Look at these plants, will you?
Ain't they splendid ?" "Mr.Butterwick," said Hoops, "I've got some bad news to break to you, but I hope you'll stand it like a man.

These afflictions come to all of us in this life, sir.

They are meant for our good.

But really, sir, those are not Borneo cabbages.

Cabbages! Why, thunder and lightnin'! They are merely a mixture of California and Mexican pokeberry with the ordinary kind, and a little Osage orange sprinkled through.