Then they had some little cakes and cookies which Mary's mother had made for them.
When it was time to go home they left a very happy little girl.
"Good-bye," said Mary, "I hope you will come very often.
"Thank you for the lovely plants. My table looks like a flower garden."
"Yes, Mistress Mary," said Jack, "we'll come to see how your garden grows. You ought to have some silver bells and some cockle shells."
In a few weeks Mistress Mary, as every one called her now, came back to school.
She could run and play as well as any of the children.
But she did not forget her garden, and she often brought some of her flowers to school.
When the spring came she made a garden out of doors for her plants.
And what do you think she put all around the flower bed?