Mother Nature's Toy-Shop

by Lina Beard; Adelia B. Beard

Fig.96: - "Sweet Pea, Sweet Pea, Your petals unlock."

Pick out a fine, large sweet-pea blossom. It doesn't matter about the color. If you have a number to choose from, suit yourself. Hold the flower in your left hand by its stem and recite the first two lines:

"Sweet Pea, Sweet Pea,
Your petals unlock."

Fig.97: - "I turn two down and you're a Peacock."

Then as you reach around to the back of the flower with your right hand and put your thumb on one curled petal, X, and your first finger on the other curled petal, Y ([Fig. 96]), finish the rhyme: