VERY little will keep Jack Frost out--_before he gets in_.
WATER your rose with a slop-pail when it's in bud, and you'll be asked
the name of it when it's in flower.
XERANTHEMUM, Rhodanthe, Helichrysum, white yellow, purple, and red.
Grow us, cut us, tie us, and hang us with drooping head.
Good Christians all, find a nook for us, for we bloom for the Church
and the Dead.
YOU may find more heart's-ease in your garden than grows in the
pansy-bed.
ZINNIA elegans flore-pleno is a showy annual, and there's a coloured
picture in the catalogue; but--like many other portraits--it's a
favourable likeness.
SUNFLOWERS AND A RUSHLIGHT.
_Sunflowers and a Rushlight originally appeared in "Aunt
Judy's Magazine," November 1882. It is now re-published for
the first time._
CHAPTER I.
"A MAN NAMED SOLOMON"--JAEL AND THE CHINA POODLE--JOHNSON'S
DICTIONARY--NAIL-SPOTS--FAMILY BEREAVEMENTS--A FAMILY
DOCTOR--THE BOOKS IN THE ATTIC--A PUZZLING TALE--"A JOURNEY
TO GO."
Doctor Brown is our doctor. He lives in our village, at the top of the
hill.
When we were quite little, and had scarlet-fever, and measles, and
those things, Dr. Brown used to be very kind to us, and dress his
first finger up in his pocket-handkerchief with a knot for the turban,
and rings on his thumb and middle finger, and do--"At the top of a
hill lived a man named Solomon," in a hollow voice, which frightened
me rather.
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