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After the dinner the boar's head having been wrestled for by some of the royal yeomen came the wassail or health-drinking. Then the King said: "And now, Baby Charles, let us hear the boon ye were to crave of us at wassail as the guerdon for the holder of the lucky raisin in Master Sandy's snapdragon."
For they named a lovely little lilac snapdragon, Linaria Domini Pellicerii "Lord Pellicier's toad-flax;" and that name it will keep, we may believe, as long as winter and summer shall endure. But to return.
He got into her and started her up, and after some trouble with the gear due to the violence of his emotion, he turned her round and departed with her crushing the corner of a small bed of snapdragon as he turned and dove her with a sulky sedulousness back to the Dower House and newspapers and correspondence and irritations, and that gnawing and irrational sense of a hollow and aimless quality in the world that he had hoped Mrs.
But as he went forward to his hostess, he could make out still further wonders of color; for in the balconies outside, in the full glare of the sun, were geraniums, and lobelias, and golden calceolarias, and red snapdragon, their bright hues faintly tempered by the thin curtains through which they were seen.
She had been several days wandering about in search of adventures, when one afternoon she came back to the old oak-tree, because she wanted a new pair of shoes, and there were none to be had so pretty as those made of the yellow snapdragon flower in the hedge hard by. While she was fitting on her shoes, she saw the Lark's friend. "How do you do, Grasshopper?" asked the Fairy.
Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon shall we have gold-dusted Snapdragon, Sweet-William with his homely cottage-smell, And Stocks, in fragrant blow. Roses that down the alleys shine afar, And open Jasmin-muffled lattices, And groups under the dreaming garden-trees, And the pale Moon and the white Evening-Star."
The room rang so loudly with fun and laughter that even the King himself, big of head and rickety of legs, shambled in good-humouredly to join in the sport that was giving so much pleasure to the royal boy he so dearly loved, and whom he always called "Baby Charles." But what was snapdragon, you ask? A simple enough game, but dear for many and many a year to English children.
Her pleasures seemed to mean nothing when he was with her and before his loud laughter her wonderful faery-haunted days shrivelled. All she knew was that, now she lived at Undern, she never went out in the green dawn or came home wreathed in pansy and wild snapdragon. Reddin had imposed a deeper change on her than the change from maid to wife.
The venerable Romanesque door-way was to me more beautiful because of the purple spots of snapdragon, that shone in the clear dimness of the twilight like little coloured lamps about the crevices of the old stones. It is uncertain whether Montaigne was christened here or in the family chapel.
A species which is easily fertilized by its own pollen, and which bears capsules with large quantities of seeds, obviously affords the best opportunities. As such, I have chosen the common snapdragon of the gardens, Antirrhinum majus. It has many striped varieties, some tall, others of middle height, or of dwarfed stature.
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