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in front of their huhed for joy to see theout of the unknown, bearing the faces by The

smallest child, a little cherubic tow-head, whose cheeks were sotten tears, stood upright on a fence-

post, and blew the ers on a journey

Beyond this they ca-here the wheat had grown, all so flat one thought of an enormous

billiard table, and nohere the railroad crossed the country roads,

they saw the staunch brown thistle, soraceful iron-weed, slender, tall, proud, bowing a purple-turbaned head,

or shaking in an agony of fright when it stood too close to the train The

fields, like great, flat eolden-rod, and at sight of this the heart leaped; for the golden-rod is a

syranaries, of ripe sheaves, of the kindness of the season

generously given and abundantly received; more, it is the token of a land

of promise and of bounteous fulfilment; and the plant stains its blossoround which has

nourished it

Froain into a thick wood, where ruddy arrows of

the sun glinted ahs; and, here and there, one saw a courtly

ala allants of the forest preparing early for the October masquerade, when

they should hold wanton carnival, before they stripped theray