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STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. 



and retained in its compact coil 

 by some touch of jugglery which 

 I have not been able to divine, 

 as no gluten nor web of silk can 

 be found. Just try and roll up 

 one of these packages yourself, 

 and without recourse to your ac- 

 customed string, leave it thus 

 closely and firmly intact ! No 

 web, no gum, no stitch, but 

 much of the know 

 how. Whoever 



the clerk who does 

 up these packages, 

 he has a long head 

 and has kept his 

 secret from me 

 very securely." 



Since the writing of 

 the above, though not 

 yet any more enlightened as 

 to the author of this hocus-pocus 



bundle, I have several times observed a suspicious-looking brown 

 beetle nosing among its folds, and in his strange make-up freely 

 realizing the unconscious prophecy of the " long-head," for the 



"SKIPPERS." 



