MAUD AND HER GARDEN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 11

MAUD AND HER GARDEN.

• "Come into the garden, Maud," sang lie, For ho was much given to poetree; Arid then Maud came, and since that time He speaks in proso and forsakes all rhyme— I'or. Maud, looked round that garden fair And kept him working ten -hours there'. 'She made him pull forty pecks of weeds, • .She made, him plant all her cabbage' seeds/ I . ' Sho made him hoe ' , '. ~'.'' Row. after row '. Of 'tater' hills—two dozen or so. i ;She made.him hitch.up the garden hose :. .-..-And. water .an. acre--of sweet-pea .blows.. ' She made him take "..'' Her brand-new rake : /And scrape till his spine bade fair to break. 1 Despite his moans 1 ./';■' And Kis awful groans, '''-.'■ / 'She made him gather five barrels of stones, And squirt the patent . old spouting--i machine . ' -, '.;■:■ That kills off the bugs with Paris.green.' . '•. , : She. made him fix. . •■■■•' '_ Seven dozen sticks ;• . v :. With netting to keep out the neighbours': 1 . chicks, .. '. , / . And mend the leak in'the fountain pipe, : ...And taste .a', tomato "that wasn't ripe. <She made him mow. all the nice lush lawn, And lay out the lines for ten rows of corn, .'■She.made him paint all the latticework, ..And: fill up the holes where the woodohucks ; ;,. : 'lurk,: ...And finished/by using his brand-riew.clo'es -Tohang on a pole.for to scare off crows. "-„' And'that is the why that I can't rehearse The words that he speaks when he'hears that 1 ' verse! .'•'.■ ■•'■■•• Dodd Gastit, in /'Harper's "Weekly."