Wild flowers and where they grow . SILENCE BROODS THERE. die, they turn over on their faces and sink down out ofsight forever into the black ooze from which they sprung. 114 WILD FLOWERS. The pond was away in from travelled ways and habita-tions of men. We had always known about it, for our elders had often been, andbrought home liliesand the queer pitch-ers of the sarra-cenia, called by thechildren fox-gloves. The older folksalways spoke of itas over t thepond, and we hada strong desire, to water-fowl had been seenthere, and the cryof a loon had been heard, and there was a quak-ing
Wild flowers and where they grow . SILENCE BROODS THERE. die, they turn over on their faces and sink down out ofsight forever into the black ooze from which they sprung. 114 WILD FLOWERS. The pond was away in from travelled ways and habita-tions of men. We had always known about it, for our elders had often been, andbrought home liliesand the queer pitch-ers of the sarra-cenia, called by thechildren fox-gloves. The older folksalways spoke of itas over t thepond, and we hada strong desire, to water-fowl had been seenthere, and the cryof a loon had been heard, and there was a quak-ing cranberry meadow over on the other side. Attractiveplace! It had a fascination to us ; there was the element ofthe unusual and unknown. What if we should see a cranesnowy white, or a heron tall as we were? The thought wasenough to thrill one. As for the loon — that was too muchto hope for. We went: the road was an old, neglected one, little POND LILIES. OVER V THE POND. 5 Grass grew in it as in a field, and blackberry-bushes almostoverran it. It seemed away off; not lonesome, but separatedfrom the common life. And the pond lay sparkling in themidday sun, down half a mile from the road, half rimmedin green woods ; and the cranberry meadow showed ruddy onthe further shore. Everything was worth remembering. The rough side-hillpasture down which weraced and scrambledwas picturesque witlits boulders of
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