urrounded by myriads of small perc five inches long, of a

    ricer, sporting tantly

    rising to t, sometimes leaving bubbles on

    it.  In sucransparent and seemingly bottomless er, reflecting

    to be floating the air as in a balloon,

    and t or hovering, as

    if t flock of birds passing just beneath my level

    on t or left, t all around them.

    tly improving the

    s season before er er over their

    broad skyligimes giving to the surface an appearance as if

    a sligruck it, or a fehere.  hen I

    approachey made a sudden splash

    and rippling ails, as if one ruck ter h a

    brusantly took refuge in t length

    t increased, and to run, and

    t of er, a

    s, t once above the surface.

    Even as late as th of December, one year, I saw some dimples

    on t o rain ely,

    t, I made e to take my place at the oars

    and row hough

    I felt none on my cicipated a t

    suddenly the perch,

    hs, and I saw

    t a dry afternoon after

    all.

    An old man  ty years

    ago, s, tells me t in

    times sa all alive her

    er-fo t it.  he came here

    a-fishe shore.

    It  and pinned together, and

    off square at t  lasted a

    great many years before it became er-logged and pero

    ttom.   kno belonged to the pond.

    o make a cable for rips of hickory bark

    tied togetter, whe pond before

    tion, told  t at the

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