“Why not wait until the next Brownie Scout meeting?” proposed Connie. “Then all the girls can help.”
Vevi opposed any delay. “No, we must plant them right away,” she insisted. “Every day counts if they are to bloom this summer.”
Leaving the auditorium, the girls started for Jane’s home to collect digging tools and fertilizer.
They were only three blocks from the Tuttle home when they spied a group of children coming toward them.
“What are they carrying?” Connie speculated.
Each child in the group of six held a double handful of plump, round objects.
“Onions,” declared Jane.
“Tulip bulbs,” corrected Vevi. By this time the children were quite close.
The youngsters would have dashed on past with their plunder, had not Jane stopped them.
“Say, where’d you get those?” she demanded.