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 do ony thing for flowers. His father&#39;s often angry at the time he spends on them.&#34;

&#34;Your husband then has not much taste for the garden, I suppose,&#34; said Mrs Mason&#59; &#34;and indeed so it appears, for here is ground enough to supply a large family with fruit and vegetables all the year round&#59; but I see scarcely any thing but cabbages and weeds.&#34;

&#34;Na, na, we have some leeks too,&#34; said Mrs MacClarty, "and green kail in winter in plenty. We dinna pretend to kick-shaws&#59; green kail&#39;s gude eneugh for us.&#34;

&#34;But,&#34; said Miss Mary, &#34;any one may pretend to what they can produce by their own labour. Were your children to dress and weed this garden&#59; there, might be a pretty walk&#59; there, you might have a plot of green pease, there, another of beans, and under your window you might have a nice border of flowers to regale you with