OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



impossible to keep up this appearance of in- 

 difference another second "second" did I 

 say? the minutest fraction of a second is 

 more than time enough for his decisive 

 action when once his mind is made up, and 

 his snaky little tongue has been thrust out, 

 the worm gathered in and swallowed, and 

 he has resumed his former stolid air of in- 

 difference before you are even quite sure 

 you have seen aright. As for the worm, it 

 is his ultimate destiny to be eaten by some- 

 thing sooner or later, anyway, so we need 

 not waste any sympathy on him. 



But there are other enemies more difficult 

 to deal with than the leaf-eating worms. 

 One of the most exasperating of these is 

 the repulsive white grub, which subsequently 

 becomes the well-known " June Bug " 

 that big, stupid, black beetle which blunders 

 into the house on warm June evenings, 

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