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FAMILLE YERTE. 499

attendants, who have been feeding the stork (in Nos. 894, 895),
stand to their favourite.
powerless help
Having arrived at the end of our journey, the writer must
now take farewell of the reader, with many apologies for the
indifferent he has over the ill-defined track
very guide proved
we have travelled. Mistakes, no doubt, have been made, and
many times we have wandered from the right path, but if
we have by chance set up a few fresh landmarks that will
be of service to future our will not have
pilgrims, journey
been taken in vain. As the road
gets more travelled on,
the path will get better marked, so that by-and-by those who
tread it will be able to the down the four
accomplish journey,
hundred and more
years we have come, with less difficulty
than in the instance.
certainty present