46 ALL'S NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS. 



and would have kept on for an hour, I dare 

 say, only the squire blew his nose so loud to 

 stop her, as she thought, and bid her not say 

 a word to me, only do as he bid. " And," 

 said he, " if you are glad he should live with 

 me again, you may thank Miss Laura, the 

 governess ; for I always thought Gregory 

 was doing very well, till she told me he was 

 not, and then I meant him to come back 

 when my gardener left; and I would have 

 told him so when I saw him up against the 

 plantation, only he did not seem to care to 

 speak to me." "That shows," said I, "how 

 people don't understand one another, all for 

 want of a word or two. If he 'd only have 

 said he wanted to speak to me, how glad I 

 should have been to have heard him say as 

 much as he did to you !" 



Gardeners, like other people, 'think they 

 are worse off than every body else; and 

 when they see fine clothes, and fine houses 

 and horses, and the like, they fancy them 

 that have them must be happy. So listen 

 to this. 



Before I lost my place, one stormy No- 

 vember evening, about eight o'clock, we were 

 sitting by the fire, when there came a knock 



