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Title: Our young folks (serial)
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916 Hamilton, Gail, 1833-1896 Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893
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Publisher: (Boston : Ticknor and Fields)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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re, and made as good a name as manyplants have ? Celia afterwards heard a real, true Professor say he had neverseen but one flower like those we found, and another learned man said hehad never seen the living plant, only a drawing of it. O, how I wish wecould find something else just as rare this summer ! That is the whole history of my strange flowers with their tall, delicatestalks, and petals of vivid green, so long, slender, and pointed that theywaved like grass leaves, standing out from the base in a most fantasticmanner. But I have more to tell you about our walk in Great Woods.After finding the green orchids, I chanced upon another green treasure,more exquisite in tint, more graceful in form, more exultingly endowed withlife, — a Luna moth ! fresh from its winter sleep, not yet having taken itsfirst flight. Celia and I watched the undulations of its wings for some timein silence, then I said, Would it be wicked to take it home ? it is so 1872.) Rambles about Orchardville. 353
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Attacus Luna. ibeautiful I want to keep it! Then Celia raised the wings carefully andstaking the soft ermine-clad body between her fingers, carried it with out-stretched hand, but not far, for in a moment more a scream of delight• brought her again to my side, — I had discovered the mate to my last prize !The flowers were hastily changed from the basket to the skirt of my dresswhich I gathered up around me to hold them, while both moths were se-cured in the basket. We had now so much to carry that it was only tan-~ talizing to discover new treasures, so we determined to go home by the, most direct way. As we went we talked over the wonderful success of ourafternoon exploration, and the disposal of our various acquisitions.The birds-nests bothered me more than anything; my poor little book-i shelf was too crowded already, and here was a new invoice to add to it. VOL. VIII. — NO. VI. 23 354 Playthings. (June, And what comfort is there in having birds-nests if you must keep them in

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