. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE KOX SHOT UI FIVE FEET INTO THE AIR AND ITS NARROW JAWS CLOSED ON THE GULLS NECK {SEE NEXT PACE) sky. Wild phlox made patches of wine-redand pure white, and clumps of gentian formedpools of dark, vivid blue. Here and there,devils paint-brush stained the ground anorange-tawny, and tangles of the wild sweet-pea trailed everywhere their fragrant blossoms,tinted with every pastel shade of pink andblue. Nearer the stream, the soft green grasswas scarlet with the strange, blood-dippedleaves of the painted-cup, and purple, white,and gold with iris. For long and long Fred
. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE KOX SHOT UI FIVE FEET INTO THE AIR AND ITS NARROW JAWS CLOSED ON THE GULLS NECK {SEE NEXT PACE) sky. Wild phlox made patches of wine-redand pure white, and clumps of gentian formedpools of dark, vivid blue. Here and there,devils paint-brush stained the ground anorange-tawny, and tangles of the wild sweet-pea trailed everywhere their fragrant blossoms,tinted with every pastel shade of pink andblue. Nearer the stream, the soft green grasswas scarlet with the strange, blood-dippedleaves of the painted-cup, and purple, white,and gold with iris. For long and long Fred drank deep of thesheer loveliness spread out before him. Underhis careless, happy-go-lucky ways the boy hida great love for color and beauty as well asa sensitiveness which few of his friends sus- pected him of having. No one, to watch Fredteasing Jud and joshing with Will and Joe,those inveterate jokers, would ever haverealized that he had left them all to-day be-cause he felt hurt and shamed. Within a shorttime was due
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