`` Yellow excites me too much -- makes me restless -- makes me want to sail ` beyond the bourne of sunset ' . I looked at that surge of golden glow down there today till I got all worked up and thought my life had been an awful failure . I found a dead butterfly and had a little funeral -- buried it in the fern corner . And I thought I had n't been any more use in the world than that poor little butterfly . Oh , I was woeful , master . Then I got me this hollyhock and sat down here to look at it alone . When a man 's alone , master , he 's most with God -- or with the devil . The devil rampaged around me all the time I was looking at that golden glow ; but God spoke to me through the hollyhock . And it seemed to me that a man who 's as happy as I am and has got such a garden has made a real success of living . '' `` I hope I 'll be able to make as much of a success , '' I said sincerely . `` I want you to make a different kind of success , though , master , '' said Abel , shaking his head . `` I want you to do things -- the things I 'd have tried to do if I 'd had the chance . It 's in you to do them -- if you set your teeth and go ahead . '' `` I believe I can set my teeth and go ahead now , thanks to you , Mr. Armstrong , '' I said . `` I was heading straight for failure when I came here last spring ; but you 've changed my course . '' `` Given you a sort of compass to steer by , have n't I ? '' queried Abel with a smile . `` I ai n't too modest to take some credit for it . I saw I could do you some good . But my garden has done more than I did , if you 'll believe it .
It 's wonderful what a garden can do XXXXX a man when he lets it have its way .
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