Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi

58 Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm
ing on a crate of live chickens. "This is just
where farmers drive in with their stuff."
"Let me see
the chickens," cried Dot, climbing
up beside her brother.
Her elbow knocked his hat, and because he
hadn't the elastic under his chin, it
over on to the wharf.
went sailing
One of the men rolling a
barrel toward the steamer did not see the hat
and calmly rolled his barrel over it.
"Now you've done it!" scolded Meg, in her
big-sister anxiety. "That's a fine-looking hat
to go to see Aunt Polly in.
bring it
back here with you?"
Hey, please, will you
The man with the barrel heard and turned.
He picked up the shapeless broken straw that
had been Twaddles' best new hat, and brought it
to them, grinning.
watching laughed.
Several people who had been
"You'd better go and show it
"It does look funny, doesn't it?" said Meg.
to Mother, Twaddles."
Twaddles went back to
dangled his
hat before her sadly.
Mother Blossom and
"Oh, Twaddles!" she sighed. "Is that your