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enough of this nonsense, I'll soon put an 

 end to your disputes." 



And with that he took Charley by the 

 hair and pulled his head back across his 

 knee, and then with a long knife in the 

 other hand prepared to cut his throat. 



Charley saw the glittering blade and the 

 cruel purpose in the chief's eye, he felt the 

 point of the knife on his throat, and with 

 one desperate struggle for life and liberty, 

 struck out at the chief's face, and sprang 

 up trembling and astonished — in bed. 



"What did you hit me for?" said Bob. 

 "There, take that now," as he rushed on 

 the astonished Charley and struck him. 



Charley sprang out of bed in an instant, 

 and the two boys went at each other pell 

 mell, and rolled over together on the floor, 

 and made a racket that soon brought Char- 

 ley's mother up to see what was the matter. 



As she opened the door the boys jumped 

 to their feet and stood glaring at each 

 other with clenched fists. 



" He hit me first," said Bob. 



"I didn't," said Charley; "he hit me 

 first. When I awoke from my dream, and 

 sat up in bed, he came and hit me for 

 nothing." 



"Itaintso," said Bob; " he wasn't asleep, 

 he was only shamming. He had his head 

 stretched back on the pillow, and I just put 

 my finger on his throat, pretending to cut 

 it, when he up and hit me a whack on the 

 nose." 



" But that was the chief trying to cut my 

 throat with his knife, and I wanted to hit 

 him," said Charley. 



"Oh, what a lie," said Bob; "wherever 

 do you expect to go to ?" 



But the mother pacified the boys as well 

 as she could, and dressed Charley and told 

 him he should tell his dream after break- 

 fast. 



"Well, 1 think this has gone far enough," 

 said Charley's father when he heard it; 

 "dreaming about Indians and squaws and 

 getting his throat cut. Now that boy's got 

 to take a dose of medicine. If he don't 

 there's no knowing what he'll be dreaming 

 next; you mark my words." 



And so Charley saw the nasty black 

 physic mixed, and made many wry mouths 

 over it, but he had to take it. 



"Sarve you right," whispered Bob. "You 

 shouldn't have gone and said you thought 

 I was an Injun." 



C. F. Amery. 



THE AUDUBON MONUMENT 



THE preliminary work of the commit- 

 tee appointed to take charge of the 

 erection of a monument to the memory of 

 John James Audubon has been completed. 

 The various scientific societies in this coun- 

 try have been communicated with, and have 

 expressed their readiness to take part in the 

 work of raising funds. The several sub- 

 committees have met and agreed on the 

 design, an impression of which is here given 

 for the information of our readers. The 

 basic block with a medallion of the great 

 naturalist is to be of granite, the shaft ter- 

 minatinof in a Runic cross is a monolith to 



be executed in North River blue stone. 

 The ornamentation in our sketch is sugges- 

 tive only of the general idea; it will consist 

 for the most part of birds and animals with 

 which Audubon's name is especially associ- 

 ated, and the selection and drawing of these 

 has been committed to experts. The total 

 cost is estimated at ten thousand dollars, 

 and nothing now remains but to collect the 

 money. The monument will be put in hand 

 and the work progress as fast as funds flow 

 in, and every effort made to prepare for un- 

 veiling the monument in the early fall of 

 the vear 



