. A family flight around home. ( AFTER MAV-IXU\VKKS. girl, as she buried her facein the sweet-smelling May-flowers. Are they notsweet ? she continued, tochange the subject. Weare going to have a partyto gather them, as soonas they are plenty. Wont With pleasure, repliedHubert, only if it is alarge party I shall beafraid. You stick close to me,said Alice with a smile,and you will be safeenough. Not many days after-wards, the party cameoff,—several children of REGULAR LESSONS. 77 the place, with Alice and Hubert, and Professor Bruce, as youngand active as any of them. Going after May-flowe
. A family flight around home. ( AFTER MAV-IXU\VKKS. girl, as she buried her facein the sweet-smelling May-flowers. Are they notsweet ? she continued, tochange the subject. Weare going to have a partyto gather them, as soonas they are plenty. Wont With pleasure, repliedHubert, only if it is alarge party I shall beafraid. You stick close to me,said Alice with a smile,and you will be safeenough. Not many days after-wards, the party cameoff,—several children of REGULAR LESSONS. 77 the place, with Alice and Hubert, and Professor Bruce, as youngand active as any of them. Going after May-flowers has not the ideal charm of going a-May-ing as described by the poets. Hubert knew nothing of an Eng-lish May, as his life had been chiefly passed away from home;but he fancied there must be a difference. The day was road was muddy; after they had turned from it into a wildcart path through the woods, they walked on damp, dead leaves ofthe year before. By and by they came to a sort of opening, where the sun. EARLY SETTLERS. streamed in and made it warmer. Tall pine-trees surrounded thespot, and the ground was red with the fallen pine tassels. Here it is! Mine is the first ! cried Alice. Hubert had seen nothing, though he was walking by her side: 78 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. but now, as she stooped, he perceived she had found a bunch ofthe pretty, starry flowers, poking their heads up from the leavesand pine tassels. To his surprise, as she pulled the stem, a longstring of the plant came up. with plenty of flowers attached tothe strong stems. The leaves were of the year before, which,.under the warm covering of fallen pine, had passed the winter
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