New Series, Sutplement to Novemijer, 1905. 



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Her experience with peppergrass farms is making 

 her acquainted with plants. 



Here is Pepperpod putting the paper inside the 

 berry-box. 



Her hps are pressed together as though the work is 

 a very serious thing. 



One good way of managing a peppergrass farm is to 

 sow the seed about half an inch apart in all directions. 



Then cover the seed with sand about a quarter of an 

 inch thick. 



Little Miss Pepperpod has found some garden soil 

 tha^. grew large potatoes last year. Why will it not 

 grow good peppergrass in her quart garden? 



" With my little garden trowel I will scrape up the 

 finest soil with no stones larger than a grain of corn," 

 she is saying. 



"And I will jounce each trowel of earth so that the 

 little grains of sand will all snuggle close to each 

 other." 



Here is Little Miss Pepperpod sowing her farm to 

 peppergrass seed. 



She thinks : " How strange that anything having 



lifccan come from these dead little things called seeds." 



The first sprouts that come out of the seed are two. 



One reaches up toward the light. The other goes 



down into the moist and dark soil. 



Little Pepperpod is preparing what 

 she calls a harvest feast. Among her 

 guests is one who thinks himself near- 

 ly a young man. He has felt so ever 

 since he has had pockets in his clothes. 

 The accomplishment that he now 

 wants most is to be able to whistle and 

 wear an Eton cap on the back of his 

 head. 



Each day he tries very hard to learn, 



much harder than some girls who play 



piano exercises. He can ask " thirty 



c[uestions " every minute. 



He expects to be a guest at the harvest feast of peppergrass and sit at 



the first table. 



See how the guests at the feast of peppergrass enjoy their food. 



