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home, and Polly says it is a perfect match, 

 and looks so pleased, and holds it up with 

 the work, at arm's length, and turns her 

 head one side, and then takes her needle 

 and works it in ? Working in, I can see, 

 my own obligingness and amiability with 

 every stitch. Five cents is dirt cheap for 

 such a pleasure. 



The things I may do in my garden mul- 

 tiply on my vision. How r fascinating have 

 the catalogues of the nurserymen become ! 

 Can I raise all those beautiful varieties, each 

 one of which is preferable to the other? 

 Shall I try all the kinds of grapes, and all 

 the sorts of pears ? I have already fifteen 

 varieties of strawberries (vines) ; and I have 

 no idea that I have hit the right one. Must 

 I subscribe to all the magazines and weekly 

 papers which offer premiums of the best 

 vines? Oh, that all the strawberries were 

 rolled into one, that I could enclose all its 

 lusciousness in one bite ! Oh, for the good 

 old days when a strawberry was a straw- 

 berry, and there was no perplexity about it ! 



