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think she knows very little about the country. She 

 is only a year older than I, but much taller. She 

 loves dogs, and even cats, and she has been across 

 the ocean six times. 



When she comes to-day it will be too late to 

 go out in the woods and much too wet ; but in the 

 morning I shall show her some of Tommy's bunks. 

 I feel sure she doesn't know that wild flowers 

 come up every year in the same places, and that 

 people who live in the country learn to know just 

 where to find them. Then there is Tommy's dried 

 collection of plants for her to see, and Philip 

 Todd's pets and ever so many other things. 



Sallie has come. She has grown taller since I 

 saw her last, and her hair is braided instead of 

 hanging down her back. She says that she loves 

 wild flowers, though she seldom sees them, be- 

 cause almost every summer she goes to Europe, 

 and to places where there are cathedrals and pic- 

 ture galleries, but no flowers. For a minute I 

 felt as if I wanted to go and see such places too; 

 but when I remembered all the little flowers that 

 were coming out, I thought it would be hard to 

 leave them. 



Tommy came to-day while Grandmother was 

 having tea in the library, and the first words he 

 said were: " There's another flower out for you 

 to show Sallie." 



Grandmother asked him to tell us all about it. 



