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2 solemnly in the gale and every needle thrilling and ringing and sheding off keen lances of light like a diamond The Douglass
spruce with long sprays drawn out in level tresses and needles massed in a gray shim- erring glow. etc. etc. This article
and the Humming Bird of Cal. I love more than all the others. since my sickness in which I have had so much distress in my
head and eyes, my brain refuses everything which requires special thought or study, consequently some of 3 your more scientific
articles are entirely beyond me, though I should love dearly to understand them, for I feel deeply my ignorance of Gods book
of Nature as well as of His written word and I long to know much more of both. And I trust the time of study is yet coming
for me; My health still improves, In some respects I think I feel better than deleted: when before my last summers back setting
though I cannot walk as much as before.