. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. FOX-FIRE 13 proached it, and as I stood face to face within a few inches of it no vestige of material surface ap- pea/red to sustain it; it seemed hanging motion- less in mid-air. I reached out my hand, which momentarily intervened like a black silhouette. against the glow, with which it soon came in contact. Upon further investigation, this proved to be the contact of a mere prosaic fence-post, which, for some mysterious reason, had been sin- gled out for glorification among the ten th
. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. FOX-FIRE 13 proached it, and as I stood face to face within a few inches of it no vestige of material surface ap- pea/red to sustain it; it seemed hanging motion- less in mid-air. I reached out my hand, which momentarily intervened like a black silhouette. against the glow, with which it soon came in contact. Upon further investigation, this proved to be the contact of a mere prosaic fence-post, which, for some mysterious reason, had been sin- gled out for glorification among the ten thousand others of its neighbors and transformed into a pil- lar of fire. The post was about six inches in diam- eter, its summit an unbroken mass of light, which extended in more or less broken patches below for a distance of six feet, thus suggesting the effect of the rippling elongated reflection of a lantern in water noticed by my companion, and which would. 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 Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York : Harper & Brothers
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