Capitolo 17
"We go to the lawn and you gather some daisies and face the small flower
people out of them."
Then by his/her/their children it went. In a small time, they returned with them
hands full of flowers.
Peggy was the first one to arrive to the house of tree. You looked in and then
started to laugh and to call to the others to quickly come.
"We don't need to constitute some people of flower house" our, she said. "It is
he/she already rented." And certainly, there on the couch of green musk it was a
brown and fat toad. He was making the occhiolino and flashing and looking a lot they arranged
with his/her new house.
His/her children sat him to remain and to look Mr. Toad. To the sudden one them
felt a strange sound. "Peeping-peeping! Peeping-peeping! Peeping-peeping-peeping!" It
seemed to come from the bushes.
"It has to be of the small birds", it said Betty.
"Perhaps it is a quail of mother and his/her children", Mary dictates.
Very attentively the four small girls peered at through the leaves and
bushes.
Can you/he/she guess what they saw?
There, walking around in an open place in the wood, it was Betty Marrone, and
racing close to her and to speak to her in discourse of turkey they were eight child
turkeys.
As excited they were his/her children! All of Them wanted to race to the agricultural house
with the good news. But they finally drew destinies to see who should go.
"I will hold four daisies", said Peggy "and each of you can take one.
The girl that finds the daisy with the longest stem can race before. If You
you leave the longest of my hand, I will go."
"Yes", Mary dictates, "and the other children can drive them Betty Marrone and
burrows again in the threshing floor."
Then they drew the daisies and the small Dot they had that with the longest
stem. You ran away as fast as his/her short legs you/they could bring her/it.
"Oh, her Mrs. White", she cried, as she arrived to the agricultural house, "we founded
Brown Betty in the wood, but its eggs make to turn few all in
turkeys."
While her Mrs. White was laughing on the way of Dot to say the news the,