CHAPTER VI 



BEGINNING THE GARDEN 

 [April] 



MARY had just finished her breakfast and was 

 leaning back in her chair, engaged in blissful 

 meditation. It was the Easter vacation, and you 

 did n't have to think about going to school the 

 minute breakfast was over ; besides, were not she 

 and Mr. Trommel to mark out the garden to-day ? 



"Mary," said Mr. Maxwell, interrupting the brown 

 study, "when are you and Trommel going to stake 

 out that wonderful garden patch T " 



"My garden isn't a ' patch,'" objected Mary; 

 "it 's going to be paths, and little flower-beds, and all 

 inclosed." 



"Inclosed?" queried her father. 



"Yes ; Mr. Trommel said a wall would be nice, but 

 that would take too long to make ; so we 're going 

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