June 
ative. ‘They seem to steal away mysteriously. 
One day you see several specimens of a kind 
here and there, and the next day, not finding 
any, you suppose that you have overlooked 
them ; but on the third day you discover none, 
nor on the fourth, and then, if it is late in the 
season, you conclude they have gone and left 
no sign. After all, is not this a pleasanter 
way to take leave of a friend, than to be con- 
scious that you are seeing him for the last time ? 
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