"I suppose we were new once, too, weren't we?" said Take,
watching the butterfly.

"I suppose we were," Taro answered. "We grew right up out of the
root of a tree. Natsu told me so."

"I wonder which tree it was," Take said.

"It must have been one of the trees in our own garden, of
course," Taro answered; "or else we shouldn't be here."

"Wouldn't it have been a terrible accident if we had happened to
grow in some other garden?" said Take. She looked quite scared
just at the very thought of such a thing.

"Maybe if we had we shouldn't have been ourselves at all," Taro
answered. He looked a little scared, too.

"Who should we have been, then?" asked Take.

"I don't know, I'm sure," Taro said. "I can't think. But,
anyway, we're lucky that it didn't happen. We're here--and we're
ourselves!"

"Let's go into the garden this minute and see if we can find
Bot'Chan's tree," said Take. "He's so new that maybe we can find
the very spot where he grew."

"The fairies would surely hide the place so we couldn't find