Wild flowers and where they grow . of the ravines. And though every time while we werestopping on our way up and resting under the gnarlyyellow birch, we sat and gazed away with eyes that nevertired of it, at the bold, blue peak of Kearsarge, whichmade the northern background, and declared it was asight so inspiring that we would soon come again, we hadabundant reason for changing our minds after we had hadan hour of climbing and slipping, and then pressing ourway down through the dreadful thickets that awaited all that, we found our zeal materially flagging insympathy with our laggin
Wild flowers and where they grow . of the ravines. And though every time while we werestopping on our way up and resting under the gnarlyyellow birch, we sat and gazed away with eyes that nevertired of it, at the bold, blue peak of Kearsarge, whichmade the northern background, and declared it was asight so inspiring that we would soon come again, we hadabundant reason for changing our minds after we had hadan hour of climbing and slipping, and then pressing ourway down through the dreadful thickets that awaited all that, we found our zeal materially flagging insympathy with our lagging feet ; we were not as enthu-siastic on the downward as we were on the ascendingway. so that every time we came home, tired almost todeath, we as positively declared that we would never do itagain. And before the week was out we were back up there,going over the same ground, and coming home with our armsfull of things — mostlv things with berries. I never saw somany kinds in one spot as we used to find there; cornels. %£)/ ill. WILD PLACES. 155 elders and viburnums; pigeon-plums; the swinging, blue-green peas of the large Solomons seal; snowy white cohosh
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