ld for thirty cents, so that Hal
and Mab now have fifty-five cents for their garden stuff.

"Isn't it a lot of money!" cried Hal, when the auto had rolled away down
the street, and he and his sister looked at the shining coins.

"Well get rich," exclaimed Mab, gleefully.

A little later a lady in a carriage stopped to buy some beans, and after
that a man, walking along the street, bought a quart of tomatoes. Later on
a little girl and her mother stopped and looked at the carrots, buying one
bunch.

"I want my little girl to eat them as they are good for her," said the
lady, "but she says she doesn't like them, though I boil them in milk for
her."

"But they don't taste like anything," complained the little girl.

"Our carrots are nice and sweet," said Mab. "You'll like these. My brother
and I eat them."

"They look nice and yellow," said the little girl. "Maybe I will like
these."

Hal and Mab had sold several boxes of beans and tomatoes and about half a
dozen bunches of carrots, in an hour, and now they began putting their
store counter in order again, for it was rather untidy. Daddy Blake had
told them to do this.

Once or twice the children could not make the right change when customers
stopped to buy things, but Aunt Lolly was near at hand, on the porch, and
she came to their aid, so there was no trouble.

It was rather early in the morning when Hal and Mab started their store,
and by noon they had sold everything, and had taken in over two dollars in
"real" money.

"Isn't it a lot!" cried Hal, as he saw the pile of copper, nickle and
silver coins in the little box they used for a cash drawer.

"A big pile," answered Mab. "We'll sell more things to-morrow."

"No, I think not," spoke Daddy Blake, coming along just then. "We must not
take too much from our garden to sell. But you have done better than I
thought you would. Over two dollars!"

"What shall we do with it?" asked Hal.

"Well, you may have some to spend, but we'll save most of it," his father
answered. "This is the first money you ever earned from your garden, and I
want you to think about it. Just think what Mother Nature did for you,
with your help, of course.

"In the ground you planted some tiny seeds and now they have turned into
money. No magician's trick could be more wonderful than that. This money
will pay for almost all the seed I bought for the garden. Of course our
work counts for something, but then we have to work anyhow."