THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 137 
when you (eel too big for the school¬ 
room, and so anxious to retard when 
you discover that time goes on and 
you do not go off. I have taken 
the figures used in arithmetic, with 
which you have, of course, some lit¬ 
tle acquaintance — alternately de¬ 
lighting in or detesting them, as 
you in the one instance count out 
your quarter’s allowance, or pin- 
money, or, in the other, turn pale 
at the sum total of your milliner’s 
bill. I have appointed each of these 
little gentlemen to the command of 
a regiment of Flowers, which I will 
now order out in review before 
you. 
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