Show our cousin our cousin was a dasI dashing ing young boy of or s she x teen who had come into the tho country to sacrifice a week or two among the rural population pop clation it was a gay morning in june when we sat together under a maple we in our homespun and she in fall dress giving givin a thrill thrilling im arcouet of an unfortunate breach winch some soine country girls iris had made the night might orbre orbra oil on the rulef rule of etiquette at length the tale being bring ended I 1 gome cousin cousin gaid gald said salk we supposed 4 we wv zo 0 o into the garden gardea and ani Inh inhale alethe the odoriferous breezes arising from the cucumber vines alafi monsieur with pleasure 8 said sald ii Vilie bhe she av atthe the saine same rame time lime thi throwing 1 herself orl oil our arm with all the freedom in the world tt after aften sweeping up and down the allys allays all ail ys for a while 9 cousin said we gravely what do you call the distant verdura verdure twining about yon poles and hanging from the top lop in graceful festoon fes sl that said she blie must be a species of ever green I 1 think it is the pole bearis beans you mean rather said we compo composedly sedi 1 the beans grow in it those flat things called pot poy pods and which in ili their green state may be eaten beans and all in la that case they are called string beans i and what are those green round things stuck up on sticks asked she innocently those bhoge are called cabbages we replied a term not associated with pork and which when cooked together constitute a most excellent dish and those round bulbous roots with green tubular stalks how would you characterize those continued we 61 6 1 I 1 think they are called turnips she replied are the they bear a resemblance to them we answered thought they are usually called onions we believe they sometimes emit an unpleasant odor and should never be eaten before going into young ladies society they never are annew york said she indeed they are never eaten there at all all ail ali ahl we replied i having gone through the tiie vegetable and floral kingdoms in the iatter latter iatter latter of which a poppy and hollyhock were pronounced respectively a snow drop and primrosa we stio strolled lied tied up to an enormous bunch of fennel standing in the corner of the garden 4 here liere began we wo emphatically is one of the most beautiful plants in the whole herbivorous kingdom observe the stalks how round and regular and the leaves how exquisitely delicate I 1 1 and all terminating in these delicious hittlet seeds so prevalent in tea cakes at this she caught hold of a bunch and in her effort to pull it off shook down a huge hug ft fennel worm upon lier tier brocade why cousin said we admiringly what a beautiful little creature is crawling on your dress what is it said she looking about A charming little fennel worm A what a worm murder whre vb re is it get it off she began shaking her dress and backing across some rome carrot beds and finally tripped in a it row of bush heans beens and fell into a huge gooseberry bush sir said she ener energetically ti cally caily 11 1 1 I 1 shall never forgive you for this ulve ulee beverl ri becalm yourself cousin said we quietly suffer sunner not passion to preside over reason let not the innocent huffier suffer for the sins of the guilty for then tilen the rule of justice is made null let us seek rather to rescue you from this perilous position without doing violence to your P pounces flounces ounces in ili that case however they shall be converted into kite tails where you must acknowledge they will serve an equally useful and ornament ornamental tal tai purpose soh oh yon you mean thing exclaimed she impatiently do ba be still at last with some difficulty the dress was dieseu disentangled without harm barm except a rent of about it yard hi in the fifth tier of this superfluous foliage which we suggested could be easily repaired by cutting a strip from the bottom and now dear cousin said we let us go into the kitchen and regale ourselves with agish rish bish tish of cold liam ham and when you feel disposed to ridicule country girls again call to mind the young lady who mistook pole beans for poly anth asses and who through fear fi ar of a fennel worm trampled down three carrot beds and fell into a goose berry bush 5 |