CANADIAN REMOUNTS.
Bronco dams they ran by on the ranges of the prairies,
Heard the chicken drumming in the scented saskatoon,
Saw the jewel humming-birds, the flocks of pale canaries,
Heard the coyotes dirging to the ruddy Northern moon;
Woolly foals, leggy foals, foals that romped and wrestled,
Rolled in beds of golden-rod and charged to mimic fights,
Saw the frosty Bear wink out and comfortably nestled
Close beside their vixen dams beneath the wizard Lights.
Far from home and overseas, older now—and wiser,
Branded with the arrow brand, broke to trace and bit,
Tugging up the grey guns "to strafe the blooming Kaiser,"
Up the hill to Kemmel, where the Mauser bullets spit;
Stiffened with the cold rains, mired and tired and gory,
Plunging through the mud-holes as the batteries advance,
Far from home and overseas—but battling on to glory
With the English eighteen-pounders and the soixante-quinzes of France!
AT THE PLAY.
"Mrs. Pretty and the Premier."
FIRST LOVE; OR THE JEUNE PREMIER.
Bill the Premier Mr. Arthur Bourchier.
Mrs. Pretty Miss Kyrle Bellew.