SNUGGING-DOWN DAYS 



goldenrod grow about him this luxurious 

 home, is known only to herself and her 

 kindred, and until I learn to hear and 

 translate the language which the grub 

 used in swearing at me when I broke 

 into his home, it is probable that I shall 

 still remain ignorant. 



But let us leave Labrador and let our- 

 selves loose upon Louisiana, for we may 

 do it in five minutes. The oaks and the 

 pines, the maples, the birches and the 

 shrubs of the close-set thickets which 

 guard the bog edge, I know not what 

 straining and restraining power they 

 have upon this keen wind, but when it 

 has filtered through them it has lost its 

 shrewishness and, meeting the warm em- 

 brace of the low hung sun, bears aromas 

 of spring. It is as if wood violets had 

 shot his garments full of tiny odors of 

 April as he traversed the wood, or per- 

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