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But Johnny-jump-up suits 'em best, for it kind o' tells how they come up in the spring. The hyacinths and tulips, they hang back till they know it'll be warm and comfortable outside, but these daffydils don't wait for anything.

"Mother told me about a young man who nearly died of pneumonia because some of the boys doused him in cold water, in a pond or something." "And you didn't want me to have pneumonia. I won't on this occasion, I promise you. I think we can circumnavigate those fellows. I won't see Johnny-jump-up to-day." Edna laughed. "Won't they be disappointed?" "They will that.

Its walks are as much to a garden as its flowers or its birds or its beetles, and express that dear, indescribable intimacy that makes the Phlox a friend and the Johnny-Jump-Up a play-fellow.

Neither like an old family physician nor a new johnny-jump-up; just quiet and cool and pleasant. Glad he lives next door. I mean to know him." Lansing was turning out lights as he talked, looking after window fastenings, and examining things generally. Celia watched him from her place on the bottom stair.

Edna always asked this for Cousin Ben's replies were generally so funny. "I'm going to the woods," he said, "to see Johnny-jump-up." "Why will he jump up?" asked Edna in pleased expectancy of something amusing. "Because the dog-wood bark, you know." "I know dog-wood blossoms," returned Edna a little doubtfully. "Of course, and I dare say you know the dog-wood bark, too, don't you?"

However, I can let you have a nice easy Johnny-jump-up, if you say so." "Any thing will do," said Ting-a-ling, "only get it out quick." In a very short time a butterfly was brought out, and harnessed to a first-class Johnny-jump-up.