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SHE loved nature from a veranda, a dog-cart, the 

 deck of a vessel. She had been to the seashore for 

 a whole June, the next June to the mountains, then 

 a June to an inland farm. " And I enjoyed it ! " she 

 exclaimed ; " the sky-blue, I mean, the sea-blue, and 

 the green of the hills. But as for seeing fiddler crabs 

 and chewinks and woodchucks things ! why, I 

 simply did n't. In fact, I believe that most of your 

 fiddling crabs and moralizing stumps and philoso- 

 phizing woodchucks are simply the creatures of a 

 disordered imagination." 



I quite agreed as to the fiddling (some of it) and 



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