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There's the turn; now it's getting time for to be playing our tune, sending our letter of introduction along the road before us. Hey?" He sat down under a spreading elder-bush, and proceeded to open his violin-case.
It shall never be said of me that I took a respectable flower as a boarder and then let her suffer mortal want." "Who ever heard a tree talk like that?" said the oak. "Well, I must say I agree with you this time," said the wild rose-bush. "I don't think he will hold out very long now," said the elder-bush. "Thank you, you good old Willow-Tree," said the dandelion.
I have none and never had one and enjoy just as much honour and esteem without it." "If I may say so, one's crown is only an inconvenience," said the elder-bush. "I had one myself once, but am much more contented since they took it away; and I can shoot my branches as it suits me." "That's not my way of thinking," said the willow-tree. "I am a tree; and a tree must have a crown.
"It would be a great adventure for Josephine," she thought, looking up through the overhanging branches of the big oak under which Fluff had stopped to rest. For a time she amused herself by braiding the long grass and weaving it about green twigs broken from an elder-bush until she had made a wide, shallow basket with a handle.
At this moment the nightingale in the elder-bush recommenced its jubilant song, and at the same time the parrot raised its shrill voice, and began to whistle the sweet notes of the air from Haydn's "Creation." Haydn stood still and listened. "Conrad," he said, in a low voice, "we will now consult an oracle as to my life and death.
Lorna at last had discovered the glutton, and was bearing him off in triumph to the tribunal of the ducks, when she descried two glittering eyes glaring at her steadfastly, from the elder-bush beyond the stream. The elder was smoothing its wrinkled leaves, being at least two months behind time; and among them this calm cruel face appeared; and she knew it was the face of Carver Doone.
Every time he drove past, he told the people with him about the curious old willow-tree that had had quite a garden in his hollow head. And the wild rose-bush told it to the birds, who sang the story all over the world. The oak could never learn to understand it and the elder-bush said that he had understood it all the time. The blackbird was caught in a snare and eaten.
Harkless," he shouted; "he's in them elders," and then: "Fer God's sake, comeback!" Empty-handed as he was, the editor dashed for the treacherous elder-bush as fast as his long legs could carry him; but, before he had taken six strides, a hand clutched his sleeve, and a girl's voice quavered from close behind him: "Don't run like that, Mr. Harkless; I can't keep up!"
This mind, he says, is often found in youths, who, by reason of their high simplicity of manners and their total want of what is called knowledge of the world, are mocked by the populace. Ah, dear Anselmus, beneath the Elder-bush thou understoodest my song, my look; thou lovest the green Snake, thou believest in me, and wilt be mine forevermore!
They knew they had to die, so there was no reason for saving it. "It's wonderful!" said the willow-tree. "If only I knew where all this good fortune comes from!" "Never mind about that: just take it as it comes," said the elder-bush. "You will have a fine old age," said the wild rose-bush. "You're getting hollower and hollower," said the oak. "Remember what I told you about my poor old uncle."
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