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“ Your  name,  your  name:?"  the  Austrian^  ciy.
                                   "T.a  Tour  d'Auvergne/'  comes  in  reply.
                                    'f t;i  Jour,  I.a  Tour."  with three  times  dlrce.

                                            Cheer  on  rliecr
                                     Burnt  from  every  A uMr:tin  heart;
                                           And  again,
                                            Down  the51  glen.
                                     The  ringing  echoes  sSrii‘1.
                                     While  the.1  Colonel,  howing  low,
                                        Said  in  accents  grave:
                                    “ I  <-alulelmv  trail a nt  foc„
                                                T-   I. J
                                     Tiic  bravest  of  the  brave !71
                                                                               AI a i d a   I.Su o n .


                                               TH E  PRAIRIE  MIRAGE.




                                haze  at  the  far  horizon.   The  sky  seemed  of copper and  the


                        brow n.
                          Jiut  one  abject  broke  Ihe  monotonous  sameness  of  the  scene,—
                        a white e o veret;  wag o n,  j U  JI appi L; g  ca n v a s  to p  givii i g s c an L  s h eJ ter  J o
                        the emigrant  and his  wife  crouched  within.   Their  journey  lia.::  been
                        long,  fever  ■ limbs  in  die  woman's  veins.
                          Sudeienly  the  man  looks  rjp,  Martlet,   Their  .search  for  a  home
                        is  over.
                            See !  11  he  cries  in  joy.
                          They have;  come  out  on  the  edge of a  wide  reaching valley,  1 diais
                        of  densedeaved,  billowy  forest,  bend  and  sway  in  a  gende  Ijieoze.
                        A  lake  with  here and  there  a  touch  of  fo;nn  to  relieve  die  si.iddduvj,
                        bine  of  die waves  restlessly  tosses  and  wrinkles  its  wiik^s.   Broad
                        meadow-s  suggesting  clover  and  goklen-rod  a:_e  near  by,  and  the
                        i! 11J  id aliens  of the  ^ra-s  are  'ike  1 hose of the Jake.   YTwrlci'. alon:: the
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