A BUTTERFLY CHASE 



A butterfly, especially a large butter- 

 fly, rarely bothers with these low-grow- 

 ing herbs, though each has its own 

 delicious fragrance and a butterfly' s 

 scent is keen. So my black white ad- 

 miral alternately danced and soared on 

 down through the richly perfumed areas 

 of the wood while I plunged eagerly 

 after, glissading the needle-carpeted slope, 

 making station from trunk to trunk lest 

 a too headlong flight plunge me to ob- 

 livion in what I knew was at the foot 

 of the hill. 



Without, the perfervid July sun beat 

 upon the landscape till the dust of its 

 concussion rose in a blue haze that 

 loomed the near-by hills into misty 

 mountain tops and glamoured the whole 

 world with tropical illusion. To our 

 hard-cornered, clear-cut New England it 

 is the midsummer which brings the 

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