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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, June-July, 1943
1943-06-27 Page 10
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8 flows through it. I said to myself "You've nothing better to do. Why not amble along the banks of that little stream. There'd be flowers and some new insects there." So I took my pen and writing case and started out. Arriving where the river crossed the road I turned along the river bank. It is lovely...wild sunflowers as tall as my head, fuzzy purple coneflowers. The burnt red of gaillardia and the water choked with blue hyacinth and white lilies. Great green and red dragonflies hovered over the water. The whole had that fairy-
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8 flows through it. I said to myself "You've nothing better to do. Why not amble along the banks of that little stream. There'd be flowers and some new insects there." So I took my pen and writing case and started out. Arriving where the river crossed the road I turned along the river bank. It is lovely...wild sunflowers as tall as my head, fuzzy purple coneflowers. The burnt red of gaillardia and the water choked with blue hyacinth and white lilies. Great green and red dragonflies hovered over the water. The whole had that fairy-
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