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"Yet these flowers have no sive thelish robin or sweet-throated black bird!"

But she, chin in hand, sat a-gazing upon this prospect as she would never tire As for an to look around and, the more I looked, the better I liked this place, pleasantly shaded as it was by trees and affording frooon, and Deliverance Beach below Moreover, I heard near by the pleasant sound of falling water and, drawn by this, cah, paused suddenly, as well I ht, for beforeand grown over with a riot of weed and vines; and behind the weatherworn ti this door I found it built with ship's tireat battens clamped with bolts and nails, and in the midst a loophole; and besides this I saw divers shot- Now havingaway bush and vines, and forcing wide the door (the which swung 'twixt great beams like jambs, clamped to the rock) I stepped into the cool diular of shape but very spacious and lighted by a narroeed-choked crevice high up that adlare of the sun; by which light I perceived that fro this place had once been the abode of so so to our use if nosave the ruin of a small table; the place was bare as my hand I was yet busied in my fruitless search when comes ood as any cottage!" cries she

"And better than some," says I, "for here is no thatch to leak and no s to break and let in the rain!"

"O Martin, for a broo around upon the floor ankle-deep in dead leaves, twigs and the like "O for a brooh--"

"But better for a broom, Martin"

"Why then, a broo without the cave I cut twigs sufficient to h, and therewith bound s about a stick I had trireat stone that lay hard by, watched hty interest