VIOLET MYSTERIES 23 



are to be found here, for they still grow in the 

 very same places they did when she was a young 

 girl. 



After we had started Grandmother said: " It's 

 likely we shall find several kinds of Violets to- 

 day. They are not all purple with round, heart- 

 shaped leaves, as my little city girl supposes. 

 There are besides White Violets, Yellow Violets, 

 and purple ones with leaves queerly cut all about 

 their edges. They all begin to open when Wind- 

 flowers and Dog's-tooth Violets unfold, and as 

 you have already found these, we cannot be too 

 early to catch the Violets." 



I said I should be happy if I could only find a 

 purple one. White, or Yellow Violets were 

 strange to me. First we walked along by the 

 side of the stream where the grass grows tall. 

 All the way I was looking for Violets. Suddenly 

 I spied a little white one. It was almost under 

 my foot. It was such a wee thing that I thought 

 at first It could not be a Violet at all, yet its leaves 

 were the same round, heart shape as those of the 

 Purple Violet. Fine, brown lines ran through the 

 blossom's white leaves, and It had a sweet scent, 

 almost as tiny as Itself. 



" I used to call It the little Sweet White Violet," 

 Grandmother said. " I think It has the sweetest 

 scent of them all." 



She started to walk on, but I stayed with the 

 tiny Violets until I had to run to catch up with 



