by THE about I the bright fire, with feet thicket below OLI) five miles here. I heart blood that MILL. thumping, fire waited eat should intruded have she my on any rose, my on WHY I SING. did stool, and auswer—simply them the other day. Shoot into gentleman’s the sat bed-chamber, give whoever not and moment to cut saw some;. a any a Here from tlie brow of the hill I look, You ask smoked, why I and of sing! To-night will have and I and thought the girl, of for ask will time Then grasping such the least, tent she to too, about lark to we a the purpose, escape. my a was on Through lattice of boughs and leaves, a wing, of the bottles sherry, thejman, Leaving thinking, last ot and heart two and for make her I gathered But moment. tiptoe. there open my mare. me Ou the ol«t mill escape on with its roof, nerves a gambrel gray To tell what forces him you to the sky up in will talk.” face hardened. Burr his chair with His The sleep And and turned backward thro’ went to peril the myself sleeper, the its rottiug A monster we was moss on a near Why eaves. his reckless delight in his musical flight! I hear the clatter that jars its walls. returned softened face. cold deadly look the —Frank Wilkeson Argonaut. of the bee opening. Jumping instantly wandering overhead to —buzz, The to lark a will gray a not was tell my and neither you will L And the rushing water’s sound, and finished. bieakiast feet, buzz, buzz—now I vaulted into saddle that the the leaves, our soon eyes, was was among now And I black the floats and fall You ask see rise why I sing! ask the peach tree Shouldering I in stepped musket, stood flashing through out the back of white horse that the stripes of sunshine, my on a As the wheel slowly round. goes spring of stockade walked down the and the there, rifle and and inthe midst of of lost the dark yells, shade, till fiualaly It HER now LETTER. in LAST 'V hy showers its bloom the breeze flitting on I rode there often I when hillsides On the distant valley. shots, of howling he appeared antelopes dogs, be was young, pack ot settling the to by, a we on eyelid With grist the horse before; ’Tis on my hurried but line, scrawl. 8o unthinking grazed; down the valley before rushed of David of of seemed Swan. It a a The of cost and forgetful sting bee out to of frost' me camp. me as a And talked with Nelly, the miller’s girl, And liitle words the to The tree will seem say, not tell and I could few deer for neither I. though thonsand sometimes deadly. free you, will horse-men As hearted running see a cover is a were in I waited as As turn at the door. Yet my hold in reproachful thrall: me the willows by Now and the to stream. pursuit of instantly. galloped she innccent, the We girl attacked the And whili she tossed ringlets her brown, was me up “You \ou quarreled with yesterday; I sing! ask me each living youDg And flirted and chatted then and handkerchief, before flew river intruder free, the with her bend I had Dashing brushed to sad." so To-morrow you’ll be me a grouse rose a seen. The wheel might the stop wheel might rapidly That’s or walked steadily go, I in, forded him soundly, and made drove mad in it under fire that him from its mirth beneath if as d'e away. on. to we a us never It all the Ay, "you'd be sad”—-the words few. same to Why was me. it thinks are grief of in uot its life Climbing hill, 1 rock and the bright the boil maple shade. sat about of How picture! water and out sweet on a a musingly us, were a Aud pierce with pain; they soul yet and my brief! plains gazed th- the northeast, the before This good 'Tis at vast to the Sioux half accomplished, with siuce I quickened twenty last water stood years any were Ay, ‘•you’ll sad”—the words a be true; are Ann something 1 but may e you, deeper never On the I where stand to-day, spot foothills of the and the breath and Striking the the blush, at at trail They she to haunt with prophetic strain: stole range, across. shull I. way me a a And Nelly is wed, and the milier is dead, “To you'll sad.” the beyond. be rugged, rocky I love Bozeman it, the it, and knowing glance vouthlul I took morrow at lor stranger whom range pass. And the mill and I are gray. With heart light and free, I and a will the Rocky tire of la mountains, had carol pushed boldly and she been battling with though hotly in dragon never But on, pursued, a both, Into and till fall ruin wreck, We quarrelled, and for word— what? we a glee; wasted hours their in looking face. I the air. horse outlasted and I theirs, To bound; fortune of toil A foolish speech jarred the my escaped. that are our It ear— would shorten should I think of my song And the and the stream thinking of the I flows, and tales had “He is handsome,” drew reign until dismounted And thus in wrath pulses stirred: thought I I she, man goes many our its never why; And the wheel slowly round. Then dear, her letter: “Dear, moves When the heard of the still blushing. I came my the West of the The to must with if range. sun heart was would pass. on my be song ray —Thomas , Dunn English in Harper's. “To-morrow you’ll be sad.” strong. started could the high above I tor willows. girl How it lie that dream saved With other horse, of bliss me no me. any \ that If does not I. answer shot the heads off you There neatly six within never I should him, that shattered can have been I have by his lost. not words! aud Few half mirth half grew regret— THE WHITE MARE. light jointing Then should trout pole, the The last her hand write— strength, it should girl. The love I have for her the asunder, got part a ever grouse. very No Homes for Californians. words! learned long and Sad yet clear pools of whipped the ago, I the has instead. and allow him perceive returned I to the girl to mare among my “The with pain and saddest Fresh to sight. phase of this coast,” lathe new ear valley, aboutsix miles above the of and south fork the Teton, says and made phantoms? Why trade in least did post the Yellowstone its at was soon rewarded no no “To-morrow you’ll sad!” be the Virgina (Nev.) En’erprise, “probably forks of the Teton river,iu northern Montana, of string fine by half-pound that smile of welcome brighten his a year. upon of all and gold silver mining is is the Blackfoot regions, Indian A the Then pleasant “Again. face? trout. walk Last winter She the maiden whose agency. the came come, snow was on was the absence of homes. We real high stockade of split logs standing cool, dry mean back through the air, and the ground soul according January, and for three the old und beautiful to on DAVID SWAN over in S .SLEEP. homes, founder whose laid the first hearthstone end, deeply sunk in the earth, encloses of the the north. idea, What days I had been had been from luxury hunting severed his aud grass crispy or runniug antelope. own, and made the first clearing with about of ground. two Heavy the valley gates, in of life the Teton! The whom, in his acres bright all and but passionate was sun NAT HAN AN IEL lIAWTHOKNE. vague was very BY my the thought that the he spot opening outward, to harshly on spoils turned was great I the smiling hurt Hying desires, he yearned to I sway specks about; meet. Her, only, to on over my eyes me. saw Could indeed know all the vicissi wc do his life's and work, there last amid at iron hinges. They the Indians Indian who acted keep for little chains could with cook Burr. with he love perfect small links out love—him, woman as constantly a were fortunes, life tudes of would be 100 familiar sink in that our sleep that is nights. o’ A of well scenes, is water the of day I center The the horseback before spent My burned only, could she into of rest the depths smartly on me. eyes receive final. of hope an<l fear, The absence of full exultation this disposition disappointment, ef the enclosure. Low log buildings, or antelope with lot of half-bloo when 1 returned Daily her heart—and her image to the faintly covered running a agency. now was has nomads ade of the of the afford with earth, siugle hour m scattered along the to men Indians. eight o’clock while hunting 1 had blushing in At low, black us a the fountain by are the her side; supper seen was coast. They here orriginally with stockade. A couple of sandhill came served and The sherry clouds the serenity. This idea indicate should it north that the formation of be illustrated its luster would eaten. true cranes in may pass was away, never the thought that in little while they stood expectantly the a at well waiting and brought I scattered the marshalling gleam his life out, table of the winds of again. single from or by on the upon secret a page would and make the home return of their patiently for thirs'y draw to handful, Rosa frozen last, of Conchas the North. Daily “How sound ho that the sleeps!” South wind murmured a man of David Swan. a my history future in the land of their birth. Could white A tailed water. deer, with blue had paid duty, and them beyond the girl. smoking, the horizon, sat swept northern a nothing do never We with David as we to have uutil the air-castles which could have been ribbon her daintily neck, walked told story: Burr this but She departed, but did the morning found on them trip along next not And him the me ot at twenty, we age on erected in thought by the the around. Her coal black muzzle, studded men on lightly looming road portentiously in the when the she northern fall of thought from “In the 1868, I the highroad his native place as as it to came. while lying coast, in bunks iu cabins, with dropsofdew, biilliant rude the slanting sky. this girl’s Now, lather On the 1 thriving return in to where his Boston small my agency uncle, dealer in was a might be profitable start trading a to a in blankets around camp-fires, be of rising or the wasslily thrust found iu had the lays just in from Belly merchant neighborhood, sun, country got a runner the line, take behind him to grocery was valley. in the Yellowstone Learning post into picture, what city it into hand, woven giving slight a shock a River, in British happened, America, and that identical my with important time, at me a to it the Be enough that ho counter. to say would make! but Blackfeet the the that have stolen the Sioux from of surprise. By the siables years stood for for just be looking such It cow a from New Hampshire, born news of young me. was necessary a man as was respectable by; in issolated the bewitching except inoose,standingso awkwardly with cases, camped crooked side of the Lhat 1 should David Had David I started Swan. formed the south at were on river, and had received go up once. parents, wayside a un dreams have been realized, legs and humped back, determined never and the I and ride the morning. acquaintance with his daughter, to My dreadfully. hurt he next over ordinary school education see with eyes common and while the hoped-for homes pendulous lip, which Mark Twain were what never calls T could make with would have father’s arrangements become the clerk; finish classic of Gilmantou at a a year builued back in the land of childhood, “the Hapsburg,” that her ugliness them. crossed I Belt mountains, the and, “1 always the Belly and all else in natural River, when Aud very to journeying academy. After go from succession. on neither, alas, have they been buiided excited A pity. calf—her riding down the valley, their the had is the ground, of here good fortune by the best at -the my moose of soon snow on sunrise till summer’s day, his was so again way noon a here. Wo do that there uot to miniature in ugliuess—stood mean stupidly say I the side of river, north the the Sweet fortune at Grass hills, and of —stolen him there I that her camp, ou increasing weariness and the heat determined so near camp plenty of families living in not what her side. Standing are well, they at facing the the south. 1 horse and night. One side of had brushed sat the hills against him; is always garments and on down one sit on my him ami wait for the to they call homes. But those who have the grand Rocky Mountain drew hailed I the No I could bare of and there nothing spring of he knew of the matter. range, camp. if planted answer. snow, stage-coach. As is a on purpose homes which created with the bucket of Drinking were water. deeply, of expectation plenty Indians about, walking and good the hardly a northern side of The girl sight the ot water out when repulsing see him,there on for appeared little was clump soon a that would they l>e permanent, the while advances the of female again shouted. the I No I shouted hill. A turned aside beneath centre strong south wind two the maple with delightful auswer. of maples, the men was a recess in that in and about them hoarded to be with moccasined were myself hoarse, and I the blowing foot, only notice taken when I shade. had dark but by Both faces crane started, I off by my set midst, and fresh bubbling such spring noon a the gathered of lifetime, treasures the reward of all who reject got a the advance of old buck, walked by who the clouds cloth which drawn the north suddenly down aslant rise to me was an saw it seemed have that to sparkled for caps were never This might, lew. perhaps, lie of arc very the tender and the river bank, looked made to that 1 knew the marshalling their brows. Their dresses at decidedly the sex, ot was soon engaged an up. but David me, wayfarer Swan. Virgin over were any expected iu desert, the but the here in repelling furious same attack insulting and walked ofF. north gesture, slowly winds completed and shabby, had yet a they ceitaiu with smartness. on kissed it his was lie thirsty lips, a were not, or is California, ot especially in the true by the long-legged twain. The I there trade, and, having attack went to got for the soft They inc assault the south couplo rascals who ot himself flung eager sml then along brink, on the were a As rule, the farm-houses of country. fierce. Their long, hard bills a the though I well wind. at treatment, On the black their cloud. The living by whatever Satan was got sent angry head shirts came pillowing his and upon some California and their surroundings clashed viciously scornfully they scolded knew are a that I ought leave the valley wind south still interim to at blew fiercely, it them, and the other but ot as pair tied of pantaloons iu striped in now a up a perpetual sign Sale.’ of ‘For Un and I the point of heating I, like many loot, resolved could the the business, had joint stem assault from staked the profits of me, on uot the Arctic was to once, a handkerchief. cross The snnbeams cotton of those tanas families and have disgraceful when I heard, men retreat “Ho, and brave the danger. forded Birds So region. flew their piece ofvilliany stream before the next of a 1 3outh him could ;tl.e dust did reach reach on game not not a lived for of and still quarter century, Frank! Come and have mouthful of a a and rode into I spoke antelope and deer cards, which have been to decided storm; running to a camp. no one; from rain the road, after the lum of were was yesterday; has in been home rightful it whisky!” Recognizing voice, never the gladly any spoke The sullen braves for 1 had to shelter, reached "the here under the camping trees. one no me. and his lair suited my grassy the word. There has been ot I left in undisputed sense the never turned their backs rode I ground, and stood looking olf But, finding David Blcopiug by cranes past the the possession to on me as tar better than bed of down. young man a time that the husband and father has of a the water-bucket, and walked oft them. The girls curiously seeing looked north, the landmarks disappear whispered the his to ol young murmured drowsily The beside spring, one rogues spring iu intended sell the not to out ot parade the the course of the Riding store fur a to at slowly along, I cooled by fellow: the head of the ‘blizzard’ across me. floated one one him; the birds the blue ns sky across few and months, the tune that never rapidly. a I that I wanted, reached them and “Hist! shrouded them its Do the bundle company. under not in saw was over-head, and deep sleep, perchance you see a family has hoped lie would.” not Bidding Burr good-morning, declined I and I last fully realized that I in icy breath. head?” his at calm. Then, with A was hiding dreams within its depths, tell a upon the whisky grounds danger. I did dare ride to the mighty rush and The other villian nodded, to to loud noise, the winked head and on unnccessaiy not David Swan. a The Twin Senators*. barrel the had yet yellow head, of state; did south, out I have of ‘blizard' leered. the The air a swept past camp, nor courage He had slept only few minutes when me. a and—and—well, knew the I 1 tap. enough river. sat to the filled with bet attempt of ice “I’ll brandy,” particles of said General Burnside, who is nearing sixty to horn that cross cut was brown carriage drawn by handsome you a a a 1 and talked Burr, who to charge of “Before stood made great of through almost horizontally, the first, cither tent and seemed that chap pocket-book stands and elegant in his six lias was in tt.o erect me of bowling easily a horses, along, and years, a pair this extensive and before breakfast store, buffalo skins. It the if largest I had would fall. of faultless they Colder, else lie has little feet attire. Like old Uncle stand-still was brought in as never to nearly or snug ever a a was he it went with A curious stock. I halted, dismounted, and the wind, denser hoard Ned and the ot small change stowed over the lie has hair the of his head me. David’s top ever seen. front cf resting grew place. A linchpin air as away no on Everything could find in not stood silently horses particles head. thickened. No ice his Bhirts. if but his you at I sought shelter And there enough in branching Dundreary not an my lmd fallen and permitted of out among wc one Eastern here. As country store noticed Indians in went the Buckling shall find it in his Avhiskers the clothing pantaloon’s pocket. amends rocks. make tor that was to we past one me. wheels slide oft'. damage the The me, to upper was walked explained business he the apparently seeing to At last the I turned her winter chinchilla loose, luck. In the knowing skullcap me. not occasioned how if said me. a on mare slight and merely “But other. lie Avakes,” tbe a a momentary Alluring? Not all. He, looking at and stood before at that she would leave Then adds I lay to his His natty young not elderly woman came gentleman and His companion aside his waistcoat, me. alarm thrust me. to appearance. an his watch, said: “We have time before yet Looking right into said; she down face blankets, and is kind,intelligent, clear, than rather my eyes, wife, returning Bosteu iu the carriage. pointing the handle of dirk, on my to wrapping to my a breakfast look mare.” to at “What do want?’l looked her beaver coldly cloak around I Among tried he his sleep. strong. the takes <ny nodded. senators you to While the coachman and aud me, servant were sudden The change in the expression in faco the made Smiling, and reply. I began thinking, and could place “good fellows” rather not sleep tnc no replacing the lady and “So be I muttered the wheel, it the second villian. among gentleman of voice, softening the the of the she asked: “what brings here?’ buffalo The did south mighty in debate. that than eyes, as not the the They sheltered you themselves beneath the approached come among men unconscious this hard Indian trader his spoke of boise, Steadily I gazed into her and winter, and the wolves and Yet, occasion he found is have to gaunt and espied Duvid, and eyes was maple there the bubbling while pointed the dagger upon were trees, one excited and curiosity, I with went voiceless. and disappeared She left hungry. they of As follow plenty mind of his and my horseman lack me fountain and David toward the Swan asleep heart, the other began a own, no to him. He took low log to stable, the into the lodge. Soon Indian great plains iu of the and me the they do it. He his colleague, a to an Impressed search the bundle over summer, beside with the which beneath Ins head— so it. power express awe chinks carefully muddeci, the shutter warrior, full in paint bow with and in the winter, only of them, Senator open strung and Anthony, called “the their sheds wrinkled the humblest sleeper around him, two faces grim, and more ghastly are and door well made and fitted, carefully in his hands, Speaking to those famine-breeders, twins.” day great, gaunt the Any they be arrow trod came lightly with guilt me. the the and bent their gentleman gout lear, seen inuy armin-arm us as over exclude to the buffalo in Blackfoot, lit said; gnats ‘Wny so as and black in tugging largely the their victim, at and his terrified arc you would allow, took good loooking enough gray ones, go to be on avenue, increased spouse the few A short, heavy chains, this camp?’ replied,‘l To him I wish season. numbers. I had constitutional the Capitol. had pack ot walk to in silk dress, mistiik«“u fiends, should rustle her lest he suddenly David to tor a ed not care stretched from kept to the post post, trade to witli you.' More them day, tnen at heels all and Senator Anthony, who carries they should of awake. all sudden. Nay, had the villiuns came. start glanced my now near a sd up a horse in and other animals With out. They took seizing horse, and by cropped dozen in thoughts. and droops little, lugs my sleeps!” aside spring, soundly into me “How he whispered the they might up my more years, a id even pushing against the chain, breast topmost the they led into the lodge. “Finally but great I slept. When 1 it borne swiftly awoke and surely arm me old “from what themselves reflected gentleman, depth there. the have is ou Known a as handsome with her broad head thrust out, Here I seated and council dark. under Holding of naked hand the his twin. expansive Anthony was breath! Sw:ui had a draws that Such But David was was he sleep up my arm easy a never Avorn a more and alert, cocked forward, held. I and listened their sat to talk of I of ears felt icy ‘blizzard’ the the strike has face full gentle kindmss, sweat without aflcep ot brought opiate, tranquil when that, his aspect, a an even an as on stood snow-white She it what best do with to sharply it. The a mare. of the wind time culled the handsomest in against the at was so presumptuous would be worth than half mother’s income; breast. one roar more my looking the at with surprised white Some in favor was moose continued. waited, a still I it seemed Senate. It is than handsome still, a to man. were it would health and “I bundle,” take the lor Avliispered more must argue away an expression say: her face, much to of trading. The large majority ot the for when with on hours, I suddenly its beaming touched as as felt gentleness, untroubled mind. me, my one. “Well, have handsomer not Indians favor torturing of you breast. grown I and speke kindly softened, venerable were in beside,” said me. to “And youtli the lady. “But if lie stirs, I’ll strike,” muttered by mare paw my now years. during the night.'’ whistled, Burr and It decided that I should be saying tortured; her, she had made Both mistake. of these itli them was soon quiet “Health and sleep the other. does not a men carry a% an age with joyful neigh the turned her and they and discussed sat a the pawed atmosphere mare Soon and and worldliaess she again, I aspect not to thus. Our slumber is like But this dog scenting this me moment oi rose at no more a head toward him bade and him welcome. methods. After days’ talk two find that all he mistaken. dark, that to If quite I could bon vivants not many not wakefulness.” along beneath a than tlie go-und, the was our came on * The greeting between and animal it decided burn to I the white man Alarmed, in the I that struck was and gazed did elderly couple feel maple me. was Thus this alternately extreme see mare. interested at sense, you are sure trees, almost tender. The rubbed in condition strange mentally. I would was mare match under cloak and they have thriven looked long and well excellent a of in youtli, wicked and the unknown whom eacli those then the to a my at ou men her gently his and against breast, listen to plan of though nose torture it down the blaze. dinners expensive I nothing the to sort; that quiet ot a as wayside and the maple He lapped the sleeper. then of the out see secret saw Avere a the stood softly stroking other her they talking man but the they match burned With descending towards the shadows fingers. fountain. was some man with rich of damask were chamber, gloom my are a delicate neck. Unlocking the chains, about; and I would myself desolating comment to despondency with air of unmixed bonhomie delightful I realized the him. Perceiving “Pshaw!’ said villain, do brooding curtains “wo a an over one can they dropped. Burr walked toward the that plan giving at the chap but little fact that the glaze of the if praiseworthy. altogether to not on nothing dog’s encountered glimmered down Thu that sunbeam master bo stray snow must see, now. a well. The with dainty arched steps, chance for his life. But when dusky the mare few Lovers for the days had made of pleasure past they must certainly contrived behind.” his face, lady twist close the to me upon and flicking followed neck, tail, behind brave, who Blackfoot, spoke told that snow-blind: be that I fifty look just they do, und above miles from to drink yet aside, intercept it. And “Lot’s take and be off,” branch said the me to was us so as a a him, caressingly advancing side, his to I die by lire day, or to the I next higher and the house, and unable see; it finer hovers, if nearest that other. aspect was kindness, dime this of she began un to having a act as ruboed her body aginst his, though the derstood I the had that they furious as raging, in self-gratification neither had buried storm with The wa3 man like mother him. the dagger thrust to the to act a was ever man a with contact the grateful been talking about, and I said; know mere I “Stupid, wild the delicate man was almost with finest honor, the I laid into his and most “Providence have him pocket drew forth to uorror, weapon seems a her. His it to seemed instinctively to it.’ Clustering abound arm they asked chivalry me, thought I could hear the sniffing of manhood.— Sfrs.Cleiwnens, of the pistol, of in whispered she her husband, but that kind me, here,” pocket not which to lilted and dropped her if had I understood all the talk. ‘Yes; I Independent. across wolves, and the of their soft patter hither kill by single feet brought find discharge. “and have It flask hi to us a was a neck. had.’ Then why the maiden below the wild not shnek ot the Arctic disappointment in liquor, with block-tin answer him, ot tumbler after onr our a The walked two together, she sqoke i on when to not to winds. unconscious I simply benumbed with cousin’s Mcthinks I screwed the mouth. you likeness Each came terror. drank was can see upon son. a a Little Little. by of incongruity. A bucket of talk but trade any with men,’ to to The recalled myself by squaws, to departed comfortable dram and Henry. Shall left the with to spot, mare me we stood the well. The water at high-bred No I could do nothing by soft talk, ri’bbing cold her muzzle face. She use; to jests, little little him?” such laughter It gaining by awaken and their at my so many every you arc of it, smelt and, detecting creature and, having played hand, finally something my that with what purpose?” said the unaccomplished wickedness, day, be my resigned “To merchant, that they Aro less content. saw was wrong me, your expenses previous disdaintully refused myself fate. presence, to but what she could comprehend. I might not hesitating. of be said income, though it be “We know the youth’s have their than that ray not to your so gone on way drink after Emptying the feed bucket, to “I noticed girl who that the had first me. resolved saddle to her, her, and, rejoicing. In few character.” hours little, constantly accumulating to they had yet lorgotton you a are Burr drew and another, of this the spoken in front to of the lodge after she and to her let her ate, take and richer me “That I” replied the whole affair, growing richer and was mount countenance the imagined open every nor once drank slowly, her white face gradually watching She quickly mare would glance her So fed I her the remaining hnshed far me. wife’ in voice, that the recording day? Be the earnestly. angel had written content; own course. as concerns money, same so into sinking shallow the All and vessel. at then drop her the of barley, and waited for me, her down base doing to “This innocent sleep.” the crime of murder well. on eyes measure aguinst you arc parade, the the the return buckshin to shirt she embroidering across on Then I saddled and, without eat. their in gaining knowledge day While whispers souls was these passing the letters durable Arc ? eternity. up, were you every as as stable, the love re-enacted. As with Crow hair. Several times I noticed scene was bridling, mounted, and, wrapping didn't throb,nor his littie by little the breath Though it be sleeper* heart my aggregate they passed the showed her this, and replied I with smile. me mare cloak around steadily in the saddle, once agitated, his features betray As David of the accumulation, where day sat become tor Swan ho slept quietly, a me, nor no aversion by to laying back her The lodge emptied. Ail strangers awaiting the frisky of action the of iaterect. Yes, fortune neither conscious of the shadow permitted without adding token death were gone except the least ot to is pass and thrusting her white-toothed out She girl. the quickly ears to high-strung animal. She trembling stood bending him, just ready when it hung him, something the stock, will lie surprising the of came let glow to my over to over nor was vicious muzzle in causing side, refold apjiarently to buffalo till a manner, told felt me I her Then I renewed to her burden gold. The old life when that shadow yourself. of merchant some turn fall withdrawn. to go. was a hastily back. They passed into to step robes, und, in whisper, said: You ice drops until the obliquely struck did become a his only and had heir Solomon the had lost not to wisest are on son, no darkness the of the stable. Burr die To-night to to-morrow. I will have and comes right side hack, and she rapidly He slept, world minute. Little his wealth distant relative, with but longer quietly in the in except at my a no man a as with out bucket, the puts topmost the best horse in the saddled and a off. up walked Not motion first. An hour’s little- omitting camp conduct pleased. had by learn he In snatched movement whose not to a or something, was repose never chain, and after barley. The standing the outside of the lodge. I discompose goes did she make from frame mare his elastic day—always on to such people sometimes do the with for single seat. stranger my cases, weariness even a with outstretched head, after looks him will have from the the tent cut ° utside. Wrapped in cloak, with hood which hours little drawn things than the magician, and of toil had burdened always studying between reading, to act my many a with kind Again she and, You jump through, and dc for mount, eyes. face, and saw me, encouraged with it. Now ho stirred; in morning and in splendor who moved his lips the ot rising the awaken time over arm my w r young a man now up wide with opened mouth, reached around life. You You will hope, 1 patientey horse. without sound;now I down night; this the your escape. sat fell asleep in talked in laying to may poverty. at inwara on my a is way an the poet to the attentions of her burn if stay.’ Then with smile, pay me could hear the snarling of the the knowledge. repeated full of you a wolves, “Shall him?” tone to noonday of his accumulate store-house awaken not spectress now we a dislike. Returning the to stable with The is mine. She is the fastest and that they, dream. only fear rendered But noise daily improving a mare the lady, persuasively. of wheels Finally, rattling my was a are you carno of full bucket barley, Burr passed in. I animal of the valley the Yellowstone. in desperate might discouraged by hungry, ready, sir,” said louder and in character? Be attack the carriage is louder “The the along the road not because heard him the into the grain teedbox; give I her you.' left She thought—would to and pour dismissed behind. I the until dashed it little little. The best fall short through is by me it the midst servant, mare. men heard I him speak the to quickly resumed As her work. she mare think If did of as of it. they reddened David’s of themselves would wish not attack started, and slumber; what they to The old couple and there the wove us was girl,” heard his “dear I him—kiss the hair of Crow scalp-locks into ana if if I It it they thought burned wondering coach. He started he. is something, is much, lost; not, mutually that with his many stage all wu were you up away, her. the shirt I thankfully looking sat her. at thun safe. ‘blizzard’ ideas about resolutions to-day All day raged of doing anything him. keep good licttcr the should dream they we were ever singular A gentleness has She looked again. As I did come at than over and icily “Hallo, never tore The merchant himself driver. Take passenger,” he yesterday, better this week aronnd ridiculous. The threw saw me us. you so mare a steeled hard human suffering this to chance for life heart beat perfect, man, walked rapidly be cantered slowly shouted. did a back his carriage and occupied last Strive my my in to so or you year. on. whose business and it to impoverish loudly that I thought would be heard. it woe, was It seemed had “Room down-hearted been answered but that his mind of magnificent top,” the driver. do become with to traveling the plan not long so me we a on destroy Indians, their to morals, I calmed face and waited. I ate for days, Up David and approaching and my tor weeks, when for unfortunate of business. mounted he bowled asylum the nearer even, as nearer men away you are with the devil brutilv them alcohol. fairly of I to smoked All which stopped and loudly. without standard neighed enjoyed toward Boston, supper. Reaching Meanwhile Dayid Swan his merrily the high at to a pipe. you mare even nap. as breakfast table, silently the He kind sat at and attentive Night forward to felt parting rough much that fountain aim. were very I the stockade; The carriage could have glance at not me. above as a gone thinking, with bis antelope steaks and and still the Indians dismounting, accumulated; I felt hinges of dream like vicissitudes. fortunes was passing away, the mile jjirl He knew Little little, of the when by pretty two, are young a or a untasted before him. Watching lingered, the looking trout the at be burned is ; knowledge gained to Loudly I called. that phantom of little, Then I wealth had thrown gate. along with tripping which not little by took man pace, a my came a wondered what softened faco I the the I leaned back against and reputation rifle from the saddle, golden its was on morrow. and rapidly little hue little character 1 showed precisely how her heart that by little, handled waters, a upon nor was So asked: “Burr, why do I the myself, story. tent to rest when I felt cartridges of into it. love had sighed softly achieved. you At last in her bosom. Perhaps their sleepy it to dancing a one a was are mare?” He, loaked white love that kindly hand pushing gently forward. Sitting from inside voice the called of ot death hAd ‘Who motion caused—is that is there?’ the king that there threatened me murmur, nor one sad and, with smile, replied: whistling I felt the of at point knife answered Burr, and I with his blood; a I dead saying it!—her its crimson it me, harm in slip to all in to a come garter am snowblind. —Tiiey artificial to have going are an after in bed,l “To-night, the through and strike will neck. I did men are Come girth—if since he lay not me.’ They the brief hour to came,and I knot. Conscious the silken down that my to Niagara Falls the Paris Exhibition; at story.” Then tell flinch. the briskly: I could feel the blood trickle for saved—saved the it relaxed! its hold, you second time was—had she sleep. by silk was unless American is charged but fifteen an “Frank, Eat, down this business. boy, back, I could feel is not the knife white Do aside into of waking hear the wonder shelter the Sleeping my my that turned the maple the not I, mare. dollars looking has you or we for it, and his at then clear fish hunt You’ll carefully drawn down until it hit out. and the Sioux having the maiden, and footsteps of things or there found love her airy the strange that not trees, picked by h&ckman will fail pocket he a young man a find fool big ground. Still hens in the willow whistling I waited, some mare? the spring! Blushing happen. asleep by almost recognize it. red to my as as v Defective Page