'CALX' AND RECALCITRATIOX. 



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' by seizing upon them and becoming their base ; thus 

 ' disintegrating as it were, and reconstructing the ele- 

 ' ments of the soil, and exciting to a new action the 

 ' sluggards of Nature wherever they are lurking. It 

 ' is the Composer and the Decomposer, for nature 

 'cannot suffer either process, but fertility must fol- 

 ' low : re-composition (growth) has begun ere decom- 

 ' position is over : does a latent atom of organic mat- 

 ' ter stand inert for one instant ? it is at him, like a 

 ' Policeman, ' Come ! kip moovin !' ' 



But is this all ? is this half? 



Well may the ' Incoming Tenant ' ask " How far is 

 it to the Lime -kiln ?" 



ff.C* ---2 

 1 A sort of jovial rebellion against the long despotism of Jack Frost . 



