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' Dissolver," CARBONIC acid : all these it makes 

 ' known, by seizing upon them and becoming their 

 ' base ; thus disintegrating as it were, and recon- 

 ' structing the elements of the soil, and exciting to 

 ' a new action the sluggards of Nature wherever 

 ' they are lurking. It is the Composer and the De- 

 ' composer, for nature cannot suffer either process, 

 ' but fertility must follow : re-composition (growth) 

 ' has begun ere decomposition is over : does a latent 

 ' atom of organic matter 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 ? ' 



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



