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Flora Klickmann. Weeding the Flower-Patch
Weeding the Flower-Patch
Table of Contents
Preface
One. IT NEEDED IT!
Two. STARTING WORK
Three. THE HAT
Four. AMENITIES
Five. A SLIGHT TEMPERATURE
Six. MINOR EXCITEMENTS
Seven. A BOUQUET OF HERBS
Eight. SOUPS AND SUCH-LIKE
Nine. LAST JOURNEYS
Ten. THE MOURNER
Eleven. THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS
Twelve. NEIGHBOURLY CALLERS
Thirteen. HAPPY LITTLE SLEEPER
Fourteen. THAT MEETING
Fifteen. BY THE WAY
Sixteen. OLD FAITHFULS
Seventeen. A VISIT
Eighteen. ROUND THE VEGETABLE PLOT
Nineteen “HOW FAR A LITTLE CANDLE——”
Twenty. CHRISTMAS FORETHOUGHT
Twenty-One. ADVERTISEMENTS
Epilogue
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Flora Klickmann
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Can I speak to you a moment, please, ma’am?” This formula, spoken in subdued tones, invariably portends some catastrophe which must be broken to me cautiously.
Having commiserated with the man on the dance she had led him, I was asked if I would kindly look at the bonfire heap, and say if it was as I wished. Judging by his martyr-like tones, I was quite sure it wasn’t! But I was a trifle mystified.
