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Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi

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JUD<br />

CHAPTER XIV<br />

THE PICNIC<br />

went off whistling, and soon after they<br />

had finished breakfast the four <strong>little</strong><br />

<strong>Blossoms</strong><br />

saw a tall, stout man drive in. His horse<br />

was a beautiful, shiny black animal, evidently<br />

groomed and tended with gre<strong>at</strong> care.<br />

"Th<strong>at</strong>'s Mr. Sparks," Linda informed the<br />

children.<br />

The children ran out to see the calves being<br />

herded together, and Jud embarrassed Meg and<br />

Bobby very much by introducing them as<br />

the<br />

<strong>little</strong> people who had heard the calves in the<br />

night and gone downstairs after them.<br />

"Meg heard 'em," said Bobby modestly.<br />

"Well, well, well!" almost shouted Mr.<br />

Sparks, though th<strong>at</strong> was his n<strong>at</strong>ural way of talking;<br />

he couldn't speak low.<br />

"I do certainly admire<br />

a girl with spunk enough to get up in the<br />

middle of the night and chase live-stock.<br />

You<br />

ought to be a farmer's daughter."<br />

He paused and smiled <strong>at</strong> the children. It<br />

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