But the bugs must be killed
if we are to have potatoes."
Just then Mab saw Aunt Lolly going into her garden with a bottle in her
hand.
"Are you going to poison bugs too?" asked the little girl.
"No, I am going to make a cucumber grow inside this," was the answer.
"Make a cucumber grow in a bottle?" exclaimed Hal. "Why, how funny!"
"Let's go see!" cried Mab, and together they ran over to Aunt Lolly's
garden.
CHAPTER VI
THE CORN SILK
"Maybe this is another joke, like the eyes of the potatoes," said Hal to
his sister, as they ran along.
"That wasn't a joke--the eyes were REAL, though they couldn't see nor
blink at you," Mab answered.
"The potato eyes must see a little, else how could they find their way to
grow up out of the dark ground?" Hal wanted to know.
"Well, my beans didn't have any eyes, and they grew up," Mab answered.
"Even if they did grow upside down, or I thought they did," and she
laughed. "But let's see what Aunt Lolly is doing."
Uncle Pennywait's wife was out among the cucumber vines now. She had
planted them about the same time Hal had put in the five kernels of corn
in each hill.
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