The exercise made her so warm that she first threw her coat off, and then her hat, and without knowing it she was smiling down on to the grass and the pale green points all the time.
The robin was tremendously busy.

He was very much pleased to see gardening begun on his own estate.

He had often wondered at Ben Weatherstaff.

Where gardening is done all sorts of delightful things to eat are turned up with the soil.

Now here was this new kind of creature who was not half Ben's size and yet had had the sense to come into his garden and begin at once.
Mistress Mary worked in her garden until it was time to go to her midday dinner.