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up, but would mine? It was very exciting. I 

 pinched open a corner of the Lady Grisel 

 Hamiltons and poured some of the pretty, 

 smooth, fawn-colored balls into my hand. 

 Then I opened the cosmos what funny 

 long thin ones! How long should I have to 

 wait till they began to come up? I read the 

 directions &quot;Plant when all danger from 

 frost is past.&quot; Oh, dear! that meant May 

 another whole month! Well, I would get in 

 my sweet peas and risk my pansies and alys- 

 sum, anyhow. And I jumped off the porch 

 and went back to the phlox to plan out my 

 campaign. 



By early May we were settled on the farm 

 once more. My pansies and alyssum were 

 up at least I believed they were up, but I 

 spent many minutes of each day kneeling by 

 them and studying the physiognomy of their 

 cotyledons. I led Jonathan out to them one 

 Sunday morning, and he regarded them with 

 indulgence if not with enthusiasm. As he 

 stooped to throw out a bunch of pebbles in 

 one of the new beds I stopped him. &quot;Oh, 

 don t! Those are my Mizpah stones.&quot; 



