52 MY GARDEN HOW IT GREW. 



seem, and made the most of it. Not only 

 would they grow with undaunted vijor through 

 the noonday heat, when my vegetables were 

 wilting, but they made the most rapid night 

 marches. In consequence I would, in a few 

 days, be perfectly aghast, and work beyond my 

 strength to regain lost ground. I found this 

 would not answer ; so I employed a worthy 

 German, by name of Breakbill, to supplement 

 my labors, but soon found that his bill would 

 break me, for the provident Teuton naturally 

 reasoned that a job in a small garden, like a 

 small baby, needed much nursing. Unless he 

 jsed great precaution he would hoe a short row 

 through unprofitably quick. I soon found that 

 at this rate the market would be the cheapest 

 place for vegetables, and those sent from Now 

 Vork were scarcely less wilted than such as I 

 could raise in my hot sand. 



But the fire burned and smouldered, and 



