Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . was working at the turban-like tulips. What do you callate to set that eresquare to? he asked; for the centre wasspaded up, and, of course I had not yetthought of gravel. We have nt decided yet. I answer-ed. We thought of making a flowersundial there. The visitor was silent. Presently hespoke up. W^ould you like an old brass un? At that, I thought Helayne had founda snake among her roses, she gave sucha jump. And so it was we found a real sun-dial and discarded the thought of doingany design work with theflowers,~andthe motto we dug out of
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . was working at the turban-like tulips. What do you callate to set that eresquare to? he asked; for the centre wasspaded up, and, of course I had not yetthought of gravel. We have nt decided yet. I answer-ed. We thought of making a flowersundial there. The visitor was silent. Presently hespoke up. W^ould you like an old brass un? At that, I thought Helayne had founda snake among her roses, she gave sucha jump. And so it was we found a real sun-dial and discarded the thought of doingany design work with theflowers,~andthe motto we dug out of an old volumein the library and the pedestal was cutout of the state granite by a local When the sky is touched up by asummers sunset and the days work ofthe sundial is done, we often sit on theeast seat and read aloud from someout-door author, or, together, in silence,watch the heavens as they change totints of purples and pinks and yellows. There we sat and watched the sungo down back of a bank of pink clouds,at the close of our first year of weddedlife at home, and later, when all thecolors blended into the gray of twilightand we went through the covered gate-way and into the house, the Bob Whitecalled and called us back to sit on theopposite seat amid a Paradise perfumeand w^tch the pumpkin-pie moon comeover the woodbined wall at the otherend of the garden.
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