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He was sure he had not come as yet , for he had kept an eye on the road , and besides he would have heard the heavy rattle of the wood-wagon . `` Father 'll be real tickled when he sees the garden all done , '' said Jerome , and he stopped whistling and bent all his young spirit and body to his work . He never thought of feeling anxious about his father . At five o'clock the back door of the Edwards house opened . Elmira came out with a shawl over her head and hurried up the hill . `` Oh , Jerome , '' she panted , when she got up to him . `` You must stop working , mother says , and go right straight off to the ten-acre lot .