Fido! Come back here! To heel!

[…] the violets, houstonias, hepaticas, and sanguinarias, which take so kindly to home cultivation.

Yes, he probably saw a picture of the South Sea islands last night, and now he is wanderlusting.

But, in the country, the green fields are so joyous, the pure air so fresh, the blue sky so clear; the fine old trees, redolent of earth's loveliest mythology, when the dryades peopled their green shadows;...