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again were very annoying.  My interest in the plants made them
seem less annoying than they were last Saturday, yet that they
were plentiful, the fifty bites on various parts of my body will
testify.  One stung me on the eye-lid, I felt something near 
my eye and thought I had driven it away.  Nothing more
was thought of it till later in the day, when in winking
I felt that the muscles of that eye did not work smoothly.
When I got home I noticed that the eyelid was somewhat
swollen and reddish looking very much as if I had been
crying with that one eye all day.  The trip along the
shore was very interesting and some pretty specimens were
secured.  When near the new pier and I was putting my 
specimens in press I was met by an old man & his son.  In course
of conversation one stated that he had a friend who made a beer
out of the nettle(?).  Off from the shore lies anchored 
the boarding-barge or scow of the B & O. R R. company.  It
is for the accommadation of their workmen, many of whom board
and live there.  We hear so often of the grasping avaricious
tendencies of corporations, seldom any of their virtues, the workingman
taking these for granted, as if they were due him.  Here
        