8 NO WITCH, BUT A WISE WOMAN. 



ing a handful of tan out of one of the pits that 

 was full of sow-bugs ; and bringing him out of 

 the flower-pot he lived in, she put it before 

 him ; and, as the squire said, he stood like 

 his pointers would have done at a pheasant, 

 only turning his bright eye, and sending 

 out his long tongue and licking the sow- 

 bugs up with a click, one after the other, 

 before they could run out of his reach, and 

 never missing one. It taught me a lesson, 

 if it didn't any body else, and that was, to 

 look into things myself, and not take all for 

 granted people say ; and I believe, if all of 

 us that are gardeners did this, we should 

 find many things we think bad, like little 

 birds, frogs, toads, efts, lizards, and snakes, 

 too, are good things in their places. 



I was glad to find my old friend come 

 off so well; for I couldn't have borne to 

 have stopped where I was without her ; and 

 we went on very comfortably together till 

 she died, when for a while it was like losing 

 my mother again, I was so very lonely. 



Let all young gardeners set great store 

 by a good mother ; they can have but one, 

 and if that one be but such as mine was, 

 they have a blessing. What would have 



