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efficacious liniment. These doctors are called “Euanees” or 
“ Greeks,” for they are presumed to have acquired the know- 
ledge of their art from ancient Greece. 
J. F. A. McNair. 
MARCH MONTH. 
Sing a wild song for March, 
Mad winds are blowing ! 
Sing a sweet song for March, 
Flowers are growing ! 
Stormily trumpeting, straight from the pole, 
North winds come surging. 
Urgently racing to reach their south goal. 
Hill and holm scourging. 
East winds from Finland blow clean and blow strong. 
Shrilling their keenest ; 
Surely, wherever they smite with their thong. 
Grass will grow greenest. 
West winds sweep freshly from over the sea. 
Blessing the daisies ; 
South winds slip softly o’er ploughland and lea. 
Murmuring praises. 
Yea, though we, doltish clods, stupidly dumb. 
Lack song sonorous. 
Fluting and mellowly gurgling they come. 
Birds in full chorus. 
Sing then a song for March, 
Rough month yet tender ; 
Ere leaves clothe oak and larch. 
Meet tribute render ! 
J. Lewton Brain. 
A Dog Story. — About twelve years ago, on November 5, at 5.40 p.m., on 
opening a side door of our house leading into the street, we found a Newfoundland 
dog lying outside, who immediately got up and walked into a room on the left 
hand, and laid down, where he remained until his master fetched him about 
11.30. Every 5th of November after, at the same time, that dog appeared at 
our door (as long as he lived), but he never paid us a visit at any other time. He 
belonged to a chemist living in the High Street, and why he should single out 
our house for quietness on that noisy night we never could find out. 
M. R. 
