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The immortal flowers,--a child's story.

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"He looked as if he had been standing up thirty years against a
northeast storm." Description of an old mate of a vessel, by Pike.

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Death possesses a good deal of real estate, namely, the graveyards in
every town. Of late years, too, he has pleasure-grounds, as at Mount
Auburn and elsewhere.

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Corwin is going to Lynn; Oliver proposes to walk thither with him. "No,"
says Corwin, "I don't want you. You take great, long steps; or, if you
take short ones, 'tis all hypocrisy. And, besides, you keep humming all
the time."

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_May 18, 1848._--Decay of the year has already commenced. I saw a
dandelion gone to seed, this afternoon, in the Great Pasture.

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Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a