gift-leaving

Updated: May 12, 2025

Now the sun was going down, and they gaily turned their steps toward home. "A happy May-day!" the children called to one another the next morning, as they set out, at a very early hour, upon their pleasant round of floral gift-leaving. Before doing so, however, each had held a special conference with Ellen. "Yes, I've managed it. Won't everybody be surprised?" she quietly agreed again and again.

Mary Catherine Crowley - Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir