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Updated: August 14, 2024
Striding blindly about the lawn, of a sudden the Knight stepped full on to a flower-bed. At once he seemed to hear the Bishop's gentle voice: "I named him Iconoklastes because he trampled to ruin some flower-beds on which I spent much time and care, and of which I was inordinately fond." Ah! . . . That was it!
The Governor's "Mansion" became the plaything of the people. Percival's protests were received with amiable grins. "It's our house, boss, not yours," explained Buck Chizler, whose spare time was largely expended in the development, you might almost say, the financing, of a flower-bed on the lawn. It was to be the finest flower-bed of them all, he swore.
I am sometimes astonished, to see how big a space in, a flower-bed her foot will cover. The raspberries are called Doolittle and Golden Cap. I don't like the name of the first variety, and, if they do much, shall change it to Silver Top. You never can tell what a thing named Doolittle will do. The one in the Senate changed color, and got sour. They ripen badly, either mildew, or rot on the bush.
To Lao-kay there are no less than one hundred and seventy-five bridges. The completion of this line realizes in part the ambition of a celebrated Frenchman, who once a printer, 'tis said, in Paris dropped into the political flower-bed, and blossomed forth in due course as Governor-General of Indo-China.
As if attracted by the song, these insects flew in swarms to the flower-bed. Very soon it was evident that they were heavier when they went away than when they came. Two large, round, red and yellow, or rather golden balls loaded their brilliant brown thighs. Some of them plunged into the bosom of a lily. Raising herself on tiptoe, Piccolissima kept them in view.
From this hut one or two little windows looked seaward, and a door led out on the bit of sward in which lay the flower-bed under Connie's window. From this spot again a door in the low wall and thick hedge led out on the downs, where a path wound along the cliffs that formed the side of the bay, till, descending under the storm-tower, it brought you to the root of the breakwater.
With her other hand she hoisted Genevieve Maud from the flower-bed and escorted her to neutral ground on the lawn. "'Tired!" repeated the irate nurse, as the uproar subsided to gurgles. "Heavens! I should think you would be, after that!"
We had to get accustomed to the low ceilings, only seven feet high; but this did not distress us, though in our parlor, a room twenty-eight feet long, the effect was always peculiar. The grounds around the house were not laid out. It was simply a case of a house set on a little elevation, in the center of a rather rough lawn, and without a path or a flower-bed, no shrubs and but few trees.
A hen and chickens, getting into my garden, transferred a whole flower-bed to the walk in half an hour. Yet a bird trying to do anything with its foot is like a man putting on his socks standing, and birds as a race have turned their feet to very little account outside of their original purpose. Such a simple thing as holding down its food with one foot scarcely occurs to an ordinary bird.
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