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"What cause have we to build on length of life:

Temptations seize when fear is laid asleep;

And ill-foreboded is our strongest guard"

YOUNG

St ----'s daelcomed by joyous peals fro of a few muskets, by way of accompaniment The sun rose with a brilliance which would have awakened deep tones in Meilded mountain and valley Beautiful beyond description the city looked in his golden light, and "All nature see"

Half hid by a majestic live-oak which shaded the front, and within a few yards of the river, stood a small white house It was built of adoles, and contained only three rooht, one step froround The floor was uncovered, and, as usual, of cement In one corner of the front apartlass of various kinds, and a few handsoe of shelves, filled with books; and on the plain deal mantelpiece stood a pair of neat China vases, decked with brilliant prairie flowers Before the open as placed the table, arranged for the lass; and then the bouquet of fragrant roses which adorned the center, how homelike, fresh, and beautiful it seemed! An air of comfort--American, southern coht in by a ress, whose tidy appearance, and honest, happy, sross slanders of our northern brethren I would that her daguerreotype, as she stood arranging the dishes, could be contrasted with those of the miserable, half-starved seamstresses of Boston and New York, who toil fro heart, over sohty recoed every dish with great exactness, a s; and, waiter in hand, she stood ready to attend the fa face appeared at the open

"I hope, Aunt Fanny, you have a nice breakfast You have no idea what an appetitealways nice?"

"Indeed, it is Your coffee would not disgrace a pasha's table; and your rolls are 'The whitest, the lightest, that ever were seen'"

She disappeared from the , and entered the room just as Mr Hamilton came in, followed by Florence