LUCK IN CLOVERS 



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seven leaves, i ; nine leaves, i ; cups and leaves, 

 various, 5. 



At another time I spied a single five-leaved in 

 a dense bed of rowen clover at the road-side, and 

 seating myself close beside it, calculating on this 

 habit of the plant, I 

 vowed I would not get 

 up until I had collected 

 forty multiple leaves. I 

 soon obtained more than 

 this number. 



The clover -leaf quest 

 is a good eye - sharpen- 

 er. Which of our boys 

 can show us the best 

 record ? 



I wonder if any of 

 my young readers have 

 ever seen how the clover says its 

 prayers and goes to sleep, with its 

 two side leaflets folded together 

 like reverent palms, and the ter- 

 minal leaflet bowed above them ? 

 So the normal leaf spends the night in the dews. 

 I often wonder what arrangement of adjustment 

 is arrived at when so many leaflets conspire to 

 confuse. 



My clover-hunting has been confined to the red 

 and white clovers, both species having common 



