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" So close I i^an look lUreL-tly into it." 



mesticated that lie rejoices over every new flower- 

 garden. There was near! j' ]ialf an acre of gladi- 

 oli in the neighboi'hood one summer, wlieie all 

 the humming-birds gatheied from fai' and neai'. 

 Here, for the only time in my life, I saw a, foci: 

 of humming-birds. I counted eight one day ; 

 and the gardener told me that he had often seen 

 a dozen of them among the spikes. They 

 sciueaked like bats, and played— about as bullets 

 miglit play. In fact, I think I dodged when they 

 whizzed past me, as a soldier does the first time 

 he is under fii'e. 



One of my friends had a cellar window abloom 

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