alone that Cupid choo=:es his candidates for the mad- 

 house. The "knavish lad" is no respecter of persons or 

 sex, as the immortal ^Villiam would soon discover, if his 

 canonized bones could burst their cerements, (juit their 

 narrow bed and revisit the glimpses of the moon that 

 overlights this summer habitat of the curly-headed god. 

 Now I coaii to think of it, William's bones needn't 

 go to all that trou])le. The sad, lamenting tone of the 



words, 



" O, love's bow shoots buck and doc," 



proves that he knew the ambisexability of Cupid's tricks 

 quite as well as he sestns to have known everything else. 



AN OLD "TOTE" ROAD ALONG THE PENOBSCOT IN EARLY OCTOBER. 



Funn}'^ indeed are some of the doings and undoings 

 of engaged couples. Here is an instance which I hope 

 the interesting couple with a pair of hearts that "beat 

 as one" will pardon me for giving away. They made 



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