CHAPTER VII 



WILD GARDENING 



gardening mania once fully devel- 

 oped is never satisfied, and having 

 vanquished the wall at last, and planted as 

 many other beds, large and small, as I 

 thought the vicinity of the cottage would 

 bear, I looked around for more worlds to 

 conquer. I did not have to seek long, for 

 an invitation presently came from a quiet 

 nook, at some distance from the house, 

 where, in the centre of a small bay of 

 clearing indenting the edge of a forest of 

 spruce and pine trees, stands sentinel a 

 gigantic rock. From beneath this rock 

 oozes a lazy trickle of water not to be 

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