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emerged and, entranced by the song by, to her 

 ears, the tender wooing notes drew nearer and 

 nearer unto the charmed circle whence the cym- 

 bals clanged and shuffled. Their notes became 

 less vigorous. More softly they fell upon her 

 ear, until finally, as she coyly advanced, they 

 ceased and the caress of the antennae took their 

 place. The other musicians noted the absence 

 of one of their chorus, and sounded their drums 

 the louder, but for most of them their labor was 

 in vain. Many of them doubtless go through 

 life unblessed by the presence of the gentler sex. 

 clanging their nightly calls from mid-July to 

 the coming of the hoar-frost, and to its biting 

 nip finally succumbing, possessed by the thought 

 if a katydid can think that this earth is a 

 desolate and cruel abiding place for such as 

 they. So have the most of bachelors human 

 and otherwise doubtless thought, as in the past 

 they yielded up the ghost. 



XVIII. 



Aug. W, '02. The Sabbath peace is once 

 again upon the land the peace and quiet of a 

 country life. The sky is hazy but the tempera- 



