(as0isee July 10, 191,) 
 
M    tion  I fear, is learning to me one thing by going blind to 
anther. 
on  tiing mat of us huve gone blind to is the q uty of    arshoso I 
am ritAwld of this "hen, as a speial favor* I take a visitor to Qlandsboyo#

only to find that, to him. it io merely lelier to look upon and stickier

to navigate, than other boa places. 
Tis is -ange, for an --ltian,             . godwit, or wontern gre 
ts aware that CLmdeboye is a uarsh apart, Ihy else do they sea it out 
in -prferorne to other marshes? WkW else do they resent my intruision with-

in its precincts nt as wre trespass* but aq some kind of 0omio ietyt 
I thiu z the sem t is thisa  Clandeboyo is a marsh aprt, not only in 
spac, but in time.   Ony the unwritial ooniuers of hand-me-down history 
supse that 1911 arrived simitmeemsly in all marshes. Th birds kow better.

Let a sqwdrn of wsothbuud pelioans but feel a lift of prairie breeze o 
Clan4.boys, and they sense at oms that here is a landi In the geological

past$ a refue from that most relentless of agressors, the fhture. With 
qmer antediluian gants they set wing, desending in mjestio s"irls 
to the wsloing wastes of a bygone ae. 
Other refg     are already there$ ech aceeting in his inm fashion 
his respite from the march of tims. Forster's tns, like trops of 
hay         hildren,   s  over the m-flats     as if the first oeld wlt 
from the retreating too-sheet wer shivering the s*Pines of their wimowy 
prey. A file of sanlhill arnnes bagles defianoc of whatever it is tht 
cranes distrust and fear. A flotil f et swans rides the bay in quiet 
dignity,        ng the em -escne of    may things. From the tip of a