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Half-Hour In a Marsh [THIRD WEEK 



LADIES TRESSES. 



sibly behold an episode that is not unusual. The joyous 

 songs of the little wrens suddenly give place to cries of 

 fear and anger; and this hubbub increases until at last we 

 see a sinister ripple flowing through the reeds, marking 

 the advancing head of a water snake. 



The evil eyes of the serpent are bent upon the nearest 

 nest, and toward it he makes his way, followed and beset 



