I2O MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



pastures new, the Sabbath was almost broken : 

 but it was saved by one thing ; it is difficult to 

 be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the 

 other side. The man and his cow have taught 

 me a great lesson, which I shall recall when I 

 keep a cow. I can recommend this cow, if any- 

 body wants one, as a steady boarder, whose 

 keeping will cost the owner little ; but, if her 

 milk is at all like her voice, those who drink it 

 are on the straight road to lunacy. 



I think I have said that we have a game-pre- 

 serve. We keep quails, or try to, in the thickly 

 wooded, bushed, and brushed ravine. This bird 

 is a great favorite with us, dead or alive, on ac- 

 count of its tasteful plumage, its tender flesh, its 

 domestic virtues, and its pleasant piping. Be- 

 sides, although I appreciate toads and cows, and 

 all that sort of thing, I like to have a game-pre- 

 serve more in the English style. And we did. 

 For in July, while the game-law was on, and the 



