SUNFLOWERS AND A RUSHLIGHT.
Sunflowers and a Rushlight originally appeared in "Aunt Judy's Magazine," November 1882. It is now re-published for the first time.
CHAPTER I.
"A MAN NAMED SOLOMON"—JAEL AND THE CHINA POODLE—JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY—NAIL-SPOTS—FAMILY BEREAVEMENTS—A FAMILY DOCTOR—THE BOOKS IN THE ATTIC—A PUZZLING TALE—"A JOURNEY TO GO."
Doctor Brown is our doctor. He lives in our village, at the top of the hill.
When we were quite little, and had scarlet-fever, and measles, and those things, Dr. Brown used to be very kind to us, and dress his first finger up in his pocket-handkerchief with a knot for the turban, and rings on his thumb and middle finger, and do—"At the top of a hill lived a man named Solomon," in a hollow voice, which frightened me rather.
And then he used to say—"Wise man, Solomon! He lived at the top of a hill," and laugh till his face got redder than usual, and his eyes filled with laughter-tears, and twinkled in the nice way they do, and I was not frightened any more.
Dr. Brown left off being our doctor once. That was when he and Grandmamma quarrelled. But they made it up again.