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Entered as Second-Class Matter June 12, 1909. at Sound Beach Post Office, under Act of March 3. 1897. 



Vol 



VIII 



AUGUST. 



Number 3 



The Pussywillow's Neglected Beauty. 



If the pussy willow could speak, it 

 would stand up in every springtime 

 marsh and say, "You love and admire 

 me not for my intrinsic beauty, but for 

 what I represent in the transition of the 

 seasons. If I should come in midsummer 

 YOU would not notice me. In June I 



come in greater beauty than almost any 

 other plant. In June I come from the 

 autumnal point of view with as startling 

 an interest as in the last of winter I 

 come with suggestions of spring. If in 

 the early spring I spoke with a portent 

 of the charms of spring, then why do 

 you not, nature lovers, for the same 



THE PUSSY WILLOW PREP.XRIXG FOR THE "RLXKLR V." 

 tSee next page.) 



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