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It was useless, I discovered, to waken them by banging bureau drawers and slamming doors. They turned over and went right back to sleep. So i bribed them. I offered to divide my weekly allowance between them, ten cents. Further, I told them I would do their chores as well as my own, bringing in fire wood, mowing the lawn, etc. As for the baby of the family, Tid, nothing could entice her out of bed in the early morning. Ethel Barrymore is supposed to have said, referring to the San Francisco earthquake and her brother, John, "It took and earthquake to get Jack our of bed before noon and the United States Army to put him to work. In Tid's case, not even that terrible earthquake wakened her. [[/Strikethrough]] My father had to carry her, [[/strikethrough]] She practically had to be carried, still asleep, out of the house on that awful morning. 
Eventually, the garden was finished and looked exactly as I had envisioned it, a miniature Versailles beside the barn, a bright splash of colors and nothing delighted me more than when neighbors came to look at it. 
The garden led to my introduction to commerce and my first "exhibitioin."
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