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With a blinding blur the trees leap past.
And lie knows the crisis has come at hist.
A wilder sway, a groan, a jar anti tke race with tU:;;t1i is won !
Mis firm .hamI gL iilr-.s the coup hug-bar, die ho-t drops in— the feat is
done!
" Now, back her. Jim For your lift' man, back! "
And the clm-jI rose blinding on the track.

Tic’s over Tom Ainsworth's lender-— his band on lho lover now ;
With engine reversed he’s straining; you can hear ike hot brakes
pi ow,
With pUmge and dust and -dmoking.s shrill—
One moment more and the train is still.

Kut see the while, seared laces looking up from 1 he gorge below,
As they vaguely gue.s.«.crI the ghastly death they were not yet to know.
Hurrah for Rex as lie .stands there, his strong chest heaving fast;
With quivering lip and swimming eye, with ok the danger past.
’Twas a kingly thought and a hero’s lea.:.
Hurrah for R ex in his joy complete !
W, W. MakoU .

THE SW AN -SO N fj.

T H E great old-fashioned ciock struck twelve, but as yet not cue-:':
the boys hid stirred. All were listening too intently to what
Cerl Von Weber was saving to notice the lime, Around one
of the grand pianos a group of boys was gathered. Perched on the
top of it. was. a. bright, merry-looking boy ot fourteen. By his side sal
a pale, delicate little fellow, with a pair of soft, dark' eyes, which were
fixed in eager attention upon CraTs fa.ee, Below, and leaning care­
lessly upon the piano, was Raoul von Fa'ken stein, a dark, handsome
boy of fifteen.
“ Pshaw 1” he exclaimed, scornfudy, after Cad had finished. " Ts
that all? just for a few paltry thalers and a beggarly violin, to work