14 
The Young Gardener . 
We measure how wide exactly our great door- 
way is, perhaps it may be three feet, and then we 
take two sticks just as long as that, and two more 
sticks the same height as the paling ; and all these 
four we tie together tightly into a kind of frame, 
afterwards fastening two more sticks across. If it 
is all done firmly, really, you cannot think what a 
nice little gate it makes ! And then with some 
list, or a piece of leather, (we coaxed a piece of a 
leathern belt out of a kind nurse, ) — the door 
should be “ hung ” — the leather, you understand, 
being passed round the frame of the outer part of 
the arch, so as to keep the two together, and the 
door swings on this quite well — better even than 
it would do on a proper hinge. Of course doors 
must shut — though I confess it is a use they have 
which is apt to be forgotten by people in a great 
hurry. But in this case I will describe a latch* 
The willow sticks, as every one knows who ever 
saw a basket made, bend extremely well ; we 
therefore tie a piece of string to one of our 
strongest posts, and bending the willow sticky 
which should be six inches long, we tie the ends 
tightly together round our door-post, so as to leave 
the stick just hanging like a loop. Then for the 
hook. That is rather difficult. We sometimes 
