Identifier: wildflowerswhere00harr (find matches)
Title: Wild flowers and where they grow
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Harris, Amanda Bartlett, 1824- Humphrey, Lizbeth Bullock, b. 1841
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: Boston : D. Lothrop and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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FROM BRIDGE TO BRIDGE. it came into our heads to go home by water instead ofland. So we waded in the middle of the stream all theway up from bridge to bridge. There was an outlaw kindof pleasure in doing something that it was not likely any-body else had clone, or thought of doing. It was a novel method of following the river, and therewas vast satisfaction in it. We explored the mysterious
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THE PLACE OF WILD GRAPE-VINES. ON THE ISLAND. 133 recesses along the alder-fringed banks, which could not beseen except from our place of vantage. We gathered pipe-worts and cardinal-flowers, dainty ferns and grasses. Wewalked into the brown shadows, and out again into theliquid gold, where the warm September sunshine lightedthe water. We were associates of white butterflies andthe dragon-flies which on gauzy wings were flitting the sameway we were taking. Birds nests were revealed to us inperilous situations : empty now, and their late occupants wereabroad like ourselves for an outing; and we all alike werein a sort of enchanted realm, away from the world of studyand work and stints and chores, irresponsible and happy. Our childish escapade ended on an island which we knewa good deal about in those days. It was long and narrow,with the canal on one side and the river on the other,the old grist-mill at the lower end, the dam and saw-millat the upper. A sort of jungle it was at that ti

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