v] HARRY’S DREAM. 259

associating it with the state of Watkins the umpire, he
began to feel rather uneasy in his mind. Probably
his countenance gave some indication of his feelings,
for the old gentleman presently exclaimed, ‘Come,
don’t be downcast or unhappy; we don’t like that
kind of thing here. Wouldn’t you like to see the gar-
dens ?’

Harry saw no reason for saying anything but ‘ Yes’
to this proposal, and the three set off together at once.
They crossed the lawn, during which process Harry
carefully averted his eyes from the border of Watkins’
heads, but ‘only to observe that many other counten-
ances of people, known and unknown to him, appeared
to be placed in a similar position in other borders, which
rather relieved his mind, as showing that the unhappy
umpire would at least have company in his punish-
ment. Then, passing through a narrow passage cut
through the rhododendrons, they came on to another
larger lawn, on one side of which was an enormous
extent of glass—green-houses and hot-houses, peach-
houses and grape-houses, as Harry thought, enough
to have supplied all Eton through the whole summer
halfand even then have left plenty of fruit over. But
when he came near, he found he had been mistaken.
These were not houses for ordinary fruit, but contained
new and extraordinary plants. The first house was
completely filled with plants the like of which Harry
had never seen before and about which he eagerly
questioned his companions.

‘Oh!’ said the little brown gentleman, ‘ these are
Observation-trees : don’t you see their names written
on the stem of each?’
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