MARCH 



21 



has been rather " gay " there is nothing more 

 reprehensible in our rustic society than a reputation 

 for gaiety, mild as its form may be and in order 

 to remove him from some other undesirable young 

 men, Jim got him the offer of a place in Patagonia, 

 where, strange to say, many of our lads find work 

 and high wages on the sheep farms. When I heard 

 that he had refused the situation, I went to ask him 



"I'VE SEEN A PIG IN A GARDEN 3 ' 



the reason why. He is a dreamy youth, and he 

 answered me in the intervals of turf- edging as 

 though his heart and his thoughts were alike in a 

 land that is very far off. 



" Ah ! there's many a time as us wants to follow 

 out our own plans, and God has got to fetch us 

 back to do our work all over again in He's way. 

 I be for all the world like Jonah fetched back to 

 work in God's way, not in my way. We've all got 



