APPENDIX, 



AABDEN-BOOKS commonly terminate in a 

 \f description of garden tools; and something 

 indeed, as to the best means of accomplishing the 

 end their authors have in view, may very naturally 

 be expected. But as the dealers in tools, as well 

 as others in trade, are usually quicksighted enough 

 to discover what sorts have the readiest sale, and as 

 that sale soon comes to progress in the ratio of 

 merit, the writer of the previous treatise is quite 

 satisfied with the market as it is, together with the 

 law which, without checking the multiplicity of 

 inventions, circulates only the best. Instead there- 

 fore of describing the shape, size, or otherwise 

 improved construction of spades, rakes, mattocks, 

 and mousetraps, he proceeds to consider only one 

 implement of the manse garden, and which truly 

 needs no little attention to its proper use and amend- 

 ment namely, the minister's boy. 



In former years the minister's man was func- 

 tionary of some note in the parish; but whether of 

 late servants have risen in rank, or ministers fallen, 



