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Hodge ; " The Nateral Man."

IT'S nateral to wish for land in them as 'asn't any ; It's nateral to think a pound is 'appier nor a penny ; It's nateral to try and get, and gettin' not to lose it, An' mighty......

Poetry.

A LONG FURROW IN —, IOWA. PLorGrt the furrow out, league-long many a mile; Let no dream of idle rest, no fancy thee beguile ! Plough the furrow out, weary though thou be ! Other......

Books.

MORE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VIGNETTES.* Ma. AUSTIN DonsoN's work in the eighteenth century is a kind of mosaic background on which the conspicuous figures of the time move all the......