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928 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. satisfactory in the supreme happiness of having him at last; and he led Miss Gertrude back to her throne and blandly awaited his ‘‘turn” before the chaplain. ‘You'll have to give up ballooning hereafter, old fellow!” said the colonel, sood-humoredly. ‘Yes, sir,” replied the professor, philosophically, yet with something like a sigh; ‘‘Gertrude and I will takea brief bridal flight in the air-ship, and after that I will con- tent. myself with her charming society onone of her farms in Kentucky, and with mundane matters in general.” __ _ The five weddings came off, one after another, in rapid succession; and there were feasting and jollity for several days thereafter at Chapman’s Ranch. Of course the after lives of all the couples were happy— as is usually the case in the summing up of novels—but with them we have little to do. Suffice it to say that, shortly thereafter, the ‘‘Booglebooby,” the terrible Wind- Specter of the Blackfeet was seen no more in Montana; and that is [THE END. | “THE STRUGGLE FOR MAVERICK,” by Jaxes FRANKLIN Firts, will be published in the next number (22) of THE SEA AND SHORE SERIES. cS CO GEomicboo