44 APRIL 



in many establishments that I believe there are 

 countless employers who do not even know that 

 they have a garden boy. One in whom I was 

 interested found a situation with some people not 

 many miles distant, and six months later, when 

 I was making a visit of ceremony, I inquired for 

 the boy, and hoped that he was a good boy and 

 did his work well. My hostess looked puzzled, and 

 said she did not think they had a garden boy ; but 

 I persisted with her, and she asked me if by any 

 chance I could remember his name. By some 

 fortunate chance I could ; his name was Dick Giles, 

 and she turned to her daughter and asked if there 

 was a boy, a garden boy, on the place named Dick 

 Giles. The daughter was inclined to think there 

 was not, but the master of the house, when appealed 

 to, said he fancied he recollected the word " boy " 

 on the wage list. But not even from him was I 

 able to discover whether the boy was a good boy, 

 or a clever boy, or an industrious boy, or even if he 

 was the very boy I was inquiring for, though I 

 knew that of this last there could be no doubt, for 

 Dick Giles was better acquainted with his employers 

 than they with him. 



If we could hear the garden boy's opinion of 

 ourselves we should be astonished at its truth and 

 directness. No one is a better judge of his master, 

 qua man, or of his mistress, qiid woman, than he. 

 He is a profound thinker, and this of necessity, for 

 he is able but infrequently to express himself in 

 words, lest a carrot or other convenient missile 

 should be hurled by Sterculus at his head, to 

 remind him that garden boys should hold their 



