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ph passed outfit after outfit exhausted by the way. He had reachedCopper Creek Camp, which was boiling and frothing with the excitement ofgold-maddened men, and was congratulating himself that he would soon beat the camps west of the Peace, when the thing happened. A drunkenIrishman, filled with a grim and unfortunate sense of humor, spotted ShanTung's wonderful cue and coveted it. Wherefore there followed a bit ofexcitement in which Shan Tung passed into his empyrean home with a bulletthrough
But Johnny Chuck is lazy and does not like to go far from his own doorstep, so when Peter called the next morning Johnny refused to go, despite all Peter could say. Peter didn't waste much time arguing for he was afraid he would be late and miss something. When he reached the Green Forest he found his cousin, Jumper the Hare, and Chatterer the Red Squirrel, and Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel, already there. As soon as Peter arrived Old Mother Nature began the morning lesson.Happy Jack," said
Y HAS A GOOD WORD FOR SOME SPARROWS The Song, White-throated and Fox Sparrows.IV CHIPPY, SWEETVOICE AND DOTTY The Chipping, Vesper and Tree Sparrows. V PETER LEARNS SOMETHING HE HADN'T GUESSED The Bluebird and the Robin. VI AN OLD FRIEND IN A NEW HOME The Phoebe and the Least Flycatcher. VII THE WATCHMAN OF THE OLD ORCHARD The Kingbird and the Great Crested Flycatcher. VIII OLD CLOTHES AND OLD HOUSES The Wood Peewee and Some Nesting Places. IX LONGBILL AND TEETER The Woodcock and the Spotted
sentials of Astronomy in twelve lessons for amateurs, will not make astronomers or mathematicians of my readers--much less prigs or pedants. They are designed to show the constitution of the Universe, in its grandeur and its beauty, so that, inhabiting this world, we may know where we are living, may realize our position in the Cosmos, appreciate Creation as it is, and enjoy it to better advantage. This sun by which we live, this succession of months and years, of days and nights, the apparent
d hear. She heard Danny Meadow Mouse running along one of his little tunnels under the snow.Plunge! Old Granny Fox dived right into the snow and right through into the tunnel of Danny Meadow Mouse. Her two black paws actually touched Danny's tail. He was glad then that it was no longer. "Ha!" cried Granny Fox, "I almost got him that time!" Then she ran ahead a little way over the snow, listening as before. Plunge! Into the snow she went again. It was lucky for him that Danny
ttering a legion of antiquated and house-bred notions and whims to the four winds for an airing-and so the evil cure itself.How womankind, who are confined to the house still more than men, stand it I do not know; but I have ground to suspect that most of them do not STAND it at all. When, early in a summer afternoon, we have been shaking the dust of the village from the skirts of our garments, making haste past those houses with purely Doric or Gothic fronts, which have such an air of repose