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BETTY'S BUTTER. 



Betty Botter bought some butter; 



"But," she said, "this butter's bitter; 



If I put it in my batter 



It will make my batter bitter ; 



But a bit of better butter 



Will but make my batter better." 



So she bought a bit o' butter, 



Better than the bitter butter, 



And made her bitter batter better. 



So 'twas better Betty Botter 



Bought a bit of better butter. 



— Montreal Star. 

 Lan's sakes ! what a chatter 

 Betty made about her batter ! 

 Betty'd better bo't her butter, 

 Ere the bitter weed had put her 

 To such straights to save her batter — 

 'Long in the fall, or such a matter. 



— New York Sun. 

 It were better far for Betty 

 Had she bought her better butter 

 'Ere she mixed her bitter batter. 

 It were better had the Sun man 

 Kept his idle chitter chatter, 

 All about the bitter batter, 

 For a subject he knows better 

 Than he does about the butter. 



I received the Marble pocket axe you 

 sent me as premium. It is a beauty. No 

 camp outfit is complete without it. 



F. G. Stanley, Bangor, Me. 



Leaving Nome April 6th, 1901, I was 

 curious to know what variety of game 

 birds I should meet first and where. The 

 wild goose was the first, and he was a 

 goose, I thought, to be sitting around on 

 the snow and ice. It was on the Kusko- 

 kwim river and not far from the Bering 

 sea coast that I recognized his first mu- 

 sical call. I just lay down and rolled and 

 shouted, "A welcome to you, Old Man! 

 I do like to meet a brother!" 



We were not the only geese in the land, 

 however. I heard the calls of others for 

 several days. It was near the banks of the 

 river and the 24th day of April. The next 

 day sand hill cranes, swans, ducks and sev- 

 eral varieties of snipe were seen, the ad- 

 vance guard of the vast army of wild fowl 

 that come to this far away country to 

 breed. About the 1st of May I had met 

 common gulls in great numbers. The 5th 

 of May I saw what appeared to be the or- 

 dinary house fly. Alaska squirrels were 

 also out. Ptarmigan, or willow grouse, 

 were mating at that time. On the head- 

 waters of the South fork of the Kuskok- 

 wim, near the Kongallion mines, moose 

 were plentiful. The natives sold them to 

 the miners for $4 a moose. Mountain 

 sheep, white, and caribou were also plen- 

 tiful near Unalakleet, 60 miles North of 

 St. Michael's. The natives killed 80 cari- 

 bou in one week. 



L. L. Bales, Seattle, Wash. 



