one tremendous cheer welcomed the head of the column as itmarched past and continued till the last file deployed before us as these splendid regiments moved by we could not help feeling what sigual service they might have rendered us but a few hour before


their soldierlike bearing their high and effective state of discipline their wellknown reputation were in every mouth and i scarcely think that any corps who stood the brunt of the mighty battle were the subject of more epcomium than the brave fellows who hadjust joined us


the mournful duties of the night were soon forgotten in the gey and buoyant sounds on every side


congratulations shaking of hands kind inquiries went round and as we looked to the hilly ground where so lately were drawn up in battle array the dark columns of our enemy and where not one sentinel now remained the proud feeling of our victory came home to our hearts with the ever thrilling thought what will they say at home


i was standing amid a group of my brother officers when i received an order from the colonel to ride down to talavera for the return of our wounded as the arrival of the com manderinchief was momentarily looked for


t threw myself upon my horse and setting oot at a brisk pace soon reached tbe gates


on entering tbe town i was obliged to dismount and proceed on foot


the streets i were completely filled with people treading their way among waggons forage and sicklitters here was a boothfilled with all imaginable wares for sale there a temporary ginshop established beneath a broken baggage waggon here might be seen a merry party throwing dice for a turkey or a kidthere a wounded man with bloodless cheek and tottering stepinquiring the road to the hospital the accents of agony mingled with the drunken chorus and tbe sharp crack of the provostmarshals whip was heard abave the boisterous revelling of the debauchee


all was confusion bustle and excitement


thes affofficer with his flowing plume and glittering epualettev wended his way on foot atiid the din and hustle unnoticed and uncared for while the little drummer aroused an admiring audience of simple country folk by some wondrous tale of the great victory


my passage through this dense mass was necessarily a slow one


no one made way for another discipline for the time was at an end nd with it all respect for rank or position


it was what nofhing of mere vicissitude in the fortune of war can equalthe wild orgies of an army the day after a battle


on turning the corner of a narrow street my attention was attracted by a crowd which gathered round a small fountain which seemed as well as i could perceive to witness some porceeding with a more than ordinary interest exclamations in portuguese expressive of surprise and admiration were mingled with english oaths and irish ejaculations while high above all rose other soundsthe cries of some one in pain and suffering forcing my way through the dense grroup i at length reached the interior of the crowd when to my astonishment i perceived a short fat punchy looking man stripped of his coat and waistcoat and with his short sleevfes rolled up to his shoulders busily employed in operating upon a wounded soldier


amputation knives tourniquets bandages and all other imaginable instruments fur giving and alleviating torture were strewed about him and from the arrangement and preparation it was cwr tha he had pitched upon this spot as an hospital tor his patients


while he continued to per f rm his functions with a singular speed and dexterity he never for a moment ceased a run ning fire of small talk now addressed to the patient in particular now to the crowd at large sometimes a soliloquy to himself and not unfrequently abstractedly on things in general


these little specimens of oratory delivered in such a place and in such a time and not least of all in the richest cork accent were sufficient to arrest my steps and i stopped for some time too bserve him


the patient who was a large powerfully built fellow had been wounded in both legs by the esplosion of a shell but yet not so severely as to require amputation


does that plaze you then said the doctor as heap plied some powerful caustic to a wounded vfessel theres no satisfying the like of you


quite warm and comfortable yell be this morning after that i saw that same shell coming and i called out to maurice blake by your leave maurice let that fellow pass hes in a hurry and faitn i said to myself theres more where you came from youre not in only child and i never liked the familywhat re ye grinning for ye brown thieves this was addressed to the portuguese there now keep the limb quiet and easy


upon mv conscience if that shell fell into ould londy foots shop this morning thered be plenty of sneezing in sackvillestreet


whos next said he looking round with an expression that seemed to threaten that if no wounded man was ready that he was quite prepared to cat ve out a patient for himself


not exactly relishing the invitation in the searching that accompanied it i backed my way through the crowd and continued my path towards the hospital here the scene which presented itself was shocking beyond belieffrightful and ghastly wounds from shells and cannon shot were seen on all sides everjr imaginable species of suffering that man is capable of was presented to view while amid the dead and dying operations the most painful were proceeding with a haste aud bustle that plainly showed how many more waited their turn for similar offices


the stairs were blocked up with fresh arrivals of wounded men


andeven upon the corridors and landing places the sick were strewn on all sides


i burned to that part of the building where my own people were and soon learned that our loss was confined to about fourteen wounded five of them were officers bat fortunately we lst not a man of our gallant fellows and talavera brought us no mourning of a comrade to damp the exultation we felt in our victory


the strangers tale or the chimney corner of a


coun try inn


from frasers magazine for february


continued


telling jwthedato of my tory gentlemenill make toe an old man liny blesr time flieg anti arriesa way yorth and vigour willi


it it will be full thirty years next month ince the facts i am about to recount occurred


auytof youtlint trat oiled lere by the northfrrnroad may have re raarkeovabont eleven miles from tbii ndiwovor ao from the road potthcj loftband the roollcis remains xjf what was once a largo twostoried bouse


the high naked walls standing lonely poniue heathy moor would bo of


themselves ant to nttrivct ones notice buttthe three or four tall spectral looking treo watching like sentinels brer the disserted ruins are ao pic turesque though out of iceepingwitb the sterile and desolate tratst thatit is scarcely possible they couldbe passed yany one without observing if themy sod at the same time carting a though


track intoformcrlimesondwandering whatcoultllinve boen thebbjeot caify minn in choosing so tneloncholy and wild a sitefor what imibt once hare lieon a spascious and handsome build ing


its decayed appearance and un toward circumstances are likely too to jftive rise taia passing reflection upon the many vicinal tuiles it hasnecebcriby witnessed


anti perhaps n sur ni we as to the strarigo events of which its re iriotencss aiid isolation renderedit the titling as well as the hkelysccno


of these i know but little though in my youtbi have hoardtnot a few marvel lous tales of ita original proprietor but to make mention of these would be be side my purpose which is merely to tclale whatbefol myself chieflynn that liuililing on the veryt last night it was inhabited it was about four then of n winter evening that i stopped to bait any horso ntth sign of the roso


and i ho thistle a small houso ofintertain njenl hielt was about eight miles oil this ruin upon the hither sitio i had ridden abovo twenty miles j that after noonand had yet as much more to porform beforo i slept


rut i was then young and stout and mounted upon as freegoing and highmettled a piece of stuff as ever champed a bil


so that i carriedlittle for the distance or the fatigue


rut independently of my own willingness aifd


my horses ability jl had


other reasons for pushing on without delay


i bad with me five hundred pounds in gold beside bank notes and bills to a considerable amount whit h waa carrying to a commortial liouse in which my father was a parner


there were some engagements lo be dis charged the following day for which this money was required and as you know gentlemen exigencies of this nature must bo consulted i had alternative but to proceed ccn though my cirenm stanccs hail been much moro formidable than they wrro


tho day had been intensely cold and the dul lowering clouds which thickened gradually ovcr licadj betokened a heavy fall of snow so that feared if i waited until morn ing the road would be impassable while hoped that by moiug on brisklyat once i might anticipate all hiuderanoe or at least so fui jessen thedistance be tween mo ml my destination as to render itcomparativly easy of attain


ment at the following forenoon


the man of the house who caine in whilemy horse was feeding urged strongly that rit would bo sheer madness to proceed ns he knew with certaintyand he was pretty


well vi raed in the signs of the weathor thereaboutsthat a swirling sdowatonii as be phrased it wasolose at band


hetold me likewise that the part of the country before me bore but a very indifferent character and added a curdling account of a man wlobnti lieen murdered robbed and thrown into a inosshoie


few weks before and of the bodies of two others whichhad been found lower down in the same pitso well preserved by tho bog water as to be readily recognised as diosetif two gentlemen father and on who hadbeen missing for eighteen months before


i confess this dismal story aomowbal chilled mo but youth is aye rookloss and apt to make light of dan ger andal thallime lovedrisk even for its own sake so i only thanked sbim tor his friendly counsel and told limthat


i hail nochnice and besides was bo well armed and mounted as to care but littlo whom or whatimet


seeing mo determined he said no more but wished me good speed and observed as bo looked out that cer tainly ihad a good chance of being unmolestedbyiany thing liivngfor no evilly intontioned pet son would think i ti wort h his while to take the road on such a night


my horso was now rea dy and so having examinedmy pisto upplied them with fresh nriming placed thom in


my brcstneyond vilia reachof damp and wallowed a stirrupoup i mountedl and enjoying that pleasurable excitement which youth and strength ex pcriunoe at tho apnroaoh of dangergav speen he sptir and startod forward at pace which had the water forbor and no mishap befallen would speedily have brought me to my jouroies end


dut


it was


ton evident that the former at least was not to bo the caso for every mi nuto tho sky grew moredark anti scowl ing and every thing became morn strong ly symptomatic of a storm


during tpv dny tho clouds had been driving itrlu multoous masses before a blustering northeast wind but now the air was perfectly still and they hung beavyand motionless abovea dull and monoto nous canopy for as dismal and dreary a scene as man might over wish to look on


all was sunk into a portentuos quiotude and silence and except the ringing of my horses hoofs upon the iron ground atd now and then tho wild and queru lous cry ofa snipe as startled by my ap proach it circled a few moments in the air and then dropped again by its lonely pool thtre as no sound or sign of life to be beard or seen


presently however the winluwok and carne occasionally swocpingwilh slow drawnouiinus moap across th d arkeningpflantl passing by niendfgrsdsjliedsaalyi and dirgeli kelway in tbglporayvu tance while a tewjlargowcsniery flake show floated grncfinflyiaiotgiuponitor in the intorvasofell softlyupon the frozonand now whitening ground


if v but the tnoloncbolynion soon grew into a bitter wailiug the burdened wind swcptjodlyjfldwildly over the quiver tilg heath the aownakev tnssnig in great confusion in ihe thickenodr or in the somewhat awfulntervslajbtweeiv the blasts falling fast and thiokupnn the sheeted earth every feature of which wls sion lostunder the spotless covering


the shadows of dightwo were nowsptr tling mistily oter all and i confess the prospect a little chilled


my ardourand trade io almostrepent of not lia


ting ta


ken the worthy publioansadywsnd deferred facing the difficulties of the jour


ey lill had light at least to aid met hut was now some miles upon my way nd wouhl not think of uruingj back


ntl


so osfltsfwythp da warning apaoe rod the menace of ihe weather becoming larflyconfirmed


only thewofskeenly nkd


spleens mettlewitube spur that i might lenvoas mucbiground be ind mo as pobiinevbopreyeriou impediment was ohrtlto


it was about this timoor passed by a nu serablo sodbuilt hovel within few yards of tbo road


in my present wakeful state of suspicion scanned it narrowly as approached but fleeing no light i concluded it to be deserted


however after i had passed it i heard a noise be hind and glancing round saw a shutter pushed aside and a mans beadclearly lisible by thoiight of ablasimg peatiro thin thrtfst through the opcrturethe fellow withdrew it almost immediately pulled the board across again and all was ouco moro dark but during a mo tuentary lull i thought and correctly too that i caught the suppressed mut tering ofvoices and a sound like the opening of a door


i made howecr but littleof it at the time andwas pushing jin with all speed when my attention was recalled to


the circumstance by boaring a noise like the cracking of ice under footsteps which seemed at no great dis tance from me and proceeding in a paral iel jine


it was only at intervals the sound reached me through ihe rush and uouling of the wind and the driving snow bo intercepted my ision that i could nott with any certainly conclude as to its cause


but at length a loud crash ercompanicd by a deep angry curse left me bul little room for doubt and at tbo same time a furious gust putting a vista through the snow gate to my straining sight an indistinct view of tbo figures of two mon at some short distance from the road


onehadappa re a ti y broken through tbo ice which co vered a boghole and was sunk nearly to the nuddlo in it while the other was standing upontho edge trjing to extract ins unlucky comrado iib tbo aid of what seemed to me to be a guna task in which alarmed as i was by tbo latter supposition was by no moans disposed to wish bim speedy success


inwardly praying that be might enjoy some hltlo j timo longer tbo bracing benefits of he cold bath which i doubted not be bad richly earned i taxed my borsej ener gies to the uttermost but though the highbred animal obeyed the call nilli redoubled efforts yet plunging as be


did at every step nearly kneedeop in the snow his progress was necessarily so slow that an active man assisted by a staff could easily have kept on with bim aideby side


that my suspicious ac quaintances were again on the move and keeping pace with me an occasional pat ter orplash made me disagreeably cer tain but at length they scorned to pass me for the sound of their footsteps gra dually died away akead and left me un distracted to deal with bo difficulties of my situation


not unwilling to increase the interval hotweon us i now slackened my rate to breathe my horse whose strength


wished to reserve for any exi gency that might occur


the falling snow bad by this time thinned alillle and gate a freer passage to the pallid moonlight which struggling faintly through the giddy utmosphere enahlod meto leery at some distance before me an old wall whoseposiiion in respect to the road was in my present circumstances any thing put propitiousor encouraging


i vas just thinking how safely a footpad might lurk behind it and gue any unlucky tra voller like myself iis quietus with about as much certainty as a poacher would pop a pheasant perched pon a tree when i suddenly disserned the flut ter of a coat through a rent in the wall and required no further intimation to as sure me thati was waylaid


what i should do was my grst thought but


ibis though a weighty consideration was speedily disposed of


it went against my temper to turn brck which beside would add but slightly to my chances of escape and j i at once resolied to go forward at all hazards accordingly i kept spleen well in hand and gathered up for action ii ocation should require


also as quietly as possible so disposed the handle of a pistol that it might be ready for uc at a moments warning and then determined lo try what a leiut might do for me in this extremity mov ed on slowly and u iib counterfeit uncon sciousness of danger


but when i bad reaihcd the wall and was within a few yards of th aperture through which i expected the ambushed robber would give his fire i suddenly struck my spurs into spleen withj such heart and good ill that he shot forward like an arrow from a bow and so far as the wall bad sheltered the road from the drifting snow bore me away with a speed which defied pursuit


to ibis ruse ft el cer tain under heaven owed my life for it was the unlookedfor change in my rate of going which confounded the un wary marksman and made him fire at a mere venture as i darted by so that the charge passed harmless behind me and happily found a lodging elsewhere than had been charitably assigned for it


as i urged spleen forward heard the ruqtaus toice behind me


sdealli billi up with your piece and blazo at him when the horse boggles at the snowdrift andwo may dropjn yet


cune on you over ihe wall fft or hell escape us goldand allhurry hurryhit either horse ortuin and ill sooon finish him with ihisbaynellift v i throw a hurried glance bcktvardf jos the villain spoke and saw his comrade clambering oicr iho wall lo actupon his counsel


refor me was a deep wreath of snow through which knew itny horse would flounder with exceeding difficulty and i was for a moment


pux feled as lo my line of action


rut there was not even fa moniento be lost and pulling out a pistolfrom my breast i urned round in my saddle and taking such a imas i could at ute fellow on lue wall bred andfaad ihe immediate satisfaction of seeing him tumble back ward and disappear behind it


the rascal howeveryasxsjuiequently learn jed uas not litbutoning flurried i the gre had on recolllingfrotu itonly jlost his ballance andfallen on the fur ther side


asi struggled through the wreath i heatd the filter urse of tho disappointed ruffians


life of huh oneill


by john mitch el esq


continued from out hut


chapter


v the geraldine war


ad


after some years confinement in the tower gerald earl or desmond and his brother were sent as state prisoners to jublitj from whence in they had found an opportunity to escape on horseback during a hunting party and bv desperate tiding arrived in munster whither it did not seem advisable to follow them


for about four years after this desmond seems to hare lived in peacc with the english j yet still as ware alleges was keeping up negotiations with the pope and king of spain but without much result until at last james fitamaurice his kinsman proceeded to rome and through the celebrated ecclesiastics saunders and allen solicited and obtained from his holiness a bull commanding the chiefs and clergy of ireland to assist fiumaurice in defence of holy church against the heretic english with promise of indulgences and spiritual privileges such as the crusaders had earned by fighting for the blessed sepulchre


thus accredited fitzmauriee proceeded to spain and entreated king philip the mortal enemy of england tosnpplv men and arms for the war


in spain also he expected to be joined by stukely an english adventurer who had shortlv before obtained sis hundred italians from the lope for the invasion of ireland and had proceeded as far as cadis on his way


a strange career had this thomas stukely and his story is characteristic of the time


it was of course from no patriotic motive that lie sought to levy war in ireland where his antagonists were to be his own countrymen jnnr vet from religious teal for he was in trutii an undertaker and was setting forth under the popes authority as essex had come under elizabeths to seek his fortune and make a plantation in irelandpoor ireland


that hunting field for all the liungty adventurers of the earth


essex and smith had bound themselves as we saw to establish the queens religion in their settlements


stukely as deriving under the pope was to uphold catholicity


elizabeth had entitled those adventurers lords of ards j and his holiness duly created his missionary whether by letters patent or papal rescript does not appear


marquis of leinster earl of wexford and carlow viscount murrough and baron of rosb


when he and his six hundred arrived at cadiz it happened that dom sabastian of portugal was collecting his powers for a descent upon africa o reinstate king mohammed on the throne of fez and also to found for himself a portuguese empire upon that continent


stukely was dazzled by the splendour of this african undertaking and when sa hastian proffered him a share in the enterprise he speedily exchanged his irish earldom for a principality on the mediterraneanperhaps wag created duke of barbary or prince of mauritaniaand led his freebooters to the moorish war


a trne adventurer thisa genuine knighterrant of that age not vowed to god or ladyelove but to mammon and moloch


tins poor stukely indeed never came into the enjoyment of those vast estates and honours of bis whether in africa or in ireland


neither was the maurolusitanian empire ever founded nor king mohammed reinthroned for on the bloody field of alcacarquivir swift destruction overtook them all


there fell three crowned kings ending quarrel and life together and with them died this most singular marquis of leinster sod baron of koss


so when fitzmauriee reached spain he found that stukely had turned his face southward and abandoned the cause of ireland but for him those moorish kingdoms had no attraction


not the vales of atlas nor the atlantic island itbelf could drawhim aside


n or tliward lay the shores of munster where perhaps even now the adherents of the geraldine were hard pressed by those accursed english and from the capes of desmond were gazing wistfully over the sea pining for the spanish ships


at last three small vessels cast anchor in smerwick bay carrying fitzmauriee and a poor band of eighty spaniards accompanied by allen and saunders and bearing a consecrated papal banner in the sure hope that if not for love of liberty and old ireland yet for the sake of religion and to save their souls alive the irish tribes would forget their feuds and unite against the common foe


and now it is heartbreaking to read how poor fitzmauriee and his spaniards were received


desmonds two brothers indeed joined him at once but the earl himself with some viewb of crafty policy which one findsdifficulty in understanding longhelil aloof and even at first pretended to obey the summons of druiy the english president and raised his troops to resist the invaders


time was wasted and the spaniards were sickened by their cold reception


in vain the gallant fitzmauriee traversed limerick sent messengers to connaught and the scots and made a pilgrimage to hoiycrosb in tipperaiy not to perfotm his vows alone but to meet the emissaries of the leinster chieftains


before a blow was struck against the english fitzmauriee fell in a quarrel with one of the burkes of castlccpnnell and john of desmond took the command in his place


some obscurity rests upon the events of that desultory war which followed the first spanish landingenglish historians asserting that jolin of desmond was signally defeated by malby at monasterneva and that dr allen was amongst the slain camden


queen eli


osuliivan and qdaly that the gcraldines were victorious not only there but shortly after at atliarlam and gortnapisi


on the whole there appears to have been nothing very decisive done upon either ide until the following year when the earl of desmond seeing his lands laid waste and himself proclaimed a traitor by the english at last raised his standard ana openly joined in the war


the eari wrote to pelbam the lord deputy announcing that he was in arms for the catholic religion i sent messengers to fiach mac hugh chief of the obymes of wicklow and eustace lord baltinglass that they might lay waste the neighbourhood of dublin and keep the forces of the pale employed while desmond himself marched suddenly against youglial which he took by escalade plundered and garrisoned


in the meantime the earl of ormond and the english generals malbv ami pelham were wasting and plundering the county of limerick and indeed on their part the war wa entirely carried on by destroying the cattle and growing crops of the country and reducing desmonds castles of carrigafoylc asfieaton ballyloghan and castlemaine


there was no pitched battle so that in all thatwarre there perished not many by the sword but all by the extremity of feminet


the cruellest warfare ever waged by man until the whole territories of desmond lay a smoking desert where neither man nor beast could live


the catholic clergy who had been the principal cause of the war were pursued with unusual furyt and eight hundred spaniards who landed at smerwick in september g were instantly besieged there by ormond and shortly after invested closely both by sea and land until they surrendered at discretion and were all in cold blood massacred by order of lord grey


tbemost powerful opponent of desmond fras his hereditary enemy the earl of ormond who was assisted auo by the lord roche and other angloirish lords and rather unaccountably by hugh oneill or dungan non who commanded a bodv of cavalry for the queen


one would prefer to find this hugh on the other side but it seems that the nationality of an oneill did not yet extendbeyond ulster at which we can wonder the less when we read that in the southern war the greater portion of the irish racc was on the side of eiieabeth and at feud with the geraldines


hugh was content to keep the english at a distance from his own territories and had not probably at that period conceived the gtand design of uniting all ireland against the stranger


of iris achievements in the south we have no particular record save that he behaved himself right valiantly as we can well suppose ana further that he gained the goodwill of his ally the earlof ormond


for it was one of the gifts of hugh oneill that he irresistibly attracted to himself the hearts of all men and all women also whose love he desired o win


two other ven notable men appear in the ranks of the english in that munster war


one is walter raleigh afterwards sir waller then one of the most active irish undertakers destined to be a planter in virginia to be an undertaker in ei dorado to wander wide over earth and sea fighting the spaniards chasing plate fleets navigating the orinocoand alas destined also to dree his weary thirteen years in the dungeons of london and write a history of the world there and at last to lay his grey head upon the block rnd so end the career of the wildest and most brilliant adventurer of that adven turous age


and the other i edmund spensera man well known to gloriana and all the realm of faerie


he came over in the train of lord grey of wiltonh saw the horrible ending of the geraldine war and had his share of the spoils


kileolman castle and its fair domains fell to the poet undertaker and there under the foot of mole that mountain hoar dwelling contentedly in another mans housesitting in quietness under another mans vine and fig tree within view of the moliing ruins of tower and town and the unburied skeletons ofa famished nation he began inditing that solemn and tender strain the intent of which he has informed usi to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline nay he drew inspiration from the hideous golgotha that lay around him and when his merlin tells of the ravage to be made by king gormonde he has only to describe what the poet saw with his mere bodily eye in the vales of munster he in his furie all shall overronne and holy church withfaithloss handsdcface that thy ead people utterly fordonne shall to the utmost mountains flyapace was never so greet waste in any place


nor so fowle outrage doen by living men for all thy cittira they shall sack and rase


and j the ie grasae that groweththey shall that even the wilde beast ini dy in starved denu


from kileolman also he poet took that most astonishing view of the state of ireland of which we shall see more hereaftera most practical viewthe viewnot of a bard but of an undertakerwhereby we find that however his imagination may have bled for enchanted damoels or elfin knights suffering sentimental woes odaly is cited by the abb mac geot spensers view


j the irish historians say they capitulated on sworn articles j but spenser elaborately controverts this


ii


i faerie quecne b c the very wolves the foxes and other like ravening beasts many of them lay dead being famished


hollinshcd


seo also spensers own horrible picture of this famine


tlie heart of him in dealing with mere living wights was harder than the nethermillstone


at last all the munster and leinster irish were broken and reduced except the redoubtable fiach mac hugh of wicklow and during alt this long and inglorious war the only day of which one can speak with pleasure is the day of glendahugh


immediately on lord greys arrival in dublinit was in the summer of lie led a large force of horse and foot into the mountains fully resolved to grapple with the fierce obyrne in his own strongholds and crush that gallant sept for ever


when the army arrived at the entrance of the valley the cavaliy under command of grey himself scoured uic open ground while the foot were ordered to advance into the glen


the obyrnes allowed them to proceed into the silent recesses of the mountain wondering that they found no enemy and thensuddenly shouting their battlecry rushed from all sides upon the sagams dearg and hewed them to pieccs till their arms were weary with slaying


grey and hie horsemen could give no assistance and had to retreat much more rapidly than they had advanced leaving in that fatal glen eight hundred slain and amongst them sir peter carew colonel moore and captains audley and cosby


never since black monday at cullenswood had the sword of the cullane mountaineer drank so deep of the strangers blood


but this was of no service to the luckless desmond


he was hard pressed by his mortal enemies the butlers


his spanish auxiliaries were cut off and the coast blockaded by admiral winter with the english cruisers


most of the munster lords were either weary of the war or in the ranks of england


his country was a howling wildernesshimself an aged and homeless fugitive and at last in a wood near tralee he fell by the hand of a common soldier and his head w as sent to the queen of england who caused it to be impaled in the usual manner upon london bridge


thus fell the great earlof desmond and thus the fairest province of this island wasted and destroyed by the insane warfare of the irish themselves lay ready for the introduction of the foreigners law civilization and religion or as dr leland has it for effectually regulating and modelling this country upon the principles of justice and liberal policy


and accordingly a parliament was soon held for the purpose of vesting in the queen of england all the lands which had been inhabited by the kinsmen and adherents of desmond


letters were written to every county in england offering estates in fee to all younger brothers who would undertake the plantation of munster each undertaker to plant so many families but none of the native irish to be admitted


no specific mode of disposing of these poor native irish seems to have been pointed out in any official document but how the thing was done we knowthey were simply starved to death and the end was attained more speedily than poet spenser tells ns he could even have hoped


the end will assure me be very short and much sooner than can be hoped for although there should none of them fall by the sword nor be slaine by the souldiours vet thus being kept from manurance and their cattle from running abroad by this hard restraint they would quickly consume themselves and devoure one another


and so in a short space then were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful


countreysuddainyleft voyde of man and beast and starvation being in some instances too slow crowds of men women and children were sometimes driven into buildings which were then set on fire


the soldiers were specially careful to destroy all irish infants forif they were suffered to grow up they would become popish rebels


women were found hanging upon trees with their children strangled in the mothers hair


but we turn from those fields of blood and come back to the north


leland history vol


p


t ms


in trin


coll cited by leland spenserb view p


h lombard comment de hibera ap


curry


to be continued in our next


the fortune of a peasant girl


an original story founded on fact


there are some incidents in real life which border so much on the romantic and marvellous as to be almost incredible to the soberminded reader but that such incidents do sometimes occur is nevertheless a truism as the following facts will exemplify


mary melville was the daughter of an humble cottager in the west of england who rented a small farm from the honrorable william paggot and lived within a short distance of that gentle mans manor


paggot himself was the descen dant of a noble house and heir to a princely inheritance but his father dying when this young man had scarcely attained his sixteenth year he was taken by his widowed mother to the conti nent for the towfold purpose of completing her sons education and absenting herself for a time from the scene of her late bereavment and former happiness


here they both remained until the son had come of age when his estates required his presence at home when the mother and son both returned to their native country


the young man inherited his fathers paternal regard for his tenants and pursuant to this kindness of dis position he went round shortly after his arrival to ascertain their circumstances and hear their wishes wants and grievances


on his tour his attention was particularly attracted to a neat whitewashed cottage about one hundred yards off the road on which he was passing whose cleanly and comfortable appearance pronounced the occupant to be a person who studied more a comfortable home than wealth accompanied with filthiness and squalid misery which one frequently sees depicted in every thing apper taining to some thriving peasants who affect a disregard for household cleanliness for respect able and decent apparel and indeed for every thing else except alone the hoarding of money contenting themselves with the comfortable assu ance that they could dress as well as other folk if they wished but they do not wish to appear gaudy or proud before their poorer neighbours it does not look well in poor people to ape such gentility or time enough when we grow richer to study these things


these and many more such excuses are pleaded in extenuation of a disorderly house dirty furniture and halfnaked children by persons whose god is money and who with outstretched hands as it were try to grasp every thing within their avaricious clutches negelecting comfort health and their god for unhallowed pelffor illgotten lucre which they will one day leave behind them to be bestowed on another by their widows or squandered by un dutiful and profligate children who perhaps will execrate their memories for not having hoarded up more money wherewith they might pamper their extravagance


and yet those who devote themselves so energetically to the grovelling pursuit of realising wealth by whatever means and very often enrich themsselves by some foul deceit or chicanery in dealing practised upon their less wily neighbour are not so much re spected by the world notwitstanding their wealth the great criterion of respectability with wordlings as persons who while they secure a competence are not heedless of social pleasure comfort and enjoyment


t to the purpose when the honorable wil li paggot saw the cottage he enquired of his steward who attended him who the occupant was and he was told it was thomas melville a poor but industrious peasant


paggot with a view of rewarding his industry wished to know something of his circumstances and accordingly proceeded to the cottage


on his approach there was not that bustle or excitement which generally characterises the preparations of peasants when a respectable stranger approaches their dwelling


there was no wiping the dirty faces and noses of the children for mary melvilles little brothers and sisters were habitually kept clean and tidy and when the young gentleman entered he found mary sitting at the table sewing with the youngest of her sisters a child of four years old sitting on a chair next her playing with some cotton reels on the table and whom mary re garded not with the ordinary love of sister for sister but with a deep and hallowed maternal affection as every now


and then she would lift her eyes from her needle and rest them on the playful unconscious little urchin for a few seconds and then embracing the dear child con vulsively in her arms imprint a ravishing kiss on her rosy little cheeks such as we have seen a fond mother looking for minutes together on the merriest pranks the most fascinating endear ments of the beloved the darling of her heart without the slightest seeming emotion and with the most apparent passiveness and apathy


when grosser natures would interrupt the pleasure in which the child in a state of the utmost uncon sciousness is engrossed and absorbed by divert ing its attention to themselves she the mother heroically curbs the swelling emotions of her more than affectionate heart and suffers the child to enjoy itself preferring to witness the happi ness of the sainted little being before her to the pleasure the exquisite delight of folding and caressing her beloved in her arms until at length every restraint giving way when no human be ing could withstand the temptation any longer she folds it in her arms in a paroxysm of delight


what a sacrifice she has made


and whose but the elaborate refined and tender feelings of a mother could be controlled to such extremes


instinctively philosophical she knows she cannot increase the happiness of her sportive child when at play more than by not seeming to notice him


how frequently do we see a childs good temper and amusements spoiled for a day perhaps through some person interrupting the enchanting play fulness of the arch little rogue


this is done to please the child still more of course and also to gratify the persons own propensity of mingling in the innocents sportiveness


but those alone possessing fine natures can comprehend or comprehending can refrain from the much greater pleasure and delight of permitting a child to play or rest entirely as he pleases


but as all our readers may not be lovers of children we will start again from the point of digression and retrace our steps to the cottage of the melville family


on paggots entrance mary stood up respect fully and offered him a seat which he as con descendingly accepted


now there was no stri king beauty at all perceptible in the person of the young hostess if we except her figure which was somewhat tall and of the most exquisite proportion her features were regular and the serenity of her soul was depicted in her counte nance the hair of a glossy jet was parted in front and those tresses which fell carelessly down her cheek were knotted at the end after the pre valent fashion of peasant girls and her eyes were light blue nor did paggot himself see anything remarkably fascinating in the modest mary until he entered into conversation with her when by her mode of address and her unaffected and re spectful ease and innocence the charms of the peasant were forcibly developed


are your parents not at home said paggot in a condescending equalising tone as he seated himself on the chair


no sir replied the girl in that feminine silvery voice which was destined to enslave the heart of the honorable visitor my parents have gone to town this morning and i dont expect them home till evening she continued


what is the number of the family asked the young man


five in all sir she replied i have two brothers and two sisters the youngest of whom is little nanny on this chair


paggot put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a sovereign which he placed in the fat little hand of the chubbycheeked nanny who forth with began to toss it upon the table to the infi nite delight of herself and the amusement of those around her and was soon very seriously employed in trying to bore a hole through the precious coin with a fork


the more paggot talked to mary the more he wished to prolong the conversation until after the lapse of an hour and a half he rose to depart promising to come the next day to see her father to ascertain his mode of farming and so forth and thus delighted with the interview he wished her good bye


on his way home he could not help reflecting on the suavity and sweetness which marked the demeanor of the cottagers daughter


there was something too in her manner which annihilated the shadow of an attempt to rude advances and prevented even the thoughts of a dishonorable motive from arising in the heart it was not pride but a certain timidity a tender ness of manner which sought and elicited sym pathy for the weakness of her sex and an un speakable dignity and feminine grace which while they shielded her innocence awakened the admiration of those with whom she was con versant


so facinatiing was the manner of this young girl that many a swain in her neighbourhood thought in conversing with her individually she had bestowed particular attention on himself when her heart had never known a preference up to the present time and she was now in her eigh teenth year


but after the gentle the accom plished paggot departed she thought him one of the most engaging men she had ever conversed with


when she thought of his visit and of again seeing him her heart palpitated and her cheeks became crimsoned with the depth of her emotions


it was noon the following day and still he had not arrived notwithstanding that her father at marys request stopped in the house all the morning awaiting him


he had forgotten per haps or his business called him elsewhere so mary thought but presently little nanny who was playing outside the door ran in and said gentleman give me a penny yesterday is com ing mary


mary looked out and saw him at the wicket which opened into the little enclosure in front of the cottage and her respirations be came short and agitated


melville and his wife welcomed their young master to their humble abode and many kind questions were asked and responded to between the landlord and his humble tenant


meantime mary who sat close by her mothers side hold ing little nanny on her knee observed a respectful silence while her parents were engaged in con versation with paggot but he wishing to turn the current of the discourse handed her some flowerseeds instructing her at the same time how to plant them and telling her he had brought them expressly for her use


thus he soon con trived to dissipate the embarrassment under which the timid girl labored and before he left she conversed more freely than he had expected and he thought her much more agreeable than the day before


these visits he repeated for three weeks longer every day strengthening the attachment he had formed for mary and unconsciously igniting a flame in that girls heart which time never quite extinguished


her parents saw the growing attachment be tween the young but unequal couple and they shuddered at the calamitous consequence


oh you young men whom heaven hath blest with power and wealth and influence be cautious of the use you would make of these incomparable gifts


if you have sisters virtuous fair and in nocent think what a calamity would fall on your family what remorseless undying unforgiving vengeance would fire your own breasts to pursue until death the wily fiend who should seduce so much loveliness into vice and degrading infamy and plant a thorn in the bosom of your family which time nor circumstances could not pluck out


libertine not all the wealth you possess can atone for one pang which the seduction of his beloved child causes in the breast of her father nor can all the influence of pleasure wealth and society lull the remorse which sooner or later must sting the soul of the seducer for accursed of god and his own neverdying con science is he who victimises an innocent female and vitiates her youth thereby blasting all her future happiness on earth discarded by her friends and despised by the world


alas how many a blooming maiden in the morning of life in the happy days of girlhood looks forth to the coming day of her maturity with the delight and joyousness of a bird shedding sweetness on the circle in which she lives as the rose sheds its fra grance on the morning air until the foul touch of the viper seducer nips the bud of happiness and blights all her earthly hopes for ever


must not the demon who has been the cause of her misery himself shudder at the inhuman result she who was the pride of the hamlet or the charming attraction of the drawingroom be comes through his hellish machinations a de bauched and loathsome thing and unclean pest in the society in which she once moved with res pectability


but the fears which tortured the parents of mary melville were groundless apprehensions


the noble paggot did not inherit the title of honorablle to be a burlesque upon his deeds and principle he was indeed of an honorable up right and moral disposition and had accordingly made his proposition for the peasants daughter to be his wife and mistress of all he possessed with as much delicacy as if she were heiress to an earldom


the father of course consented and their marriage was stipulated to take place in one month thence but alas for the uncertainty of human affairs the young man became ill and ere the eventful month was expired he was a corpse


but knowing his end was approaching he bequeathed a fortune to his beloved peasant girl worthy the widow of one of his noble house


for along time the hapless girl was disconso late and many thought she would follow to the grave the adored of her heart but time and the elastic spirits of youth renovated her sinking health and restored the wonted blossom on her cheek


meantime the young mans will was opened and to the surprise of his friends and the anguish of his mother they discovered in the testament legally executed that the sum of per annum and to be immediately handed over left to mary melville at the behest of william paggot in token of the love and esteem in which he held that female


when marys father and friends applied to the executors for a compliance with the testators will they were repulsed with contempt and told as they the executors knew not of any relationship to have existed between the peasants and the honorable william paggot or any claim which the former by any chance could have on the latter that the young mans intellect must have been deranged and weakened through illness and that therefore his will and bequest in that particular must stand invalid


she whom the deceased had so munificiently endowed would have abandoned all attempts to recover a legacy which should be wrung from the relatives of the donator a cavilling so un natural and so unworthy the memory of the de parted but that her friends compelled her to seek redress and accordingly she proceeded to a lawyer in the neighborhood of high repute and legal standing to state her case and solicit his advice and assistance


mr meredith the lawyer had previously heard of the circumstance as indeed did the public generally in the vicinity of ashburton hall the residence of the late mr paggot and when the servant announced that one mary melville wished to speak to him in his professional capacity he was somewhat agreeably surprised and ordered the servant to show her into the breakfast room where he and his daughters for he was a widower were sitting at breakfast


when mary entered she made her obesiance with the timidity and bashfulness of one of her order appearing before a superior but with a grace and ease which was peculiar to her self and mr meredith and his young daughters the former naturally a supercillious sort of per sonage instinctively bowed their heads in return to the females salute a politeness by the bye which great folks are seldom guilty of observing toward their poorer brethren


we have seen in our time when a poor person would enter the presence of these great little men and make his obeisanice respectfully how the pigmy nabob the purseproud cresus in miniature would loll in his chair and look vacantly in the poor mans face or fix his eyes carelessly in the distance just the same as if no other than a dog or a pig had stood before him and then suddenly with a supercilious frown on his brow unceremoniously exclaim well or well what is it you want


but be assured that those who treat their inferiors or rather their less wealthy neigh bors with so much contempt are themselves the most spiritless sycophants the most glib and lisping simperers to their superiors


after the mutual salutations were over mr meredith pointed to a chair for mary to sit on and said in the conciliating tone of a lawyer who expects a fee i will talk with you pre


sently madam


when breakfast was over and the ladies re tired he requested to be informed of the nature of her business and when mary had concluded her statement well he observed your case is quite clear in law and the deceased young gentleman must have been devotedly attached if there has been nothing moreno other relation between you than that of romantic lovers which you appear to have been


marys cheek became as red as scarlet at this defamatory insinuation on her stern virtue and the lawyer seeing the sensitive being he had thus so grossly addressed turned the conversation to the topic which should come more immediately under his notice and which his client seemed more desirous to discuss and after sundry ques tions of a legal nature being asked and answered mr meredith promised to take the lawsuit in hands


no very tedious litigation was necessary to obtain judgment for a claim which was so mani festly wellgrounded as that of the legacy in question and accordingly in the course of a few months mr meredith was enabled to announce to his gentle client his success in the suit and that the fortune was now at her own disposal


then sir said mary thankfully since you have gained the suit you can take what will pay you


since the charge madam is left at my own discretion returned the jolly widower i will take your hand as my fee if you will be pleased to comply


thus did the artless and timid peasant girl in her interviews with the lawyer make a second conquest notwithstanding the legal gentlemans insinuation on a former occasion as to the doubt ful purity of the attachment which existed be tween herself and paggot


mary would have declined the proffered hand of the lawyer but his importunities prevailed and in the course of a few weeks she consented to become his wife they were accordingly united in the parish church and mrs meredith became mistress of ashly house her new residence


her husband did not survive their marriage above three years and died without issue by his second wife leaving herein possession of a small estate and the handsome house of ashly with all the appurtenances thereto belonging


eighteen months after his death it happened that a company of fox hunters were passing through the grounds of the young widow in full chase after reynard when one of the huntsmen a young captain of hussars fell from his horse and was severely injured by the fall


mrs merediths was the nearest respectable house and thither his companions bore the young officer almost in a state of insensibility


the hostess immediately allotted a room for his use and busied herself in other preparations for his com fort


the reader surmises at once that he became convalescent and enamoured of the young widow who nursed and tended him during his dangerous illness


so he did and ultimately married her by whom he had three sons and one daughter


the young soldier after his marriage proceeded with his regiment to the continent where in the peninsular wars he had so distinguished himself as to merit and obtain a colonelcy and before the battle of waterloo received the rank of a general


mary melville the poor cottagers daughter was known before her death as the countess of blessington and had the pleasure of seeing her beautiful daughter introduced at court whom the young earl of hopkins solicited and obtained in marriage


but through all her vicissitudes of unprecedented good fortune the countess of blessington never forgot that she was the child of an humble peasant and had her parents while they lived and all her friends and relatives amply provided for and the melvilles who were heretofore nameless peasants became some of the most wealthy and leading farmers in the district


she would invariably inculcate in the minds of her children but especially her daughter the circumstance of her parentage and the poverty in which she was reared as if to teach them hu mility oh my children she would say re spect the poor and be kind to them for be assured there are none whose feelings are more acute or whose gratitude is greater


the ministerial crisis


mr waller savage landor has a long and in dignant


article in the daily news from which we take a brief passage the servants are now trying to pull the chairs from under tho musters and tho butlers at the sideboard are contending which of them shall get possession of tho platechest


this shuffle diverts our at tenth n from what really interests us


changes in tho servants of the family arc much talked about but of a hat importance arc they


much forsooth have we benefited by them lately


wo push away a clever novelist and adroit de bater a porcupine whose bristles make his body seem larger than it is to make room for a cring ing slave who tries tho glass slipper on a foot afraid of moving


wo tic up a rash unbroken setter and bring into the field an old pointer very staunch but pointing as staunchly at a tomtit as at a pheasant we have indeed no chatham no pitt minor no


parke no windham no wel lesley but have we nothing better left in par liament ilian palmorstons and llussells


if not let us run to any range of washtubs and try to find another old woman who may at least send us home clean linen


ours has been sadly soiled in tho east


the settler


by an officer in the examiner sydney journal


no


motives for emigrating


i wish you would gire up your romantic notion of emigrating to new south wales said mrs handy to her husband a half pay captain of the regiment as they were seated at breakfast one winter morning surrounded by their family in the snug cot tage they rented in the hamlet of beanfield


only think of the expense of another long voyage and that after we have just furnished this place and got everything comfortable about us


a nice society near our own relatives within a couple of miles of the church and our friends the cromleys so kind


you can take your solitary rides about the country and as lady cromley has sent us the key of the park the children can walk their with the nursery maid and employ themselves in looking at the deer and the young phea sants at the keepers lodge


besides we are constantly receiving presents of game and venison from sir walter


what a beautiful side of bacon we had from him the other day of his own fattening


it is a perfect picture so nice and streaky and not too fat just as you like it some of that with a fillet of veal and a brace of partridges will make up our dinner to morrow when the ashes are coming that and a good mince pie a gooseberry pud ding and a few trifling side dishes will do very well


all that old ashe cares about is a glass of good port wine and some of our home brewed ale and as for mrs ashe she always praises my currant wine so i shall put some of that upon the table


and then resuming the subject of anti emigration if we wish to go to town in the season it is only to make a party with some one or two of our friends and take the inside of the coach


we can take a basket with some sandwiches so there is no expense at inns the coachman is always very civil to us and so careful


besides what is to become of the children in that outlandish place


the boys will become absolute goths and the girls will get as brown as a nut


you may think the de scription of the country very fine but that is always the case with book descriptions or the books would not sell and you be come so fascinated with the plates repre senting palm trees bananas and sugar canes where perhaps they never grow that you lose sight of all the disagreeables


i do really think that the panorama you saw when you were last in town turned your brain


how do you know thai it is all true


only think of the native blacks and the bushrangers and the snakes and the locusts and the rats and all other sorts of vermin that invest those countries


i shall always be dreaming of snakes and that is a sign of an enemy


and ill be bound that tbe people are just as untidy about their houses as the spanish and por tuguese with their nasty oil and garlic no comfort at all


and then as to the climate


why it may not be one bit better than the west indies where we were all nearly car ried off by yellow fever and just escaped shipwreck and being taken by pirates on our way home


dont you remember the time we were becalmed off tbe island of saba when the captain was in such a fright and looking out every minute till a breeze sprung up


i shall never forget it


i had my keys ready and would hare given them up rather than had our throats cut if they only had left clothes enough for the chil dren


but i have been peeping into the book too and i find there are extensive swamps swarming with alligators of course and that the vegetation in what they call the alluvial brashes is very luxu riant sure to cause miasma and ague and rbumalism and all sorts of frightful com plaints


recollect how the slaves and dverseers used to be carried off at tlie estate f grand bay which you consider so beau tiful


at the first pause in this harangue which took place while handy was quietly sipping his tea glancing occasionally over liis right shoulder towards the window op posite which was a splendid holly tree then overed with scarlet berries upon which large flakes of snow were falling but thickly lie replied your arguments are very rood as far as they go but they are of no use as my mind is fully bent on making jne more attempt to get settled


in fact am anxiously expecting an answer from ny friend colonel firm to some questions put respecting new south wales i ap preciate the comforts of this place as highly is you do and i am well aware of the ex pense at which they have been procured ut i find that these comforts are likely to je my passport to


jail


there are ill these christmas bills to be paid


how it is to be done is the question


the butchers bill rump steaks ninepencc a pound


the grocers tea seven shillings t pound best green ditto nine shillings


how can we stand this


you know that my halfpay goes but a short way to sup port this family and the dividends upon am funds are so small that i have been obliged already to draw upon the principal so that there remains but sufficient for the royageand outfit in addition to what is absolutely requisite to stock the land to which i shall be entitled on reaching the colony


our being near our relatives is certainly pleasant enough and they may go with us if they choose but they have not the same motive


as to the distance from church why surely there must be churches in that country for i hear there is a bishop going out and our archdeacon tells me he is an excellent fellow a relation of old admiral broadside and his wife a most amiable creature they take out the whole family


what do you think of that


our friends here are indeed very kind but even their kindness is rather irksome when we know we have not the means of repaying it


what milton says about a grateful mind owing nought is all humbug


what did j jacques rousseau do when bernardin st pierre the author of the chaumiere indienne you know sent him a little coffee that he brought from the isle of france


why he returned it saying he must break off an acquaintance which appeared to him unequal as he could not afford to make presents


so i must break off acquaintance with the beautiful hamlet of beanfield and the delightful family of the cromleys


your notion of a trip to town is very good but all tliebc little trips involve usin expenses which we have no right to incur for al though each may be but trifling in itself yet in the aggregate they amount to some thing the want of which may one of these days put us to inconvenience


even ray solitary rides in the country are not per formed without some expense although we grow our own forage for there are the taxes there is a tax for a horse a tax for the little fourwheeled carriage that takes you to church and to pay your visits be cause the wheels happen to be half an inch higher than the act of parliament pre scribes then they tax me for armorial bearings because i choose to have my crest only my crest mind not my arms painted on the panel in the rear


there is a dog tax for poor beau neptune being a watch dog is exempt from taxes and you would not like to get rid of him a window tax and by jove they have actually put me down for a powder tax because had powder in my hair the other night at the fancy ball and that ball got tip by lady cromley and some other ladies and for a benevolent purpose tool call this a free country where a man must be taxed for making a fool of himself for once in bis life and that for a benevolent purpose


what would they say if alley were jiving on the continent where ft man may make a fool of himself for a whole week during the carnival without being taxed for it


bat ven the very weather is a tax ps it obliges us to wrap ourselves up like esqui maux during the winter season


look at that snow


wcehatl be obliged to go out doubly shod and muffled uptotbe eyes for fear of catching cold if indeed we are able to go out at all


the taxes not be taxed any longer if i can help it


lratomilhatin new south wales there


arenb taiesvonly piriflingqiritreht aw the land and which is not demanded until after seven yearaccujancy


weli replied mjs handyyou need not swear my dear although the taxes i admit are very tiresome and if you are really determined to go i declare i will not remain behind


it will be very hard if i cannot scrape together enough to pay ray own expenses independently of


you or my trustees either


have not been economi ing for nothing i can assure you


so gozl am determined j if you will persist in being so unsettled


i haveno idea of your going alone to that horrid place and no one to look after your linen


so go i will and you need not swear any more about taxes


to be continued


morjbntna hurxs of dipfsbbht n tiomsyiiln europe black is generally md because it represents darkness which death is like unto as it is a privation of life


chins white because they hope the dead tat in heaven the place of purity


egypt yellow representing tbe decaying of trees and flowers which become as they die away yellotv ethiopia brown denoting tbe colour of th earth from whence we come and lo which we return


in bome parts of turkey blue re presenting the sky where they hope tbe dead are gone but in other parts purple or violet because being a kind of mixture of black and blue it represents as it were sorrow on one side and hope on tbe other


the stdbukts ap thb yahicke


a few years since some waggish students of yohr college were regaling themselves one evening


at the tontine when an old fanner from the country entered the room and taking it for barroom inquired if he could obtain a lodging there


the old fellow who was a suretnl yankee saw at once that he was to be made the butt of their jests but quietly taking off his bat and telling a worthier little dog h had with him to he under the chair he took a glass of proffered beverage


the students anxiously inquired after the health of tlie oli mans wife and children and the farmer with affected simplicity gave them ihe whole pedi gree with numerous aoeodotes regarding bii farm stock c do you belong to tlie church


asked oue of the wags


yes the lord be praised and so did my father before me


well suppose you would not tell a lie replied the student


not for the world


now what will you take for tbat dog


pointing to the farmers cur who was not worth his weight of jersey mud


i wont take twenty dollars for that dog


twenty dollars


i why he is not worth twenty cents


i assure you i would not take twenty dollars for him


come my friend id the student who with his companions was bent on havine some capital fun with the old man


now you say yon wont tell a lie far the world


let me see if you will not do it for twenty dollars


ill give you twenty dollars for your do


ill not take it


youwillnotf bereiet me see if this wont tempt vou to lie added the studentprod ucingasnialibagof halfdollars from which he commenced counting nume rous smell piles upon tbe table


the fanner was sitting by tbe table with his hot in his hand apparently unconcerned


there added the student there are twenty dollars all in silver


i will give you tbat for your dog


the old farmer quietly raised bis nut ta the edge of the table and then a quick as thought scraped all the money into it except one half dollar and then exclaimed i won rt take your twenty dollars i nineteen and a half is u much as the dog is worth he ii your pro perty v a tremendous langb from his felfoir m studenu showed the wouldbe wag that he was completely rowed up and that us


need not look for help from that quartr so he good naluredlv acknowledged himself beat


the stu dent retained his dog which be keeps totbisday as a lesson to him never to attempt to plsy tricks ou men older than himself and especi ally to be careful how be tries to wheedle a yankee turner


american paper


srortiko


oveb x bad makor


off we set and had to trudge through wet meadows for about a mile or so before we got into our preserves


there were some not unpromising covers the lad who was to be our guide pro fessed some vague reminiscences of having seen some pheasants there a bit ago sol there was no question as to a hare having started there so lately as yesterday morning


we began our day therefore with somewhat sanguine expectations which however every subsequent halfhums progress gradually dis pelled


we tumbled out of one deep ditch into another scrambled perseveringly through brambles and brushwood saw places wbere pheasants ought to have been and places where they had been but never saw a bird except a jacksnipe in the distance


the only sport we had was in the untiring energy of the lad already mentioned who long after the dogs had given it up as a bad job continued to beat erery bush as diligently as at first starting and kept up a form of hortatory interjections addressed to tbe invisible game with a hopeful perseverance which was really enviable


one satisfaction we had towards the dose of the day we started a hare from a bush which certainly had been tried at least twice before she fell a victim to a platoon fire of four barrels the second i believe brought her down but we were anxious to have all the shots ue could get


and in truth there was some credit in killing her far mr nutt to whom we pre sented her declared she was so tough he won dered how the shots ever got through her skin


blacknoois magazine


tp bemove ltm frou


a teakbttle


an elderly lady in derby peak who was mucb annoyed at the aacumulation of calcareous de posit commonly known as a fur in her kettle was recommended by i neighbour to f lace tlie teakettle outside the house with tbe lid off on a frosty night and was assured the frost would have the effect of entirely removing the ctuse ol her annoyance


the kettle was accordingly placed in tbe most bleak and exposed situation near the house daring one of tbe lute intensely frosty nights and on the utensil being required for use tbe following morning the rfur found to be entirely removed


the most bib gular part of the tale however and that which astonished the old lady most wot that the kettle was removed also


why is mr rowland hill giving hi chil dren halfasovereign mob like tbe rising aunt because he tips the little hills with gold


sudnev examiner


patbkt paging machine


we had the pleasure of seeing this extremely useful bod beautiful machine in operation at no crane court fleetstreet


the rapidity and certainly of iu action is surprising as well as the clear ness aud legibility of the printing


we were present while to s pases were numbered the work of a minute


tbe book to be paged is placed upon an inclined adjusting tab


attached to the machine and as each leaf u turned over it receives the number liy tbe movement of a lever wbicb returning tolls position by the pressure of a spiral spring instantly effects the required changes of to succeeding numbers at the same time i miniature inking rollers pass twice over ino figures


an axis on which the figures revolve mores at every strike through the space of stj inch and ahaff and in this small compass h the operations are completely and accurately fulfilled


the mercantile world are indebted to mr baw the patentee for his ingenious application as it forms not only n irnprou ment in the appearance of account woks but ib a material iirotectionagainbt fraud


imam bcrou


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tui life of hugh oneill


by john mitchel esq


continued from our last


cliaptjjit vi


beginning of ihe ulster confederacy


a d


the antrim scots had grown numerous mid powerful during tile gcraldine vur


mew bands oflslesmcn had arrived from he hebrides nud tirlough of tyrowen being old and weak ana baron hugh nliscnt in lie south there seemed some danger that ulster would fall under their power


this ill suited the views of hugh owill who had designs of his own in ihat regard and accordingly in this year jsj we find there was a powerful expedition to the north


sir john lerrot hugh oneill and his friend the karl of ormond


with all the forces of the lale inarched to newry separated their forces there and prepared to attack the scots both iu chiiebov and tyrowen


some english ships were sent round to lough foyle to intercept the communication with the isles while lerrot and ormond marched northward by the right shore of iough ncagh and the jlaim and oneill and norris on the left driving the scots before them and plundering their irish allies


the ocahons of aracluy or as it is now called the county of londonderry were in league with the scots and from them norris drove a prey of two hundred head of cattle


duniuce castle was besieged by lerrot and taken and at last the fceots were forced to fly to the woods of glancomkeane and their leader sorley buidhe mac donnell surrendered and gave hostages to the depulv


the troops then marched to newry wiierc sir henry uagnal resided and here the deputy received submissions from several chiefs of down and armagh


hitherto hugh oneill seemed to have answered the expectations of the english court in promoting their designs against the liberty of ireland


ulster seemed about to yield its independence without even a struggle and so well assured was penot of the submission of the north that he forthwith divided the whole country west of the bann into seven new counties armagh monaghan tyrowen coleraine donegal fermanagh and cavan for each of which the english historians assure us he appointed sheriffs commissioners of tlie peace coroners and other necessary officers an arrangement most satisfactory to the deputy and his employers if indeed it existed anywhere else than in state jvipersa matter which needs some inquiry


the truth then is that in all these pro ccedings hugh oneill while he seemed to be an instrument in the hands of lerrot for reducing the north under foreign subjection was in fact inahing use of the deputy and the forces of elizabeth to establish his own power there


by the aid of lerrot he humbled the scots of antrim who had begun to rival the house of oneill and iu return permitted ihat oilicer to imagine that he was making shireground of ulster although for a long time after this no agent of the queen dared to enter the borders of those seven counties or challenge jurisdiction there


those sheriffs and coroners like the queens northern bishops were merely titular and sir john davies expressly informs us that in perruts time lhelaw was never executed in these new counties by any slierifls or justices of assize but the people left to be ruled by their own barbarous lords and laws tpronouncing those laws barbarous as for an attorneygeneral of the pale it was altogether professional to do


and so long as the queen and her deputies exercised no power in ulster oneills policy was not like that wild shane to acquiesce most courtierlike in the nominal supremacy arrogated by the english monareh a crafty policy which the present writer is called upon only to state not to defend by logics and ethics yet it is vell to recollect who were the men with whom he had to dofor what base uses they had treacherously destined him what a cruel game they were playing with him and with his country


for two years we have little record of oneills life but he was silently strengthening himself in the north and gaining the hearts of the clansmen of tyrowen


while the accomplished nobleman was growing in favour with elizabeth and her court the irish chieftain was graduallv getting recognized as the main hope and leader of the kinel eoghain


nay he took a manifest pleasure in sustaining those two characters and one can hardly say whether he was most at home in the halls of greenwich or jliinmnnon


lntlie year we find him in london where he was ever a wclcome visitor soliciting the queen ah that profound dissembling heart that he might be admitted to the honours and estates of earl of tyrowen under the letters patent granted to his grandfather con the lame


to gain the favour of elizabeth it was always needful to feign love and desire towards her to address her in the stvle of passion and oneill with a tongue that dropt inannn well knew the art of katleiy


much afiectioiuile advice lie gave the queen as to the good government of irejaud and specially solicited that the law against assuming the name of oneill a most pestilent and rebellious name might thiswas an extensive forest on the north west corner of lough ncagh in aruchty ocalian


moryson with his usual inaccuray says it was a fastness near lough erne


it is correctly laid down in the map accompanying the pacata hireiima


t discovery of the true cause c page j


j see ilumanote in chop


h be suietlyenforced so the letters patent i were issued and tlie queen solemnly invested him with both lands and title of which the former were not hers to grant j and the latter his soul abhorred reserving j however a small piece of ground ou the ulackwater for a fortress winch was to be built there and with certain simulations jfor the benefit of old tirlough lynnogh who still held the nominal chieftaincy of i the couutry


hugh returned to ireland with his letters patent a belted earl and here as a fovoured courtier of the queen the deputy was obliged to treat him with deference and honourj wlileliis increasinginfluence in ulster gradually stripped tirlough the legitimate prince uf his power and uumerous following and it became manifest that ihe grandson of the dundalk blacksmith would soon predominate in the north


those six companies of troops also that he ket oti foot in the queens name hut for his own behoof bejan to be suspicious in the eyes of the slate for it is much feared that he changes the men so soon as they thoroughly learn the use of arms replacing ihcni by others all of his own clansmen whom he diligently drills and reviews for some unknown service


and the lead he importssurely the roofing of that house of dungannou will not need all these shiploads of lead lead enough lo sheet glcnsliane or clothe the sides of cairutocher


and indeed a rumour does reach the deputy in dublin that there goes on at dunranon an incredible casting of budctn


no wonder that the eyes of the english governor began to turn anxiously to the north


now it happened that odonnell on tlie far northwest was just then in high rage against the foreigners of dublin by reason of some intimation conveyed to liiin bv penot hat the ancient patrimony of tile kinelconell was now sliire ground and ought to admit a slierij


and the chieftains youthful son the gallant lied hugh then a fiery stripling oflifieen was already known thioagliout the five provinces of ireland not oulv by the report of his beauly his agility and noble deeds bill as a sworn foe to the saxons of the pale


moreover the english knew says the chronicler of hugh hoe that it was judilh the daughter of odonnell and sister of the beforementioned hugh that was the spouse and bestbeloved uf the earl oneill


and if this princely hed hugh should live to take the leading of lvs septand if the two potent chieftains of the north should forget their ancient feud and unite for the cause of irelandthen indeed not only this seltlement of ihe ulster counties must be adjourned one knows not how long hut the pale itself or the very castle of dublin might hardly protect her majestys officers


these were contingencies which any prudent agent of the queen of england must speedily lake order to prevent and we are now to seeperrots device for that end


near rathmutlan onthc western shore of lough swilly looking towards the mountains of inisliowen stood amonastery of carmelites and a church dedicated to the blessed virgin the most famous place of devotion in tyrconnell whither all the clanconell both chiefs and people made resort at certain seasons to pay their devotions


here the young liedhugh with mac swvne of the baiilvoxcs ogallaglicr of ballyshannon and ome other chiefs were in the summer of s sojourning a short time in part to pay their vows of religion but not without staghounds and implements of chase having views upon the reddeer of fanad and inishowcn


one day while the prince was here a swiftsailing merchant ship doubled the promontory of dunafi stood up the lough and cast anchor opposite llathmullan a hark blackhatched deceptive hearing the flag of england and offering for sale as a peaceful lradcr her cargo of spanish wine


and surely no more courteous merchant than the master of that ship had visited the north for many a year


he invited the people most hospitably on board solicited them whether purchasers or not to partake of his good cheer entertained them with music and wine and so gained very speedily the good will of all fanad


lied hugh and his companions soon heard of the obliging merchant and lii rare wines


they visited the ship where they were received with all respect and indeed with unfeigned joy descended into the cabin and with connoisseur discrimination tried and tasted and finally drank loo deeply and at last when thev would come on deck and returblo the shore they fonud themselves secured under hatches their weapons had been removed night had fallen they were prisoners o those traitor saxons


morning dawned and they looked anxiously towards the shore but ah where is hathmullan and the carmelite church


and what wild coast is this h past malin and the cliffs of inishowcn past benmore and southwards by the shores of antrim and the mountains of mourne hew that illomened bark and never dropped anchor till she lav under the towers of dublin


the treacherous perrot joyfully received his prize and exulted says an historian in the easiness and success with which he had procured hostages for thepcaeculiesubniission of odonnell t and the prince oftyreomiell was thrown inio a strong stone castle and kept in heavy irons three years and three months meditating says the chronicle on the feeble and impotent condition of his friends and relations of his princes and supreme chiefs of lug nobles and clergy his poets and ms


life of red hugh odonnell in library of ei a translated from the irish y ohcillv p t lelaud


i professors


where we leave liiin ferthe present to mingle vows of deepest yent geance with those of many other noble youths both gadclians and rrigallians fellowcaptives with him in those accursed towers


meanwhile in ulster hugh oneill was busy in the task lie had now resolutely imposed on himself striving to heal the feuds of rival chiefs and out of those discordant elements to create and bind together an irish nationa noble design for which perhaps the time was siill unripe yet somewhat lie did accomplish in that direction


with ooahan whose tcriitories he had wasted with fire and sword three years before he now reconciled liimscl r and sent irs infant eon to be fostered by that ehiefiain and to learn speed and strength amongthe hlls of glenj veii by the banks of the crystal roe to back a horse and lo chase the deer of arachty


with the mac domiells of antrim herenewed liis friendship and lent them on some of their expeditions a body of his well trained galloglasses not without promise of like help from them if need should be


other chieftains lie encouraged to resist the intrusion of sheriffs or garrisons for the queen of england


it was even said that he harboured seminaries and foreign priests than wlich no thing was then accounted more suspicious to a proiesiant state


yet oneill was apparently no strict catholic and while iu dublin scrupled not to accompany tlie lord deputy to the church and home again ind to slay and hear service though lie very nobles of ihe pale as captain lee declares as soon as they have brought him lo the church doov depart as if they were wild eatst


indeed honest lee lira no doubt that with good conference he would even be reformed for he halh ouly one liltle cub of an english priest by whom lie is seduced for want of lis friends access lo him who might otherwise uphold liim


on the whole a ost complying conciliatory and courteous man a special good member as one mihtliope of thai commonwealth but still no sheriffs bishopsj no judges


ms life of odonnell


p f t leeb memorial


j there was however at this period and or some time before u clerical person with


english garrison in lecale really cliapain to that garrison the only protestants n his diocess but purportingto be bishop f down and oven of connor to be continued in our next


chapter xvii


mrs east and family at homedeath at the door


my darlints said mrs east to her chickens after their return from the races smooth your ruffled fithers and look smart


the company to night will be splindacious and the fortunes of some of yez will be made outright


this businesslike piece of advice was not ex actly in accordance with the sentiments of those to whom it was addressed one expressed her self as dead beat another as not wishing to be bothered with a parcel of men and a third as the deuce a foot shed budge till shed had something to eat


you ungrateful varmints responded the wrathful matron an ye siz this to me dats kipt a roof over your hids and the bist of clothes on your backs


the divil a sup or a taste yeil be gettin till yeve made yourselves dacent and fit to resave the quality


the determined attitude of the virago aided by the rumble of wheels the clatter of horses hoofs and a thundering rattattat at the door sent the junior branches of the family scampering like rabbits into their warren holes


mrs east took the advice she had given her flock and smoothed down her ruffled locks


ere she opened the door to give her expected guests admission


with a countenance all smiles that is as much as a countenance all wrinkles could be made to assume a facial pleasantness she ushered in a tall raven haired and heavy mous tached gentleman who was evidently one of the rowdy order of bushmen intent on a spree


he threw himself booted and spurred as he was upon the sofa most unceremoniously and en quired in remarkably thick accents where maria was


before she could answer this question another individual of smaller stature more quiet demeanour and whiskers of an op posite hue entered the room


an is it yershelf mr vileman said the ma tron its meeshelf thats delighted to wilcome yez to my humble tiniment and may i never if yer havnt brought mr treadem wid yez and capthin tinny and docthor grogan


faix the companys incrasin smart an the divarsions began


oh the divil fly away with yer blarney said the captain send the girls in and some wine for im as loving as a satyr and as dry as a herring bone


well my little sawbones whats the news


as dull as ditchwater not an accident on the road worthy of notice fourteen spills and only one broken leg amongst them


iv it hadnt been for a little domestic case that happened to day by saint patrick i shouldnt have cleared expences


i was in hopes of a job when the heavy drag went over but there was only one fellow hurt and he broke his neck


thats no thing in my way post mortems and inquests are out of my line


it is clear to me interposed treadem sen tentiously that that course is most decidedly opposed to law


now if youll put your case in my hands i will guarantee that the acts of william and mary and the union chap


i sec


page shall be so forcibly brought home to the offending parties as to cause a complete re volution in the present practice


judge twis tem who wrote so fully upon sudden deaths holds i forget the page that the coroner is bound to call in wine and the females interrupted the captain mrs eastohyouve brought the liquors now for the angels for as anacreon sang let me kiss the coral of those bright lips sweet as the flowers the honey bee sips let me gaze on those eyes of deepest blue like stars nights dark curtains peeping through and i care not for faith


i forget the rest but im a practical philosopher and that answers the purpose better than the theory of such things


you sweet little cratures yere here at last said the captain as four or five young ladies in all their loveli ness came sliding into the room


arms and waists were immediately put into requisition pledges toasts and sentiments were given and responded to and the smacking of wineglasses was echoed by the smacking of lips


the young ladies then introduced a little bit of vocal and the darkeyed miss jane conde scended to inform them in a remarkably con fidential tone she dreamt that she dwelt in marble halls while miss maria told the cap tain who had taken her under his especial care that she gave him all she could no more while he affectionately whispered that he was quite satisfied with the lot a confession not to be wondered at considering the bundle of charms he was embracing


the captain who possessed an excellent voice and good taste delivered himself of young agnes fairest flower but the harmony was slightly disturbed by mr black the bushman who being considerably elevated insisted upon a chorus of his own composing the burden of which was go it my flower pitch up my tulip


the doctor called for order while treadem begged leave to assure them that a violation of the law of order came under the statute of high treason and consequently could only be suffici ently met by capital punishment


faith


my boys


thin shouted the cap tain give him miss agnes and a bumper and if that isnt capital punishment im at fault clane thrown out


this turned the tables the toast miss agnes and the fair sex in general was given with all due honours and the hip


hip


hurrah


went round but while the sound was at its highest they were startled by a tremendous knocking at the outer door


as the matron opened it vernon rushed by her and burst into the apartment where the revellers were at their enjoyment


there was something so wild and unearthly in his look that the women screamed in terror and the men looked on aghast


never was despair more deeply stamped on the features of mortal


he was closely followed by sharkey


what in the name of all the fiends are you staring at he cried fiercely do you think im mad


give me some wine some wine glorious fun


women and wine


well make a night of it


he snatched the decanter from the table and filling a tumbler rapidly swallowed its contents


sharkey whispered something in his ear


pleasure tonight


care tomorrow


wine my brave boys


wine


while this scene was passing the guests and the damsels stole out of the room


what


gone


all gone cried vernon


false hearts


how they drop off from ruin


but i am above the frowns of for tune hey sharkey


my good genius my damnation


villain


you shall not live to laugh at me


he grasped sharkey by the throat and the latter although a powerful man found himself unable to release himself from the desperate clutch


he was actually choking when vernon moved by one of the changing impulses which some times affect minds in a high state of excitement threw him forcibly on the floor and placed his foot upon him


he gazed upon him for a mo ment and muttering no i will not have that upon my soulhurried from the house and sought his home


strange to say he regained comparative calmness as he passed through the streets


entering his apartment and shooting to the bolt of the door he flung himself into the solitary chair which the room contained


but a single groan escaped him the emotions of his darkly working features and the swollen veincords of his throbbing brow were con cealed behind his convulsively clasped hands


the suicide was communing with his own soul that soul which he had doomed so shortly to tread the dark unknown valley of the shadow of death


his thoughts were far far away


he had threaded the tangled labyrinths of the gloomy forests of the southhe had skimmed the leagues of ocean which separated him from the home of his childhoodhe had soared upon the wings of his madly excited fancy to gaze a long and last adieu to those scenes which he was des tined never again to revisit


what a host of longforgotten or but half remembered associations pressed upon his troubled memory


he was once more a boy in his native cityhe was hastening once again to that hallowed home in which his heart through all its progressive stages of weakness and misery had ever enshrined its most cherished and purest idols


the threshold was gained he entered


there sat his mother his aged weeping mother mourning the uncertain fate of her firstbornher best beloved


the veil which hung over his doom was in mercy never to be removed


his father his sistersall all were there


the spirit of the contemplated suicide shuddered and withdrew


he recalled his wandering imagination back to its accustomed haunts of vicious recklessness


he remembered whom and what he was nor was he spared the agonizing reflection of that he might have been


he had seen the last faint glimmer of hope ex pire never to be rekindled


the world


what was it to him


why then linger on in unavail ing unmitigable wretchedness


he reached forth his handit grasped the fatal instrument his hueless lips were firmly compressedhis brow was smooth and cloudless


lt was the last convulsive effort of a mind whose machinery was in inextricable confusion


as he raised his hand his eye fell upon the book of prayerthe gift the last sad parting gift of his mother


where was she in that awful moment


where her protecting arm to snatch her child from the brink of perditions fathomless precipice


the suicide pausedbut for a moment


the image of one pure being had come across his vision


one bleeding breaking heart alone was visible to his aching sight


he breathed a prayer


yes on his knees the selfdestroyer prayednot for himselffor her whose alltrusting allen during love had so long procrastinated his fanci ful doom


slowly resolutely he arosehis pur pose undauntednor longer did he hesitate


for an instant his finger paused upon the triggerthe next his spirit stood before its judge


too late by g exclaimed a voice and the door of the room was simultaneously burst openthe thin curling vapour from the exploded pistol concealing but only for the moment the corpse of the unhappy vernon


too late by g and the reward falls into the sea again soliloquized the speaker bending sullenly over the body in whose person was re cognised one of the most active officers of the metropolitan police and who held in his hand a warrant for the apprehension of horace ver non accused of forgery


death had however issued his omnipotent summons and snatched the violator of his countrys laws from the pe nalties of earthly retribution


to be continued


tfe qitcravn beecrfr a chapter from charles omalley the dragoon


irish there was once a great banker in london w ho had a very fine house in portlandplace and a very dirty old house in the city and if tbe latter looked the image of business and riches the former looked the picture of luxury and display


he himself was a mild man whose ostentation was of a quiet but not the less of an acrtive kind


his movements were always calm and tranquil and bis clothes plain but the former were stately the latter were in the best fashion


holditch was his coachmaker in those days udes first cousin was his cook his servants walked upstairs to announce a visitor to the tune of the dead march in saul and opened both valves of the folding doers at once with a grace that could only be acquired by long practice


everything seemed to move in this house by rale and nothing was ever seen to go wrong


all the lackeys wore powder and the womenservants had tlieir caps prescribed to them


his wife was the daughter of a country gentleman of very old raee a woman of good manners and a warm heart


though there were two carriages always at her special command she sometimes walked on her feet even in london and would not suffer an account of her parties to find its way into the morning post


the banker and his wife had but one child a daughterand a very pretty and very sweet girl she was as ever my eyes saw


she was not very tall though very beautifully formed and exquisitely graceful


she wasthe least affected person that ever was seen for accustomed from her earliest days to perfect ease in every respectdenied nothing that was virtuous and righttaught by her mother to estimate high qualitiestoo much habituated to wealth to regard it as an objectand too frequently brought in contact wjih rank to estimate it above its value she had nothing to covet and nothing to assume


ber face was sweet and thoughtful though the thoughts were evidently cheerful ones and her voice was full of meiodj and gentleness


her name was alice herbert and she was soon the admired of all admirers


people looked for her at the opera and the park declared her beautiful adorable divine shebecatne the wonder the rage the fashion and everybody added when they spoke about her that she would have half a million at


the least


now mr herbert himself ws not at altanxious that his daughter should marry any of the men that first presented themselves because none of them were above the rank of a baron nor was mrs herbert anxious either because she did not wish to part with her daughter nor was alice herselfi do not well


know


whyperhaps she thought that a part of the menwho surrounded her were fops and as many were libertines and the rest were fool and alice did not feel more inclined to choose out of these three classes than her father did out of the three inferior grades of our nobility


ther was indeed ayoung man in the guards distantly connected with her motnera family who was neither fop libertine nor foola gentleman an accomplished man and a man of good feeling who was often at mr herberts house but father motherland daughter all thought him quite out of the question the father because he was not a duke her mother because he was a soldier the daughter because he had never given her the slightest reason to believe that he either admired loved her


as he bad some two thousand f year he might have been a good match for e clergymans daughter but could not


pretend to miss herbert


alice certainly liked bin better thao any man she had ever een ane once she found his eyes fixed upon her fron


the other side of a ballroom with aii expression that made her forget what her partnei was saying to her


the colir came up inte her cheek too and that seemed to give henry ashton courage to come up and ask her to iance


she danced with him on the following night too and mr herbert who remarked the fact judged that it would be but right to give henry ashton a hint


two das after as alices father was just about to go out the voimg guardsman himself was ushered into iiis lit rary and the banker prepared to give his hint ail give it plainly too


he wa saved the trouble however forashtons first sneech was


i have come to hidyou farewell mr herbert


we are ordered to canada to put dawn the evil spirit there


i set ut in an hour to take leave of my nother in staffordshire and tben embark with all speed


mr herbert economised his hint and wished his young friend all success


by the way he added mrs herbert may like to write a few lines by ynu to her brother at montreal


you know he is ber only brother he made a sad business of it what with building and planting and farming and such things


so i got him an appointment in t anada just that he might retrieve


you will find her up stairs


must go out myself


good fortune attend you good fortune did attend him for he found alice herbert alotie in the very first room he entered


there was a table before her and she was leaning over it as if very busy bu when henry ashton approached her he found that she had been carelessly drawing wild leaves ona scraff of paper while her thoughts were far away


she


coloredwhen she saw him and was evidently agitated but she was siill more so when he repeated what he told her father


she turned red and she turned pale and she sat still and she said nothing henry ashton became agitated himself