Children and gardens . awn . The Bat . . Scarlet Toadstools Chantarelle . The Owls House . Hedgehog out for an Evening Prowl Its a prickly job Stalactites The proper Place for Shoes and Stockings The Sand-House . In the Sand-Pit . The Sand-Pit Gathering Fir-Cones Fern Pegs . * There are two more Cones Raking out Baked Potatoes The Tea-Kitchen . Dabbling Toes in the Tank The Tea-Kitchen . Just out of the Tank The Artesian Well Tabby in the Basket PAGE 74757576 n78 7980808182 8585 868687 9090919192929394959596 97 CHILDREN AND GARDENS Tabby takes possession . PAGE 98 Tabby in the Cerastium . 99^
Children and gardens . awn . The Bat . . Scarlet Toadstools Chantarelle . The Owls House . Hedgehog out for an Evening Prowl Its a prickly job Stalactites The proper Place for Shoes and Stockings The Sand-House . In the Sand-Pit . The Sand-Pit Gathering Fir-Cones Fern Pegs . * There are two more Cones Raking out Baked Potatoes The Tea-Kitchen . Dabbling Toes in the Tank The Tea-Kitchen . Just out of the Tank The Artesian Well Tabby in the Basket PAGE 74757576 n78 7980808182 8585 868687 9090919192929394959596 97 CHILDREN AND GARDENS Tabby takes possession . PAGE 98 Tabby in the Cerastium . 99^ Tabby 99 Blackie and the Catmint lOO Tabby in the Catmint . lOO Tabby in the Catmint lOO Tabby and the Photograph Basket lOI Still more comfortable . lOI Tittlebat .... I02 Tittlebat .... I03 Tavy ..... 103 Pinkie ..... 103 Pinkie: Two Elevations . 104/ Two Little Waifs . 104 Dorothea and Dinah 105 Three Kittens—Plan 106 Five Kittens—Plan 106 Four Kittens—Plan 106 Three Kittens—Plan 107 CHILDREN AND GARDENS. CHILDREN AND GARDENS CHAPTER I MY OWN YOUNG DAYS Well do I remember the time when I thought therewere two kinds of people in the world—children andgrown-ups,—and that the world really belonged to thechildren. And I think it is because I have been moreor less a gardener all my life that I still feel like achild in many ways, although from the number of yearsI have lived I ought to know that I am quite an oldwoman. But I can still—when no one is looking—climb over a five-barred gate or jump a ditch; butthen I was always strong and active in my limbs, andin many ways more like a boy than a girl. This wasno doubt because my place in the family came in themiddle of four boys; two brothers older and twoyounger. I had no girl companions, for my only sisterwas seven years older, so that we were not muchtogether. It was therefore natural that I should bemore of a boy than a girl in my ideas and activities,delighting to go up trees, and to play cricket, and takewasps
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