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thus, and were now conie to an open place 

 in the town of Hamburg, so the driver told 

 me. Here, all at once, I nudged him with 

 a quick command to stop. " There it is ! " 

 I cried, as I whipped out my opera-glass. 

 " There 's a raven ! " " Yes," said the driver, 

 " that 's the bird." He was flying from us 

 in a diagonal course, making toward a hill 

 or mountain, at a comfortable distance, in 

 the best of lights, and most admirably dis- 

 posed to show us his dimensions ; but he was 

 silent and in tremendous haste. 



" Not the least obeisance made he ; not a minute stopped 

 or stayed he." 



If you would only say something ! I thought. 

 But he did not " call out," perhaps because 

 he was not " flying over." I held the glass 

 on him till he passed out of sight, a really 

 good look, as time counts under such circum- 

 stances. Yes, at the last moment I had seen 

 a raven ! Would the driver, when he got 

 back to Highlands to-morrow evening, have 



the goodness so to inform Dr. for his 



comfort ? 



Another thing I had accomplished : I had 

 supplied three male Hamburgers with abun- 

 dant material for a week's gossip ; for even 



