I have several reasons for believing that it is not a thief; thieves take more precautions; this one walked heavily in my asparagus-bed.

Asparagus must be helped with the asparagus-tongs.

The old-fashioned rooms were hung with smilax and asparagus fern, and in every window stood a pot of flowering fuch

For there were only a few touch-me-nots in the two vases on the mantel-piece; there were wild-flowers and prairie-grasses over the picture-frames; there were asparagus-stalks in the fireplace; there waswell, there was a tout-ensemble of coolness and delightfulness, of freshness and repose.