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CHAPTER YI. 



NEW EXPERIENCES. 



The second and third year passed rapidly by. Daring 

 this time I learned many things, and unlearned some 

 which I thought I already knew. Some of my enterprises 

 had proved successful, while in others there was failure. 

 On the whole, there had been progress and prosperity, I 

 had made many improvements in the place, and had ad- 

 ded somewhat to the amount of stock. In the fruit-garden 

 but little progress had been made, only currants and a 

 few strawberries and raspberries having been planted. 

 The flower-garden had fared better, having been enriched 

 with a good collection of flowering shrubs and hardy 

 herbaceous perepnials, obtained partly from the nursery, 

 and partly by exchanges with neighbors. In the warm 

 south window of the home room, many luxuriant and 

 beautiful plants had learned to make themselves at home. 

 Evergreens of various kinds, vigorous and healtbfiil from 



