We waded the creek, made mud pies, and gathered posies in the narrow glades between the cottonwood, beech, and alder trees.

Then as he stooped for her to arrange the posy, she whispered: "I wouldn't care, 'cept fer what folks must say.

"Well, when the portfolio was put to rights I was going on, but he fell to picking up a little bunch of violets I had dropped; you know I always wear a posy into town to give me inspiration.

This life is a garden where all choose their posies: In the spring of our youth let us gather the roses; For brief is their bloom like the dews of the morn, If you seek them too late you will find but a thorn.

Of every sort which in that meadow grew They gathered some; the violet, pallid blew, 30 The little dazie, that at evening closes, The virgin lillie, and the primrose trew, With store of vermeil roses, To deck their bridegroomes posies Against the brydale day, which was not long: 35 Sweet Themmes!

The little boy, singing to himself, had gathered some leaves from the hedge, and was enjoying his posy harmlessly enough.

" The angel's mission ended, he departed, but where he had stood a ring of snowdrops formed a lovely posy.

I've got the posy you mentioned in your letter, stowed away safe in my trunk.

Then I hurl my little posy away from me into the mud, as far as it will go.

Underneath it we lay a posy of pressed daisies, buttercups, and Queen Anne's lace, the wild flowers she loved best.

His majesty's wants, therefore, have been amply provided for by the vegetable kingdom, for even the wild garlic affords him a posy.

I am stooping to pick a little posy of violets as these languid thoughts dawdle through my mindblue mysteries of sweetness and color, born of the unscented, dull earth.

I pluck a posy.

[Illustration: "Mary Pennington, aged two years, three months, and ten days"] Bud Perkins walked to the freshly-made mound where his father lay, and scattered his posies over it.

"She come back and smell posy?" Having no answer ready, Ted changed the subject and asked: "Why do you have the raven at the top of your totem pole?" "Indian cannot marry same totem," said Kalitan.

"I hope you are going to spare me a posy for to-morrow night, since I can be fine in no other way to do honor to the dance Miss Sophie proposes for us," he said, leaning in the bay window to look down on the little girl, with the devoted air he usually wore for pretty women.

" "What luxury!" exclaimed Miss Lavinia, turning out the flowers upon the table in the tea room where she kept her window garden, "and how pale and spindling my poor posies look in comparison.

The cynics say that every rose Is guarded by a thorn which grows To spoil our posies; But I no pleasure therefore lack; I keep my hands behind my back When smelling roses.

I'll wear them just to show that noodle that I prefer nature to art;" and Jack gallantly stuck the faded posy in his button-hole, while Kitty treasured up the hint so kindly given for future use.

The book itself is very tiny and pretty, with a sort of leafy trellis-work at the top and bottom of every page, almost suggesting a little posy of wild-flowers thrown through the iron bars of the poet's cage, and pressed between the pages of his manuscript.

She wanted some fun; so she took the posy away, dodged her brother when he tried to catch her, and finally threw it over a paling, and went off rejoicing in her strength, while the little boy sate down and cried.

My frugal meal over, I was in the habit of visiting a neighboring café, where I read the papers, drank my evening cup of coffee, and, as I smoked my cigar or pipe and twirled my posies in my fingers or held them to my nose, would wonder who she was who sold them to me, if she ever thought of those who bought them of her, and if she distinguished me above her other customers.

"You are much too savageyou need a posy to soften you.

True, the boys admired the most thickly flowered gown immensely for a few minutes, Richard bringing me a posy to match for my hair, while Ian walked about me in silence which he broke suddenly with the trenchant remark"Barbara, I think your dwess would be prettier if it was weeded some!" All of which is of course perfectly true.

Some are for Violets, some are for Roses, Some for Peniriall, some for Bee Balm, When they go church-along carrying posies (Smell 'em and glance at the lads in the psalm); I am for Southernwood, Southernwood, Southernwood (Lad's Love 'tis called by the home-folk hereby), All in the summertime, summertime, summertime Lad's Love 'tis called, and for lad's love am I. W.B. * *