ON THE OLD DROVE ROAD. 



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those going and coming to the winterings in the 

 low ground at the fall and spring of the year. 

 The old-fashioned drover and cattle-dealer's occu- 

 pation is gone. Auction marts have changed all 

 this. We live too fast now for the old methods 

 of locomotion to be of any use. Time is 

 money, is the cry. But nature has not changed. 

 The seasons come as before. Animals, birds, 

 and insects are the same in appearance and 

 habits. The same flowers and grasses grow in 

 the woods and by the road-sides. It is only 

 man that is changeable. 



