IN THE GARDEN. 



friend's efforts to arouse the latter's ire 

 do not stop at his plants ! They go for 

 his labels as well ! ! 



You will have often found the bases 

 of your stakes supporting pet plants, and 

 your wooden labels, carefully marking 

 the sites of choice bulbs and seeds, eaten 

 through as shown here. It is the work 

 of friend * white ant, ' and he loves above 

 all things the soft ' deal ' wood of our 

 English packing cases. 



In a similar manner of course this 

 creature makes match wood of the posts 

 supporting summer houses, pergolas, 

 jafferey work of all kinds, etc. Inaword, 

 the White Ant is a perfect curse and I am 

 seriously thinking of indenting on the 

 most hard-up Railway Company I can 

 find for old rails to settle once and for 

 all the ever cropping-up question of the 

 pergola posts. 



The Girl, with a grim determination 

 to be even with the Fiend, as she terms 

 him, and a reprehensibly reckless 

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