They had not forgotten the flavour of Egyptian fleshpots as represented by the succulent young shoots in the Harrington domains . A week later Mordecai came in and told Harrington that `` them notorious pigs '' were in his garden again . There is a limit to everyone 's patience . Harrington left Mordecai to drive them out , while he put on his hat and stalked over to the Haydens ' place . Ted and Bobbles were playing at marbles in the lane and ran when they saw him coming . He got close up to the little low house among the apple trees before Mordecai appeared in the yard , driving the pigs around the barn . Mrs. Hayden was sitting on her doorstep , paring her dinner potatoes , and stood up hastily when she saw her visitor . Harrington had never seen his neighbour at close quarters before . Now he could not help seeing that she was a very pretty little woman , with wistful , dark blue eyes and an appealing expression . Mary Hayden had been next to a beauty in her girlhood , and she had a good deal of her bloom left yet , although hard work and worry were doing their best to rob her of it . But John Harrington was an angry man and did not care whether the woman in question was pretty or not . Her pigs had rooted up his garden -- that fact filled his mind . `` Mrs. Hayden , those pigs of yours have been in my garden again . I simply ca n't put up with this any longer . Why in the name of reason do n't you look after your animals better ? If I find them in again I 'll set my dog on them , I give you fair warning . '' A faint colour had crept into Mary Hayden 's soft , milky-white cheeks during this tirade , and her voice trembled as she said , `` I 'm very sorry , Mr. Harrington . I suppose Bobbles forgot to shut the gate of their pen again this morning . He is so forgetful . '' `` I 'd lengthen his memory , then , if I were you , '' returned Harrington grimly , supposing that Bobbles was the hired man .
`` I 'm not going XXXXX have my garden ruined just because he happens to be forgetful .
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