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THE WEST SHORE.
February, 1879.
WHKKK TIIK AVflKIH 1 ivckhkd
A little girl, with tangled locks cping from
11 ntr a calico ) I, clad in drees f chintz
loitered behind as the grcal dusty crowd mm i d
nut of tin gate of Mo nut A.lna tho other day,
fUr they had scattered their llowen ami done
honor to the dead. Dreamily she gar.od alt. i
them, her eyes lilli .1 with a far away look of
tendarnaas, until the laat MM had iittppMnd
and the rattle of the drums had died away.
Then she turnel and vaguely Maimed the
00. nod. that ma about her, clutching still
lighter the fading hunch of .lamb ilioni ami
rave grass that her chubby band held. An old
man naina liy and gently patted her curly hod
as ha spoke her name, hut she only shrank hack
till further, and when he told a iaaaing Strang
er that tha little "mi father waa one who died
kfaMttm I .ikk. The followinir beautiful and
truthful MH tinea tl arc from the pan of that
charming writer, the late Krederika Hremer,
wIioih) observations illicit well become rules of
life, ao appropriate are they to many of its
phases: "Deceive not one another in small
things, nor in peat One little iiingle lie has,
before now, iliiiturhed a whole married life; a
mall cause baa often great consequences. Kuld
not the ai in- together anil ait idle. Do not run
much from home. One's, own hearth in worth
more than gold. Many a marriage, my friends,
Is'gins like the rosy morning and then falls
away like the snow wreath. And why, my
friends ? liecause the married pair neglect to
be as pleasing to each other after marriage as
before, Eodearor, always, my children, to
pleaNc one another, but at the Name time keep
Qod in your thoughts, lavish not all your
thoughts on to day, but remember that mar
riage has its to-morrow likewise, and its day af-
RED-TAILED BUZZARD.
The red-tailed buzzard is a resident of every
part of the Union, and of Canada. It builds
its nest on the largest and tallest tree it can se.
leot in the forest, yet not remote from the
farm houses. The male and female toil hard
for eight or ten days, in carrying up dried
sticks, slender twigs, and coarse grass, or Span
ish moss. The nest is large, of flattened form
and located in tho center of a triply-forked
branch, and contains four or five very hard
smooth eggs, of dull-white color, spattered
with brown or black. Sometimes, though
rarely, a nest is found upon an isolated tree.
The flight of this bird is firm, long-continued
and at times very high; and it sails a great du.
tance without any apparent motion of its wings
but often repeatedly utters, in a prolonged'
mournful cry, without inflection or variation
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saassl l STV ""' faith; , her band I,..
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h,m, L. T ?" beam ,i ku
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silhful hu.bands and g!'" fathers!' ( ""
Ad so that sa .;..i "f "Wallas,
joa." 'mma esteem and hue
LV.r.'V ::'Cy "'?'!."' the state of a
literate -f " m-mer by .
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of intensity, tho sound kae, with no other pur
pose seemingly than to admonish the usual ob
jecls of his prey of the danger in whioh they
"ml. Upon espying any of these, it niuaUy
T, V1 convenient perch, from which,
with closed wings, it makes a dart with almost
unerring accuracy and success. Squirrels, rab
ii, tnrae pigeons, chickens, wood-rats and
ncadowmiee are ita common food. Soft-shelled
tortoises are often aimed at by it, hot can
escap, , by diving. U ;, bold in ita assaults
upon the fowls of the farm-yard, and is much
oreaded by the farmer, in many localities.
A voi'Nn lady, after passing the Cambridge
'"'il examination, suddenly broke off her engage-
in. hi ,. .1 i . .
- ...oner sweetheart. A friend expostu-
11 .i,; her' but ,he reP. "I most merely
,L v,ew 00 the theosophio doctrine of
. niog.iuy loo()i Md - owe
w TV"1 tT wpowMo t is for iy true
woman to nsk her happiness with such a person '