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312 THE HIVE OF THE BEE-HUNTER. 
coach, just tumbling down the ravines that yawn on the 
sides of ‘‘ Ball Mountain,” and when I have started into 
wakefulness, I have speculated on that principle of the 
American character that is ever impelling it forward ; 
but it never forcibly struck me as a national peculiarity, 
until I read Howitt’s journey down hill among the 
sturdy Germans of the Old World. 
THE END. 
