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many of its companions, said she was good to mix 
with coffee ; that the French people, who know so 
well what is good to eat, always put her into theirs, 
which is the reason French coffee is so celebra¬ 
ted all over the world; and that in Egypt, men 
used her a great deal for food. The Succory had 
not a very pleasant odor, hut such a beautiful color, 
that Mary thought she could forgive her bad breath 
for her blue eyes. 
The numerous family of Polygonums, rose-col¬ 
ored, purple and white, still appeared above the 
ground, in many places. One said her name was 
the Water-pepper, because her leaves and stem 
taste so sharp. The Knot-grass, with little white 
flowers in the axil of her leaves, peeped up between 
the stones, and said she was willing to grow in the 
very streets, if her friends, the stones, were only 
there, lying close together. One who lived in the 
