In force and swiftness he excels Each beast that in the forest dwells; The savage tribes him king confess Throughout the howling wilderness.

But me, scarce hoping to attain that rest, Always from port withheld, always distressed, Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost, And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course.

Thence frequent quarrels, and, as we know, few guardians of the peace to quell the fray in this howling crowd.

Whether in the keen cold of the still nights when the howl of the wolves came to me like the cries of torment, or in the howling tempests which roared across my puny hovel like trampling hosts of wild things, sifting the snow in at my window, powdering the floor, and making my cattle in their sheds as white as sheep, I went to sleep every night thinking of her, and thinking I should dream of herbut never doing so; for I slept like the dead.

Was it all other than the veriest Spectre-hunt; which has now, with its howling tumult that made Night hideous, flitted away?Ghosts!

"An open howling handicap will be held at Talleres, F.C.S., next Sunday.

Pray God send us a good howling crop Every twig, apples big; Every bough, apples enow.