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like some babies : that it would grow, no matter how 

 no matter how ignorant its parents were. 



"Gardening is very peculiar," she said, as she took 

 the watering-pot and began to soak the new arrivals ; 

 "just after you learn things, you have to learn how 

 many times they are n't so." 



