OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



which glance carelessly at my favourite 

 little fancies and remark, " That's an odd 

 idea," and pass on to the next exhibition 

 of my idiosyncrasy with amused tolera- 

 tion, or blank indifference. 



For my part, I like to go my own wild 

 way in my garden, and do things wrong, 

 and find out my mistakes by myself, and 

 I want no instructors beyond Robinson, 

 Henderson, and Bailey, and am glad that 

 even those worthies are well suppressed 

 between their own book covers until such 

 times as I am minded to call them out of 

 my own volition. -An encouraging hus- 

 band who works out of doors himself, and 

 is ready to praise one's failures, and pre- 

 vent one from realizing that they are 

 failures till they have developed into 

 success, and a handy New England man 

 of all work to lend a pair of expert arms 

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