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1911 craftsmanship to give voice to both, and all these qualities are present throughout the work under consideration. "How do you come to find so many interesting Indian relics?" a friend asked Thoreau, as they walked together in the Walden woods. "This way," was the simple answer, as the sage stopped and picked up a whittled piece of flint from beneath the foot of his interrogator. Such was the observing faculty of Bryant and Tennyson, such is that of John Burroughs and of Florence Earle Coates. Many of her "gems of lyric loveliness" might be quoted in illustration, redolent of the writer's sympathy with the out-of-doors, breathing its inner message, for which she stands our interpreter. The "Indian-Pipe," of itself would prove this quality which is constantly felt, as in this apostrophe to

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