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GAMBOLLING WITH GALATEA: A BUCOLIC ROMANCE

CURTIS DUNHAM

All Rights Reserved

Published May 1909

Fair reader , I pray you be not dismayed by the profundity of this discourse. Doubtless there are some light-minded observers who would have seen in the natural phenomena herein recorded the very quintessence of humor, the apotheosis of the comical. Such pretenders to scientific and literary eminence would entertain the same view of the noble Titanotherium Robustum, or the sublime Stegosaurus Ungulatus. They would have cast merry doubts upon the improving conversation between Balaam and his Ass; ridiculed the psychic resources of the Birds of St. Francis d'Assisi; scoffed at the gratitude of AEsop's Lion; denied the acumen of the Jumping Frog of Calaveras; yea, and presumed to say "scat" to the sacred Cat of Bubastis.

Fair reader , be warned against all such triflers with the important truths of nature. Life is earnest. Turn the page--read, ponder, and be wise.

C. D.

PRELIMINARY AND CONFIDENTIAL vii

GAMBOLLING WITH GALATEA

The thing was incredible. It was intolerable--just cause for mutiny. Talk about injustice, arrogant denial of the equal rights of man and beast! Well, here was a spectacle calculated to make the heavens weep. Yet never had a June sky revealed a deeper shade of blue for fleecy clouds to sail upon. The wind that should have risen in a shriek of indignation blew softly around the corner of the barn, and was laden with fragrance from all the flowers that bloom. In the meadow just beyond the stone fence, the tall grass waved gently, whispering contentment to the brook that gurgled with happiness. Birds sang, grasshoppers chirped--

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