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The Flowers
BY MARGARITA SPALDING GERRY
"WHY! He must mean my rose," said Dave Tennant. "But how in the kingdom did Jepsom ever think of it!"
He was sitting in a wooden armchair before his greenhouse door. The Weekly Bugle, which a neighbor brought over from the post-office, interrupted him in the midst of morning rounds.
He looked helplessly up from staring head-lines, and down the straggling village street. From one end to the other it was ablaze with blossoms. It was not hard to see why the bees loved it so; long before a wayfarer came within sight of it he threw back his head and drew in the perfume. But although, with the bees, the flowers had drawn Dave to Deering, at this moment he hardly saw them. His eyes went back to the paper.
"Munificence of Adams County's Millionaire!" it said, in the largest type the Bugle possessed. "Prize Offered to Horticulturists! County Fair Next Summer! One Thousand Dollars for a White Rose With Jacqueminot Perfume!"
Dave raised his near-sighted blue eyes from the paper.
"Now that really is a lucky thing for me—I suppose I ought to have been thinking about money long before this. I wonder what made me try just that experiment—it isn't lik
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