CHAPTEE V. 



ORNAMENTAL PLANTING OUT-BUILDINGS BROOD MARES AND 

 STALLIONS WESTERN PRAIRIES. 



PRECEPTOR. You have been so fortunate in your choice 

 of a stopping place, that I am afraid, while enjoying 

 its comforts, we will be tempted to place too much 

 importance on the good breakfasts and dinners pro- 

 vided for us, and grumble over their absence ; making 

 every one uncomfortable who has anything to do with 

 providing or preparing our provender. The grumbler 

 can make himself more disagreeable to those who are 

 unlucky enough to be brought into contact with him, than 

 any other species of " the miserables" attendant on this 

 life. I have known some unmitigated types of this class, 

 but, on making their acquaintance and finding this to be 

 their true character, have got out of their way and kept 

 out, not caring for any benefit that might accrue from 

 their friendship, so much overbalanced by having to listen 

 to their fault-finding diatribes. But if you will favor me 

 with another of those finely flavored cigars, I will not 

 bore you at present with grumblers, or the mischief they 

 do ; and shall listen with pleasure to the continuation ot 



the history of Farm. Your Scotch proclivities 



ought to have led you to have named it before the first 

 paddock was built or the first furrow turned. 



PUPIL. And a very good plan the Scotch have of 

 naming every farm, no matter how humble. How much 

 better to refer to a place as Burn-braes, Heathery 



