ceusin edward draws himself up to his full height and looks his antagonist steadily in the face but with an expres sion of calm despair that seems to say fate has now done her worst


sir hugh is cool collected and polite nay he can even smile but he speaka strangely almost in a whisper and hisses through his set teeth


he has doublelocked the door behind him and turns to cousin edward with a grave courteous bow


you have done me the honour of an unexpected visit mr meredith he says i trust lady horsingham has entertained you hospitably


pray do not stir madam


mr meredith we are now


quifcs you saved my life when you encountered colonel bludyer


i forbore from taking yours when had proofs that it was my right


we have now entered on a fresh account but the game shall be fairly


played


mr meredith you are a man of honour yes it shall be fairly played


neds lip quivered but he bowed and stood perfectly still


lady horsingham continued sir hugh be good enough to hand me those tables they contain a dicebox


nay mr meredith seeing ned about to assist the helpless frightened woman when present at least i expect my wife to obey me


lucy was forced to rise aud trembling in every limb to prevent the tables of her lord


sir huh placed the dice box on the table laid his pistols beside it and taking a seat mo tioned to cousin edward to do the same


you are a man of honour mr meredith he repeated we will throw three times and the highest caster shall blow the others brains out


lucy shrieked and rushed to the door it was fast and her husband forced her to sit down and watch the ghastly game


good god


sir hugh exclaimed cousin edward this is too horrible for your wifes sake any reparation i can make i will but this ia murder deliberate murder


yon are a man of honour mr meredith reiterated sir hugh i ask for no reparation but this the chances are equal if the btakes are high


you are my guest or rather i should say lady horsingham s guest


begin


cousin edwards face turned ghastly pale he took the box shook it hesitated but the immovable eye was fixed on him the btern lips repeated once more you are a man of honour and he threw four


it was now sir hughs turn


with a courteous bow he received the box and threw seven


again the adversaries cast the one a six and the other a three and now they were even in the ghastly match


once more cousin edward shook the box and the leeping dice turned up


eleven


lucys white face stood out in the lamplight as she watched with eyes that seemed to have lost the power of sight


for gods sake forgo this frightful determination sir hugh pleaded cousin edward take my life in a fair field


i wih offer no resistance but you can hardly expect to outdo my throw and


nothing shall induce me to take advantage of it think better of it sir hugh i entreat you


fct you are a man of honour mr meredith and so am i was the only reply as sir hugh brandished the box aloft and thundered it down on the table sixes


good casting lie remarked and at the same instant cocking the pistol nearest to him discharged it full into his antagonists bosom


the bullet sped through a deli cate handkerchief which he always wore there straight and true into cousin edwards heart


as he fell forward across the table a dark btream flowed slowly along the carpet till ife dyed the border of lucys white dresswith a crimson stain


she was on her fcnees apparently insensible but one small hand felt the cold wet contact and she looked at it and saw that it was blood


once more she uttered a shriek that


rang through those vast buildings and rushed again to the door to find it locked


in sheer despair she made for the window threw open the casement and ere sir hugh could seize or stop her flung herself headlong into the court below


when the horrified husband looked down into the dark ness a whisp of white garments a bruised and lifeless body was all that remained of lady eorsingham


that night onehalf of dangerfield hall was consumed by fire


its mistress was said to have perished in the flames


the good neighbours the honest country people pitied poor sir hugh gal loping back from london to find his house in ruins and his wife a corpse


his gay companions missed ned meredith from his usual bannts but it was generally supposed he had obtained a mis sion to the court of st germains and there was a rumour that he had perished in a duel with a french marquis


a certain half witted lad might have elucidated the mystery but he had been kidnapped and sent to the plantations


after many years he returned to england and on his deathbed left a written statement implicating sir hugh in the double crime of arson and murder


but long ere this the culprit had appeared before a tribunal which admits of no prevarication and the pretty boy with the golden curls had become lord of dangerfield hall


the long corridor had been but partially destroyed


it was repaired and refurnished by successive generations but guests and servants all ke refused to ieep again in that dreary wing after the first trial


every night so surely as the old clock tolled out the hour of twelve a rush of feet wa


heard along the passage a window looking into the court was thrown open a pierceinw scream from a womans voice rung through the building arid those who were bold enough to lookout averred that they beheld a white figure leap wildly into the air and disappear


some even went so far as to affirm that drops of blood


freshly sprincled were found every morning on the pavement of the court


but no one ever doubted the diiiigerfield ghost to be tie nightly apparition of lucy lady horsingham


at length in my grandfathers time certain boards being lifted to admit of f reah repairs in the accursed corridor the silvermounted guard of a rapier the stock and barrel of a pistol with a shred of lace on which the letter l was yet visible were discovered by the workmen


they are in existance still


whatever other remains accompanied them tuned to dust immediately on exposure to the air


that dust was however religiously collected and buried in tbe mausoleom appropriated to the horsinghams


since then the rfhost has been less troublesome but most of the family have seen or heard it at leiirt once in their lives


i confess that if ever i lie awake at dangerfield till the clock strikes twelve i invariably stop my ears and bury my head under the bedcloths for at least a tjunrter of an hour


by these means have hitherto avoided any personal intercourse with the dangerfield ghost


bhiiihibmhhiip


no iiconcluded


by patty parsley


chapter iii


indent rise


for the day is passing indent the low sound that you scarcely hear indent is the enemy inarching to battle indent arise


for the foe is here


anna procter


ten years later the sun rose over a gloriously fair land under tropical skies bright birds and lovely flowers were glancing around and in the distance glittered the roofs of an eastern city


all was peace and quiet pure and spot less


as the eye roved over the beaute ous scene the soul dreamed of the lost eden and pictured it as fair and radiant


but on yonder towers gleam more than the sunkissed roofs gleams the armour of menofwar


yes it is so


and they who watch there and brace their hearts for a struggle hand to hand with mighty death will fight in a noble cause


they protect the weak and the helpless the women and the children against which come a mighty army of destroyers


they protect them from outrage worse than a thousand deaths from men whose souls are incarnate fiends


from a million hearts rise up daily prayers for their welfare and speedy conquest and all the true and noble of the land add their peti tions to the volume


but see on yonder hill appears the flash of armour and on they roll a mighty host of savage men


they on the towers watched their move ments with a stern and silent scrutiny


it would be a deadly combat


hours passed and the enemy stood ready for the attack one moment and it had com menced


struggling on for hours now retreating as a gate or stating was cap tured and anon driving back the enemy with deadly loss the noble boby sic of men at length succeeded at nightfall in de feating them with a last energetic rush and driving them beyond the hill over which they had appeared in the morning


and through all that days terrific tur moil in the thickest of the battle and foremost in the van had been one young warrior


slight and small with a gentle beautiful face he looked more fit for a ladys drawingroom than for the battle field


yet the spirit of a man beamed from his eyes and it was a manly cry with which he had cheered on his men through the hot raging day com rades remember your wives and your children and fight for more than life on on


he had returned from a hot pursuit in the close of the day and was making with wearied gait for his quar ters when a womans wail rose upon his ear


he turned to make enquiries and heard that her child had been snatched up by one of the retreating fiends and carried off


the mothers cry went on my darling my baby my own baby oh my lost baby oh my lost baby


there was hardly the slightest doubt but the child had been slain by some fearful death before now but the young soldier did not hesitate for this


springing back to the saddle he called around him a dozen willing companions and in two moments was in swift pursuit of the rebel force


two hours of fearful agony went by with the watching mother and then the little cavalcade were seen returning


on they came on and now it was seen that the foremost among them was the fair young officer


nearer still and the mother saw that there were none miss ing from the party that went out


yet nearer and she saw that the soldier held the child in her arms


her babe her babe but fearful doubt


was it alive or dead


they rode in and the young man placed the child living and scatheless in its mothers arms and fell back to those of his comrades


he had found it in the grasp of its ruffian captor and had torn it from him while his companions de fended his path


the child secured they had fled back in haste


but the deliverer had received his death wound and now he said faintly i die in armour com rades


i am going home


there was a general moan of sorrow and the young man looked round with a dying smile nay he said you must not mourn i am going home the strife was terrible but my god has borne me through he said


the mother placed her rescued babes lips down to the dying mans face and knelt to lave his brow with cold water


he raised a feeble hand to the childs head and stroking the golden locks he murmured mother give your child to god for he has wondrously rescued him from the jaws of death


he sank back in lethargic silence for a few moments and then with flashing eyes he half raised himself and exclaimed onward comrades onward


for heaven is in sight onward


he fell heavily and they thought he was gone


but again he opened his languid eyes and whispered mother dearest mother i come


and so as the sun that had risen so brightly in the orient that morning sank down beneath the western horizon the gentle the good varney vincent went home


a new series


the mysteries of sydney or the revelations of sin shame and sorrow


chapter xx


kitely sees the shadow of com ing


eventsthe warningthe fortune teller


as the time approached for the trial of frank earle the master demon who had cast his spell around the victim felt the shadow of fear stealing over him


kitely for once had been hurried by fierce and sensual passion into obliviousness of his habitual caution and he experienced pre sentiment visions from which he shudderingly recoiled


events fatal to himself seemed looming in the distance and yet when he strove to fix them these phantasmagoria of the fevered brain floated away or became so inextricably mingled as to defy him power of giving them identity


dangers on vampire wings were hovering around the more to be dreaded as they were enveloped in mystery


the man of crimethe astute tac ticianto merge into a tyro


the very thought was poison to him


and the stake for which he played the hazardous game was inevitably lost swept away without a hope of recovery


through sleepless nights and anxious days his mind was tortured by scorpion stings and though his countenance wore its usual cold and passion less expression the volcano was raging furiously within


kitely was seated in his room of business a prey to these contending emotions awaiting the appearance of the detective officer mawler who had appointed to meet him


he frequently con sulted his watch with a species of fidgetty im patience occasionally giving vent to his annoy ance at the tardiness of the expected visitor


what in the fiends name delays the man


it was not his custom to keep me waiting sure ly he cannot suspect


a deep gloom spread over kitelys face after a moments thought he resumedtut


tutit is impossible plans well laid as mine are unfathomable and indes tructible


yet there was a peculiarity in his manner at our iast interview which led me to suppose that he believed earle guiltless of these forgeries if such be his thought ill worm it out cunning as mawler is i can beat him with his own weapons


if not the touch of this will melt his icicle


the speaker clinked a bag of gold and cast looks of triumph upon it denoting anticipated success


at this moment a knock was heard at the door which opened slowly and admitted the form of jonas quelch


his haggard face at tenuated form and sombre threadbare garments gave him a spectral appearance which startled kitely accustomed as he was to the companion ship of the old man


was there anything in those thin wan features deeply furrowed by care and grief which recalled a deed of guilt followed by a death of shame and misery


did the cry of ruined innocence ring like a knell in kitelys ear or the wild shriek of madness pierce his marble heart


some sudden thought struck him for the angry question which he was about to utter died away and he enquired in a mild tone the reason of mr quelchs unexpected coming


honored sir replied jonas as i was about to proceed homewards after a due performance of the pleasant toils of the day aye even as i was closing the outer door a female whose dress be spoke her of the humbler class thrust this paper into my hand and gave me strict injunctions to deliver it to you honored sir


be silent and speedy were her words tomorrow will be too late


jonas placed the letter respectfully before kitely who devoured its contents with avidity


it was written in quaint crabbed and almost illegible characters which taxed his powers to decipher


after considerable difficulty he made out the following wordsi have warned you twice and you heeded not the warnings neglect this third summons and you will rue it


to night or never at the appointed placethe gipsy


as kitely finished the perusal of the billet he gazed steadily at jonas quelch as if striving to trace some connection between him and the writer but in vain the face he looked into was rigid in its immobility unconscious and ex pressionless


but a chord of kitelys memory seemed touched and he motioned jonas quelch to a seat


mr quelch you came to me a stranger lone and friendless so ran your words


your condi tion excited my sympathy and acting under an impulse which i trust was not calculated to throw discredit upon me you were employed here at the wages you required


was it not so


jonas bowed a grateful assent


the usual references were dispensed with in your case and unlimited confidence was re posed in you at once


who may gainsay it


who dare deny it said jonas eagerly


none i hope mr quelch but confidences should be mutual to be lasting


there is a some thing in your voice and countenance which is fa miliar to me whichwhichtells me we had met before you became my clerk


we never met before then replied jonas quickly


there was an emphasis on one word and an energy in the tone of the speaker which struck the keen sense of kitely but he suppressed his surprise and remarked coldlyah mistaken it seems the enquiry did not arise from motives of curiosity but simply from a wish to do you a service


however your taciturnity shall not make me unjust in this purse is the promised addition to your mean


honored sir my labours already meet with remuneration which affords me all i need of lifes necessaries luxuries i covet not said jonas humbly but firmly declining the proffered gift


yet you may have incurred some debts which this will enable you to discharge remarked kitely


i owe but one debt in the wide world and that will soon be payed honoured sirgood night


with these words he bowed low and quitted the room leaving kitely astonished and bewil dered


the unaccountable conduct of quelch and the nonappearance of mawler aroused a thousand suspicions in his mind to none of which could he give tangibility but all crowded on him like a flock of hideous monsters perplex ing and distracting his brain


he started from his chair and paced the apartment in a fearfully agitated manner literally foaming at the mouth and giving vent to wild bursts of passion


a sudden idea struck him it calmed his anger and caused his countenance to relax into an ex pression of fixed determination


he deposited the gold designed for the detective and the clerk in his iron safe armed himself with a brace of pistols and enveloped himself in a large mili tary cloak


he then extinguished the lamp and noislessly quitted the house


those who traverse the highways of cities may know nothing of their byways


lt is in the finer veins of the body that the transformation of the blood takes place


a process like that is ever going on in great societies


life flows freely through their main arteries but in the more minute channels there is a constant process of trial and conflict


in the drear abodes of poverty may be found beings of courage and endurance who spurn the temptations of guilt though dwelling amongst them and who are content to bear the sufferings of toil and privation through their long and weary lives


it is to one of those localities we would fain introduce our readers


lying apart from the main street at the southern end of the city is a collection of small houses the better term would be hovels principally inhabited by brickmakers shell gatherers and that anomalous class of laborers who obtain a living by doing chance jobs at the wharves slaughter houses and simi lar places where thew and sinews are more in requisition than skill


the spot is intersected by narrow ditches choked up with offal and gar bage that lie festering in the sun and are en crusted with the thick green gelatinous substance peculiar to stagnant water from which the most foul and noxious stenches are emitted


yet the denizens of this place seem unconscious or care less of these unhealthy influences and regard the diseases springing from them and which at times rage with frightful virulence as a necessay por tion of the lot of poverty


amongst the inhabitants was one of a some what different class who was looked upon with a considerable degree of awe by the rude ignor ance surrounding her


she exercised the art of palmistry or fortune telling in which she was a most skilful adept


the fame of the gipsy for by that name only was she known had ex tended far and wide and many of the fair sex amongst the higher and middle classes frequently sought her aid to solve difficult problems con nected with love and matrimony


so extensive appeared her knowledge of the past lives of her employers and so frequently were her prophecies verified that she experienced no lack of patron age amongst the divers into futurity whose pe cuniary contributions were in exact proportion to their credulity or fear


for at times the gipsy would scare the timid by the mysterious language in which she clothed her answers and her ora cular delivery aided by impressive gestures and the flashing of her jet black eyes


the most prevalent surmise regarding the gipsy was that such pursuits were solely the means to the great end of moneymaking but a few were struck with a far different estimation of her mysterious character elevating it into a sub limity of selfabnegation and unostentatious bene volence far above that which many in high places exercise towards the needy ones of earth


it was to the lonely home of the sibyl that kitely bent his way


the night was dark and lowering and as he turned from the main street where the lamps were burning brightly it seemed like making a plunge into erebus


he was not superstitious but the muttering of distant thun der and the murkiness around shot a cold thrill through his frame and he felt irresolute and half inclined to retrace his steps


it was but for an instant he shook off his hesitation and smiling at his own weakness walked onwards with a firm and sure step threading the intricacies of the way like one who held the clue of the labyrinth in his hand


he passed by many houses where dead silence and darkness reigned their tenants being plunged in sleep


suddenly a ray of light shot from a casement kitely guided by it reached the dwelling from whence it proceeded lifted the latch and stood in the gipsys pre sence


at that moment the clocks chimed the midnight hour


come at last


cried the gipsy fixing her eyes upon him with deep intensity at last and at the midnight hour when evil spirits claim the power to lead from paths of good astray


the weak and wavering mortal clay


a truce to this jargon exclaimed kitely with much fierceness it may suit weak women and children and serve to frighten them into your purpose like a goblin story but i am too old to be practised upon by such means the tricks of your trade are no secrets to me


you have pressed me to come hither for the purpose of giving me some information which may or may not be important


out with it woman and spee dily


the form of the gipsy dilated at this uncere monious address and her face turned ashy pale


her bosom heaved with tumultous throbbings but she spoke not


kitely proceeded in his remarks with sarcastic indifference


it seems you place no great faith in my honesty and would rather receive your fee first


well be it so here is a sovereign for you


take it backtake it back cried the gipsy in a harsh and unnatural voice not for worlds would i touch your coin hawk kitely a curse is entailed upon it its very ring would echo seducerfelonforger


devil


you know too much


cried kitely excited to momentary madness


tell me your informant or by the dark clouds above us you shall perish where you stand


kitely drew a pistol from beneath his cloak and presented it at the gipsy who made no move ment to arrest the act but looked calmly and fearlessly at him the very embodiment of un shrinking courage


and would you add murder to the catalogue of your crimes hawk kitely


death and i have walked hand in hand together for so long that his last cold clasp has no terrors for a weary wo man like me


yet for the sake of your mothers son i would not that my blood were on your head said the gipsy


ashamed of his threat kitely restored the weapon to its former resting place and sullenly muttered some words of apology for having been betrayed into such an outbreak of passion


trust me there was no harm meant woman but i have been so worried and harried of late that i scarcely am myself at times


evil deeds are evil things evil doers conscience stings remarked the gipsy solemnly


my mothers own words exclaimed kitely in irrepressible astonishment


aye to warn an erring son from seeking vicious pleasures when the path of virtue lay be fore him


you knew her it seems said kitely in a somewhat softened tone


and loved her truly fervently


she was my benefactressmy saviour from want misery and degradation


worse than orphaned for those who gave me birth were crimesteeped and reck less torturing me when at liberty to pursue a mad career and leaving me to the wintry mercy of the world when the law checked their headlong course had it not been for your mother i had become a castaway here and hereafter


over powering emotions compelled the gipsy to pause for a moment in her story


she resumed in a calmer strain


never shall i forget the time she first saw me


it was a bitter march night as i stood with feet bare and bleeding on the cold stone pavement trying to vend the contents of my little basket


hundreds passed me by with cal lous indifference some made me insulting offers and others in brutal tones told me to go home


home


what home was there for such as i


the name was mockery


it brought my wretched state more fully before me and i burst into tears


in the midst of my anguish a voice so pitying and soft that it seemed to me like the whisperings of angel hope soothed my sorrow


come with me poor girl it said my means are not great but there is enough for both


i followed your mother home and never quitted her till the grave closed over her


enoughenough said kitely without any apparent touch of remorse grieving will not restore her


true or my tears and mourning had not been powerless


but there is something yet to be told


when an only son by a shameless life and felons doom destroyed her hopes and broke her heart she enjoined me from a dying bed to save him from destruction if the power should ever be mine


i made a holy vow and have preserved it through long years fresh and unfaded watering it constantly from the pure wells of gratitude


you asked hawk kitely why you were sum moned hither


you are on the verge of destruc tion and i do possess the power to save


destruction


woman what raving nonsense is this said kitely vainly endeavouring to hide under affected indignation the tremor which came over him


with what crime do you charge me


a vile one


failing to gain a sisters love you planned a brothers ruin


kitely could not repress a start


disguise is useless with the gipsy


secrets are as open to her as this ex tended palm


perchance remarked kitely ironically this vender of sibyiine leaves will declare how a brothers ruin was attempted to be effected


by unjustly accusing him of uttering forged notes and his accuser is the guilty party


but pause kitely


i adjure you by your mothers dying words to pause and repent ere it be too late


cease this unholy course remove your wealth to other lands and endeavour to atone by future acts of good the past of evil


for so sure as you pursue frank earle you will die a sudden and disgrace ful death


but gipsy prophetess or whatever name may best suit your calling what evidence can be brought against me


the bestthat of heaven which is always ready to shield the innocent and destroy the guilty replied the gipsy solemnly


i speak of earthly witnesses said kitely


they are unknown to me as yet replied the gipsy emphatically


then seek them in hell for by you shall only know them in the other world cried kitely with a fearful oath and drawing out a pistol he presented it at the gipsy but as his finger pressed the trigger the light was extinguished and all was plunged in profound gloom


a hollow groan succeeded the explosion and kitely rushed from the house as if pursued by fiends


and these sounds borne upon the moan ing breeze rang in his earsmurdererseducer felonlost


lost


to be continued


marie antoinette


i on i the chevalier ov the red house


continued from colonial times juno j chapter xxxtt


on the evening of the samo day on which the municipals visited and examined with such mi nute care the queens prison a man dressed in gray his head covered with black hair on which he woro ono of those bonnets which distinguished the extremo patriots of tho period walked back wards and forwards in the great hall so philo sophically termed tho hall of ruin


he seemed to regard with great attention the passing and ropassing crowd which was at that period augmented according to the importance of the trialsa period in which men only pleaded to dispute their hoads with the executioner or with the indefatigable public prosecutor fouquior tinville


tho attitude assumed by the man whom we have sketched was in admirable taste


society at that epoch was divided into two classesthe wolves and the lambs


the former devoured the latter or in other words one half of society de stroyed the other


our fierce promenader was of small sizo although he brandished in a black and dirty hand one of those cudgels which they termed a consti


ttitivn


it is true that the hand which wielded this terrible weapon would have appeared very small to any one who might have amused himself with playing the part of inquisitor lace to face with the strange personage who assumed that character in regard to others but no one felt any disposition to control in any respect a man of such terrible appearance


in fact the man with the cudgel created much uneasiness amongst the group of scribes w ho transacted business in the neighbouring wooden offices and who now discussed public affairs in the hall


business had bythoby at that period proceeded from bad to worse or from good to better according as the question of conservatism or revolutionism may be regarded


these excellent people looked sidelong from beneath their bushy eyelids at the terrible patriot and shuddered each time that he whilst embracing in his walk tho wholo extent of the hall approached them


their terror was augmented each timo that he drew near or when they examined more atten tively the man with the cudgel because he struck the flagstones with his heavy instrument and drew from those oa which it alighted sometimes a dull and dead sound at others a ringing or hollow one


these worthy scribes commonly termed the rats of the hall of ruin were not the only per sons who received the same impression


the various individuals who entered the hall by its chief entrance or its narrow passages left it with precipitation on seeing tho man with tho cudgel obstinately continuo his march from one end of the hall to the other continually finding a pretext to thump lils cudgel mi tho flagstones


if tho scribes had boen less afraid or the pas sengers more penetrating thoy might doubtless have discovered that our patriot capricious like all eccentric or extremo natures seemed to take a preference for cprtain flagstones espe


cially those which were situated at a little dist ance from tho wall on the right and almost in the middle of tho hall as they produced tho most puro anil echoing sound


ile concluded by concentrating his rago upon some particular flagstones in the centro


for a moment ho seemed to forget himself as if to cal culate spaco with his eyes


it is true that absonco of mind did not last long but was interrupted instantly by that fero cious look which a flash of joy had suddenly displaced


at the same moment another patriotfor every one at that period had his character written on his brow or described by his drossentered by the gallerydoor and without participating in the least with the general terror which the first patriot had inspired ho approached him much in the same paco as his prototype so that they were sure to meet in the middlo of the hall


the new comer was dressed in tho same style and carried a cudgel


ho wore besido an enor mous sabre which clashed at his heels but that which caused the second visitor to appear moro alarming than the first was that while the former had a terrible appearance the latter possessed a false disdainful and cunning expression of coun tenance now althojgh hose two mon appeared to be long to the same cause and to partake of the same opinion tho spectators looked with anxiety for the result of their encounter although they did not walk exactly straight towards each other


at the first turn however their expectations wero disappointed


the two patriots merely ex changed a look which made tho least of the two turn suddenly palo only by an involuntary move ment of his lips it was ovulent that that puloness aroio not from any sentiment of fear but from one of disgust


however at the second turn as if tho first patriot had raado a violent effort with himself his repulsivo countenance brightened upsomething like a pleasant smile appeared on his lips und he directed his footsteps lightly to tho left with tho evident intention of encountering the second patriot


they met about tho centre of the hall


eh par dieu


i it is the citizen simon said the first patriot himself


but what do you want with tho citizen simon or rather who aro you


pretend you dont know me theu


i dont know you at all for a very excellent rensoni never saw you before


come then you do not recogniso him who had the honour of carrying the head of tho duchess of lamballo


simon started at these words which wore ut tered with a furious and burning energy


you said he you


well does that surprise you


ah citizen i imagined you wore better acquainted with faithful friends


you injure my feelings


it is very good what you say and better what you have done said simon but i do not know you


you have the advantage in being the protector of little capet you know no one else now


but i know you and esteem you


ah i thank you


not at all


you have then come out for a walk


yes i await some one here


and you


i am doing the same


what is your name


i will mention you at the club said simon


my name is theodore


what else


that is all


is it not enough


oh certainly


whom do you await citizen theodore


a friend to whom i have to make a denunci ation


indeed i relate it to me


it is concerning a covey of aristocrats


what are their names


no indeed i will only inform my friend


you are wrong for here is my friend approach ing and it seems to me that he knows sufficiently well how to arrange these matters


ha fouquier tinville exclaimed the first patriot


nothing lessmy friend


good


good day to you citizen fouquier aid simon


fouquier tinville was pale and calm as usual


his deep sunk eyes seemed to stare from beneath his black eyelids as he came out of a lateral pas sage carrying his register and bundle of papers under his arm


goodday simon said he anything new r plenty


in the first place a denunciation on i the patt of citizen theodore who carried lara balles head and whom i now introduce to you


fouquier quickly turned his intelligent look on citizen theodore which seemed to trouble that patriot notwithstanding the steadiness of his nerves


theodore i said he who is this theo dore


i said the patriot


you carried lamballes headyou


exclaimed the public accuser with a strong expression of doubt


yes i i in the street saint antoine


i know another who boasts of it said fouquier


so do i ten boldly answered theodore but as they all ask something and as i seek nothing i expect to have the preference


this remark made simon laugh and fouquier smile


you are rightssaid the latter


if you have not done it you ought to have done it


leave us citizen simon has something to say to me


theodore retired very little offended at tho public accusers bluntness


a moment cried simon


do not send him away in that fashion


hear his denunciation first


ah i said fouquier with au absent air a de nunciation


yes a covey of aristocrats added simon


very good speak


what is the matter


oh


nothing


it concerns the chevalier of the red house and some of his friends


fouquier sprung backwards and simon threw his arms in the air


indeed i said they both together


the real truth


do you wish to take them


instantly


where are they


i met the chevalier in the street la grand truanderie


you are deceived said fouquier


he is not in paris


i tell you saw him


impossible


a hundred men are on the watch for him


he will not show himself in the streets


twas him twas bim said the patriot tall brawny strong as hercules and bearded like a bear


fouquier shrugged his shoulders with disdain


another piece of folly said he


the che valier is little thin and has not a hair on his face


the patriot let his arms fall in consternation


it does not matter


the good intention stands for the deed


well simon be ciuick they await me in court


it is near execution time too


well i have nothing very new


the child goes on very well


the patriot theodore turned his back so as not to appear intrusive but still so as to hear


i shall retire said he if i am burdensome to you


adieu said simon


good day said fouquier


tell your friend you were deceived remarked simon


good


i shall await him here and theodore retired a little and leaned upon his cudgel


so said fouquier the little one goes on well in person but the moral treatment


i knead him as i like


he does speak then


when i wish it


i believe ho may be a witness on the trial of marie antoinette said fouquier


i not only believe it said simon but i am sure of it


theodore leaned against the pillarhis eye turned towards the door of the hall with a vague expres sion whilst his car seemed to tf rick up under his bonnet


if he saw nothing at all evens he heard everything


reflect well baid fouquier


do not make a fool of the commission


are you sure capet will speak


he will say everything i desire


has he told you that which we are about to ask him


he has told me said simon


i what you promise citizen simon is very im portant


that admission of the child is deat to the mother


i expect so


par dieu said simon


such a thing has never been heard of mur mured fouquier in a hollow tone since the days of nero and narcissus


once more simon reflect


one would think citizen that you take me for a brute you repeat the same thing so often


listen to this comparison


when i put leather in water will it become supple


i dont know replied fouquier


it does become supple


well little capet becomes in my hands as supple as the softest leather


i have my process for that


be it so stammered fouquier


is that all you have got to say all


i forget


here is a denunciation


another


you want to overwhelm me


one must servo ones country said simon


simon then presented a piece of paper as black as the leather of which he spoke but certainly less flexible


fouquier took it and read it


still the citizen lorin


you must tate that man very much


i always said simon find him at hostility with the law


he said adieu madame to a woman who bowed to him from a window last evening


toiriorrow i expect to say a few words concerning another suspected personthat maurice who was municipalin the temple during the carnation uffair


cut it short cut it short said fouquier smiling


he then gave simon bis hand and has tily turned his back upon lum a movement which testified little in the cobblers favour


what tho devil do you mean by cutting it short


they have guillotined many for leqs


patience simon replied fouquier tranquilly


one cannot do everything at once


he then unceremoniously quitted simon who turned towards theodore to condole with him but he was no where to be seen


simon had scarcely passed through the westein entrance before theodore appeared at the corner of one of the scribes boxes


the occupant accom panied him


at what hour do they close the gates


asked theodore


at five


what occurs after that nothing


the hall is empty until tomorrow morning


no patrolsno visits no sir


our offices are locked


the word sir made theodore frown and look around him distrustfully


are the pistols and crowbar in your office


yes under the carpet go home then


bythebye show me once more the chamber whose window is not ban ed and which looks into a court near the place dauphine


on the left between the pillara under that lantern good


go then and keep the horses in the appointed place


goon fortune to you sur good fortune


de pend upon me


now is the time no one is looking open your offices


it is done sir


i will pray for you


it is not for me you should pray


adieu


the citizen theodore after casting a sweeping glance around glided so adroitly under the wooden roof of the scribes office that he seemed to vanish like a shadow at the very moment the door was locked


the worthy scribe pulled out the key took his papers under his aim and left the great hall with some dilaory clerks whom the stroke of five sum moned from the tribunals like the rear guard of a hive


to le continued


mr


and mrs


caudles voyage to port adelaide and impressions of colonial ufe and manners


chapter i if the reader wish to know why i left england he will be disappointed


sume have imagined that


the public exposures of mrs caudles matri monial lectures by that wicked jerrold or her


jealousy of miss h or trthousand similarly ab


surd reasons influenced me


perhaps if i had made a fortune or kept one i might not have ven tured on such voyage aa this


i suppose i may plead guilty to the charge of desiring io bentfit myself and provide something for the infant c an ules as one reason fdr the change


and this dear reader is the onlyone i hal condescend to give


on the th september and i well re member the day for on the following one i had some heavy acceptances falling dueon lhelh bf september then in the year aforesaid at the entrance of the london docks i made my de scent from a hackney coach with three umbrellas under ona arm


and mrs candie tucked to the other and was speedily escorted by the kind at tention of some dozen of disinterested porters to the side and on to the quarter deck of the good ship sugar candy of tons commanded by captain parsnip and bound to the antipodes


an unlimited quantity of small rain had con tinued to fall from the moment our departure was decided on and on the eventful raornin like j niobe all grief dropped tears of sensibility in abundance


i little thought before this that my country so i loved me indeed i rather fancied it was the other way but the positive refusal of the sun to shine on ut and the pertinacious weeping of the clouds were signs in the very air of britain that oar loss was a national one carried away with nine in my breast a feeling of grateful remem brance to old england as well as a very consider able portion of lier soil encrusted on my eight shilling high iowa


there is rmvh mud about the lonlon docks in rainy weather


a brief visit to the stewards pantry and a mo dicum of warm brandy and water imparted btrength and courage for the trying adieu


i kissed the bisters of roy wife hugged my own shook hands with m r punch not the fellow who pre tends to hts name in adelaide but with the punch who with toby as his companion judy having been lately confined came to bid farewell to candle


i waved my hat jost bought at sil vers tor four and ninepence pretended to laugh consumedly until we were towed out of sight then stuffed my handkerchief into my mouth tushed to my cabin overturning two women on the gangway threw myself on my hard hearted mattress stuffed with small sawdust and bit of deal and groaned dreadfully


oh that patting


it seems the stuff of which our life is made


it needs not the poets pen to tell us he never loved the dear gazelle but when the arm of his affection was entwined around it twassure to die


oh that parting


lt needs not the voice of inspiration to assure us that life bonding hopes


and blossoming enjoy ments are but as grass and itt perishable flower to wither away i you bid colonista answer me


although years of lites fitful fever have lapsed since yon left the white cliff of albion behind you does no memory of the past disturb or soothe your waking thoughts no recollection oj bygone years haunt your dreams


methinks you must at times hear again the lullaby ofear ly babyhood and your ers drink in he music of her notes who danced your in fancy upon her knee


but perhaps when i an sufficiently baked it this colonial oven t may ht lesa scatimental nd eanally crusty with your elves


depressing thoughts bore heavilyupon me al the way to gravesend but disappeared at ona oder the cheering influence of cold pie pickles hriraps and bottled porter wben we reachei there


hope


that sweet fellow traveller on life stormy se entered with the champagne whicl mrs c produced from some secret corner and b the time our lunch was haf discussed all cari nd anxiety had vanished and fond parental spe cuiatien as te which of the boys would be th futur lord mayor of adelaide and which tb


cforernor private secretary very innocently oe copied ray time and mrs caudles tongue


i re collect on this occasion attempting to sing be one doll care to the tune of


a bumper o burgundy fill fill forme but without any decide access


the sugar candy dropped anchor at pm nd


a considerable number of the passenger dropped into the boats for hore


mrs caudle who was


mach mollified by the champagne am confessed a tender attachment to shrimps reroeon beted that the baby required milk and food farina


ceons the bigger children lollipops and toys am ourselves some little materials for comfort and so lace on oar way


i went ashore determinei ti make s night of it


i bid farewell te the baroi nathan who danced on the spot an extempore ml nae among the eggs and tea cups which hepro mised immediately to publish as tbe australian gavotte dedicate to mn c i gazed


he warm automnal beauties of the gardens of roger ville aud passing th sight tn a wheelbarrow awoke at daylight with a headache not sorry to return to tbs bottom of my family a wiser and a poorer if not a better man


we we e bow to hid adieu to gr resend that disgustingly named town


what miserable sea ton was its first godfather


what morbid maw worm invented its odious name


often as i have heard the laughing songs and felt gladdened ai the jovial faes of the steamboat crowds which throng the bosom of old t hames o l their way from he smoke of london to the pleasant meads of kent old england garden often as i have watched the bronzed features of the artizan washed from the fi uh engendered hy his trade and the gay ribbons of his wife and children flut tering in the breeze and heard their merry voices rattling in tbe airstill a glance at the paddle box ra irked in great letters with the horrid title of the


grave as the port to which the jolly freight was bound has curdled my beating blood frozen up my heart and spoken to me with trum pet tongue thc morbid mool memento mori which being interpreted meansthou candle with all thine accomplishments and all thy family thou too mut die


farewell to london


me tropolis of the world


city of extremes i where vice and


virtue jostle in the streets there penury and its cellar homes pride and its palaces churches and prisons theatres and conventicles missionary meetings for the black skins a grinding poor law and workhouse gruel for the white form one vast medley


farewell to loudon


the mart of nations and the wonder of the age


god be praised for the few righteous men left in that


so om


not the cities of the ilain not the ancient tyre or ninevah or even mighty babylon can surpass it in its monstrous wickedness for there assuredly satans seat is and yet it pos sesses more noble self denying energetic disciples of the prince of life than any city of them all


but here am on the stilts again and pray my readers pardon


one or two incidents occurred during our so journ at gravesend such as the appearance of a man with a very red neckcloth and equally ruddy nose followed by a shabby fellow in dingy black no doubt a member of the funeral fraternity he so resembled a dissipated mute who politely lapping my next door neighbour on the shoulder compelled him with fear and trembling to leave his wife and nine children to take the voyage alone or pay some odd


aud costs for a but chers bill


i he shock to my feelings was intense indeed and i know not which most affected me whether concern for the poor man or the con sciousness of the acceptances this day to be re turned bearing the dishonoured name of caudle


another was the case of a man named drink water tum mas who from the commencement of the voyage was gloriously tipsy but terminated it here by a sojourn in the station house


the friends who pid to get rid of bim ia the co lonies little intended to pay that sum for a trip only to gravesend


wonder how they looked wheo he went back


at noon on friday a fair breeze springing up the vigilent parsnip came out in a new character thc redoubtable captain had hitherto been like a lamb fer meekness sud


no beer of coppins could be more mild bat now he appeared on an elevated place which i thought at first was an orchestra but afterwards heard was the poop and dressed in a pilotcaat dustmans cap with a flap behind it and vast leggings he made the windmill hill echo with his awful voice of thunder


no cracked bassoon could be more inharmonious no howl of the blustering railer mr boreas more dissonant nd unearthly


he spoke in a language which t was very long in learning but the anchor was soon raised the men all the time singing some stanzas in the unknown tongue to a tune which appeared a cross between im a jolly young waterman and the hundredth psalm


for three days we were detained in the downs which no doubt derived its rume from the low spirits of the many voyagers who lie wait ing here for down channel


the recollection of the ceebrated susant visit to this locality in search of her sweet william excited me and i forthwith commenced a sonnet to the good win which i shall publish when finished


at present i hare got no further than the first line


but now for a few extracts from my log book a selection from whih shall probably publish when i get to adelaide if i find a good periodical there


memorandumif such a thing is not yet known t can try and start one


saturday september awakened this morn ing at five by a terrific noise from the main hatchway found it was the laird mate shouting caudle for water which dulcet cry was re echoed by a number of villainous fellows in the foresteerage who very unnecessarily continued to bawl until i had slipped on my trousers and can in hand demanded my allowance


found i had missed my turu and must wait until all were served and as i was thc third on the list and some two hundred claims had to be settled prior to my own resolved to turn in again until am and take my chance of hot water for breakfast


alas for hopeshow futile


my poor dear wife commenced a tirade of such stunning power against me fr haring broken her peaceful slumber and was seconded so lustily by the squall of her miserable baby that i was glad tc rush half dressed on deck and hide my sorrows in a mug of hot coffee at the galley whichi shouldsay my stomach until the general hour of breakfast employed the morning in tryiug to find out my fellow passengers and proceed to give a sketch ol them


he middle part of the tween decks is called the married steerage and divided iuto boxes facetiously called cabins about sis feet square oar own is no on the larboard side of the ship to which agreed to give at mrs candies special request a west end ftle and therefore named il st jamess


immediately opposite is called st giless which mrs c considers decidedly low au the tenants of either locality are blesser with unlimited offspringand what with dressing babies who wont be dressed and whipping scold ing feeding crying shrieking squalling bawling falling and calling i certainly question if the vc ritable st giless of bloomsbury could match ut in the somewhat limited space we occupied ace must confess our aristocratic side of the shit certainly contributed liberally to the generarstocl of noise


behind us


or stern ways es i believe the sailor would term it divided by a thin deal partition were the intermediate the hospital aud the nan nery or sleeping room for the single women


th foresteerage devoted to single men complte the arrangements between decks


as i considre ourselves decidedly superior to the cabin passengers who selfishly monopolized the poop and eat al the sheep and pigs that did not die of their owl accord and thus feast the shark and the porpoise instead of theanobs of the cuddy tableineei say little about them but proceed to describe thi denizens of a lower sphere


there was a man in the intermeiiate whi would be cock of the dunghill whether or no


hi name was kt cse


a he was a man of brag a go hath of impudence a very prince of swagger


hi heart if he bad one was that of a rabbit his fac an exact copy of the brass visor of the lon mayors puppet bis mind was a medley of billian balls playing cards generally trumps obscen jests cigar smoking and comic songs


some junior satellites moved round this orb o dutch metalbasking in its rays and flattered us beams


one


from his remarkable resemblanc to a monkey was named by captain parsnip strutto


he was popular on board for singing in gent with hts tail between his legs


another juvenile was easily recognised by ht fare which nearly resembled that of a man sen tenced to be hanged without the slightest hope c mercy


he was narmless as a nursemaid


whos province he ably filled had a morbid fondues for babies which never hadnothing he esl


and he was a good trencherman brought colour t his cheek and yon had only te irritate him t conrerthim info tallow at once


he appeared t hare read nothing previous to the voyage but th sorrows of werter and i believe he place each night under his pillow harveys meditation among the tombs


a very fiery whiskered gay tjothario flattered boot the ship and though he was a per fect don joan in hie treatment of the fair sex atid paid his addresses to some dozen or more et once yet he waa oa the whole a good hearted fellow and deserved a better fate


mrs caudle indeed hated him most cordially but poor woman she baa strange ideas of men and seems to think i ought tobe content with no female society but her own and goodness knows if all women resembled her i should agree that one was quite enough for any man


harry sycophant was the name of this youth but i fancy he had more than one alias


in the married department mr nebuchadnezzar sleuder a venerable gentleman of with a wife fat fair and fifty two daughters about seventeen just j emerged from a select boardingschool and a very nice servant girlwho looked fresh as a rosebud and with cherry lips and smiling eyes ogled us on


the opposite side of the way most killingly


he was called bones but she had plenty of flesh on them and like gravesend was afflicted with au undeserved name which she wh probably soon change


while the town must keep its winding sheet designation for ever


among the foresteerage passengers were some very fine promising young men of whom any country may be proud and if many such favour south australia with their choice it will be well for her prospects and add tenfold to her prosperity


i will introduce a few additional characters to my readers neat week if they will permit me for mrs caudle thinks i have said enough for a first chapter


to he continued


australian doubles


stickerbockers history of melbourne


chapter


shewing how the good people of melbourne were mightily disturbed with the apprehension of a siege and made preparations accordingly


by lushington erving


john foster or vesey the artful as he was more commonly culled having thus proved himself a true patriot and having done such signal service to his country by retiring from her councils some inconsiderate persons began to think that all danger was over and that they would have nothing to do but to go on moneygrubbing as before


but a number of more sagacious folks who knew a good deal better than that proved incontestably that a prodigious army of diggers had been got together at ballaarat for the purpose of making a descent upon melbourne robbing the banks and the churches burning the city killing the men and running off with the women


this mighty force it was alleged consisted chiefly of foreigners irishmen and other evildisposed persons armed with all kinds of strange weapons and possessing no mercy and an unlimited supply of powder and ball


it was farthermore ascertained that the insurgent army was led on by one colonel vern though how he came to be a colonel was never clearly understood till it turned out that he had been in america had there been naturalised and so becamelike everybody else in the place who was not a judgea colonel as a matter of right and course


but however he got his colonelcy it was universally conceded that he was a man of enormous stature and ferocity and capable of eating a victorian rifleman of average size for breakfast without either difficulty or compunction


as the rumour of these facts reached the city it was unanimously carried that something must be done


so much being admitted however all unanimity ceased and william the bluff or billy from barrabool as he was officially called at the time was at his wits end before he had got well warm in his official chair in consequence of the vast number of excellent and patriotic suggestions which poured in upon him


and as it has been shrewdly remarked that a knowledge of the individual is indispensable to a knowledge of the species and that he who cannot take care of one is not fit to take care of many all of those who so obligingly offered their aid and advice to william the bluff took care before hazarding their opinions to test the soundness of their understandings by considering how their suggestions if carried out would affect themselves individually


having thus ascertained their capacity for taking care of the individual they no longer hesitated to enlarge the sphere of their operations and boldly to begin benefitting society


thus one good citizen strongly recommended arming all the clerks in the government service with a new and curious description of pistol whereof it turned out he had received a large consignment in the very nick of time


another gentleman recommended fencingin the government offices with a close fence of double three inch planking and as good luck would have it he was just in a position to prove himself a man of deeds as well as a man of words inasmuch as he could supply the state with any quantity of blue gum sawn stuff of the pre


cise scantling suitable to that kind of fortification


overwhelmed with scores of such noble and disinterested proposals billy the bluff at length happily hit upon the scheme of publicly announcing that all such suggestions would be immediately taken into consideration in the proper quarterafter which nobody thought of troubling him with any more projects and he was left at peace to make preparations for war


these the redoubtable william soon made


unhappily the regular troops were all away at the time but the valour and patriotism of the populace quickly supplied the places of the scarletcoated defenders of the british throne


true the volunteer rifle corps did not then occupy that matchless position and number in its ranks those count less myriads which it now boasts since the green uniforms have been converted by the gallant fellows into gardening and stable jackets and those gallant fellows themselves have with a word been converted into excellent artillery men


true melbourne did not then possess the gorgeous mounted yeomanry horsetail invincibles firebrigades and other military resources which have since so startled russia and contributed not a little to the restoration of peace in europe nevertheless the riflemen presented a truly gallant appearance as headed by the veteran hodgson they entered the field in omnibusses in gigs on foot and on horseback and the majority of them smoking cigars


as they drew up in line and as responding to the word of command attention each warrior listened to the remarks of his neighbour with redoubled care they presented a truly martial appearance and justified the praises lavished upon the victorian irregulars


their height ranged from four feet six to six feet four and as they stood in their little caps winking in the strong sunlight it was remarked that those stiff harsh lines which characterise the fighting machines of the british army when drawn out in battle array in no way disfigured the ranks of the gallant corps


each man stood boldly for himself without merging his individuality or sacrificing his independence


the police armed to the teeth with truncheons and handcuffs and clad in capes of the most shining and waterproof quality looked as if they could have taken up all the armies in the crimea as readily as an old applewoman and evinced by their appearance that if called upon to charge the insurgents the case would not be one of common assault


but the most numerous force and that which my muse is pledged to celebrate with her most potent strains was that of the special constables


they poured down from the shady retreat where the great grimes lisped his numbersthey honoured in the breach the customs of the customhouse and went forth rejoicing to fight the battles of their country in office hoursthey were relieved from a post under the gallant mcrae to occupy a post of honour in the loyal army of victoria and instead of stamping passing letters prepared to stamp themselves with everlasting fame


but stupendous as the preparations were my readers do not need to be told that the great arm of modern warfare is artillery and that therefore fortification to resist it was more important than all


it was accordingly resolved to fortify the jail and in this selection a fresh illustration is afforded of the skill and foresight of the victorian com manders


they perceived at once that so renowned a general as colonel vern would be studious to cover his retreat and that while the jail stood he could never feel comfortable on this score


it was also apparent that the natural antipathies of his forces would go with him in an attack upon that barbarous institution and therefore that nothing was more to be expected than such an operation


after matured deliberation it was resolved that the jail should be fortified with bags of sand and the work of fortification went on with unexampled rapidity


one untoward accident however nearly sufficed to spread confusion in the camp of the besieged for a party of volunteers who were out after sand coming upon a dray load of bags that seemingly contained what they wanted took violent possession of the same and converted them to the purposes of defence


it came to light however that the bags seized were the property of an eminent grocer who was so indignant that he declared that not a single special constable of them should ever get tick from him again in consequence of the slight which had been passed upon him


this spread such confusion that the army would probably have been de cimated had not the prompt assurance that his property would be restored presently pacified the wrathful sugardealer


but lo


another difficulty arose for when conducted to to the ramparts he was unable to distinguish his bags from the rest and was therefore compelled to be satisfied with an equal number taken from the fortification at random


finally all preparations were completed and the gallant defenders awaited the approach of the enemy


chapter


v tis pastthat fearful trial a few short sufferings yetand death shall be as a bright messenger from heaven to thee


on leaving our fashionable residence all the best furniture had been pri vately disposed of the domestics dis charged and the style in which we lived utterly relinquished


mrs wil loughby found constant occupation in the charge of her little son and i endeavoured to avert by increased activity a sbnse of their privations from falling on these truly amiable sisters


day by day added to the doctors degradation he was inces santly intoxicated the struggles against his besetting sin were less earnest


he was now excluded from the scenes of his former temptationsnot the low tavern but the private and public dinner tablesthe pressing invitation to take a glass of wine and a little bit of cake uttered by fair and elegant women perhaps foremost in the van of the charitable and good


he had fallen when danger was least apparent and therefore invidious in its approaches and unguarded against


now vhis patients and


associates were the low liis glass was now taken in the tap room where once he would have loathed to enter


weeping bitterly with her head leaning onny shoulder mrs wil loughby told aaa


jat sher could longer remuneifimor my assis tance and that i could not would not leave those sorrowing ladies or even the sad wreck of so much promise


i knew that my presence was necessary to them indeed it had become imperative on us to earn our own livelihood as the doctor expended the few fees he now received upon the cup of degradation


i had formerly supported myself by my needle and sought to do so again


i tried to get work from the shops but without security or recommenda tionwas unsuccessful


i advertised with equal want of success


how hard it is even for the willing to commence any course of industry once begun each effort widens the future path


it is unnecessary to follow the daily struggles and toil the removals from house to house from street to street each poorer and more comfortless than the preceding


we suffered together and usually made mantles and chil drens clothing with which a benevo lent draper supplied me


it was true benevolence for he placed in my power the means of living for myself and friends and in the first instance the materials were intrusted to me in that charity which hopeth all things and thinketh no evil and subsequent satisfaction in our labours repaid his confidence


how shall i follow the course of the once praised petted and apparently exemplary medical man


the wreck was complete but the voice of conscience was not silenced if unheeded and the misery of knowing right and doing wrong goadedhis every sober hour


we saw little of him but when he came home his gentle wife by all the endearments of a loving heart soughtto retain him there while her palevsunken cheek and languid step tm puny form of his little son andrcie silent suffering depicted in the countenance of annie mutely reproached him


no word of bla ne served as an excuse for his avoiding their presence


time had passed cold wintry winds whistled in the narrow unpaved street and the rain swelled the impure contents of the open drains coursing through it


we worked by


the light of a smoking tallow candle and willie too cold to sleep in his couch had crept to his mothers side and lay against her knee with his head resting on her lap


we were silent and so much engaged that for a few minutes we did not observe that annie had put aside her work


we knew it only when she slipped from her chair senseless


all was confusionthe child whimpered the rain pattered against the small windows when she revived it was to a consciousness of acute suffering


i must fetch the doctor i said


mrs willoughby sighed without further comment she knew where he was to be found


wrapping a shawl round me i stepped out into the street


occasion ally it rained yet the sky was not totally obscured and the stars glim mered wanly upon the dreary scene


the words of the swedish poet wergeland occurred to me


o did ye but feel stars


which sea the whole earths silent misery then never would your glances rest with such calm radiance on her breast


to be continued in our next


marie antoinette o the cnevaller of the red house


continvedfrom colonial times may l


chapter xxv


maurice hastened to the section toprsfer a com plaint against simon


lorin had however pre viously proposed a more expeditious method which was to assemble several of the thermopylites to await simon at the temple and kill him in open contest


maurice firmly opposed this plan


we should be lost ifwe proceeded in that manner let us crush simon but let us crush him legally


the matter ought to be very simple to lawyers


f it waawith that view maurico proceeded to his section to make a formal complaint


he was greatly astonished when the president of the sec tion turned a deaf car to his complaint excusing himself by saying that he could not interfere be


tween two such good citizens both of whom were animated with a love to their country


good replied maurice


i now understand what is necessary to he done to merit the reputa tionof a good citizen


alf i indeed do you call toeing animated with a love of country when a man assembles the people to assassinate one whom hedislikes


in thatcase i teturn to lorins opinion which i had the misfortune to oppose


beginning from today i will practice the patriotism you teach and my first experiment shall be on simon


citizen maurice said the president simon has been perhaps less to blame than you in that affair


he discovered a conspiracy out of the love of his duty which you ought to have detected but of which you perceived no trace whatever more over you have connived by chance or design with the enemies of the nation of the nature of that connivance we are totally ignorant


i said maurice


ah i that is something new


citizen president may i ask with whom i have connived with the chevalier of the red house


li said maurice utterly stupificd


i have combined with the chevalier


i do not know him i have never seen lum


you have heen seen conversing with him


shaking hands with him


ii


r


yes


t tli where was it


when did it occur citizen presidentsaid maurice urged beyond reasonbv the cnvictioitof his innocence


citizenpresi


dont you have lied


your zeal for our country citizeu maurice said the president causes you to forget yourself you will regret byandbye that hasty expression when i have proved to you that my information is perfectly correct


three different reports hear the same accusation


come come said maurice


do you really believe me such fool as to believe in your chevalier of the red house


and why not believe in him


because he is the spectre conspirator held always in readiness to contrive some new con spiracy by which your enemies may be conveniently crushed


s


read the denunciations


i shall read nothing said maurice i pro test that i have never seen the chevalier and that i never spoke to him


let him who does not be lieve my word of honor only say so and then i shall know how to deal with him


the president shrugged his shoulders and maurice who did not wish to be behindhand ia any thing followed his example


during the remainder of the sitting a general reserve aud gloom pervaded the assembly


the meeting having been dismissed the pre sident who was a good patriot and raised to the first rank by the votes of his fellow citizens ap proached maurice and said come with me maurice i wish to speak with you


maurice followed him and was conducted into a small room attached to the place of meeting


when they had entered the president turned round and putting his hand ou maurices shoulder re marked maurice i knew and esteemed your father


the same feelings i entertain towards you because i love you maurice believe me you encounter very great danger in exhibiting a want of faith which is the first symptom of the decline of a revolu tionary spirit


maurice my friend when faith is lost fidelity follows


you do not believe in the existence of the enemies of your dation


from thence it follows that you pass them without seeing them and even become an instrument in their plo s without knowing it


diable citizen replied maurice j i surely know myself


i am a man whose heart is zealous iii patriotism but whilst my zeal doe not make me bliud my patriotism does not render me fanati cal


there have been twenty pretended conspiracies attributed to the same person


i should only like to see the responsible editor


you donot believe in the existence of con spirators said the president


well tell me do yon believe in the red carnation for which they yesterday guillotined tuons daughter


maurice started


do you believe in the tunnel worked under the temple gardens communicating between the cellar of citizen plumeau and a certain house in the street la corderie


no said maurice


then act like thomas the apostle go and se it


i am not on guard at the temple and they would not allow me to pass


everybody may now enter the temple


how so read this report said the president since you are so incredulous


i shall proceed step


by step with official documents alone


what i exclaimed maurice reading the report


has it arrived at this


proceed


the queen is to te removed to the concier gerie


i


well answered the president


ah ah muttered maurice


do you believe said the president that the committee of public safety would have adopted such a serious measure upon the authority of a mere dream of the imaginations or idle rumour


tile measure is adopted but not executed like a host of others which i ave known


read on to the end said the president pre senting another paper


the receipt by richard the gaoler of the con ciergerie exclaimed maurice


she has been confined there eince two oclock


mnurlce rcmnlncd for some iraetfeugktful the commune you know continued the president act profoundly


she ploughed a i wide and deep furrow


her measures arc uo childs play


she has put into execution crom wells principle ii that kings can only be struck upon the head


read this private note of the minister of police


seeing that we have a positive assurance of the presence of the chevalier of the red house in paris that he has been seen in various places that he has left behind him proofs of his connec tion with various conspiracies most fortunately averted we request every sectional leader to re double his vigilance


well asked the president


i must lielicve citizen president exclaimed maurice continuing to read description of the chevalier of the red house five feet three inches in height better than fie feet and a half english fair hair blue eyes straight nose chestnutcoloured heard round chin soft voice and a womans hands age from thirtyfive to thirtysit


mon dieu i murmured maurice could it be bira


id that case the denunciation which re presents me as having spoken to him is not false only i do not remember eier having shaken hands with him


well maurice asked the president what do you say to that now


that i believe you answered maurice amidst a sad meditation for during some time without knowing what maglign influence affected him he imagined everything darkened and lowered around him


do not sport thus with your popularity maurice continued the president in these times jiopularity is life itself


beware of unpopu larity


it is the suspicion of treason and the citizen maurice lindey must not be suspected to he a traitor


maurice had no reply to make to a doctrine which he acknowledged to be his own


he thanked his old friend and left the section


ah murmured he let us breathe a little


here are too many sttruggles with suspicion all at once


lot mc proceed at once straightway to re pose innocence and joy to genevive


maurice accordingly took the direction of the old streetst


jacques


when he reached the master tanners dixmcr and morand were supporting genevive during a violent nervous attack


instead of admitting him as usual a servant stood r in his way


i announce me said maurice uneasily and if dixiuer cannot receive mc just now i shall re tire


j the servant entered the pavilion whilst maurice remained in the garden


it seemed tohjm as if something unusuul was passing within the house


the workmen were not at their employment but crossed the garden with an uneasy look


dixmer himself came to the very door


come in dear maurice said he come in you are not one of those against whom my door is closed what the matter


asked the young man


genevive is very poorly more than indisposed for she is delirious


oh i my god exclaimed the young man with emotion


what is her complaint


you aie aware my dear friend resumed dix mer nobody can fathom womens affcctiots anil stillless the husband


genevive was extended in a kind of long easy i chair beside her stood morand holding smelling salts to her nose


i


well asked dixmer


i still the same replied morand


heloise heloise muttered the youngwoman through her clenched teeth


heloise repeated maurice astonished


eh i good god


i yes genevive unfortunately wet out this morning and saw an unfortunate girl of that name being conducted to the scaffold since that she has had five or six nervous attacks and always repeuted the same name


and what affects her more paid morand isthe circumstance of her recognising in this girl the flowerdealer who sold the carnations with which you arc acquainted


most ccrtuiuly since they nearly cost me my head


we were made acquainted with all that said dixmer and believe mc dear maurice none could feel greater alarm than we did


morand was at the meeting however and saw you depart at liberty


silence said maurice i believe she speaks again


halfuttered unintelligible words resumed dixmer


maurice murmured genevive


theyare going to kill maurice


help him help him chevalier


a profound silence followed these words


chevalier of the red house murmured genevive


chevalier


maurice felt a flash of suspicion crossing his mind ut it was merely a flash


besides he was too much moved with genevieves suffering to comment on her words


did you call a doctor asked he


oh i it is nothing said dixmer a little delirium thatb all


and at the same time he squeezed his wifes hand so violently that genevive recovered and uttering a cry opened her eyes


ah i areyou there said she and maurice with you


i am happy to see you my friend


if you knew how i have yes said maurice but we are all here


recover yourself and let us alarm ourselves no longer


there is one word however which you must not accustom yourself to utter seeing that it does not possess at present much esteem or sanctity


which is thot asked genevive quickly


it is that of the chevalier of the red house


have i named him asked genevive thun derstruck


undoubtedly answered dixmerwith a forced laugh but there is nothing surprising in that maurice as it was publicly stated that the cheva lier was the accomplice of the girl tison and like wise that it was he who superintended the attempt made for her rescue whick fortunately failed ycbterday i do not say answered maurice that there is anything astonishing in that i only remark that he had better conceal himself as well as he can


who asked dixmer


hie chevalier of the red house parbleu i the commune is seal ching for him and their bloodhounds have keen noses


it is to be hoped they will arrest him said morand before he can acconplisk some new attempt which may succeed better than the others


at all events said maurice it will not he in the queens behalf


and why so asked morand


because for the future the queen is removed beyond the reach of his attempts


where is she then asked dixmer


ia the conciergerie answered maurice where she was transferred recently


dixmer morand and genevive uttered a cry which muurice mistook for an exclamation of surprise


so you observe continued he farewell to the plan of the chevalier concerning the queen


the conciergerie is safer than the temple


morand and dixmer exchanged a look which escaped maurice


au good god cried the latter there madame dixmer grows pale again


genevive said dixmer go to bedchild you ore very ill


maurice took the hint to retire kissed her hand and departed


morund went out with him and accompanied him as far as the old street st jacques


when there he left him to address a few words to a servant vtho held a saddlehorse


maurice was j so plagued in thought that he never addressed a single word to moraud and therefore never asked who the man was or what the horse did there


he took the direction of the street of the fosses st victor and reached the quays


i


it is strange said he as he walked


has my mind become weaker or events more serious


they began to magnify before my eyes as if under p microscope


v j to restore himself to a greater calmness mau i rice exposed his brow to tho evening breeze and supported himself on the parapet of the bridge


the streets of sydney with some account of the houses thereof and the people who dwell therein


by hooke


y walker


a very extensive traveller


chapter viii


i find myself in yorkstreet and sum up its various itemsi am smitten with the circus bill of the play and attempt to describe it but fear i fall shortsad reflections on the town hall


its departing gloriesi relieve my mind as will be discovered by those who peruse this chapter


the statistics or yorkstreet may be reckoned thusone town hall toparch of the ter ritory one semitheatrical semisawdust circus dignified with the name of amphitheatre one side of a market hotels innumerable public houses considerable private boarding houses few printing offices prolific the remainder being composed of small shops for the most part dingy and comfortless yet sufficiently suitable for the trades carried on namelyvending machine stores tin wares indifferent cigars cheap ginger beer and sundried dusty fruit


there are some alleys leading from the street possessing a full share of wretchedness and vice whose denizens find constant employment for the police


the inspector of that district mr tingleton has been heard to declare that paddy erwins alley is a thorn in his side requiring the constant use of his pliers to extract


its atmosphere breathes of the lowest female infamy and the most deter mined male scoundrelism and as one mass passes away to the deadhouse or the prison house another rushes in to supply its place at tracted by the powerful magnet of sin and trust ing to security in the gloom which shrouds these miserable homes


coercion and punishment have equally failed to diminish crime and it is now universally admitted that the wide spread of education is the only corrective


the theory is established but the practice has fallen woefully short hitherto


the quarrels of sectarians have impeded the march of regeneration and narrow views the dilation of better principles


the inky surges of guilt roll on whilst the hands which can oppose a barrier to them are lifted against each other


when will the good time so often promisedso anxiously looked for come


let me turn from grave to gay


if the circus is not the most attractive place of public entertainment in the metropolis it is not for lack of promises


gigantic posters printed in harlequincoloured paper are plentifully scat tered about


the travelling paste merchants employed in their distribution entertain a thorough contempt for the stick no bills warning and clothe every brick wall building board and exposed gableend with sawdust literature of the most startling description


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torial illustrations add their seductive charms though as is the case at fair booths the exterior representations frequently surpass the things re presented


wary indeed must be the youth the servant girl the wasteful gold digger or the jacktar on leave who would not be lured to deposit coin in exchange for a spectacle


an nounced to be performed in a style somewhat similar to the following talkems circus


wonderful wonderful most wonderful of wonderfullest novelty


un heard


unprecedented


never before thought of


signor snubnoza from andaloosia the only real bullfighter who obtained the golden crown at madrid for taking the fiercest bull in the known world by the horns then throwing seventeen somersets in the air and lighting on his feet on the animals head will perform this extraordinary and miraculous feat for the last time this evening previous to his departure for england where he has been engaged to enact the same before her majesty the queen prince albert and all the court at cowes in the isle of wight


mademoiselle pierceina the little darning needle will run through a pair of worsted stockings and afterwards dance the tamboura with mamselle crotchet on twelve reels of cot ton


a most surprising achievement


madame amazonia in the costume of the period will make a grand entree on a bare backed steed and enter into an astounding con flict with the enormous african lion just im ported from the hunterstreet menagerie


the of the animal is most terrific but the dauntless lady pierces him through and through with a dart which causes him to wag his tail and go down on his knees to request the loan of a shin of beef that she holds in her hand


this is a beautiful study in natural history for the youth of both sexes showing how beauty and innocence can tame the fiercest of monsters


eleventh wonder of the world the little fivelegged pony ninepins brought up by the celebrated groom titus oats formerly super intendent of the stud of george glebe esq mlc will go through his breakfasttable performance taking turnovers twists and rolls in the circus and eating from a toastrack as if it was a manger


such is the power of eddica tion


so exquisite is the training of this qua druped that he will say neigh to a bucket full of senna tea as natural as a young gentleman at school holding his nose over the same


nine pins will bowl himself through twenty rub himself down with a jacktowel pick his teeth with a pitchfork comb his hair pull up his collar put a straw hat on his head and walk round the circle on two legs as elegant as any gentleman in the house


the clown of clowns the antipodean jester monsieur jokingspokingcoaxingshoaxings first cousin to the emperor of china will give his illustrations of shakspeare imitating the crowings of the early village cock and the mew ings of the brindled cat to a hairs turn


he will also sing a new comic song written entirely by himself called tippetewitchett or how about the hot codlins


to be followed by a pleasant drama entitled the shameful strike or the manager in a mess


strike mr surly manager mr


a lapse of fifteen minutes will occur


mr clark topples the extraordinary equili brist will exhibit his magnificent feats upon the tight rope


grand military movement bearing a cannon on his head which goes off the with himself at the word discharge


unrivalled equestrian spectacle


st george and the dragon


st george mr william king twoshilling piece mr bull helmet mr dragon messrs scaly widemouth and


signor attitudino will then go through his wonderful movements representing the following


sir richard bourke shooting a bronze wing pigeon


the mayor laying the foundation stone of a new town hall


a na tive lad attacking the gold escort


baptist prize peas


potts discovering the


harker lowering flower into a siloe


stubbs tumbling over a dead cat


a taking


a poll law to the watchhouse


parkes at the thunder of the herald


defying the lightning of the council


darvall discharging parthian darts


but there is procession consisting of the men of the establishment who mounted upon the equine jewels of the stable glide gracefully round the city to the intense admiration of the little boys whose carefullyhoarded sixpences and shillings are quicksilvered as it were by this powerful appeal to the feelings


and indeed it is a noble sight the gentleman on the white charger heading the cavalcade is the embodiment of a hero returning from the battle field in triumph whilst the elegant forms of the ladies in their flowing green habits look like ivy wreaths twining round the rugged front of war


the clown in his professional attire white spotted with red is a pleasing reminiscence of olden days when every court had its jester who fooled the monarch and plucked his beard whilst mailed warriors trembled beneath his frown


as the ancient poet remarked ye cappe ande bells and ye fools worde are stronger than ye barons sworde


foole crowethe loudlye as ye cocke whenne barons heade lyes neath ye blocke


of a verity i affirm if talkem do not meet success he strives to deserve it but who can doubt that his bills at sight resolve themselves into cash transactions


i left the circus and its round of amusements to all whom they might concern and turned to take a passing glance at the civic hall


its balcony was desolate and the dusty windows looked out upon the street with a vacant air


a solitary figure stood against one of the decaying pillars as if striving to prop up the falling house


he was evidently an ancient retainer his blue official livery the pride of other days was threadbare his once glossy beaver was nap less and flitting salary might be traced in every wrinkle of his careworn face


a chief baron of the exchequer retiring without a pen sion could not have presented a more forlorn ap


pearance


alas


the hand of the spoiler is ready to he placed upon the town halls crumb ling walls and the fiat which will hush the sounds of eloquence within is about to go forth


mayor aldermen and councillors will be but names and the chamber a worthless shell from which the kernel hath been rifled


peace to its ashes


during the distress excited by the mournful spectacle i was guilty of this monody


mourn sydney mourn


the gem that decked thy brow thy kohinoor hath lost its lustre now prostrate in dust thy noble council lies its sun is set and neer again to rise


no more from out thy hospitable hall invites shall issue for the fancy ball the pleasant picnic or the mild bohea which suited sober allen to a t the pasteboards vanished pen and ink are flown and woolcott feels his occupation gone


ah


never more the anxious cits will go to see the aye give battle to the no to hear a paton in mellifluous tones deliver sermons upon paving stones or gutter kerbing whilst grave thomas nods assent or dissent undeterred by hodds


no more shall simmons in his specs of green perform a first rate part before the scene and suit his every action to the word which hollow politicians deem absurd or placid peden his position take to follow promptly in his leaders wake or roberts sum up long affairs in brief in mimic manner of the mighty chief so closely studiedthis we plainly see were i not roberts i would stephen be


no more shall weekes by fortune driven thence


attend to furnish plans of common sense or broughton with aristocratic air and chesterfieldian tongue his views declare to teach the dullard race this truth divine of essence purea stitch in time saves nine


oh worthy guardian of thy countrys weal a cut at thee the wise severely feel


how strange that men psha goose is in their look


disdain to take a pattern from thy book and from it shape a garment to withstand the rubs of life the press of iron hand


no more shall fisher in impassioned strain the acts and savings of the chair arraign and deaf to oft repeated order calls his thunders launch amid the shaking walls or dart the lightning of his vengeful look on scared reporters in their silent nook whose quivering pens and blotted papers own their direful dread of henrys look or tone


no more shall thurlow skilled in dubious law pick out from voters deeds the hidden flaw turn white to black or black to white again or weave straight threads into a ravelled skein or change and rechange with protean art to make the worse assume the better part whilst brown admiring scarcely knows tis said if on his heels he stands or on his head or whether sitting on the horsehair he does not bestride th unpigskinned saddle tree


no more shall sturdy hill the peoples choice amid that conclave raise his honest voice


no more shall little to check senseless prate arise to prove that little can be great


no more shall mencroes vast mental hoard for sydneys benefit be there outpoured


no more shall wilshires shafts of satire fly and jolly driver wink his pleasant eye


no more shall allen serious sermons preach and hogan flounder in his parts of speech allall have passed away and egan mayor the last not least hath left a vacant chair


i gaze around upon the present scene and memory conjures up what here has been


the spiders webs wave slowly midst the gloom like dusty banners oer a mouldering tomb and so my lonely footsteps pace the floor their echoes seem to sighno more


no more


the comic history of englan d


c continued from our tatt j chatter v the crusades


after another silly billy and a mad harry or two same richard i whoput up thc royal cas tle to auction and would have made all dickey with england lmd ho not been stopped


the people threatened to kickhim from dan lp beersheba and as his brother john wished him at jerichohe determined to go


so off he set to jerusalem whether for the sake of becoming more intimate with the jerusalem ponies tho donkeys who were without doubt of the same brotherhood or whether for the sake of john is unknown but wishing to be thought a wiseacre he conquered


acre and after having a setto with saladin in which he came off second best he thought it advisable to take his ticket and return back


but in those days there were no railroads nor blowing roaring engines and squeaking whistles tunnels and stations so ho had to rock on the waves till he got a rock too much and being thrown on the coast of an old enemy the em peror of austria he was quite in quod and placed upon the silent system water gruel stone walls damp cells ugly turnkeys and cool re flections


after he had been some time in confinement he thought he heard a sort of something resem bling music


had such things as singing mice been then in fashion it would not have given him a second thought so he listened again and at last said od rat itthat air


i knowso he lis tened again and heard the sound of all round my hat i vears a green villow all round my hat for ever and a day if so be you axes me verefore tis


i vere it


tis all cos my true king is far far avay


upon that the king replies im not far away my minstrel dear


because you see i am bricked up here


and then his faithful blondel cast up his eyes and pricked up his ears and ran home as fast as he could to tell mrs courdelion what a blessed diskivery he had madein short he ran some way for the kings ransom which was marked at a hundred thousand marks and richard was set free


richard was such a killing man that almost as soon as he was set at liberty he got into hot water and walked into the frenchy in a truly heroic style making no more of hanging up a whole garrison than he would of hanging up his hat


at last however an archer stopped his going on by cutting him off and as he could not flee himself he was flead alive and skinned by being unskinned in the most scientific manner


john succeeded richard and began his reign by putting to death his nephew arthur which may be called a dead hit to the right of suc cession


he next quarrelled with the pope who vented his vengeance upon tho unoffending people whom they debarred from the use of snuff newspapers and nightcaps particularly of gin and water


thus might be seen a whole nation in a fix and regularly under the screw


to set the english free king john met his barons at a place called runnymede where horses now run every year and there he signed a large sheet of parchment called magna charta by which the english were allowed the privi lege of never drinking water when they can get beer of never walking on foot when they can ride on horseback of never singing small when they can cut a swell and of never paying their debts when they can take the benefit of the act


these great privileges cannot bc too forcibly impressed upon the rising generation as being the palladium of british liberty in spite of the encroachments of the police and the daily dis comfiture of organboys and the demolition of applestalls


after this henry iii came to the throne but not being a very great rascal little is to be said of him although he reigned longer than any king of england


it is a very great pity that so long a period should be suffered to elapse as fiftysix years without a corresponding quantity of blood being shed and consequently his suc cessor edward i surnamed daddy long legs determined to make up for it


now it so happens that there is a certain na tion in the north called scotia famous for living upon nothing and particularly skilled in the art of skinning flints the science of booing and tho philosophy of doing the natives of other countries


some of the people of this nation having spoiled the singeing of a hampshire hog which a strong southwest wind carried as far as edinburgh a council of state was held to deliberate upon tho phenomena nothing like which had ever been known in scotland before


after due considera tion a messenger was sent into england who on his return reported with such extraordinary gusto upon thc bacon and beans of hampshire the cheese of suffolk the turkeys of norfolk tho calves of essex and tho clouted cream of devon shire that it made the tears come into thc mouth of every member of tho royal council who forth with licked their chops in anticipation of the rich licks they were likely to have in england which they determined to invade


king edward having heard of this imme diately sent an army into scotland and gave tho scotch tho rich licking they desired


having particularly long legs as before stated he walked over the scotch in a manner truly kingly and kicked them from john ogroats house to ber wick but just as he was about to give them a final kick he unfortunately kicked the bucket and instead of cutting off tho scotch was cut off himself


edward ii his son was henpecked by his wife and of course as he could not crow at all had no power to crow over the scotch


he was murdered in his prison by no friends of hisn


edward iii


beat the scotch so thoroughly that it was positively asserted that there was not a single man in tho whole of that country with out a black eye a bloody nose or a broken limb from him is said to have arisen the jelly of scotch marmalade which is made in remembrance of the manner in which the scotch were beaten i


e to a jelly


edwards son called the black prince from being so constantly beaten by his father in his younger days as to be black and blue all over doubled up his fist into his hand and beat a warlike rowdedow upon the heads of the french


it is computed that at this period there was not an unbroken head in all france which is the reason that the french are cracked at tho present time as shown by their revolving revolutions


richard ii succeeded his grandfather and wanted to teach his grandmother to suck eggs but one wat tyler and jack straw thinking this to be coming it rather too strong and that the poll tax was but another word for a pole axe without axing leave became the first poll iticians by knocking on the head the collector of the income tax as ought to be done at tho present time


but wc then had a patriotic lordmayor a grocer and teadealer a very spicy man whose zeal was as warm as ginger and whose temper was as hot as pepper


so he knocked down wat tyler with his mace which knocked up a wide and farspread conspiracy originating in tho people having nothing to eattho only thing that ever makes an englishman rebel