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EIGHTH. You may preach, And you can pray; But if you're too gay,. The Lord will say: "Out of my way; You've gone astray." So "repent today," Is the miiistrel's lay. IRE YOU getting impatient, dear reader, to get word from Alonso and Monte? You have been informed that Alonso was your hero, and yet he has not been heard from, notwithstanding he has come all. the way from ComposteUa to the River Saint Peter and Paul's. But rest assured, he has not been idle, mentally or physically, for he has taken part in every skirmish or battle with the Indians and has had various experiences during the sixteen months since theexpeditionleft the rraidezvous, which would fill a book, sixteen months passed in the hum drum of the average business does not count for much, but this period of time spent in going , through such numerous and often ■ xlangerons '