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"Bugle!" she remarked with satisfaction. "Bugle?" echoed Ingred scornfully. "Shows how much you know about botany! That's self-heal!" "Oh no; it's certainly bugle." "I tell you it's self-heal. I found some at Lynstones last August and looked it up in the flower-book." "Very likely you did, but that doesn't prove that this is self-heal." "It does, for anybody with a pair of eyes.
"I want one of your ten-dollar flower-books." Quite unmoved by the lavishness of her customer, Marietta rose in her stately way, and drew forth several specimens of her most expensive flower-book. Dayton examined them with an attempt to be discriminating, remarking that the book was for some California friends of his wife who were inclined to be "snifty" about Colorado flowers.
"So do I! I don't really know a thing " "Huh! I bet you do!" " though I ought to, living in a small town so long. I'd planned to buy me a bird-book," she rambled on, giddy with sunshine, "and a flower-book and bring them along, but I was so busy getting away from the office that I came off without them. Don't you just love to know about birds and things?" "Yuh, I cer'nly do; I cer'nly do.
Wandering with the pictured flower-book, just purchased, over the windy ridge where last year's skeleton leaves, blown out from the alder copse below, came on with grasshopper motion lifted and laid down by the wind, lifted and laid down I sat on the sward of the sheltered slope, and instantly recognised the orange-red claws of the flower beside me.
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