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Show DREW ADMIRATION OF RUSKIN. I Alpine Bird Compelled Thought of H Writer and Philosopher. H Whllo among tho dark, plney. preel- H pices of tho Chnrtreuso hills, ono day, H tho famous John Ruskln saw for tho H third time what ho thought tho most H wonderful of all Alplno birds a gray, H fluttering, stealthy creature, about tho H sizo of a sparrow, but of colder gray H and moro graceful, which haunts tho H sides of tho fiercest torrents. Ho H wrote: "Thero Is somothlng moro H strango lh It than In the sea-gull H tha't seems a powerful creature, and H tho power of tho sea not of a kind so H adverse, so hopelessly destructlvo. H But this small creature, Bllcnt, tender H and light, almost llko a moth In Its H low and Irregular flight, almost touch- H Ing with Its wings tho crests of waves H that would overthrow a granlto wall, H and hnuntlng tho hollows of the black, H cold, herbless rocks that aro contlnu- H ally shaken by their spray, has por- H haps the nearest approach to the look H of a spiritual oxlstence I know In anl- H mnl life." ' |