shootlet

Updated: April 30, 2025

What, I said, could be more inspiring, more uplifting, more stimulating in its effects on the impressionable mind of a boy than at the knee of some older person to wile away the happy hours learning of the budding of the leaflet, the blossoming of the flowerlet, the upspringing of the shootlet, and, through the medium of informative volumes on the subject by qualified authorities, to make friends at first hand, so to speak, with the wild things notably the birdling, the rabbit, the squirrel?

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Fibble, D.D.