26 EYE SPY 
came from the " florist's," and cost twenty - five 
cents, with five cents extra for the pot. 
A certain thrifty granger of the writer's ac- 
quaintance was recently converted from the error 
of his attitude towards the " tarnal weeds and 
brush." He was one of the tribe of blind, mis- 
guided vandals who had always deemed it his 
first duty " after hayin' " to invade with his scythe 
all the adjacent roadside, to " tidy things up," re- 
ducing to most unsightly untidiness that glo- 
rious wild garden of August's floral cornucopia, 
that luxuriant tangle of purple eupatorium, the 
early asters, golden-rod, vervains, wild-carrot, and 
meadow-rue. 
He was converted in the sanctuary, where one 
August Sabbath he beheld by the side of the 
pulpit, dignified by a large, beautiful vase, a great 
bouquet of this very tall, purple thoroughwort, 
meadow-rue, and wild -carrot of his abomination, 
and which had actually fallen before his scythe 
on the evening previous. " Well, there !" he ex- 
claimed; " I didn't realize they was so pretty!" 
The beauty of the commonplace often requires 
the aid of the artist as its interpreter, a fact which 
Browning realized when he expressed, through 
Fra Lippo Lippi : 
"We're made so that we love 
First when we see them painted, things which we have passed 
Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see." 
