WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 107 



is full of water, he quits it. These facts, 

 with the drawings of the water and the 

 toads, are at the service of the distinguished 

 scientists of Albany in New York, who were 

 so much impressed by the Cardiff Giant. 



The domestic cow is another animal whose 

 ways I have a chance to study, and also to 

 obliterate in the garden. One of my neigh- 

 bors has a cow, but no land ; and he seems 

 desirous to pasture her on the surface of the 

 land of other people, a very reasonable de- 

 sire. The man proposed that he should be 

 allowed to cut the grass from my grounds 

 for his cow. I knew the cow, having often 

 had her in my garden ; knew her gait and 

 the size of her feet, which struck me as a 

 little large for the size of the body. Having 

 no cow myself, but acquaintance with mv 

 neighbor's, I told him that I thought it woidd 

 be fair for him to have the grass. He was, 

 therefore, to keep the grass nicely cut, and 

 to keep his cow at home. I waited some 

 time after the grass needed cutting ; and, as 

 my neighbor did not appear, I hired it cut. 



