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Cold-slaw and sauerkraut and canned salmon 

 let us have; but let us also have the inspiration 

 of the virgin heath, and the occasional restoration 

 to our primitive, elemental, animal selves, in a 

 returning now and then to the clangor and con- 

 fusion of wild life on Three-Arch Rocks. The 

 body feeds on cabbage. The spirit is sustained 

 by heather. Drain for the farmer; irrigate for the 

 farmer; but save something for the poet and 

 painter, lest they cry out — 



"Water, water, everywhere, 

 Nor any drop to drink." 



For what will it profit a nation to lose its soul? 

 Denmark has fifteen thousand square miles de- 

 voted to her body, and and has saved three hun- 

 dred acres for her soul! What besides Three- 

 Arch Rocks and the other wild patches have we 

 saved ? 



I have not convinced the warden, doubtless; 

 but if I have encouraged him to perform his 

 duty, then that is something. And well he knows 

 the need for his guard. The sea was without a 

 sail when we steamed in toward the Rocks. We 

 had scarcely landed, however, when a boat hove 



