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green leaves, you may discover the most 

 glorious heads of the red clover that you 

 ever saw, full of honey, too, which I envy 

 the bees. And there comes a great buzzer 

 who lias found the store, and means to con 

 test with us the possessiifn of the Held. And 

 I am sure that he is armed for the fray, and 

 that courtesy requires that I should speed 

 the parting guest, the stranger within my 

 gates, who carries away some of my berries 

 and a bit of my heart as well, and so pluck 

 ing a handful of the showy heads I grace 

 fully retire from the contest without breaking 

 a lance. 



And what if we linger at the bars, while 

 I try in vain to parry, to find fitting defence 

 and reply to the verbal arrows which are 

 shot at me ? One must sometimes to him 

 self only, mind you admit defeat, and 

 learn to find a wholesome enjoyment in the 

 same. 



JUNE 7, 1891 



