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"'SHR DOE3 NOT KNOW CHICKEN FROM TURKEY."' llclnne Is tho handsomest girl of her race; She's an elegant form and an exquisite faro, And sho dresses with perfectly coimuminato grace. Hut sho dooHn't know chicken from turkey. Sho knows ninny languages, living and dead; In science nnd fiction is very well rend, But she cannot cHk moat, and sho cannot make bread, And sho doesn't know chicken from tur. key. She can piny a " FnntaRia " or " Nocturne " with skill; Can siiif; up to "B "1ms a wonderful to V , Can wrlus a (food story or sonnet, but still She doesn't know chicken from t -k y. She's been up tho Tiler, tho Hliine and the Nile; She's a painter In every popular style Can decorate china, a plaque or a tile But she doesn't know chicken from turkey. She's always self-satisfied, graceful and cool; A critic, both just and correct, as a rule; 'And knows every stitch of the Kensington School, , But she doesn't know chicken from turkey. She can work a design by Lousing or Burt; But sho cannot cut out for her children a skirt, Or ninke for her husband a well fitting shirt She doesn't know chicken from turkey. I'm willing a girl should read Itin and Greek; Should Gerninn nnd French and Italian speak ; And I "up" in tho latest nwthotical freak. If she only knows chicken from turkey. I'd like her in music and song to take part; Rend ioetry, scienco, nnd cultivie art, If husband nnd children were first in hor heart, And if sho knew chicken from turkey Know barley from rice, knew a tart from a pie; A boil from a stew, a broil from a fry; And if sho went Into the market to buy, Knew very well chicken from turkey. For, to ninke a homo happy, all knowledge must blend ; Art, science nnd service their benefits lend ; Then, Indies so clever and wise, condescend - To know alxuit chicken and turkey. Lillie K. liarr, in the Continent. An old saving for a poor housewife. "THE HUCrMAX." The proverbial straw bad broken (he metaphorical arasl's back. The patience of Charlotte Brantome, usually equal to tho exigencies of the o 'i asion, wa t exhausted. The twins, as a matt r of cours , were the cul prit'. They, however, w tli the com placency natural to boys of six or thereabouts, were indifferent to the tempest of despair which raged in their inter' s breast. They had con siderately refra nod from adding deceit to their guiii, but had confi -sstd, fully and unreserve; ly, to rilling the. canary's nest, to tearing a jack' t, and losing a hat down the well, t eating the straw berrie t that were saved for supper, and to at( hing their most faithful hen with a fislihoo':. That lishhook repre sented the straw; Charlotte the cauel. She could have 1 orne anything better than downright cruelty developed so early in one of her own blood. She never was a boy. " And a man was here," went on Popsey; "a big man," volunteere I Wopsey, the other twin. "And he asked us about everything, and wet aid our mot i r wasn't very well and our sister was a old maid school -ma'a ji." CharU t'e win ed. Where had he picked up that expression? And had it come to tfiatV -" You must nt t talk to strange men about mother or me. What did he want?" lie wanted to see you." "MeV" Visions i f tramps, of spy ing burglar, only they had nothing to " burgle," as Popsey bad said one day, came into her mind. " How did he look?" "lie was beautiful," "lie was dreadful," said tho twins in duet. Further questioning elicited these facts : He was young ; he was old ; be was short ; bo was tall ; he wore spectacles ; he had a mustache, and was a bug-man. In the last and crowning favt tho boys agreed. Practice had made Misi Brantome a tolerable clairvoyant, so far as read ing tin is -j two small minds was con cern! d. She jumped at the conclusion that some wandering naturalist chasing an elusive bug had chanced that way, nnd gave the subject no more a' tui tion. Sho had other things to think of than "bug-men" or any men, and the problems of how to provide a new bat for Wopsey and how to instill rem rse into the hearts of her charge i drove other thoughts away. Sitting down on the low doorstep of the house that had been home to her for six and twenty happy years she tried to reason it out. The sun was yet high, the days were at their long est, liehind her flowed the tireless river; in front of her, across the prairie, the hills were green. In the held of rye over the way gleame I a large white wooden cross. Her grand father, in whose veins flowed some of the blue blood of Prance, had benight a home in this Western country when the remnant of an Indian tribe had still property to sell. The deed of sa'e provided for the preservation of their little burying-ground. The grain grew thick around, but the tiny vil lage of the dead was never disturbed by spado or plow. . 014 1'lwe, however, bad never pros- pered. Neither did Tierre the younger; and one night, Nvhen riding home, his horse shied in the moonlight and threw him with his head against a stone; he left no legacy but the home stead and a debt to his wife and chil dren. There was a gap of twenty years between Charlotte and the twin babies, and she really had a third in fant on her hands, lor the mother was nothing more useful than that after her husband's death. She was not feeble-minded exactly, but painfully gentle strange and unaccountable. Charlotte shouldered hir burdens with a brave heart. Her French ac cent for Grandfather Brantome's blood hud never Altered through Can adabrought her employment in a school in the town near by. The long walks bark and forth kept the roses blooming in her cheeks, the boys were good sometimes and she, being busy, was happy. It requires leisure to be successfully miserable. The burying-ground typified to her the " daily martyrdom of private life." And now, looking at it, her heart grew light. Tho new hat would cost but a trifle. Surely there were more straw berries ripe in tho garden, the canary would lay more eggs, the jacket could be mended, and old Speckle had proved superior to the fish-hook. JJut what could the boys b? scream ing about? "The bug-man 1 the bug-man!" they were shouting, trotting toward her with all their might on their sandy little feet. It was certainly strange. Why should a stranger call twice? That he should come once was not sur prising but twice? " We showed him your photograph," saiil Popsey, " and he said you didn't look like a old maid a bit." "And he said," went on the other terrible infant without a pause, "wasn't we proud to have such a nice sister he wished he had and he had such a lot of bugs he puts them to sleep with medicine and sticks pins through 'em and he has a gold watch and he let us wind it up and we told him to come aain some more and here he is?" Charlotte was speechless, but in some way she found herself rising to her fe et to greet a gentleman who was taking off his hat to her and bowing with a grace which even Grandfather Brantome would have approved. " Miss Brantohie, 1 believe." She acquiesced in silence. "I am gathering materials for an historical work, and was directed to you for information concerning the antiquities of this region. And might a3 well say now that I have references and all that sort of thing." " Then you are not " She stopped; he smiled. "Xo, I am not exa 'tly a bug-man, ai these little fellows havo called me, although I must plead guilty to a slight leaning in that direction. Yet just now I would joyfully part with the biggest bugs of my collection if in ex change I might examine your grand father's papers." He was so gracefully genial that one could no more be absurdly dignified with him than with tho golden robin singing on the Indian cross. " Will you walk in?" " I will sit out here instead if you will permit me." So Popsey and Wopsey dragged a chair and then stoo l motionles and wonder-eyed, listening to the talk of discovery and adventure. They did not understand it very well until the conversation turnel to Indian lore. Indians and bears they could compre hend. Then the mother, attracted by a strange voice, drew near the door in her melancholy, wavering way. " The postmaster's wife thought that La Salle was an Indian chief," Char lotte was saying, ' and she had heard of Father Marquette, but supposed him the priest down at La Paz." " I met a woman the other day who thought a herbarium was a bug," re marked Mr. Duncan. Then they laughed. But everything comes to an end. The boys began a dumb show behind the stranger's back to indicate to their sister that they were perishing of hunger ; so she let the conversation lag in order to end the call. " Come to morrow and seethe papers if you like," she said. " It will be Saturday, and I shall bo at home to answer questions." IIo thanked her and withdrew, jumping over the rail fence which skirted the field of rye in order to get a near view of the cross, on which not one, but a dozen, golden robins were holding a vesper conclave. And the tea-kettle was soon singing in the Brantome kitchen a song as gay as that of the robins, and Charlotte was not her usual careful self as she picked the strawberries for. tea. "Half of them green," said the dis-gu-ted Wopsey. " 'Snect she' think ing of the bug-man." It certainly was astonishing how much consulting tho Brantome manu scripts needed. And, to , Mr. Dun can required so much assistance. It was " Miss Brantome, will you kindly read this list while I copy it?" or, "Miss Charlotte, really I can't make out whether this is an e or an i," all the while. Grandfather Brantome would have begun to inquire as to marriage settlements and Si ot h pedi grees had he beeu alive to see those, chestnut locks, innocent of bangs, and that dark mustache in such dangerous proximity. It was the old s'ory two young heads bending over hd same page. No word of love had passed. All was on a strictly business basis, the history of the missions of the IS orthwest the objective aim. Put at last there Vas no excuse for lingering longer. The hills across tho prairie were red and gold, the robins had fled, and the grain aronnd tho little burying-ground cut and stowed away. Charlotte was walking home as usual. Far away in the road two moving dots appeared, which developed into the twins as they came nearer. Tears were cutting briny furrows down their not very chan cheeks. Hy sterical sobs alone came from their mouths as they tried to speak, but finally sisterly intui tion eliminated these words from the chaos: " Mother has runned away ! She said she wouldif we didn't stop pound ing, and we didn't, and she has runned !" That poor mother I She had made the same threat a hundred times be fore, but had been pacified. "Which way? Tell me quiokly," thinking of the river,- bo tireless and so cruel. ' She runned up the railroad track." No more words were needed. Pack of the garden was the branch railway from La Paz. The evening train was nearly due. Leaving the twins to toJdle after as well as they coul 1 in their exhausted state she ran. Pan? She flew. The bright invalid shawl was a beacon. Mrs. Prantome sat upon the track, idly playing with some yellow flowers. Charlotte knew her patient well. " Mother." she said, " it is late, and the boys are calling, and you must feed the chickens." The mother shook her head. Per suasion was no persualer. Then Charlotte scolded. Alike useless. Then, as a last resort, she used a gen tle force. A failure. Sit there and pull those yellow flowers to pieces that the poor unbalanced woman would do, nothing else. In Heaven's name, what was to ba done? Those who, have had experience know the strength of the insane. The train whistled for the crossing a mile away, and just then, some guardian angel guiding him, James Duncan jumped the fence, a wet handkerchief In his hand. Blessings upon the medicine which subdued the bugs I It subdued this poor woman in a moment, and he had lifted her out of danger before the train rushed past. Then he explained. He had been copying tho inscription on the Indian's tombstone as the boys went screaming by. He gathered enough from their incoherent words to learn what the' matter was. The chloroform idea was. simply an inspiration. "How can I repay you?" asked wet eyed Charlotte, as the party, boys, mother, and all, were walking back. "By making over to me Pierre Brantome's manuscripts and his granddaughter. I can never write the history without her." "Well," softly, "in the cause of science perhaps." And this is how it came to pass that the boys marched up the church aisle before the robins came again with Charlotte and the bug-man. Flora L. (Stan field. - A Metropolitan Crematory. Ground has been purchased on the highest and the most picturesque grounds on Manhattan Island on which to erect a crematoiy to reduce dead bodies to ashes. The New York Cre mation society wish to avoid ferries, railroad trains and crowded thorough fares when conveying the remains of their relatives and friends to the last resting-place. This will be secured by the proposed works on Washington Heights. This cemetery will be more complete than anything of its kind in the world. There are to be no yew or willow trees and no emblems of mourn ing. A picturesque chapel for memo' r al services will be e etted, and the grounds will bo laid out and adorned with plants and flowers suggesting hope and joy instead of the more mel ancholy emotions. Nor will there be any roasting and burning of the bodies, but the remains will be incinerated by an intensely hot, dry air radiating fro: u furnaces fifteen feet distant, which will redu e the corpse in a short time to a heap of ashes. The crematory is to be in part modeled upon those in Ger many and Italy, where they are in much more general use than in this country. l emorest. How a Pianist Avoided a Due'. A duel in which an eminent pianist was to have taken a leading part is said to have been happily arranged without ljss of life or limb on either side. An altercation had taktn place at a Paris cafe between the said pianist and a well-known man of fashion; and it at last became so animated that the latter offered the former his card and accepted one in return. The pianist waited at home the next morning, but heard nothing from his opponent. The day afterward he met him by chance in the street, and expressed his sur pr'se at what had, or rather at what had not, taken pla e. " I asked yo.i the day before yesterday," said the pianist s adversary, "for saMsfa tioa, and yesterday I received it." " Ho v so':" asked the pianist, more astonished than ever. "Instead of a visiting card you gave me a ticket for your on cert, was the reply. "I went to it, heard you play, and was more than satisfied. St, 'tt'.'.rv' (Safj-tt, FASHION NOTES. Cre;m white is not worn any longer oy brides. Silk pocketbooks, hand-painted, are the newest. Shirred yokes and full waisls are muc.i worn. Galloon is revived for dress and bonnet trimmings. Plaids, blocks, checks and stripes are features in lall fabrics. Silver and gilt crops out in the new uress and bonnet galloons. Black-beaded bonnets are now re lieved by a coquille of lace arranged over the brim in front. Mantles of plain black silk, trimmed with a profusion of lace, are the fash ionable wrap for middle-aged women this fall. The Gallic cock in metals of all col jr.s, gilt, steel, bronze or silver, and also in feathers, is a very fashionable ornament. Pussian Pschutt and elephant gray, czar brown, royal French blue, Mos cow green, and violet purple are very fashionable colors. The Princess of Wale3 recently wore at a garden party a cream colored dress of light material, trimmed with old gold ; a small princess bonnet ornamented with rosebuds and tied across with turquoise blue. At her breast was a bunch of crimson rises Press skirts are growing decidedly fuller an I wider, an I this decided ten-dem-y to bouffant style has, as history plainly reveals, been almost invariably the forerunner of crinoline, and crino line we are to have unless scores of manufacturers, who have summoned their hitherto idle forces ansftbegunthe work anew of making hoop-SKirts, have listened to a delusive rumor of their coming popularity. New YorkEvm inn Post. New bonnets for autumn wear are displayed in New York in a bewilder ing and elegant variety of styles. Da.nty and uncommon models in dark English braids and felts are sh wn, the former handsomely trimmed with richly col ired fall flowers and fruits, and the latter showing velvet rjwns and puffed velvet brims, with trim mings of fluffy leather-tips and jeweled ornaments, the garnitures for these showing a decided tendency to high irt shales and mixtures. A Mountain Alligator. William Blackheath, who has just re turned from a six-months' sojourn in Arizona, has brought to the Comstock the skin of what he, for want of a bet ter name, calls a Gila monster, but which is evidently that of a saurian of a different species. The skin now measures sevtn fe.t from tip to tip, and it has evidently shrunk some inches in drying. Though about the color of an ordinary Gila monster, the reptile is evi.lently a kind of inland crocodile, or, more properly, cayman, as it had not the webbed feet of the crocodile. The strange saurian was found in a small valley in the Wheatstone moun tains. When alive it stood two feet higii, and its body, just back of its fore-legs, was over three feet in cir cumference. The creature was as sav age as a bulldog, and as full of fight as a viper. It was found by the dogs of .Mr. Blackheath and partner. When the men arrived at the haunt of the reptile to which they were attracted by the fierce and peculiar barking of their dogs, three in number they found that one dog had already been killed and the others were ba lly cut up and covered with blood. The creature displayed such activity and was so diabolically vicious that the two prospectors feared to go near it, being armed with nothing better than a pros pecting pi k and a shovel with a short handle. Finally the thing got one of the dogs by the foreleg, and finding that it held on like a terrier, with no sign of loosing its hold, Mr. Blackheath ran forward and struck his pick into its head. Even then the reptile held on, and it was not, until it had been struck several blows with the pole of the pick that its jaws relaxed and it gave up the ghost. When the dog was released it was found that the foreleg had been broken at a point about two inches above the knee. Mr. Blackheath says he has met with several creatures known as Gila monsters that were two feet and two ami a half feet in length, but never before or since saw, or even suspecte I the existence of one so large as that whoso skin ho po-sesses. It was a surprise t all tho white men in that section, but some of the In lians as serted that far south in the Sierra Mad re mountains they ha 1 seen sumo that we e i s lar:e or larger. I'nfortunately in Haying the fau rian, Mr. BlacUheath's only idea M as to have the hide tanned and made into boots and gaiters, therefore ho did not preserve the feet, otherwise the skin might be stuffed and mounted 1 y a taxidermist, lie says the teeth of the c re ttun s were over an inch in length, wi re sh; r;i a.s needles, and in shape r s -mbled the teeth of a shark. 1 irjinia City (Nic.) Enterprise. " Did the prisoner knock Mr. Smith down in retaliation V asked the lawyer of the witness. " Xo, sir ; he knocked him down in 1he board, yard,"-'.' Vttriuk. ' . k LAND OF VOLCANOES. EEUPTIOITS WHICH HATB CHAXTOED THE FACE OF VATTTB.E. InTii nml It Fierr itfonntnln Described A l'li-iiiremiue ltrnlon Hiiblept to Trrrl Le VifiitBtlnn I'pheaTaU the l'ait. The straits of Sunda, whose con form lation has been so completely and destructively altered by the recent vol canic convulsion, lie between Java and Sumatra, and are the raot direct route of communication which eastern traders possess with the northern coast of the former island. Prior to the recollection of the oldest navigator, an inscrutable and discreet Providence had sprinkled volcanoes, extinct and otherwise, over the bottom of the straits and of the open, adjacent seas, as thickly as the hole3 in the lid of a pepper box. Navigation was, there fore, in all seasons, subject to peculiar dangers, and, many years ago, when steam navigation came in vogue, the commerce of the Dut.di and other Europeans with China, India and Japan was transferred to the straits of Malacca, which present a smoother bottom end a deeper channel, while sailing ships preferred the straits of Sunda from their width. The value of the Sunda straits as a marine chan nel lies in the possession of Java by the Dutch, who utilized it formerly for the production of pepper and other spices, but latterly of coffee, the mar ket for which berry they monopolized for many years before the Ceylon berry came into competition with it. The province of Bantam, which has been reduced to the condition of an ashy desert, is situated in the extreme western part of Java, and was former ly given up altogether to the cultiva tion of pepper. Adjoining it upon the east is the more populous and fertile province of Batavia. These two de pendencies, as well as the whole island, are dotted with volcanoes. The vol canoes of both provinces have ever been celebrated for their continuous and destructive eruptions, and it is Bail that the accumulation of-lava from them formed the original super structure of the island. The straits of Sunda are so broad that the shores upon either side are invisible to the few mariners who sail through them. The water is of that deep green color peculiar to the shallow parts of the Indian ocean. The channel is subject to variation The most prominent islands in the straits were Krakaton, which was obliterated by the convulsion, and Sibisec, which still stands. The wide expanse of sea wh ch divides Java, Sumatra and Borneo from each other, is so shallow that ships can anchor therein out of sight of land, the extreme depth not exceeding forty fathoms. The scenery in this danger ous loality is picturesque. The adjacent shores of Bantam present a bold, sharpcut outline of high moun tains, whilethesea horeis fringed with palm trees. The recent loss of life, though great, "does not exceed that upon a number of previous occasions. In 1772 the great volcano of Popandayan, in the province adjoining Batavia, belched forth fire and smoke for three weeks. Forty villages were destroyed, and 1CO.O0O persons perished in the immense lake of lava which spread over the country for miles. The mountain blew up with a terrible noise, and a lake of muldy water took its place and exists to this day. In 164(5 the adjacent island of Makian, of the Molucca group, was rent in twain and a gorge formed to tl.e sea, a distance, of several miles. In lfc62 the mountain was again blown up, and all of the inhabitants within a radius of six miles were destroyed. There have been a number of dis astrous eruption3 in Bantam and B itavia within the last twelve years, involving a great loss of life. The island of Java is not larger than Ire land. It is related that in former times Java, Boli and Sumbawn were united, and afterward separated by a volcanic earthquake into nine islands, and that, in the distant future, so goes the tradition, they will again be united. The inhabitants of .lava are dis tinctively Maylayan. Of short stature, they arj supple, docile and glory in a skin of a light yellow color. They are superstitious and exist in a social com munity governed by a multitude of regulations a id observances unusual in an oriental country, where the type of civilization is not more highly de veloped than in this case. The cha n of volcanoes which has given rise to all of the memorable eruptions begins at Java headland, the southwestern cape of .lava, jutting out into the lower region of the Sunda strait-, and direct y traverses tho en tiro length of tho is. and, continuing in the Bali strait, and reappearing in the other islands of the group. The same chain is distinctly developed in Japan, thousands of miles northward, where theie have also been frequent erii t'ons, witli consequent extensive loss of life and property. Tho general conformation of tho populous agricultural districts of Bantam and i atavia is similar to that ot Japan. 'Ihe wealthy travel by post horses. The great bulk of the popula tion live in the eastern provinces, and the foreign population of Bantam and Batavia lias not greatly increased within the last t n years. In 1815 tho total population of liantam was 231, (H!4, and of Batavia, .132,015; and in ISfcO, respectively 757,707 and WO.CO, LUXXABT. . " Rockaby, baby, thy cj-adle b greea 5 roiDyr a a nooieuiAn, njotoar 8 a queen. -Itockaby, lullaby, all the day long, Down to the land of the lullaby song. Rahyland never again will be thine, Land of all mystery, holy, divine. Motherland, Otherland, Wonderland, Underland, Land 0 a time ne'er again to be seen; Floworland, Bowerland, Airyland, Fairyland, Rockaby, baby, thy cradle is green. Itockaby, baby, thy mother will keep . (Jfnta watch o'er thine aznre-eyed sleep; Kaby can't feel what mother-heart knows, Throbbing ita fear o'er your quiet repose. Mother-heart knows how baby must fight Wearily on through the fast-coming night; Battle unendiilg, Honor defending Baby must wage with the powerk unseal Bleep now, oh, baby dear, God and thy mother near; Rockaby, baby, thy cradle Is green. , . , . Rockaby, baby, the days will grow long; ; Silent the voice of the mother-love song. ; '. Bowed with Bore burdens, the man-life must own Sorrows that baby must bear all alone. Wonderland can never come back again; Thought will come soon and with reason, comes pain. . Sorrowland, Motherland, Dreary land, Wearyland, Baby and Heavenland lying between. Smile, then, in Motherland, Dream in the Otherland, Rockaby, baby, thy cradle is green. From the German. HUMOR OF THE DAT. The yellow fever The love of gold. In view of the late volcanic erup tions it seems likely that all our " best Java coffee" will come from Brazil this year. " Now that I have got my hay in," said the relieved farmer, "I think the world would be greatly better for a good shower." Tell ns not in monrr.ful numbers . Taat this life is but a dream, When a girl that we ghs one hundred Gets outside a qv.a.t of cream And then wants more. Klmira Oatttts. it is strange that whenever soma young ladies begin to play on the piano many of the audience commence to talk. One touch of discord makes the whole party chin. New York Adcer tiser. "I watchel the billows by day, I watched the sea by night," says a cur rent poet. He should engage him-elf as a hotel 1 lerk at the s ashore, where he coul 1 wati h the bill-owes all the tiu.e. Kindly words ran never perish SjowI nnd frjwns are ne'er forgotten Never wrongs or itsultn cherish Evil thoughts are ill-beirotten; If the little ones B'lonld fHlt.r, Do not hoi their ears or jank 'em, ' But go out and get a halter, Turn them nnside down Hnd spank 'em. Niw 1 ork n orld. A fact : Two gentlemen were ques tioning why professional men should so frequently be bald. The little daughter of one had been an attentive though unobserved listener, but made her presence and opinion known by suddenly exclaiming : " Oh, papa, I know; it's so that their wits can come out. " How long have you been working for me?" asked Mr. Keely of his fore man. "Fourteen years," was the reply. " How much do you know about run ning this engineV" again adtel Keely. "Nothing," said the foreman. He didn't want to know more than the fat':er of the motor, so to speak. 7 my Times. The latest ' snake story" going the roands of the press is headed: "A Young Lady Tightly Embra "ed by a Serpent." Such incidents are not rare. Hu the young lady doesn't know at the time that he is a serpent. Sorae tnie she doesn't discover the fact until after she marries him. Norris town JItrald. Emperor William is said to have a very extensive wardrobe, some of the articles having been in his possession and use twenty-five years. The em peror's wife is very different frorn other women, or else plaster-uf-paris image venders never tall with busts of Napoleon and Bismarck which they oiler to exchange for secondhand clothing. Xorristown Herald. An Irish lawyer having addressed the court ai gentl men," instead of "yer honors," after ho had concluded a brother of the bar reminde I hiui of his error. He immediately rose and apologize I thus: "May it plase the cooi t, in the hate of debate I called yer honors gentlemen. I made a mis take, yer honor'." The speaker then Bat oown 'J ltd niters' Journal. Tho Sandwich Islanders appear to he tolerably good judges of a woman's smile. A Hawaiian newspaper, in de scribing such an ailair, says : Her rich, re I lips parted, and there Hashed upon the landscape two rows of beautiful white teeth. Slowly her ninutli opened wider and wider. Deeper grew tho dimples in her bronze cheeks. Brighter danced the sun beams in her eyes, until a stray ray, darting through the foliage of an over hanging bough, illuminated the deep cavern of her mouth, bringing into v iew the back of her head. Then, see ing us gaze intently upon her, she shut her jaw and darkness fell upon the L.Ctiuc, '
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