Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 155
of little toads will come hopping about; bril-liantly colored flies will alight near by; and,regardless of the presence of an onlooker, thecurious little sand-bees, in color so like thesand, and yet with a glint of green in the sun- 674 NATURE S CYCLE-PATH. [June, light, will continue the burrowing… … we shouldered our wheels and bravely waded through marsh and water plants grow in uncheckedluxuriance, from the white water-lily whichfloats upon the surface to the wild-rice in thebackground, which tosses its plumes in thebreeze, inviting chattering swarms of birds topartake of its abundance. The…
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