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been reserved, and having revealed behind glass the chief aspects of growth and development in The Vegetable Kingdom, it was taken home and planted in the garden where I over ran everything and finally matured six huge, hard squashes. Everybody admired them very much and Bertha, our cook, made one of them into squash pies.

Another one was sent to Grandfather, in town, where he sat all day long in his rocking chair by the window. he was the grandfather who was in the South when the War broke out, and had left the supper on the stove and the cat asleep on the hearth and managed to get through both the Confederate and the Union lines crossed out: as he and reach safety. Later he too went into the lumber business. crossed out: Everybody ^All the woodsmen remembered Grandfather Brooke when they used to go deer hunting, walking through the woods in his Prince Albert coat although he never shot at anything. I remember him only in the rocking chair, but Mother used to