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No, my friends, I shall speak of trees as we see them, love them, adore them in the fields, where they are alive, holding their green sun-shades over our heads, talking to us with their hundred thousand whispering tongues, looking down on us with that sweet meekness which belongs to huge, but limited organisms, which one sees in the brown eyes of oxen, but most in the patient posture, the outstretched arms, and the heavy-drooping robes of these vast beings endowed with life, but not with soul, which outgrow us and outlive us, but stand helpless, poor things! while Nature dresses and undresses them, like so many full-sized, but under-witted children.

It prowled about him like a pet kitten, rubbing against his legs, following everywhere at his heels, pulling at his coat-tails, and, at last, exerting all the speed that its poor limbs were capable of, got directly before him and held forth its arms, mutely insisting on being taken up. It said not a word, being perhaps under-witted and incapable of prattle.

Ware, there is no one like her in the world. She is as unique as what shall I say? as the Irish are among races. Her father and mother were both born in mud-cabins, and she she might be the daughter of a hundred kings, except that they seem mostly rather under-witted than otherwise. She always impresses me as a sort of atavistic idealization of the old Kelt at his finest and best.

Now, dear, I s'pose you've heard what I've been through, sence you went away?" I put the thin hand to my cheek. "Yes," I said, "I have heard." "Well, now, I want to tell you the way it 'pears to me. You'll hear the neighbors' side, an' arter I'm gone, they'll tell you I was under-witted or bold.

If Charles Schwab is what says he is, if Charles Schwab is doing or winking while it is being done at the thing says he is he is an incredibly under-witted man stupid about the public, about labor and about capital and, what is the most reckless of all stupid in behalf of himself. It is rather a hard nut to crack Charles Schwab's being stupid.

Why is Cupid feigned as a boy, but only because he is an under-witted whipster, that neither acts nor thinks any thing with discretion? Why is Venus adored for the mirror of beauty, but only because she and I claim kindred, she being of the same complexion with my father Plutus, and therefore called by Homer the Golden Goddess?

No, my friends, I shall speak of trees as we see them, love them, adore them in the fields, where they are alive, holding their green sun-shades over our heads, talking to us with their hundred thousand whispering tongues, looking down on us with that sweet meekness which belongs to huge, but limited organisms, which one sees in the brown eyes of oxen, but most in the patient posture, the outstretched arms, and the heavy-drooping robes of these vast beings endowed with life, but not with soul, which outgrow us and outlive us, but stand helpless, poor things! while Nature dresses and undresses them, like so many full-sized, but under-witted children.

All under-witted persons, so far as my experience goes, have this craving for copper coin, and appear to estimate its value by a miraculous instinct, which is one of the earliest gleams of human intelligence while the nobler faculties are yet in abeyance.