13/18 Doesn't he look as if he had stepped out of a romance ?" "Speaking of romance," said Priscilla, "we've been looking for heather--but, of course, we couldn't find any. It's too late in the season, I suppose." "Heather!" exclaimed Anne. "Heather doesn't grow in America, does it ?" "There are just two patches of it in the whole continent," said Phil, "one right here in the park, and one somewhere else in Nova Scotia, I forget where. The famous Highland Regiment, the Black Watch, camped here one year, and, when the men shook out the straw of their beds in the spring, some seeds of heather took root." "Oh, how delightful!" said enchanted Anne. "We can see all 'the handsome houses where the wealthy nobles dwell.' Spofford Avenue is the finest residential street in Kingsport. |