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The Fern Garden. 



said, but I may, even thus far, have assisted you to 

 read the Book of Nature to advantage, so that at the 

 point where I stop your studies will take a better 

 direction under authority which never fails. 



" Onr needful knowledge, like onr needful food, 

 TJnhedg'd lies open in life's common field." 



ADIANTUM PABLBTBITSE. 



