The Field Lesson. 179

backward at such things as that.
But the truth is that, being rather
stout, he was not quite so light as
some young men of his age, and
could not jump so well.

And May, who did not like er
boy to be behind any other, was be-
coming rather distressed at this, and
was taking him in hand about it.

She did not explain her reason ;
but nearly every day now she led
him into one meadow, full of these
little streams, but full of very nice
flowers, too. ‘There often are very
nice ones by the side of streams and
ditches, you know.

In this one there grew the tall
meadow-sweet, and two or three

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