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Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi

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

Jud cheerily, coming up behind them.<br />

He pretended<br />

not to see the tears beginning to splash<br />

4own Dot's cheeks. "I'm going down to the<br />

brook to mend the line fence, and I thought if<br />

you wanted to come along and play in the<br />

"<br />

w<strong>at</strong>er<br />

They did, of course. Dot slipped her hand<br />

into Jud's and the others followed, talking busily.<br />

Wh<strong>at</strong> wr<br />

as a line fence? How could he<br />

fix it? Wh<strong>at</strong> could they play in the w<strong>at</strong>er?<br />

Jud didn't mind questions <strong>at</strong> all.<br />

r<strong>at</strong>her enjoyed answering them.<br />

Indeed, he<br />

"You see, this fence goes along the brook right<br />

in the center," he explained carefully,<br />

"to show<br />

where your Aunt Polly's land stops and Mr.<br />

Simmond's land begins. If we didn't have a<br />

fence there his c<strong>at</strong>tle wTould walk right through<br />

the brook and up into our meadows.<br />

Say, build<br />

a raft, why don't you? I always did when I<br />

was a kid. Here, I'll show you."<br />

Jud in a few minutes had shown Bobby how<br />

to make a <strong>little</strong> raft, and he and Twaddles finished<br />

it while Meg and Dot ran up to the house<br />

to get some toys to sail on it. For a raft, you

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