That will be your fate. Not eventful
perhaps, but prosperous; and it comforts me to think that you are so
well provided for."
But the best of parents cannot foresee everything in the future career
of their children, and the mother plant was wrong.
The Peas burst from the Pod, it is true; but they fell, not into the
south border, but into the hand of the seedsman to whom the garden
belonged.
"This is an adventure," said the brothers.
They were put with a lot of other Sweet-peas, and a brown paper bag was
ready to receive them.
"Any way we are together," said they.
But at that moment one of the brothers rolled from the bag on the floor.
The seedsman picked him up, and he found himself tossed into a bag of
peas.
"It is all right," said he; "I shall find my brother in time."
But though he rolled about as much as he could, he could not find him;
for the truth is, that he had been put by mistake into a paper of eating
peas; but he did not know this.
"Patience!" cried he; "we shall be sown shortly, and when we come up we
shall find each other, if not before."
The other Pea thought that his brother was in the bag with him, and when
he could not find him he consoled himself in the same manner.
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