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STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. 



But though the dial sleeps, the hours have flown. A long 

 jaunt this for daylight folk. Already the " keen insistent hint of 

 dawn" hovers above the eastern hill, and yet, lost in the absorbing 

 panorama beneath our lantern, how much of the night's truest 

 witchery have we passed without a tribute ! The balmy mist, the 

 songs of dreaming birds, the flutter of wings unseen, the drone 

 of beetles, the sly footfall among the dried leaves, the glowing 

 eyes among the shadowy herbage, the thousand mysteries of scent 

 and sound one or all, each enters into that pleasant sense of 

 new and welcome acquisition which now is ours. We return to 

 our pillow conscious that in this night we have not only doubled 

 our own possessions, but have won a supreme title to those of 

 our neighbor, against which no litigation can prevail. We have 

 explored a new world a realm which we can look in the face on 

 the morrow with an exchange of recognition impossible yesterday. 



