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surround us, and hold communion witli nature in her 

 wild grandure, just what a little child would like when 

 on a happy ramble over tne country where so many 

 strange objects present themselves, and it serves to 

 some degree to answer their many questions and satisfy 

 their curiosity. The author does not mean to say that 

 he has attained any great amount of knov/ledge, but 

 through an ardent interest in nature, has written 

 these lines. Hoping it will be deemed worthy of asso- 

 ciating with other volumes I close my remarks. 



BERTON MERCER, 



