"I'm crumbling the hard dirt around my little plants," said Prue, "it's so sharp and cakey, and I pull out every little weed I see, so they won't have a chance to get big."
The Chief Gardener looked on approvingly. Then he walked over to his own rows and looked carefully at his pease, which were just now beginning to bloom. Then he got down and looked more closely. Then he called Davy and Prue. They left their work and came quickly.
"Look here," said the Chief Gardener, "I have a whole drove of cattle in my garden."
"Cattle!" said Davy.
"Oh, Papa's just fooling," said Prue.
"Why, no," said the Chief Gardener, "don't you see them. There is a whole drove of cows," and he pointed to some little green bug-like things that clustered on the tips of his pea-vines.
The children looked closely and then turned to him to explain.
"There are some ants there, too," said Davy. "They are crawling up and down."