The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-09-27

We learn 70 know. see tisni make war
and peace. piay aad work. anu build
their huge palaces. And that smaller
people we make acqualntnnce with who
live In the flowers. The Ditto flower
has been for us a mere blur OF yellow.
We find It's heart composed OF a hun
dred perfect flowers. the homes or the
tiny black people with red stripes. who
move In and out In that little yellow
city Every bluebell has It's inhabitant.
Every day the "karroo" shows Us a
new wonder sleeping In IT'S teemlng
bosom. On our way TO work we pause
and stand to see the ground spider
make Its trap. bury Itself in the sand
and then wait for the falling In of It's
enemy. Farther on walks a horned
beetle. and near him starts open the
door OF a spider. who peeps out care
fully and quickly pulls II down again.
on ''karroo" bush a green fly IL lay
ing her silver eggs. We carry them
spotted grub come out, turn 10 a green
lily and fit away.
We are not satisfied with what Ma
ture shows Us and will see something
for ourselves. Under the white ben
we pct a dozen eggs and break one
dniiy to see the white spot wax into
t.ip chicken. We are not excited or
enthusiastic about it, But man is
not 10 lay bis throat open. lie must
think OF something. So We plant seeds
n rows on our dam wall and pull one
up daily TO see how II goes with them.
Alladeen buried her wonderful stone.
and golden palace sprang up at her
feet. We do far moro. We put a
brown seed in the earth, and q living
thing starts out-starts upward-why,
no more than Alladeen can we say
starts upward, and does not desist till
il IS higher than our heads, sparkling
with dew in the early morning. glitter
ng with yellow blossoms. shaking
brown seeds with little embryo souls
ON 20 the ground We look ut IL sol
EMMY froE the time IL consists OF two
leaves pccping above the ground and a
soft white root TIL we have 70 raise
our faces 10 look ~ II. but we find no
reason for that upward starting
We look into the dead ducks and
lambs. In the evening we carry them
home. spread newspapers on the floor
and lie working with them till MIDI
night. With a startled feeling near
akin to ecstasy we open the lump OF
flesh called heart AMI ind little doors
AMI strings inside We feel them and
put the heart away. but every now and
then return to took and 10 feel them
again WHY we Ike them 50 we eau
hardly tell.
a gandcr browns itself in our dam.
We take il out and open Il on the bank
and knrpl looking at H. Above ara
The organs divided by delicate tissues.
below are the intestiucs artsticolly
curved lu spiral form anu each tier
covered hy q delicate network of blood
vessels standing out red against the
faHt alUr background Bach branch
" the Blood vessels s comprised az Il
trunk bifurcstlug and reb,furoating
into the most delicate haiglike threads.
symmcuically arranged We are
struck with It's singular beauty And,
moreover ,aul here use drop from our
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