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PASTORAL DAYS. 



spikes of cardinal lobelia; and here a lusty plant of Indian mallow, en- 

 tangled in a maze of gold-thread and smart-weed. Here are massive bur- 

 docks six feet high, and great trees of jimson-weed, with their large spiral 

 flowers and thorny pods. 



High fronds of chain-fern rise up on every side from a jungle of bur- 

 marigolds and clotburs, and tear-thumbs, 

 , ,. , . v':' 1 with their saw -toothed stems and 



tiny bunches of pink blossoms. 



No inch of ""round 

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but which does its ten- 

 fold duty ; and what it 



EVEN-TIDE. 



lacks in quality of produce it amply makes up in quantity. Even a 

 neighboring bed of clean-washed gravel is overrun with creeping mallow, 

 with its rounded leaves and little "cheeses" down among their shadows. 



Farther on we see the lily-pond, with its surrounding swamp and its 

 legion of crowded water-plants. Here are rank, massive beds of swamp- 



