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beauty mist—hung over the young clover fields,
över the rye and wheat and the oats which had
just come up, and the shadows lay as sharply defined
as on a moonlight night.
He stood and considered the large spice-beds
between the garden walks. He knew that both the
mistress and her girls had had their work here.
They had dug and raked and manured and pulled
up the weeds and worked the earth till it became
fine and light. After they had made the bed even and
the edges sharp, they had taken ropes and measuring
poles and marked out lines and squares. Afterwards
they had stamped up and down between
the squares with little steps, and had then sowed
and set their plants, till all the lines and squares
were filled. The children had helped too, and had
been perfectly happy in doing so, though it had
been härd work for them to bend and stretch their
arms över the wide beds. And their help had been
wonderfully useful, as any one could understand.
All the plants were just coming up now.
God bless them! How bravely they stood there,
both the peas and the beans with their two thick
little leavesj and how evenly and nicely the turnips
and carrots had come up! The curly little parsley
leaves were the funniest; they had lifted a scrap
of the mould over them, and were playing at
hide-and-seek with life as yet. And there stood a little bed
where the lines were not very straight, and where
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