ii2 THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I 



Man from Everywhere, the chickens, and the location 

 of the rose beds. She is surprisingly keen about flowers, 

 considering that it is quite ten years since her own home 

 in the country was broken up, but then I think this is 

 the sort of knowledge that stays by one the longest of 

 all. I hope that I have succeeded in convincing her 

 that The Man is not company to be bothered about, 

 but a comfortable family institution to come and go as 

 he likes, to be taken easily and not too seriously. 



When the moon disappeared beyond the river 

 woods, we went to the southwest porch, and there 

 decided that the piece of lawn where we had some 

 uninteresting foliage beds one summer was the best 

 place for the roses and we might possibly have a trellis 

 across the north wall for climbers. Would you plant 

 roses in rows or small separate beds ? And how about 

 the soil? But perhaps the plan you are sending me 

 will explain all this. 



It was more than an hour before the men returned, 

 and, not having found Barney, Bart had signed for the 

 poultry in order to leave the express agent free to go 

 home, and had left word at the stable for them to send 

 the crates up as soon as the long wagon returned from 

 Leighton, whither it had gone with trunks. 



After much discussion we decided that the fowls 



