. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . SEED TRAMPS Scptcnihn ist N his charming volume Wake-Robin has felicitiously alluded tothe weeds as the tramps of the vege-table world. They are going east, west, north,south, he says; they walk, they fly, they swim,they steal a ride ; they travel by rail, by flood,by wind; they go under ground and they goabove, across lots and by the highway. But, likeother tramps, they find it safest by the the fields they are intercepted and cut off, buton the public road every boy, every passin
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . SEED TRAMPS Scptcnihn ist N his charming volume Wake-Robin has felicitiously alluded tothe weeds as the tramps of the vege-table world. They are going east, west, north,south, he says; they walk, they fly, they swim,they steal a ride ; they travel by rail, by flood,by wind; they go under ground and they goabove, across lots and by the highway. But, likeother tramps, they find it safest by the the fields they are intercepted and cut off, buton the public road every boy, every passing herdof sheep or cows, gives them a lift. SEED TRAMPS I 5 I It is to this class of restless vagabonds that I wouldnow direct attention, and what a precious lot of trampsthey are! Foreign immigrants almost without excep-tion, by hook and by crook, by fair means and foul,they have travelled from the ends of the earth, untilnow they are always and forever with us, lording itover ever) copse and wood. Do we seek our gardenfor a quiet evening stroll, they present their unwelcomecompliment
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