THE OVERDRAW CHECK. 335 



American people, just to humor a fad, set about improving 

 that gracefulness of manner and ease of motion, in both the 

 swan and horse, by the use of the overdraw check-rein, then 

 we shall change the accompanjang cut No. 1 to that of No. 2. 

 Can any of my readers see any great improvement in this? If 

 not, then why torture the poor things ? 



THERE BE THOSE. 



There be those who sow beside 

 The waters that in silence glide, 

 Trusting no echo will declare 

 Whose footsteps ever wandered there. 



The noiseless footsteps pass away, 

 The stream flows on as yesterday; 

 Nor can it for a time be seen 

 A benefactor there had been. 



Yet think not that the seed is dead 

 Which in the lonely place is spread ; 

 It lives, it lives— the Spring is nigh, 

 And soon its life shall testify. 



That silent stream, that desert ground, 

 No more unlovely shall be found ; 

 But scattered flowers of simplest grace 

 Shall spread their beauty round the place. 



And soon or late a time will come 

 When witnessess, that now are dumb, 

 With grateful eloquence shall tell 

 From whom the seed, there scattered, fell. 

 Bernard Barton. 



