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Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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Title: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics
Author: Various
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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 isle. In the retrospect, I seem to see myself adrift upon a horse's back amid a sea of roses. The various outposts were within a five-mile radius, and it was one long, delightful gallop, day and night. I have a faint impression that the moon shone steadily every night for two months; and yet I remember certain periods of such dense darkness that in riding through the woo