly spends his seventy 

 years, if so many are given him, in getting 

 ready to enjoy himself. How many hours, how 

 many minutes, does one get of that pure con 

 tent which is happiness ? I do not mean lazi 

 ness, which is always discontent ; but that se 

 rene enjoyment, in which all the natural senses 

 have easy play, and the unnatural ones have 

 a holiday. There is probably nothing that has 



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