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MARCH 



We did not lose sight of them, and they are glad 

 of us now, and we of them, after divers unhappy 

 experiences with their incompetent or unpleasing 

 successors. It is by no means a difficult thing 



STERCULUS PICUMNUS 



to get a good gardener for a large estate ; it is 

 extraordinarily difficult to get a good gardener for 

 a small one. We tried five in our unhappy year. 

 One drank ; a second neglected his work ; others 

 proved impossible in various respects. The last 



