"Yes, after you learn how to make a garden," his father told him. "So you
think you want to try corn; eh?" and he laid a package of that seed in
front of the little boy.

"If Mab raises beans and Hal grows corn we'll have succotash at any rate,"
said Mother Blake. "And succotash is good to can and keep all Winter."

"Well, we may have enough to eat, after all, from our garden," said Aunt
Lolly. "I think I'll raise pumpkins for my share of the new game."

"Then we can have Jack-o-lanterns!" laughed Hal. "That will be fun!"

"Now look here!" exclaimed; Daddy Blake. "I want you children to have some
fun in your gardens, but is isn't ALL fun. There is going to be hard work,
too, if anyone wins this prize," and he held up the ten dollar gold piece.
"You may have one pumpkin for a Hallowe'en lantern, maybe, but pumpkin
pies are what Aunt Lolly is thinking of, I guess."

"Indeed I am," she said. "When I was a girl we used to raise many pumpkins
in the cornfield at home. So I'll raise my pumpkins between your rows of
corn, Hal."

"That's the way to do it," said Uncle Pennywait.

"I think I'll raise potatoes. They're easy to grow if I can keep the bugs
off them, and they'll keep all winter."

"I'll raise tomatoes," said Daddy Blake, taking out a package of tomato
seeds for his part of the garden. "We can eat them sliced in Summer and