“ CARROTS.”

“Tf the fairies sended you money to buy

one, wouldn't that do?” said Carrots, staring
up in her face with a funny look in his eyes.

But before Floss had time to answer, nurse
called to them. They were at the corner of
the lane which led to Mrs. White’s.

Mrs. White was very kind. She had baked
a cake only a day or two. before, and cut off a
beautiful big piece for each of the children,
then she gave them a drink of milk; and they
ran out into her little garden to eat their
cake and look at the flowers, till nurse had
finished her business with the old washer-
woman, and was ready to go home.

Floss and Carrots thought a great deal of
Mrs. White’s garden. Small as it was, it
had far more flowers in it than their own
garden at the back of the Cove House; for it
was a mile or two farther from the sea, and
the soil was richer, and it was more sheltered
from the wind.

In summer there was what Floss called quite

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a “buzzy” sound in this little garden. She