They went to dwell with those that were left of his people. Many and bright were their days. Plenty surrounded them. The tribe grew again and Mononchee became their chief. The trees which he planted around “Fort Point” sprang forth and flourished luxuriantly, and the large junipers that still remain are doubtless descended from that parent stock. But scarcely any other green thing will grow there; it seems a devoted place. Devoted let it be; sacred forever to the shades of those who are sleeping in its bosom. ----- [4] A wild forest bird. Unionville, Mass. * * * * * NEVER SHALL MY HEART FORGET THEE! BALLAD—SUNG BY MR. SINCLAIR, COMPOSED BY GEORGE O. FARMER. _Philadelphia_: John F. Nunns, _184 Chesnut Street_. [Illustration: musical score] Never shall my heart forget thee, Come what may of joy or ill; Love, the hour when first I met thee, Lives in mem’ry still. Beauty’s hallowed light was o’er thee! [Illustration: musical score] Music’s spell was on thy tongue, Oh, to see was to adore thee, Maid of Avinlonge, Oh! to see was to adore thee, Maid of Avinlonge. Maid, the shades of night are falling, The blest hour of love draws nigh; Like the voice of beauty calling, Floats the bird-song by. Tho’ our fond hearts fate should sever, Darkly doomed to pine alone; Still as first they loved, forever Should our souls love on. Though from dreams of hope awaking. I can scorn Fate’s ire to me, Smile, tho’ my own heart be breaking, If Fate wounds not thee! Never shall my lips deceive thee, My devotion ne’er decline, Dearest, until life shall leave me, My whole heart is thine. * * * * * Sports and Pastimes.—THE FOWLING-PIECE. THE LOCK—THE PERCUSSION SYSTEM—TRIGGERS—WADDING—AMMUNITION, ETC. The flint and steel lock, like the matchlock, has had its day; and the one is as likely as the other to supersede the detonator. There were some sportsmen who long retained the flint in preference to the copper-cap. Their partiality for the old system arose from their inability to depart from the manner of taking aim to which they had been accustomed—they fired too forward! It was said, too, that a barrel fired by a detonating lock, did not throw shot so efficiently as the other. That objection is now obviated by making barrels perfectly cylindrical throughout the whole length of the tube. We prefer the copper-cap lock for its simplicity, to any other system of firing by percussion.