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Maria had experienced a sort of fearful joy when 
told that Lionel’s building? were on lire ; but when 
she saw Kichard at work to save them, she also be¬ 
gan to feel an Rnxiety to see the flames extinguished. 
This kindness toward her neighbors was followed 
by many unpleasant reflections touching the past, 
and the sight of Martha in distress made her con¬ 
scious that she had wronged her sister-in-law more 
than she had ever acknowledged to herself before. 
80 when she saw Martha retire to the fatal fence, 
and weep bitterly over her misfortunes, she went 
to her and asked her to come into her own house. 
Martha felt this kindness and thanked her; but she 
could not go in. She must see her own cottage 
burn. 
Then when the alarm was spread on Richard’s 
side of the fence, all Maria’s pity and anxiety for 
others was changed to fear for the safety of her own 
home. Martha saw the danger, and although a mo¬ 
ment before she might have felt a vindictive joy at 
beholding Maria as unfortunate as herself, it was not 
so now; for even Richard’s exertions in her behalf 
had not touched her heart like Maria’s single word 
of kindness. Women are more impulsive than 
men, and nothing knits together hearts at enmity 
like mutual distress; Martha and Maria fell into 
each other’s arms, and embraced, mingling their 
tears together! 
Richard’s fears for his cottage were but too well 
founded. The flames blew upon it from the stack, 
the shingles caught and all exertions to save it were 
in vain. Soon its light added to the general con¬ 
flagration, and billows of Are surged upward from 
the roaring roof, illuminating the country for miles 
around. 
Richard had been even more successful than his 
brother in saving his portable property, which was 
all conveyed to a safe distance from the fire. 
When everything was done the brothers stood 
together in the glare of the fierce light which shone 
from Richard’s house, and their families gathered 
around them. 
“You see,” said Richard, “I shall have to go 
with you into the old house.” 
“Pardon me,” replied Lionel, “I am afraid you 
will want it alone with your own family.” 
“There is room for all of us,” said Richard. 
“There was once—there is now.” 
“ Will you give me your hand, brother ?” asked 
Lionel. 
Richard made no reply, but extended his hand, 
while the dazzling light from the house betrayed 
the emotion visible on his features. 
“ We have not thriven since our separation,” pur¬ 
sued Lionel. “ Ours has been an ungodly quarrel, 
brother. Shall it end here ?” 
“There can be no better time,” replied Richard. 
“ After the awful chastisement with which Heaven 
has punished our folly, we should be reconciled. I 
acknowledge myself to blame, brother. I ask your 
forgiveness.” 
“ With all my heart, I forgive yon, Richard,” ex¬ 
claimed Lionel through his quivering lips. “And 
you wili forgive me, although I have been more to 
blame than you. As I was the oldest, I should have 
come to you first to offer you my hand, when we 
quarreled,” 
"Say no more!” murmured Richard. I forgive 
everything. Here is my hand again, brother! And 
our wives—” 
Martha and Maria were weeping again in each 
other’s arms. 
“ This is well,” said Lionel. “ Let this end all 
differences, law-suits and strife, which have proved 
so ruinous. We will tear up the papers, brother, 
which divide our land.” 
" And the old Louse,” added Richard, smiling 
through his team, will bo large enough and good 
enough for our families, for ten years to come.” 
“ We will never leave it till it falls down,” cried 
Lionel. “We were happy in it before the new 
house was thought of; and we can be happy in it 
still. And, oh, brother—sister—wife—children! 
let these four terrible years of unhappiness and 
strife be a warning to us in future!” 
They stopped not for the congratulation of friends, 
but by the light of the burning cottages took their 
way together across the fields toward the old house, 
which was henceforth to be the happy home of the 
reunited families. 
era into their new cottageB, Caisar had the audacity 
to chase one of Richard’s cats over the line. Rich¬ 
ard, who happened to be In the yard at the time, 
wbi 9 tled for Nero, whose rage was unbounded on 
seeing his rival within his domains. A skirmish 
ensued and Ciesar retreated over the board fence, 
but Nero, too much excited to use his ordinary dis¬ 
cretion, followed him, and fought him upon his own 
territory, reckless of consequences. 
Lionel heard the affray, and, it being late in the 
evening, and quite dark, he came out with a lantern 
to see what was the matter. Perceiving that Nero 
had Ciesar by the throat, and was shaking the life 
out of him with considerable dispatch, he placed 
his lantern upon the ground and ran for a pitchfork. 
Observing that his brother was about to make use 
of that formidable weapon to terminate the quarrel 
iu favor of Ciesar, Richard ran hastily to the fence 
aud was on the point of shouting a fierce remon¬ 
strance, when a striking accident attracted his at¬ 
tention. Nero had thrown Ciesar against the lan¬ 
tern and upset it; the candle had fallen out, and 
now the flames were creeping languidly into the 
straw scattered before Lionel’s barn. The pressure 
of a foot would have extinguished the lire, and 
Richard’s first impulse was to warn Lionel of the 
danger, but when he saw his brother set upon Nero 
with the fork, he thought, in his anger, “ the wind 
is north, my barn will uot be in danger,” and held 
his peace, shrinking away into the darkness to wit 
ness the result. 
Pierced with the sharp tines, Nero fled howling 
over the fence, pursued by Lionel until beyond his 
reach. Then Lionel turned back, and to his con¬ 
sternation saw the straw all in a blaze. 
“Fire! tire! fire!” he shouted, trampling upon 
the flames. “ Fire! fire I fire!” 
Hi 6 shouts filled the night with echoes. A mo¬ 
ment before Richard had been laughing in malicious 
triumph ; but the wild, startling cries of fire smote 
heavily upon his conscience. Much as he felt that 
Lionel had wrouged him, the sight of the flames, 
which he might have extinguished, oppressed him 
with a sense of remorse. 
“ I am no better than an incendiary!” he mut¬ 
tered, in bis wild excitement. “ But it may not yet 
be too late!" 
Lionel trampled upon the flames with furious 
energy. But the straw was dry and he saw the lire 
gaming upon h im , and darting its forked tongue 
towards the barn threatening destruction. In de¬ 
spair he cast his eyes towards the house and shouted 
again for help. Nobody appeared. The fire was 
within three yards of a large pile of Straw, heaped 
before the barn door. Suddenly Liouel was con¬ 
scious that there was somebody working by his 
side. He did not pause to see who it was, until 
the pile of straw burst forth one sheet of flames. 
He turned, and in the glare of light saw his brother 
Richard! 
The latter was laboring with desperate energy to 
6 mother the flames beneath his coat; and as his 
resentment gave way to gratitude for that one act 
of generosity, 
“Brother,” said he, in a trembling voice, “I 
thank you; but it is too late. The barn must go.” 
Richard raised his eyes to his brother’s face, and 
slowly withdrawing from the heat of the flames, 
murmured, 
“lam sorry! I am sorry!” 
“ God bless you, brother! 1 did not expect this 
kindness 1” exclaimed the agitated Lionel. 
“This is no time to talk,” said Richard. “The 
wind is getting into the west. I am afraid your 
house will go too, brother!” 
As he spoke, the dry straw and hay within the 
barn having taken fire, the flames burst forth 
through the cracks and crevices, and through the 
thin roof, throwing a wild glare of light around. 
form of the furious hippopotamus, that, springing 
half out of the water, lashed the river into foam, and 
disdaining the concealment of the deep pool, charg¬ 
ed straight up the violent rapids. With extraordi¬ 
nary power he breasted the descending stream, 
plowed his way against the broken waves, sending 
them in showers of spray upon all sides, and upon 
gaining broader shallows he tore along through the 
water with the buoyant float hopping behind him 
along the surface, until he landed from tbe river, 
started at a full gallop along the dry, shingly bed, and 
at length disappeared in the thorny nabbuk jungle. 
I never could have imagined that so unwieldy an 
animal could have exhibited such speed; no man 
would have had a chance of escape, anil it was 
fortunate for our old Neptune that he was secure 
upon the high ledge of rock, for if he had been in 
the path of the infuriated beast there would have 
been an end of Abou Dou. The old man plunged 
into the deep pool just quitted by the hippo and 
landed upon our side; while in the enthusiasm of 
the moment I waved my cap above my bead, and 
gave him a British cheer as he reached the shore. 
Hia usually stem features relaxed into a grim smile 
of delight; this was one of t hose moments when the 
gratified pride of the hunter rewards him for any 
risks. I congratulated him upon his dexterity; but 
much remained to be done. I proposed to cross the 
river and foilow upon the tracks of the hippopota¬ 
mus, as I imagined That the buoy and rope would 
catch in tbe thick bush ; but the old hunter gently 
laid his hand upon my arm and pointed np the bed 
of the river, explaining that the hippo would cer¬ 
tainly return to the water after a short interval. 
In a few minutes later, at a distance of nearly half 
a mile, we observed the hippo emerge from the jun¬ 
gle and ascend at full trot to the bed of tbe river, 
making direct for the first rocky pool in which we 
had noticed the hippopotami. Accompanied by tbe 
old Howartt (hippo hunter.) we walked quickly to¬ 
ward the spot. He explained to me that I must 
shoot the harpooned hippo, for we should not be 
able to secure him in tbe usual manner by ropes, as 
nearly all our men were absent from camp, disposing 
of the dead elephants. 
Upon reaching the pool, which was about a hun¬ 
dred and thirty yards iu diameter, we were immedi¬ 
ately greeted by the hippo, which snorted and 
roared as we approached, but quickly dived, and the 
buoyant float ran along the surface, directing his 
course in the same manner as the cork of a trimmer 
with a pike upon the hook. Several times he ap¬ 
peared, but as he invariably faced us I could not 
obtain a favorable shot; I therefore sent the old 
hunter round the pool, and he, swimming the river, 
advanced to the opposite side and attracted the 
attention of the hippo, causing him to immediately 
tnrn toward him. Thi 6 afforded me a good chance, 
and I fired a steady shot behind the. ear, at about 
seventy yards, with a single barreled rifle. As usual 
with hippopotami, whether dead or alive, he disap¬ 
peared beneath the water at the shot. The crack of 
the ball and the absence of any splash from the bul¬ 
let told me that he was hit; the ambatch float 
remained perfectly stationary upon the surface. I 
watched it for some minutes, it never moved. 
Several heads of hippopotami appeared and vanished 
in different directions, but the float was still; it 
marked the spot where the grand old bull lay dead 
beneath. 
I shot another hippo, that I thought must be like¬ 
wise dead; and, taking tbe time by my watch, I 
retired to the shade of a tree with Rassan, while 
Hadjii Ali and the old hunter returned to camp for 
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Iu a little more than an hour and a half two objects 
like the backs of turtles appeared above the surface; 
these were the flanks of the two hippos. A short 
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crocodiles they swam toward the bodies. One was 
towed directly to the shore by tbe rope attached to 
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and dragged to the bank of clean pebbles. 
I measnred the bull that was harpooned; it was 
fourteen feet two inches from the upper lip to the 
extremity of the tail: the head was three feet one 
inch from the front of the ear to the edge of the lip 
in a straight line. The harpoon was sticking in the 
nape of the neck, having penetrated about two and 
a half inches beneath the hide; this is about an incL 
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hippopotamus. It was a magnificent specimen, 
with the largest tusks I have ever seen; the skull 
is now in my hall in England.—(Sir IF. Baker'* new 
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THE TWIN COTTAGES 
BY PAUL CREYTON, 
[Concluded from page 244, last, number.] 
Chapter VI. — The Conflagration. 
The quarrels of Liouel and Kichard proved in¬ 
jurious not only to themselves, their families, and 
their immediate friends, but in a certain measure 
to both Church and State. They belonged to the 
same political party; but when Lionel received the 
nomination for Sheriff, Richard’s friends refused to 
vote for him, and for the first time in ten years the 
opposite party carried the day. Afterwards Kich¬ 
ard was nominated for State Representative, and 
by way of retaliation Lionel’s clique went against 
him unanimously, throwing their influence in favor 
of another candidate. Owing to this split in the 
party, their political opponents triumphed again, 
and sent to the Legislature a fellow who proved a 
traitor to the best interests of his district. The 
quarrel of the brothers created a division in the 
Church, too: the devil taking that opportunity to 
sow dissensions and hatred in the hearts of two- 
thirds of the membeis. 
Meanwhile Martha and Maria cherished as bitter 
animosity against each other as their husbands did. 
They never visited the same neighbors, nor met 
each other at the same sewing circles, if they could 
help it. IT Maria received an invitation to visit a 
friend, she was sure to ascertain if Martha was to 
be there, before accepting it; and Martha was no 
less scrupulous in avoiding her sister-in-law. On 
one occasion, when Maria arrived at a tea-party and 
found Martha there, she turned abruptly about and 
went home in high dudgeon; in return for which 
demonstration Martha, a few weeks afterwards, sud¬ 
denly took her departure from a quilting-bee, when 
Maria, unconscious of her presence, made her ap¬ 
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a great deal of scandal and ill-will in the neighbor¬ 
hood, until the good ladies of Fennfield, tired of 
strife and dissensions, resolved with one accord to 
drop the acquaintance of the Feltons altogether. 
So Martha and Maria received no more invitations 
to any place; and yon may judge how miserable 
they were, living by themselves. 
On the last occasion of a tea-party at Maria’s 
house, an incident happened which particularly 
had something to do with the subsequent coldness 
of the Fennfield ladies towards the two sisters-in- 
law. Of course Martha was horribly jealous to see 
so many famous tea-drinkers visiting her rival; and 
she fretted and scolded about it all the afternoon. 
Edward took the hint to invent some method of 
annoying Marta, and please his mother. 
In the field in the rear of Lionel’s house was a 
brush heap, the result of trimming the orchard the 
previous season. 
“ The brush is dry, and the wind in the south¬ 
east,” said Edward. 
“ And the smoke ?" 
“Will hide Dick’s house in a beautiful manner.” 
“Burn the heap then!” cried Martha, with a 
malicious laugh. 
Accordingly the heap was fired, and Richard’s 
house smoked. It was a warm day, but Maria was 
compelled to close all the doors and windows, to 
keep out the suffocating cloud which rolled down 
npon them before the southwest wind. In spite of 
all her efforts, however, the smoke got into the 
house, and into the eyes and into the tempers of 
both her and her guests. Even the tea failed to 
soothe them, and the party separated in the worst 
humor in the world. Martha watched the discom¬ 
fited ladies as they went away all enveloped in 
smoke, and laughed until the tears ran down her 
cheeks. Edward laughed, too, until the wind 
changed and blew the fire into the fence, which 
he was obliged to sit up all night to watch, with 
a couple of buckets of water for his companions. 
After this, Richard’s boys burned a brush-heap, 
when the wind was in the northwest, and smoked 
a juvenile party which their cousin Martha gave, 
to the great distress of the poor children, who went 
home with tears in their eyes. 
But the rival families were destined to have 
enough of fire and smoke as we shall show. 
After watching many months for an opportunity 
to shoot Richard's dog—which manifested a great 
deal of canine, sagacity in avoiding Lionel’s prem¬ 
ises, and in scrupulously keeping on the right side 
of the board fence—Edward determined to have a 
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purchased a pup, of a breed famous for size and 
fierceness, and kept him chained to his kennel until 
he had attained to formidable proportions. In the 
pride and ambition of his youth, Ciesar took early 
advantage of his freedom from the chain to invade 
the territory beyond the board fence, and declare 
hostilities against the unknown dog, whose hated 
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that made its appearance from the other side of the 
fence, marched up to Ciesar in true Roman fashion, 
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were altogether too much for his youth and inex¬ 
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his rightful dominions in a frightfully mutilated 
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Ciesar for a long time did not cross the board 
fence again, but contented himself with growling 
on his own territory, at his formidable enemy, who 
regarded him with lofty disdain. One evening, 
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Chapter VII. — The Last of the Twin Cottages. 
The brothers rushed to the stables adjoining the 
bam, and made haste to save the horses, the car¬ 
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and Wolcott came next, and taking example from 
their father, exerted themselves to save their uncle’s 
property; then several of the neighbors, aroused by 
the shouts of lire, and alarmed by the fearful glare 
of light, came hurrying to the spot. 
Tbe barn burnt like kindling wood. The stables 
were on fire in an astonishingly brief space of time, 
and the llames went surging on toward the house. 
“ Leave everything!” shouted Richard, “ and re¬ 
move this wood! It is the only way to save the 
house.” 
The wood was corded in long rows between the 
stables and the cottage; and following Richard’s 
example all hands went to work tearing it away 
But as the fire increased the heat became Insuffer¬ 
able. Tbe smoke and flames rolled across the wood- 
piles, blinding and sullbcatiug, and conspiring with 
the heat to drive the fire-fighters backward. The 
most they could do was to remove a few cords of 
wood nearest the house; then, while some began 
to carry the furniture out of the cottage others 
brought water from the well and cistern, and with 
the aid of ladders drenched the clapboards and roof. 
All efforts were vain, however. 
“ The house must go!” said Lionel, 
The wind had increased and the advancing flames 
had driven the inexperienced fire-fighters from their 
position on the roof, 
“ I will mount the ladder!” cried Richard. 
He went up and received the buckets from Lionel’s 
hands, working with the energy and courage of des¬ 
peration, until both cistern and well failed. 
“It is useless to work longer,” said Lionel. 
“There is no water.” 
“ Then the house must burn!” said Richard. 
“And my family!” murmured Lionel, as he saw 
his wife aud child carrying goods out of the house, 
or standing in the fierce light, looking up with ter¬ 
ror and dismay at the increasing flames. “They 
will be houseless!” 
“Not so,” replied Richard. “The old house is 
at your disposal. I was going to tear it down last 
fall, but I am glad I did not. It is yours, brother!” 
Lionel was too much affected to utter his thanks. 
At that moment a wild shout rang out upon their 
ears. Richard’s barn was on fire! 
“I am ruined by my o.wn folly and guilt!” he 
muttered, as he descended to the ground. 
The brothers rushed together to the new scene of 
excitement. It was too late. The fire, left to itself, 
had crept from ham to barn, through the straw, and 
now Richard’s stables were in a blaze. The wind 
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After walking about two miles we noticed a herd 
of Hippopotami in a pool below a rapid; this was 
surrounded by rocks, except upon one side where 
the rush of water hud thrown up a bank of pebbles 
and &and. 
Our old Neptune did not condescend to 
bestow the slightest attention when I pointed out 
these animals; they were too wide awake; but he 
immediately quitted the river's hed, and we followed 
him quietly bohlnd the fringe of bushes upon the 
border, from which we carefully examined the water. 
About half a mile below this spot, as we clambered 
over the intervening rocks through a gorge which 
formed a powerful rapid, I observed in a small pool 
just below the rapid, an immense head of a hippo¬ 
potamus close to a perpendicular rock that formed 
a wall to the river, about six feet above the surface. 
I pointed out the hippo to old Abou Lou, who 
had not 6 een it. At once the gravity of the old man 
disappeared, and the energy of the hunter was ex¬ 
hibited as he motioned us to remain, while he ran 
nimbly behind the thick screen of bushes for about 
a hundred aud fifty yards below the spot where the 
hippo was unconsciously basking, with his ugly 
head above the surface. Plunging into the rapid 
torrent, the veteran hunter was carried some dis¬ 
tance down the stream, but breasting the powerful 
current, he landed upon the rocks on the opposite 
side, and retiring to 6 ome distance from the river, he 
quickly advanced toward the spot beneath which the 
hippopotamus was lying. I had a fine view of the 
scene, as I was lying concealed esactiy opposite the 
hippo, which had now disappeared beneath the 
water. 
Abou Dou stealthily approached the edge of rock 
beneath which he had expected to see the head of 
the animal; his long, sinewy arm was raised, with 
the harpoon ready to strike, as he carefully advanc¬ 
ed. At length he reached the edge of the perpen¬ 
dicular rock; the hippo had vanished, but far from 
exhibiting surprise, the old Arab remained standing 
on tbe sharp ledge, unchanged in attitude. No 
figure of bronze could have been more rigid than 
that of the old river-king, as he stood erect upon the 
rock with the left foot advanced, and the harpoon 
poised in his ready right hand above his head, while 
in the left hand he held the loose coils of rope at¬ 
tached to the ambatch buoy. For about three 
minutes he stood like a statue, gazing intently into 
the clear and deep water beneath his feet, I watched 
eagerly for the reappearance of the hippo; the sur¬ 
face of the water was still barren, when suddenly the 
right arm of the statue descended like lightning, and 
the harpoon shot perpendicularly into the pool with 
the speed of an arrow. What river-fiend answered 
to the summons? In an instant an open pair of 
jaws appeared, followed by the nngainly head anil 
F amily favorite. 
This New Sewing Machine gained the Highest Prize, 
PARIS EXPOSITION. 1867, 
And more first class PRKMirMS (lat int: tfle past year than 
any other. It is w-hUmi iluuljt the BEST far Family use, be¬ 
cause it IB the SIMPLEST in construction, EASIEST to 
lvarL, sti'l LEAST LIAI LEW set out ol ORDER. It ma:;- s 
the LOCK STITCH, anti we simmatet It to do a ureater 
ranee ol WORK without chflcse than any utia-r machine ID 
tho market. WEED SEWING MACHINE CO., 
Home Office — Hartford, Conn, Hianch Offkee — 618 Broad- 
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For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
HISTORICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 85 letters. 
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My 25, 2S, 30, 20, 24 is a Governor of one of the U. S. 
My 35,15, 3, 4. 7 is a General in the U. S. Army. 
My 22, 23, 20,18, 0, 22, 34 was a President of the U. S. 
My 22, 33, 13,1, 15, 35, 24, SI, 19, 11 was a signer of the 
declaration of independence. 
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My 21,19, 21,12 was a Poet. 
My 2. 22,10, 80 was a Statesman. 
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fgST Answer in two weeks. 
ITU ONOJ1Y IS WEALTH.”- Franklin. 
All Why will peopiu pa)' F'O or tKO for a Sewing Ma- 
chine, when $25 will hay * better one lor all practical pur¬ 
poses? Notwithstanding reports to the contrary, the su'n- 
scribers beg to inform their numerous lrlentls that the 
*'Franklin " and " Diamond'' .Machines can he had In uny 
quantity. This Machine is a double thread, complete with 
table, constructed upon entirely new principles, ami Does 
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all others, as ttio'-.saniis of put.rons will testily. 
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For Moore’B Rural New-Yorker, 
CHARADE. 
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Look at the foot or some forest tree. 
My second, as in days of yore, 
Turns the bolt in many a door. 
My third, guess It if you can. 
Every person has jnet ten. 
When you a little rest would take, 
My whole a constant noise doth make. 
1 (HUTCHINSON’S PATENT.) 
ThreeBizes: exceeding low price. Grinds 
tine, fast and easj. Makes pure Wine and 
Sweet Older. Sa. v e f all tilb Fruit. 
MORE THAN 15,000 IN USE 
cider Press Screws, 
Flue thread, very powerful. 
COPPER STRIP FEED CUTTER, 
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For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
ANAGRAM. 
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How kabede yb on sartaclne vregsa 
Whe worid teh owosd ana lit! eth olis; 
Dan niw breyhut a urpored ruafe 
Hant lowfosl igkn's or rarorwi's mane. 
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One cur, in every twenty contains a §1 Gr een buck For 
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was blowing strongly from tbe 
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resene of Richard's. But bis cistern was dry, bis 
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already falling qpon it, and nothing, it was thought, 
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Answer to Riddle:—Declivity. 
Answer to Problem45 degrees. 
