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The rain and the dew are all they want," said a vine, which had been running many years over an old dead oak, once the pride of the garden. "I heard the gardener say this very afternoon," continued the vine, "that you must be rooted more firmly; and he has sent this wind for that purpose." "I wonder if I am the only thing in this garden that needs shaking," spoke the oak, somewhat indignantly.
Come home as early as you can, for there's lots to be done, and you know Steve and Grandma will arrive at six." Away went Mr. Maynard, and then the children scattered to attend to their various duties. Both James the gardener and Thomas the coachman were handy men of all work, and, superintended by Mrs. Maynard, they packed the more substantial portions of the Simpson's Christmas donations.
"Now d'ye think a man like 'im is gone to Heaven!" demanded Bainton- "Honest an' true, d'ye think the Lord Almighty wants 'im?" John was rather non-plussed. His garrulous gardener watched his face with attentive interest. "Don't ye answer unless ye like, Passon!" he observed, sagaciously "I don't want to make ye say things which ain't orthodox! You keep a still tongue, an' I shall understand!"
"Unwell! why she wasn't unwell a while ago, when the gardener and I met her and you on your way to the back o' the garden." "Oh, yes," replied Connor; "I forced her to come out, to try what a little cool air-might do for her." "Ay, but, Connor, did you force her to come in again?" "Force! there was no force necessary, Cummiskey. She's now in her own room, quite ill."
After a while, the little lad grew accustomed to the loneliness of the place; and in after days remembered this part of his life as a period not unhappy. When the family was at London the whole of the establishment travelled thither with the exception of the porter who was, moreover, brewer, gardener, and woodman and his wife and children.
Johan Gram writes of her: "If she paints a basket of peaches or plums, they look as if just picked by the gardener and placed upon the table, without any thought of studied effect; some leaves covering the fruit, others falling out of the basket in the most natural way.
"Oh, I don't know, sir," said the gardener, mysteriously. "I've just come from the kitchen, where the servants was talking about it." "About what?" "It, sir, it; I don't know what it is. I told 'em it was howls, but I don't think it was. Still, if you tell maid-servants as there's something wrong in the house, they'll either go out of the house or out of their skins."
Do you not see that I am a nightingale? I am singing in the apricot-tree." "Let me hear you sing," said the gardener. The Khoja began to trill like a bird; but the noise he made was so uncouth that the man burst out laughing. "What kind of a song is this?" said he. "I never heard a nightingale's note like that before."
He dug on a little more, and then seriously thought of giving up what he was somewhat ashamed of having undertaken. How was he to account for this great hole to his gardener on the following morning? Then and there he made up his mind that he would not account for it. The gardener, in common with the rest of the village, believed that the place was haunted.
He will be provided with a cheap uniform, which we shall find no difficulty in rigging up from the old clothes of London, and it will go hardly with us, and we shall have worse luck than the ordinary market gardener, if we do not succeed in making sufficient profit to pay all the expenses of the concern, and leave something over for the maintenance of the hopelessly incompetent, and those who, to put it roughly, are not worth their keep.
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