We bought in the far Argentine;
The worth of our buyers' opinion
Is proved to the hilt in the line;
The Clydes from the edge of the heather,
The Shires from the heart of the grass,
And the Punches are pulling together
The guns where the conquerors pass.

So come with us, buckskin and sorrel,
And come with us, skewbald and bay;
Your country's girth-deep in the quarrel,
Your honour is roped to the fray;
Where flanks of your comrades are foaming
'Neath saddle and trace-chain and band,
We look for the kings of Wyoming
To speak for the sage-brush and sand.

W.H.O.

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=Commercial Candour.=

From an Indian trade-circular:--

"All our goods are guaranteed made of the best material and equal
to none in the market."

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"The approach of the storm was heralded by a magnificent display
of, for a time, almost intermittent lightning."--_Pall Mall
Gazette_.

Followed, it may be presumed, by well-nigh interrupted peals of
thunder and nearly occasional downpours of rain.

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"One always feels humiliated when one is stumped about a quite
common thing.... All you could see a little way iff was that they
were very dwarg and very thick, and the peculiar coloul baffled
us...."

_A Country Diary in "Manchester Guardian."_

Stumped we may be by the above, but humiliated--never!

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=PETHERTON'S PUBLICATIONS.=

A glance at a well-known publisher's window, during a recent visit
to London, provided me with material for a little possible quiet
amusement, and with this end in view I penned the following:--

DEAR MR. PETHERTON,--When up in town the other day I was surprised and
delighted to notice in Messrs. Egbert Arnwell's window two works of
yours, one on Bi-Metallism and the other on the Differential and
Integral Calculus. Nothing but the prices (really low ones for such
works) prevented my purchasing a copy of each book at once.

I cannot resist writing to congratulate you on the publication of
these volumes, which will, I am sure, add to the instruction if not
to the gaiety of nations. Of course I knew--and have had the most
complete olfactory proofs--that you were a chemist of at least strong
views, but had no idea that your range of knowledge was so extensive
as it apparen