Among the Trees at Elmridge. Ella Rodman Church

CHAPTER I.

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A SPRING OPENING.

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      On that bright spring afternoon when three happy, interested children went off to the woods with their governess to take their first lesson in the study of wild flowers, they saw also some other things which made a fresh series of "Elmridge Talks," and these things were found among the trees of the roadside and forest.

      "What makes it look so yellow over there, Miss Harson?" asked Clara, who was peering curiously at a clump of trees that seemed to have been touched with gold or sunlight. "And just look over here," she continued, "at these pink ones!"

      Malcolm shouted at the idea:

      "Yellow and pink trees! That sounds like a Japanese fan. Where are they, I should like to know?"

      "Here,