CHAPTER IV.
THE TWO PAVILIONS (continued).
"We must have an apiarium," Captain Barker announced a week later.
"What's that ?" Mr.Swiggs asked.
"Half a dozen beehives, at least." "No room." "There is nothing," pursued Captain Barker, "that gives such character to a garden as an apiarium unless it be fishponds.
I will have both." "No water." "The fishponds shall be constantly supplied with running water.
I will have three ponds at different levels, connected with miniature waterfalls and approached by an _allee verte_.

The glimpse of water between green hedges will be extremely refreshing to the eye.
The apiarium shall stand close to these ponds--as Virgil commends:" At liquidi fontes et stagna virentia musco Adsint, et tenuis fugiens per gramina rivus "-- And shall be surrounded with beds of violets and lavender and such blue flowers as bees especially love.

When, Narcissus, I glance over the hedge at the back of the house and behold Captain Runacles' two acres lying waste, cumbered like a mining country with the ruins of his mechanical toys, I have a mind to--" "He'll neither sell nor lend." "I perceive that in time we must set about draining so much of the marsh outside as belongs to me.

There, if anywhere, the fishponds must lie.

In the meantime there is a full rood of ground beyond the northern hedge that we may consider.