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"Heigh ho! daisies and buttercups, / Sweet wagging cowslips, they bend and they bow. " / SONGS OF SEVEN.
Down below the garden of Ted's pretty home flowed, or danced rather, with a constant merry babble, a tiny stream. A busy, fussy stream it was, on its way to the beautiful little river that, in its turn, came rushing down through a mountain-gorge to the sea. I must tell you about this mountain-gorge some time, or, if you like, we shall visit it with Ted and his faithful companion, whom you have not yet heard about -- his father's great big Scotch collie dog, Cheviott.