Skaters or Gliders 



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makes a sort of a lens like the lens in a camera or 

 an opera glass. The sun shining down on the 

 gliders and on the dents in the water, casts enlarged 

 shadows on the bottom of the stream and one never 

 tires of watching these shadows — that is, if one is a 

 little fellow and has not yet had his mind warped 

 by business, professional duties, or politics. 



Gliders 



The war of the States broke out, the pretty 

 country place was changed into a busy camp called 

 Camp Dennison. One of the writer's brothers was 

 up there as a Union soldier when the little brook 

 was again visited, but war is the most unnatural 

 thing, and it and nature cannot agree. The green 



