Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 89
all boysdo wheneverthey findthem, and out comes a small cloud of yellowish-brown dust, like a puff of smoke ; for this reasonwe call them puffballs, or, in some parts of thecountry, smokeballs. Is the plant displeased withthis treatment ? It certainly should not be, asone of its chief aims in life… … THE PUFFBALLS.
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