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tures — a pet lamb; the constant companion of the 

 farm-wife, as she weeded and watered her loved gar- 

 den. Her husband says, "He seems to think folks 

 are stealing her flowers, if they stop to look." The 

 wife and mother of these three great men has gone 

 from her garden forever ; but a tenderness for all 



The Peacock in His Pride. 



that she loved makes them not only care for her 

 flowers, but keeps this rampant guardian of the gar- 

 den at the kitchen door, just as she kept him when 

 he was a little lamb. I knew this New England 

 farmer's wife, a noble woman, of infinite tenderness, 

 strength, and endurance; a lover of trees and flowers 

 and all living things, and I marvel not that they 

 keep her memory green. 



