Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . flame with a seemingly endless supplyof wads of paper. Then we draw upour chairs in the hearth circle and read. Oftentimes a sentence is broken intw^o by a little comment, or a little newthought we have brought to mind bysome word we are reading, or by thelack of attraction, we go off on a day-dream over some sentence of a w^ordywriter, and, after thinking it all over, wecomeback to our book, and perhapsread over what we have dreamed over. I took up a few more logs and rebuiltthe sinking fire. The bark takes firequickly and beneath it the
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . flame with a seemingly endless supplyof wads of paper. Then we draw upour chairs in the hearth circle and read. Oftentimes a sentence is broken intw^o by a little comment, or a little newthought we have brought to mind bysome word we are reading, or by thelack of attraction, we go off on a day-dream over some sentence of a w^ordywriter, and, after thinking it all over, wecomeback to our book, and perhapsread over what we have dreamed over. I took up a few more logs and rebuiltthe sinking fire. The bark takes firequickly and beneath it the smoke curlsout in little spirals. Birch seems to bebetter than pine for a fire when youwant to watch it~it burns quicker andso makes more changes in its size andshape of flame. And really it is the-137-
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