THE SPRING AWAKENING 7 



Some turn carelessly another way. Some, like the 

 Violet, prefer to creep into shade. Some hang their 

 heads, either from modesty or from weakness of stalk. 

 But gradually it dawns upon us how very many do really 

 seem to face the sun, as if of set purpose. 



Reaching again the large lawn, still with our heads 

 full of this thought, we are impressed by the fact that 

 Daisies are among the number of sun-lovers. 



Hundreds of little white faces, with their golden 

 centres, are uplifted straight towards that part of the 

 sky where the King of Day shines in his brilliance. 

 We examine them carefully, first from one side, then 

 from another ; and again and again we note how those 

 hundreds of slender stems slope in one direction, like the 

 bayonets of a regiment of soldiers, all in the same 

 direction. 



No ; not all. This begins to perplex us. A few here 

 and there fail to follow the rule. The idea occurs 

 that possibly those few are in weak health, which would 

 explain the fact. 



Then again, several Daisy-plants are growing under 

 the shade of a mass of bushes, so that direct sunshine 

 is cut off. And since they are debarred from looking 

 up at the sun, they wisely do the next best thing in their 

 power, which is — to face towards the greatest amount of 

 light. This they practise quite as markedly as the 

 Daisies on the open space are facing the sun himself. 

 The slope of their stems, therefore, is different from that 

 of the other Daisy stems. 



So much at least we have discovered for ourselves 

 in one afternoon. But later in the day, going back 



