222 JOSEPH WINS TOURNAMENT 
seph attended strictly to the garden. He weeded, 
sprayed and cultivated the soil around the base of 
many plants. He repaired some of his tools that 
had become broken during the summer, and gener- 
ally tidied things up a bit. He also set himself 
about cutting worms’ nests out of a tree at the edge 
of the wood-border. 
At Nestly Heights they have a pair of clipping- 
shears to do this work which are fastened at the 
end of a very long handle. A man can stand on 
the ground and yet reach with this tool the high 
branches of a tree-. But Joseph has no such shears, 
nor do I believe he would have used them if he had. 
In the trees, he is like a squirrel. He finds delight 
in crawling out to the tip-ends of the branches 
where the worms have made their nests. I have 
seen him lying flat down on a branch while he 
pulled his pruning-shears from his pocket. Again, 
I have watched him sit in a position just like a 
squirrel cracking nuts. These worms’ nests once 
unfastened, Joseph makes a bonfire of them, as the 
surest way to keep the insects from crawling to 
other parts of the garden. This pleases him almost 
as much as clipping the nests from the trees. It 
gives him an all-over-good feeling, as though he 
had made way with something very wicked. 
Although Joseph sowed no asters this May, we 
are not without them in our garden. In June, 
when Miss Wiseman was transplanting the aster 
seedlings that had come up in hex bed, she gave 
