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crow, which chanticleer uttc« somewhat drowsily, and then 



a paalet, on the other by a hen. So we gathered up oii 



lobbies, unchamed and unlocked the oak which our faithful 

 n.gl.t porter Somnus had sported-and lo - a figure Iffllj 

 up ma cloak, and furred like a Russ, who advanced L" 1 



bade God ';''"''' S"'" ''^"'^' ^0 ^l'- -"--g S 

 bade God bless us, and pronounced, with somewhat of a 



for .gn accent, the name in which we and the world relict 

 "Chnstopher North!" We were not slow in return „g the 

 hug fraternal-for who was it but the "American wlds! 

 man ? _ vcn Audubon himself-fresh from the Floridas- 

 and breathmg of the pure air of far-off Labrador - 



JlZTrV^"''^''"^' '"'^ ^'"^ ''"'' "^ ^^i taken fare- 

 well of the mustnous Ornithologist-on the same spot-at 



IZf'Z'' T' It ™' --t"»g ghostlike in such 

 ft2 the I ''7/"^.''!^ f'"" ^ d-'"t region-almost as if 

 f.om the land of spmts. It seemed as if the same moon 



sad-now clear as a diamond, and all the starry heavens 

 wo e a sm,le " Our words they were no mony feek"_bu 

 m less time than we have taken to write it-we two were 



hre-wh,Ie we showed by our looks that we both felt, now 

 they were over, that three years were but as one day r ThI 

 cane coal-scuttle, instinct with spirit, beeted the &e of iti 

 own accord without word or beck of ours, as if placed her 

 by the hands of one of our wakeful Lares ; in globe of pure I 



began to whisper its sweet "under song;" and a centenary 

 of the fairest oysters native to our isle turned towards us 

 her anguishing eyes, unseen the Nereid that had on the 

 nstant wafted them from the procreant cradle beds of Pres 

 tonpans. Grace said, we drew in to supper, and hobnobMng, 



