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THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.

VOL. XIV.--OCTOBER, 1864.--NO. LXXXIV.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND
FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

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A NIGHT IN THE WATER.


That was a pleasant life on picquet, in the delicious early summer of
the South, and among the endless flowery forests of that blossoming