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girl, "because you live on the other side of 

 the river now, but I will go with you to the 

 river's bank, and give you a kiss whicli will 

 put you to sleep here, and then you will 

 wake again directly at home." 



So Charley gave her the flowers and 

 placed his hand in hers, and they wandered 

 off together toward the river, through 

 meadows in which flowers of the most 

 beautiful colors and richest perfume were 

 as thick as the green grass which formed a 

 setting for them. Their feet hardly seemed 

 to touch the rich carpet as they glided 

 over it. 



At last they came to the river, a broad 

 bright shining river, and sat down on the 

 green bank where the murmur of the water 

 soothed Charley's senses, and made him 

 feel as if it would be so nice to go to sleep 

 there, w'ith the girl's hand in his 



'* Let me kiss you now, Charley," said 

 she, and as she bent over him, and he 

 looked into her blue eyes, and felt the 



tresses upon his cheek, he knew her again. 

 "It is Ethel," he .said. "Ethel with the 

 golden locks, shall 1 ever see you again?" 



He fell asleep before she could reply, 

 but he woke again in an instant, and was 

 sure he heard her retreating footsteps, but 

 when he opened his eyes, he was at home 

 in bed, and the sound he heard was his 

 mother's footsteps outside the door. 



" Oh, mother," said he, "I've seen Ethel 

 again! Ethel with the golden locks, and 

 I didn't know her until she put her arms 

 about me and was going to give me a kiss, 

 and then I asked her if I should ever see 

 her again, and before she had time to an- 

 swer I fell asleep." 



" Perhaps some day," said his mother, 

 " you will see her on this side the river, and 

 when she puts her arms around you and 

 gives you a kiss, you will know her again, 

 and be able to keep her always with you." 



" I wish she went to my school,'' said 

 Charley. 



C. F. Amerv. 



MAN'S J)ErENI)ENCE ON THE EOWER ANIMALS 



IN the AuDunoN Magazink for May, 

 1887, in an article under the title of 

 *'The Earth Puiilders," we took up the posi- 

 tion that man could never have lived upon 

 the earth but for the pre-existence of the 

 lower types of life that preceded him, the 

 general tenor of the argument emi)loyed 

 being that the soil on which man is depen- 

 dent for his food owes its fertility, and in 

 great part its substance, to the decomposetl 

 animal and vegetable remains of past ages; 

 that in the absence of such animal and 

 vegetable remains in the soil, there could 

 be no grasses, nor cereals, nor forest, grow- 

 ing on its surface, and no food for man or 

 beast. 



The earth was wo doubt fitted for man's 

 residence long before his first appearance, 

 but notwithstanding that man is so far su- 



perior to all other animals in intelligence, 

 he was less fitted to supply his most press- 

 ing needs than almost any other animal. 

 Even as a hunter he would have had a 

 very sorry time, unless the dog had come 

 to his assistance, and attached itself to 

 him. But the purpose of the present ar- 

 ticle is to point out that man could not only 

 never have reached any very high stage of 

 civilization without the aid of the ox, the 

 ass, the horse, or some other powerful ani- 

 mal, but what to many will appear still less 

 credible, that we Americans of the nine- 

 teenth century, having risen to our present 

 high stage of civilization and industrial 

 development by the aid of the ox and 

 horse, are still so dependent on them, that 

 in spite of the enormous resources at our 

 command, our civilization would not sur- 



