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Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi

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contented and interested.<br />

<strong>Brookside</strong> <strong>at</strong> Last 57<br />

In one place two <strong>little</strong><br />

boys and their f<strong>at</strong>her were out fishing in a rowbo<strong>at</strong><br />

and the steamer passed so close to them th<strong>at</strong><br />

the four <strong>little</strong> <strong>Blossoms</strong>, leaning over the rail,<br />

could almost shake hands with them.<br />

"There's another wharf! Do we stop there?<br />

Yes, we do! Come on, Dot, let's w<strong>at</strong>ch!"<br />

shouted Twaddles, as the steamer headed inshore<br />

toward a pier built out into the w<strong>at</strong>er.<br />

"Keep away from the gangplank," warned<br />

Mother Blossom.<br />

"You mustn't get in people's<br />

way, dear."<br />

The pier was something of a disappointment,<br />

because when the bo<strong>at</strong> tied up there the children<br />

discovered th<strong>at</strong> only freight was to be taken off<br />

and more boxes carried on. There was only one<br />

man <strong>at</strong> the wharf, and apparently no town for<br />

miles.<br />

"Doesn't anybody live here?" asked Twaddles,<br />

almost climbing over the rail in his eagerness<br />

to see everything.<br />

"Sure! There's a town back about half a<br />

mile," explained the deck-hand who was carry-

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