157. A Civility Too Long Neglected

THE FOREGOING reminds me of something. As the individualities I would mainly portray have certainly been slighted by folks who make pictures, volumes, poems, out of them—as a faint testimonial of my own gratitude for many hours of peace and comfort in half-sickness, (and not by any means sure but they will somehow get wind of the compliment,) I hereby dedicate the last half of these Specimen Days to the

bees,

water-snakes,

black-birds,

crows,

dragon-flies,

millers,

pond-turtles,

mosquitoes,

mulleins, tansy, peppermint,

butterflies,

moths (great and little, some splendid fellows,)

wasps and hornets,

cat birds (and all other birds,)

glow-worms, (swarming millions of them indescribably strange and beautiful at night over the pond and creek,)

cedars,

tulip-trees (and all other trees,)

and to the spots and memories of those days, and of the creek.

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