AX ABRUPT TRANSITION. 



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Is not tliis abrupt transition comparable to certain 

 human existences'? He who to-day is a monarch, to- 

 morrow becomes a prisoner ; and so the noble courser, 

 free and unshackled in the morning, and king of the 

 prairie, in the evening is harnessed to a ha\vker's cart ! 



