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at this season, but they frequent the vicinity of 

 houses or meadows while, in the blue-grass pas- 

 ture, with its many open sunny spots, where in- 

 sect life in abundance is to be had for the seek- 

 ing, bird life, except in the trees, is almost 

 lacking. 



The flowers of the pennyroyal, the Indian to- 

 bacco and the brunella, possess just enough of 

 a mingling of blue and white, with perchance, 

 in some, a tinge of pinkish, to render them deli- 

 cate and attractive; for do not those colors or 

 hues go best with delicate objects, like babies, 

 frail women and modest lovable flowers. The 

 forget-me-not, the parti-colored collinsia and the 

 morning-glory, all favorites of mine, put forth 

 these hues and are seemingly modest and bash- 

 ful, as compared with other coarser and more 

 vulgar plants, whose hues are red, purple or 

 yellow. 



XXXVI. 



Oct. 15, '05. It is mid-morn of a mid-au- 

 tumn day. The sun, ever and anon, peeps forth 

 for a few moments from beneath the envelop- 

 ing clouds and sheds a mellow light and genial 



