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Show ! Uhemes 3rom Sngllah $? t OP Classes of branch Dlormal. REPOSE. Wo rode silently Jour aamong thu Bags brush with only tlio sound of tho horsoB' rculnr thud upcu tho Rronnd. It was growing dark, nud tho valley lay hcforo us. Tlioro tns tho Imzy Inndecnpo, showing faint outlines of tbo hills, which gradually shaded off Into tho tky above, then Into tho darker plain bolow. Wc stopped. All was still. 'Ihoro by Ntbo eido of tho roud quivered a Ultlo pond of w'ntor icrieoting ouly tho dim light of tho sky. A light hreczo rippled itafnee, and it rlpplodrlDp-led rlpplodrlDp-led rip p'-led , oplltting up the . light and slurs into u thousand plciioi. It rippled oh I tho tunst profound chords, tho lightest trlipets, llttlo - r molodieH then all was still. Agnin oamo tho broezo, tho rlp-ple, tbo music, and ttion tho Bllenoo. Vnr below in, tbo vnlloy gleamed a liaht, a camp flro. It Homed up, theu sauk, ilamod up again, ennk, and was seen no raoro. Wo wero, onoh of us nlouo, ellont ns tho ecouo, dream Ing of rest of rcposo. Across tho valloy oamo n Blight broaze, tainted, oti bo faintly, with tha siveotoft porfumo. Wo inhniod deeply, feeling na though wo nhould liko to inhale it nn forever. Oh nlwavH to boiiero to ,, 'eeo tho hazy landscape, to breath tbo rbamy nir, to boar thorippllug water I ?. ' LILLIAN IIIGIJEE. |