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They are sooner washed away, it is true; but oh! how
keen is the present sensibility — how acute the pussing
mental avony -

My twin-brother Wirrrs — may his ashes repose in
peace in his early, his untimely grave !— and myself,
when we were very litthe boys in the country, saw, one
bricht June div, tar up in the blue ay paper-kite,


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swaviie to and fro, rising aml sinking, divine and Ne tects
inv and flashing back the sunlight ina manner that was
wonderful to behold. We left our little tin vessels in the
meadow where we were picking strawberries, and ran into a
neighboring field fo eet beneath it: and. keepine sar res


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presently tound ourselves hy the side of the areliteet 6
thett miteniticent creation, and saw the line whieh eld. rt
reaehing Inte the skies and Tittle white paper desscnaers
eliding upward upon it as if te hold commituden with: the
eracetul ‘bird of the air? at the Upper ened.
Lam describing this to vou as a boy, cal EP wish you
to think of it as a hoy,

Well, many days atterward, aud after variotis Wnstte-
cesstul attempts, which not a little discomifited us —- for we
thought we had obtained the ‘principle? of the hte we
succeeded in making ove which we theteht world ty.
The ir was too still, however, for several days: and
never did a becahned navigator wait more tinpationtty tor
a breeze to speed his vessel on her voyage than did we for
a wind that should send our paper iessenger, bedizened
with stirs of red and vellow paper, dancing up the sky.
