48 MAEY'S GAEDEN AND HOW IT GEEW 



"That is a most interesting contrivance," said 

 Herr Trommel. 



"Now, you hold this clothes-pin here," said the 

 under-gardener, briskly, "while I walk toward the 

 fence and unroll the string, just as 

 if you were holding a kite for me 

 to fly. 1 You can't stick the clothes- 

 pin in first and then stretch the 

 string, because it pulls out," she 

 explained. 



The old gardener obediently did 

 as he was bid -stooped down and 

 held the clothes-pin until the string 

 was pulled straight and the pin 

 at the other end driven in and 

 stamped upon. 



"I think he would go in easier if you should cut 

 off one leg," suggested Mr. Trommel, looking reflec- 

 tively at the clothes-pin in his hand. 



"Perhaps he would," said Mary, brightening. 

 "Will you cut it off for me? I have only scissors." 

 "You must make the trench deeper than that, 

 little one j we must have it six inches. The seeds 

 like to be in deep, where it is cool and moist. You 

 know, we put the manure far down at the bottom 



