I would never have let him come to see me if he had not been an animal charmer--which is a boy charmer, too, because a boy is an animal.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us--like electricity and horses and steam." This sounded so imposing that Ben Weatherstaff became quite excited and really could not keep still.

"Aye, aye, sir," he said and he began to stand up quite straight.
"When Mary found this garden it looked quite dead," the orator proceeded.

"Then something began pushing things up out of the soil and making things out of nothing.

One day things weren't there and another they were.