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Thine's a summer, mine's no more 

 Though repeated to threescore ; 

 Threescore summers, when they are gone. 

 Will appear as short as one. 



Miss Aiken's Collection. 



FURIA. 



This insect is well known in the northern 

 provinces of Sweden. It is not unfrequently 

 that people are seized with a pungent pain, 

 confined to a point, in the hand or other ex- 

 posed part of the body, which presently in- 

 creases to a most excruciating degree, and 

 even sometimes prove suddenly fatal. This 

 disorder is caused by the insect dropping out 

 of the air, and in a moment burying itself in 

 the flesh, is relieved by a poultice of curds 

 or cheese. 



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