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of place, because they are well suited to their 

 abode. They last even throughout the autumn, and 

 are always gay, provided that they are regularly 

 watered, for the soil is necessarily limited, and daily 

 attention is needed. 



May 28. This is the first day of summer. One 

 might almost say that it is the first day of spring, 

 for that warm week in April is so long past that 

 it hardly counts in one's memory of pleasant days. 

 The sparrows, those most unprincipled of jerry- 



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builders, are making new nests, and in one or 

 two instances are taking forcible possession of the 

 swallows' tenements. Possibly they have suffered 

 from the rains in their early abodes. For the cold, 

 wet spring I am grateful, since in this garden we 

 are apt to suffer from drought. We are over- 

 drained by Nature, which has set us on a southern 

 slope, and by necessity, which has demanded a 

 certain amount of terracing to allow of a croquet 

 ground. 



