GLEANINGS FROM NATURE 



BY 



W. S. BLATCHLEY 



"I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment 

 she can furnish 1110, thoiiph at the risk of endless iteration. I milk the 



earth and the sky I sift the sunbeams for the public pood." 



Thoreau. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



THE NATURE PUBLISHING COMPANY 

 1899 



