The gardener mind.

In a tiny whitewashed cottage, Half-covered with roses wild, His cheerful-faced old gardener dwelt Alone with his motherless child; The Squire owned the very floor he trod, The grass in his garden lot, The poor man had only this one little lamb

" "What, the gardener father turned off for drinking?

" "There ain't such a gardener goingnot for his weight in gold.

The pack-pony dreams of a primrosy combe, A leisurely life in a governess-cart, Plum-cake and a bottle-nosed gardener-groom; The Clyde has a Wensleydale farm in his heart.

The gardener hath gathered up this autumn's leaves.

I am of the earth, earthy, a common gardener man as much as any one of you, probably much more than you are.

For, to the gardener-monk was assigned, the chanting of "O Radix Jesse," and to the cellarer-monk, the "O clavis David"typifying their work of root-growing and key keeping.

And there he met the gardener coachman and told him of the whole affair.

" He spoke in a matter-of-fact way, like a gardener pointing to a bonfire of autumn leaves.