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PASTORAL DAYS. 



animated emeralds : and another I well remember, 



a little airy thing, with a glistening sunbeam for 



a body, and wings of tiny rainbows. 



/?-jii I remember how I watched the dis- 



W.'i'-f 9 turbed motion of the arrow-heads out 



in the water, as the cautious turtles 



worked their way among them, and 



crawled out upon the stump close by. 



Here they huddled together, a dozen 



or more, with heads erect, and turn- 



from side to side as they sur- 



sur- 



ro uncling 



pet of 



pads, or 



drum chc 



frogs amc 



when I 



what a rolling, sprawling, spk 



ing in the mud ! It fairly makes 



me laugh to think of it. But there 



is hardly a leaf or wisp of __-^-j-. 



grass in this old swamp lot 



but what brings back some old association or pleasant reminiscence. 



