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CHAPTEK XVII 



SETTING OUT SEEDLINGS 

 [May, last week] 



not going to ask you to help me, Mr. Trom- 

 mel, because I belong to the Horticultural Club 

 now j but I 'm going to set out my seedlings, and if 

 you would like to come over and sit in my arbor, 

 I >d-I 'd feel a little safer. Are n't you tired!" 

 added the under-gardener, solicitously. 



Herr Trommel was busily at work with shears in 

 one of his borders. He was clipping the lower 

 leaves from hollyhocks that were beginning to shade 

 some little seedlings, but he straightened himself 

 and laughed. 



"You think the little asters feel better if I what 

 you call it chaperon a little?" 



"Yes, that 's it," said Mary ; "but what are you 

 doing to the hollyhocks t " 

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