All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

TO ALL JX A GARDEN FAIR,
never been in business, andliad therefore never
failed. Tliis was contemptible. He lived in a
very little cottage of six small rooms, standing
on the skirts of the forest, and surrounded by
green wooden palings ;
beyond the palings you
saw the old trees. The cottage was built of
the old, not the new, warm red brick, and
possessed a broad Avooden porch with a bench
on either side. One could sit in the porch in
almost all weathers. A wistaria climbed up on
one side and a jessamine on the other; round
and about the house there were honeysuckle,
hawthorn, lilac, laburnum, and roses—roses
yellow, roses red, roses white, roses of all
kinds ; in the front a dainty floAver garden ; at
the back a lari^e ve^^etable and fruit crarden.
The harmless, polite little man could be seen
on half-holidaj's, early in the morning, late in
the evening, dressed in a blue blouse, at work
among his flowers and his cabbages. He was
a model teacher of French for young ladies, and
he had but one fault, that he did not go to
church. Jkit tlien a French master is always