DAN BEARD AND THE BOYS 



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American naturalist, and as Davy Crockett from now it may happen that the President 

 and Simon Kenton and Kit Carson were the of the United States, the Ambassador to 

 greatest of American scouts. In this way, England, and the Governor-general of Can- 



A LONG SHOT 



our little brotherhood and society of the ada may shake hands and say, "Didn't we 

 Sons of Daniel Boone may become the great- have bully times in those good old days when 

 est of American societies; and twenty years we belonged to the Sons of Daniel Boone?" 



TRANSIENT BEAUTY 



By CLARENCE H. URNER 



Last night as mortals slept, the elves of frost 

 Wrought with a will o'er earth a wonder- 

 world, 

 Like some rare scene upon a dreamer 



hurled : 

 The fields mail-clad, the waters smoothly 



glossed, 

 The leafless trees and flowerless plants em- 

 bossed 

 With weird device, or with quaint gems im- 



pearled, 

 And here and there a gust-rent flag unfurled, 



Have transient wealth for summer glories 

 lost. 

 See how the pageant glows beneath the dawn 

 Fit place for pranks and peals of elfin 

 mirth. 

 But, lo ! the grandeur fades, the charm is 

 gone ! 

 The wakened Sun-God winds his splendi .1 



girth 

 Close 'round the circle of the captive earth, 

 As if in warmth of love long time with- 

 drawn. 



