![]() We found the same kind of sand on a similar but shorter beach on the east side of Eagle Head. ![]() One mile southeast of the village of Manchester struck the beach of "musical sand," just this side of a large, high, rocky point called Eagle Head! This is a curving beach may be one third of a mile long and some twelve rods wide. It is simple as the rudiments of an art, a lesson to be taken before sunlight, perchance, to prepare us for that. We are enabled to erect ourselves, our minds, on account of the fewness of objects. Is it not another evidence of the ripe day? I saw it yesterday. I wonder if this phenomenon is observed in warmer weather, or before the frosts have come. Crossing the hill behind Minott's just as the sun is preparing to dip below the horizon, the thin haze in the atmosphere north and south along the western horizon reflects a purple tinge, and bathes the mountains with the same, like a bloom on fruits. The frosts come to ripen the days like fruits, persimmons. The landscape has acquired some fresh verdure withal. As I look off from the hilltop, I wonder if there are any finer days in the year than these, the air is so fine and bracing. ![]() A painted tortoise, with his head out, outside of the weeds, looks as if resting in the air in that attitude, or suggests it, at an angle of 45°, with head and flippers outstretched. The river is peculiarly smooth, and the water clear and sunny, as I look from the stone bridge. ![]() To him humanity is not only a flavor, but an aroma and a flavor also. The lover alone perceives and dwells in a certain human fragrance. In love we impart each to each, in subtlest, immaterial form of thought or atmosphere, the best of ourselves, such as commonly vanishes or evaporates in aspirations, and mutually enrich each other. e., that those which the wind takes are less generally the food of birds and quadrupeds than the heavier and wingless seeds. I suspect that such seeds as these, which the winds do not transport, will turn out to be more sought by the birds, etc., and so transported by them, than those lighter ones which are furnished with a pappus, and so transported by the wind i. I perceive that one just ready to open opens with a slight spring, on being touched, and the pod curls a little. The pods of the broom are nearly half of them open. Of what account are titles and offices and opportunities, if you do no memorable deed? The ex-plenipotentiary refers in after speeches with complacency to the time he spent abroad, and the various lords and distinguished men he met, as to a deed done, and an ever memorable occasion. It appears to fit close to the shell at its base, even after the shell gapes. I think that its slippery base is compressed by the unyielding shell which at length expels it, just as I can make one fly by pressing it, and letting it slip from between my thumb and finger. I suspect that it is not when the witch-hazel nut first gapes open that the seeds fly out, for I see many, if not most of them, open first with the seeds in them but when I release a seed, it being still held by its base, it flies, as I have said. For several days they are shooting black seeds about my chamber. In the morning I found it was produced by the witch-hazel nuts on my desk springing open and casting their seeds quite across my chamber, hard and stony as these nuts were. Heard in the night a snapping sound, and the fall of some small body on the floor from time to time. It would seem as if nothing good could be accomplished without some vice to aid in it. I am perhaps more willful than others, and make enormous sacrifices even of others' happiness, it may be, to gain my own ends. ![]() I sometimes seem to myself to owe all my little success, all for which men commend me, to my vices. ![]()
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