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ver! What do you mean?" "Milly didn't mean to say that," interposed Peggy. "She was probably going to say she couldn't tell who it is. It is an assumed name, we suppose, Cousin Appolina." [Illustration: "IS NOT MILLICENT CAPABLE OF SPEAKING FOR HERSELF?"] "Is not Millicent capable of speaking for herself?" inquired Miss Briggs, severely. "Since when did she lose the power of speech?" The girls shook in their shoes, and held their peace. "What are these things?" continued this terrible person, picking up the poems disdainfully, and again putting her lorgnette to her eyes: "'Ode to a Firefly,' 'Sonnet on the Caterpiller,' 'Some Lines to a Beggar Child.' Faugh! Who is the fool that is guilty of all this? But--but--what have we here?" It had come, then! For this is what Miss Appolina read, but not aloud: "Who is a dame of high degree? Who's always scolded little me? Who is a sight strange for to see? Miss Appolina B. "Who cannot with her friends agree? Who loves to feed on cakes and tea? Who prides herself on her pedigree? Miss Appolina B. "Who'll soon set sail across the sea? Who will not take her cousins three? Who is an ancient, awful she? Miss Appolina B." Miss Briggs looked from one to the other of the girls. The hum of the fair went on. "I will buy all of these poems," she said in a voice which filled their souls with terror; "count them, and tell me the amount. And I wish to see you both to-morrow morning at ten o'clock." Wondering, Millicent obeyed. Peggy turned and fled. [TO BE CONTINUED.] SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES. BY KIRK MUNROE. CHAPTER XIX. A BATTLE WITH WOLVES. The remainder of the journey up the Tananah was uneventful, but so long that the new year was well begun ere the sledge party left it and turned up the Gheesah branch, which flows in from the east. An Indian guide, procured at the last village by the promise of a pound of tobacco for his services, accompanied them on their four days' journey up this river, and to the summit of the bleak wind-swept divide, five hundred feet above timberline. This gave the dogs a hard pull, though Jalap Coombs insisted upon lightening their load by walking; nor from this time on would he again consent to be treated as an invalid. The summit once passed, they plunged rapidly down its farther side and into the welcome shelter of timber fringi
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