SEE Wead, Frank. Practical flying.

His curatethe Rev. C. F. Holtseems to be only just out of pin feather, is rather afraid of hopping off the twig; and needs sundry lessons in clerical flying before he will make much headway.

" Even where fields have begun to be tilled and houses and barns to be built, the scared flying of domestic animals at sound of the terrific visitor,the resistless chariot of civilization with scythed axles mowing down ignorance and prejudice as it whirls along,tells a whole story of change and wonder.

Scientific kite-flying was one of the keenest pleasures of these three particular Hill-dwellers, and six or eight kites strung out on a mile of twine and soaring into the clouds was an ordinary achievement for them.