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content, for the garden should be a pleasure, not a 

 burden." 



Dear mother barely reached the strawberries in 

 those five years, but in spite of godmother's fifty 

 pounds I too must be careful about expansion; for, as 

 Evan says, it isn't the first outlay of strength or money 

 that will upset us, but the fixed charges, while father 

 jokingly adds that the cause of much physical and 

 all mental disease is " biting off more than one can 

 chew." How I shall have to set my teeth and quell 

 my garden appetite ! The garden will be so much 

 more lovable continued as it began. New things and 

 places are so terribly lonely. Fortunately, after all, 

 there is but one suitable spot hereabout for a garden, 

 and that is where it now is. 



How blessed I am in having the responsibility and 

 temptation of choice removed from me ! I might 

 break loose and be ruined by visionary schemes. 

 Heredities may be horrible ghoulish things if they 

 are bad, but when good, surely nothing can equal 

 them. Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had 

 to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves : as 

 to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, 

 instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to 

 find it all arranged ! Then suppose falling in love 

 and going away with one's husband were not a 



