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place up than have a man in my service that 

 thinks himself too great to do what he's told 

 and when he's told. If I want my land 

 cropped to my fancy, do you think my bailiff 

 is to do as he pleases ? No ; he's too much 

 good sense for that ; but half of you gar- 

 deners mustn't be interfered with ; and that 

 makes gentlemen care so little about chang- 

 ing a gardener." 



He then walked away ; but I soon heard 

 his voice again, and I thought he spoke as 

 if he was angry, and I'm sure my foreman 

 was, for it was he the squire was talking to; 

 but as I didn't see him before the men left 

 work, I didn't hear what it was about just 

 then. 



In the evening, after tea, in comes the 

 foreman into my cottage, looking as red as a 

 turkey-cock, and as stupid as an "owl in day- 

 light, and the king's English had got so hard 

 to him all of a hurry, that he couldn't get some 

 of his words out. " I won't stand it, that I 

 won't," he kept stammering out ; " and you 

 may tell him so to-night, when you go up to 

 the house. I'm as good a man as he is, 

 though he is so rich ; but I don't care ; no, 

 that I don't. . I do my work ; and what 



