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Down the goldenest of streams, Tido of dreams, Tho fair crdle1 man-child drifts; Sways with cadenced motion slow, To and fro, Al tho mother-foot poised lightly, falls and lifts. lie, the flrBtling, he, the light Of hor (tight, lie, the broathing pledge of love, 'Neath the holy pasdon lies Of her eye, Smiles to foul tho warm, lifo-glving ray above. Mie believes that in his v'sion, Bkioa elysim O'i r an angel-people shine. Biok to gardens of dnligbt, Tailing (light, His auroral spiriv basks in dreams divine. But the smiles through anxious tears; Unboin years Pressing forward, she perceives. Shadowy mufllod shapes, they come Deaf and dumb, Diioging what? dry chaff and tares, or full-eared sheaves? What for him shall Bhe Invoke ? Shall the osk Hind the mmi'i triumphant I row? Shall his daring foot alight On the height t Shall he dwell amldxt tho humble and the low ? Through what tears and sweat and pain, M int ho gain Fruitage from the tree of life? Shall it yield him bitter flavor? Hua'l its savor Da as manna midst the turmoil and tin, strife ? - In his cradle slept and smiled Thus tho ohild Who as Priuce of Teaca was hailed. Th is anigh the mother breaHt, Lulled to rest, Child-Napoloon down the lil'ed river ' sai!o 1. C'.ownol or eruoifled the saar.0 Qlows the flame Of her deathless love d vine. v Slill the blessed mother Btauds, In all lanls, As rihe watched beside thy cradle and bj mine. Wha'.so gifts ti e years bektow, Still men know, W lilrt xho breathes, lies one who sees (Stand thr.y pure or Biu-doflkd) lint the child Whom she oroinol to sleep and rocked upon her knees. Emma Ixizaru in Scribncr. Uncle tten's Ghostly Ride. My Uuclo Ben believe in ghosts ? Of course he did ; lie mod to say : " No modern mansion of stucco and plaster for me ; give ma a grand old house, ai covered bv ivy and hidden by trees, whose walls are Lung with tapestry, and whose passages, extending from room to room, make the blood curdle with their gloom and length. Why, sir, there is something enlivening even in its decay ; the dampness of its walls, and the cracks in the discolored ceilings, which only suggests o the vulgar mind ague and rheumatism, are evideuces to me of its venerable age and respectability. Tue very mice that scamper up and down in the time-worn wainscoting give me a friendly greeting that I never meet in - your new-fashioued houses, built for a race of mammon-worshipers who have made their wealth out of shoddy and petroleum." I really believe that Uncle Ben valued the shade that was said to haunt his house far higher than all his more tangi ble property. Nothing made him more angry than for any one to doubt its ex-" istenoe ; he waft always ready to break a lance with any skeptic on the subject, and to offcr him a bed in the haunted room ; and, although many of the young members of the family scoffed at the story, yery few had the courage to accept the challenge. One winter night, when the wind was moaning round the chimney-pots and through the eaves, singing a dirge among the leafless branches of the gauut old spectral trees for the joys of the dead summer, the family was gathered round the fire in the drawing-room. Uncle Ben, wha was standing with his back to the fire, said to his nephew : " I think, Joe, we had better put on another log of wood; I don't feel inolined for bed yet, and I suppose you young sters intend to sit up half the night, as usual." " I don't mean to turn in yet for one, uncle," replied Joe. "Tell us one of your ghost stories; a regular blood -curdler." "Ah, Joe," said the old man, "I am afraid you are a thorough skeptic You disbelieve in all supernatural appear ances." "Certainly," answered Joe, who was secretary to the Literary Debating So ciety in the little town of Mudborough, and who had written an essay to prove the non existence of everything, and that we are simply the creations of our own thoughts. "Certainly thes3 impalpable specters are only illusions which the dis ordered couditiou of our weak physical organs bring before us." " I own you are a clever lod, Joe, but I don't care a button for your arguments. I believe in ghosts because I have eocn them." " Oh, I am pen to conviction; if you introduce me to a bona fide ghost 111 give in. I believe only in the things I understand." " Joe, if you only believe in what you understand, your creed will be shorter than that of any sian I know." "Can you give us any proof? Can you mention one instance in which the specter has appeared to any one you know ?" " A hundred, if you wish it," said the old man. "One will do; give us one genuine case and we will believe." " I will; listen. The story that 1 am about to relate is an incident that hap pened to myself some twenty years ago, and for the truth of which I can vouch." "Well, proceed." " I would give yon the history of the specter attached to this house, but that ouly appears to a favored few, and I have not ye seen it, although I have often enough heard the noises it makes." " We should prefer a ghost that can be seen, if you have ever met with one." " You must understand that the vil lage in which I lived, like many others, possesses its spectral visitor. About 100 years ago, au ancestor of mine start ed for London in his traveling carriage, one evening about the latter end of June. He was an exceedingly irascible man, and, the coachman was not suf ficiently quick in preparing the vehicle, he became much enraged, and used ex ceedingly passionate language. For some time the coachman bore his abuse patiently, but, at last, he lost his tem per, and struck the old gentleman in the face. " Jn those days everybody wore a sVord ; and my ancestor, who was al ways ready to draw, snatched his wea pon from his sheath, and, with one blow, severed the unfortunate man's head from his body. " Conscience-stricken at thiH fearful crime, and terrified by the dread of its consequences, he gazed upon the head less body for a few moments, and then, being seized with a fit of apoplexy, was carried into the house by his ser vants, where he died in a few "hours." "Well," said Joe, "although the story is horrible enough, it has nothing of the supernatural in it. Jt is quite possible that an angry old man may commit a murder and die of fright." " Yes, you are right ; if the tale ended there, there would bo nothing to doubt ; but what I am going to tell you, I am afraid, will be scoffed at by my skepti cal young friends, who disbelieve every thing they do not see or hear." " That's meant for me," said Joe, with a laugh. "Never mind, undo ; go on with your story." "Yes, my boy, now I come to the marvelous, part. Every year, as the hands of the clock point to the hour of midnight, a traveling carriage, with four horses, driven by a headless coach man, leaves that village, find passes down the London road." " He must be clever if he can see to drive without his head," interrupted the still skeptical Joe. " That I cannot explain ; some ghost- seers Bay that it is possible for people in clairvoyant stat to rend from tie pit of the stomach ; at all events, a dead n an may b possessed of faculties that we do not understand ; for a man becomes considerably altered when he is dead." " He does, I admit." "And if you allow that a dead man can drive at all, the small matter of a head more or less is of very little lm-. portance." j " Just BO." " You know that when a man dies he becomes a spirit. " That's rum," said Joe. " No, sir, it's not rum, nor whisky either ; and, if you cannot listen to my story without endeavoring to turn it into rid eule, I had better leave off," replied Uncle Ben, who was as peppery ashis ancestor. " Oh I pray go on, nnele," exclaimed all the listeners. "We'll try to keep Joe in order." " Well, as I was saying, this apparir tion made its appearance onoe a yenr, as the clock was striking twelve. Many of the villagers had heard the tramp of horses and the rattling of wheels as the ghostly cortege went by. Now and then some favored individual witnessed the headless driver, as he whipped his horses on toward London. Bat in all cases, the coach pasted too qu ckly for any one to see whether the old gentle man was really inside or not" " And. did no one ever ee him?" askod oue"of the party. " You snail hear. I will confess that, until the night when the incident which I am about to relate took place, I was as great an unbeliever as any of you, and always treated the whole account as an old woman's tale, only fit to frighten children. But, one evening, as I sat smoking with some old friends, one of them, a devout believer in everything supernatural, began to talk about the family legend, I, aa usual, threw ridi cule upon the affair. I horrified some of the company by statinir my intention of venturing out to wander down the road, and see if I could meet the phan torn cavalcade. I swore that if I di 1, I would ask the old gentleman to give me a lift, and offered to bet a 100 that the whole legend was a pack of lies." "And did you go?" " xes ; although some of the more superstitious of the party tried to pie vent me, I persevered, and wandered out into the night ready to meet with ghost or goblin. " And did you meet them I" " Just as I emerged from the lane the village clock chimed the three-quarters, and I sat down upon a moss-covered milestouo to wait and watch for th" phantoms that ' come like shadows s depart. The night was chilly, and, as I wrapped my cloak around me, I began to Blmdder, as I wondered if, by any possibility, there could have been any truth in the strange story that I had heard. I gradually felt, like the man ir the play, that all my courage was oozing out at my fingers's ends." " Oh, uncle, afraid I" cried one of the boys. "Yes, my boy, I must confess it, for the moment I began to wish I was back in the comfortable dining-room. "Suddenly the clock struck the hour of midnight. " As the last echoes died away, I heard in the distance a sound like the noise of a carriage and horses rapidly approaching. My blood began to curdle in my veins ; it came nearer and nearer; and, at last, I saw a curious, old-fashioned vehicle coming toward me at a furious pace. " For a moment I was speechless, but, mustering all my courage, I cried out to the coachman to stop. He did so, and then, to my intense surprise, I saw that his head had been severed from the trunk. The ghastly head lay by his side on the coach-box, which perhaps ac counted for his being able to hear my cries. " As the carriage stopped he sprang to the ground, flung open the door, let down the steps and signed for me to enter. By this time my nerves were well braced up, and I jumped in without any fear. " Upon entering the coach and taking my seat I found myself opposite an old gentleman who was dressed in the cos tume of the commencement of the reign of George III. Upon his Read was an old-fashioned tie-wig, and in his hand was a naked sword which was still cov ered with blood. His face was of an un earthly pallor, and had upon it a soured, Beared look, which did not make him a very pleasant-looking traveling com panion. " For some time we sat face to face, and when I found that he did not appear to take the slightest notice of me, I be gan to be more at ease. At last I thought it would be very uncivil to ride in the old gentleman's coach without speaking to him, and I also felt inclined, as I had never before met with a real ghost, to make his acquaintance. So I, by way of opening the conversation, said : A splendid night, sir. "The elderly party in the tie-wig made no reply. " In a liurry to get to town, I pre sume ? Iam very much obliged to you for the lift.' " Still no answer. After this we both sat for some time in silence; the ghost seemed buried in thought, and I re mained watching him with great inter est. At last, the night being chilly for the time of year, and the coach having about it a peculiar atmosphere like that of a vault, I began to feel extremely cold. After a while the old gentleman grew quite sociable, and began to talk; he complimented me upon my bravery in daring to stop his, carriage. For just one century he had, once a year, driven along Ibis road without meeting auy one who had the courage to ride with him : and, through me, he would be released from all further punishment, which was to last until some brave fellow accom panied him in his drive and conversed with him. " For this release he heartily thanked me, and said that, lor my courage. 1 should be lucky to my business specula tions; and, as you are aware, he turned out a true prophet." "Did you talk about anything else? asked Joe. " Oh, yes. My old friend had as much curiosity as a woman," said Uncle Ben, who, I need not say, was an inveterate bachelor. "We nad a conversation about London. It appears that he had been a great beau in his time, and he considered himself an enormous favorite with the ladies. He wished' to know who was the reigning toast, and was much disgusted when I told him that toasts hod gone out of fashion." "Was that all?" " Oh, no. He told me where the best civet and pomatum were to be bought, and who was the best peruke maker; and was still more surprised when I said that no one wore wigs now, except law yers and coachmen. He asked if travel ing was as dangerous as ever; though he confessed that he had not been ranch troubled lately by the knights of the road. He said that one rode up to stop him twenty-five years before, but the sight of his headless driver had so frightened him that he put spurs to his horse and disappeared as if he had had twenty Bow-street runners at his heels." ' Did you not ask what became of him on the other nights of the year, when he was not out for hia drive ? " He said that, in company with the innumerable shades who were condemned to occasionally visit the earth for crimes committed during their past lives, he Easaed his time hovering round his old aunts, longing t become visible to his descendants, and to assist them in times of trouble, but nnable to do so. As we conversed, the time rapidly slipped away; and at length the lumps of Lon don became visible in the distance. After thanking the old man for his courtesy, I suggested that I might now alight as 1 had a great many friends in town that I should like to visit; but he shook his head. "'No, no,' said he; 4 we are at the mercy of my coachman he has the entire com maud during onr drive, and ha will only stop at the place he picked you up, See, he is turning the horses round: wo are about to return. " If the journey to town seemtid bhort, the journey back was still shorter. The old man told me a hundred anecdotes of the people of his time. Ho had been a staunch Jacobite, and he told me all about young Cavalier, and painted the March to J; inchley ' in words that did full jnstice to Hogarth's picture. The statesmen, wits, and soldiers of the last century appeared to stand before me in the flesh, and I never enjoyed a drive betterthan the one I had with my ghostly ancestor. "As the clock struck one, we pulled up at the old moss-covered milestone where I first stopped the coach. Once more thanking me for the inestimable favor I had done him, the old gentleman signed to the driver to open the carriage door. I got out, and, ns I turned round to bid him good-by, I found that the whole cavalcade coach, horses, driver, and old gentleman had vanished into thin air, and I was alone." "Alone?" exclaimed his hearers. "Yes," said Uncle Ben; "but the strange thing was that I became insensi ble, and knew nothing more until I was found the next morning lying beside the milestone. " I thought so. You fell asleep and dreamed that you saw the phantom cor tege," said Joe, " No, sir, it was no dream. When I saw that carriage, and when I rode in it, I was as much awake as I am now ; and when you are as old as I am, and have seen as many wonders, you will be sur prised at nothing, and will own that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your phi losophy." lielgravia. Fashion Notes,. The short dress for the street is at last an accomplished fact. Several rows of knife-pleated lace will be used for trimming mantles. Most of the wide collars and cuffs have a lace frill to stand around the neck and wrists. New. ties are of plain silk, the ends finished in embroidery and fringe to represent the tip of a peacock feather. Get sheer striped muslin, or else dimi ty, and work the edges in colored scal lops for drapery for an infant's basket. Satin will be muoh used for trimming spring and summer dresses. Some of the new grenadines are trimmed entirely with black satin. A half-locg sacqne or else a dolman mantle of black silk or of camel'-shair, with jet aud fringe for trimming, is what you want for the spring. Cashmere suits are coming more and more into favor. Cashmere made over silk is exceedingly attractive. Rich garnitures of all kinds are employed on these much admired and very serviceable promenade and dinner suits. Carrick capes promise to be much worn on various spring garments. They are seen on cloth socques, ou basques of plain costumes, on polonaises, on dol mans, on English cloth traveling cloaks, and finally on linen ulsters. The furnishing stores display new costumes of percale, cambric, and Scotch ginghams, trimmed with pleated trills of the material, on which fall scant ruffles of white Hamburg embroidery. The favorite design for these is the pleated basque. Cambric wrappers are also being fan cifully made at the furnishing houses. The prettiest of these have a yoke with Watteau pleating in the back, and are made of bordered cambrics, witn the border used for trimming down the yoke, pockets, collar and cuffs. Silks of light quality with raised fig ures are offered for spring costumes, or as parts of combination suits. These are more stylish than checked or striped silks sold for the same money, but they do not wear so well, as the raised figures are apt to fray ; they serve, however, for a season, or as long as the capricious fashion lasts. To make yourself look more slender you should wear the princesse under clothing witli yoke skirts and with close fitting chemises that add nothing to the figure. Arrange your hair so that it will add nothing to the size of your head. Braid the back hair, and make a coil of it high on the crown ; wave the front hair, and comb it back from the temples Put velvet buttons on a silk dress trimmed with velvet. Put wide panels of velvet "down the sides of the over skirt, and edge it with fringe. The vel vet flounce should be so deep that the bottom of the over-skirt will cover the top of the flounce, and make the skirt seem to be entirely velvet. Turn the edge of the, flounce under, and face it with silk. Gathered flounces are very scant. Pleated velvet flounces are twice the length of the space to be covered. . A Kind Act Rewarded. The bread on the waters has returned to a young lady in Clappertown, Pa., after a few years. On December 2o, 1873, she met, on a railroad train, a lady who was very ill, and she kindly minis tered unto her, taking carejof her and ac companying her to her place of destina tion. When they parted, the sick wo man offered to reward the young lady for her kindness and attention, but she would take nothing. The old woman wrote down the name and address, nodded familiarly to her, and said : " You will be. paid some day." The jonng lady never saw her chance ao. quaintanoe again, but the sum of $00, 000 has recently been bequeathed to her. The old'woman had no relatives in this country, and left h!1 her money to the girl who had, befriended her. Jleadiny (''.) t. at ilv. FARM, UARDEX AND HO USE II OLD. Ittedlral Hints. Cuke fob Hoarseness. Spikenard root, sliced and bruised, and then steep ed in a teapot containing equal parts of water and spirits, and the vapor inhaled, when sufficiently cooled, will relieve the soreness and hoarseness of the throat or lungs, when arising from a cough or cold. RiFREgHiNQ Drinks in Fevkrs. Boil one and a half ounces of tamarinds with two ounces of stoned raisins and three ounces cranberries, all in three pints of water until two pints remain ; straiu, and add a small piece of fresh lemon peel, which should be removed in thirty minutes. To Keep the Feet Warm. Previous to retiring at night, and before undress-' ing, remove the stockings and rub the feet and ankles briskly with the hands. During the day, wear two pair of stock ings composed of different fabrics, one pair of silk or cotton, the other of wool, and the natural heat of the feet will be preserved, if the feet are kept clean, and the friction of the same is not omit ted at night Rules for the Sick Room. 1. Bring in fresh flowers or something new every day ; even the commonest green thing is better than nothing. 2. Don't talk about anything unpleasant. Talk about something that will lead the patient's thoughts away from his aches and pains, and leave him in a cheerful and restful state of mind. 3. Follow the doctor's directions implicitly. 4. Never ash; a sick person what he wants to eat. If he asks for anything that will not injure him get it if you can. Never bring mm much at a time. A little bit in a dainty dish will sometimes tempt the appetite when a lajrgo quanity would cause nausea ?. ExDect sick persons to be unreason able. They will fret and complain, no matter what happens, and must be born with patiently. Fralt Cellars. In order to keep fruit, several condi tion are important. In the first place, the atmosphere of a fruit room should be dry, there should be no. more damp ness than ordinarily exists in the cold outside air. The room should be sus ceptible of ventilation in proper weath er, not by direct currents of air, but by air modified before it reaches the fruit. A fruit room must be frost-proof ; it must be cleanly and accessible. As re gards location, it may be placed on a side hill, the excavation opening to the south : or it may be placed under a barn or stable, or other convenient out-build- Ten years ago we constructed a fruit cellar under our stable, and it has proved so satisfactory that we venture to give a brief description of it. The divi sion walls are constructed oi oricK, nnci the apartment? are two in number, an outer and inner room. The outer room is but partly underground, nnd is ten by twelve in area, and eight feet high. The inner .oom is wholly underground, and frost-proof ; it has four brick walls and a cemented floor, in this room tne iruic is stored early in December, when the weather becomes cold. The outer room holds the fruit during the autumn months after it is gathered, and is coil, well lighted and dry. Tne window are left open and a free circulation of air al loed so long as no danger from frost exists When the fruit is taken t) the inner room, the door is closed, and no light admitted. Ventilation is secured in moderate weather by opening the inner door and throwing down a window in the outer room. In this cellar we kept apples of last Benson's growth until the present winter, in perfect condition. Some of these apples, exhibited at the autumnal agricultural fairs, were pro nounced as fresh as those of lost season's growth. Boston Journal of Chemistry. Frozen Coniba of Pawl. In cold climates fowls with very large combs, like those of the Leghorns, are liable to get frozen; in fact, these large comb breeds must be kept in a warm house if freezing is to be entirely pre vented. When the comb of a bird is found to be frozen, it should be thawed out by the application of cold water, either by pouring the water over the head or by immersing the comb while the fowl is held in the hand. After the frost is entirely removed, and the comb and wattles carefully rubbed dry with a soft cloth, they should be smeared with glycerine, to be followed by a fresh ap plication every day until the comb is restored to its usual appearance. If the frozen comb has been already thawed out, the glycerine may be applied just the same to prevent the soreness. Grease of any kind may be used, and some iKiultry breeders make an ointment for frozen combs by melting a little rosin in hot salt lard. Almost anything which will exclude the air from the raw flesh will assist healing and do good. Propagation of Ilyaetaibo. The gardener to the University of Berlin has found that hyacinths may be propagated by their leaves, and this method would appear to specially rec ommend itself where the object in view is to raise a large number of specimens of new rare varieties. The leaves require to be out off as near to the bulb as possi ble, put iu a sauoer, and covered over with a thin layer of sandy leaf mold, tho same as geraniums are propagated. The saucer having been placed in a greenhouse or frame close to the inner surface of the glass, in eight or nine weeks' time the extremities of the leaves will begin to turn dry, a sure sign that bulbs are growing out of them. The leaves selected for propagation must be fresh and green, the latest time at which they Bhould be removed from the plant being the close of the flowering season. Turks Sacking a Town, " The Elena correspondent of the Lon don Tmes writes : We are in Elena after a sharp day's fighting, characterized, I am glad to say, by few of those acw oi ferocity which have disgraced so many Turkish successes. There is not a sternea opponent to the Bashi-Bazouk system than Suleiman Pasha, but these Turkish and Circassian free lances nave Been raised by the central government into a situation quite beyond control, and any attempt at suppression would transform them even into less controllable brigands. We are in Elena, and the Back of tfce v place is now in full swing. From the window of the house in which I have sought a few minutes of quiet to jot down these notes, and which overlooks the long main street of this little towi, I see the ruin progressing fast. To give an idea of the" scene in this street it needs to be photographed in panorama and Tpresented in its ensemble Word painting gives but a feeble notion of it, because the simultaneity of the incidents is lost. Thus, if I say that the Bashi Bazonks and Circassians ore battering doors and shutters with the butt-ends of. their muskets, slashing window-frames to pieces with their yataghans, blowing off locks with their revolvers, throwing the contents of house and shop into the Btreet, still it is only two or three houses that the reader pictures to himself, while what I want to describe is going on on both sides of the way all down the main street of Elena, which is a good deal more than a mile long. In the byways, too, so far as they lend them selves to such work, the depredators are at work howling and hooting, drunk with the joys of spoliation and red-hot with the excitement of destruction. It had been intended to take precau tions to prevent the sack of the town by irregulars. Three companies were to have been told off to protect the spoil from the hands of those who had done nothing to entitle them to participation in the loot ; but in the excitement of the victory it was not carried out, and thus the irregulars are securing for themselves or recklessly waisting, the great bulk of the booty. I was in so soon after the troops that when I went up the street it was comparatively empty. On a little bridge over a rivulet which crosses one end of the town lay three Russians dead, and the way was almost barred by a dead horse lying still harnessed to a broken fourgon ; but as I went on the Bashis came rushing past and soon the street was filled. Shop after shop was burst open. Now a grocer's, from which skins andbladders filled with cheese and Rus sian butter were thrown into the street ; here sugar was the attraction, and the Bashis thrust the white sugar lumps by handsful into their breasts and into the folds of their turbans, and when they were stuffed, scattered the rest about the, street. It must liavo been a Bulgarian feast day yesterday, for in all the grocers' and bakers' shops there was holiday cake, upon which the Bashis pounced with childish delight. Now a draper's shop was tapped, and the yarns and rougher goods were thrown out to be trampled under foot, while the long yards of calico and cloths were drugged forth, the pillagers chopping off with their yataghans such lengths as they could secure. From the vintners the casks of wine were rolled into the Btreet and the! heads-stove in, bottles were hurled into the air and came smashing down among the crowd by the score From time to time a troop of Beared pigs would come rushing into the street, hounded out of their styes by the Bide currents of the looters. Then there was a shout and a chase, and the poor beasts were bay oneted or shot by rifles and revolvers recklessly fired amid the crowd. Before a silk Btore lay an old Bulgar, shot through the chest, lying as he fell, and a little further, laid out stiff and straight under the projecting front of a cook's shop, was the body of a Russian, clad in shirt and drawers, clean and" fine of texture, apparently the remains of some civil functionary. lthjmlng Legislators, During a recent dry debato in the House wing of the Virginia Legislature a resolution was circulated among the members, drawn up by "the committee on game," aud offering a prize for any man who would find a rhyme to "Terra pin." A Richmond correspondent say the resolution brought out the loiiowu-. poetical donations: You ask for a word to rhyme with Terrapin, I could bet my drink were all pure gin. Uantjtr. I think that Terrapin Would rbyme with hair-pin. JJunter. (It ought to but it dou't.) The wretch who kills a Terrapin Commits a most egregious sin. Wallace. lltnkeL Roup made of the Terrpin IV ill not hurt a fellow's within. A good stew made of Terrapin Is tit for a seraphim. Were I asked what is a Terrapin, Kould call it a tish without a tin. Kdiiwnd. The blamed fools who rhymed on Terrapin, Ought to have a larrapio. tiikei- Atlnfy. The way to give value to a diamond-bUuk Terrapin, Is to change ita back as though the diamoa i ure a pin. t would rather be a creeping soarapin Thau a skill pot lerrapiu. How sweet to sit In your merry iun And eat good tUsmt of Terrapin. Vaiif( I would fight sooner a Terrapin Than an old female harridan. Taliaft rro, I think there is no fairer din Than to hear tha hounds trail a Terrapin The women of Alaska are not tLe baauty and great length of hair, which often, falls iu glo'ey bt low the waist,
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