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1. Dora was alone in the garden. She had played about till she was
tired, when she found herself close to the bed of peas. She had seen her
father sow the peas, and now there were tall plants with leaves and
flowers and green tendrils.

2. Dora unrolled one or two of these tendrils, and then watched them
roll up again. She thought:

'How funny it is of the plant to put these out on purpose to take hold
of the sticks! And how pretty the flowers are! They look like little
white butterflies. I will pull one open.'

3. She picked a flower, and sat down with it on the grass. Inside of it
she found something long and green. This she opened, and saw a row of
tiny green balls.

[Illustration: Pea-flower.]

4. Not one of them was half as big as a pin's head. They were all in a
row, and Dora counted seven of them.