Stray Leaves from a Border Garden 
they looked disappearing among the laurels. There is an 
old saying, “ He who plants trees loves others besides 
himself.” I think we must make a point of keeping 
“ War-tree Day ” every year. In the States I believe 
“ Arbor Day,” when trees and shrubs are planted, is of 
annual observance. I think also in Canada and British 
Columbia. 
April 2 2 . — A lovely Spring day ! I saw a Red Admiral 
Butterfly to-day in the garden — the first I have seen ; how 
pretty they are ! Boy and I went after Wild Pansies in the 
Stubblefield this afternoon ; we mean to transplant some 
into his garden, they are so pretty, and also into a little 
wild garden I am making under an Oak-tree on the haugh, 
around a tiny mire. I think they are the same kind of 
bright little Mountain Pansies I remember seeing on the 
uplands in Auvergne. Herb Constancy is one of the 
Pansy’s pretty old names. 
We saw such a pretty scene in the field — the shep- 
herdess feeding some small lambs out of a bottle. The 
dear little curly things jumped and frisked around her, 
all trying to reach the milk at once, flirting their long tails 
the while and butting each other ; they were so tame they 
let Boy pat their curly backs to his great delight. He 
was much interested when I told him I had once seen a 
baby lion in a menagerie, and it was all covered with tight 
curled khaki-coloured wool like a lamb, and was fed 
similarly out of a bottle. We saw a Bat flying about in 
the sunlight this afternoon down by the river ; very early for 
it to be out ; at first I thought it was a bird. I think 
Flittermouse, the old name for a Bat, is nicer than Bat. 
They say a woman ought never to walk about without a hat 
or handkerchief on her head when Bats are about, as, should 
one alight on the hair, it is difficult to disentangle it, and 
its bite is very sore. It was called the “ Bird of Darkness ” 
( Attaleph ) by the Hebrews. 
I remember being much alarmed once during the night 
in a Jamaican country house by a large number of Bats 
which entered the room through the open windows, and 
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