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Azitl Avas not large, but it was filled to overflowing 

 with the best of all flowers — the old-fashioned ones. 

 Poppies, petunias, marigolds, and hollyhocks flashed 

 colour rank upon rank, with larkspur as homelike as 

 ever grew in a New England front yard, while helio- 

 tropes stretched their purple heads five feet above the 



THE FLYING SWITCH 



ground, losing no sweetness nor gaining aught of 

 coarseness from their luxuriant growth. 



Apple and orange trees are scattered among the 

 willows, and upon a single branch we often found ripe 

 fruit and fresh-blown blossoms. Through and among 



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