So the boys thought and thought and talked about it for a long time before they could decide what to give him. But one morning Jack’s best friend called all the boys and said:
“Let’s make a big box to fit right in Jack’s window, and keep flowers planted in it all the year round.”
So the boys got their fathers to help make the box, and they took it to Jack’s room and put it in his window and filled it with rich soft earth. They got some daffodils and planted them about an inch apart. Every day Jack watched for the daffodils to shoot up above the earth. By and by they began to come up, then they grew and grew until at last they began to bloom. The box was a glory of yellow flowers, and Jack was a very happy little boy.
His friends came every day to see them and to talk with Jack.
“I have a beautiful garden,” said Jack; “all filled with golden balls.” And so when he went to bed he told his garden “Good-night!” And when he awoke he smiled at his flowers and said, “Good-morning!” And they smiled back and seemed to know him.
DOROTHY’S DREAM OF HAPPINESS
Wherein a little girl learns a great lesson in her dreams.