indeed, than the highly potentized pellets of ne- 

 farious popularity. The fact is, granny has taken up 

 more than one case the doctor had abandoned, and 

 "tea ed" the patient back to health and strength. 

 Although the geologist was a bit impatient, I 

 waited for other gatherings of the botanist; but 

 he began a long explanation of why meadow- 

 sweet was growing on the hill-top, and I made 

 ready to start. I had use for his hands, not his 

 mouth. There are thoughtless people everywhere, 

 but think of lecturing in summer, and in the sun- 

 shine! What if the evening primrose was in 

 bloom all the morning, and the meadow-sweet 

 flourished in an upland field, can we not carry 

 these contradictions unconsciously, and revive 

 them, if we choose, when the snows of December 

 make the long winter evenings fit for philosophi- 

 cal discussion ? We do not need even to go over our 

 note-books if we have any real powers of observa- 

 tion. These pictures can be recalled when we 

 have time to attend to them. Even now the 

 rank arnica that crowded about a wayside fence 

 and hedged the barn-yard of a farm we passed 

 stands boldly out on call, and so likewise comes 

 back the remark of the farmer, who gravely told 

 us, " them plants is good for hurts, so they say, 

 but who 's goin' to get hurt just to see if it 's so? " 

 and then he chuckled as though what he said was 

 really funny. Then he became grave because we 

 did not laugh, and asked, " Who be ye, anyway ; 

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