Show TttE PEER UTERAHT MA(JAZINR: as JriiSact: rrj‘T)A5t: the strong majesty oak snntl she n the loving ivy clinging around that royal tre— that type of strength and power A GRAND BUFFALO HIDE to my feet flinging aside my blanket’ A fparful spectacle was before me Away to the west as far as the eye could reach tlxe prairie seemed in motion Black I sprang o hu‘u-dre- 13 going the round of Paris : A small German baron had occasion-as it seems "to see Baron Rothschild of Frankfort The great- financier was writing away for very life when Baron X was announced He did not even lift his eyes but said “ Take a chair sir” The baron with true fetory f Koh-i-noo- ed said Sir indeed! I think Monsieur de Baron did not hear my name ilaroii X” I am a Baron too— Ah a thousand pardons' replied the banker still Writing you are a bffron — take two chairs then if yon will be so kind and wait till I have finished this letter” 44 ! -- 44 V mh $ - CcfJEll of the County ' PH raid Feen writing an “Ode to The following is as Shanghais” much1 as o'Ur readers Will be able tod bear at once:’ w lent Feathered giraffe Who you wings ? Who furnish’d you has — 1 those legs ? How could such everlasting j things as those come out of eggsl r f THE drunkard's team Brandy poney?: Antipathies— It is sa?d fiia't Lord Bacon swooned at each eclipse of the moon l?cafagaf treinbled s 'in every limb at the sight of Brahe nearly expired’ at the sight of a fox Uladisjaus of Poland ran from the sight of apples and Ariosto shuddered at the iight of a bath ing at my ludicrous situation: 1 felt asoiie does when looking at a good coiiiedyx We struck through a village or “prairie dogs”- Hero waves foiled over its undulating 1 fancied that the animal was about ' oiitlinctf as though some burning to turn and run back This brought mountain was pouring dovht its my' mirth to a t sudden pause ‘but’ lava upon the plains A thousand the Buffalo usually' runs in a “ be line” and fortunately' mine piado bright spots flashed and flitted no exception to the law On he along the moving surface like jets of fire- The grohnd shook men went sinking to the knees kickshouted lidrses reared upon their ing the dust from the conical hflltfi and bellowing with rage and terropes neighing wildly' My' dog barked and howled running around ror The “Plum buttes” wefe di--‘ rile For a moment I thought I rectly in the line of our course" I was dreaming but no — the scene had seen this from the start an4 Was too real to be mistaken for a knew that if I could reach them f vision ‘I saw the border of the should be safe They were nearly black wave within ten paces of me three miles from the bluff where and still approaching Then and we bivouacked but in my ride I not till then did 1 recognise the fancied them tern A small one row shaggy crests and glaring evd-balover the prairie several hundred of the buffalo “God of heave' yards nearer than the main height I ani in their track: iI Shall be Towards this I pricked the foamtrampled to death 1” It was too ing bull in a last stretch aud he late to attempt an escape by' run- d brought me cleverly within a ningZ I seized nfv rifle and fired y'ards of its base It watfnow at the foremost of the band :The time' to take leave of mV dusky v effect of niy shot was not percfcpt-ibl- e I could have slaughcompanion The water of the arrayo was tered him as I leaned over hid back dashed in m’y'face A huge bull My knife rested upon the most vtflv ahead of the reift furious and snortnerable part of his huge body 'No ing phtuged through the stream ' I Would pdt have slain that buffalo and Up tlie slope I was lifted and r for the Untwisting iky tossed high into the I was fingers frond bis thick fleece 1 slip-pthrown rearwards and fell upon a down over liis tail and withmoving irfass I felt myself carout as much as saying ‘G ood night ried onward upon the backs of sevran with all my' speed towards the eral animals that in the dense drove knoll I climbed up atid sitting ran close together These frightdown upon a loose shoulder of rock ened at their strange burthen bellooked over the prairie The moon lowed lc’udly' and dashed on to the’ was still shining brightly' My' fate front A sudden thought struck1 companion had halted not far front rife and fixing on that which was where I had left hint anai stood glainost under me I dropped niy legs ring back with a look of extreme astride of him embracing his Jiump There Was sornV b'ewildenfZcnt and ‘clutching the long woolly' hair ' thing so comical in the sight that I that grew upon' his neck The aniyelled with’ laughter as I sat semal “routed” with extreme terror curely- on my perch-Captain and plunging forward’ soon headlltid's Scalp Hunter ed the band1 This was exactly' Murmur of the 8heli what I wanted and on wp went over the pVairie the hull running at A sailor left his nativo land - A sirnpla glfthe gave top speed believing no doubt that A guthered by hia'liaM lie had a phnther or catamount beFrom out the rippling ware f this' remember love Oh by tween bis shoulders I had no Far inland thou must dwell i to disabuse him of this belief t But thou slualt hear th iojLtndiof m In the murmur of the shell and lest lie should deem me altoAh woe Is me t with taUereT sail The ship is wildly toJ gether Intriitiess and come to a on thf'ale— A drowninff cry halt t shipped out my' bowie which lost They sink —and al! While’harpy vpt untouched by tmd happened to be handvand pricked hifarewelT Kepeatiusf liim'irp whenever lie showed sympFeof Mary jSmilea and love to hear The raVrmur of the shell tom of lagging At every fresh The tidings wrecked her simple brain f touch of tlie “spur” he roared out AnH smiling now she goee — X cri'I girl— reckless of her pain and ran forward at a redoubled tinconscious of her woes still extreme But when they ring the aiUitge ohlwes pace’ My' danger was That UU’d the Ivor’s The drove was coming on behind and sayn skebeArt he Hej-with a front of nearly a mUe I to la the shUl ls to Appease Offended Dignity —The following - LA34 could not have cleared it had the bull stopped andj left me on tho Notwithstanding the peril prairie I was in I could not resist laugh- - How about titles EMEND IN NEED A But then should Eleanor looking tipdu him iia her future husband love him with the passion of the sexes for then mate Mr hat if to the love of family there lias AWS grown up in her heart a wonian's lore? How awful would it be iH Her strong nature should disappointment broken vows of her cousin high-pinn- a bled in her mind and a successful rival come in her life ? What a Wreck there Would be of Eleanor Terese Walter Und his family" ' Oh Terese Terese I cannot give up thy love so newly revealed so unspeakably dear to my heart Oh Terese Terese! 1 would not bid th'ee love thy Walter less to save his soul from black perdition Oh Eleanor Eleanor! sister of my nature would thou wert here to advise mo and be 'my guide in this most dark uncertain hoilr Oh would thou wert Here That I might throw myself at tHy feet jhd pour out my soul into thy large sympathising heart!’ Had Eleanor been there the crosses might perchance h'avc tfben swept away ana love takep out of tHe labyrinth by her hand but without His cousin Walter could not dared n!)t decide for himself tfud Terese t (To tie Continued) 44 O’ DAT— A J de-d- re r- -- ' ! ' ! water-cresse- t |