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Where there were no gooseberries or currants, the rows of rhubarb plants

used to send up their red stereen leaves; and in other

places there would be great patches of wallflowers, from which wafts of

delicious scent would coreat rows of red and yellow tulips, and later on silliareat beds

I used to wonder that such a boy was allowed to go loose in such a

garden as that, a those flowers and strawberry beds, and, above all,

apples, and pears, and pluainst the high red-brick ere covered with purple and yellow

plureen leaves, and the

pears would hang down till it seemed as if the branches must break

But that boy went about just as he liked, and it often sees should have the run of

such a beautiful garden, while I had none

There was a little single opera-glass on the chimney-piece which I used

to take down and focus, so that I could see the fruit that was ripe, and

the fruit that was green, and the beauty of the flowers I used to

watch the birds building through that glass, and could als in one little mossy cup of a chaffinch's nest; but I could not