2012年11月21日星期三

  It isn't our fault it is the late spring

  "It isn't our fault: it is the late spring. We can't make flowers, canwe?" asked Frank, in a tone of calm resignation.
  "Couldn't you buy some, then?" said Molly, smoothing hercrumpled morning-glories, with a sigh.
  'Who ever heard of a fellow having any money left the last day ofthe month?" demanded Gus, severely.
  "Or girls either. I spent all mine in ribbon and paper for mybaskets, and now they are of no use. It's a shame!" lamented Jill,while Merry began to thin out her full baskets to fill the emptyones.
  "Hold on!" cried Frank, relenting. "Now, Jack, make their mindseasy before they begin to weep and wail.""Left the box outside. You tell while I go for it"; and Jack bolted,as if afraid the young ladies might be too demonstrative when thetale was told.
  "Tell away," said Frank, modestly passing the story along to Gus,replica gucci wallets,who made short work of it.
  "We rampaged all over the country, and got only that small messof greens. Knew you'd be disgusted, and sat down to see what wecould do. Then Jack piped up, and said he'd show us a place wherewe could get a plenty. 'Come on,' said we, and after leading us anice tramp, he brought us out at Morse's greenhouse.
  So we got a few on tick, as we had but four cents among us, andthere you are. Pretty clever of the little chap, wasn't it?"A chorus of delight greeted Jack as he popped his head in, waspromptly seized by his elders and walked up to the table, where thebox was opened, displaying gay posies enough to fill most of thebaskets if distributed with great economy and much green.
  "You are the dearest boy that ever was!" began Jill, with her noseluxuriously buried in the box, though the flowers were moreremarkable for color than perfume.
  "No, I'm not; there's a much dearer one coming upstairs now, andhe's got something that will make you howl for joy," said Jack,ignoring his own prowess as Ed came in with a bigger box, lookingas if he had done nothing but go a Maying all his days.
  "Don't believe it,fake montblanc pens!" cried Jill, hugging her own treasure jealously.
  "It's oniy another joke. I won't look," said Molly, still struggling tomake her cambric roses bloom again.
  "I know what it is! Oh, how sweet!" added Merry, sniffing, as Edset the box before her, saying pleasantly,"You shall see first, because you had faith."Up went the cover, and a whiff of the freshest fragrance regaledthe seven eager noses bent to inhale it, as a general murmur ofpleasure greeted the nest of great, rosy mayflowers that lay beforethem.
  "The dear things, how lovely they are!" and Merry looked as ifgreeting her cousins,shox torch 2, so blooming and sweet was her own face.
  Molly pushed her dingy garlands away, ashamed of such poorattempts beside these perfect works of nature, and Jill stretchedout her hand involuntarily, as she said, forgetting her exotics,"Give me just one to smell of, it is so woodsy and delicious,knockoff handbags.""Here you are, plenty for all. Real Pilgrim Fathers, right fromPlymouth. One of our fellows lives there, and I told him to bringme a good lot; so he did, and you can do what you like with them,"explained Ed, passing round bunches and shaking the rest in amossy pile upon the table.

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