IN QUEST OfjMAPrONR 



THE WlLD|# 



VAST and lonely barren, covered 

 deep with soft-colored mosses and 

 surrounded by gloomy spruce woods, lies | 

 basking in the early morning sunshine. The 

 first sea-wind has just come to call it, swing- jp£ 

 ing a fragrant censer over the earth and 

 rolling up the mists that have covered it W$ 

 all night long. Under this fleecy, vanishing f:. J 

 coverlet the plain seems to stir and breathe 

 deep of the morning incense and then stretch 

 itself drowsily, like a gray wolf just awake. ^ 

 Here and there little ponds or flashets of ^ 



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shallow water blink and quiver in the light ■£;■<?!» A ^T^''' 







