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"Don't you?" he said, laughing silently "I do Who but a gardener

would find out the value of the different herbs and juices, and what

they would do You ardener He would find out that soood for the

blood at tirew the whole doctrine of

medicine That's my theory, my boy Now cut off that pear-tree

branch"

I set the ladder right, and proceeded to cut and tri all the while what a pity it was that the trees should have

been so knocked about by the storland in the olden tientle my knife

"No, sir,--yes, I think I do," I hastened to add--"theand ireat gardeners--fae flowers, and it was thus

that they, many of them, becaot an idea inas this that so monk,

and a very bold and clever one--here, take your knife, it's as sharp as

a razor now"

I stooped down and took the knife, and hanging an to cut, and the old gentle as this, boy, that soery"