WATER BORDERS 



"And oh! is that heather?" they say; 

 and the most indifferent ends by picking 

 a sprig of it in a hushed, wondering way. 

 One must suppose that the root of their 

 respective races issued from the glacial 

 borders at about the same epoch, and re- 

 member their origin. 



Among the pines where the slope of the 

 land allows it, the streams run into smooth, 

 brown, trout-abounding rills across open 

 flats that are in reality filled lake basins. 

 These are the displaying grounds of the 

 gentians — blue — blue — eye - blue, per- 

 haps, virtuous and likable flowers. One is 

 not surprised to learn that they have tonic 

 properties. But if your meadow should be 

 outside the forest reserve, and the sheep 

 have been there, you will find little but the 

 shorter, paler G. Newbcrryii, and in the 

 matted sods of the little tongues of green- 

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