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102 JOIINNY BLOSSOM
Mother on the great marble steps and welcome
the guests. He was rather sober and felt a
little shy. Father and Mother, too, although
they smiled, were somewhat serious. Mother’s
eyes even had tears in them.
All the old women came clambering up the
steps and shook hands with Johnny; and then
Mother took them into the drawing room and
said, "Please feel free to go anywhere you
wish about the house and to look at
everything."
Gradually the great rooms were filled, the
park overflowed with children, and the band in
the walnut tree avenue sent everywhere its
strong, rich tones. On a bench near the
bandstand sat Katrina the dwarf in a bright red
dress. When Johnny Blossom saw her he ran
to the garden and picked as many plums as he
could carry and put them in her lap. "I
promised you these, you know," he said.
It wasn’t long before there were children in the
trees everywhere, shaking the branches, throwing
the fruit down to the grassy ground, where their
fathers and mothers sat laughing and wondering
at everything. To the children it was all like
a fairy tale. There were dances and games and
every kind of jollity under the stately old trees,
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