{"product_id":"2940013461352","title":"John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                        PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      John Gayther's Garden                                3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I  What I Found in the Sea                              9\u003cbr\u003e         Told by John Gayther\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II  The Bushwhacker Nurse                               39\u003cbr\u003e         Told by the Daughter of the House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III  The Lady in the Box                                 71\u003cbr\u003e         Told by John Gayther\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV  The Cot and the Rill                               109\u003cbr\u003e         Told by the Mistress of the House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   V  The Gilded Idol and the King Conch-shell           155\u003cbr\u003e         Told by the Master of the House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI  My Balloon Hunt                                    201\u003cbr\u003e         Told by the Frenchman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VII  The Foreign Prince and the Hermit's Daughter       223\u003cbr\u003e         Told by Pomona and Jonas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII  The Conscious Amanda                               249\u003cbr\u003e         Told by the Daughter of the House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX  My Translatophone                                  279\u003cbr\u003e         Told by the Old Professor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   X  The Vice-consort                                   307\u003cbr\u003e         Told by the Next Neighbor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XI  Blackgum ag'in' Thunder                            341\u003cbr\u003e         Told by John Gayther\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN GAYTHER'S GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe garden did not belong to John Gayther; he merely had charge of it.\u003cbr\u003eAt certain busy seasons he had some men to help him in his work, but for\u003cbr\u003ethe greater part of the year he preferred doing everything himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a very fine garden over which John Gayther had charge. It\u003cbr\u003eextended this way and that for long distances. It was difficult to see\u003cbr\u003ehow far it did extend, there were so many old-fashioned box hedges;\u003cbr\u003eso many paths overshadowed by venerable grape-arbors; and so many\u003cbr\u003efar-stretching rows of peach, plum, and pear trees. Fruit, bushes, and\u003cbr\u003evines there were of which the roll need not be called; and flowers grew\u003cbr\u003eeverywhere. It was one of the fancies of the Mistress of the House--and\u003cbr\u003eshe inherited it from her mother--to have flowers in great abundance, so\u003cbr\u003ethat wherever she might walk through the garden she would always find\u003cbr\u003ethem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOften when she found them massed too thickly she would go in among them\u003cbr\u003eand thin them out with apparent recklessness, pulling them up by the\u003cbr\u003eroots and throwing them on the path, where John Gayther would come and\u003cbr\u003efind them and take them away. This heroic action on the part of the\u003cbr\u003eMistress of the House pleased John very much. He respected the fearless\u003cbr\u003espirit which did not hesitate to make sacrifices for the greater good,\u003cbr\u003eno matter how many beautiful blossoms she scattered on the garden path.\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gayther might have thinned out all this superfluous growth himself,\u003cbr\u003ebut he knew the Mistress liked to do it, and he left for her gloved\u003cbr\u003ehands many tangled jungles of luxuriant bloom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe garden was old, and rich, and aristocratic. It acted generously in\u003cbr\u003ethe way of fruit, flowers, and vegetables, as if that were something it\u003cbr\u003ewas expected to do, an action to which it was obliged by its nobility.\u003cbr\u003eIt would be impossible for it to forget that it belonged to a fine old\u003cbr\u003ehouse and a fine old family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gayther could not boast of lines of long descent, as could the\u003cbr\u003egarden and the family. He was comparatively a new-comer, and had not\u003cbr\u003elived in that garden more than seven or eight years; but in that time he\u003cbr\u003ehad so identified himself with the place, and all who dwelt upon it,\u003cbr\u003ethat there were times when a stranger might have supposed him to be the\u003cbr\u003ecommon ancestor to the whole estate.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079501234416,"sku":"2940013461352","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013461352_p0.jpg?v=1763581189","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013461352","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}