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As soon as they were finished indoors, her mother When Ella saw her, she put down her can and went
Sonja hurried out to the garden to plant all the over. “They don’t need watering,” she pointed out.
seedlings she’d brought over from the mainland. “Dandelions are weeds. Mama doesn’t like them.”
Ella followed her with the big, heavy watering can. “Dandelions are pretty flowers.” Miranda went on
Her little sister Miranda ran off to do some watering.
watering too with her own toy can: not the Then their mother called them. It was time to go
new plants, but the dandelions growing and get Paddy with the little Buster boat.
further away. But Ella shook her head. “Miranda and I’ll stay
here,” she called back. Then she turned to Miranda
and said, “I know something fun we can do!”
“What?” Miranda asked.
“Send a message in a bottle.”
“What do you mean?”
“You write a letter and put it in a bottle. Then you
throw it in the sea, and it floats away to another
country!”
“Why would we do that?”
“Because someone will find the bottle and read the
letter!”
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