"When we come up we shall find each other, if not before."
They were both sold in company with others, and they were both sown. No.
1 was sown in a cosy little garden near a cosy little cottage in the
country. No. 2 was sown in a field, being intended for the market.
They both came up and made leaves, and budded and blossomed, and the
first thing each did when he opened his petals was to look round for his
brother.
No. 1 found himself among other Sweet-peas, but his brother was not
there; and soon a beautiful girl, who came into a garden to gather a
nosegay, plucked him from his stalk.
No. 2 found himself also among Peas--a field full--but they were all
white ones, and had no scent whatever. He had been sown near the wall,
and he leant against it and wept.
Just then a young sailor came whistling down the road. He was sunburnt
but handsome, and he was picking flowers from the roadside. When he saw
the Sweet-pea he shouted.
"That's the best of the bunch," said he, and put it with the others.
Then he went whistling down the road into the village, past the old grey
church, and up to a cosy little cottage in a cosy little garden. He
opened the door and went into a room where a beautiful girl was
arranging some flowers that lay on the table.
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