Identifier: childrengardens00jeky (find matches)
Title: Children and gardens
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
Subjects: Gardening Children Amusements
Publisher: London, Offices of 'Country life', ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f garden and shrubbery and twoponds—one a large mill-pond covering some acres ;and three streams, so that I was always watching theways of water. Where one quick-running stream, aftertumbling down in a cascade, ran into the mill-pond,was a grand place for gudgeons. We used to catchthem both with a rod and with a round dip-net, andsometimes had them fried for tea. This pond had alarge island near the upper end, but no bridge. In ourearlier years we had no boat, but belonging to thehouse was a set of brewing tackle, and among its itemsa beer-cooler. This is a wooden thing about five feetlong and three feet wide, with sides eight or teninches high, like a large shallow box or tray. Myfather had this taken down on the pond for somethingthat was to be done near the pond edge, and we childrensurreptitiously used it as a boat to make perilousjourneys over to the island. It was very riaughtyindeed — it was strictly forbidden, and was reallydangerous, but mercifully we came to no harm. The
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iJni. THE GOOD PLACE FOR GUDGEONS.

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