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Orders by mail promptly filled. All letters Amid be ad dressed, J. R.DUBBORROW & €0 , The Huntin g don Journal. Printing PUBLISHED HUNTINGDON, PA, CIRCULATION 1700 SONABLE TERMS paid within the year, JOB PRINTING WITT! AND IN THE SUCII AS CIRCULARS, BUSINESS CARDS, PROGRAMMES, CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, RECEIPTS, LEGAL BLANKS LETTER HEADS, PAMPHLETS PAPER BOOKS, ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC., ---:o: ?It Poo'Tour. [Original.] To " The Bard of the Glen." BY J. W. WELCH I eat, overawed by a hideous monster, Repulse multiform, by the children of men ; When sweet as the voice of the dove in the morning, Arose the full notes of "The Bard of the Glen." The strain 'woke tho breathings within my sail bosom, Of hope's winning carol which first won my pen ; And joy's golden beams threw their radiance o'er me, Lared from Lefties gloom by "Thu Rani of the Glen. It soothed my and heart by despair orershadowed, Whilst energy, quickened, inspired me again; My mind caught the fervor contained in the sonnet Which rose on the breeze from The Bard of the Glen. Discarded by fate and a prey to dejection, Which palsied my powers, retarding my pen; •blivion's night had my race terminated, But for the deep tones of "The Bard of the Glen." Though censure assail with a withering teinpest, I'll dare the encounter again and again ; Buoyed up by the words of a warm kindred spirit, This sylvan sweebsinger, "The Bard of the Glen. May happiness sit by thy iaisy-clad threshold, And e'er emile upon thee, thou warm hearted friend; While life lends a my to incite me to action, I'll never forget thee, sweet "Bard of the Glen." Iht A TERRIBLE NIGHT. ____ :o: _ AN AUTHENTIC STORY -:():- I any growing old, my readers, and my hair, once so dark and glossy, is now thick ly threaded with silver; my eyes once bright and sparkling are now somewhat dim ; and my children and grand chil dren tell me that my memory is failing fast. It may be so, but although I cannot always recall events that take place from day to day, I can remember, as well as if it happened yesterday, a night of ter ror that I once spent in the wilds of Amer ica. It was iu the year 1830 that we settled in our home in the lonely wilderness. Ours was the only clearing for a full mile on either side, and the road to my own brother's house was merely a blazed path through a thick pine forest. My husband had let the clearing of his fallow to an Irish family, Burke by name, consisting of six brothers, and with the ex ception of the two youngest, a wild fierce looking set they were. The - eldest of these men, flick, was a remarkable looking man, with just the sort of face and expression one sees in pictures of Italian brigands. He was not the least like a laboring man in either manner or appearance. His features were strikingly handsome; his eyes, wild and black, gleamed with a most sinister ex pression ; his mouth was hard and cruel. He was a dreadful tyrant., too, and his temper often broke out into such wild gusts of vindictive passion on the most trifling occasion, that scenes of great vio lence often took place in the shanty, which stood about thirty yards from our home. Ulick often questioned Isabella, our only hired girl, as to whether we had much ready money in the house, and where the silver was kept that he saw be ing cleaned in the kitchen. It was her opinion that he was a des perate character. I knew little of the world's wickedness in those days, but I felt an instinctive dread of the bold stare he always gave me if I happened to meet him about the place. Once he sent a message for me to go and see him, as lie was very ill. Ilis brother Mike brought over the message, and left directly as he had given it to me, so I bad no ° chance to ask him what was wrong with Uliek. I made a little custard, which I thought might tempt a sick person to eat, and tying on my hat, was about to take it over, when Isabella stopped me. "Wait till the master comes in, ma'am. He will take that over if you cannot spare me." 'But, Bella, Ulick is sick, and request ed to see me." "Never mind that, ma'am," she replied quietly. "Take my advice and do not go. I know the man better than you do, and I would almost swear that there is nothing the matter with him." From that day my dread of Ulick Burke increased, and I eagerly looked forward to the time when the fallow should be cleared, and the shanty rid of its rough inmates. It was in the month of February that business of an urgent nature obliged my husband to leave home for a town some forty miles distant. 11 Te had no man ser vant belonging'to the house—not even a boy ; so Isabella and myself were alone in our lonely dwelling. My brother had not been over for some days, so did not know of my -husband's intended journey. All day long, after he left, I felt a strange presentiment of coming evil, which as night drew on, rather increased than di minished. Never before had the wind sounded so dreary as it did on that February night, as it moaned and sighed through the tall pine trees, or blew in fitful and angry gusts aerovs the clearing. I would have retired to bed ir, the hope of sleeping off my fears, bnt my baby was very restless, and I could not get him to sleep. Taking the little wan in my arms, I soon succeeded in amusing him and my self also, as in watching his playful wiles I for a time forgot my fears; but just as I was rising to prepare for bed, I heard the tramping of oxen, and the loud shout ing of the men who had that day gone to P- to bring up stores of pork, whis key and tobacco. _ _ _ I knew at once, by the harsh words and horrid oaths that fell upon u►y ear, that the brothers had been drinking freely. and a feeling came into my mind that I would wait until all waa quiet at the shanty before we ourselves retired for the night. Baby had calmed down nicely, and was lying quietly upon my knee, when horror of horrors ! I happened to raise my eyes in the direction ol the window, and saw a face pressed against one of the panes of glass, which, even in my wild terror, I recognized as belonging to !Hick Burke, regarding me with a look of tendish hatred. I knew enough not to scream, but ri sing up with a desperate effort, I dragged my trembling limbs into the kitchen. Isabella had her back towards me, so she did not catck sight of my white and ghastly face, and before I had time to tell her anything, the kitchen door opened, and Ulick entered. Lie closed the door carefnlly behind him, and stepping up directly in front of me, be Sxed his gleaming eyes upon my face, with an expression which sent every drop of blood curdling to my heart. I clasped my helpless infant tightly in HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1874. my arms, and retreating back a step or two, I could not articulate a single word ; a deadly fear took possession of me. Twice I tried to speak, but the sound died away on my lips. "What brings you here so late, "Wick ? The fire is out in the shanty, I reckon, and you're wanting a coal to light it again," said Isabella, with perfect cool ness. "The fire is not out," he replied, with out removing his eyes from my face ; but I've come to spend the night with your mistress. 'Tis a lonesome thing for two women to be by themselves in a place like this. You might both be murdered, and who would be the wiser ?" Then, drawing a chair towards me as he spoke, he sat down, still watching me with those terrible eyes. Isabella stood behind hint, and I could see her, though he could not. She made signs to me not to show such deadly marks of terror as were visible on my face. "The mistress and myself are obliged to you, Uliek ; but did you not know that we expect the master in every minute ?" He laughed a low, mocking laugh. "You may spare your looks, then, for he started for C— at noon to day. It will be some days before you see him again —perhaps never." "Sure," she replied, quickly, 'did he not leave them papers that he was obliged to take with him—and he must come back for them. 'Tis for him we are keeping up a big fire; and don't you see the kettle boiling, all ready for his tea ?" "Maybe I can spare you the trouble of sitting up fir him," he said, with an air of ill-disguised triumph. "I went on to P , and saw him with my own eyes. He gave me this scrap of paper for her." Here he pointed toward me. "I am not much of a scholar, but I managed to make out by the writing that he had gone on to the big town on the lake this evening." Every hope of rescue died out of my heart at these words. A faint hope had clung to me that he would not doubt Isa bella's story, and would at once leave the house; but the knowledge be expressed of the contents of my husband's note filled me with terror. I shook and trembled so that I could scarcely stand, while I held my letter un read in my hand. "Uliek, you have been fighting over in the shanty since you came home, have you not ?" asked Isabella, quietly "Yes," he replied, sullenly, "we have. Kelly and Pat have drawn knives more than once this evening, and the boys got at the whiskey, and never left a drop. I gave Mike a thrashing that he won't get over in a hurry, and Pat is lying half dead in the shanty, but not by my hand I did not want to see hint hurt, and it will be the worst for the next who touches hint." He rose up as he said this, and opening the kitchen door as if to listen, but all seemed quiet, so he shut the door, and in stead of sitting down again, he walked up directly in front of me, and once I en countered the gaze of those dreadful eyes. "I've a long score to settle with you," he said, "but I kept quiet until the mas ter went away. He is gone at last, and anger keeps warm with nursing. You are both in my power now. Do you see that ?" He held up a long, bright knife, which, while speaking, he had drawn from beneath his coat. "Give me the child !" At those terrible words, my courage in some degree returned, and steeping back quietly, I exclaimed— • "You surely would not injure my child, Ulick ! You would not hurt my innocent babe ! He, at least, has done you no harm ; neither have any of us, that lam aware of." I bad'still kept retreating back, step by step, as I spoke, and step by step he ad vanced. We had almost reached the parlor door. My baby was in danger of suffocation, owing to the vice like embrace in which I held him. Suddenly Isabella ran quickly past tr,e, and I heard her open the glass door which looked down the garden. I thought she had forsaken me in my sore extremity. and that 1 was alone with a murderer. I closed tny eyes to shut out that dreadful face, while I tried to offer up a brief but earnest prayer for pardon to my God and my Judge for all the sins I had committed against Him. "Ulick, Ulick, for the love of Heaven, run ! They are murdering Pat. I hear him screaming for help!" was the entreat ing words of Isabella. who had been stand ing at the door all the time I thought myself alone. Takes completely by surprise, and thor oughly deceived by the girl's violently ex cited manner, as she stood wringing her hands and crying, "Run, run, or they will kW him before you get there !" Ulick in stantly released his hold of my arm, and without a word, dashed out or the roAn in the direction of the shanty. _ Not a moment watt lost. Drawing a heavy chest across the door, which she next fastened by means of a fork under the latch, and then nailed down the win dows. I could give her no assistance. I sat crouching over my babe, while my whole frame shook with low, convulsive sobs. "Oh, Isabella," at last, I whispered, "what will tln)se frail fastenings aval against that terrible roan. when he re turns again, enraged at being deceived by you ?" "Do you see that door ?" she replied, pointing to the glass door. '•I di T ii h is . o nfastened." was my des pairing answer. "Well, I know ; all the better for you. Now, listen to me, mistress. If Click Burke returns—and lam almost sure he will do ro—lcave me to talk to him, and run for your life over to the shanty, and throw yourself upon his brothers for protection. There are five of then►, and with the exception of Pat, they all hate Ulick. Tell them your dan ger. and if I am not mistaken. Tom and Mike and Kelly and John will take your part. 'Tis your only chance, for he would not spare you." ''Aud what i; to become of you, my brave Isabella ?" "I am not afraid to die; I have neither husband nor child to fret for me ; but I would sell my life dearly to that ruffian," was her quiet reply. Oh, what a long, weary night that, was. as we sat there, expecting his return. Of ten did I rise and grasp Isabella's arm in an agony of terror and despair, as I fan• tied I beard his tread on the doorstep, or saw those gleaming eyes peering at us through the window. The fire went out for want of fuel, and we dare not open the door to get a stick for it, so that we were shivering with cold as well as fear before the . dawn broke. But a merciful Providence watched over us in our lonely helplessness, for Ulick Burke did not return again. One of the boys came over next day, and Isabella asked him, in a careless way, what they had been about over at the shanty the night before. "Drinking and fighting the first part of the evening; and then Ulick went. out, after he had beaten Mike terribly; si we made a vow to be revenged on him, and when he came in again, we all seized him, and bound him iLwn with cords, and then pitched into him. He won't leave his bed for a month, I can tell you ; but he deserved all he got. We would have given him twice as much, only Pat begged so hard for him to be let aloni The mystery of Uliek not returning was now explained, and little did the brothers ever guess that, in revenging themselves, they had,. in all human probability, saved the lives of two people. Not daring to spend another night alone, I walked over to my brother's after break fast, and he sent one of his men over to sleep at our house until my husband came back. I knew that one month more would finish the chopping, and so great was my dread of Ulick Burke's revengeful tem per, that I told neither husband nor broth er of my "night of terror" spent in my first home in America, with no other com panion than brave Isabella Gordon. giratliug tin lin pillion, A Man Eating Plant. Karl Leche, the eminent German botan ist., in a letter to his friend Dr. Friedlowsky describes a singular plant he has discover ed in Madagascar, which is.called "Crin oila Dajeeana," or the mau eater, from its peculiar power of destroying life and ab sorbing a human body. The plant was called to his attention by a native chief, and he was favored with an exhibition of its operation, which he thus describes: Suddenly all of the natives began to cry "Tepe ! Tepe !" and Ilenrick, stopping short said "Look !" Tie sluggish, canal like stream here wound slowly by, and in a bare spot in its bend was the most sin gular of trees. I have called it Crinoida because when its leaves are in action it bears a striking resemblance to that well known fossil—the crinold lilystone, or St. Cuthbert's beads. It was now at rest, how ever, and I will try to describe it to you. If you can imagine a pine apple eight feet high, and thick in proportion, resting up on its base and denuded of leaves, you will have a good idea of the trunk of the tree, which however, has not the color of an anana, but a dark, dingy brown. and ap- • parently hard as iron. From the apex ofthis truncated cone ("at least two feet in diameter) eight leaves hung sheer to the ground, like doors swung back on their tinges These leaves, which were joined to the top of the tree at regu lar intervals, were about eleven or twelve feet long, and shaped very much like the leaves of the American aguave, or century plant. They were two feet through in the thickest part and three feet wide, tapering to; sharp point, that lo3ked like a cow's horn, very convex on the outar (hut now under) surface slightly concave. This eon cave face was thickly set with very strung. thorny hooks. like those upon the held of the teazle. These leaves, hanging thus limp and lifeleg-1, dead green in color, had in appearance the massive strength of oak fibre. The apex of the cone was a round, white, concave figure, like a smaller plate set within a larger one. This was not a flow er but a receptacle, and there exuded into it a clear, treacly iquid, honey sweet and possessed of violent intoxicating and sop rifie properties. From underneath the rim (so to speak) of the undermost plate a se ries of long, hairy, green tendrils stretched out in every direction towards the horizon. These were seven or eight feet each, and tapered from four inches to a half' in diam eter, yet they stretched out stiffly as iron rods. Above these (from between the up per and under cup) six white, almost'trau sparent, palpi reared themselves toward the sky, twirling and twisting with a marvel lous incessant motion, yet constantly reach ing upwards. Thin as reeds, and frail as quills apparently, they were yet five or six feet tall. and were so constantly and vigor ously in motion, with such a subtle, sin mins silent throbbing against the air, that they made me shudder in spite of myself with their suggestion of serpents flayed yct dancing on their • Here were not corolla, pistils, stamens, a flower, mind you, nor nothing like it. For ' Crinoida, unknown, new species as it is, is nighest akin to the eyeadatre, and perhaps its exact prototype may be f;tund among the fossil eyeadatte, though I confess I do neat remember any one that presents all its pe culiar features. The description I am giv ing you now is partly made up from a sub sequent careful inspection of the plant.— My observations on this occasion weresud denly interrupted by the natives, who hail been shrieking around the tree in their shrill voices, and ehantirg what Ilenriek told me were propitiatory hymns to the great tree devil. With still wilder shrieks and chants they now surrounded one of the women, anal urged with the points of their javelins until slowly, arid with despairing face, she climb ed up the rough stalk of the tree and stood on the summit of the cone, the palpi whirl ing all about her. "Tisk ! tisk !'' ;drink !" drink !") cried the men. and, stooping, she drank of the viscid fluid in the cup, rising instantly' again with wild frenzy in her face arid -convulsive chorea in her limbs. But she did not jump down, as she seem ed to intend to do. Oh no ! The atrocious cannibal tree that had been so inert anal ahead came to a sudden savage life. The slender, delicate palpi, with the fury of starved serpents, quivered at moment over her head, then, as if instinct with demo niac intelligence, fastened upon her in sud den coils round and round her neck and arms; then, while her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose wider to be instantly strangled down again into a gur gled moan, the tendrils one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal en ergy and infernal rapidity rose, retracted theniselvea, and wrapped her about in fold after fold, ever tightening, with the cruel swiftness and savage, tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey. It was the barbarity of the 'Ammon without its beau ty—this strange, horrible murder. And now the great leaves rose slowly and stiffly like the arms of a derrick, erected them- selves in the air, approached one another, and closed about the dead and hampered victim with the silent force of a hydraulic press and the ruthless purpose of a thumb screw. A moment more, and while I could see the baser of these great levers pressing more tightly toward each other, from their interstices there trickled down the stalk of the tree great streams of the viscid, honey like fluid, mingled horribly with the blood and oozing viscera of the victim At sight of this the savage hordes around me, yell ing madly, bounded forward, crowded to the tree, clasped it, and with cups. leaves, hands and tonges, got each one enough of the liquor to send him mad and frantic.— Then ensued a grotesque and indescribably hideous orgie, from which, even while its convulsive madness was turning rapidly in to delirium and insensibility, flenrick dragged me hurriedly away into the recess- Cs of the forest, hiding me from the dan gerous brutes and the brutes from me. May I never see such a sight again. said Ben Yalhamah says he will go aboard his ship in half an hour and sail, sa must be brief. In the course of my stay in the valley of twenty-one d•ys I saw six other specimens of the Crinoida Dajeeana, but none so large as this which the Miko dos worshipped. I discovere.l that they are unquestionably earniver,us, in the same sense that disnea and drosers are in sectiverous. The retracted leaves of the great tree kept their upright position du ring ten days, and then, when I came again one morning they were prone again, the tendrils stretched, the palpi floating, and nothing but a white skull at the foot of the tree to remind nie of the sacrifice that had taken place there. I climted into a neighboring tree and saw that all trace of the victim had disappeared and the cup was again supplied with the viscid fluid. The indescribable rapidity and energy of its movements may be inferred from the fact that I saw a smaller one seir.., capture and destroy an active little lemur which, dropping by accident upon it while wateh ing and grinning at me, in vain endeavored to escape from the fatal toils. Henrick's assistance and the con sent of some of the head med of the 3liko dos (who, however, did not dare stay to witness the act of sacrifice.) I cut down one of the minor trees and dissected it carefully. I must defer to my next the details of this most interesting examina tion. Driving and Killing Seal. A walk of half a mile down from the village to the reef on St. Paul Island any time during September, says a corres pondent writing from Rehring'a Straits, will carry you to the parade ground,* of over two hundred thousand seal, among which you can slowly make your way, while they clear out from your path ahead, and close again in your rear, you only in terrupting them in their sleep or at play for a few moments. This reef grennd in September and early October is a strange spectacle, as you walk through legions of semi-indifferent seals. some timid, others boldly defiant, though all give you room enough to move safely over the length and breadth of the mighty breeding ground, the summer haunt of a million of animals universally deemed wild, yet breeding here undisturbed by the don proximity and daily visitation of man ; creatures which will fight one another to the death rather than fOraake their stands on the rookeries, yc, will permit you to approach them to within almost reaching distance without injury ; old balk; which will die before they will leave their pots, yet lie down and sleep while you stami by to sketch or observe them scarcely ten feet distant. No other wild animal in the brats world will permit this immediate attention front mart. The great cowardly sea-lions. the big lumbering walruses. leave their offspring, at slight alarm, and retreat pre cipitately to the water ; the presence of I human beings is the signal f o r speedy de parture front their breeding ham nta ; but the fur seal breeds within a pistol shot of the villages on St. Paul and St. George Islands, and in full sight, and is in no way whatever concerned if net purposely harassed or driven from its position. From the windows of the Government House of St. Paul Island one can view the move ments and listen to the cries of fit'ty thous and breeding seals and pups at any time during July, August and September, as they lie on the lagoon spit. It ss than a quarter of a mile away, and in the same field of vision see the killing gang at work slaughtering and skinnin•, not ranch more than fitly yards away from the indifferent animals on this lagoon rookery which are only separated from these men busy in their bloody labor by a small stream t ide-water. The capturing. drivicg, killing'. and skinning of the fur F. , !als is done entirely by the people or the island., who carry on this busineas rapidly and skillfully. and who are alone, by the terms of the lease. permitted to participate in this !mbar and share its reward. so long ;As they shall of their own freewill he equal to 114 proper execution. The Crop Prospect. in the present financial e:indition of the country nothing i 4 more import.int than a plentiful harvest. and for this the origng arc more favorable. ./The Cincinnati Tina's says: The first new wheat reached At. 11,00 s. and the mills of Georgia have been Gar a week past grinding grain from her own fields. The season is far enough post the timer tr. farts and early drought and food to forecast the resnTt of the harvest. and the wise men of all sections are at work with their a:zrienlinral astrolabes. The verdict is, generally, favor..hle. Corn in consequence of back ward weather. was put in so late in the great earn States , 1 of the West and Northwest, as to create much doubt of even an average crap. but later advico,s as to its starting give (sr bet ter promise. To escape the late trews with certainty, corn should he in the ground as early as the I:ith of May and though planting this year was generally a little later. Lcat and moisture has brought it up so rapidly as to leave no doulot of a fair return. Winter wheat, epeaking at large, will not furnish more tient as orditeery yield ; the abundant harvest of the Pacific coast being offset by the wiser-killed hide of the Middle States- The breadth of land put oat to pain is, on the other hand. larger this year than ever before. and the total yield of corn and wheat—the latter' swelled by the unusually foe eropof spring ' wheat—promises to run ermsiderably our average. In fruit, despite the croak ing drat melee with every spring. there will be a load.' some yield, the looms !jive! worn is the destruction or oreharda is the winter of 1872-3 than in the freesing this spring. The farming popalatioa have mach reason to congratulate themselves en the prospect, heightened as it is with the prom ise of a large foreign demand for wheat, good prices for both wheat and eons at borne, and considerably 'exerted rates al transportation West to East. The Scranton Rep tWietrx says a *mil ized horse has been discovered in a stone quarry in that eity. sixty feet below An surface. It is tkougbt this bootie discov ered America before Colunahni. The Grand Initialise Ribs lisensbd„ l'erenei who are about to bOOPIIINP MM. btri o' tke Order of Pottage 4 lienimmery, before jf iaiag *hon' read the liellterimg aceount A the terrible ordeal Alamo wail* they w:.l have to pose, m revealed bey the Randolph. 11., Enterprise: On being brow:At into the ante coma 4 the lodge it:reengrocer Temple. No. 11101)1 I was ',1.! that 1 had been balloted Sit` i and accepted. My informant, who watt se curely masked by whit I aaerwardn learn- eil was a lar.re havtionek leaf perCnrated! with holes fov the eyes. told me that if I valued my life it wrest' be neemeary for me to strip. % I did ronsicier that of considerable worth to me, and se be ital icised hie wish e s by randomly play:sat with a seven ehooter. : withdrew Duet ny pig ment. with c igerness. 'sly mashed fries) then furnished me with the regalia of the ; first degree—culled •-The Festive Mom -6)lC—which consisted merely of one large • cabbage leaf attaelseil to a wail-bus' potato vines. In this airy caste's* I was co:lane:ell to the dior. where my '--s=. ion g4re three aietinet (I IMP securely blindfolded by binding w ife 4 rutabaga over rash eye.l 'viand voice from within mks : Who eines " 1 " I My guide answered : ;oughts& ag riculturist who de.4ir-s to bera•re a grass ger." Sepulchral Voiee— thee r•on t him carefully over "!- Guisle--"I have. Roble gato-keeper S. Y.—"Do yon Ind any agrietekural mark.. about his person r Y.--What are they" ;it ille--The candidate Mr carroty hair. reddish whiskers. and a tures, awe. s. Y. 'Tis wen. Why darn desire to become a :ranger I ;aide— 1 answering for casiaste)-- That I may be thereby better Ensalliol to harrow rip the feciin7 of tbar raseolly politicians." S. V.-- on will briar in the emedlielher. My worthy stripling , . as yes ememitt me. I eanse you to feel that yes se re nisei se the door on the three praises of the AA fork , pierred is the miss scats sessesse. which is to tench you the arse past sir tiles—faith, hope and elltssity_ nigh is your...elf, hope for r•lbespas iris isaideisery. and eherity for the ligibtaisg-mgl Ton will now be harerisall. as is mrs mutation of the hone Prigestas. wiU he less. ed a. 4 to ender-mice and wind:* The candidate is here attached tea sets. imitation plow, by was, of a kips! ble st-4s. .A dried pumpkin rine imps( is hie mouth for a bit and bridle—he ill WO& BD I get down oti all fines, the guile scrims the bridle, and n:ged as by a grasser aroma with a C inada thistle. which be vivisiewily applies at the tennis's of the aping?, dial candidate rilloped the:* times allneed the room. While making the eirewit the metnbe.a arise mid sing : tat lip sad •hw. you buily buy— wooldu't be stranger ' If the thi.tle's prick 4ou't To ketinz you ere eserawed. sit ' After this violent Iriffeige he i" rsbewi dry with e, m robe, heesyszer: where this. tied. and brought 'fawns:: ep before the great chief—theweet werohipfsipmephis head M. W P . fl.— . • Why 3, pa sitnoirl ti 2 grang..r ! t'andiflate--(anoweriax the , hiaaliff,— "That I way learn ci ettiaga4la mreinc machine axestA - M. W. P II —••llsire yolar tam& berm hard yneii pith tnii randidatc—" Net 'tartly. hot the 3 1 am not nannies; 411-e. - 31 W. P. H. Tv wen. foram. haw contain ‘,..reral who are towippnovel Oa be ready to neriice thevrelve. s.or *air saw ttitnentv. Do r e feel mil? ism* dna ere/vine" ranclitintc—•'lree. where the Waft g•)e on." M. 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