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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. 



