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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER X
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He untied the string and inside there were ever so many neater and smaller packages with a picture of a flower on each one.
"There's a lot o' mignonette an' poppies," he said.

"Mignonette's th' sweetest smellin' thing as grows, an' it'll grow wherever you cast it, same as poppies will.

Them as'll come up an' bloom if you just whistle to 'em, them's th' nicest of all." He stopped and turned his head quickly, his poppy-cheeked face lighting up.
"Where's that robin as is callin' us ?" he said.
The chirp came from a thick holly bush, bright with scarlet berries, and Mary thought she knew whose it was.
"Is it really calling us ?" she asked.
"Aye," said Dickon, as if it was the most natural thing in the world, "he's callin' some one he's friends with.

That's same as sayin' 'Here I am.

Look at me.


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