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"Oh no, sir!" I said "I could cli that"

"Thank you," he replied; "that's not the way to pick row in the middle of a tree, but

round the outside, where the sun and wind can get at the blossom?"

"I didn't know it," I said rather ruefully "I seenorant I wish I had been ht you that at school,

"Why, of course you did not know it I didn't know such things when I

was your age Look here You ainst a

tree, and take a basket with a hook to the handle There, I'll show

you; but you are sure you will not tumble?"

"I'll take care, sir," I said "I'll be very careful"

It was a sunnythe way, Old Browns in plants with a dibber, striding over a

stretched-out line,in one of the plants he held

in his left hand, and with one thrust or two of the dibber surrounding

it with the soft moist earth