GLEANINGS FROM NATURE 



BY 



W. S. BLATCHLEY 



"I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment 

 she r;in furnish IMC. though at the riRk of endlesg iteration. I milk the 

 earth and the sky . . . : . I sift the sunbeams for the public Rood." 



Thoreau. 



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INDIANAPOLIS 



THE NATURE PUBLISHING COMPANY 

 1899 . 



