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tures — a pet lamb; the constant companion of the 
farm-wife, as she weeded and watered her loved gar- 
den. Her husband says, “He seems to think folks 
are stealing her flowers, if they stop to look.” The 
wife and mother of these three great men has gone 
from her garden forever ; but a tenderness for all 
The Peacock in His Pride. 
that she loved makes them not only care for her 
flowers, but keeps this rampant guardian of the gar- 
den at the kitchen door, just as she kept him when 
he was a little lamb. I knew this New England 
farmer’s wife, a noble woman, of infinite tenderness, 
strength, and endurance; a lover of trees and flowers 
and all living things, and I marvel not that they 
keep her memory green. 
