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point ho commenced laughing, and, between shouts 

 of merriment mid the half-intelligible rq&amp;gt;otition of 

 &quot; exquisite green,&quot; it was ten minuter before he be 

 came comprehensible, &quot;Why, that circlet of exqui 

 site green &quot;hero he burst out again till lie nearly 

 choked &quot;exquisite green is nothing but a lot of 

 wild carrots, that you have watered till you have 

 washed all the life out of them.&quot; 



Alas! this turned out to be true. What became 

 of my seeds I never discovered; whether they were 

 drowned out, or burnt up, or raked away, is hard to 

 tell; certain it is that they have not come up to the 

 present time. Hut the greatest mystery is, why should 

 wild carrots grow in a circle merely to arouse hopes 

 that were to be blasted 4 



