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grows readily from seed and i \ any reader cares to experi- 

 ment with it, 1 shall he glad to send seeds in August for 

 price of postage. 



MORE DANDELIONS 



Bv Roc.Ku Shkr.max Hoau. 



"Oh, ye>, 1 wrote 'The Purple Cow'. 



I'm sorry, now, I wrote it. 

 But I can tell you anyhow 



I'll kill you if you t|uote it!" 



■| ATllF.N my "The Quest of the Blue Dandelion" appeared 

 '' ' in the Atlantic for December, 1922, I little thought 

 what a storm of trouble it would bring down upon my inno- 

 cent head . 



But before coming to that point permit me to take up 

 the tale of the quest where I left it, namely with a clump of 

 blue dandelions blooming on the C. & N. W. right-of-way near 

 the Bucyrus Company in South Milwaukee, and with a pack- 

 age of the precious seeds on the way to me b}- parcel post 

 from the Reverend Father Superior at Phoebus, Virginia. 



Alas, his seeds turned out to be merely chicory, which, 

 1)\ the \va\ , is blue and docs ha\e dandelion-like leaves; and 

 the railroad mowed it^ right-of-w a)', which yt.iu will remem- 

 ber is a habit of i)ublic service corporations where blue dan- 

 delions are concerned. 



One morning, as I walked along the tracks on my way 

 to breakfast at Bucyrus cafeteria, I found the severed blooms 

 lying still fresh amid the dewy hay. So I gathered them 

 and placed them in a \ asc in my ofTice. I could afford, now, 

 to use the flo.wers as mere decorations, for already a twenty- 



