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Sc knk: Sliores of 8ilt Klver. Timk: 18S9 )n a martin of a atreamlet known and read of all creatlon, where tlie ludia rubber calrtsh and the acroballc eel port Id featlve. gay ahandon, playlng Jackalones wlth the fosslls of Ihe teare of offlee seekers, and have Halt at every meal. Sat two sa.I, dtjecled trampletn, raunching imi-iy free l.rade blscuil; and beslde thim crouched a doglet. Kulden tiued and ruil of Hen, Í nolted to whose halrless caudal was a sotled aiui torn handanna, emblemalical of war Hans, tiopplng In the saline breeze One Is corpulent and masalve, wlth a high and irownliiK forehead. and In "two line pica Kothlc" on hi-i heavy face we 8ee : l'in the Democratie Mascot- Glve Me Kifly 'riiuiisanil Yearly. Hip Hooi-ay for Urov.r Cleveland, l'm the Man ol Desllneel " 'üe companlou of hts wnnd'rlngs, HohSlng Ntrokes his taügled whiskers, and hlM slgh sounds llke' O hl-o," as he gnawx hls inoldy orusi. nd he murmurad ; "(rover, listen - You're Uieioinof dest'ny. paraoer: l'm 'l'hurman ofsorrrrs. Grover- but l'll back ra Uil ye im-i ¦ 'l.et me see," fald Grover, tnuslug, as he pulled hls unkenipl mustache and last ened IiIh suspenderH to hls trwusers with a nail. "lt niusl be mortlfyliiK to yon ecru eolored ]i,iilet to w lorced to wear oaudaunaa ou hm a la Frankfort tull." Then he saiiR a plalnllve mensure on the margin of :ait nver, and poor Allen Ci. asHlsied In a broken, crooning way ; And the red top clovers nodded to the lemon 1 1 niel can i ut-, as he ilineil on pension vetoes kindly lossed lo hl in thal day. Then the tramplets and the doglet doffed thelr and went lu balhliiK to relieve t hem of II iel r f reuh neus and to cool each levered lirain. Alter wiiich tln-y read u passage frorn an old encyclopaMhi, and thcy prayed anotlier hl l..arlle!, inight uever come agaiu. For a time. wlih llstless nianucrs. on the brineklsseil BhofM they lineteil; hut outy tbr a liltle spat'e in peusiveness they ttood ; And for aye thelr grlzz'y spook Iets, crusted oer wlth saline rrysials, waniler thro' t lic deep tiKti asses ot innocuuus denueI mie