The secret garden

CHAPTER XX"I SHALL LIVE FOREVER AND EVER ANDEVER! "OUT they were obliged to wait more than a*^ week because first there came some verywindy days and then Colin was threatened withwhich two things happening one after thea cold,other would no doubt have thrown him into arage but that there was so much careful and mysteriousplanning to do and almost every dayDickon came in, if only for a few minutes, to talkabout what was happening on the moor and inthe lanes and hedges and on the borders ofstreams. The things he had to tell about otters'and badgers' and water-rats' houses, not to mentionbirds' nests and fieid-mice and their burrows,were enough to make you almost tremble withexcitement when you heard all the intimate detailsfrom an animal charmer and realized withwhat thrilling eagerness and anxiety the wholebusy underworld was working."They're same as us," said Dickon, " only theyhave to build their homes every year. An 5 it