A little later Hal and Mab took their places behind a broad wooden
counter, placed on two boxes out in front of their house. On the board
were set the boxes of red tomatoes, those of the green and yellow string
beans and the pile of yellow carrots.
"Now you are all ready for your customers," said Daddy Blake, as he helped
the children put the last touches to their vegetable store.
"Oh, I wonder if we'll sell anything?" spoke Mab, eagerly.
"I hope so," answered Hal. "Oh, Look! Here comes a big automobile with two
ladies in it, and they're steering right toward us!"
"I hope they don't upset our counter," said Mab slowly, as she watched the
big auto approach.
CHAPTER IX
SAMMIE PLANTS TOMATOES
"Look at the lovely vegetables!" exclaimed one of the ladies in the
automobile, as she glanced at what Hal and Mab had spread out on their
store counter--the old barn door set on the two boxes.
"Are they nice and fresh, children?" asked the second lady, as she put a
funny pair of spectacles, on a stick, up to her nose, and looked at the
string beans through the shiny glass.
"Oh, yes'm, they're very fresh!" answered Hal.
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