The secret garden

300 THE SECRET GARDEN"Aye, aye, sir," he said and he beganto standup quite straight." When Mary found this garden it looked quitedead," the orator proceeded. Then somethingbegan pushing things up out of the soil and makingthings out of nothing. One day things weren'tthere and another they were. I had neverwatched things before and it made me feel verycurious. Scientific people are always curious andI am going to be scientific. I keep saying to myself.'What is it? What is it?' It's something.It can't be nothing! I don't know itsname so I call itMagic. I have never seen thesun rise but Mary and Dickon have and fromwhat they tell me I am sure that isMagic too.Something pushes it up and draws it. Sometimessince I've been in the garden I've looked upthrough the trees at the sky and I have had astrange feeling of being happy as if somethingwere pushing and drawing in my chest and makingme breathe fast. Magic is always pushing anddrawing and making things out of nothing.Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees,.flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrelsand people. So it must be all around us. Inthis garden in all the places. The Magic inthis garden has made me stand up and know Iam going to live to be a man. I am going to make