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John's-wort, bell-flower, sea-green saxifrage, woody nightshade and blue popion flower have engaged in a struggle upon the walls of arabesques, and carvings which would discourage the most patient ornamental sculptor.
"But the little blue flower by the water-side, where is that?" said the Oak; "and the purple bell-flower and the daisy?" for, you see, the old Oak Tree wanted to have them all about him. "We are here we are here!" was shouted and sung in reply.
It is intended for the tea-table. Take fine ripe pippin or bell-flower apples. Pare and core them, and either leave them whole, or cut them into quarters. Weigh them, and to each pound of apples allow a pound of loaf-sugar. Put the apples into a stew-pan with just water enough to cover them, and let them boil slowly for about half an hour. They must be only parboiled.
"There's a beautiful grey cloud far away in the west." "Re-ally?" said the wind. "Ah ... I happen to be the east wind just now, so I can't help you." "Turn round, dear Wind, and bring us the cloud," asked the bell-flower, civilly. "You can blow wherever you please and we shall be grateful to you as long as we live." "You will earn the thanks of the whole community," said the hazel-bush.
Without music, in an absolute stillness as of death, the girl swung herself to and fro, like a bell-flower in the breeze, anon she sprang and leaped like a scarlet flame and again sank into a slow and voluptuous motion, as of a fairy who dreamingly glides on tiptoe over a field of flowers.
For of all things there is none so sweet as sweet air one great flower it is, drawn round about, over, and enclosing, like Aphrodite's arms; as if the dome of the sky were a bell-flower drooping down over us, and the magical essence of it filling all the room of the earth. Sweetest of all things is wild-flower air.
But that's not where you're to look for the hare, for I saw him run to the wood a little while ago." Trust carried the burs to the field and ran off into the wood. "So now I've got my seeds settled," said the burdock and laughed to herself contentedly. "But goodness knows how the thistle is going to manage and the dandelion and the bell-flower and the poppy!"
Here the ivy-leaved bell-flower, and not far from it the common enchanter's night-shade, the silver weed, and the water-aven; and by the hedges that now and then neared the water, the guelder-rose, and the white briony, overrunning the thicket with its emerald leaves and luxuriant flowers. And here and there, silvering the bushes, the elder offered its snowy tribute to the summer.
If anything joyful happened to any one of the friends, they all rejoiced. When the maiden-pink and the bell-flower budded, the hazel-bush offered his congratulations, the linnet struck his longest trill and the blades of grass appointed a deputation and bowed respectfully to the ground and each shed a dewy tear of emotion.
"I shall go up and look for a cloud," said the linnet. And he went up in the air, so high that he was quite lost to the others, and he came back and said that there was a cloud far away in the west. "Ask him to come," said the bell-flower, in a faint voice. And the linnet flew up again and came back presently with the sad answer that the cloud could not: "He would like to," said the linnet.
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