LARGE YELLOW LADY'S SLIPPER 77 



the earth about its roots and very quickly put it 

 in the flower-pot. 



" Oh, Herr Wilhelm Fritz," I cried, " we must 

 leave it here. It is wild," for I thought he meant 

 to keep it in the glass house. 



" Ve fetch it back after pardy," he said. " It 

 take no harm." 



Then I knew that he meant to let me take it to 

 Tommy, and I jumped and skipped about Herr 

 Wilhelm Fritz all the way home, while he mut- 

 tered to himself, and to the Lady's Slipper. 



" Not like Orchids in glass house, but just so 

 wunderschoen, just so wunderschoen," I heard 

 him saying. 



He called me back once and told me I must 

 hunt every day for another Lady's Slipper, " wun- 

 derschoen pink, very like dis one, only it have but 

 two leaves and dey come up from der ground, not 

 out from stem. Very wunderschoen 1 " 



He even told me I might find another yellow 

 one almost exactly like the one he had in the pot, 

 only smaller and a little bit fragrant. 



I thought how delighted Tommy would be to 

 see this rare flower, and what fun I should have 

 in telling him it grew in a bunk of mine. Herr 

 Wilhelm Fritz put moss around the pot, and when 

 the time came to go I carried it to the party, and 

 Sallie took the basket of roses from the glass 

 house. 



We were very early; but other children were 



