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(1912) Author: Dikken Zwilgmeyer
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102

JOIINNY BLOSSOM

of the veranda. What a veranda it was, with
its massive stone pillars and broad steps of
white marble leading to the grounds! Still,
Johnny Blossom was not altogether sure that
the veranda at home wasn’t just as pretty; at
any rate, it was pleasanter, that was certain.

Below the veranda at Kingthorpe an avenue
of nut trees stretched a long way. The foliage
was so thick that the avenue was always in deep
shade, however bright the day. Not a sunbeam
pierced the gloom, but far down at the end of
the avenue, something shone like a big glittering
eye. That was the sea shining.

The whole garden with its crooked old trees
and newly planted young ones was overflowing
with fruit: big and little pears, red apples, yellow
apples, and oh! any quantity of plums—yellow
plums bursting with ripeness, great juicy blue
plums, and those sweet ones of a reddish purple
color. Hurrah!

And he was to ask every one he wished to!
Hurrah for that, too! All the boys in his class,
of course; and all the boys in the next higher;
why, yes, and those little fellows in the class
below. And Tellef! And Tellef’s sisters and
mother and the grandmother — she could see
now — yes, he must have her. Then all those

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