Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . ones that a big giant is coming downstream at a terrific rate,~and, the other,the spider webs hung so near to thebest part of the brook bed that the waryspider can come out when the fly iscaught and wind him with web and lethim hang there for another meal just asa country matron stores away twopieces of pie for the next days dinner. A little further on, in the course, Icrouched under an apple tree; a wildone that had to grow two-year-oldthorns to protect itself from the cattle,and, as I thought, man also, for just assome prying boss, they
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . ones that a big giant is coming downstream at a terrific rate,~and, the other,the spider webs hung so near to thebest part of the brook bed that the waryspider can come out when the fly iscaught and wind him with web and lethim hang there for another meal just asa country matron stores away twopieces of pie for the next days dinner. A little further on, in the course, Icrouched under an apple tree; a wildone that had to grow two-year-oldthorns to protect itself from the cattle,and, as I thought, man also, for just assome prying boss, they gave me agood stab in the head once or twicebefore I crawled out from under it. Up, on the flat land, I found hairymoth-mullein in little crowds perhapscounselling against the ironweed so-56- heartily hated by farmers. I passed aplace where the bank rose high andsteep. By leaning down and peeringunder the trees I could see a few clust-ers of that corpsy ghost flower, theIndian pipe. The bank was green withaged wintergreens and Dalibarda re-pens leave
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