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BELSHAZZAR'S RECORD POINT.
The Harvester set the neglected cabin in order; then he carefully and deftly packed all his dried herbs, barks, and roots.

Next came carrying the couch grass, wild alum, and soapwort into the store-room.

Then followed July herbs.

He first went to his beds of foxglove, because the tender leaves of the second year should be stripped from them at flowering time, and that usually began two weeks earlier; but his bed lay in a shaded, damp location and the tall bloom stalks were only in half flower, their pale lavender making an exquisite picture.