YELLOW WITCH-HAZEL FLOWERS OF MIDWINTER 

 "Perhaps what mos-t moves us in winter is some reminiscence of far-off summer. (Jan. 12) 

 My difficulties with my friends are such as no frankness will settle. . . . Explanation is not what is wanted. Friendship 

 is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures 

 are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. . . . Who are the estranged? Two friends ex- 

 plaining. (Di'c. 21) . . . O Happine.ss, what is the .'tuff thou art made of ? — Is it not gos-samer and floating i-pider's webs? 

 a crumpled sunbeam — a coiled dew-line settling on some flower? What moments will not supply the reel from which thou 

 mayst be wound off? Thou art as subtle as the pollen of flowers and the sporules of the fungi."' (Jan. 20)— Thoreav 



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