Mr. Blake was away longer than he thought he would be, and it was over a
week before he came back home. Each day Hal and Mab had placed the box of
tomato seeds in the warm sun before going to school, moving it when they
came home at noon and in the afternoon they also changed it so that the
soil would always be where the warm sun could shine on it. They sprinkled
water in the box, as their father had told them to do.
Then, the day when Daddy Blake came back from his business trip, Hal,
looking at the tomato box, cried:
"Oh, Mab! Look! There are a lot of little green leaves here."
"Yes, the tomatoes are beginning to grow," said Daddy Blake, when he had
taken a look.
"What makes the seeds grow and green leaves come out?" asked Hal.
"Well, as I said, Mother Nature does it and no one can tell how," said
Daddy Blake. "But somewhere inside this tiny little thing," and he held
out in his hand a tomato seed, "somewhere there is hidden a spark of life.
What it looks like we can not say. It is deep in the heart of the seed."
"Do seeds have hearts?" asked Mab.
"Well, no, not exactly," her father answered. "But we speak of the middle
of a tree as it's heart and I suppose the middle of a seed, where its life
is, is its heart.
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