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Updated: June 10, 2025
"We can ask the way 's we go. But first we'll be gettin' the lady's-slippers and some breakfast. You'll see I'll find them both for you, lass"; and he set off with his swinging stride straight across country, wagging his head wisely. Patsy fell in behind him, and the road was soon out of sight and earshot.
The sunlight sifted through in great, unbroken patches of gold, falling on the beds of fern and moss and yes, there they were, the promised lady's-slippers. A little, indrawn sigh of ecstasy from Patsy caused the tinker to turn about. "Then you're not hatin' gold when you find it growin' green that-a-way?" he chuckled. Patsy shook her head with vehemence. "Never!
It was an enchanting spot and a delicious lunch, with good company to boot; but, to her annoyance, Patsy found herself continually comparing it unfavorably with a certain vagabond breakfast garnished with yellow lady's-slippers, musicianed by throstles, and served by a tinker. "Something is on your mind, or do you find our American manners and food too hard to digest comfortably?"
Gimme lady's-slippers. And say, the motorman would like one, too. He's got a girl. Give him something swell a little of everything. There, that's right! Stick a tiger lily right in the middle and plaster up the edges like you did mine. Whee! ain't that gorgeous? I'll bring you the dough right away."
Pole beans and potatoes and corn and leeks and kale and red cabbage there would even be vegetables for which there is no American name. Mrs. Kohler was always getting by mail packages of seeds from Freeport and from the old country. Then the flowers! There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady's-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks, giant hollyhocks.
She eyed the rest of her costume askance; she would have sorely liked to part with that, too, had she but the Lord's assurance that He would do as well by her as he had by the lilies of the field or the lady's-slippers. "'Tis surprising how wearisome the same clothes can grow when on the back of a human being yet a flower can wear them for a thousand years or more and ye never go tired of them.
"Good-by, girls!" she called gayly. "I'll bring you some lady's-slippers if they're out," and she ran out to the group on the steps. It took some time for the two young men to tear themselves away from Miss Raymond's gentle hands.
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