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"Now where are those special garden tools of yours. Laurie'.“' his mother teased. "It is time you put them to use again. I see there
are weeds growing tip in your garden as well as mine."
"Are you going out now?" ask- ed Laurie, all eagerness to get going too. "I'll get your tools when I get mine. What ones do you want'."'
"Just my hoe and rake. please." his mother answered. Laurie ran out to the shed to get them and off they went to the garden.
"I see my beans are growing." said Laurie, pointing to the row.
"Yes. they are coming great Take your hoe and cut all the weeds away. Rake them up. then pull the soil in around the roots to make a little hill. like this." said his mother. showing him how.
Laurie nodded to show he tin- derstood. Mrs Page walked on in her vegetables. and for a while there was silence except for the click. click. click nl two busy hoes.
"Come see how much I have done." Laurie called. His mother walked over. "My‘
you did an excellent job .There isn't a weed to be seen You have "hilled them up well too."
“Why do we have to take out the weeds?“ asked Laurie.
"So that your plants can grow." was her answer
"Bill the wccds will giie the plants exercise." protested Laurie.
His mother laughed. “The beans
get exercise enough pushing their way up through the ground. get- ting food for themselves. and
growing If the weeds stay they .ise up the food and water that the plant should have " - Laurie thought that over. then added “I guess I'd better take
the rest of them ntit. then."
“That would he a good idea for both of us." said his mother as she started back to her work.
"Look at this big fat weed I found." called Laurie “Hasn't it got big lea\es'."'
"Let me see that." said his mother. coming closer. "That isn't a weed. clear. That is one of your pumpkin plants."
Laurie looked \\'i)l ried. “I thought it was a weed. Can I put it back? Will it die" Oh. Mom- my, I don't want it to die. I want lots of pumpkins next fall."
"We'll put it back. and water it well. Perhaps it will live." re- olied his mother. "Don't feel too bad. for you have lots of plants left without it. There. I think it will be all right now. You didn't break the roots."
He watched anxiously as she packed the soil around. then wa- tered the plant. "I'll watch out after this." he said.
“It is Just as well to ask if you aren't sure." his mother told him as she went back to her weed- ing.
About fifteen minutes later she decided to have a look to see what he was doing. She walked river tn where he was bent over. the bean plants.
"Whatever are you doing?" she asked.
"I'm picking beans for dinner." he answered.
“There aren't any beans yi-I, dear. the plants are too small." she protested.
"No. they aren't. See. here are two beans." and he held out his hand.
"My goodness. don't pick those oft. Those are the little seed leaves of the plant. The beans that come, Will be long yellow pods. not bean.-i like those you
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The Lone Render
By Thorton W. Burgess
A NATUIIAL MISTAKE
Be suspicious ‘till you know. Who is who. and what is so.
—Bo'o White;
The Bob Whites were getting an early breakfast. Bob White him.- self was sitting on a fence post
where he could see tar in all di-1 His big family of tour-l. Bob were catching.‘ insects and picking up seeds down‘
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in the grass. One of those busy hunters for a breakfast was Bob white Junior. so-called because he was so like his father in many and
ways, None of his brothers
sisters learned quite as last as he did. Only the day before. he had seen Redtail the Hawk sailing- high ovi-rhead. He had learned‘ from his father that various members of the hawk family werel
eneniics to be watched out for. alid that when he saw a big bird sailing in the air with little or no motion or his wings it was likely to be a hawk: and the thing to do “as to Keep out of sight.
Sn it iias that alter the young Bob White kept \\illCl'\ of the sky. No enemy was going to come from up above and catch him. Now as he huntetl for his breakfast he looked up at and all around in the sky every two or three min- utes. so it was that he saw ver_\' high up a hlrii-k spot that kept going round and round in a ClI('lP He kept an eye on that black spot After a long time the. black spot began to grow bigger and bigger. That “as because it was coming nearer and nnarer. It iias coming
down. The young quail forgot to hunt. for his brealtiast. He just watched that black spot. come
down and down until he saw that it was not only a bird, but a big bird.
"It's one of the lld\\l( folk." thought Junior. and looked over at his father on the fence post to see if he was watching too. He
planted." she explained.
"O-oh"' Laurie said slowly. "I thought those were the beans."
"No." answered his mother "Those are like little store hous- es for food for the plant until it is big enough to get its own. Just leave them there Your gar- den looks lovely and clean now. You'll have to show Daddy."
“Yes. I will." laughed Lauric. his eyes sparkling. "I must tell him \ve'll soon have beans for dinner. But next time I'll pick the right ones."
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tip again. its Redtail,"
in the grass at the foot. of the post on which Bob White “R5 sitting. Hkl rather looked down
and saw him. Perhaps he looked worried. for Bob White flew down beside him.
"Do you see that big hawk over- head?"
asked Junior. “There isn't any
“But there round up there?
If hawks are so shouldn't the others be warned?”
Bob White shook his head. "No", said he.
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"My mistake." replied lob White. “I forgot about Ol' llletah Buzzard. He is the greatest. of all air sailors over land. You made a natural mistake in thinking him to be a hawk."
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