they fetch a little more. The expense of keeping these animals in a
country abounding with forests being so trifling, and the prospect of
gain to the proprietor so certain, we cannot wonder that no landowner
is without them, and that they constitute the richest class in the
principality. In fact, pig-jobbers are here men of the highest rank:
the prince, his ministers, civil and military governors, are all
engaged in this lucrative traffic.--_Spencer's Travels._




MOUNTAINS IN SNOW.


Cold--oh, deathly cold--and silent, lie the white hills 'neath
the sky,
Like a soul whom fate has covered with thy snows, Adversity!
Not a sough of wind comes moaning; the same outline, high and
bare,
As in pleasant days of summer, rises in the murky air.

Very quiet--very silent--whether shines the mocking sun
Through the wintry blue, or lowering drift the feathery
snow-clouds dun:
Always quiet, always silent, be it night or be it day,
With that pale shroud coldly lying where the heather-blossoms lay.

Can they be the very mountains that we looked at, you and I?
One long wavy line of purple painted on the sunset sky;
With the new moon's edge just touching that dark rim, like