188 GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



How I longed to lean backwards and sleep ! But 

 the rays of the sun, slanting and struggling beneath 

 the lower branches of the tamaracks, warned me that 

 my train would soon be due, and that if I wished to 

 sleep at home, safe, except in dreams, from the attack 

 of rattle-snake and mosquito, I must be up and away 

 for the mile's trudge to the station. And so my day 

 in a tamarack swamp became to me a thing of the past. 



