ther Moss, lovely clumps of it, and into that I stuck the
flowers. They all came out of Our Field. I like to see grass with
flowers, and we had very pretty grasses, and between every bunch of
flowers I put a bunch of grass of different kinds. I got all the
flowers and all the grasses ready first, and printed the names on
pieces of cardboard to stick in with them, and then I arranged them by
my eye, and Sandy handed me what I called for, for Richard was busy at
the brook making a tray of mosses.

Sandy knew the flowers and the names of them quite as well as I did,
of course; we knew everything that lived in Our Field; so when I
called, "Ox-eye daisies, cock's-foot grass, labels; meadow-sweet,
fox-tail grass, labels; dog-roses, shivering grass, labels;" and so
on, he gave me the right things, and I had nothing to do but to put
the colours that looked best together next to each other, and to make
the grass look light, and pull up bits of moss to show well. And at
the very end I put in a label, "All out of Our Field."

I did not like it when it was done; but Richard praised it so much, it
cheered me up, and I thought his mosses looked lovely.

The flower-show day was very hot. I did not think it could be hotter
anywhere in the world than it was in the field where the show was; but
it was hotter in the tent.

We should never have got in at all--for you had to pay at the
gate--but they let competitors in free, though not at first. When we
got in, there were a lot of grown-up people, and it was very hard work
getting along among them, and getting to see the stands with the
things on. We kept seeing tickets with "1st Prize" and "2nd Prize,"
and struggling up; but they were sure to be dahlias in a tray, or
fruit that you mightn't eat, or vegetables. The vegetables
disappointed us so often, I got to hate them. I don't think I shall
ever like very big potatoes (before they are boiled) again,
particularly the red ones. It makes me feel sick with heat and anxiety
to think of them.

We had struggled slowly all round the tent, and seen all the
cucumbers, onions, lettuces, long potatoes, round potatoes, and
everything else, when we saw an old gentleman, with spectacles and
white hair, standing with two or three ladies. And then we saw three
nosegays in jugs, with all the green picked off, and the flowers tied
as tightly together as they would go, and then we saw some prettier
ones, and then we saw my collection, and it had got a