Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 84
clined to say,Poor little nippers—what a shame! Thepoppies, on the contrary, are apt to make youlaugh with their weak little rickety legs andcomically tiny, scared-looking flowers—quite a contrast in behavior to the big boldfellows that stare you out of countenanceeverywhere else in California. But… … THE DESERT HAS EVEN A PRIMROSE where I live, would be the incense-bush.After a winter of good rains (I mean what wecall good rains on the desert, where three orfour inches is the average), you would seethe bare brown mountain-sides suddenly turn golden with the blooming of countless num-bers of…
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