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Updated: May 8, 2025
The next morning my father found me seated by myself under a tree in the garden; he paused, and looked at me with his grave bright eyes very steadily. "My boy," said he, "I am going to walk to ,"a town about two miles off: "will you come? And, by the by, fetch your domino-box. I should like to show it to a person there."
I ran in for the box, and, not a little proud of walking with my father upon the high-road, we set out. "Papa," said I by the way, "there are no fairies now." "What then, my child?" "Why, how then can my domino-box be changed into a geranium and a blue- and-white flower-pot?"
I remember a special instance with respect to that same flower-pot and geranium. Mr. Squills, who was a bachelor, and well-to-do in the world, often made me little presents. Not long after the event I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children, it was a beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight.
"It is his doing and his money!" said my father; "good actions have mended the bad." "What!" cried my mother, when she had learned all; "and your poor domino-box that you were so fond of! We will go back to-morrow and buy it back, if it costs us double." "Shall we buy it back, Pisistratus?" asked my father. "Oh, no no no! It would spoil all," I cried, burying my face on my father's breast.
I remember a special instance with respect to that same flower-pot and geranium. Mr. Squills, who was a bachelor, and well-to- do in the world, often made me little presents. Not long after the event I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children, it was a beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight.
Julian mourned for his father most touchingly, and more than for Una. "Oh, dear," said he, "I feel as if I were alone on a great mountain, without papa!" I have clipped off the ends of his long curls; and all of these he has tenderly shut up in a domino-box, to distribute among his friends hereafter. After his dinner, I dressed him to go out. He hopes to meet his father, and get into the wagon.
I looked beseechingly at my father, and made no answer. "But perhaps you would be very glad," he resumed, "if suddenly one of those good fairies you read of could change the domino-box into a beautiful geranium in a beautiful blue-and-white flower-pot, and you could have the pleasure of putting it on your mamma's window-sill." "Indeed I would!" said I, half-crying.
This ingenious article itself, without the elegant domino-box, card-basket, &c., ought alone to give a high price to the lot. Carried in the pocket it might make an individual welcome in any society. Four shillings, sir? four shillings for this remarkable collection of riddles with the et caeteras. Here is a sample: 'How must you spell honey to make it catch lady-birds?
"And by the way," he added, as the smiling shopman looked over his books for the entry, "I think my little boy here can show you a much handsomer specimen of French workmanship than that work-box which you enticed Mrs. Caxton into raffling for, last winter. Show your domino-box, my dear." I produced my treasure, and the shopman was liberal in his commendations.
I looked beseechingly at my father, and made no answer. "But perhaps you would be very glad," he resumed, "if suddenly one of those good fairies you read of could change the domino-box into a beautiful geranium in a beautiful blue-and-white flower-pot, and you could have the pleasure of putting it on your mamma's window-sill." "Indeed I would!" said I, half-crying.
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