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Updated: May 18, 2025
Adam walked round by the rick-yard, at present empty of ricks, to the little wooden gate leading into the garden once the well-tended kitchen-garden of a manor-house; now, but for the handsome brick wall with stone coping that ran along one side of it, a true farmhouse garden, with hardy perennial flowers, unpruned fruit-trees, and kitchen vegetables growing together in careless, half-neglected abundance.
In a bit of sandy bottom, a silken-haired, zebra-striped tapir scuttled away ere we were half alive to his presence. Outside was the metallic glare of the Malayan sun once more, now at its height, and another march was before us, over the burning hot mésa. At one o'clock we came upon a half-neglected plantation. The bloody trail of the deer led through it.
He is discouraged with an isolated western empire producing nothing but hides and tallow. He shares the general opinion that no agriculture can succeed in this rainless summer land of California. Hardly a plough goes afield. On the half-neglected ranchos the owners of thousands of cattle have neither milk nor butter. Fruits and vegetables are unattainable.
Over the old fruit-trees and hanging vines fell the moonshine; and in the centre of the green, but half-neglected sward, the waters of a small and circular fountain, whose perfect proportions spoke of days long past, played and sparkled in the starlight.
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