18 STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. 
in contact with the limits of the animal 
kingdom. 
A midnight visit to one’s garden, 
even by the most venerable devotee of 
his “own ground,” will perchance reveal 
the fact that he “doesn’t know beans” af- 
ter all. 
The perennial familiar blooming borders of 
those “old-fashioned flowers,” as well as 
the more prosaic domain of our gar- 
dener’s immediate concern, whose paths 
lead to the kitchen, wear a strange look 
at night, and seem peopled with foreign 
shapes. His “Limas” and scarlet -run- 
ners now excite his wonder, if not solici- 
tude, with their apparent drooping 
foliage, all the three leaflets nodding 
as if broken at their juncture with 
the stem, the two side leaflets in 
many instances touching their 
backs beneath the stem. 
But he will find them 
firm and self-willed in 
their attitude. 
His pea blossoms 
have taken in sail, and 
nod on their keels. 
» the leaves of his 
young cabbage-plant, 
usually more or less 
spreading, now stand 
quite erect, guarding that 
promising young head with- 
K in, for this plebeian cabbage- 
Veg ';s head knows a trick or two 
~ | above its garden associates, and 
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