The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-01-08
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COOP COMPANY Springfield, Mass. -
year) No. 1G, Just received, has character
istic naper by John Burroughs, entitled AN
Idyl OF the Honey-bce," which initiates one
into the methods and delights of bee'huntlng
as pursued by an ardent lover OF eXhileratlng
tramps through fields and woods. Mrs. Lizzie
w. Champney, in another article, tells the sto-
nv of the Obelisks, apropos of the Yeneraole
"Needle" about to be set up IN Central Park,
New York. Octave Thanet gives us an IN
sight into the wrc.ched condition OF most OF
the tails of the country; and another writer,
IN the Remnant of Lost Nation, traces the
present status of tribe that Plzarro failed OF
subduing. Jno Ioline Ross writes about the
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Christmas poems, with an article about Ire
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