. St. Nicholas [serial] . the shallows;Lantern-headed dragon-flies,Gleaming like the blue-green eyesIn a peacocks gorgeous tail,Through the meadow sail and sail;Snipe above the breakers flit,With their tiny twit-twit-twit,Or perhaps go running pastOn their magic stilts, too fast For the white-maned wave to reachAs it races up the beach;Gray song-sparrows teeter-teeter,Swinging, singing, sweeter, sweeter,On the long, light-green sea-grasses,Swaying as the sea-breeze the wind blows from the west,Every wave will wear a crest,If its blue and sunny weather,—One fine rainbow like a feath
. St. Nicholas [serial] . the shallows;Lantern-headed dragon-flies,Gleaming like the blue-green eyesIn a peacocks gorgeous tail,Through the meadow sail and sail;Snipe above the breakers flit,With their tiny twit-twit-twit,Or perhaps go running pastOn their magic stilts, too fast For the white-maned wave to reachAs it races up the beach;Gray song-sparrows teeter-teeter,Swinging, singing, sweeter, sweeter,On the long, light-green sea-grasses,Swaying as the sea-breeze the wind blows from the west,Every wave will wear a crest,If its blue and sunny weather,—One fine rainbow like a feather!Sometimes, too, the billow bringsScores of fishes, helpless things !And along the sands they shineIn a leaping silver line,Showing just the last waves track;And I try to put them back. Then the sunny afternoonsAll along the shining dunes!And the bathing! when you swayUp and down in foam and sprayTill the breakers plunging roarSweeps you shouting back to shore! Where could any mortal beHappier than beside the sea! 906. THEN the sunny afternoons ALL ALONG THE SHINING DUNES ! 907 THE IMPUDENT GUINEA-PIG. By Charles F. Lummis. No other creature is so absolutely gracefulas a rattlesnake, and none more gentle in in-tention. It is only against imposition that heprotests. Our forefathers had learned a notunworthy lesson from their contact with naturein the New World when they put upon thefirst flag of the colonies a rattlesnake with theLatin legend, Nemo me itnpune lacessit— Noone wounds me with impunity. The flag of in-dependence, however, only half told the realmeaning of its emblem—the warning, and notthe self-restraint. There is a device, to mynotion, much more expressive: a rattlesnakerampant, with the Spanish motto, Ni huyes nipersignes—Thou needst not flee, but thoumust not pursue. Or, in other words, I im-pose upon no one; no one must impose uponme. That is the real meaning of the rattle-snake, as any one can testify who knows himwell. I chanced one day to enter the
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