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POETRY.

THE PRAIRIE, The skies are blue above my head, The prairie sreen below, And flickering o'er the tufted grass _ The shifting’ shadows go,— \ ague-sailing, where the feathery clouds Fleck white the tranquil skies, Black javelins darting where aloft The whirring pheasant flies.

A glimmering plain in drowsy trance The dim horizon bounds,

Where Ml the air is resonant

a With sleepy summer sounds—

Phe life that sings among the flowers, The lisping of the breeze,

The hot cicala’s sultry ery, The murmurous dream of bees.

The butterfly—a flying flower— Wheels swift In flashing rings,

And flutters round his quiet kin, With brave flame-mottied wings. The wild pinks burstin crimson fire, The phlox’ bright clusters shine, And prairie cups are swinging free

To spill their airy wine.

And lavishly beneath the sun, In liberal splendour rolled, The fennel fills the dipping plain With floods of flowery gold; And widely weaves the iron-weed A woof of purple dyes Where Autumn's royal feet may thread When bankrupt Summer flies.

Tn verdurous tumult far away ”

The prairie-billows gleam ;% Upon their crests in blessing rests The noont'de’s gracious beam. Low quivering vapours steaming dim The leve! splendours break Where languid lillies deck the rim Of some land-circled lake.34

Far in the East like low-hung clouds The waving woodlands lie ;

Far in *)e west the glowing plain Melts warmly in the sky.

No accent wounds the reverent air, No footprint dints the sod— Lone in the light the prairie lies, Rapt in a dream of God.

LITERATURE.

WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER II,

Mrs. Ogder, at the time when our story commences, was not much above sixty, but had reached an appearance of old age, though a very vigoious old age, which she kept without perceptible alteration ior very many years afterwards. ler character will develop itself sufficiently in tne course of the present narrative to need no description here; butshe had some outward peculiari.« ties which it may be we!! to enumerate.

She is in the kitchen at Milend, making a potato pie, or at least preparing the paste for one. Whilst she deliberately pressed the rolling pin, and whi't the sheet of paste becomes wider and thinner under the pressure of it as it travels over the soft

arms, which are lave nearly to the elbow,

are strong and muscular yet, but not round.

ed into any form that suggests reminesc-

ence of beauty. There is a squareness and

a rigidity in the back and chest, which are

evidences rather of strength of body and a

resolute character than of grace. The vis-

age, too, cin never have been pretty,

though it must in earlier life have possess.

ed the attractiveness of health; indeed, al-

though its early bloom is of course by this

time altogether lost, there remains a firm-

ness in the fleshy parts of it enough to prove

that the possessor *» as yet untouched by

the insidious advances of deciy. The cheeks

are prominent, and the jaw is powerful; but

although the forehead ‘s high, it suggests

no ideas of intellectual development, and

seems rather to have grown merely as a fine

vegetible mai.ow grows thin to have been

developed by any exercise of thought. The

nose °s slightly a juiline in outline, but too

large and thick; the lips on the contrary

are thin and pale, and would be out of

harmony vy. th the whole face if the eyes did

not so accurately and curiously eorrespond

with them. Those eyes are of an exceed~

ingly light grey, rather incliring to blue,

and the mind looks.out from them in what,

to a superficial observer, might seem a

frank and direct way; but a closer analyst

of character might not be so readily satis-~

fied with a first impression, and might fancy

he detected some shade of possible insins

cerity or power of dissimulation. The bair

seems rather scanty, and is worn close to the face; it is gray, of that pecv'iar kind

which results from a mixture of very fair hairs with peilectly white ones. We can

only see a little of it, however, on « count

of the Cap.

Although Mrs. Ogden was hrd at work

in her kitchen making a potato pie, end al.

though it is not yet ten o'clock ‘1 the morn-

ing, she is dressed in what in any other

person would be corsidered en extravagent

manner, and ‘na manner certainly in on-

gruous with her present sitva’ion. It is a

the ny of hers that she is so exqu'sitively

neatin ll she does that for her there “= no

danger in wearing eny dress she chooses,

either ‘n her kitchen or e'sewhere; and os

she he3 a natura! love for handsome clothes,

and an aversion to changing her dress in

the middle of the day, she comes dow. at five o’clock in the morning just °s if she had dressed to receive a sma’ dir rer party.

The clothes that she weers now ' .ve in fe st done duty at pest dinner parties, * id are

quite magnificent enough for a lady at the head of her table, cutting po‘ to pies in»

stead of fabricating them, ifonly they were a little less shabby, and more in harmony with the prevailing fashion. Her dress °s a fine flowered satin, which a punster wou'd at once acknowledge in a double serse if he saw the farine eous s*.tterings which just now edoia it; and her cap is so splens did with ribbons that no ¥:.iter of the male sex would attempt to + «pire to describe it adequately. She wears an enormous camoe brooch, and a long gold chain whose fancy links are “nterrupted or connected by little glittering octagonal bars, like the bright glass bugles in her head dress. The pa’. tern of her satin is occasionally obscured by spots of grease, notwithst nding Mrs. Og- den’s theory that she ‘3; too neat and care- ful to incur any risk of such acidents. One day her son Isaac had ventured to call bis mother’s attention to these spots, and to express an opinion that it might perbaps be as well to have two servants ‘nstead of one, and resign practical kitchen work; or else, that, if she would L 2 a servant herself, she ought to dress like one, and not expose her fine things to injury; but Mr, Isaac Og- den received sucn en answer as gave him no encouragement to renew bis remon-~ strances on a subject so delicate. ‘ My dresses,’ se’d Mrs, Ogden, ‘are paid for out of my owa money, and J shall wear them when I like and where I}ike, If ever my

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son is applied to to pay my bills for me, he

may try to teach me economy, but I am happy to say that I'm not depending upon

him either for what 1 eat or drink, cr for caything | put on.’ The other

for what I

vrotber, who lived under the same roof with M-s. Ogden, and sawher every day, had a closer instinctive Zecling of what

might and might no: be .-d to her, and would as soon have thought of suggesting any abdiestion, however temporary, of her splendours, as of suggestirg to Queen Vic- toria that she might mamge w.thout the luxuries of ‘ier s* tion.

When the potato pie stood ree ly for the oven, with an elegant chimney in the middle arid various ornaments of paste upon the crust, Mrs. Oyden made another quantity of peste, »d proceeded to the confection of a roly-poly pudding. She wes proud of her roly-polies, and, indeed, o! everything that she made or did; but her roly-polies were ree'ly good, for as ber pride was here more especially concerned, she economized nothing, and was especially liberal in pre~ serv’:: She had friends in a warm and fertile corner of Yorkshire who were rich in apricots, and sent eveiy yeer several large pots of delicious apricot preserve, and she kept this exclusively for roly-polies,and had won thereby great f: ae and reputation in Shayton, where apricot puddings were by no means of every day occurance.

The judicious reader may here critic’se Mrs. Ogden, or find fault with the author, because she makes potato pie and roly-poly on the same day, Wes there not rather too much p:°te for one dinner—cooked paste that roof 1 over the savoury contents of the pie-d‘sh, and boiled pasie that en- closed in i‘; ample folds the golden lus~ ciousness of those Yorkshire apricots? Some reflection of this kind may arise in the mind of Je:ob Ogden when he came beck from the mi’! to his dinner. He may pos- sibly th'>'x that fort day the pie might be advantageovsly rep ced by a beefsteak, but he ‘s * o w’se not ‘» keep a!l such re~ flections wit! 1 bis owa breest, No euch doubts or perplexit'es will ever d's.uib F's mother, simply be .use she is convinced thet no man can eat too much of her pastiy. Other people’s pastry one might easily get too much of, but tat "> Cifferent.

And there is a special reason for the pudding to-day. Little Je »-bis expected at dinner time, and little Jacob loves pud- ding, especially apricot rolyspoly. His grand mother, not a veiy affectionat? woman by pature, is, nevertheless dot‘ngly fond of the lad, and always mes a little feast to welc me him end ¢ ‘ebrate h’s coming. On ordirs + days t* ey never have any des sert at Maitland, but 3 soon as dinner is over, uncle J: ob hastily jumps up and goes to the cupbo: -d where the decanters are kept, pours bimse'f two gl: ses of port, and

- - P. E. I.| white surface,we perceive that Mrs, Ogden’s swallows them one after the other, stand-

ing, af. ~ which he is off again to the mill. When little Jacob comes, what a difference! There *- a splendid desert of gingerbread, nuts, apples, and /rui/s glaces ; there are a+ .tely decanters of port and sherry, with a bottle of sparkling elder-flower wine in the middle, and champagne glasses to drink it rom. There’: plenty of real champagne in the cellars, but this home-made vintage is considered better for little Jacob, who feels no other effect from it than an almost irresistable sleepiness. He | es to see the sparkling bubbles rise; and, indeed, few beverages are prettier or pleasanter to the taste than Mrs, Ogden’s elder-flower wine. Itis as clearas cryste end sperk'es like the most brilliant wit.

But we are anticipat'ng everything; we have jumped from the very fabrication of the roly-poly to the sparkling of the elder- flower, of that eldei-flower which never sparkled at Milend, and should not have done so ‘1 this ne vative, until the pudding had been fully disposed of, The rez ler may, however, take that for granted, and feel perfectly sat'*fied that little Jacob has done his duty to the pudding, as he is now doing it to the nuts andwne. He has a fancy for putting his kei els into the wine glass and fshing them out with a spoon, and is so occupied just now, whi'st grand- mother and uncle Ja >bsit patiently look, ing on.

‘Jerzy Vkes nut, says little Jacob; 1 wonder if he likes Kye 9,’

‘It would be a good th ng,’ s«d Mrs. Ogder, with her slow and distinct pronuncie ation—‘ it would bea g od th 1g °° yorng men would teke example by ‘ »eir ’orses, and drink not" ‘ng but water.’

‘Nay, ray, mother,’ sa‘d uncle Jab, ‘ you would» t wh ‘o see yorrleia te! toler.’

‘I see no’ m *2 bein’ a tee + ler, and [see a geod dea! of ’e n that’s brought on witb drinking spi:""*, 1 wish the lad’s father w. sa teetoiaier. But come’ (to'ittle Jacob) ‘you'll have enother g'°3s of elder-flower. Well, wi'l'n’t ye now? Then ’ave a glass of port ; it}! do you no * m.

Mrs. Ogden’s acmiration for teetotalism wes entirely ‘core ‘cal. She approved of it in the abstrect : xd “1 the d's‘ ns, but she could not end> e t> sit at table wit a mea that did not tke }": giess |e the rest; the non nformity ~ -itated her. There wes a cv:at» at Shayton who thought it }’s duty to bea -etote'er in ‘order to give weight to ""s arguments against the evil habit of the place, * 1d the curate dined oc*ssions ly at Milend without relaxing from the rigidity of F's: rv'e. Mrs. Ogden was always put out by his empty wine-glass and the pure water in * ‘s tumbler, and she let}'m kaveno pe e; so t’otfor some t'me p the Fad dec ed her ‘nvitations, and only dropped “ato tea, taking care to escape before spirits and glasses were brought for’> “om tie cupbo?rd, where they lay ‘n weit forh’m. The reader need therefore be under no appihension that ittle Jacob was likely to be educated in the c’'y principles of teetotalism; or at least he may rest assured that however muchi principles might be extolled in his presence, the pre :tice of it would nei- ther be enforced nor even tolerated,

‘I say, | wish my son Isaac was a teetota- ler. lhear tellof bs coming to Shayton time e*ter time without ever as much as looking at Milend. Wasn't your father in the town on Tuesday ? I know he was, I was told so by those who saw |. ; and if he was in the towa, what wes to} oder him from coming to Milend to!'s tea? Did he come down by himsell, or did you come with him. Jacob ?”

- | come with him, g-andmother.’

‘Well, «2d why didn’t you come here, my lad ? You know you're always welcome.’ ‘Father had his tea atthe Red Lion. Well, it wasn’t exactly tea, for he drank ale to it; but I had tea with him, and we had a lobster.’

| I] wish he wouldn’t do so.’

‘Why, mother,’ said uncle Jacob, ‘I see no great ‘arm in drinking a pint of e’e, eat a Jobster; and if he cidn't c lend, most likely he’d ssmebody to see ; very likely one of his tenants belonging to that row of cottages ne bought. | wish he | hadn't bough‘ *em; he’ll have more bother With ’em then they are worth.’

‘But what did he do keeping a young boy like little Jacob at the Red Lion? Why couldn’t he send }'m here? ‘2e !« 1 knows the way I reckon.’ Then to her grandson —‘ What time was it when you both went home to Twistle F on?

‘We didn’t go home togetuer, grands mother. Father w.3 in ‘»e parlour ai the Red Lion, end leftime be na ihe b «where we had orr tes, t’ about ei-ht o’clocl-, when he sent a message thai I wos to go home by myself. So I went home on Jerry, and father stopped: night at the Red Lion.’

‘ Why, it was after derk, child ! and there was no moon !’

‘I’m not afraid of being in the dart g--ndmother; I don’t believe in ghosts.’

‘Wi .t, > n’t th’ ch’'d sense enough to be frightened in the dark? If he doesn’t believe in ghosts at his age, it’s a bad sign, but he’s got a father that believes in no< thing at all, for he never goes to church; and there’s that horrid Dr. Bardly——’

‘He ‘sn’t ho: id, grandmother,’ replied lit'e J sb, ‘th much sp'it; ‘he’s very jolly, and giv: : me things, : -dJ love him ; he gave me a silver horn,’

* * * * * * *

‘I’m sure it’s that Dr. Burdley,’ says Mz. Ogden, ‘ thai’s ruined our Isaac.’

‘ Why, mother, Bardiy’s one of the sober. est men in St-y.on; and being a doctor besides, he isn ''kely to encourage Isaac into bad ’abits.’

‘I wish Isaec weren’t sofond on h'm. He sets more store by Dr. P °'y, end by all that he says, than by anyone else in the place. He li} es him better than Mr. Prig- ley. I've heard him say so, sitt'n at this very table. I yv.sh he’d "ke Mr. Prigley better, and would y it hima litte. Hed get rothing but good at the Personage ; whereas they tell me—end no doubt it’s tru -that there’s a'l sorts of wicked things in Dr. Bardly’s museum, and meny a bad book in his library. I thir'k I shall eck oir, Prigley just to set ceremony on one side, and goand_ 11 upon Isaac up at T'wis- tle Farm; no doubt he would be. kind enough to do so,’

‘It would be of no use, mother, except to Prigiey’s appetite, that might be a bit sharpened with a walk up to Twistle; but supposin’ he got there and _ found, Isaac at ’ome Isaac ’ud be as civ las civil, and he’d ax Prigley to stop his dinner, and Prigley ’ud no more dare to open F > mouth about Isaac’s going’s on than our sarvant lass ’ud ventur to tell you: +; you put *>o mich salt ina potato pie. It’s poor folk as parsons talks to; they will’nt taik ~> a chap wi’ ten thousand pounds till he axes ’em except in a genera] way in a pu'pit.’ ‘Wel, Jacob, if Mr. Prigley were or'y just to go and renew '’sa°yuain’ ‘csv th our Isaac, it would be so much g’ e’ id it might lead to his amendment.’

‘ Mother, I don’t t' > he ne ‘sso much amendment. Iseve’s right enough. I bes lieve he’s always sober up at I'wistle; isn’t he, little ’un?

Little Jacob, thus appealed to, but in rather a doubt ‘and reseryei manner, as if something remained behind which he had not courage ty say. [His grandmother obs served this.

‘Now, my lad, te’’ me the whole truth, It can do your fat’ -r no * rm—nothing but good—to | us know ab ut t he dees. Your father ‘s my son, end I} ovea right to know a!l about hm. I’m vey anY‘ous, and ‘ave been ever since I knew he was going to the Red Lior. I ‘oped he’d given that up a) ogether, You must tell me-—l insist upon it.’

Little Jacob se‘d nothing but begen to cry.

‘ Nay, nay, Lad,’ said his uncle, ‘a great felly 1 *e thee should never skrike, Thy grandmother means nout. Mother, you’re a bit hard upon the lad, it isn’t fair to force a chi'd t> be witness again’ its own father.’ With t'’: uncle Jacob rose and left the room, for it wes time for him to goto the m °;°°d then Mrs. Ogden rose from her chair,e dw. > the stiffs’ tely wa'k that was babitv to her, and that she could never lay ezide even strong emo. tion, approached her g ancsor and bending over him, gave kim one F'ss on the fore. head. Th’s kiss, be it observed, was a very exceptionel event. Jacob e!ways kissed h's grandmother when he came to Milend; but she was inva. >bly pessive, though it was plain that the ceremony wes agreeable to her from a certain softness that spread over her features, end wi ‘ch ¢ ffered from their habitual expression. So when Jacob felt the old ledy’s ‘ps upon his forehead, a th: lof tenderness 1. through }’s little heert, and he sobbed harder than ever.

Mrs, Ogden Crew a chair close ‘ » his, and putting her be 1d on his brow so as to turn his face a ttle upwevds that she might look well into it, said, ‘Come now, little ’un, tell granny a!! about it.’

What *he kiss had begun the word gre1- ny fully ac omplished. Little Jacob dried his eyes ard re lved to tell bs sorrows. The poor child had not very much to say, and at his age—though the power of nar-~ rating incidents or occurrences is already developed, except that such narratives are more frequently imaginative than accurate —that of explaining the sorrows and dis- tresses of the mind is not yet developed at all, though these distresses may be felt most acutely. A Woman ill-used by her husband will pour floods of narative and complaint in the ear of her confidential friend—she will expiate for hours on the delinquencies of the the monster to whom a cruel fate has bound her—she w:'' sub- ject all he has said and all that he Is done to the most careful and severe analysis— and by processes of elaborate induction not only arrive infallibly at his most s- cret thoughts, but even Gis:over motives and intentions of which he himself is not in the least aware. Buta child that is }l-used by its father cannot escertain for itself the bound: ‘y that separates a just parental au- thority from t)2anay ; and though it feels that life is embittered for it by the fear of a capricious e1d unaccoun . ble power, it cannot make plain to a third person in what the tyranry precisely corsists, For tyranny does not cor ‘st the fiction of suffere ing, however severe, if the inf ct’on is ins flicted by rule, » dis proportionate o the

nd | 1e to ‘Si-) ofa tyi

| that he is unable to prove the capricious. | ness of his tyrant. If an Oriental despot cuts off a slave’s ear in a rage, it is the act nt; but “aman bes h’s head cut off because he has, after due tria!, been found guilty of murder, and judicially con. demned in confcrmity to the laws of his countiy, we donotc: | thattyranny. Now, not the art to select " «tances of pure tyrs anny alone, and does not know how to pre- sent them in a sufficiently odious light, but is just as likely, in the confession of hig ideas, and under the genere' sense of in- dignation and revolt, to mention some in stances in which he has not suffered from an act of tyranay at oll, but bas merely ins curred punis: ment for some fault. And this is exactly what happened in the pre~ sent instance,

‘Grandmother,’ said little Jacob, ‘ father is so—so——

‘So what, my led?’

‘Well, he beats me, g-andmother !’

Now Mrs, Ogden, though she loved Jacob as strongly as her nature pe: mitted, by no means wished te see h'm entirely ex- empt from corporal punishment. She knew, on the authority of the Scripture, that it was good for ch ‘idren to be beaten, that the rod was ase‘utatory thing; and she at once concluded that little Jacob had been puns ished for some fault which in her own code would have deserved such punishment, and would have drawn it down upon her own sons when they were of his age. So she was neither astonished nor indignant, and asked, merely by way of continuing the conversation, —

‘ And when did he beat thee, child ?”

if Jacob had been an artful advocate of his own cause, he would have cited one of those instances, unhappily too numerous during the last few months, when he had been severely punished on the slightest possible pretexts, or even without any pre~ text whatever; but as recent events occupy the largest space in our recollection, and as a’' t-oubles diminish by a sort of perspec~ tive © cording to the length of time that has happened since their occurrence, Jacob of course, instanced a beating that he had received that very morning, and of which certain portions of his bodily frame, by their uncommon stiffaess end soreness, sti'l kept up the most lively remembrance,

‘ He beat me this morning, grandmother.’ ‘And what for ?’

‘ Because [ spilt some ink on my new trousers that I'd put on to come to Milend.’ ‘Wel! then my lad, e'l I can say is that you deserved it, and should take better care. Do you think that your “ther is to buy good trousers for you to spill ink upon them tha very first time you p.t them on? You'll soon come to ruin at that rate.

Little boys should learn to take care of their things ; your uncle Jacob was as kerfie as possible over '’s things; indeed he was the kerflest boy I ever saw in all my life, and I wish you could take after him. It’s a very great thing 's kerfleness, There’s people as thinks that when they've worn their money upon a thing, it’s no use lookin’ af- ter it and mindin’ it, because the money's all worn and gone, and sc they pay no heed to their things when once they've got them. And what’s the consequence? They find that they have io be renewed, that new ones must be bought when the old ones ought to have been quite gvod yet; and so they spend and spead when they might spare and have everything just as decent, if they could only learn a little kerdeness,’ After this lecture Mrs. Ogden slowly rose from her seat and proceeded to put the de- canters into a tr'angular cupboerd that oc. cupied a corner of +he room. In due course of time the apples, the gingerbread

and the nuts alike in its capacious recesses, aud were hidden from little Jacob’s eyes by folding doors of dark mahogany, polished till they resembled mirrors, and reflected the window with its glimpse of dull grey sky. After this Mrs. Ogden went into the kitchen to look after some household af- fairs, and her grandson went to the stable to see Jerry,and to make the acquaintance of some puppies which hed recently come into the world, but were es yet too blind to have formed any opinion of its beauties,

To be Continued,

CORRESPONDENCE.

WASHINGTON LETTER,

—_—_—_I— Wasuineton , D.C., June 2Ist, 1876. The weather is delightful and the doctors say the city is ‘distressingly healthy.’ But notwithstanding this veracious assertion of the medical fraternity, many fan''ies have sought the rural shade, and others more given to gaiety have departed for the Springs. Politics seems to rule the passing hour, but whether it is that the weather is too warm to wrangle or that the country has not yet commenced ‘n good earnest, | can’t say, but certvinsit is, one does not witness about the hotels nor on the street corners anything like the excitement that was exhibited a few weeks past. Perhaps it is but the deceitful ca'm that oft precedes the most violentstorm. That this will be a hotly contested campa'gn there be but litte doubt. The Republicans seem ens tirely sat’sfied with the C’neinnatti nomina~ tion, and the Demo<ra‘s e7e hopefe! that they will make one as good if not better at St. Louis. The people who are left at home seem to be enjoying themselves, Steamboat excursions ‘0 various localitics along the banks of the Potomac afford de lightfal r« creation, and the street cars are every morning freighted with the children of the variovs Sunday Schools seeking the healthfvl er of our beauti. | suburbs. Washington does not seem to suffer “vom the prostration of business like other ~'ties. She has no !arge manufactory establish- ments, the s‘oppage of which would tura thousands out of employment. The Goy- ernment is the principal fountain /

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from whence employment flows in a copious stream and until that is ©°mned up or cut off little complaint will be made. But just let one of its branches Cry up fora season and if the discharged employees don’t sg the news in dolorous tones it will be alone for want of lungs. This wi: fairly exem- plerized last winter when the Bureau of engraving and prin* ng suspended work. The howl then sent up hes scarcely yet ceased its reverbera »g, and only finds too sad anecho from the mills end manufac- tures throughout the country. The news

quarters from Capt. Nicholsor, aid to Gen.

offence ; © d the child’: grext d fficulty is

when a child complains of i'!susage, he has |

from the frontier gives indication of a troublesome Ind’:n war. The following has just been received at Department Head~