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LITTLE WANDERERS. 
away by the wind and sown far and near over field and 
roadside. 
If you brush against the downy aster and golden-rod 
heads when the seeds are ripe, the akenes will cling to 
your clothes like cobwebs and you will carry them 
about with you until finally they fall off. 
Perhaps that is one way by which the golden-rod and 
aster seeds travel about ; they cling to animals that pass 
and so are carried far away. But they do not cling as 
well as some other seeds we are soon to know about. 
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Golden-rod. 
