A SUMMER DAY'S DEEAM. 



"Their shape would make them, had they bulk and size, 

 More hideous foes than fancy can devise ; 

 With helmet heads and dragon scales adorned, 

 The mighty myriads now securely scorned, 

 Would mock the majesty of man's high birth, 

 Despise his bulwarks, and unpeople earth." 



IT was a sultry day in August such a day as is sometimes 

 denominated " piping hot," a term of which, by the way, the 

 meaning is not very apparent as applied to weather wherein 

 not a breath of air pipes for the benefit of dancing foliage 

 when the piping of the feathered bands is discontinued for the 



