As a little boy, "life on the ocean wave" was to John Franklin a delightful day-dream.

Well, as we were going down hill, by a park, near the Midland hotel, that confounded calliope had got right up behind the tally-ho, and the organist cut her loose, with the tune: "A Life on the Ocean Wave."

Linnet was setting the tea-table and singing, "A life on the ocean wave.

To be sure, I do toot on the tin whistle now and then, sir, such things as 'The British Grenadiers,' and the 'Girl I left behind me,' for my shipmate, and 'The Bay o' Biscay,' and 'A Life on the Ocean Wave,' for myself,but a musician, Lord!

They had enlivened the times by singing songs, those of a nautical flavor, such as "Larboard Watch" and "A Life on the Ocean Wave," having the preference.

Time and the ocean wave had left only "two parallel and unpaved streets, running between mean and scrambling houses."

Now all is calm, and dark, and still, And bright the beam the moonlight throws On ocean wave, and gentle rill,

on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.

The reply is simple:to avoid the purgatory of an American railway, and to enjoy the life-giving breezes "that sweep o'er the ocean wave."

At Lake City the prevailing porphyry holds the veins of the Ute and Ulay and the Ocean Wave mines, which are similar, and the Hotchkiss, the Belle, etc., entirely different.

'And how d'ye like life under the ocean wave?' asked Williams, who was watching Ken's progress with the eye of a connoisseur.

The hours dragged by, and Roy began to growl again at the tediousness of life beneath the ocean wave.

Ocean Wave (silk) 15.

I could laugh to hear the midnight wind, That, rushing on its way with careless sweep, Scatters the ocean waves.

Both boats reached their places of destination in safety, and thus passed the first night of the gallant boat upon the ocean wave.

Perchance the same eyes that witnessed her departure from the shore, anxiously watched her return that morning, and the anticipated greeting of many a dear friend burned bright in many a heart, but was soonvery soonto be forever extinguished, as the loved, expected form was even then buried beneath the ocean wave.

Would the College and all its works were beneath the ocean wave!

Without a helm, in such weather, much was to be feared; for her timbers being old, she could hardly meet the shock of an ocean wave upon her broadside without suffering serious injury.

On an ocean wave, by Paul Elgin, pseud.

On an ocean wave, by Paul Elgin, pseud.

'A life on, the ocean wave, a home on the bounding deep!'

" With the return of the captain, Bob's visions of a life on the ocean wave were redoubled.

Of course, I went with alacrity to where the curtains of the Cabinet stood open, and there, just within it, saw a Spirit whom I recognized as having appeared once before during the evening with Marie, when the latter had materialized as a sailor-boy, and the two had danced a Spiritualist horn-pipe to the tune of 'A Life on the Ocean Wave.'

If by living thus reserved and austere, like a hermit in the woods, so long, it has acquired such wonderful purity, who would not regret that the comparatively impure waters of Flint's Pond should be mingled with it, or itself should ever go to waste its sweetness in the ocean wave? FOOTNOTES:

That boy I've got lives in Salina, and we'll take you on if you feel like a life on the ocean wave.