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But it would be no joke to a nursing mother in the middle of a winter prairie with the nearest doctor twenty long miles away. I countermanded my telegram to Dinky-Dunk at Vancouver, and cried myself to sleep in a nice relaxing tempest of self-pity which my "special" accepted as calmly as a tulip-bed accepts a shower. But lawdy, lawdy, how I slept!
She says the big man next door would give his eyes to have a boy like me; but he can't make nothing of a girl, and don't try. Narcissus " "Hallo!" replied the heavy voice of Mr. Swiggs. "Have you got a boy?" "No, sir: 'nmarried." "What did you give your eye for, then?" "Losh!" ejaculated Narcissus, as Captain Barker pounced on the youngster and haled him off to the tulip-bed.
It is therefore settled I shall give the hundred thousand guilders of the Haarlem prize to-the poor. And yet " Here Cornelius stopped and heaved a sigh. "And yet," he continued, "it would have been so very delightful to spend the hundred thousand guilders on the enlargement of my tulip-bed or even on a journey to the East, the country of beautiful flowers.
Monckton flung his arm and body wildly over the paling and grabbed her with his finger ends, she gave a spang with her heels against the wall, and took a bold leap away from him into a tulip-bed ten feet distant at least: he yelled to Bartley, "To the garden;" and not losing a moment, flung his leg over the paling to catch her, with Bartley's help, in this new trap.
One who visited him at his home says: "Arrived at the botanist's garden, we approached an old man who, with a rake in his hand, was breaking the clods of earth in a tulip-bed. His hat was old, and flapped over his Etee; his coarse shirt was seen near his neck, as he wore no cravat nor kerchief; his waistcoat and breeches were both of leather, and his shoes were tied with leather strings.
Well, the old woman died, and the tulip-bed was pulled up and a parsley-bed made in its place. But the Pixies blighted it, and nothing grew in it; but they kept the grave of the old woman quite green, never suffered a weed to grow upon it, and in spring-time they always spangled it with wild-flowers.
And elsewhere he talks learnedly of 'a delicate Schiavone, various as a tulip-bed, with rich broken tints, of 'a glowing portrait, remarkable for morbidezza, by the scarce Moroni, and of another picture being 'pulpy in the carnations.
He had painted Aileen in nine sittings, a rather brilliant canvas, high in key, with a summery, out-of-door world behind her a low stone-curbed pool, the red corner of a Dutch brick palace, a tulip-bed, and a blue sky with fleecy clouds.
The kite-shop is like a tulip-bed, full of all sorts of gay and gorgeous hues. The kites are made of Chinese paper, thin and tough, and the ribs of finely-split bamboo. A wild species of silkworm is pressed into the service, and set to spin nuck for the strings a kind of thread which, although fine, is surprisingly strong.
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