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too bad. But, I tell ye what ye can do. Ye can fill up 

 your empty house with bedding-stuff, and in the spring ye' 11 

 be all right again." 



"But what is bedding-stuff, Mr. McTernan? " 



" Why, verbenas and such." 



" But I know nothing of their culture." 



" Oh, they is easy enough. Ye rig up a sand bed, and 

 I'll send ye the cuttings this day." 



" Thank you, Mr. McTernan, but I cannot pay for 

 them. I have but little money left." 



' ' Never ye mind the pay. If ye make anything ye 

 may give me a cent for each. If ye don't it's all the 

 same." 



Determined to do something to help myself out of my 

 troubles, I had further conversation on the subject, and 

 agreed that he should send me a thousand cuttings the next 

 day. 



Mr. Felix called in the afternoon, and to him I men- 

 tioned the bedding-plant idea. 



"Just the thing," said he, "and tomatoes. You can 

 fill your east house with bedding-plants, and the violet 

 house with, tomato plants. They will sell readily in May 

 and June. If you try it I am sure you can make up your 

 losses, and come out on the first of July right side up. 

 And there are your deutzias and other plants. Bring them 

 from your cellar and place them in the empty house, and 

 force them. Besides I have here some wonderful seeds, 



