"~ Give me the town; let others go Where babbling streams of water flow, Where soars the lark on daring wing (I'd rather hear De Reszke sing), And where sweet-scented breezes blow.

"Sush a lark," he ses, catching 'old of Mr. Alfredi's arm to steady 'imself.

So much for my hint at visitors, which was scarcely calculated for droppers-in from Woodbridge; the sky does not drop such larks every day.

" "I don't want one," said the steward, fiercely; "don't you try none o' your larks on me, Nathan Smith, cos I won't have it.

I enjoy larks on my windows worse as any.

"Now we shall catch larks," said he; and dressed in a new suit, whose gray tint set off the smoothness of his tanned cheek with the color sometimes mantling through the brown, he entered the house with all the composure of a gentleman used to nothing but high days and holidays.

We find the conventional lark, nightingale, and turtledove.

" He turned a trifle pale, for he had been saving just that sum to buy a gun and treat himself to a little hunting trip the following summer, in the country near Nanterre, with a few friends who went there to shoot larks on Sundays.

It is a wonder that in these days of refined civilization, when Jenny Lind, Grisi, Patti, and other celebrated European singers, some of them from very warm climates, are transported to America to delight our Upper-Tendom, that there should be no persistent and successful effort to introduce the English lark into our out-door orchestra of singing-birds.

He had never heard a lark before, and he stood there entranced until the bird and its song had become part of the heavens.

WAGGLES says they're not like the Grand Junction, as creeps sewer-like through our parks; Well, WAGGLES may sniff; I'm not sure, up to now, mate, as Venice means larks. '

The pearly line on yonder hills afar Within the dawn, when mounts the lark and sings By the great angel of the morning star, That was his love, and all free fair fresh things That move and glitter while the daylight springs: To thus know love, and yet to spoil love thus!

" "I wish," I. said, "you could get him to order me a dozen roasted larks instead of the mere smell of them.

The land looms far through the waters blue, The Land of Promise, the Land of Rest; Through cloud and storm they have travell'd true, And joy thrills now in each throbbing breast Down they sink, with a wheeling flight, Whilst the song of birds comes floating high, And they pass the lark in the sunny sky;

Ye lily-wives so happy in the nest, Whose joy within the gates of duty springs, Blame not Love's poor, who, if they would be blest, Must steal what comes to you with marriage rings: Ye pity the poor lark whose scarce-tried wings Faint in the net, while still the morning air With brown free throats of all his brethren sings, And can it be ye will not pity her, Whose youth is as a lark all lost to singing there?

I can take a few smooths with a rough, it is true, but I do not find it agreeable when one play larks against me on my windows.

As well try to describe an eagle by putting a lark in it.

And long, poor wand'rers o'er th' ecliptic deep, The song that names but home shall bid you weep; Oft shall ye fold your flocks by stars above In that far world, and miss the stars ye love; Oft, when its tuneless birds scream round forlorn, Regret the lark that gladdens England's morn.

The other specimen was a brown grain-feeding kind; it invariably rested on the ground, where in its habits, head erect, tail down, and short, sudden run, it greatly resembled a tit-lark.

Nay, though I toss it singing up so high, It drops again, like yon returning lark.

" Dunbar takes us with him on a fresh spring morning, where "Enamelled was the field with all coloúrs, The pearly droppés shook in silver showers," where we can hear the matin song of the birds hopping among the buds, while "Up rose the lark, the heaven's minstrel fine.

Make a stuffing of bread crumbs, minced lemon-peel, parsley, and the yolk of an egg, all of which should be well mixed together; roll the larks in flour, and stuff them.

well and clarify it, then season the larks with pepper and salt, put them in a pot with butter, and send them to the oven; when baked take them out of the butter whilst hot, take the jelly and season it to your taste with pepper and salt; then put the jelly and larks into a pan together, and give them a scald over the fire; so lie them in pots and cover them well with jelly.

" Now, not one American man, woman, or child in a thousand ever heard or saw an English lark, and how is he, she, or it to sing the last line of the foregoing verse with the spirit and understanding due to an exercise of devotion?

Up starts the lark, and with him a variety of sprightly songsters, whose lively notes are in perfect correspondence with the gaiety of the morning.