24 MARCH 



scollard enough to judge, nor it don't concern me 

 to know more about it. What I looks at is that 

 time'd ha' bin lost as I'd ought to spend fer God 

 now. That's why I says I was fetched back like 

 Jonah. God took care o' me, an' stopped my 

 wilful waste of days an' seasons afore 'twas too 

 late." 



He turned with dreary determination to his clip- 

 ping. He did not want to have his conclusions 

 combated ; a principle was involved, and his face 

 was set firm. There is nothing more interesting 

 than the getting at a new point of view in some 

 fellow-mortal. 



Sterculus is sowing grass seed in bare and shady 

 places, and is laboriously protecting it from birds 

 with lines of black cotton supported on sticks. 

 We do not find that much of it grows when sown 

 at this season ; the spring droughts of the last 

 years have been too cruel for seeds of many kinds, 

 and the end of August is a better time for grass 

 sowing than now. But there are bare places on 

 the green paths, and turves are difficult to get, so 

 that the second-best course must be resorted to, 

 unsatisfactory as it is likely to be. 



I have a great fancy this year to try masses of 

 cool blossoms in parts of the borders where there 

 are gaps large enough for several clumps together. 

 For instance, in July and August, when the blazing 

 sun is at his fiercest, and the eye shrinks from 

 the pinks and reds and yellows of the gardener's 

 choosing, how soothing would be a mass here of 

 mauve and blue, and there of white and purple 

 generously applied ! So I am planting closely to- 



