MAKING A COMPOST HEAP 



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something on top for Hector or Achilles. Dido had 

 a funeral pyre, too. She made it herself." 



"And Siegfried -he 

 had a funeral pyre," 

 put in Eandolph Find- 

 layson. 



"Siegfried was not 

 put on a compost 

 heap!" said Mr. Trom- 

 mel, indignantly. 



"Why do we pile it 

 up this way?" asked 

 Mary. 



The old gardener 

 sighed. "It is conve- 

 nient. It is to have the 

 ingredients well mixed, 

 so that the Mother Na- 

 ture shall cook them together. The wind and the 

 rain and the sun they cook it for us. Also the 

 compost heap should be turned over at times as 

 you stir good things when they are cooking." 



"Preserves," put in the under-gardener ; "and 

 candy ; you stir candy, too, sometimes." 



"Yes 5 well, this is preserves and candy both for 



