CHAPTER XIV 



THE HORTICULTURAL CLUB 



[May] 



fTlHE meeting-room of the Juvenile Bug Association 

 J- was not as convenient of access as it might have 

 been. The Dicksons' was an old place, and beside 

 the barn stood a tall water-tower with a great round 

 tank on top, built before water was introduced all 

 over the town. 



Outside, an enormously long ladder (which no one 

 was allowed to climb) led up to the tank ; but inside 

 there was another, shorter ladder, by which you could 

 reach the "second story," a rough, unfinished square 

 room just under the great tank. This was the room 

 of the Bug Association, which had died at last sum- 

 mer's end, and now the gardening club seemed likely 

 to reign in its stead. 



Margaret and Mary climbed the ladder and began 

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