Outing . ace till with herown hands she had dressed her daughterfor the evening meal. Arline was allowedto come to dinner to celebrate her mothersarrival. The dinner yielded Netta Gatesextraordinary surprises. Arline was nolonger colorless. Even her eyes, neverbefore greatly remarked for expression,had now a luster. About the childs speechwas a joyous abandon unfamiliar to herown mother! Every one listened withamusement and real affection when Arlinespoke! Was Arline happy for the firsttime in her life? Illness had brought Mrs. Gates close tosome realities clothes and position donot concern. W
Outing . ace till with herown hands she had dressed her daughterfor the evening meal. Arline was allowedto come to dinner to celebrate her mothersarrival. The dinner yielded Netta Gatesextraordinary surprises. Arline was nolonger colorless. Even her eyes, neverbefore greatly remarked for expression,had now a luster. About the childs speechwas a joyous abandon unfamiliar to herown mother! Every one listened withamusement and real affection when Arlinespoke! Was Arline happy for the firsttime in her life? Illness had brought Mrs. Gates close tosome realities clothes and position donot concern. While Constance (withyoung Heming and Mrs. Macys brother)laughed away the twilight on the porch,Arlines mother paced the gravel with herhostess, answering vaguely because hereyes, filled with the real mother look, wouldstray to the pergola, where Arline herselfraced from pillar to pillar, Bumble tumb-ling at her heels. AN UNEARNED TROPHY TWO TIGERS KILLED IN FAIR FIGHT BY AN INDIAN BISON BY C. DE CRESPIGNY. N eighty mile ride fromJubbulpore found meon the outskirts of theIndian GovernmentReserve Forest of Se-maria, in which I hadobtained leave to shootfor two months. It isa veritable sportsmans paradise; a fireline, some fifty yards broad and cleared oftrees and shrubs, encloses a thick junglecontaining about four hundred squaremiles, full of game of almost every de-scription, as the jerce naturae had quicklyrecognized it as a sanctuary. But it was for bison (gaur) that Semariawas especially famous, and it was bisonthat I was after. I had done a good dealof shooting, and tiger, leopard, bear anddeer of many kinds had fallen to my rifle,but I had yet to gather my first bison; andindeed he is a prize worthy of much toiland trouble. Standing sixteen to seven-teen hands high at the shoulder, the great-est part of which is girth, with short, wirylegs ending in comparatively small deer-like hoofs, his activity is truly would take his vast black bulk up themountain tracks
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