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On a yellow, dreamy day of late autumn, while the sergeant was strolling through the Fens, he came suddenly upon little Virgie Manning and her nurse.
"Hello, little miss! " said the sergeant. "I haven't seen you for a long time; but where did you get those flowers? They look like some of the park golden-rod."