Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 53
so prized by naturalists. And now at lasthe had found it, bobbing backward and forward ina fantastic dance just above the eddying waters of no ! The wiry little yellow leaf which he raisedfrom the water, was perfect in form, and a gleam ofsunlight, falling upon the shining meshes, rans-formed them… … m i RAHEH, THE GLTDE. Oh, Papa, he cried, joyously holding the glis-tening meshes aloft, the lace-leaves are jeweled ! Yes, Harry, said his father, those diamonddrops are made by the breathing of the plant. Mr. Steedman attempted to detach a root of oneof the plants from its bed of mud, but the…
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