Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi
Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi
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