40 THE FRIENDSHIP OF NATURE 



strove with Gloire de Dijon roses in 

 the thatch, and life was sweet, — until 

 the mouths outgrew the bread, and 

 parting came. 



Perchance some old New England 

 garden blooms again before the misty 

 eyes. A giant elm shading the picket 

 gate, the house yellow and white with 

 olive blinds, and a pillared porch with 

 narrow, high-backed seats, a honey- 

 suckle training up one side to meet a 

 prairie rose; a straight, nagged walk 

 down to the gate, bordered on either 

 side by myrtle and stiff zebra grass; 

 with syringas by the side fence, a 

 strawberry shrub and lilacs grown to 

 trees. About the south porch were 

 some tender plants in pots, an oleander 

 and an orange tree in tubs; while 

 drumming on the window-panes the 

 golden laburnum swung, peeping in 

 and out. 



