At every turn and in every nook you stumbled on some miracle of which you had never dreamed . Or perhaps the charm was simply that the whole garden was an expression of Uncle Dick 's personality . In one corner a little green dory , filled with earth , overflowed in a wave of gay annuals . In the centre of the garden an old birch-bark canoe seemed sailing through a sea of blossoms , with a many-coloured freight of geraniums . Paths twisted and turned among flowering shrubs , and clumps of old-fashioned perennials were mingled with the latest fads of the floral catalogues . The mid-garden was a pool of sunshine , with finely sifted winds purring over it , but under the poplars there were shadows and growing things that loved the shadows , crowding about the old stone benches at each side . Somehow , my daily glimpse of Uncle Dick 's garden soon came to symbolize for me a meaning easier to translate into life and soul than into words . It was a power for good within me , making its influence felt in many ways . Finally I caught Uncle Dick in his garden . On my way home one evening I found him on his knees among the rosebushes , and as soon as he saw me he sprang up and came forward with outstretched hand . He was a tall man of about fifty , with grizzled hair , but not a thread of silver yet showed itself in the ripples of his long brown beard . Later I discovered that his splendid beard was Uncle Dick 's only vanity . So fine and silky was it that it did not hide the candid , sensitive curves of his mouth , around which a mellow smile , tinged with kindly , quizzical humour , always lingered . His face was tanned even more deeply than is usual among farmers , for he had an inveterate habit of going about hatless in the most merciless sunshine ; but the line of forehead under his hair was white as milk , and his eyes were darkly blue and as tender as a woman 's . `` How do you do , Master ? '' he said heartily . -LRB- The Bayside pedagogue was invariably addressed as `` Master '' by young and old . -RRB- `` I 'm glad to see you . Here I am , trying to save my rosebushes . There are green bugs on 'em , Master -- green bugs , and they 're worrying the life out of me . ''
I smiled , for Uncle Dick looked very unlike a worrying man , even XXXXX such a serious accident as green bugs .
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