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bench, they catch a. glimpse of dwellings— -.seeming palaces whose bold
frontage a\'-:c= their simple minds.
11 Sec! 11 calls out again the glad husband, and his strong arm lifts
the fainting wife that she may get a belter view.

Rest is there and hope and jo y . The burdens o f the past have been
so g r e a t! In the fierce race o f life they have been left so far b eh in d ;
but now the journey over the rhin-grassed prairie is almost ended—
;hc haven is in .sight. They can almost taste the IVnits o f the dcep-
ibliaged trees and catch a scent o f the clover and o f the sea.
Hungrily, earnestly they feast their eyes as they gaze through the
opening in the flapping canvas,
A passing cloud drifts sudden’.y before the sun.

A cry o f pain £iid disappointment surges to the woman's Jins as she
sees again a dreary length o f plain whose level lines had so long
fa tig Lied her eyes. T h e torrid wind finds not a leaf to stir, She falls
back on her best-filled pillow.
T h e mirage has afieu.
The emigrant is alone on tlic prairie with his dead,

HUNTING A M A D M A N .

D O N ’T say that you think me courageous, for that's an assertion 1
doubt,
I did what T thought was m y duty, and it's nought to g o boasting
about,
I will tell you the truth o f the story, and T think you will easily see
There is nothing about the achievement to give any honor to me,

1 was up at m y station one morning, attending to trains as they came.
A n d as I was crossing the line, sir, T heard some nnecal! me by name;
I turned and beheld an old schoolmate, v.:;io was up on the platform
behind,
W h o said he was goin g to London with a gent who was out o f his