FREEMASONRY OF DOG-LOVERS 



We were pleased with the anecdote when Loki's Grand- 

 father told us. No introductions, no explanations needed : 

 even our own special doggy dialect instantly apprehended! 

 One touch of Peky makes the whole world kin. 



A divine discontent seems an unavoidable accompaniment 



of garden ambition. The Lady of Villino Loki is always 



furiously disappointed every time she returns homeexcept 



in the Spring. She had, this time, wonderful 



visions of her Madonna Lilies, proudly 



straight against the upper terrace 



wall / of her Blue Border 



foaming blue / of her new 



turf settling down into 



greenness. And, behold, 



the Lilies have got the 



lily disease, drat them! 



the Blue Border never 



will be blue, whatever 



she does / the Anchusas 



have gone back to the 



wild/ and not one drop 



of water has the infant 



turf received through 



three weeks of drought 



since her departure with 



the results that can be 



imagined ! 



Not one of our precious packets of seed 

 have come up ! We once knew a pretty 



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