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"That's the way," he said, as he watched me "That's a neat smooth

wound in the tree that will dry up easily after every shower, and nature

will send out soum or sap, and it will turn hard, and

the bark, just as I showed you before, will co, and

swell and swell till it covers the wood, and by and by you will hardly

see where the cut wasto shoulder the ladder and get on to

the next tree, when the old gentleman said in his quaint dry way: "You knohat the first workardener"

"Good!" he said "And do you knoas the first doctor and

surgeon?"

"No," I said

"A gardener, an to iave theetables to

eat, as well as the wild creatures they killed by hunting"

"Oh, yes!" I said, "I see all that, but I don't see how the first

doctor and surgeon could have been a gardener"