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down the logs. And besides, I want my garden
to be watered.”

“ Your garden!” repeated her mother. “I
did not know you had any garden.”

“ Yes,” said Lucy ; “ Ellen gave me one, and
my flowers are all dying, because it does not rain
on them.”

It was true that Lucy had a little garden. It
was a small place in Ellen’s garden, where Ellen
had planted six hills of corn, She kad broken
off all the ears of corn which had grown there, to
roast, and so the stalks which were left were not
good for any thing. Ellen, accordingly, pulled
them up, and gave them to the cow ; and she told
Lucy that she might have the place for her gar-
den. So Lucy had hoed it over, and raked it,
and put flowers in it, which she and Eben gath-
ered from a field. She had been out the after-
noon before, to see her garden, and the flowers

were wilted. The reason was, that they had .
no root; but Lucy thought that it was because

they had not been watered by rain.

As the sun rose, it became more and more evi-
dent that she was to be disappointed in her
wishes for rain. Never was there a finer prospect
for a beautifi.l day. So pleasant was the morning,

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