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games and there were prizes. Little Trudy be- 

 haved very well until the mottoes were passed 

 around, and then she upset the dish into her lap. 

 She quickly gathered her dress up at the bottom and 

 was running toward the door with them all when 

 Tommy caught her and brought her back. He 

 said that at the last party she went to she was so 

 little that nobody passed her the mottoes, and he 

 supposed she didn't wish such a mistake to happen 

 again. 



As soon as the party was over Tommy went 

 to look again at the Orchid, and he found a big 

 bumblebee held like a prisoner in its balloon-like 

 pouch. 



He kept the Orchid three days, and then he 

 went himself with Herr Wilhelm Fritz and they 

 planted it in its own place in the deep, green wood. 

 Some day, Herr Wilhelm says, the flower will die 

 and a large seed-pod will grow on the stem. 



Philip Todd now goes with Tommy, and they 

 look at it almost every day. 



