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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Golden Moments, by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks Author: Anonymous Release Date: August 13, 2007 [EBook #22308] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOLDEN MOMENTS *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: AMONG THE DAISIES.] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GOLDEN MOMENTS BRIGHT STORIES FOR YOUNG FOLKS Fully Illustrated Boston De Wolfe, Fiske and Company 361 and 365 Washington Street ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SOPHIE'S ROSES. Fraeulein Hoffman always gave the girls at her school a holiday on the tenth of June. It was her birthday; and though the old lady would not allow her pupils to make her any presents, saying, in her firm manner, "Such things speedily become a tax, my dears," yet she was always pleased that they should decorate the schoolrooms in her honor, and hang a handsome wreath round her father's picture. So on the evening before the birthday the day-girls would bring baskets of flowers, and the big schoolroom table was brought out into the garden, and there the wreaths and garlands were made amid much chattering and laughing by the happy children. "There," said Marie Schmidt, with a satisfied smile, as she held up a large wreath for general admiration. "That's finished at last! and I flatter myself that the old gentleman never had so handsome a decoration in his lifetime as I have now made for his picture." The girls laughed; but gentle Adela Righton, the only English girl at the school, said quietly, "Take care, Marie; Fraeulein Hoffman might hear you, and it would hurt her feelings to think that we were laughing at her father." "I don't want to laugh at any one, you sober old Adela," returned the reckless Marie. "I only think the old gentleman's hooked nose and beady black eyes will look very well under my wreath of lilies and roses." Adela said no more, for she saw that her words only excited Marie; and fortunately at t
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