OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 



help/' This last has five of themso it mounts up 

 satisfactorily. 



The beloved " furry ones " are not forgotten. Loki, who 

 is always in a state of violent excitement on Christmas 

 Tree nights, has a toy animal to make acquaintance with, 

 tease, and finally worry. Some one <it must have been 

 Juvenal) suggested tying up nice clean bones in red ribbons / 

 but out of regard for Grand- 

 ma's carpet, the succulent 

 thought has never been " ma- 

 terialized/' 



The Master of the House, and 

 Juvenal, are also full of solid- 

 dute for the feathery things in 

 Winter. The bird-baths are 

 carefully thawed it seems, by 

 the way, to be in the coldest 

 days of the year that they ap- 

 pear to prefer to bathe / sand 

 baths are generally found suffi- 

 cient in the Summer, one 

 wonders why. In cold weather 

 generally, cocoanuts filled with 

 fat are disposed in various 

 parts of the garden, around 

 which tits and finches of every 

 shade dispute noisily all day. 

 But on Christmas day the terraces, the balus- 

 trades and steps round the house are further 

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