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somewhat of the same degree that it does on this 

 glorious midsummer day among the beasts, birds 

 and insects of this old woods-pasture. 



XII. 



Aug. 4> '01. How glorious the peaceful calm 

 of mid-morn on such an August day as this. 

 The water in the pools of the stream glides by 

 with scarce the semblance of a flow. The drag- 

 onflies, bronze, brown and black, flit lazily up 

 and down the pools. The breeze as lazily comes 

 and goes. Out in the sunlight one can see, at 

 times, the glimmer and tremulous motion of the 

 heat waves a quivering movement of the air 

 particles. All nature seems at rest. 



This year the Indiana farmer can say with 

 truth, "The drought it has got me." It began 

 in June and for nearly forty days no rain has 

 fallen. The pastures of Kentucky blue-grass 

 are, in many places, as brown and sere as they 

 are in the dead of winter. The corn, usually at 

 this date a dense, dark green, is yellow, shrivel- 

 ling ; its tassels devoid of pollen ; in many places 

 its stalks ripe for fodder. Most wild herbaceous 



