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[[underline]] Dervise in Eastern Fable. [[/underline]]
To quote from the expressive language of my late friend Benj. D. Walsh, in one of his papers on galls: -

"If this one little gall and the insect that produces it were swept [[strikethrough]] away [[/strikethrough]] out of existence how the whole world of insects would be convulsed as by an earthquake! How many species would be compelled to resort for food to other sources, thereby previously disarranging the due balance of Insect Life! How many others would probably perish from off the face of the earth, or be greatly reduced in numbers! Yet to the eye of the common observer, this gall is nothing but an unmeaning mass of leaves, of the origin and history of which he knows nothing and cares nothing!

" The Dervise [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] [in] [[/insertion]] the Eastern Fable claimed to have discovered the language of birds, while to the vulgar their notes were mere inarticulate sounds without passion and without meaning.