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قراءة كتاب John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein
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John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein
John Gayther's Garden and
the Stories Told Therein
John Gayther's Garden and
the Stories Told Therein
By Frank R. Stockton
ILLUSTRATED
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York 1902
Copyright, 1902, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Published November, 1902
THE DEVINNE PRESS
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| John Gayther's Garden | 3 | |
| I | What I Found in the Sea | 9 |
| Told by John Gayther | ||
| II | The Bushwhacker Nurse | 39 |
| Told by the Daughter of the House | ||
| III | The Lady in the Box | 71 |
| Told by John Gayther | ||
| IV | The Cot and the Rill | 109 |
| Told by the Mistress of the House | ||
| V | The Gilded Idol and the King Conch-shell | 155 |
| Told by the Master of the House | ||
| VI | My Balloon Hunt | 201 |
| Told by the Frenchman | ||
| VII | The Foreign Prince and the Hermit's Daughter | 223 |
| Told by Pomona and Jonas | ||
| VIII | The Conscious Amanda | 249 |
| Told by the Daughter of the House | ||
| IX | My Translatophone | 279 |
| Told by the Old Professor | ||
| X | The Vice-consort | 307 |
| Told by the Next Neighbor | ||
| XI | Blackgum ag'in' Thunder | 341 |
| Told by John Gayther | ||
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "Are you going to ask me to marry your husband if you should happen to die?" | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| The gardener began promptly | 74 |
| "I made him dig up whole beds of things" | 148 |
| The great beast was drawing up his hind legs and was climbing into the car | 214 |
| Miss Amanda listened with the most eager and overpowering attention | 258 |
| And dreamed waking dreams of blessedness | 294 |
| "Do you mean," I cried, "that you would make him a better wife than I do?" | 336 |
| "Abner, did you ever hear about the eggs of the great auk?" | 356 |
JOHN GAYTHER'S GARDEN
The garden did not belong to John Gayther; he merely had charge of it. At certain busy seasons he had some men to help him in his work, but for the greater part of the year he preferred doing everything himself.
It was a very fine garden over which John Gayther had charge. It extended this way and that for long distances. It was difficult to see how far it did extend, there were so many old-fashioned box hedges; so many paths overshadowed by venerable grape-arbors; and so many