188 UPLAND AND MEADOW. 



attention to the plant, the more so as it is so abundant 

 in certain localities ; but to find it feeding on fish will 

 require much patience, and the collecting of a good 

 deal of material. 



The seine has been drawn. The fishermen and the 

 student have secured their prey. The troubled waters 

 have resumed their quiet beneath the overarching elms 

 and stately birches; the day-dreaming herons are 

 abroad; the last roostward- flying crow has passed by; 

 afar in the maple thicket an owl ventures to hint of 

 the coming night ; and it remains, now, only to record 

 that for me, at least, to linger so long on the shore of 

 Poaetquissiiigs has not been to waste my time. Surely 

 I have had both a pleasant and a profitable ramble. 



