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tures a pet lamb; the constant companion of the 

 farm-wife, as she weeded and watered her loved gar- 

 den. Her husband says, " He seems to think folks 

 are stealing her flowers, if they stop to look." The 

 wife and mother of these three great men has gone 

 from her garden forever ; but a tenderness for all 



The Peacock in His Pride. 



that she loved makes them not only care for her 

 flowers, but keeps this rampant guardian of the gar- 

 den at the kitchen door, just as she kept him when 

 he was a little lamb. I knew this New England 

 farmer's wife, a noble woman, of infinite tenderness, 

 strength, and endurance; a lover of trees and flowers 

 and all living things, and I marvel not that they 

 keep her memory green. 



