Hal did so. On the end of the leaves, growing down in the ground, was
something round and red.

"It's a little beet!" cried Mab, clapping her hands in delight.

"No, they're radishes!" exclaimed Hal. "Aren't they, Daddy?"

"Yes, those are red early radishes. Here are some white ones over here for
you to pull, Mab. They are called icicles."

Mab gave a cry of delight as she pulled up some long, white radishes. They
did look a little like icicles.

"Radishes grow very quickly," said Daddy Blake. "They are ready to eat in
about five weeks after the seeds are planted--sooner even that the
quickest beans. But of course radishes do not keep over winter. They must
be eaten soon after they are pulled, and they make a good relish with
bread and butter. We'll have some for dinner."

And the Blakes did. It was the first thing they had from their new garden,
and Hal and Mab, who were allowed to eat a few, thought the radishes very
good.

Just as the children were getting up from the table one morning, to go out
and hoe a little among the corn and beans before going to school, they
heard a barking, whining, growling noise out in the yard, and the voice of
Sammie Porter could be heard crying:

"Oh, stop! Stop! Go on away! You're bad! Oh, come take him away! Oh! Oh!"