`` Rachel , do you know who covered my plants up last night ? '' Miss Matheson nodded . `` Yes , it was Tommy Puffer . I saw him working away there with papers and twine . I thought you 'd told him to do it . '' `` For the land 's sake ! '' ejaculated Miss Octavia . `` Tommy Puffer ! Well , wonders will never cease . '' Miss Octavia went back to her house feeling rather ashamed of herself when she remembered how she had always treated Tommy Puffer . `` But there must be some good in the child , or he would n't have done this , '' she said to herself . `` I 've been real mean , but I 'll make it up to him . '' Miss Octavia did not see Tommy that day , but when he passed the next morning she ran to the door and called him . `` Tommy , Tommy Puffer , come in here ! '' Tommy came reluctantly . He did n't like Miss Octavia any better than he had , and he did n't know what she wanted of him . But Miss Octavia soon informed him without loss of words . `` Tommy , Miss Matheson tells me that it was you who saved my flowers from the frost the other night . I 'm very much obliged to you indeed . Whatever made you think of doing it ? ''
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