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Updated: June 24, 2025
By this time Peggs had finished the uniform for Jackie's soldier and a hat of newspaper with a great plume of cornsilk and a lot of medals which were cut from the gold leaf that comes on a card of buttons. And when they were all sewed on the jacket, he cut out a sword from the gold leaf and made hands and feet from the corn husk.
"Good for you!" said Kernel Cob. "Come stand up on your hind legs, like a good fellow, and untie me from this tree." "Who are you?" asked Tommy cautiously. "I'm Kernel Cob and this is my little friend Sweetclover and we're looking for Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather and we've been captured by the savages who may keep us here forever if you don't help us."
"It's Jackie and Peggs' garden," said Sweetclover in a breathless whisper. "Look!" And sure enough there was the garden just as they left it, and Jackie and Peggs were playing with Kernel Cob and Sweetclover just as they did on that day they were blown away by the storm. "It's us!
"Well," said Sweetclover to Kernel Cob, "now do you understand?" "Huh," said Kernel Cob, "I knew it all the time, only I didn't want to spoil the surprise for you." "But what I want to know," said Peggs, "is how Kernel Cob and Little Miss Sweetclover never wilted like all the other flowers, but have kept as fresh as the day we made them." "I'll tell you why," said Jackie, and he looked very wise.
"It weren't anything that bit me, only I want a doll," and away she cried again. "Huh!" says Jackie, "that's nothing. You don't want a doll any mor'n I want a soldier," and he sat down beside her and began to cry, too. And after they had cried for a long time, maybe four hours or two, they stopped. "I tell you what!" says Jackie. "What?" says Peggs, drying her eyes on her pinafore.
"Well," said Jackie Tar, when they were safely seated, "one thing we know, anyway, and that is that Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather are living somewhere in the snow, and if it hadn't been for Kernel Cob...." But he didn't finish what he was going to say, for, looking at Kernel Cob, he discovered him doing something that he had never done before CRYING! Sweetclover ran to him.
"Very, very interesting, I am sure," he said, "and I wish I could help you in finding Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather, but I think you must be tired, so if you will lie down here I will sleep outside and protect you from any danger."
For a long time nobody spoke and pretty soon a little breeze swayed Kernel Cob over toward Sweetclover and he said: "Let's try to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather. Let us pray to the fairies that something will come along to help us." "Good!" said Sweet clover, and they prayed and prayed and prayed.
Just then the wind blew Sweetclover toward Kernel Cob, and, if you'd been there, you could have heard a whispering sound, and, if you'd been a flower, you would have heard Sweetclover say to Kernel Cob: "Poor little Peggs!" and if you had looked very closely you would have seen dew drops in her eyes.
And they went in search of the things they would make the dolls of. And pretty soon, Peggs made the most wonderful doll of flowers that ever a child could see. The head was of Sweetclover, the dress was a purple morning-glory turned upside-down so it looked like a bodice and a skirt, and it was tied to the head so that they wouldn't come apart.
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