Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.

For all his apparent ignorance Callandar knew that daisy field quite as well as Ann.

For this the children form in a circle, joining hands, and one is chosen to be daisy-picker.

And I am sure, that on some hour Coquetting soft 'twixt sun and shower, He stooped and broke a daisy-flower With heart of tiny span, And bore it as a lover's dower Across the fields to Anne.

Thus, on the Continent, many a lover puts the four-leaved clover under his pillow to dream of his lady-love; and in our own country, daisy-roots are used by the rustic maiden for the same purpose.

The daisy-pusher.

"Did you ever see a palm tree waving in New York; or daisy bushes as tall as a man; or such masses of roses and flowering vines?

"Colonel's a daisy cook, ain't he?"

Merriwell hit it, and sent a "daisy cutter" down into right field, exactly where he wished to place it.

Yet o'er these ghastly shapes, soft lichens wind, And timid daisies droop, and tranquil flowers A robe of many-colored beauty, bind, As if some vagrant fairy claimed these bowers.

The centerpiece at the supper-table is a big bunch of daisies, and each child has a place-card on which is painted or drawn a daisy face, the petals forming a cap frill.

The cañon wall rises sheer from the water's edge on the south, but on the opposite side there is sufficient space and sunshine for a sedgy daisy garden, the center of which is brilliantly lighted with lilies, castilleias, larkspurs, and columbines, sheltered from the wind by leafy willows, and forming a most joyful outburst of plant-life keenly emphasized by the chill baldness of the onlooking cliffs.

It was an affair of time, as it involved the delicate cutting out of daisy garlands from a wider bordering filled with flowers of other colors, and proved a fascinating occupation.

When I looked over the hedge, widowTom Lamport's widow that waswas prodding for her nasturtiums with a daisy-grubber.

cry I, vehemently, and stamping on the daisy-heads as I speak.

The refreshments carry out the daisy idea, and should be served outdoors, either on the piazza or on the lawn.

'T is sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with daisies lie, That commerce will continue, And trades as briskly fly.

So, only that morning, had he imagined himself consulting the daisy oracle.

A CHILDREN'S DAISY PARTY Let the children make the invitations they send out for their own daisy party.

In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down, Whose bonnets touch the firmament, Whose sandals touch the town, Meek at whose everlasting feet A myriad daisies play.

There were individual daisy salads, formed by little mounds of chicken salad covered with yellow mayonnaise and surrounded by a fringe of petals cut from the whites of hard-boiled eggs.

He laid down turf along its banks in some parts, and sowed grass and daisy-seed in others; and when he found a pretty stone or shell, or bit of coloured glass or bright crockery or broken mirror, he would always throw it in, that the water might have the prettier path to run upon.

Cold lie the daisy-banks, Clad but in green, Where in the Mays agone Bright hues were seen.

Kitty devoted herself to blushing beautifully, and darning many rents in a short daisy muslin skirt, "which I intend to wear a great deal, because Jack likes it, and so do I," she said, with a demure look at her lover, who laughed as if that was the best joke of the season.

Happily the ouzel and the old familiar robin are here to sing us welcome, and azure daisies beam with trustfulness and sympathy, enabling us to feel something of Nature's love even here, beneath the gaze of her coldest rocks.