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As I looked at it there came over me a rush of the pity I have so often felt for this suffering of age in poverty so unpicturesque, so unwinning, to shallow sight so unpathetic and I put out my hand and let it rest for a moment on his own, knotted with rheumatism, stained and seamed with toil.

Even the smiles of the squaws are of the same unlovely pattern, though they seem to be perfectly oblivious of any ugliness whatever, and whenever a pale-faced visitor appears near their teepe they straightway present him with one of those repulsive, unwinning smiles.

Her voice sounded so shrill and unwinning, and the quotation that she so glibly uttered was such a jar. However, she turned back with a wan attempt at a smile, and said: "I shall have enough examination papers of my own before night. How do yours range?" And she took half a dozen that were reached out to her. "They range precisely as if we had a parcel of idiots in our care.

The "Amulet" and "Keepsake" glittering in silk and gold, and "Chambers," with plain, unwinning exterior, the ungarnished casket of a mine of treasure, gave forth, like whisperings from a better land, their gentle influence to soothe and cheer the heart, and teach the spirit higher aspirations, while breathing the magic spells raised by their fairy power those sweet creators of a world unswayed by earth, where hope and beauty live undimmed by time or tears givers to all who own their power, a solace 'mid the pining cares of life.