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PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



ship toiling in the surging storm, the taut-rigged 

 coaster or pilot vessel laying-to, to wait for the war 

 of the elements to cease ; the giant steamboat, regard- 

 less of wind or weather, cleaving with scorn the moun- 

 tain billows that oppose her course, or, more to ~my 

 taste still, the white wings of numerous crafts lazily 

 flapping against their spars, while the anxious skipper 

 earnestly looks for the semblance of a breeze, or super- 

 stitiously whistles with the hope of producing one. 



AME1UCAN CURLEW. 



If the doctrine of the transmigration of souls were 

 true, when our earthly course in the present form was 

 run, who would not wish to be transformed into one of 

 these migratory darlings, especially if those he or she 

 loved passed through the same change. 



But to leave dear dream-land and return to cruel 

 reality. A large-bore gun, say a 10, with the lightest 

 shot, is the best weapon to use for the destruction of 



