The secret garden

'NEST BUILDING 193finding the idea of a boy animal hiding in his holevery funny indeed.What Mary feltnot fear about Dickon.afterward was that she needOn that first morning when the sky was blueagain Mary wakened very early. The sun waspouring in slanting rays through the blinds andthere was something so joyous in the sight of itthat she jumped out of bed and ran to the window.She drew up the blinds and opened the windowitself and a great waft of fresh, scented airblew in upon her. The moor was blue and thewhole world looked as ifsomething Magic hadhappened to There it. were tender little flutingsounds here and there and everywhere, as if scoresof birds were beginning to tune upfor a concert.Mary put her hand out of the window and held itin the sun.shesaid.''It's warm warm !make the green points push up and up and up, andItwillit will make the bulbs and roots work and strugglewith alltheir might under the earth."She kneeled down and leaned out of the windowas far as she could, breathing big breaths andsniffing the air until she laughed because she rememberedwhat Dickon's mother had said aboutthe end of his nose quivering like a rabbit's.