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Updated: May 12, 2025
And then a sad picture came into his mind. "And Mrs. Lady bug's children " he began breathlessly. "Oh! The neighbors saved them," his favorite cousin said. "They're only slightly scorched. But their ma's house is ruined." Then, to everybody's great surprise, Freddie Firefly began to dance up and down and sing with joy. "Oh, I'm so glad! Oh, I'm so glad!" he chanted over and over again.
On the day or rather, on the night when he first met Jennie Junebug, Freddie Firefly was ill at ease. In fact it might be truthfully said that he was quite upset. One beautiful, warm, dark night early in the summer Freddie was hurrying to join a big family party which was already gathering in the hollow beyond the hill.
"You'll have to help me," Peppery Polly Bumblebee said to Freddie Firefly through the darkness. "If you'd been a little less stingy with that light of yours I wouldn't have made the mistake of thinking this thistle was a clover blossom." "Well, there's nectar in it, isn't there?" he inquired. "I suppose so," she answered. "But I can't get it.
But Peppery Polly's warning at once put that very idea into his head. So he began to try to think of a good joke that would bother her. And before they had crossed the meadow Freddie Firefly turned to Peppery Polly Bumblebee and said: "That light off there must be in the farmhouse." Now, never having been out at night before, his companion wanted to see all the strange sights.
"It's a thistle and I've pricked myself badly." "Why, so it is a thistle blossom!" said Freddie Firefly. "It's about the same color as a clover head; and I suppose you didn't know the difference in the dark." "The question is, did YOU know the difference?" Peppery Polly screamed for she was terribly angry.
By bringing a raptorial insect and a firefly together, we find that the flashing light of the latter does actually scare away the former, and is therefore, for the moment, a protection as effectual as the camp-fire the traveller lights in a district abounding with beasts of prey.
And he was about to jump into the bushes and hide when he saw all at once that it was exactly what he had been waiting for. "It's a train!" he cried aloud. And he began flashing his light bravely while he swayed from side to side, for Mrs. Ladybug had told him that he must swing his light if he expected to stop the train. And all the while the train tore on towards Freddie Firefly.
The girl glowed as softly bright as a firefly and the light lured the man to happy forgetfulness. For once he let love have full sway.
Grigosie pointed to that part which lay rather below the level of the plateau on which they were standing. "They must be good eyes to see anything there," said Ellerey. "Wait," whispered the boy. Even as he spoke there shone for a moment a wisp of light like a firefly in the darkness, and then another, moving a little below it.
Well, run to bed now, and leave the matter in father's hands. Ask nurse to give you a hot drink, and not to scold, for father knows about it." "Darling father oh, how good you are! Don't I love you! Just another kiss what a good father you are!" Firefly hugged the tall doctor ecstatically. He saw her disappear into the house, and once more pursued his way down the avenue.
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