CHAPTER XXXVII 



TO INDIAN MONUMENT 



The day has come for Grandmother to take us 

 to Indian Monument. It is a long walk there, 

 but in the country it is much easier to go quite far 

 than in the city. Here there are wild flowers to 

 see along the road, and birds are singing, and ever 

 so many different kinds of butterflies are visiting 

 the flowers. Besides, here we can run and sing 

 and jump along the road, while in the city it is 

 only polite to go straight ahead. 



Grandmother started in the carriage some time 

 after Tommy and Philip and me, and we were to 

 wait for her at the big chestnut-tree, where two 

 roads cross. Just before we were quite there we 

 heard her coming, so we ran quickly to the tree 

 and were there first. 



" Five minutes earlier and I should have beaten 

 you all," Grandmother called, as Philip and 

 Tommy helped her out of the carriage. " It's 

 all on account of Herr Wilhelm Fritz that I have 

 lost this race. He came to tell me the Night- 

 blooming Cereus would open its flowers to-night. 

 There are nine more buds on it than It has ever had 

 before." 



Tommy wanted to ask her then why she thought 

 these flowers only opened In the night, but first 



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