. The house of joy . THE LUCK OF THE ROSES. \OT far from a great town,in the midst of a well-wooded valley, lived a rose-gardener and his wife. Allround the old home greensleepy hollows lay girdledby silver streams, long grasses bent softlyin the wind, and the half fabulous murmurof woods filled the air,[V:J Up in their rose-garden, on the valleysside facing the sun, the gardener and hiswife lived contentedly sharing toil and had been young, they were not yetold ; and though they had to be frugal theydid not call themselves poor. A strangefortune had belonged always to the plot ofgro
. The house of joy . THE LUCK OF THE ROSES. \OT far from a great town,in the midst of a well-wooded valley, lived a rose-gardener and his wife. Allround the old home greensleepy hollows lay girdledby silver streams, long grasses bent softlyin the wind, and the half fabulous murmurof woods filled the air,[V:J Up in their rose-garden, on the valleysside facing the sun, the gardener and hiswife lived contentedly sharing toil and had been young, they were not yetold ; and though they had to be frugal theydid not call themselves poor. A strangefortune had belonged always to the plot ofground over which they laboured ; whetherbecause the soil was so rich, or the place sosheltered from cold, or the gardener soskilled in the craft, which had come down 26 The House of Joy in his family from father to son, could notbe known ; but certainly it was true that hisrose-trees gave forth better bloom and boreearlier and later through the season thanany others that were to be found in thoseparts. The good couple accepted what came toth
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