LUCK IN CLOVERS 2 19 
seven leaves, i ; nine leaves, i ; cups and leaves, 
various, 5. 
At another time I spied a single five-leaved in 
a dense bed of rowen clover at the road-side, and 
seating myself close beside it, calculating on this 
habit of the plant, I 
vowed I would not get 
up until I had collected 
forty multiple leaves. I 
soon obtained more than 
this number. 
The clover -leaf quest 
is a good eye - sharpen- 
er. Which of our boys 
can show us the best 
record ? 
I wonder if any of 
my young readers have 
ever seen how the clover says its 
prayers and goes to sleep, with its 
two side leaflets folded together 
like reverent palms, and the ter- 
minal leaflet bowed above them ? 
So the normal leaf spends the night in the dews. 
I often wonder what arrangement of adjustment 
is arrived at when so many leaflets conspire to 
confuse. 
My clover-hunting has been confined to the red 
and white clovers, both species having common 
