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many-sided creature's life-story. For myself, one 

 thing at a time is enough. It is the hardiness of 

 the skunk cabbage that appeals most to me. Deny 

 it who may, the skunk cabbage is the first flower 

 of the year, long in advance of all the others. 

 Does it not well typify American pluck and enter- 

 prise ? 



