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NEW and agreeable sensation is a pleasant thing. It was on as bright an evening as ever shone upon Brazil, and in as fair a scene as one could wish to behold, that Martin Rattler and his friend Barney experienced a new sensation. On the wide campos, 011 the flower-bedecked and grassy plains, they each bestrode a fiery charger ; and in the exulta- tion of health and strength and liberty, they swept over the greensward of the undulating campos as liofht as the soft wind that fanned their bronzed cheeks, as gay in heart as the buzzing insects that hovered above the brilliant flowers.

" Oh, this is best of all ! " shouted Martin, turning his sparkling eyes to Barney, as he reined up his steed after a gallop that caused its nostrils to expand and its eyes to dilate. " There's nothing like it ! A fiery charger that can't and ivon't tire, and a glorious sweep of plain like that ! Huzza ! whoop ! " And loosening