. St. Nicholas [serial]. ness — my request is thatI may marry yonder nobleyouth. I love him ! [Throws herself on Pol-lys (struggling and throwingoff her cloak). Great heavens!I m Polly Peachum Tubbs—Ican only be a sister to Polly! Anotherdisappointment! [Faints and is dragged Come, Polly and Tommy,11 make you Duke and Duchess of Pie-Crust for life, and we will all be happy together in theLand of Imagination ! [Prince and Amoret come to front of the stage. Prince and Amoret: Air, Lullaby, from Erminie. Dear hearers assembled before us, The curtain s now r
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ness — my request is thatI may marry yonder nobleyouth. I love him ! [Throws herself on Pol-lys (struggling and throwingoff her cloak). Great heavens!I m Polly Peachum Tubbs—Ican only be a sister to Polly! Anotherdisappointment! [Faints and is dragged Come, Polly and Tommy,11 make you Duke and Duchess of Pie-Crust for life, and we will all be happy together in theLand of Imagination ! [Prince and Amoret come to front of the stage. Prince and Amoret: Air, Lullaby, from Erminie. Dear hearers assembled before us, The curtain s now ready to the kindness we ve known, and the patienceyou ve shown, We gratefully thank one and all. And now, like the birds to their tree-tops, We hope you re not too tired to flyTo your homes and to bed, when the farewell issaid;So we sing you this low : - By-by, drowsiness oertaking,Pretty little eyelids, , sweet dreams until waking;Peace attend thy slumbers , NATURES DRIED GARDEN. A collection of plants, pressed, mountedon paper, and arranged systematically, is mostcommonly spoken of as a herbarium. Thisterm is from the Latin herba, which means agreen stalk or blade (a grass-like plant), andsuggests fields and pasturage. As the collec-tion is not green but dried, another Latin nameis frequently used—that is, /tortus siccus, whichliterally means a garden dried. Our realnatures dried garden is in the fields andmeadows, down in the ravines, on the hillsides, 5jh -;-M ?. and by the roadsides. It is%i-f this real outdoor naturesJfcjsst « dried garden that we should — -—, especially notice this February, aswe near the end of winter. Some of us are apt to think of plants asbeautiful only in the spring and summer, whenthere are green leaves and brightly coloredflowers. But old age has a beauty of its own,just as youth has. Take, for an example, ourwell-known dandelion. Every one admires theflowers of the young plant
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