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She always has some candied sweet-flag root hidden away, and perhaps she will give us some." "I don't believe there's any left," spoke Jimmie, "for Bully, the boy frog, is so fond of it that he eats all he can get." "Well, we'll go, anyhow," went on Lulu. Just then she heard her mother calling: "Jimmie! Lulu! Where are you going?" "We are going over to see Mrs. Greenie," replied Jimmie.
One day, when Sammie Littletail was on his way home from Dr. Possum's house, where he had gone to get some sweet-flag root, for Uncle Wiggily Longear's rheumatism, something happened to the little boy rabbit. He was coming through a big field, where the grass was quite high, when he heard a little bark.
But of his own appearance he thought not at all, as he replied to the lady's question, without the least embarrassment: "It's sweet-flag stalk; would you like some?" "Indeed, I should like to taste it," said the lady, with a most winning smile. "I used to be very fond of it when I was a little girl."
Other favorite amusements at Court were: gathering sweet-flag in summer and comparing the length of its roots, hawking, fan-lotteries, a kind of backgammon called sugoroku, and different forms of gambling. Football was played, a Chinese game in which the winner was he who kicked the ball highest and kept it longest from touching the ground.
"You don't think I'd be seen going around with him? Aren't we having a good time up here?" "Bully!" replied Philip. And not seeing the way to expand this topic any further, he suddenly said: "Celia, the next time I go on our hill I'll get you lots of sassafras." "Oh, I love sassafras, and sweet-flag!" "We can get that on the way home. I know a place." And then there was a pause.
And Jim did spend an hour poking about in the dirt, but he did not find the cent. Jim, however, had an idea; he said he was going to dig sweet-flag, and see if another carriage wouldn't come along. John's next rebuff and knowledge of the world was of another sort.
But of his own appearance he thought not at all, as he replied to the lady's question, without the least embarrassment: "It's sweet-flag stalk; would you like some?" "Indeed, I should like to taste it," said the lady, with a most winning smile. "I used to be very fond of it when I was a little girl."
John was delighted that the lady should like sweet-flag, and that she was pleased to accept it from him. He thought himself that it was about the best thing to eat he knew. He handed up a large bunch of it. The lady took two or three stalks, and was about to return the rest, when John said: "Please keep it all, ma'am. I can get lots more." "I know where it's ever so thick."
At Pemiongchi a superior Lama met me with another overwhelming present: he was a most jolly fat monk, shaven and girdled, and dressed in a scarlet gown: my Lepchas kotowed to him, and he blessed them by the laying on of hands. There is a marsh on this spur, full of the common English Acorus Calamus, or sweet-flag, whose roots being very aromatic, are used in griping disorders of men and cattle.
"Why, that 'are summer she spent out to Old Town, she was jest as chirk and chipper as a wren, a wearin' her little sun-bunnet, and goin' a huckle-berryin' and a black-berryin' and diggin' sweet-flag, and gettin cowslops and dandelions; and she hed a word for everybody. And everybody liked Ruth, and wished her well.
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