The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-30
WHO RANG THE BELLe
BY LUKE SHARP.

man who has business in the cit,
every day little realizes the delight.
OF his own suburban home. He leaves
the place early in the morning and he
comes home tired at night, and thus he
misses the pleasures that he would en-
JOY II he spent the whole day at his
own house.
Recently, l resolved to get a bit
ahead with my work, and so | aban-
doned the city and all its ways, deter
mined to stay at home until l had
written number of those stories
which are the delight of two CONT
nents while in the intervals | could
polish OF few novels that the world
is eagerly waiting for; thus | became
acquainted with my own plot of land.
which had seen hitherto only on SIM
days. found that my back ward was
an ldyllic place in which to write and |
furnished myself with one wicker
chalr to sit in and another on which to
put my feet, while the low table at NV
elbow held the manuscript. Land is
SO expensive in England that we make
much OF our back yards. An English
gardener will do more with a little
plot of lane. than any other man T ever
saw. He will take small bit of {
ground. and, by judiciors planting of
shrubbery, the making of walks. and 4
the utilizing of whatever trees there 7
may be on the place, will make it look l
TO The casual observer like large es- /
tate. The soil is very productive, and t
'ne climate is generally SO mild the
whole year around that plants hardly v
ever stop growing. Of course if one ii
mas large place man has gardener I
"a ms own, but we people with small t.
io1s are content with a gardener who b
comes IN once or twice a week. or al
perhaps three times, if things are 81
growing very rapidly. / never knew al
the particulars of this until I STAYED st
at nome Not being an inuuisitiye ca
man. my occasional glimpses of the w
PACK yard had never suggested to me
mat all this neatness and order was ri,
the result of human intervention. fo
'nougnt IL was part of my contract ra
with the landlord, and one of the rea- fe,
SONS why was paying him rent; so as CO..
sat at my work, was astonished tn les
ina man with wheelbarrow full of la,
ools trundle it from the front of the of
'ouse into the back yard asked him "
What the mischief he was doing tbere No,
wy nc came IN without the for will
iaiity OF ringing, for he seemed to the
ave Key to my private gate: he gar
as equally astonished to find me on lat,
ne premises, and a mutual explana- wa,
Oh resulted in his discovering that tw,
as the proprietor, and NV learning bac
lat ne as my gardener. ant
when l owned back and front pre-,
ira In America, neither was of much one
e 10 me. The back yard was exceed real
gly small, and was the home of the Bef,
NJ DIN, and the dumping ground of. han
rlous disabled utensils pertaining to yer,
Ai'chen. ~ was not thing of clut
auty. The front yard was all right lar.
uusn, Out IL belonged more to the ing &
Viah W myself There was no excl
oe'Ween the house and the small
anu ! would as soon have Of tn
,ught Oh sitting down on the side two
90 iouh gihg ABOUT on the bit of SOUR
700 "h.cn was IN front of my resi- the
An Engilshman, however, did e.
'ps MS yards for his own use. He of in
~ ne pays rent and taxes for and
w VI ground that that plot of they
und is his for the time being; con- defa,
uently he puts high wall around sc.
borah =. 'oluueu IN ms back yard I'll Y,
m III MS own drawing eye
: h,-.. wan
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