pendants have a thousand petty local
advantages, which cost almost nothing to the giver, which are yet
valuable to the receiver, and of which the absent never think."

"You have heard," said Dr. Barlow, "that Miss Stanley, from her
childhood, has been passionately fond of cultivating a garden. When she
was hardly fourteen, she began to reflect that the delight she took in
this employment was attended neither with pleasure nor profit to any one
but herself, and she became jealous of a gratification which was so
entirely selfish. She begged this piece of waste ground of her father,
and stocked it with a number of fine young fruit-trees of the common
sort, apples, pears, plums, and the smaller fruits. When there is a
wedding among the older servants, or when any good girl out of her
school marries, she presents their little empty garden with a dozen
young apple-trees, and a few trees of the other sorts, never forgetting
to embellish their little court with roses and honey-suckles. These last
she transplants from the shrubbery, not to fill up the _village garden_,
as it is called, with any thing that is of no positive use. She employs
a poor lame man in the village a day in a week to look after this
nursery, and by cutting and grafts a good stock is raised on a small
space. It is done at her own expense, Mr. Stanley making this a
condition when he gave her the ground; 'otherwise,' said he, 'trifling
as it is, it would be my charity and not hers, and she would get thanked
for a kindness which would cost her nothing.' The warm-hearted little
Ph[oe]be cooperates in this, and all her sister's labors of love.

"Some such union of charity with every personal indulgence, she
generally imposes on herself; and from this association she has acquired
another virtue, for she tells me, smiling, she is sometimes obliged to
content herself with practicing frugality instead of charity. When she
finds she can not afford both her own gratification, and the charitable
act which she wanted to associate with it, and is therefore compelled to
give up the charity, she compels herself to give up the indulgence also.
By this self-denial she gets a little money in hand for the next demand,
and thus is enabled to afford both next time."

As he finished speaking, we spied the lame gardener pruning and clearing
the trees. "Well, James," said the Doctor, "how does your nursery
thrive?" "Why, sir," said the poor man, "we are rather thin of stout
trees