Milly~Molly~Mandy....

Presently Milly~Molly~Mandy said, "Doesn't the earth smell nice when you turn it up?"

And Billy Blunt said, "Does it? Yes, it does rather." And they went on weeding.

Presently Milly~Molly~Mandy, pulling tufts of grass out of the pansies, asked,"What do you do this for, if you don't like it?"

And Billy Blunt, tugging at a dandelion root, grunted and said, "Father says I ought to be making myself useful."

"That's our sort of fruit,"said Milly~Molly~Mandy.

"My Muvver says we'd be like apple-trees which didn't grow apples if we didn't be useful."

~The Milly~Molly~Mandy Storybook,

by Joyce Lankester Brisley