CHAPTER XXXVI 



ANOTHER PART OF THE STREAM 



So many flowers bloom together through the 

 summer that I cannot always find out which ones 

 have opened first. I know Butter and Eggs were 

 in the meadow and along the roadsides when But- 

 tercups were here, and that they stayed to see 

 Black-eyed Susans, and that a few of them are 

 even here now when Loosestrife and Milkweeds 

 are growing higher every day. Tommy thinks 

 they will welcome the Asters and Goldenrods, and 

 that they're really only afraid of Jack Frost. 



I love these little yellow and orange flowers 

 called Butter and Eggs, and which grow in long, 

 narrow bunches. Their faces are so funny, and 

 they seem to grin a little like Monkey Flowers. It 

 is quite easy to see them far off in the meadow. 



I suppose they are called Butter and Eggs be- 

 cause their pale shade of yellow is the color of 

 butter, and their deep shade looks like the yolk 

 of eggs. But this name isn't pretty, and I'm glad 

 Sallie has found out about their other name being 

 False Dragon's Tooth. Only a few people know 

 how a dragon's tooth looks, and even fewer must 

 know about a false one. I'm sure, though, that if 

 a dragon had these little flowers set in his head 



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