312 CORN AND BEANS, ETC. 



clover-field to bed in a manner simply scandal- 

 ous. Mr. Gough should turn his attention to 

 the bobolinks. 



What a chemist Nature is ! How in the 

 name of all that is wonderful can she manage to 

 give every kind of flower and vegetable a 

 different perfume ? Some of the most homely 

 and useful products of the garden give out 

 odors that are as grateful as those of choice 

 flowers, just as some human lives that are busi- 

 est and fullest of care have still the aroma of 

 peace and rest about them. 



" Well, well," growls some impatient reader, 

 " what has the garden to do with the sense of 

 touch?" 



If you had blistered your hands with a hoe 

 handle, I think you would know, my captious 

 reader It will give you a man's hand instead 

 of a woman's. (Now I have disgusted scores 

 of the white-kid gentry.) I kno\\ modern 



