_"My_Dear_Dickon:_
"This comes hoping to find you well as it leaves me
at present. Miss Mary has plenty of money and will
you go to Thwaite and buy her some flower seeds and
a set of garden tools to make a flower-bed. Pick
the prettiest ones and easy to grow because she has
never done it before and lived in India which is different.
Give my love to mother and every one of you.
Miss Mary is going to tell me a lot more so that on my
next day out you can hear about elephants and camels
and gentlemen going hunting lions and tigers.
/tab\/tab\"Your loving sister,
/tab\/tab\/tab\"Martha Phoebe Sowerby."

"We'll put the money in th' envelope an' I'll
get th' butcher's boy to take it in his cart. He's a
great friend o' Dickon's," said Martha.

"How shall I get the things when Dickon buys
them?" asked Mary.

"He'll bring 'em to you himself. He'll like to
walk over this way."

"Oh!" exclaimed Mary, "then I shall see him!
I never thought I should see Dickon."

"Does tha' want to see him?" asked Martha
suddenly, she had looked so pleased.

"Yes, I do. I never saw a boy foxes and crows
loved. I want to see him very much."

Martha gave a little start, as if she suddenly
remembered something.

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