Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 71
reverence,and only the sights and sounds of nature to enter-tain us, is always profitable. Our eyes notice littlethings that elsewhere would pass unobserved. Weexamine the tiny circles traced by the leaf-points ofthe beach-grass, as they are borne down by the 55° WAIFS FROM THE GULF-ST RE AM. [May,… … THE LIVING RAFT, AND THE WINGED SHELL-FISH of the waves, drop with a splash upon unwary fishes,gulping them up with their pouched bills. Beau-tiful shells of every hue—blue, purple, scarlet,crimson, orange, yellow, and pearly white—lie inwindrows tossed up by the steady surf, or wherethe latest…
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