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[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.
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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
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t'andiflate--(anoweriax the , hiaaliff,—
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machine axestA -
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hard yneii pith tnii
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am not nannies; 411-e. -
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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."
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chaw of toile/cher
f'as , iitlase ',arches hiss4,lf th.ertnaltbly.
hist as thee,' i 4 so Ow, Aram hiut
a ppeket trie4 in espies*. het ohs swim*
wi,r4hipfel pnorkin he-id isrprarpeo hi m
with:
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as Wen aware that in pier 'v.v.'s@ emu&
tint you ran no mi're Nri" rein "Rod►
with the weed than A4swe meld
fortable in a pine hat 3110 ti l ting ben** It
in merely to tesel y.. 0 the mat buses 4
eennomy to maser• as yene".l I Se
have them dn in yaw ir.wt We SW be
enedeeted to the mow minim firmse.pre.
dem% who will retch yow the paid boil
ifiggix• of flintreve. rhe mire. my Irairely
brither. will 'invitee pew swim* me i 4
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yourvelf awd may it he a semi 4 tome
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