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TKe Stolen Moccasins 



Woodlauds, green and gay with dew, 

 Here, to-day, I pledge anew 

 All the love I gave to you. 



Alice; Gary, A Lesson. 



WHETHER the season is premature or 

 backward, the Moccasin-Flowers always 

 appear at the same date, along with the 

 Painted and Crimson Trilliums, in the 

 warm Glen of Comus. I am sure of finding these 

 flowers unfolding, the week previous to Decoration 

 Day, from the 20th to the 28th of May. 



On the 30th of May, four days after I had discovered 

 the famous two hundred Pink Moccasin buds on the 

 hillside above the Glen of Comus, I imagined now 

 that they must be in full array, wearing the rich hues 

 of magenta and all the delicate tints of green, white, 

 and pink. When once fully unfolded they change 

 color very rapidly. Late in the afternoon I entered 

 the edge of the Swamp of Oracles in District Fourteen, 

 north of the schoolhouse. My hound was my sole 

 companion, and I heard him in the distance making 

 friends with children, whose voices came echoing from 

 the direction of my fairy-land of Moccasins. A fore- 

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