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cleft flower of rich maroon ; and later we shall see the fern-like spray of 

 Solomon's-seal swinging its little row of straw-colored bells from the ledge 

 above. Airy columbines, too, shall float their scarlet pendants on fragile 



jrafitf?- v '" ? * AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 



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s stems, and with their graceful nod tell of 



the slightest breeze, when all else is still. 



What is that cinnamon -brown bird that hops along the stone wall 



yonder ? Now he alights upon the tulip-tree, and swells his speckled 



breast in a series of short experiments — a broken song, in which every 



