[CHAPTER LXV]
Prizes at the County Fair
“REMEMBER in all gardening, that experience is your best teacher. Do not become discouraged if you fail. Do not undertake too much. Remember that most people fail to get good plants because they do not prepare deep good beds, and do not ‘cultivate,’ or stir the ground. Watering is nothing like so necessary.”
This is what Mary Frances was telling a number of children in the garden one day as Billy came upon her unawares.
“You couldn’t have better advice, children,” he said.
“Than Billy gave me,” Mary Frances added. “He taught two friends and me so well, that next year we are each to have our own garden plot, and ‘race’ with Billy to see who can raise the finest vegetables.”
“Some of the very finest are to be sent to the County Fair,” stated Billy.
“And they’ll be ‘winners,’ you may be sure,” Bob prophesied as he and Eleanor joined the group.