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erstwhile shelter and disclosing a gigantic cray- 

 fish, which was there placidly dozing and wait- 

 ing for just such a plump minnow to enter un- 

 awares and be nabbed by its slow moving chelae. 

 However, both entrance and exit were this time 

 too rapid for the waiting crustacean to secure a 

 meal. 



Where the water ripples over a ledge of lime- 

 stone, different species of brownish-green algae 

 cling to the rock and float with free end swaying 

 to and fro. The silt, fine earth and clay eroded 

 by the winter's frost and rain, covers the sides 

 of the sloping limestone banks, awaiting the 

 coming of a freshet to be wafted on to lower 

 levels. The spring fresh of a month ago 

 found these winter-formed deposits frozen too 

 hard to be broken loose. 



The simple serenity of a small flowing 

 stream; the gentle rippling of its onward mov- 

 ing current as, obeying the force of gravity it 

 winds its way on and on to greater streams be- 

 yond, beget in spring time a sense of peaceful- 

 ness and languor delightful to experience, but 

 whidt cannot be described in words. The 



