SE CRE TI VENESS. 



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Not a grief-deriding goddess on a pedestal but a 

 rat at the entrance of his hole would be the fittest em- 

 blem of patience. 

 Near the river- 

 warehouses of St. 



SUNDAY MORNING. 



Louis, Missouri, and 

 on the docks of Gal- 

 veston Island, you can 

 see their patriarchs 

 mounting picket-guard between sunset and twilight, 

 — gray old sharpers, not easily to be distinguished 

 from the surface of the dusty wharves, and still less 



