XVII: Condescension that Withers 



IF you purchased a cheap car, you would not, 

 I know, engage a chauffeur who had run 

 only those of an impressive make. You would 

 have the wisdom to foresee machinery turned 

 muhsh and an engine stalled. But I have never 

 hired a gardener who, hecause of his own garden, 

 did not have a snobbish attitude towards mine. 

 The worst of it is that these men are not really 

 gardeners but such as "oblige me" with scant 

 extra hours of daylight. They have other tasks 

 in which they exert professional skill. I employ 



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