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The loveliness of the way was enchanting the roads running straight as an arrow through glorious forest lands of pine, beech, maple, and oak, in the full glory of spring, and the perspective before and behind making a long narrowing green bower of meeting branches; the whole of the borders of the road covered with lovely flowers May-wings, a butterfly-like milkwort, pitcher-plant, convolvulus; new insects danced in the shade golden orioles, blue birds, the great American robin, the field officer, with his orange epaulettes, glanced before them.
Miss Cooper may strive in vain, with benevolent intent, to christen her favorite spring-blossoms "May-Wings" and "Gay-Wings," and "Fringe-Cup" and "Squirrel-Cup," and "Cool-Wort" and "Bead-Ruby"; there is no conceivable reason why these should not be the familiar appellations, except the irresistible fact that they are not.
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