A GARDEN DIARY II 
moreover the subject of landscapes, | think, not 
of either kings or beggars, that was under dis- 
cussion? But that is the sort of thing that is 
always happening! Of all the unsatisfactory 
stock to keep, ideas are in my experience the 
most unsatisfactory; equally whether they are 
winged, or entirely wingless ones. As for a 
diary—which, to be of the slightest use, ought to 
act as a kind of crow-boy, or goose-girl, to them, 
and keep them in order—on the contrary it seems 
merely to follow their waddlings and gyrations 
with the most foolish, and unnecessary submissive- 
ness. The result is that one starts intending to 
fill a page with one subject, and before one has 
got very far one discovers that in reality one is 
filling it up with quite another! 
