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Year, rubbing the flowers between his fingers, and 

 then smelling of them as if to inhale the grade 

 rather than the volume of the perfume. 



"Surely it is like Partridge Vine," I replied; 

 "only as pervading as if bushels of the little cross - 

 shaped white blooms were gathered in a mass. 

 Good reason why the two are members of the 

 same family." 



"I want to know!" said Time o' Year, delight- 

 edly. "It beats me, how blood will tell! Now, 

 Fanton's brown mare has a way of favorin' her 

 near front foot by lappin' it over t' other when 

 she stands. I never saw another do so, and she 's 

 sound as a dollar, too. Last fall a neighbor o' 

 his'n bought a colt up York state, and pretty soon 

 he noticed she overlapped in standin', same as 

 Fanton's mare. Huh! he thought it must be a 

 catchin' habit, from pasturin' alongside; but sure 

 enough, come to find out, the colt's mother and 

 Fanton's mare were whole sisters!" 



Next a space of mud and Tussock Grass, where 

 picking the way was an absorbing task, ended my 

 guide's comparison between the passive and active 

 development of heredity. Near here, where the 

 stream sometimes sluggishly meanders away from its 

 channel, I have, at rare intervals, found the curious 



