---- a : Se Be . pr tali 4. beet . 1 waco « to we Lea F as Homever we made a bent We co old at "Nay, my sin, they mst go om ft they | ward d liseovered that i could mot-cover less (state unde stakinge ef theipeople of Kor, who . ; i ar: thin fifty square miles of groand Anything 'lived, here 'in --- ap lost ages of the world, stop here they wilt certui:ly die; and, beside, the Exyptisn mone- The Old Books. amet " eed, worse even it, and smoketand ate wh t they. will be bette? va 6 gfand and int th the sight 1. ie . . 4 rok penne ne ill be in the , on t te ve 4 int posin: wD sree 'and, as in vet Deep in the past I peer and set dh ; haces ait 2 akin, and 'faint and ce Pepper ce t "7 4 oe : St 1 yet, grou" By se et 3 Th, wel wentel by p thas s aban rata eetage vo misints. We nt by 'ee terced labor of adie at u ci tt A : it k Bid THe phone weond--oddiy pea Ra TA @t-times. whowover " Se Sn elias hs marsh--awl in jood air 45 solitar? grandeur m the level of the teus thy qatiwe . wits, es ve re Who asks, | ike Otiver, for more. a hits i sa hot it was, # re glad enongh * Bg , pear Come, lat ta Itt their int the hitters eel na oe newer a aud i suppose never sins wales of centuries, pees ee 7 of his yea 'ence is Soar, fet wind SNE : be "nase we found that the at --- a 3 We bad to stand still im this ot! briny ee = deri on "| ~~ ager % the precipice in letters hath he skill. fu ind Usticw t ie m on we the bottom, or, did nai like the smoke, | Preyer sty we mei morning tog # can eat our morning meal towering eh 4 seomed to kiss the sky. ndee ie: face uf r pi i ho he dived in fairy lore ' ratherthe of wlitter, --_ h was re- ourselves up in gor yiseiinty find tried to ge ba as We RO generally speaking, they were clothed fn! iteeif, and 1 found + ourselves 'looking inte ~ tec uanet vel, L love hen still he if 'e for that purpose, andcar- sleep, but so far as Twas concerned the bull hte weRocordiy aly did, and jou a heavy i ou ° =e os ack i a upon their mouth o sd " rk "tt ~ that Z rien, Marg ried Tein niothe shade et the Seah of frogs and the extras sediiary and heart bence more set out upoet strange! broad and level battmemest of thos: undertaken By ov One gift the fairies gave "me---three the cave, from which, by. the ways every --e svund produced i fo ulus an is- of" JUrngy. For the first three Lours Sail went, I sat up in my hammock and gazed-ont; teenth cen exeocers in the construction They commoely bestowed of yore crams nt Se chen snipe hovering high in the air, ma! le sleep an a8 We Thos could be "ted and then an ac. @cross the 'ous at this thrifling and majestic <2 sen, Oat of this tunnel flowed a The love of books, the golden key hal. now fae oe arog, to say nothing of our other dis- 'tent happened that nearly , xt us the pleas: sight, and T we that Billali noticed it, for{considerable stream of water. Tivteed, hat opens the enchanted door ; Dreakfasted, ard a af spent comforts. I tarned and Jocked at Leo, who UF ¢ { the eotupany of our venerable friend p hel ade er alongsick caugh ot think have mentioned Behind it Bluebeard lurks, and o'er most of the two following ones was next tome; be was doging, Uut his to Billali. whose litter was leading the cavalcade "Beb A the hense of She-who-must-be-: it, we » had telowed th carn, which ulti- 'avd o'er doth Sack his giants ki On the third morning Job and myself were bad a fushed appearance that | asl st 'ike, We were going trough a particularly daa obeyed!" be said "Had ever a queen such a mately deve typed into the river I have salreddy sR Eye SO And-there, all Aladdin's ay . practically ree wered. Ta) also war so much and by the fli ring firelight Lcor Vetane, gervus plocr of quag tufre, in which the be a rs throne before/ describel as winding anay to the right from The books I evel, T love them sti etter that ki. Fichied WHMIS vften-ex--whe-awasdving-on-theolher sikle aisbtie. raise 5 : ik tip to their knees. Indeed, it "Lt is wonderful, my father," 1 answered. | the spot where the cutting in the solid rock ay 7 prosed entreaty and agreed to start at once herself from time to time upon ber elbow and a mystery) Wie Low they inneuk te; "But how does one. enter! Those «lifts look; ecanmencell! Half of ihe cutting formed a a 9 = all; "a leave my books upon-oar-} aurney-t6 Kor, which we were told look at him anxiously enouzh. carry the heavy litters at all over such gruund hard to « -- {channel for the stream and half, which-wee heavy creeds of old we re bore as the maine «f f the place whern tha mystert- However, I could do nothing fer him, tor as that which wo were traversing, though the! "Thou shalt see, my Baboc Look now at | placed on a slightly higher level--eight fget we il -- nm, mot wander frog ous She lived, though I still feared for tts ef- we had all already taken tree ply ar' bands, as well as the four regniar the pla ain below ua What thinkest thou that; perhape--was devoted to the purposts_ef"h Nor wear the heart that once we wore: 1.4, upon Leo, and espe i test the -- quinine, which was the cooly p uta © sof course to put their shoulders to itist Thou art a wise man. Come, tell me." readway, - At the termination of the cutting, Not now each river seems to pour eueukh cause Ste wou y had; so I lay and watched the star ut thy J pel Llooked and saw what appeared to be the however, the stream turned off across the His waters from the Muse's ss hill; Astnevedd ortet, £0 : Shy thousands tit-all-the inumenw ar cha of. Presently, as we biundered and Goondered line of roadway running straight toward the jain ap { followed a channel of its own. At oi 7 Thoaa® saeeee gone from siesta 4 it. not loon for Billa i heaven was sewn with glitters ports on 4) along, there was.a sharp ery, then o storm of base of the mountain, though it was covered! the mouth of the cave the cavalcade was shore till get off, whieh Jed us to suspe athat same dif- every point a aworkl- Here. was a_gioriows } ons, and, last of all, a mot tre-) with turf. There were high banks on each halted, ani while the men employed them The bowks I loved, T-love shane 20 . alty ordanger might threates usif we did) sight, by which man mix "he well menstre his nienlOus sy lash" and the hole eairavar sited} 'eile a it,-broken here aud there, but fairly selves in Ughting some earthenware lamp+ Sein REREAD not comply with it, i would not have con own insignificance T gave up thinkin I jumpe: <i out of my litte? and ran forward,, continuous on the whole, Ly meaning of they Bad bioGgit Wit them, Bittat, dessend pean protest tessional Spent ORs pba ta yO, about it, for the mis he wearies easily when it About twenty yards ahead was the edg vot, whic th I did net understa It seemed so! ing from his litter, informed me polite ly but ftev. FP. Cianner,;-M. D.,-of Listowel, - ~~" strives to grapple with the ti one.of. those suilcn peaty pools of which 1 very odd that anybedy « maki enhanc a road: | ar that the orders of She were that we e: have spoken, the path we were following run-, Way rea now to be blindfohind, ¢o that we sbould bs: suppose P not learn the secret of the paths through the the footsteps of the Almi from sphere to sphere, or deduce his purpes "We il, my father," T answered, ning along the top of ee which, as it wise I would have bos n bowels of the mountains. To this I of course Ont., says regarding B.B.B., wt have naw CHAPTER X. toward, that it is a road, other arnction 'ae in my family since 1588, anit RPECULATIONS. from his works hanpened, was a step one. Looking -- hold it No, Lon _ay, list of sanative reme Within an. houk of ont flaaily deciding to| Above me, as Tlay, eee eternal stars, this pool, to my horror 1 saw that Biiint's: incHned-tosay that it was the bed of a river, assented chee rfully enough, bat Job, who dies, Your three busy Ba never sting, start, five litters Were tt Hyght ap te the deer-and-there-atiny feet the upgel marsh born litter was floating on it, and as to Bilali hia, or ratber," added, observing the extraor- Was now very hiteh better, notwithstanding weaken or worry." of the eave, each acec muenied by four regu- balls of fire railed = way and that, vapor self he was nowhe re to be seen, To make dinary directuess of the cutting, "ef a canal." the Journey, did not lke it aball, fancying, 1 ; SA ' lur Learers and two spare Lands, also a hand tossed and earth desiring, and methought mstters « lear Lo may os well explain at ouce Pillali--whe, by the way was uone the believe, that it was but a preliminary hed : for bis immersion of the day before-- being hot potted. He was, however, @ lite what happened. Ome of Billali's bearers had Wet a lef about fifty arnwd Amahagger, whe were that in the two Isa atype and immce ' to form the escort and carry the bayzage: what 'nan is, and-what perebenes nuns Li) unfortunitely trodden on a basking snakes noxidod bis ive in sagely ashe replied. 'Thou consoled when I pointed out to him that there "Tiree of these litters Of Course' were for-us-one day be, if -the-living force that ordained, thick had bitten him in the leg, Whereon Te' net right, myson. -ft reachannel cut-out by. were. no hot pots handy, and, so far as i aad oietor,Lillali, who, I, pial immensely hini and them should so ordain thisalse, Ob, bad not unnaturalty k it go of the pole, and} these who were. before usin this place to, kuew, no fire to beat them in. As for poor relieve to hear, was to he our companion, that it might be ours to rest year br year' thew Gadiigde--was--tauabling dywn the, cary away water, Of this am I sure: within Leo, 'after turning restledsly for hours, y cree of the great" ionntain bad. tomy deep thankfulness; at bank grasped at the litter to save Litoself., the roc @ s : A 'histor zv -of Adventare whi a the fifth I yreenyes was for tho use of --_ that high level of the heart to which at last <Lropped Us times we momentarily attain' Ob, that we The result of this was what might have been whither | we journey was once a great lake. off iuto a sleep or stupor, I don't know which, he, Bat those who were before us, by wonderful. 8¢ there was no need to blindfold him, The - ome PRET HE "Doss. ge pith us, my father?" I pone sbake loose the prisoned pil iions sof the expectal, The litter was pulled over t By a. RIDER HAGGARD. asked of ial superintending sou jr cbence, edge of the bank, the bearers let: go end the! arts of which] know naught, hewed a path blindfolding was performed by binding s i acai things genera 1 nee tit a aieh whole thing, including Billali and the man for the water through the solid rock of the piece of the yellowish linen, whereof those of [coxTixeeD.] FS uy, shoulders as be answered: space from Darien's giddiet peak, we ight, "bo - been bitten, rolled inte the slimy a ee " aa eee of the the snabesees ine econ ng -- 7" wear she wills. In this country the Women do gaze with the spirit eyes of noble thaushts pet ben 1 got to the edge of the water ©. first they cut the channel that thou: anything in particular made their dresses, 1 waited till be had turned, and'was nearly what they please) We mae them. and ~ soe Sicinmenet neither of them was to be - and indeed! seest across the plain. Then, when at Jast the ' tightly round the eyes, This linen, 1 after. -Qhrough the entrance, walking soltly on -tip- givethem their way, because without them What would it be te cast off iho u . ag mat rtunute bearer never was seen again,; Water burst out, it rushed down the channel, Ward discovered. was taken from the tombe ors art Scor ee the world could not go on; they are the source robe, to have done forever with théve rurthiv, 2b e struck his head against something that had been mude to receive it) and crosses my and was not, as I had at first supposed, of « y. ot: ih of life. thoughts and miserable desires; er. or got wedged in the mud, or possibly the this plain ull it reac' 'hed the low land behind: pative manufacture, The bandage was then Yes, my son, it is 1} bat sg me not dis "Ab." I said, the matter never having like those « ore candles, to be Soni The makebite palayzed him. At eny rate, he the rise, and there, perchance, it made the! knotted at the back of the head, and i finally = ae -- 1. did but.come to see how thou vk mein that light before, way ard that by forces far beyond our con- vanished, But though Billali was not to be! swamp through which we bave come. Then, brat ght dewn again, and the ends bound ad hates i: 4h pre a 1 Bhar wee "We worship them," lhe went on, Wap toa "trol, or, if we'Can Uhtarettontty eontret theen,-soun. bis. whoreabouts.swas.clear enough fran) when the lake was drained dry, the people under the chin to prevent ite slipping. well : a are bY certain point, till at last they get unbearable, are yet driven by the exigencies of our na-' the agitation of the floating litter, in the; 'whereot t speak baits inighty city; whereni ed siaie a ashy. the was, abo blndfalded. A now on their road he She said that' ' which," he aided, "they do about every sec- turetoobey! Yes, to cast them eff, to have bearing cloth and curtains of whie h he was) naught but ruins and the name of Kor yet re do not raen why, unless it was from fear aoa mot val a ela at once, but. fear: ye! ond generation 'done with the foul nog thorny pri of the entangled. ineth, on its bed, and from age to age that she should impart the secrets the "Nay *y said, "not till we gc | "And then what do you do!" T asked, with) world, and,- like those glittering points! "He is there! Our father is there!" said one | he ewe the caves and passages that thou wilt route to us. This operation performed, we - --witties initio +eaw-Lorus.outinte the day- curiosity. ' above me, te sit on bis m wrapped forever inthe of the men; but bo did not stir a finger to! we." tarted on ones more, and, soon, by the <.--~Fhen,-he-ansixered, with, a faint smile,) brightness of our better selves, thateven now help him, nor did any of the cet, They, "It may be, "Banswered. "But if so, how © echoing sound of the footsteps of the bearers simply stood and = tared at the w: jis it that the Inkes do not fil up again with aud the increased noise of the water caused by reverberation in a confined" space, I shee, ther. this ot ted may. Fe ace we rise, and kill the old onés as an example; shines in us as fire faintly shines within thane' to the young ones, and to show them that we) lurid balls and lay down our littleness in that! are the stro rest. My poor wife was killed! wide glory of our dreams, that int isivle but) English, and throwing off my t in that wa three years ago. It was very, surrounding goul from whicb all truth and, run and sprung well out into the berrid slimy ple, and they lefta drain to keep it ia. to the bowels of the yreat mount wae sq) Sad, but to tell the truth, my son, life has; beauty comes! {looking pool. A couple of strokes took me| Seest thou the river to the right? and be ain It was an eerie sensation, being borne ma x Yesrhappior- sincs,Lor my age protects... These and many sah thonxhts passed | to where tenes wns struggling beneath the) pointed to a fair-sized stream that wound slong into the heart of @ mountain we knew from the young ones." through my mi nd that "niche They come to " | aS from net whither, but I was getting used to eerie "{n sliort," [ replicd, quoting the saying of torment us all at tines I say to torment, for] 1 ma "That ix the drain, and it come' Out' Sensitions" be this time; and--by-now- was» and bi thecngls the' mountain, where this cutting pretty wel) prepared fer anything. Sol lay ves ins: At first, perhaps, the water ran still and listened to the tramp, tramp of the "Ak, no, he answered; 'ithath a sad air. "Out of the way, you teutu!" I shouted in} the rains{" Lremernitae when [vas a boy I found thg hat, I took a ay, my son, the people were a wise pec I knew that we were entering in . body of ong! vounan living winere you lie - now, yore ery ben ch. poate that fasel tinny in here ----= lamp and ee. _apouhes, Had it not been for ber cold hands, almost coula i think thas awsulwonld cloth. Sumo, Idon*t quite know how, to push this free from him, ane, so Ltr whos: tse has not yet light- alas! thinkins can only serve to measure out) age se mt: ait : oes and peaceful was she in her robe of w a ougtit, What is the use venerable hea: all covercd in green | & White was she too, and ber hair was yoo: -- found thy position one of greater free- of our feeble crying in the awful silence of ke that of a~ yellowish Bacchus-wi da-ivy| down this canal, but afterward the people bearers and the rushing of the water, and and lay down her almost to the feet. There dom and } cet Can our dim aay or read the leaves, emerged from the surface of the, turned it, and used the cutting fora road." tried to tetleve that fvras arene are many such stiff in the tombs at the "This phrase puzzled hima little at first from) secrets of that star strew "4 Does any water, The rest was casy, for Billali was an} "And is there, then, no other place where Presently the men set up the inelancholy lit- where She is, for those who set therm 'ite vagueness. though I think may translation gpswer come out of itt 'Newer any at all; eminently practical individual, and bad the) * me may enter jato the great mountain," I ter chant that I had heard on the first @ight 1 had a way 'TL know naught of, of kowpiog bit off its sense very well, but at last be saw nothing but echoes and fantastic: visions) common sense not to grasp hold of me | asked, except thr: ee te drain when we jwere captured in the whaleboat, and their beloved' out of the crumbling band it, and omer iated it. . And yet we believe that ther is an answer, drowning pute often do, so I got him by the) "There is a place," he ol "where the effect produced by their voices was whan of decay, even when ~ death had~ stain "Yes, yes, my Baboon," he said, "I see it, and that upon a time o new dawn will come arm, and towed him to the bank, through the) cattle and) nie: on foot may Cross with much curious and quite indescribable on paper. them, Ax, lay by day I came hithe: * now: but all = 'responsibilities' are! killed, | blushing fown the ways of our wont, me of iste h we were with difficulty) Iabor, | wit it is secret. A year mightest thou \fter awhile the air eS ee Lon her, till at last--langh not at ine, °° least most of them are, and that is why) night. We believe it, for its reflected beauty! dragged. Such a filthy spectacle as we pre-| ch and shoukist never find it. It fonty thick and beavy, so much #0, stranger, for I was but a silly Ind--I there are so few old women about just now. oven now shines up ential in our bearee sented I have never seen before or since, and med once a year, when the herds of cuttle felt as though | were going to choke, 'il an to Jove that dead form that shell that once) : Well, they brought it on the tnvel ves As for, from beneath the horizon grave, und it will perhaps give some ic idea of the almost! that have been fatting on the slopes of the length I felt the litter take a sharp turn, then irl," he went on, ina gra tone, "I. we call it hove. W ithout hope we should nr ain ca dignity of Biliali's appearance »/ mountain, and ou this plain, are driven inte .and another, and the sound of the running water ceased. After this the air got vohad held a life that nomore is.-1 would creep: this & ap to ber and kiss her cold facve and wonder know not what tosay. She isa tenes girl. suffer morn! death, and by the help -of hope, When I say that, coughing, half drowned, a0 = space within. how many men had lived and died] since she and she loves tbe Lion (Leo): thou sawest bow | we may yet climb to heaven; or, at the worst, covered with mud aud green slime as he was And tloes She live there always #" I asked,; fresber again, but the turns were continuogs, was, and who had loved her and smbraced | She pear to him, and saved'his life, Also, | if sbe also prove buta aged mockery given, with his beautiful beard coming to a dripping} "OF does she come at times without the moun- and to me, blindfolded as I was, most be- + her in the days that long had passe! away. ,#he is, according to our custom, wed to him, | to hold us from despair, be gently lowered _ like a Chinaman's freshly oiled pig tail,| in © . 5 | widating. I tried to keep a map of them in 'Aud, my Baboon, 1 think 1 learned? wisdom 8nd she bas aright to go where he goes, un | into the abyses of eternal sleep. venerable aud Seaposiegs "Nay, my sou, where She is, there She is."- mind, in case it might ever be necessary for - feemn that dead one, for of: a truth it tangit item," he significantly, "She sboulc|! fe ae ee aren eis waite) Ye doge!" be sald, addressing the bearers, | By now we were well off to the great plain, us to try and escape by this route, but, need- + 'gme of the littleness of life and the length of ay her no, for her word dverrides al ing on which we were bent, and whats wild aasoon a be had cufficiently recovered to| snd I was examining with delight the varied, less to gay, failed utterly. Another half hour > death, and how all things that are under the rights." one it was, and yet how strangely the story speak; "ye left me, your father, to drown.| beauty of ite semi-tropical flowers.and trees, or s0 passed, and then suddenly I became ore "And if She bade her leave him, and the) eonneil ab ie it What had been written; Had it not been for this stranger, my son the releeargy Siang eoilatine:iab-aaposarina pgs peep Mae Sanh conch the opes ~~ gotten. "And so mused. and it seemed to girtrefusedt- What.then!". - | centuries ago upon the sherd. Who was this boon, assuredly I should have drowned. clamps ree or four, muc: could see rough my band- Se that wisdom flowed into me from that! "If," he said, with ashrug, "the hurricane' extraordinary woman, queen over a remember it: and-he fixed-them} being of large size, and belonging apparently! age and feel the freshness of it on my face. A dead one till one day my mother, a watchful bids a tree to bend, and it will not, what | seeeney as extraordinary as herself and, with his gleaming though slightly watery eye to . oak. There an woman but hasty minded, geoing I was bappens reigning amidst the vestiges of lost civilian in a way I saw they did not like, though they] 8/80 = nany palms, some of them more than and I heard Billali order Ustane to remove changed, followed me and saw the beautiful And 'ken, without waiting for.srcanswer, | \ ton? And wins mu ie the meaning of this! tried to appear sulkily indifferent, 'As for] 100 feet high, and the largest and most beau- her bandage and undo ours. Without wait i | he turned and walk walked to bis liter, and in ten ten! stery pf the fire rom unending life' | thee, my sn," the old man went on, turning] tiful tree erns that I ever saw, about which ing for her attentions I got the knot of mine deed I was. So, half in fear cnd half in; Minutes from that. time we were welll Could it helene Pograth any fluid or essenct toward inc and grasping my hand, "rest as-| hung clouds of SE ster-o honey suckers and' loose and looked out. anger, she toSk' the lamp and, standing the under way ! winged. butterflies, Wandering about dead one up sgainst the wall there, st fire to It took us an hour and more to crow the| walls that they should from age to age resisi | evil. Thou bast saved my life; perchance a Ss, ber hair and she burned fiercely even down to! cup of thevoleanic plain, and another' half! the mines and batterings of decay? It wat day may come when I shall save thine." feathered' grass, we all varieties of game,| burn ex. hour or-o to climb the edge on the further, possible, though not probable. The fadefinite! After that we cleaned ourselves as best we from rhinoceros down. I saw rhinoceros, cellently well. See, my son, there on the, 'gide. Once there, however, the view was al continuation of life would not, after all, be could, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga and very fine one. Before us wasa long, stew, half so marvelous a thing as the production minus the man who had been drowned. [| *able antelope, the most beautiful of all or there of life and its temporary endurance. And if don't know if it.was owing to his being an| bucks, not to mention many smal enough, on the roof of the sepulcher was a by clumps of trees m ro true, what then? The who unpopular character, or from native indif-| of and three ostriches which scudded 1 iavly unctuous and sooty mark, three At the bottom of the gentle slope, some nine found it could no doubt rule the world. " He ference and selfishness of temperament, but | aWay at 'our approach like white drift before, -- riure across. Doubtless it had in the oF - miles away, we make out a dim) could accursulate all the wealth in the world, am bound 'tosay that--no seemed to a gale, So plentiful was' the game that at "h the'foul vapors bung! and all the power, and all the wisdom that is grieve much over his sudden and final disap- last I could and it nolonger. I had a single barrel sporting Martini with me in the litter, course of years been rubbed off the sides of 5€2 the little cave, but on the roof it remained, like: ne about a city. It was easy going power. He might give a lifetime to the study pearance, unless, perhaps, it was the ine ny and there was po mistaking its appenrance. for the bearers down the slopes, and by mid-' of each art orscience, Well, if that were so, who had to do his share of the work. the Expres¥ being too a, and, "She burned," he went on, in a meditative, day we had reached the borders of the dismal and this she were practically immortal, which : e=pying a beautiful fat eland rubbing himself; "1 way; "evento the feet, but the, fers 1 came, sainp. * Here we halted to eat our midday, I did not for one moment believe, how was it oe CRAPTER XL awe | ander one of the oak ike tres I jumped out wool) WS ot Sieg Sete ii » back and saved, exiting Ces tened t -- from | meal, and then: following «winding end; that, with-all these things at her fect, she pre-, " di rate. Hea litter, and proceeded to creep as ; them, and bid them under th 6 bench devious -- path, . plunged _ into the morass. | ferred to remain "in a cave among a society) THE PLAS - } bien as I could, He let me come within bin 60] F. BLOXAM, there, wrapped up in a piece of li ; of cannibals! 'That surety settled the ques} "About an hour before. sufidown. we at last,| yards, sand then tarned his head and stared| s rous, and to my unbounded gratitude, emerged Kiocal 85 ee Taking running away. T lifted! SLATE ROOFER rifle, and taking him about midway down! | 3 mber it as though it were "ty t | customed éye, seemed to grow so faint as to tion. The whole story was monst jd laggy Perchance they are there, it ih almost indistinguishable from those made, only worthy of the superstitious days in which the great belt of marsh on toland that swelled} the have found them, even to this Lour, Of al by the aquatic beasts and birds, and it is to, it was written, At any rate I was very sure, upward in a succession of rolling waves. Just the shoulder, for he was side on to me, fired. ' ? truth, I have not entered this chamber f from this day a mystery to me how our bearers! that I would not attempt to attain unending on the hither side I never made a cleaner shot or a better kill in Canadian and American Slate. 4 that time to this very day. Stay, F will look, | found their way across the marshes. Ahead life. I had had far too many worries and wave we halted for the night. My first act! all my small experience, for the great buck Sie beak heen Pr mo Seco ae and knecling down, be groped about with his) of the cavalcade marched two men with long) di i ring was to ctamsine Leo's condition. It was, if] sprung right up into the air fell dead. | on joug arm in the recess unvler the stone bench. poles, which' they now and again plunged) my forty odd years of existence to wish that anything, worse than in the morning, 'and aj The bearers, who had all es tonee the gar Shingled Roofs also Repaired. e Presently bis faze brightened, and with an} into the ground before them, the reason being this state of <aaire should be continued in- new and "very distressing feature, vorniting, performance, gave a murmur of surprise--| exclamation he pulled soraethiug forth that that the nature of the soil frequently changed definitely, And yet I suppose that my life set in and continued tilldawn. Not one wink an unwonted compliment from these sullen! Yard, No. 15 Milton Bt, near G. 3 T. RB. Statios cae caked in dust, which be shook «mn to the|{rom causes with which I sm not acquainted, rm been, comparatively speaking, a happy of sleep did I get that night, for I passed itin people, who never appear to be surprised at, Box tor, sermttor EO fence roger floor, It was covered with the renains of | 80 that places that would be safe enough to, one. 3 , who was one of the "moat| anything--and a party of the guard at once! ext notice. i cross one month certainly swallow And then, reflectitig that at the present ee tad ioletegitte nurses I ever*saw,|Tan off to cut the animal up. As for myself. Btratiord, March 9, 1887. ' : Never did I see a moment there was far more likelihood of our to wait upon Leo and Job. However, the air! though I was longing to have a look at . iT sauntered back to my litter as though I had| xO MORE Pp rotten rag, which he und lid, sand revealed to} che Pr the on stonished gaze utif ay shaper i waytarer ne rl aoe a ren mn more depressing scene. Miles on! earthly careers being cut exceedingly short here was warm and genial without being too | miles of quagmire, varied only by bright/ than of their being unduly prolonged, I at hot, and there were no mosquitoes to speak! been inthe habit of scion, aaa oR sayy ei there yesterday. : gree i ground, | last , a fact for which of. Also we were above the level of the feeling that I had goue up se degrees in "Thou seest, my son, the Baboon," he erie by deep and sunken pools fringed with | anybody who reads this narrative, if any 4 a ee which lay stretched beneath us pagan eee of the Amahagger, who sealed! ina sad voice, "I spake the truth ty thee, for| tall here is yet-one foot remaining... Take it, my) the frogs croaked incessantly; miles on miles} ful. . j eon, and gaze upon it.""y lof it without a break, unless the fever fog can} Whrr It weke gain it-wasjust_dawning,| fen fire. Thus it will be seen that we men | however I had never seen an eland in a wild; L took this cold fragnient Oferertallty in) be called a break. The only lifo in this great and and the guard an bearers were moving speaking com, soimparatively, if clover. ue ~/ttate before: Billali received me with enthn , my hand, end looked at it in the light of the) morass was that of the aquatic birds and the about like ghosts cieeagt the densé morning, By dawn on the following morning Leo was' siasm. lamp with feelings which I cannot deseribe,| | animals who fed on them, of both of which mists, getting ready for our start. The fire quite light headed and f fancied that he ss "It is wonderful, ny son the Baboon," be! so mixed up were they between axtonishment,| there were vast numbers, Geese, cranes, | had died quite down, and Trose and stretched 'divided into ae ee ee dis-| cried, "wonderful! Thou art a very great fear and fascination. It was light, much| ducks, teal, coot, snipe and plover «warmed | myself, shivering in every limb from the tressed, a sort, man, thongh 20 ugly. Had I not seen, surely: . ter 1 should say than it had been in the} all around us, many being of varieties that damp cold of the dawn 'Then I looked atiof sick fear what the termination of the) |I would never have believed. And thou! tr all so tame that} Leo, He was sitting up, holding his hands to,attac would be. Alas! I had heard too jarem thou wilt teach me to slay in. this PRICE. 280. PER ° living state, and the flesh to all" appearance, were quite new to me, ' ; was stil! tlesh, though about attics one could almost have knocked them over, kin hea, and Loge hah : ; : ashion! faintly aromatic 'odor. For the rest oak a eeicke Among these birds I especially' 'and his eye bright, and yet yellow around the! minal, anh wee ining sp Dilla one ame "Certainly, my father," I said, airily; "it is BRAN Tp not shrunk or shriveled, = oven black and}eticed a very beautiful variety of painted | pupil. jsaid that we must be-getting on, more es- nothing." CH $ ORE semasils. like Lit flesh « Yvptian: inum-j snipe, almost almost the size of woodcock, co with phe, ey "how do you A he [pecially as, ia gees tie et But all the 'ame ; cae Me up my! where) a flight more that than an| "4] feel as though I were going to some spot w! could be quiet and have ™! when "my father" Bi began to! ; --9 Ta8---- | a = 2 lieing, my prper mung within the 'next twelve hours, | Se fail ie down of take MITCHELL PORK PACKING ee ie bend boon alightly burned, iguana, I do body is perfect i « day of death--a very triumph of embalming, small ¥ or enormous is trembling, Poor little foot! Iset. it dewu upon the|not know 'which, that -fed,-Billali- told-me, wuld oF Tide wise 1 felt ine i of Leo had @ sharp attack of/got him ical a and started. 2 a rte veoewh sia gor fi life had it, soft step] the ps, they were, if ible, even echoed, and in the ead, with «iat, ccurage} worse than they had on the river, and Aid the only thing it was possible to do. under} our gaze. I ver, had it trodden down the disty day St death! |tormented us Undoubtedly, how-| the circumstances, gave country, a rat Tal tthe ramp asthe rims of suinae, Oa took titan To whose side had it xtoléa in the hash of}ever, the worst night when the black' slave slept soon the| awful smell of rotting hung -apatble floor, and. vho had. liste) (or its{about it, that was at times positively over- that I found Billali, and. explained to him eighteen miles ? Shayely itth foot! Well mi; "et , and the malarious exhalations thet: bow matters a : it have been ot upfion the prvand a uJ peared a at last to wots "T dould DRESSED y Hocs, _ e : monet rng aboat two cwsacres Steir] "Ab," be I wrapped' up up thin relic uf the is tin the|tent--a little oasis of dry land in the midst of" 'yhot, "the fever!» remnapts Gf the old linen rag, i had ev-|the miry wilderness--where Billali announced Las it badly; bat nomegaroneaent _ fren yt oe orp Tati: