Does it ?" "No, sir," I said, "I don't think so." "Old business, gardening," he went on, with a dry look at me--"very old.
Let me see.

There was a man named Adam took to it first, wasn't there?
Cultivated a garden, didn't he ?" I nodded and smiled.
"Ah, yes," he said; "but that was a long time ago, and you've not been brought up for such a business.

You wouldn't like it." "Indeed, but I should, sir," I cried enthusiastically.
"No, no," he said, deliberately.

"Don't be in a hurry to choose, my boy.

I knew a lad once who said he would like to be a sailor, and he went to sea and had such a taste of it from London to Plymouth that he would not go any farther, and they had to set him ashore." "He must have been a great coward," I said.
"To be sure he was; but then you might be if you pricked your finger with the thorns of a rose, or had to do something in the garden when it was freezing hard, eh ?" "I don't think I should be," I replied.
"But you must think," he said.