{"product_id":"2940013241688","title":"Careless Kate","description":"I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kate!\" said Mrs. Lamb to her daughter, who was playing in the garden,\u003cbr\u003ein front of the house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What do you want, mother?\" replied the little girl, without even\u003cbr\u003elifting her eyes from the ground, in which she was planting a marigold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI don't think any of my young readers regard this as a proper answer for\u003cbr\u003ea little girl to make to her mother; and I hope none of them ever speak\u003cbr\u003eto their parents in this manner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Come into the house. I want you,\" added her mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Kate did not go till she got ready. She was not in the habit of\u003cbr\u003eminding her mother at once, and without asking any improper questions\u003cbr\u003eas, all good children do, or ought to do, at least.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen she stepped out of the bed of flowers, in which she had been at\u003cbr\u003ework, instead of looking to see where she put her feet, she kept her\u003cbr\u003eeyes fixed on the place where she had just planted the marigold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Look before you leap\" is a good motto for everybody--for children, as\u003cbr\u003ewell as for men and women. If Kate had thought of it, perhaps she would\u003cbr\u003ehave saved herself and her mother a great deal of trouble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe did not mind where she stepped, and put her foot upon a beautiful,\u003cbr\u003esweet-scented peony, which had just come out of the ground. She broke\u003cbr\u003ethe stem short off, and crushed the root all in pieces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, this flower was very highly prized by Mrs. Lamb, for she had\u003cbr\u003ebrought it from a great distance, and it was the only one of the kind\u003cbr\u003ein Riverdale at that time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate was very fond of flowers herself, and when she saw the mischief she\u003cbr\u003ehad done, she cried with anger and vexation. She would not have spoiled\u003cbr\u003ethis peony for a great deal, for she had looked forward with much\u003cbr\u003epleasure to the time when it should bud and blossom, and fill the garden\u003cbr\u003ewith its fragrance.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082585489648,"sku":"2940013241688","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013241688_p0.jpg?v=1763578814","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013241688","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}