THEIR GARDEN VACATION 67 



" Now that we have decided to camp out at home, 

 we are beginning to realize the positive economy of the 

 arrangement, for as we are not going among people, 

 neither are they coming to us, we shall need no new 

 clothes ! 



" We, a pair of natural spendthrifts, are actually 

 turning miserly for the garden's sake. 



"Last night Bart went to the attic with a lantern 

 and dragged from obscurity two frightful misfit suits 

 of the first bicycle cuff-on-the-pants period, that were 

 ripening in the camphor chest for future missionary 

 purposes, announcing that these, together with some 

 flannel shirts, would be his summer outfit, while this 

 morning I went into town and did battle at a sale of 

 substantial, dollar shirt-waists, and turning my back 

 upon all the fascinations of little girls' frills and fur- 

 belows, bought stout gingham for aprons and overalls, 

 into which I shall presently pop the Infant, and thus 

 save both stitches and laundry work. 



" Mother has sent a note expressing her pleasure in 

 our plan and enclosing a cheque for $50, suggesting 

 that it should be put into a birthday rose bed my 

 birthday is in two days in miniature like the old 

 garden at her home on the north Virginia border. I'm 

 sending you the list of such roses as she remembered 



