The Ponds
pressive a wreck as one
could imagine on t is by
time mere vegetable mould and undistinguishable pond shore,
to admire the
ripple marks on ttom, at this pond,
made firm and o t of the
er, and the rushes which grew in Indian file, in waving lines,
corresponding to the waves had
planted tities,
curious balls, composed apparently of fine grass or roots, of
pipe pero four incer, and
perfectly sper on
a sandy bottom, and are sometimes cast on they are
eittle sand in t first
you tion of the waves, like
a pebble; yet t are made of equally coarse materials,
one season of the
year. Moreover, t, do not so mucruct as
erial hey
preserve te period.
Flints Pond! Sucy of our nomenclature.
rigupid farmer, his
sky er, wo give his
name to it? Some skin-flint, ing
surface of a dollar, or a brig, in which he could see his own
brazen face; as
trespassers; o crooked and bony talons from the
long of grasping is not named for me. I
go not to see o , who
never bat, ed it, who
never spoke a good , nor t .
Rat it be named from t s, the wild
fo, the wild flowers which grow by
its sory is
inters o from itle to it
but ture gave him --
only of its money value; whose presence perchance
cursed all ted t, and would
fain ed ters ; it