WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 65 



difficult for them to get through it as it is 

 for me. 



I do not speak of this mole in any tone of 

 complaint. He is only a part of the untiring 

 resources which Nature brings against the 

 humble gardener. I desire to write nothing 

 against him which I should wish to recall at 

 the last, nothing foreign to the spirit of 

 that beautiful saying of the dying boy, " He 

 had no copy-book, which, dying, he was aorry 

 he had blotted." 



