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The Young Gardener . 
placed straight along the front, about six feet 
long and three feet wide, and in the middle there 
was a sort of arch. 
The garden, I must tell you, was hedged in all 
round with the prettiest fence that I ever saw. 
Perhaps you know what the Midland County 
people generally call “ sallies” — they look to me 
like stout willow sticks, which I expect they are. 
Well, our garden was fenced all the way round 
with these nice smooth-barked willows. The 
little posts were cut much about the same size, 
and hammered into the ground one across the 
other, standing, perhaps, about eighteen inches 
high. In the middle, I was saying, just between 
the beds, came a pretty arch, which was of' 
willow also, and which had fixed to it a pretty 
little gate. Was it not grand to possess an arch- 
way and to have a real gate to go in and out by ? 
We called it a drawbridge, and a moat, and a 
portcullis, and I do not know what besides; but 
hearing one day that all our names were wrong, 
and that portcullises were gratings, and that draw- 
bridges were real bridges, and not mere pretty 
arches, and that moats were ditches always full of 
water, we were really for ten minutes almost in 
despair. 
