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8 The Floral King.
to penetrate, as far as it was possible, into the
secrets of nature. People called him playfully
“the little Botanicus,” for he knew where grew
every kind of herb and plant in the neighbourhood,
and he assiduously collected and dried all the
specimens he could get, and frequently littering
his mother’s room.
One day his mother found that he had even
appropriated her much treasured Bible to press
some new-found flowers in, and she began gently
rating him for this.
“Dear child,” she said, ‘‘ you must not put
herbs and flowers in my beautiful book. It would
be quite a sin to spoil the Holy Bible.”
“Pray forgive me, mother, but these are the
most beautiful flowers I have ever seen, so I
thought I would preserve them the best of all,
for I have heard both you and father say that
the Bible is the Book of Life, and surely if I
put the flowers between its leaves they would
retain their colour, the Bible keeping them alive
for ever.”
“Child, when we call the Bible the Book of
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