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At that moment, Rob turned toward them, holding his new watch in his hand. "I have just been showing Ranald the present Daddy gave me," he said to Lloyd. "It reminded me that I hadn't told you, I've put that same old four-leaf clover into the back of this watch that I had in my silver one. I wouldn't lose my luck by losing your hoodoo charm for anything in the world."
This was my first close shave from death. I had no horseshoe or four-leaf clover with me, and I can account for my escape in no other way than that it was my lucky star that has accompanied me throughout the long months of times that try men's souls and that has never deserted me. No further mishaps befell until I was safely aboard ship.
It was not now a simple matter for the scout girls to occupy their time while awaiting the return of the messenger, even walking the stone wall, and jumping the breaks, usually a popular pastime, seemed flat and uninteresting now to them. "Let's hunt four-leaf clovers," suggested Madaline, "and we will give any we find to Captain Clark as a new pledge, like our own clover-leaf badge."
"I found a four-leaf clover this morning and here I'm lucky already. Sammy, run into the drug store for some chocolates. Johnny, sit up here with me." Sammy Chirp, who tied his own cravats and did them nicely, smiled feebly in recognition of Johnny Gamble, lugged Miss Polly Parson's bouquet, parasol, fan, hand-bag and coat back into the tonneau and went upon his errand.
All sizes from the tiniest four-leaf wild flowers to the gorgeous white and yellow masses that reared their forms like waves of the surf. He breathed the perfume and smiled again. A mocking bird, dropping from the bough of a holly, was singing the glory of a second blooming. The scene of entrancing beauty drove the thought of strife from his heart.
"Oh, please excuse me for laughing," spoke the child, "but you look too cunning just like like colored animals," she faltered. Cleo smiled her forgiveness, while at that moment Madaline shouted the find of the first four-leaf clover. "And such a lovely big fat one!" she qualified, now skipping over the tall grasses quite kangaroo fashion.
Mary thinks it is, thinks parts of it very pleasant, but Mary never was a field in which she didn't find a four-leaf clover, and I never saw one in which I did. 'Look for it, she tells me." She shook her head. "It isn't that. The pitiful part of life is when one cares so little for what life gives!" The tips of her fingers were brought together, then opened and shut mechanically.
"Bradford," he said, emphatically, "I am beginning to think that you and Miss Joyce are right, and that Paradise has a monopoly on the four-leaf kind. I haven't caught a glimpse of one. Not even its shadow." Lloyd held up a handful. "I found them in several places, thick as hops."
The bottom of the trunk was littered with old letters and programs and operatic scores. He wrapped the gloves in a newspaper and got away without being seen. He was as happy as a boy who had discovered an opening in the fence between him and the apple orchard. He was rather astonished to see Courtlandt kneeling in the clover-patch, hunting for a four-leaf clover.
Why, I wanted to give him this four-leaf clover as a sort o' pleasant hint. Don't you see?" "I reckon he'll try what luck there is in odd numbers," said Ravenel, and they quickened their homeward step. John went to tea at the Tombses in no mood to do himself credit as a guest. His mother was still reminding him of it next day when they alighted at home.
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