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SUMMER 



brary became the top of some great cliff ; the dron- 

 ing noise of traffic in the streets, the wash of waves 

 against the rocks; and yonder on the storm-stained 

 sky those wheeling wings, how like the winds of the 

 ocean, and the raucous voices, how they seemed to' 

 fill all the city with the sweep and the sound of the 

 sea! 



Boston, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Chi- 

 cago, San Francisco do you live in any one of 

 them or in any other city? If you do, then you have 

 a surprisingly good chance to watch the ways of 

 wild things and even to come near to the heart of 

 Nature. Not so good a chance, to be sure, as in the 

 country; but the city is by no means so lacking in 

 wild life or so shunned by the face of Nature as we 

 commonly believe. 



All great cities are alike, all of them very differ- 

 ent, too, in details ; Boston's streets, for instance, 

 being crookeder than most, but like them all, reach- 

 ing out for many a mile before they turn into coun- 

 try roads and lanes with borders of quiet and wide 

 green fields. 



But Boston has the wide waters of the Harbor 

 and the Charles River Basin. And it also has 

 T Wharf ! They did not throw the tea overboard 

 there, back in Revolutionary days, as you may be 

 told, but T Wharf is famous, nevertheless, famous 

 for fish ! 



Fish? Swordfish and red snappers, scup, shad, 



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