NOVEMBER 219 



honest countenance. He caught naughty Nancy 

 in his arms. 



" My pretty dear ! " he cried. 



" I never did hold wi' young married folks a-livin' 

 wi' older persons," said Mrs. Werge insistently to 

 a hearer whom she thought, I am sure, exceedingly 

 dull of comprehension. " An' if they likes to take 

 that cottage at the bottom o' the hill I shan't put 

 naught in their way. But I wun't turn out o' 

 thissen, not fer no Meshachs as ever was, an' they's 

 best not try at it." 



For her there was no beautiful idyll, but only 

 a foresight of future personal discomfort. 



Nov. 14. There are plenty of flowers still 

 blooming out of doors. One of the most useful 

 is the Margaret carnation, cut from plants carefully 

 disbudded in late summer to ensure an autumn 

 harvest. Plumbago larpentce, with its lovely blue 

 colouring, is useful for cutting, though it must be 

 grown in some quantity if more than a handful 

 of sprays is required. There are also coreopsis 

 grandiflora and lanceolata, phlox drummondi, pent- 

 stemon barbatus, var. Torreyi, antirrhinum , and a 

 score of other things in small quantity. For 

 although dahlias have been cut down by the frost 

 these hardier things are left. Under glass also 

 there is no lack of blossom, though in less variety. 

 Chrysanthemums are beginning to make a grand 

 show. Charles Davis and Viviand Morel are at 

 their best, and to my mind these are two of the 

 most satisfactory varieties for the amateur. With 



