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wet and dry, no color could be fairer, no gem could 

 have a more advantageous or favorable setting. 

 Probably it was shaken out of some nest which over- 

 hung the water. I frequently meet with broken egg- 

 shells where a crow, perchance, or some thief has 

 been marauding. And is not that shell something 

 very precious that houses that winged life.'' 



Journal, iv, 268, 269. 



