CHAPTER TEN.
IN NAPOLEON'S GARDEN.
One of the rules of Brienne school was that each pupil should know something about agriculture.

To illustrate this study, each one of the one hundred and fifty boys had a little garden-spot set aside for him to cultivate and keep in order.
Some of the boys did this from choice, and because they loved to watch things grow; but many of them were careless, and had no love for fruit or flowers; so while some of the garden-plots were well kept, others were neglected.
Napoleon was glad of this garden-plot, for it gave him something which he could call his own.

He cared for it faithfully; but he wished to make it even more secluded.

He remembered his dear grotto at Ajaccio, and studied over a plan to make his garden-plot just such a real retreat.
But it was not large enough for this.

He looked about him.