"
Hal and Mab thought this would be fun so they found other bottles with
which to do the funny trick of making cucumbers grow inside the glass.
"I wish Daddy would give a prize for the funniest shaped cucumber," said
Mab, when she had fixed her bottle with a pickle inside it.
"Maybe he will," spoke her brother. "We'll ask him."
But when Daddy Blake came home that evening he had a package in his arms,
and the children were so interested about what might be in it that they
forgot to ask for the cucumber prize.
"What are you going to do now?" asked Mab.
"I'm going to take you and Hal down to the garden and show you how to set
out cabbage plants," said Daddy Blake.
"But we've got some cabbage plants!" cried Hal.
"Yes, I know. But these are a kind that will get a head, or be riper,
later in the Fall. This is Winter cabbage that we will keep down cellar,
and have to eat when there is snow on the ground, for cabbage is very good
and healthful. We can eat it raw, or made into sauer-kraut or have it
boiled with potatoes. We must save some cabbage for Winter and that is the
kind I am going to plant now."
"And may we help?" asked Mab.
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