Six Central Park Views.

SONG OF THE FAIRY Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green.

* Frederick the Great, in a letter to Voltaire, says, "I look on men as a herd of deer in a great man's park, whose only business is to people the enclosures.

Park Lane, Dec. 2, 1790.

" "In Hyde Park, you should add, my dear, for he has never been in any other," bluntly observed her husband.

Soon a tell-tale eddy in the breeze gave them our scent, and they slowly moved away, not hurriedly nor in great alarm, but reminding me much of tame sheep, or deer in a park.

The country crossed was like a beautiful park of meadows, groves and lakes, and one could scarcely believe it was uncultivated.

" Mr. Elwood Hofer, discussing this subject in conversation, says: "There are not a great many sheep in the Park now, anywhere; they have died off from sicknessthe scab.

This is a fact known to everyone living in the neighborhood of the Park.

"Along the Gardiner River, inside the northern boundary of the Yellowstone Park, there are always a number of sheep in winter, and they become very tame, having learned by experience that people passing to and fro will not injure them.

" One winter when Mr. Hofer made an extended snowshoe trip through the Park, he passed very close to sheep.

If these protective laws were enforced, sheep would increase, and once more become delightful objects of the landscape, as they have in portions of Colorado and in the National Park, where, as already stated, they are so tame during certain seasons of the year that they will hardly get out of the way.

In old times this country abounded in buffalo, elk, deer of two species, sheep, and antelope, and if set aside as a State park by Montana, it would offer an admirable game refuge, and one still stocked with all its old-time animals, except the elk and the buffalo.

Earlier, however, in the summer of 1890, passing through the Snowy Mountains, which lie north of the National Park, sheep were seen on two occasions; a band of ten ewes and lambs on Sheep Mountain, and a band of seven rams on the head of the stream known as the Buffalo Fork of the Lamar River.

Mr. Elwood Hofer, one of the best known guides of the West, whose home is in Gardiner, Park county, Mont., has very kindly furnished me with information about the sheep on the borders of the Yellowstone National Park.

Mr. Elwood Hofer, one of the best known guides of the West, whose home is in Gardiner, Park county, Mont., has very kindly furnished me with information about the sheep on the borders of the Yellowstone National Park.

In summer they are found in small bands all through the mountains, in and about the National Park.

All along the range from the north side of the Park to within sight of Livingston there are a few sheep.

Of late years I have seen very few large rams, and those only in the Park.

Last summer Mr. Archibald Rogers saw a large ram at the headwaters of Eagle Creek, very close to the Park.

" I.The Dashwoods of Norland Park Mr. Henry Dashwood, of Norland Park, Sussex, died leaving his widow and his three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, to the generosity of Mr. John Dashwood, his son by his first wife and the heir to his estate.

" I.The Dashwoods of Norland Park Mr. Henry Dashwood, of Norland Park, Sussex, died leaving his widow and his three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, to the generosity of Mr. John Dashwood, his son by his first wife and the heir to his estate.

"Bli'me if you didn't mike me forget where I was'ad me thinking I was in 'Yde Park, you did, listening to a bloody horator on a box.

VINE Mr. Deane was on the point of accompanying his wife for their usual afternoon's drive in the park.

Lambert's wife and Ireton's widow met in the park.