. Ways of the six-footed. Insects. IX A SEINE MAKER. I HERE is a certain stream I know that begins as a brook, traversing a high meadow sweet with clover and white with daisies. It then forsakes sunny heights and glides down a pine-covered hill, where great roots interlace and hold firm its banks; thence it tumbles down a slope beset with birch and sumac, and finally, imder some furry young hemlocks that protect it from an " attacking army of rainbows," it takes a wild plunge to wider levels below. This brook, fed from living springs, is the theatre of myriad life, and it was "
. Ways of the six-footed. Insects. IX A SEINE MAKER. I HERE is a certain stream I know that begins as a brook, traversing a high meadow sweet with clover and white with daisies. It then forsakes sunny heights and glides down a pine-covered hill, where great roots interlace and hold firm its banks; thence it tumbles down a slope beset with birch and sumac, and finally, imder some furry young hemlocks that protect it from an " attacking army of rainbows," it takes a wild plunge to wider levels below. This brook, fed from living springs, is the theatre of myriad life, and it was " Down the golden-braided centre of its current swift and strong," that I first saw a quaint little fisherman that spreads his nets for fry too small for our coarse eyes to see, but which, nevertheless, .prove all-sufficient for his needs. Well is he named Hydropsyche, " the water- ; 133. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. Boston, Ginn & Company
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