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at certain seasons, and in certain states of the weather, according, in

part, to their own fancy, the young woenerally avoid seeking the theenial to their

peculiar likings But no sooner is a child found, than its clai of choice in the matter

Chiefly, however, in the season of su intervals; and ht; and principally in the woods and along

the river banks, do thefor children just as children

look for flowers And ever as the child grows, yea, more and more as he

advances in years, will his face indicate to those who understand the

spirit of Nature, and her utterances in the face of the world, the

nature of the place of his birth, and the other circuuided his mother to the nook whence issued

the boy's low cry; or at eve the lonely maiden (for the same woman never

finds a second, at least while the first lives) discovers the girl by

the gli in a nest like that of the lark,

a eyes of the lowly

daisies; whether the storm bowed the forest trees around, or the still

frost fixed in silence the else flowing and babbling stream