Excerpt from A Bachelor in Arcady Beyond the lawn and the chestnuts lies the kitchen garden, walled with red brick - the mellow red of age. If the door happens to be open, and you look forward from the lawn, you see a graveled walk, a line of gooseberry bushes, a hint of cabbages toward the right, a row of hives set under the broad arch that frames the far end of the path. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.