ut with great delight, and wondering how it had all happened, when she suddenly caught sight of a big

d a bright red waistcoat which he was wearing unbuttoned so as to give his fat little chest plenty of room; b

when he chanced to turn around to take a particular look at a large flower, and she saw that he h

WITH HIS HANDS IN HI

be that. Perhaps it means Best Suit, or Bird Superintendent, or-or-why it must mean Bob Scarlet, to be sure!" and clapping her hands

and she would see the hat or the waistcoat far away, in another part of the garden, and would hurry after him only to be disappointed as before. She was getting very tired of this, and was walking around rather disconsolately, when she happened to look at one of the plants, and discovere

LITTLE PINAFORES, AND SHRUBS WITH

nafores, and shrubs with small shoes growing all over them, like peas, and delicate vines of thread with button-blossoms on them, and, what particularly

aimed, stopping short and clasping her hands in a rapture,-"just fancy going out to pick an apronful of delightful new stockings, or running out every day to see if your best frock is ripe yet!

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uddenly appeared, hurrying along the path, and gazing anxiously from side to side as if he had lost something. As he came upon Dorothy, he started violently, and said

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, I never remember it till I come to it. I suppose it's put at the end so that

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obin, strutting about. "There's such a tremendous variety

ht. "I should never get used to it," she said. "I

roudly; "I know 'em all. It

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, moreover, that the little shoes on the shoe-shrub were so withered away that they looked like a lot of raisins. But she had no time to stop and look at such things, and she ran on and on until, to her delight, she came suddenly upon the little trap-door where she had come up. There wasn't a minute to spare, and she jumped down into the hole without so much as stopping to look