Four Leaf Clover

Four and Five Leaf Clover from my collection.

Today I found two four leaf clovers on my walk to work. I have quite a large collection of four leaf clovers, and a few with five leaves. Usually I spot them as I walk, or I stop for a few minutes to look for them. Most clovers have three leaves, and some people think those with four leaves are good luck. I keep most of mine on page 3000 of the Oxford English Dictionary. They keep better if pressed in a book. I have three of them stuck up on the wall of my cublicle at work, but they are turning a sort of brownish color from getting too much light.
When I was little, I sometimes would find a four leaf clover while I was standing on my hands in the backyard. My eyes would be close to the ground so I could see them better. When I was in junior high school and had to play softball, I would sometimes hunt for them in the outfield. My gym teacher didn't like that, but I wasn't very good at catching the ball, and it hardly ever came out there anyway. I had about as good a chance of finding a four leafer as I did of making a play.
Our neighbors had a patch in their backyard where there were clovers with four, five, six and maybe even more leaves! There were so many in the one patch, though, that it was almost too easy to find them. It's the challenge of finding something rare that makes it fun.
Sometimes people play tricks with clovers. They take one with three leaves, and pull two of the leaves off another one and then hold the stems together so it looks like there are four leaves. That can trick someone for a few minutes. Sometimes the clovers in a patch do the same thing--two of them get so close together that you might think you've seen one with more than three leaves.
Even if you don't find any clovers with extra leaves, you can have fun with the clover flowers. You pick a bunch of clover flowers with long stems and use your fingernail to poke a hole in each stem. Then you thread them together to make a chain. You can attach the two ends together to make a crown, a necklace or a bracelet. You can also do this with other flowers, but you should never pick flowers without asking your Mommy or Daddy if it's ok. But it is just about always ok to pick clovers, since most people think they are weeds.