Beyond.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1695, 24 July 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

Beyond.

I shall steer my bark where the wav^s roll dark, I shall cross the stranger sea; But I know I shall land on that bright Btrand Where my loved ones are waiting for me. There are faces there divinely fair, The earth lost long ago ; And foreheads white where curls lay bright, Like sunbeams over snow.

There are sunny eyes like their ovi n blue skies, that I've seen before, That will grow as bright as the stars of nig ht When-1 near the welcome shore.

There are little feefc I loved to meet, When the world was sweet to me ; I knowthej will bound when the rippling sound Of my boat comes o'er the sea.

I shall see thorn stand on the gleaming sand, Their white arms o'er the tide, Waiting to twine their hands in mine, When I reach the farther side.

CouiiDN'T bb Bluffed.—A couple of horsemen, coming into the city the other day from the interior, overtook an old man and hia wife seated in the bottom of a mule carfc. Feeling in high spirits, one of the men called out:

' Hello, uncle, how much will you take for your wife, cash down ?' ' Ob, I dunno,' he slowly replied. ' Well, name your price.' ' How much'll ye give ?' he asked. 'Ten dollars.' ' Take her.'

The horseman didn't know what to say, and was gathering up the reins, when the old woman jumped to the ground and exclaimed :

' Pass over the ducats, mister; I like the old maD, and he likes me; but we are a family which can't be bluffed by no man on horseback.'

The ' bluffers' got out of the scrape by riding off at full speed.— Vicksburg Herald.