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pale and so unlike her former self in physical 
beauty, that I tretftfeiewhen I look upon her; yet I 
know, Lucy, that she witi .q.ot die. We shall both 
live, to prove, on earth, how sttong a tie of love 
unites us.” 
Yes, they did live to prove it; and certairily^a. 
happier poet never breathed, than he whose bright 
and cheering songs, springing from a deep, clear 
fountain in the heart, went afterward, floating over 
the wide earth—they were the most glorious “ songs 
of the affections.” 
MAGAZINE. 
And so you have the long and the short of the 
matter. You know as well as I, all that poor Katy 
did! How many times on this great earth have 
“ trifles, light as air,” set all the world a-gadding! 
Alas! yes, creatures as brainless and chattering, and 
far less innocent, than the insect disputants, have we 
humans too often proved ourselves. Many a great 
matter has a spark of fire kindled ; and the “ Comedy” 
has become a rare thing in comparison with the 
Tragedy of Errors. 
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THE GAME OF THE SEASON. 
BY FRANK FORESTER. 
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BAt : SNIPE SHOOTING. 
The Hudsonian Godwit. Limosa Hudsonica. Vulgo. Ring-tailed Marlin. 
The Red-Breasted Snipe. Scolopax Noveboracensis. Vulgo. Robin-breast, Quail Snipe, Dowitcher. 
Under the general, and very incorrect appellation of 
Bay Snipe, and sometimes of Plover, the sea-shore gun¬ 
ners, and city fowlers who accompany them for pleasure, 
are wont to include many totally distinct and different 
families of waders, each containing several varieties, and 
all, though in some sort connected, entirely dissimilar in 
characteristics, plumage, cry and flight, as well as in 
some peculiarities of habit. 
Of these families, the most remarkable are the Curlew, 
nununius; the Godwit, limosa; the Sandpiper, tringa; 
the Tattler, totanus; the Plover, charadrius; the Snipe, 
scolopax; the Turnstone, strepsilas; the Sanderling, ca- 
lidris; the Avoset, recurvirosta; and the Stilt, himanto- 
pus; all of which at some period of the year are visiters 
or temporary inhabitants of some portion of the Atlantic 
shores of North America, from the Bay of Boston to the 
Balize. 
In the tepid waters of Florida, the great bay of Mobile, 
the sea lakes of Borgne and Pontchartrain, and all along 
the muddy shoals and alluvial flats of the lower Missis¬ 
sippi, these aquatic races dwell in myriads during the 
winter months, when the ice is thick even it the sea bays 
