A garden rosary . le coquettishly tickling him. Thegrass grew three feet high — untidy andriotous — and a few poppies, that shouldhave been tending to business in myladys chamber, were dancing together,hilariously. Like a housekeeper who has emergedfrom her own well-ordered apartmentsand stumbled inadvertently upon a secretrevel belowstairs, I hastily withdrew. Im-possible to get them in order, the wisestcourse seemed to be to ignore the wholeaffair. To-morrow, when I enter by thefront door instead of by the back, I shallsee the trumpet vine industriously clutch-ing at the lattice provided for
A garden rosary . le coquettishly tickling him. Thegrass grew three feet high — untidy andriotous — and a few poppies, that shouldhave been tending to business in myladys chamber, were dancing together,hilariously. Like a housekeeper who has emergedfrom her own well-ordered apartmentsand stumbled inadvertently upon a secretrevel belowstairs, I hastily withdrew. Im-possible to get them in order, the wisestcourse seemed to be to ignore the wholeaffair. To-morrow, when I enter by thefront door instead of by the back, I shallsee the trumpet vine industriously clutch-ing at the lattice provided for him by theentrance gate; the rose will be meekly sub-mitting to her engrafting in the garden;and on the side porch the clematis willappear serenely — as if she had neverconsorted with jaunty, ill-bred weeds. 82 A GARDEN ROSARY When I see the privet standing stiffly bythe wall, and the morning-glory hastilydeparting out of the bed — / shall pretendthat I never caught them at their carousalback of the A GARDEN ROSARY 83 August 19 he woman who has a hirelingtend her beds, while she merelysallies forth with a picturesquebasket and culls a few of the choicest bloomsfor table decoration, misses that intimacywith her garden that comes to those whodig and delve with their own fingers and ontheir knees. It is like having an excellentgoverness for your children. She takes en-tire charge of them, and permits you tosee them every afternoon, when they areproperly bathed and dressed, and ready fora polite romp. Well-behaved children arecertainly delightful, as are fresh flowerscut and placed in appropriate vases. Butthere is an indescribable nearness ofknowledge that comes from bathing achild, cutting its finger nails, brushingits teeth, combing out its hair as fine asfloss, and pushing its funny little feetinto shoes that never seem made to holdthem. So it is with a garden, when one has 84 A GARDEN ROSARY planted each seed with loving anticipa-tion, welcomed its first appear
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