The Happy Garden 



though there is a growing animal population in the 

 garden, I am under no sort of infatuation, nor 

 attacked by any dizzy craze as a result of leaving 

 London for the country. 



I be^an with the assertion that flowers are not 

 enough and I adhere to it. 



A cat is necessary to keep down rats, mice, 

 and moles, and also to show the birds that they 

 cannot have things all their own way. 



Dogs are necessary for themselves. Also it is 

 difficult for any man or woman to reach old age 

 without ever having possessed a dog. They happen. 

 They attach themselves to you, or they suggest 

 occultly to their owners that they should be given 

 to you, or you find their captivity in a small cage 

 in a shop window unendurable ; — there are a 

 thousand and one ways of acquisition, a million 

 and one points at which the paths of particular 

 men and particular dogs cross. 



Beyond dogs and cats, the beasts proper to a 

 place are dictated mainly by circumstances and 

 growth. 



When the rest of my garden revolted against 

 the shrubbery and the old useless lawn and forced 

 me to make a peat garden and the river, lake, and 

 bridge, and when the transplanted trees and shrubs 

 were slow in coming to lea!: it became necessary to 



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