Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-28
SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

turned soil The tender little plants were hopelessly cut and broken
 Hot words rushed through Hopes mind words with which she hoped to scar the very soul of Lucius Callous, but suddenly her fathers tired, patient voice recalled her. She rose from the ground and walking toward the house brave smile, not at all forced, came to her lips.
 Never mind, daddy-I was pretty cross at first; but I have thought just what I'll do won't give Lush Callous the rating he deserves. But just watch me I'll say it with flowers !'' | Into the house she dashed, and brought out a wooden box of earth with hundreds of little green plants. It was all she could carry, and she wasted no breath in words.
 Once more beside her pansy plot, she began to separate fthe slender stalks with loving, patient fingers These were to have formed the border if her dooryard flower bed had not been forbidden.
 She smiled as she set them at regular intervals along the cruel wheel tracks, IFeskirGg the warm earth around the tiny roots, and whinsically telling them to hurry and grow fast for her.
 An impish thought struck her as she set the last plant.
 T guess I'll fool dad too, just for good measure"
 So she ran back up the walk with the empty box in her hand and said care lessly: Some other plants that I'd plan ned to use another way You don't think the old Tartar will do that trick again do you? I know I'm too uppish to suit him; he's trying to humble me, that's an.''
 But her fathers eyes were taking in her glowing young beauty with a new realization and/a new seriousness.
 Hope, girl, you've growed like weed this year. Heavens, how I wish I could get to work and help ye go to the college where ye want so to be"'
 Now, daddy!"
 Hope was all contrition, as always when her fathers courage Jagged. She stopped and stroked his hair gently.
 NOW, daddy you know it won't hurt me or my plara to teach for a year first. And if can't manage 1t by ther I'll teach two years, or three. I won' have you fretting when your leg is knit ting so well. Why, it won't be any time now before you can be at worl again, and then just want to be around to tell Lucius Callous to keep his nosc at home and let us plan our own crops too !"
 The rains fe1l-soft, battery rains and the sun shone, not fiercely, to shriv el the young plantlets, but just right tC make them reach for heaven through the long white days and nestle sleepilJ in the dew at night.
 And one day the first Dansy bios somed, and looked around and liked it. little three-cornered home, and tha- night it must have whispered to the oth CTS, for the next morning nearly hall the fat lazy buds opened up, and they too, nodded and smiled and made the world and Hope very much happier But the best was to come. On hay day, after a smart littl shower, the miracle began, and on tn, second and third days it developed s, that even an old dreamer like Sam War ren could not be fooled longer.
 The heater-piece was talking! Tellin, all whom that selectnan had neglectet to tell, of Lucius Callous' detestable ac in trying to break the good old Ney England spirit of one of her fines daughters.
 In perfect ''W'' of vivid, living white Sweet Alyssum told the story of de terminations that will not be downed
 And Hope did go to college-Bosto, : Post.