Daddy Takes Us Skating

r had told their father, to make him exclaim like that, neither Hal nor Mab could guess. For they

on, as he drew his head in from the

hurried to his room to change from his bath rob

re has," answer

s you to come out in such a hurry.

ing in our garden,"

me the garden is on fi

rden burn?" asked Unc

Blake. "Mr. Porter saw them and told me. We ought to have Little Boy Blue

ws in my corn! They

green peas and other things if I don't get them out," sai

b as she saw her little brother

y, to the garden, to

cows might run wild when I drive them out, and step

rning. Hal and Mab looked from the windows at the back of the house but they could not see much of the

er there was a rushing sound at one side of the house, and next sev

stened, so the cows could not get in

xiously as he thought of the prize ten d

ch, though some

garden spoil

iked them so well they stayed there eating, not going far from where they were p

ere they?" as

e town. They must have gotten out of their pasture during the night and the

ade to pay for what his cow

r says the man is very good and honest. We wo

s they were dressed, they went out along the paths that were made among the differen

orn!" cried Hal "

ou will lose several h

e all trampled d

l grow, even if the vines are not as nice as before.

to Hal and Mab, "you will still be even for winning the prize of ten dollars in gold. That is

the hail storm, that, fey hoeing dirt higher around his hills of corn he could make some of th

ooked at the place where they had been growing. "Still I'd rather have them spoiled th

d some of his men came for them. Then, when the milkman heard how his

and he did. He said he was very sorry his cows had made so much trouble, and

er. "I arose earlier than I usually do as I wanted to hoe my lima beans be

Hal's father. "We saved mo

before the cows broke in. Even then the pea vines were only about half as many in number as at fir

as we did," she said. "Anyhow there is no

t the egg plants?

f the garden," answered Mrs. Blake.

Uncle Pennywait, winking his lef

Mrs. Blake. "Suppose you go brin

b, while the little girl, as she to

thought hens laid eggs, and we

ennywait said. "I'll show you some. I

really did not know all the things Daddy Blake had planted. But when Uncle Pennywait showed them where, growing in

ose egg

," said h

eat them?

very good t

nted to know. "Do they taste like eggs just l

they cook 'e

stions since your Daddy began telling you things about the

rse," and Uncle Pennywait held up one he had cut off the stem where it had been growing. "They taste a little like eggs because, when th

or?" as

flavor they have; I really don't know about that part of it. At any ra

t. They were beginning to find out that ma

rom the cob with salt and butter on. Mother Blake also cooked some of the lima beans Mab had planted when she made her gar

he name mean

, for I don't know,"

means," said U

" aske

n't, it ought to. Those Indians knew what was good, all right! I'll

eeds in their garden plots they saw their father carrying

e, Daddy?" asked Hal, for there

make my celery grow

med Mab. "I thought it grew whit

grow as it comes up from seed the stalks would be green, or at

or sap, inside leaves and plants, that makes them green. Celery has to be bleached, and one way of doing it is to set long boards

use they are clean, and keep the soil from getting inside the celery stalks. Another way is to put a small woo

like we get it at the table. And so it has to be bleached. If y

nly we like pale celery but it is not healthful for children to be too white. Just try a little experiment yours

ut the boards on the celery. Then, a week later, they lift

as all turned white!" c

n the dark so long. It did not like it, and if you left the stone there too long the

sun had tanned the grass green as it

to show them how to dig potatoes, which is not as easy as it sounds, the c

in trouble again!

dded Hal, for the little poo

him?" cried Mab. "Hurry,