PERENNIALS 



week's work, and recounts to them her life 

 of ease, telling how her only labor is to 

 take her mistress upon pleasure drives. But 

 last Summer her pride met with a downfall 

 and her haughty spirit was brought low. 

 The weather being very warm, I bought her 

 a hat, bound the holes cut for her ears with 

 red and adorned it further with a gay red 

 chou. She wore it proudly for a few days; 

 then came Sunday. Out of the church shed 

 she came that day with a sadly subdued air; 

 seemed to have no spirit; hung her head, 

 and returned home so dejectedly that I 

 feared she might be ill. The next day the 

 united strength of two men could not put 

 on that hat. She had been laughed at and 

 jeered at by her companions in the shed for 

 her frivolity in taking to millinery, so that 

 her pride was broken and she learned the 

 lesson of meekness. 



The South wind sweeps up our valley at 

 all seasons, gently at times, fanning us 

 tenderly on warm Summer days, and giving 

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