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range of its melody, as one does who meets the 

 bird during the nesting season. As to the wrens, 

 they were not so bold as the little, brown fellows 

 at home ; and so through the whole list of ani- 

 mated nature. Herein lay the one disappointing 

 feature of my mountain-climb. 



Over-anxiety for my neck caused my thoughts 

 to centre in my heels on the return, and I saw 

 surprisingly little; so consoled myself with the 

 thought that what my first mountain failed to 

 yield might be the special gift of an adjoining 

 hill ; and so it proved. 



But to spend hours on a mountain and come 

 back with but one poor weed was too much for 

 the patience of the miners, and I was truly pitied. 

 For once, if not oftener, they had found an un- 

 questionable crank. Very likely. But, then, if a 

 man is not mildly a crank in some one direction, 

 is he not sure to be a nonentity in all ? 



