CHAPTER XXV 



THE FLOWER SHOW 

 [September] 



Tj^EW people in Brookside did not know of the 

 *- Flower Show. There was a large placard on 

 Judge Patterson's gate : 



GRAND FLOWER SHOW 



BY THE 

 HORTICULTURAL CLUB 



AT THREE O'CLOCK 

 ADMISSION, 10 CENTS 



and for a week the club had industriously sold 



tickets. A pasteboard box, slit invitingly, and 



marked, FOR PRIZES FOR THE FLOWER SHOW, was 



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