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We all wondered then a good deal about how 

 the house had looked that once stood in this spot, 

 and about who had planted the garden and picked 

 the currants. I said: 



" Perhaps it was all very long ago, and the 

 children grew up and went away like birds that 

 leave their nests. Then the old people died and 

 the house burned down, and all that was left in the 

 garden was three currant bushes, and Bouncing 

 Betty and Philip's Tansy Queen." 



" There's something else left," Kate Hood 

 called. " See that big Sunflower. It's just open- 

 ing." 



Tommy thought that perhaps it used to be in 

 the middle of the garden, and that the currant 

 bushes were along the north side. 



We all thought he must be right, and as there 

 was nothing more for us to wonder about we went 

 on to the pond to catch bullfrogs. 



