The secret garden

'LET THEM LAUGH5321He was given to using rather grown-up phrasesat times. He enjoyed them. He liked this somuch that he improved upon it." Tell her she has been most bounteous and our'gratitude is extreme."And then forgetting his grandeur he fell to andstuffed himself with buns and drank milk out ofthe pail in copious draughts in the manner of anyhungry little boy who had been taking unusualexercise and breathing in moorland air and whosebreakfast was more than two hours behind him.This was the beginning of many agreeable incidentsof the same kind. They actually awoketo the fact that as Mrs. Sowerby had fourteenpeople to provide food for she might not haveenough to satisfy two extra appetites every day.So they asked her to let them send some of theirshillings to buy things.Dickon made the stimulating discovery that inthe wood in the park outside the garden whereMary had first found him piping to the wild creaturesthere was a deep little hollow where youcould build a sort of tiny oven with stones androast potatoes and eggs in it. Roasted eggs werea previously unknown luxury and very hot potatoeswith salt and fresh butter in them were fit for awoodland king besides being deliciously satis-You could buy both potatoes and eggs andfying.