On the way they stop to gather some flowers that grow near the path that leads through the field, when the idea suddenly enters Lucy's head that it would be better to make a garden than a fish-pond; flowers, as she says, being so much prettier than fishes.

So they all go back to their mother and explain the change of their plan.

They ask for leave to dig up a place which they had found where the ground was loose and sandy, and easy to dig, and to set out flowers in it which they had found in the field already in bloom.

"We are going to give up the fish-pond," they say in conclusion, "because flowers are so much prettier than fishes." The mother, instead of finding fault with them for being so capricious and changeable in their plans, says, "I think you are right.

Fishes look pretty enough when they are swimming in the brook, but flowers are much prettier to transport and take care of.