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A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls
A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls Author:Albert Bigelow Paine Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MARCH STILL, IT WAS REALLY A RADISH AND so the month of February passed. Once the vines had started up the strings, they seemed to grow faster—almost as if... more » they were running races, while the pease reached out and clung to the little twigs, and stood up straight and trim, like soldiers. Tho pansies and nasturtiums, too, and the lettuco and radishes all sent out more and more leaves, and began to hide the little pods. Davy was wild to pull up just one radish to see if itrwasn't big enough to eat, but on the first day of March, when the Chief Gardener told him that he might do so, he was grieved to find only a pale little root, just a bit larger and a trifle pinker at thetop, instead of the fat, round vegetable he had expected. Still, it was really a radish, Davy said, and he cut the thickest part in two and gave half to little Prue, who brought out her little dishes and set her table that Santa Glaus left under the Christmas Tree. Then she put her piece on one little plate, and Davy's piece on another, and picked one tiny pansy leaf and one from the nasturtiums to make bouquets. And Davy picked a lettuce leaf—a very small lettuce leaf —for a salad, so that when their little table was all spread and ready, with some very small slices of bread, and some cookies—some quite large cookies—and some animal crackers, with milk for tea, it really looked quite fresh and pretty and made you hungry just to look at it. And, oh, yes, I forgot to say that there was some salt, the least little bit, in two of the tiniest salt dishes, and when they sat down at last to the very first meal out of their garden, all on the first day of March, when no other gardens around about had been planted yet, they dipped the tiny bits of radish into the tiny salt dishes, and nibbled it, just a wee bit a...« less