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Identifier: childrengardens00jeky (find matches)
Title: Children and gardens
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
Subjects: Gardening Children Amusements
Publisher: London, Offices of 'Country life', ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and can bury everything,or you can bury things in the fireplace. Sometimes I have built little tea-kitchens for per-manent use, but with fire-bricks, in some favourite placein private ground near home, but they were always onthe same pattern. Their only advantage is that yousave a few minutes time and need not take the spade,but then they are not always right for the wind. Nothing is more delightful than any sort of playingwith water. In places where there is no safe pool orstream we can get some fun out of a fountain basin ora garden tank ; even if it is only sitting on the edgeand dabbling our toes on hot summer days. I used to invite Bar and Pam to what we called atank-party (of only ourselves) whenever my stone-builttank, which is ten feet square and two feet deep, wasnicely cleaned out and had had fresh water let in. Astout bit of plank floats in it, called the pussies safety-plank, because, if a pussy slipped in and the waterhappened to be low, he could not get out, but he could
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