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make a meal off the growing tufts in the borders. 

 He taunts the sparrows till they nip off the green 

 tips of the sweet peas just coming out of the 

 ground, and leave them exposed to view, for they 

 do not care to eat them. He has been known to 

 incite garden boys to the plucking up of choice 

 plants, which he slily insinuates to be weeds of 

 loathly sort. He incites the village donkey to 

 bray against its better nature ; and, when we have 

 planted out our seedlings on the strength of the 

 welcome music, we see them fading for weeks 

 under the brilliant unwinking sun, which kills them 

 before they can get established. So Setebos ! 



Let us hope with Caliban that some day the 

 Quiet may catch. and destroy Setebos, or that like- 

 lier he 



" Decrepit may doze, doze, as good as die," 



for we shall never have satisfactory gardens until 

 this happy day arrives. 



