14 WILL YOU WALK INTO MY GARDEN? 



But the love of the soil, like the love of chil- 

 dren, is a very general instinct, and though our 

 artificial life is hostile to both, it will be some 

 time yet before the race will betake itself to city 

 boarding-houses, where ground is not and chil- 

 dren are forbidden. To that class, wLo must 

 be ready for the end of the world, since they 

 would bring it about, we have not a word to 

 say. 



There is still a most respectable audience 

 among those who continue a little homesick for 

 Eden, and who would gladly go backward and 

 approach somewhat to that state when the first 

 man " was put into the garden to dress and to 

 keep it," and his wife had not meddled with 

 th;ngs forbidden. 



There are many having land about them like 

 uninvested money, bringing in little or nothing ; 

 others for whom it is a bad investment, making 

 for them a yearly loss ; still more for whom it is 



