"Shows how much you know about botany! That's self-heal!" "Oh no; it's certainly bugle." "I tell you it's self-heal.

I found some at Lynstones last August and looked it up in the flower-book." "Very likely you did, but that doesn't prove that this is self-heal." "It does, for anybody with a pair of eyes.

I've been studying botany." "And so have I!" "You may think you know everything, Bess Haselford, but you don't know this." [Illustration: "YOU MAY THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING, BESS HASELFORD, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW THIS!"] "I didn't say I knew everything; but I'm certain this is bugle all the same, and I stick to it!" Bess's usually sweet voice had an obstinate note in it for once.

She seemed determined to defend her botanical trenches.
"Go it--hammer and tongs!" laughed Kitty.

"I'll back the winner!" "And I'll take the case into court," said Linda, snatching the flower from her schoolfellow's hand and running on to show it to Miss Strong, who was an authority on the subject.
The mistress paused to let the others overtake her.
"Bugle, certainly," she decided emphatically.