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FOREWORD 
Well might the Indians call this state “Ioway, 
Ioway, beautiful land.” 
These little papers have no such ambitions. 
They are rather memories of some long happy 
autumn days out of doors in Iowa, with an effort 
to each here and there some glimpses of 
“That thread of the all-sustaining beauty 
Which runs through all and doth all unite.” 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 
November 30, 1906. 
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