CHAPTER V 
A DAY^S HARD WORK 
A lthough Timothy came early the next 
morning, Little Joseph was already up and 
astir with several new Ideas In his head gathered 
the night before from “An Ambitious Boy’s 
Garden.” First of all, he determined to settle the 
matter of the trellis for the sweet peas. As they 
would not bloom until two months after the seeds 
were put In the ground, he thought the bare posts 
with wire stretched on them would look very ugly 
awaiting them all that time. We, therefore, de- 
cided to plant our sweet peas along the upper side 
of the plot where the clothes-posts stand. They 
would then be near enough the house for us to see 
them often and to enjoy their delicate scent. At 
Miss Wiseman’s, they are far away from the house 
in what she calls her picking garden. Before break- 
fast, Joseph and the old man had set about making 
a strong but simple trellis. 
It took them some time to drive the posts firmly 
Into the ground, and to think out the exact way In 
which they would manage the wire. It ran from 
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