XI. 



WE WILL GO TO WORK. 



PERHAPS we have talked long enough on 

 general principles, suggestions at large, and had 

 now better go practically to work and produce 

 that two thousand dollars announced in the 

 opening chapter. I will commence consistently 

 with my theory, in August of '70, but will speak 

 only of such operations as brought returns the 

 following year. 



Our old-fashioned one o'clock dinner is over, 

 and books now mean dyspepsia, but gardening, 

 as I practise it, is health. In the first place, I 

 repair to the ancient central apple-tree to pro- 

 vide strategy. 



Manufacturing it, as did the generals of the 



