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THE dusty puff-ball, floating its faint 

 trail of smoke in the breeze from the 

 ragged flue at its dome -shaped roof 

 as from an elfin tepee, or perhaps enveloping our 

 feet in its dense purple cloud as we chance to 

 step upon it in the path, is familiar to every one 

 — always enthusiastically welcomed by the small 



