From a New England Hillside: Notes from UnderledgeMacmillan and Company, 1895 - 305 pages |
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... trees , and these are found in company . A less satisfactory neighbour is the venomous swamp sumach , lovely but treacherous . Like the fringed gentians , - and fishing , — it is not to be found just here , but is all around us , and ...
... trees , and these are found in company . A less satisfactory neighbour is the venomous swamp sumach , lovely but treacherous . Like the fringed gentians , - and fishing , — it is not to be found just here , but is all around us , and ...
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... trees the berries of the mitchella are scattered thickly on the carpet formed by the round green leaves on the vines . Our sounds are the sounds of the late harvest , and this is nearly over . The ripe corn is stacked in the fields ...
... trees the berries of the mitchella are scattered thickly on the carpet formed by the round green leaves on the vines . Our sounds are the sounds of the late harvest , and this is nearly over . The ripe corn is stacked in the fields ...
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... trees , and to - day the barometer has been falling , the afternoon has been overcast , and we expect to take our share in the common lot . OCTOBER 6 , 1893 . Per- II . THE night brought us only light and re- FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE .
... trees , and to - day the barometer has been falling , the afternoon has been overcast , and we expect to take our share in the common lot . OCTOBER 6 , 1893 . Per- II . THE night brought us only light and re- FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE .
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... trees , climbing the hill on the farther side , in the full glow of the westering sun , were reflected in the water , which , all of a tremor with a passing breeze , mingled their shades in a shimmer as of crinkled Venetian glass . How ...
... trees , climbing the hill on the farther side , in the full glow of the westering sun , were reflected in the water , which , all of a tremor with a passing breeze , mingled their shades in a shimmer as of crinkled Venetian glass . How ...
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... tree where the boys - presumably they were boys- had been clubbing chestnuts , the prickly burrs of which are now just opening . Of course I picked up a stick and tried my hand in the old way - just for a flyer , as it were . And what a ...
... tree where the boys - presumably they were boys- had been clubbing chestnuts , the prickly burrs of which are now just opening . Of course I picked up a stick and tried my hand in the old way - just for a flyer , as it were . And what a ...
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