106/791 The apparently dying one lay on its side unable to move. I used to watch it, and about the tenth day it began to right itself, and in a few days more was able to swim about with its companions. For many months they continued to prosper in their new place of abode; but one night by an unusually great flood they were swept out of the pool and perished, to our great regret. *_Liberty_ (_Sequel to the above_). [III.] The connection of this with the preceding poem is sufficiently obvious. |