London to John O 1 Groat's. 135 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THRESHING MACHINE FLOWER SHOW THE HOLLYHOCK AND ITS SUG- 

 GESTIONS THE LAW OF CO-OPERATIVE ACTIVITIES IN VEGETABLE, 



ANIMAL, MENTAL, AND MORAL LIFE. 



" In all places, then, and in all seasons, 

 Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, 

 Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, 

 How akin they are to human things." 



LONGFELLOW. 



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"Y stay at Babraham was short. It was like a 

 visit to the grave of one of those English 

 worthies whose lives and labors are so well known 

 and appreciated in America. All the external fea- 

 tures of the establishment were there unchanged. The 

 large and substantial mansion, with its hall and parlor 

 walls hung with the mementoes of the genius and 

 success that had made it so celebrated ; the barns and 

 housings for the great herds and flocks which had been 

 dispersed over the world ; the very pens still standing 

 in which they had been folded in for the auctioneer's 

 hammer ; all these arrangements and aspects remained 

 as they were when Jonas Webb left his home to return 

 no more, But all those beautiful and happy families 



