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And as for fruit, you know they hare nothing 

 but crab apples which are fit only for cider. 



H. You mistake, dear sister, they have a 

 notable garden. 



M. Indeed, I never saw it ; do describe it. 



H. I was sent over one day of an errand, 

 and while I was there it was discovered that 

 the hogs were in the garden ; which you know 

 we should consider a great calamity. 



M. Oh, dreadful. 



H. James and I were sent to drive them 

 out, and in so doing I had a chance to see it for 

 the first time. — The garden was situated 

 directly back of the pig-stye, in the centre of 

 a patch of something like half an acre of 

 potatoes of most luxuriant growth, whose tan- 

 gled tops were finely intermingled with aspir- 

 ing pigweeds, and Roman Wormwood, occa- 

 sionally garnished with a huge Sunflower full 

 ten feet high, and flowers a foot in diameter* 



