WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 14! 



tops. Then man can go nowhere that "pusley" 

 will not attend him. Though he camp on the 

 Upper Au Sable, or penetrate the forest where 

 rolls the Allegash, and hears no sound save his 

 own allegations, he will not escape it. It has 

 entered the happy valley of Keene, although 

 there is yet no church there, and only a feeble 

 school part of the year. Sin travels faster than 

 they that ride in chariots. I take my hoe, and 

 begin ; but I feel that I am warring against 

 something whose roots take hold on H. 



By the time a man gets to be eighty he learns 

 that he is compassed by limitations, and that 

 there has been a natural boundary set to his 

 individual powers. As he goes on in life, he 

 begins to doubt his ability to destroy all evil 

 and to reform all abuses, and to suspect that 

 there will be much left to do after he has done. 

 I stepped into my garden in the spring, not 

 doubting that I should be easily master of the 



