"Let's go see!" cried Mab, and together they ran over to Aunt Lolly's garden.
CHAPTER VI
THE CORN SILK
"Maybe this is another joke, like the eyes of the potatoes," said Hal to his sister, as they ran along.
"That wasn't a joke—the eyes were REAL, though they couldn't see nor blink at you," Mab answered.
"The potato eyes must see a little, else how could they find their way to grow up out of the dark ground?" Hal wanted to know.
"Well, my beans didn't have any eyes, and they grew up," Mab answered. "Even if they did grow upside down, or I thought they did," and she laughed. "But let's see what Aunt Lolly is doing."
Uncle Pennywait's wife was out among the cucumber vines now. She had planted them about the same time Hal had put in the five kernels of corn in each hill.
Aunt Lolly's cucumber seeds had also been planted in hills, so there would be a raised mound of earth for the roots to keep moist in, and in order that the vines, at the start, would be raised up from the other ground around them. Now the cucumber plants were quite lengthy, running along over their part of the garden, and in some places there were growing tiny little pickles—or they would be pickles, when put in salt, vinegar and spices.