THE DADDY SERIES FOR LITTLE FOLKS
DADDY TAKES US TO THE GARDEN
BY
HOWARD R. GARIS
_Author of_
_Uncle Wiggily and Alice in Wonderland_, _Uncle Wiggily Longears_, _Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose_, _Uncle Wiggily's Arabian Nights_
ILLUSTRATED BY EVA DEAN
MADE IN U.S.A.
M.A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK
THE DADDY SERIES
By HOWARD R. GARIS
The stories tell of a little boy and girl who go to various places with their dear Daddy. Each book contains something of value regarding nature lore, outdoor sports and animal life.
Price 50 cents per volume.
HOWARD R. GARIS
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Daddy Takes Us Camping Daddy Takes Us Fishing Daddy Takes Us to the Circus Daddy Takes Us Skating Daddy Takes Us Coasting Daddy Takes Us to the Farm Daddy Takes Us to the Garden Daddy Takes Us Hunting Birds Daddy Takes Us Hunting Flowers Daddy Takes Us to the Woods
Copyright, 1914, by R.F. FENNO & COMPANY
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DADDY TAKES US TO THE GARDEN
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER PAGE
I A New Game 9 II Making A Garden 20 III Upside Down Beans 34 IV The First Radish 49 V The Potatoes' Eyes 59 VI The Corn Silk 70 VII Early Tomatoes 78 VIII The Children's Market 92 IX Sammie Plants Tomatoes 102 X White Celery 113 XI Gathering Crops 123 XII Pumpkin Pie 134
CHAPTER I
A NEW GAME
"Mother, what can we do now?"
"Tell us something to play, please! We want to have some fun!"
As Harry and Mabel Blake said this they walked slowly up the path toward the front porch, on which their mother was sitting one early Spring day. The two children did not look very happy.
"What can we do?" asked Hal, as he was called more often than Harry.
"There isn't any more fun," complained Mab, to which her name was often shortened.
"Oh, my!" laughed Mother Blake. "Such a sadness! What doleful faces you both have. I hope they don't freeze so and stay that way. It would be dreadful!"
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Daddy Takes Us to the Garden by Howard Roger Garis
- 2: 'cause Mab can't throw like a boy
- 3: Blake Spring is one of the four seasons
- 4: Can't she come with me after Roly Poly
- 5: This made Roly Poly howl louder than ever
- 6: And Hal and Mab saw a lot of beans
- 7: And with them lived Uncle Pennywait and Aunt Lollypop
- 8: That's part of the game you and Mab must learn
- 9: While Roly Poly chased his tail around the table
- 10: And succotash is good to can and keep all Winter
- 11: As Hal and Mab started up stairs
- 12: Hal and Mab will be pleased to have Roly Poly back
- 13: Roly Poly cried when I shut him up
- 14: Hal and Mab thought it was wonderful that a single
- 15: Hal and Mab watched the man plowing
- 16: I want you and Mab to do as much garden work as you can
- 17: Hal and Mab planted their corn and beans
- 18: The beans are growing they're sprouting
- 19: The weeds grow faster than the beans
- 20: Aunt Lolly and Uncle Pennywait
- 21: Hal and Mab hoed and raked their gardens
- 22: Thought the radishes very good
- 23: And when she saw Roly Poly she laughed
- 24: Anxious to see if Roly had been good
- 25: Uncle Pennywait may be fooling you a little
- 26: Said Uncle Pennywait to the children
- 27: But let's see what Aunt Lolly is doing
- 28: But we've got some cabbage plants
- 29: So after that Hal and Mab measured
- 30: An' Roly Poly is barkin' at him
- 31: Hal and Mab watched them eagerly
- 32: And Mab and I haven't anything
- 33: On purpose to hoe among his tomatoes
- 34: Daddy took Hal and Mab to the garden
- 35: Often the hail will break windows
- 36: Can't Mab come out and hold an umbrella
- 37: He let Hal and Mab look at them
- 38: And Hal and Mab spent much time in their garden
- 39: So Daddy Blake first showed Mab how to pick her string beans
- 40: Mab put the beans site picked into clean strawberry boxes
- 41: And the chauffeur helped Hal and Mab put them in bags
- 42: And Hal and Mab told him as well as they could
- 43: And he was squeezing a big red tomato
- 44: With Uncle Pennywait or Aunt Lolly
- 45: Neither Hal nor Mab could guess
- 46: That is if Uncle Pennywait doesn't get ahead of you
- 47: But when Uncle Pennywait showed them where
- 48: I am going to make my celery grow white
- 49: There's Roly Poly in trouble again
- 50: Something has happened to Roly Poly
- 51: I'm glad Roly Poly is all right
- 52: Hal and Mab watched Daddy Blake
- 53: How am I going to harvest my beans
- 54: I guess they never saw a flail before
- 55: I am going to thresh some peas
- 56: And showed Hal and Mab some sharp pointed kernels
- 57: And Aunt Lolly had more than a dozen yellow pumpkins
- 58: The afternoon of Hallowe'en Hal and Mab
- 59: Each book is wrapped in a printed jacket
- 60: Special jacket printed in colors
- 61: Or sent postpaid upon receipt of $1
- 62: Attractive multi color jacket wrapper around each book
- 63: Or sent postpaid on receipt of 75c M
- 64: Donohue company 701 733 s