Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 493
it held a magic wand in its hand,and as the rays of the rising sun touched the staff,shafts of light radiated about the garden, and eachsleeping bud, hanging heavy with the dewdrops, blos-somed forth into a beautiful flower, and with eachflower sprang a fairy, until the garden was filled withtheir… … a HEADING FOR AUGUST. BY M. BRTTY WATT, AGE 15. (GOLD BADGE. SILVER BADGE WON JAN., I914.) they each jumped into a jack-in-the-pulpit, and gavethanks for the sweetness of the flowers and the joysthey bring. As the sun went down, each sought refugesomewhere, in a little flower perhaps, but no one…
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