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Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi

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134 <strong>Four</strong> Little <strong>Blossoms</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Brookside</strong> <strong>Farm</strong><br />

Meg selected a handsome cream-colored <strong>little</strong><br />

calf th<strong>at</strong> Mr. Sparks assured them would grow<br />

into a Jersey bossy cow like Mrs. Sally Sweet.<br />

"Wh<strong>at</strong> you going to call her?" he asked curiously.<br />

Bobby looked <strong>at</strong><br />

Meg.<br />

"You name her," he suggested.<br />

"All right. Let's call her Carlotta," said<br />

Meg promptly. "I think th<strong>at</strong> is the loveliest<br />

name."<br />

So Carlotta the calf was named.<br />

Carlotta did not seem to mind <strong>at</strong> all when her<br />

friends and rel<strong>at</strong>ives were driven off by Mr.<br />

Sparks.<br />

Apparently she liked <strong>Brookside</strong> farm<br />

and was glad she was going to live there.<br />

"Thank you ever so much, Mr. Sparks," said<br />

Meg and Bobby for the twentieth time, as he<br />

drove out of the g<strong>at</strong>eway after his recovered<br />

property.<br />

A day or two after the finding of the calves<br />

Aunt Polly came out on the<br />

porch where the<br />

children were cutting up an old fashion magazine<br />

for paper dolls, and s<strong>at</strong> down in the porch<br />

swing with her mending basket.<br />

"Do you know, honeys," she began, "if we

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