CHAPTER XXV.

New scenes and pleasant travelling.

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, on 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
light as the soft wind that fanned their bronzed
cheeks, as gay in heart as the buzzing insects that
hovered. above the brilliant flowers.

“Qh, this is best of all!” shouted Martin, turning
his sparkiing 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 won’t tive, and a glorious sweep

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