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and in such an hour, touched it with ni}^ own hand and 

 listened to its throb, I have felt the awe of that experience 

 evermore. 



We returned to camp, the inevitable smudge, the camp- 

 tire, the pipe, the story and joke and banter, and, at last to 

 our bed of boughs, — one genuine day of our vacation ended. 



