HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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‘‘Brother, thou vvert mild and lovely, 
Gentle as a summer breeze; 
Pleasant as the air of evening, 
As it floats among the trees.” 
Not remembering the words of the other 
verses we sang the first one over and over 
until we felt that due respect had been 
given the little bird we mourned. 
In the fall great golden balls hung from 
the porch — fruit of the gourd vine. 
Nothing could have made prettier balls for 
our games. When the evening primroses 
blossomed “with a silken burst of sound” 
we watched them in the twilight, listening 
ever for the sound that we hoped to hear 
as the yellow petals popped open. We 
never heard it, and neither were we able 
ever to light the gas on the seed pods of 
the Fraxinella. Both of these things, we 
decided, were fables gotten up by the older 
people to please children. 
There was a witch hazel bush, however, 
that always delighted us. After all else 
had gone, out in the garden we would find 
the spidery little blossoms of this bush, 
and never was a fall complete until we 
had taken into the house some of its 
branches. It was not the flowers that 
fascinated us. The heat of the room made 
the seed pods expand, and how the hard 
little black seeds would snap and shoot 
around the room ! 
Grandfather once sat reading his paper 
when this cannonading was going on. He 
finally looked up from his reading and 
remarked that he supposed the house was 
old enough now so that its walls were en¬ 
tirely settled, but evidently not. We chil¬ 
dren knew what made the crackling noises, 
but we didn't tell. 
Really, the sweetest part of Grand¬ 
mother's garden was down by the Persian 
lilacs. She called it her “garden of 
sweetness.” In it grew such fragrant blos¬ 
soms. There were mignonette and violets, 
valley lilies, tuberoses, lemon verbena and 
lavender. Wall flowers bloomed there and 
heliotrope and sweet peas. A few plants 
of rose geranium were carefully tended, 
for Grandmother used the leaves in many 
ways. We often played near this garden, 
especially when the valley lilies were in 
bloom, for we loved their fragrance best 
of all. 
Yes, a “garden is a lovesome thing, Got 
wot!" and the memory of such a garden 
in one’s childhood is a blessed, comforting 
one. Many a time, when life has been 
hard and strenuous, when the journey has 
been dusty and tiresome, have I in memory 
slipped back to the cool, sweet shade in 
Grandmother's garden; to the rest and 
comfort and beauty of it all, and have 
blessed Grandmother for having brought 
us up in such sweet company. 
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