McKAY sat on the balcony of species— that pine was jolly and the little inn that squatted benevolent; that one austere, monk¬ ish; there stood a swaggering bravo like a brown gnome among and there a sage wrapped in green the pines that clothed the eastern meditation; that birch was a wanton shore…
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