. Zauberlinda, the wise witch; . spicy with their fragrance. Here frogshopped about and the water fowls builtnests, and dragon flies with wings ofrainbow gauze darted hither and thither,and big bumble bees came to rifle theblossoms, and gorgeous butterflies sailedlazily, fanning the flowers with theirgreat gay colored wings, and at nightthe fireflies danced their merry danceover it until the morning. Yet this morning, as the little girlwandered on, swinging her tin pail list-lessly, with her sun bonnet falling backfrom her chubby, freckled face, she didnot seem to notice everything as usuallys
. Zauberlinda, the wise witch; . spicy with their fragrance. Here frogshopped about and the water fowls builtnests, and dragon flies with wings ofrainbow gauze darted hither and thither,and big bumble bees came to rifle theblossoms, and gorgeous butterflies sailedlazily, fanning the flowers with theirgreat gay colored wings, and at nightthe fireflies danced their merry danceover it until the morning. Yet this morning, as the little girlwandered on, swinging her tin pail list-lessly, with her sun bonnet falling backfrom her chubby, freckled face, she didnot seem to notice everything as usuallyshe did, and there was a sad expressionin her big blue eyes that always lookedabout so full of wonder and ZAUBERLINDA, THE WISE WITCH. 77 This morning she never stopped onceto pull the joints from the bulrush, orpick up one of the small shells that laythickly around, or call Silvertip awayfrom his too close examination of a nestfull of young meadow larks. It was the 2ist of Tune, Annies *j seventh birthday, a day she had lookedforward to for months, thinking that shewould surely celebrate it in some newand delightful way, either by a party, orgoing to town, or doing something quiteout of the common. Yet, as is often the way, when onehas long looked forward to a pleasanttime, everything had gone wrong withAnnie that June morning. It had be-gun the minute she was out of bed. o
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