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up to in connection with small gardens is the 
necessity of furnishing water artificially 
when Nature’s supply runs short. By all 
means, save all you can in the soil; but to 
be on the safe side, run a pipe line out 
to your garden. If it is a very small one 
you can water it with a hose, and by irri¬ 
gation ditches made with a hoe; but if it 
is of any size, it will certainly pay you to 
be prepared to put in, when the dry spell 
comes, a nozzle line or two of the new 
over-head irrigation; don’t wait until your 
garden is half dead, and likely to be en¬ 
tirely so, while you are waiting to install 
pipe, nozzles, etc. 
Five things — remember! Seeds, fertil¬ 
izer and manure; tools, bug ammunition, 
and a water-pipe to the garden. You 
can attend to them all before it is time to 
dig up the first fish-worm. You can get 
after them right now: and as a result you 
will have the best start with next year’s 
garden that you ever had, and it’s almost 
certain that the result will be the best gar¬ 
den you ever had. 
A Grass-Country Christmas 
(Continued from page 358) 
running on gaily: “Major — you’ve really 
not done badly—for amateurs. We are 
obliged to you, mighty much obliged. It 
remains now only to holly-fy upstairs — 
anybody can do it — scatter all! Work 
fast! I feel in my bones folks are almost 
upon us.” 
“Will you listen at this?” Nancy called 
from the back hallway, where the tele¬ 
phone was set. “Anna Walton says she 
and Joe-Billy have got to come right 
away — can’t wait until to-morrow. I 
wonder what on earth ?” 
“Susana, Diana, now plain Anna! Oh, 
it's too gorgeous,” Roger shouted. Mary 
March shooed him forcibly toward the 
back stairs, then asked over her shoulder, 
“Nancy — do you mind—much?” 
“Mind! I’m glad!” Nancy retorted. 
“I’d have asked them for to-day — only 
they are always so busy, making Christ¬ 
mas gifts there in town.” 
“Why don’t you let us give gifts here — 
just love-gifts?” Mary asked softly. Nancy 
looked over her friend’s head. “I’d love 
to,” she said. “Only it wouldn’t stop there. 
Let me tell you about little Jenny Lane — 
she was here at our second Christmas. 
Brought me a tea-cloth, all lace and em¬ 
broidery—much too handsome — and she 
only a little underpaid substitute teacher! 
I found out somehow, before she left, she 
had gone so in debt for things, keeping up 
with others, she would have to pinch and 
half starve all next year to pay out. And 
that set me thinking — about the boys on 
salaries — how they might be tempted by 
the very best part of themselves. A 
gentleman, you know, has to be free¬ 
handed, so they have to choose between 
being hermits or spenders. And it must 
be so hard, with money going through their 
hands every day and all the youth of them 
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