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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER XXIV
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Presently he did a few gently while he stood upon his already steadied feet.

Mary began to do them also.

Soot, who was watching the performance, became much disturbed and left his branch and hopped about restlessly because he could not do them too.
From that time the exercises were part of the day's duties as much as the Magic was.

It became possible for both Colin and Mary to do more of them each time they tried, and such appetites were the results that but for the basket Dickon put down behind the bush each morning when he arrived they would have been lost.

But the little oven in the hollow and Mrs.Sowerby's bounties were so satisfying that Mrs.Medlock and the nurse and Dr.Craven became mystified again.


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