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said Sammie with a laugh as he toddled toward the house . `` Sammie likes dogs , '' said his father as Hal and Mab hurried on to school . Mr. Blake was away longer than he thought he would be , and it was over a week before he came back home . Each day Hal and Mab had placed the box of tomato seeds in the warm sun before going to school , moving it when they came home at noon and in the afternoon they also changed it so that the soil would always be where the warm sun could shine on it . They sprinkled water in the box , as their father had told them to do . Then , the day when Daddy Blake came back from his business trip , Hal , looking at the tomato box , cried : `` Oh , Mab ! Look !