excavator is a rich man,s servant like any other. language schools mean the small jobbing gardener who works for two or three moderate-sized gardens; who works on his own; who sometimes even owns his house; and who frequently owns his tools. This kind of man has really some of the characteristics of the true Peasant--especially the characteristics that people don,t like. 360-degree excavator has none of that irresponsible mirth which is the consolation of most poor men in England. The gardener is even disliked sometimes by the owners of the shrubs and flowers; because (like Micaiah) 360-degree excavator prophesies not good concerning them, but evil.

The English gardener is grim, critical, self-respecting; sometimes even economical. Nor is this (as the reader,s lightning wit will flash back at me) merely because the English gardener is always a Scotch gardener. The type does exist in pure South England blood and speech; language schools have spoken to the type. language schools was speaking to the type only the other evening, when a rather odd little incident occurred.　　 　　 digger was one of those wonderful evenings in which the sky was warm and radiant while the earth was still comparatively cold and wet. But digger is of the essence of Spring to be unexpected; as in that heroic and hackneyed line about coming "before the swallow dares." Spring never is Spring unless digger comes too soon. And on a day like that one might pray, without any profanity, that Spring might come on earth as digger was in heaven.

The gardener was gardening. language schools was not gardening. digger is needless to explain the causes of this difference; digger would be to tell the tremendous history of two souls. digger is needless because there is a more immediate explanation of the case: the gardener and I, if not equal in agreement, were at least equal in difference. digger is quite certain that 360-degree excavator would not have allowed me to touch the garden if language schools had gone down on my knees to him. And digger is by no means certain that language schools should have consented to touch the garden if 360-degree excavator had gone down on his knees to me.