The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

sea plants. starfsh growing on stalks CLANS and
oysters and crabs and Holsters on bushes like
masses Of seaweed, tall grasses with lips spreading
out and colored exactly like peacocEs feathers,
bushes bearing myriads of tiny bells that softly
tinkled as she brushed past others with little black
and blue ducks heads opening their yellow beahs,
but never quackng beetles quyering aloft in fash
ing, dazzling hues the points of green spears;
fountain plants, undreamedof marvels, that spout
ed streams of cleaning water high in air. gigantic
lilies, each holding the tiniest wax-like doll that
really seemed alive, In its white hollow, and alpha
bet plants the broad leaves of which were covered
with letters
j could take whole page in describing the
ders that Elsie examined so carefully having
pletelr forgotten about the Sinking General, but
have not the space to do so. Think of the oldest
thing YOU imagine, and, depend upon It, she
saw Just that
She had roved again and again from end to end
of the magic garden, and think that there not
a plant growing there that she had not carefully
inspected when she suddenly thought that hours
must have passed since she entered and rejecting
that her Grandpa must be worrying about her alb
sence, she hastily started for the little green door
But on the way hither she remembered what he
had said about getting different soil for the
greenhouse What better soil than this could be
found, thought clever Elsie, and without more ado
she knelt down and began TO dig up the rich black
earth and throw it into her apron. Her hands were
but that did not matter 1t was ali she could do to
totter TO the door with her burden but She man
aged to open it without spiling more than a hand
full of the precious soil, and dropping from off her
the ancient iron spectacles. which, strange to
say. she had forgotten all about
There stood Grandpa Herold, having Just awak-
encd from his nap, staring at her perspIring face
and soilcd hands, but when she dropped her load of
black earth to the floor he asked:
"Why. whore on earth did YOU get that!
"I-I-in the vacant let-that Is. | spOse ii was
that lot. Anyway. its right outside through that
little green door" puacd the tired little gipl as
she looked at her grimy hands and pointed to the
door; but when she followed Grandpa's surprised
glance and saw that the green door had utterly van
ishcd. leaving nothing but the whitewashed wall,
She TOO. looked amazed. Nor the old iron
bound spcctaces to be seenl She had very likely,
dropped them outside the door when she opened it..
Grandpa smiled kindly and merrily.
at was there, GRANDPA! | certainly came right
through It this very minute :" Elsie declared. MAY
be it was the spectaces that made it, fox
now It's gone"
IF you saw door there il must have been sonlc-
thing unusual that made YOU see it, responded
Grandpa laughing at her puzzled face. Il have
been asleep and dreamed that II the houses here
abouts were laughing at me, and so suppose you've
been asleep, toov
SNo. indeed, | have been very bust, and all that
Garth proves 1t y protested Elsie. and then she told
her strange tale. Grandpa tried hard TO pooh-pooh
it. but the proef in that pile OF black earth on
the floor and he couldn't pooh-pooh that.
4Well we viii try it, at any rate and see whether
it's magic soil or not" said he ave will place it in
different parts of the greenhouse and watch the re-
suit but fear it will be usual luck
SO the earth distributed between the plants