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Feraud and death. The deaf gardener, utterly unconscious of approaching footsteps, went on watering his flowers till Lieut. Feraud thumped him on the back. Beholding suddenly an enraged man flourishing a big sabre, the old chap trembling in all his limbs dropped the watering-pot. At once Lieut.

These would need to be provided with a light hoe and rake, a dibble or garden trowel, a watering-pot, and means and opportunities for securing seeds, roots, bulbs, buds, and grafts, all which might be done at a trifling expense.

I'll put it in the bin, watering-pot and all, or it'll either get out, or some of the boys'll come and look, and let it go." "But you haven't got the key." "I forgot. I didn't get it from old Magg, again. Let's go and find him. No, it's all right. He has put it in the padlock."

Federigo!" she called to an old man, the custode of the palace, who appeared at the magnificent door leading to the grand staircase. "Commanda, eccellenza!" The old man, bent and feeble, approached. He carried a watering-pot wherewith he was about to minister to some straggling flowers in the windows fronting the Grand Canal. A thin cat rubbed itself against his legs.

And the strawberries exhaled a sweet perfume a perfume of youth especially those little ones which are gathered in the woods, and which are far more aromatic than the large ones grown in gardens, for these breathe an insipid odour suggestive of the watering-pot. Raspberries added their fragrance to the pure scent.

"Now, ma'am, will you ask," cried Herbert, as the carriage stopped at his mother's door "will you ask whether the man has brought home my spade and the watering-pot? I know you don't like that I should go to the servants for what I want; but I'm in a great hurry for the spade, because I want to dig the bed for my radishes before night: I've got my seeds safe in my hand."

Tupman! exclaimed Rachael, blushing as red as the watering-pot itself. 'Nay, said the eloquent Pickwickian 'I know it but too well. 'All women are angels, they say, murmured the lady playfully. 'Then what can you be; or to what, without presumption, can I compare you? replied Mr. Tupman. 'Where was the woman ever seen who resembled you?

What a number of hearty kisses you might have brought about with all these sous, and, in consequence, what a sprinkling with the watering-pot for the little plant you wot of. "But then what is to become of the redemption of the little Chinese?" We will think of this later; we must first know how to love our own before we are able to love those of others.

He respected learned men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. The house had not a single door which could be locked.

A gardener's house, made of blocks, ornaments one corner, and near it are his tools, watering-pot, hoe, rake, spade, etc., all made in cardboard modeling. We now pass up-stairs.