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Debit and Credit

CHAPTER XVII
12/20

I have an indistinct recollection of sitting as a little boy in a green nook, and trying to make one;" and, gathering a few dandelion stalks, he began the childish task.
"If you are so expert in such childish play," said Lenore, "here is something for you," and she pointed to a great burdock near the road-side.

"Have you ever seen a cap of burs ?" "No," answered Bernhard, with some slight misgiving.
"You shall have one immediately," said Lenore.

She went to the burdock; Bernhard gathered her some handfuls of burs.

She fitted one into the other, and made a cap with two little horns.

"You may put it on," said she, graciously.
"I dare not; the very birds would be frightened.


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