The Loafing Time For Me

I like to stan' nrnund an' talk when neighbors come along, Or set down on a stump an' hear the robin's cheerin' song; I like to Iay down close beslde the winder in the lolt, An' look off on the river, wheu thewindH blowin' soft; I like to lay down close beside the winder in the loft. An' look olï on the river, when the wind is blowin' soft. Jes' now I sot a yis'tin' 'long o' Hannah, on the stoop, Talkin' about the purty way them wecpin' willers droop - Them little ones a-stan'in' there on either side i t:t' pate, Like little tender gala thatfeel too shy to look np straight. Bnt Hannati she wasflyln' round, with brusli an' broom an' pan, An' says, "Why dou't yon go to work? You're gittin' lazy, Dan !" lint when 1 git my work all done, with lots o' time to spare, An' Hannah's slicked l!ie kltchen up, au' sets asewin' there, I alwlz feel so restless-like, a-hankerin' for chores, With not a soul a-stirrin' au' as still as death on' doors; An' Hannab'H say, "My sak es alivel why don't yon stop and resl?" But everything's so solemn that I can't if I be biest ! It's in theo suxnmer mornin's, when the work is piled in stacks, 'N' I know I'd onghter tackle it with scythe or hoe or axe, Then's when I feel like loafln'. an' like lollin' round a spell, When the posies are a-op'nin, an' there's such :i fresh'nin' smell ; Before the day gits drowsy, or the birds run out of glee, When everything is lively- that's the loafln' time 'for me!- Emma C. Dowd in June Ladirs' Home Journal. TheJuly Century will have several papers devoted to the huntiug of bis; game. H. W. Seton Karr, an English sportsman, tells of his experieuces in África, includiug the killing of his first elephant and liis first rhiuoceros. The author also had the rare good fortune of beiug asked to joiu the hunting party of an Indian prinoe, and he contributes a chapter describins; of tigers from the backs of elephants. His papers are illustrated with photographs ofunusnal jungle scènes. William Willard Howard, the well-known Armenian correspondent, writes of "Huntinii the Jaguar in Venezuela." There will also bo an article on "Sports in the Seventeenth Century," by W. A. Baillie-Grohman, describing deer-driving, fox-tossiug, etc It will have curious illustrations from quaint okl prints and historical paintings.