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early in the year, and Mellursh cannot 

 be very succulent just yet ; but I may 

 as well taste and see." 



Some theory of more learned aspect 

 might have arisen were it not that when 

 the question occurred it was lost in 

 a more interesting consideration. The 

 lady, who had been gathering primroses, 

 presented to me a buttonhole. That 

 brought to one's memory the well-known 

 lines of Mr. Wordsworth about a primrose 

 by the river's brim. Before then I had 

 thought of Mr. Wordsworth as being a 

 great poet but otherwise a melancholy 

 wildfowl. Suddenly he was enshrined in 

 one's regard as a great poet only. 



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