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Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi

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with their hands.<br />

Lost in the Woods 87<br />

They could just see the eaves<br />

of the barn and the chimneys of Aunt Polly's<br />

house and the Apgar house. The brook twisted<br />

and turned so often, they had really walked further<br />

than they guessed.<br />

"I'll bet it's dark in the woods," said Twaddles,<br />

marching ahead. "Maybe there's bears<br />

and things in there."<br />

"Now don't begin and scare Dot," admonished<br />

Bobby. "Let's take hold of hands. My, isn't<br />

it nice and cool!"<br />

They stepped from the sunny glare of the<br />

brook pasture into the cool, dark, rustly stillness<br />

of the beautiful woods.<br />

A chipmunk ran across<br />

their p<strong>at</strong>h, and tall ferns grew higher than their<br />

heads on either side of the brook.<br />

Almost unconsciously the children left the<br />

brook and struck off into a pretty p<strong>at</strong>h th<strong>at</strong> was<br />

laid with stepping stones and led up a slight hill.<br />

They saw two rabbits and heard gray squirrels<br />

ch<strong>at</strong>tering in the trees overhead. One squirrel<br />

came down and stared gravely <strong>at</strong> them.<br />

"Isn't he pretty?" said Meg.<br />

me p<strong>at</strong> him."<br />

"I wish he'd let

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