CHAPTER IX
The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived In
- Mary found
into the garden that all the ground was covered with grass and out of it
had grown bushes. All seemed as if the garden were alive. She was inside the
wonderful garden and she thought that that place could be a world all her
own, her secret place.
- The robin was with Mary all the time and she came in and after she had walked about for a while she thought she would skip-rope around the whole garden, stopping when she wanted to look at things.
- Mary bent in the ground and could see how tiny growing things as snowdrops or daffodils. And she thought that it was not quite a dead garden. She liked it very much.
- Mary started to clean the garden with a sharp piece of wood and knelt down to cut out the weeds and grass. She worked about two or three hours while the robin watched her, he was tremendously busy. Mary threw her coat off and then her hat to work better because she felt heat.
- Mary came back home and she said that she shall come back this afternoon, she talked looking all round at her new kingdom and speaking to the trees the rose-bushes as if they understood her.
- When Mary arrived at home, Martha was waiting for her with a delicious dinner, and Mary ate such a dinner that Martha was surprised. Martha believes that this is because Mary's skipping-rope.
- Mary asks Martha about plants that grow in the garden and Martha speaks about Dickon and how Dickon knows all about the plants and better seeds that grow in this garden. Mary wants to keep her secret kingdom.
- Mary wants tools for her garden and she asks Martha where she could to have ones. Martha said that she could write a letter to Dickon and ask him if he could buy seeds and tools for gardening. And Mary wrote a letter to Dickon, this was the first time that Mary communicates with Dickon.
- Mary will meet with Dickon as she wants and Martha wants to take Mary at her home and that she could meet with Martha's mother and walk over to their cottage some day and have a bit of Mother's hot oat cake and butter, and a glass of milk.
- When Martha was going from Mary's room, she asked to Martha about the crying again in the corridor that she heard this same day. Martha said that this is the wind, but Mary thought "It's the strangest house any one ever lived in" and she was tired because she had had a lot of activities this day and she fell asleep.
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