MISS FLORENCE HUNTINGDON, PASSAMAQUODDY

Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy, Shall we seek for communion of soûls

Where the deep Mississippi meanders, Or the distant Saskatchewan rolls ?

Ah no, — for in Maine I will find thee,

A sweetly sequestrated nook, Where the winding Skoodoowabskooksis

Conjoius with the Skoodoowabskook.

There wander two beautiful rivers With many a winding and crook }

The one is the Skoodoowabskooksis 5 The other the Skoodoowabskook.

Ah sweetest of haunts! tho' unmentioned

In geography, atlas or book, How fair is the Skoodoowabskooksis,

When joining the Skoodoowabskook !

Our cot shall be close by the waters

Within that sequestrated nook — Reflected in Skoodoowabskooksis

And rairrored in Skoodoowabskook!

You shaîl sîeep to the musie of leaflcts By zéphyrs in wantonness shook,

And dream of the Skoodoowabskooksis, And, perhaps, of the Skoodoowabskook î

When awaked by the liens and the roosters, Each morn you shall joyously look

On thejunction of Skoodoowabskooksis, With the soft gliding Skoodoowabskook î

Yoar food shall be fish from the waters, Drawn forth on the point of a hook,

From murmuring Skoodoowabskooksis Or wondering Skoodoowabskook.

You shall quaffthe most sparkling of water, Drawn forth from a silvery brook

Wliicli flows to the Skoodoowabskooksis And tben to the Skoodoowabskook!

And you slin.ll préside at tlie banquet,

Aud Zwill wait on thee as cook, And we'Il talk of the Skoodoowabskooksis,

And sing of the Skoodoowabskook.

Let others sing londly of Saco,

Of Quoddy, and Tattamagouche, Of Kennebeccasis and Quaco,

Of Merigouishe, and Buctouohe,

Of Nashwaak, and Mngagundavique,

Of Memnierimaminericook, — There's none like the Skoodoowabskooksis,

Excepting the Skoodoowabskook !

About fourteen years ago James De- Mille proceeded to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and assumed the position of Professor of History and Rhetoric in Dalhousie collège, which chair he continued to occupy until his death, which occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 28th of January, 1880, of congestion of the lungs. He was

married to a daughter of the Révérend John Pryor of Nova-Scotia, who with three sons and one daughter survive him. In private life James DeMille was gentle, courteous and kind. Of an eminently lovable disposition, he made many warm friends and no enemies. He was always doing some good deed, now helpijig a brother author in distress, now revising a manuscript for some young beginner in letters, and forever doing a world of generous things for those who solicited his aid. Before his death he had acquired high réputation as a lecturer, and the last thème on which he spoke was " Satire" — a lecture brimful of neat and witty things. He leaves behînd him a completed story — entitled A castle in Spain — which has been announced for early publication.

George Stewart, Jr.