she lived for forty years without having expe rienced the pangs of jove then finding her exist ence stale flat and unprofitable she threw herself into the arms of macer tellaly esquire


it was her first matrimonial offer and she ac cepted it


kicked like a football from one family to another in which as a governess she received somewhat less consideration than a kitchen wench cringing to mothers fawning upon favorites and by rule assailing the despised who can wonder that she was seduced from her virgin avocations by the professions and air of macer tellaly


anything must be better than this species of existence she argued


she was mistaken


one state of slavery was simply exchanged for another a worse


mr tellaly was one of those indivi duals who depended upon their wits for support and having drawn too largely upon his capital he required something to recruit his shattered finances and give him breathingtime to iook about


miss toady backbiter she belonged to that extensive family with a few hundreds of ready cash came in opportunely


the wooing and winning were summary a man of fashion and fortune was irresistible


toady found herself on one dull sloppy morning in a dismal church vowing to love honor and obey a stranger and tying her self up in the gordian knot of matrimony not so easily cut by the way as the ancient twisted puzzle


the honeymoon lasted a week when a run of illluck at play which made serious rava ges upon her maiden pecuniary store so thought lessly omitted to be settled on herself shewed the life of gall before her


reproaches remonstrances ravings were alike vain


macer tellaly was ac customed to such scenes he smoked cigars and drank brandycoldwithout in the most serene and imperturbable manner possible and ended these lectures by skulling his golgotha as he termed pulling on his hat whistling his domestic cares and wife to the wind and seeking more agreeable associates


better give in toady remarked the worthy macer quietly in the lull of a connubial breeze we can play the game well as partners as an opponent you will find my hand too strong


wretch you have robbed me was the re sponse


the greater reason why you should assist me in robbing others


if we are lucky you can make up a long stocking of your own


this was the fashionable macer tellalys man ner of describing a wellfilled purse


toady at length fell into his views and for fifteen years they lived a wandering life together compelled to fly from place to place as the cloud of mystery which enveloped them was blown aside and people saw them shorn of their spangles


such things however are not doomed to last for ever the protean macer was shot through the lungs at boulogne by a pigeon whom he had plucked at ecarte


he was accused of palming the king his high spirit could not brook the insult in other words the pigeons friends were in a flock around him and would not let him depart so that he was compelled to fight upon the spot


macer fell ingloriously beneath the fire of a tyro whom he had not even the satisfaction of winging leaving a disconsolate widow to lament his loss with a stocking so short that it was scarcely entitled to be termed a sock


she quitted boulogne without erecting a mausoleum over the ashes of her departed spouse and reached the shores of britain where certain scowling countenances gave her peremptory notice to quit


an emigrant ship about to sail for australia afforded her a timely hint


by the exercise of great tact and by disposing of her trinkets she secured a passage was landed in safety and to use the words of the deceased macer began to look about


she was too old for marriage but just the age for humbug


she advertised and puffed herself into a questionable celebrity and finally settled down into a governess philanthropicallv desirous of putting the english or french polish upon young ladies anxious to swim into the fashion able world in a graceful and swanlike manner


miss katie was a specimen of the preceptorial talent of mrs toady tellalyneed another word be said of her system


as she was notorious for giving a vast deal of trouble and paying very little for it she did not stand high in the estimation of nips who never let any opportunity slip of annoying her and our readers wlll not be surprised to hear that she made her entree into the osqueeze council chamber in an inelegant manner


being short sighted she failed to perceive a coalscuttle inge niously placed so that when the door was opened and mrs toady tellaly made one step forward she found herself reclining upon the carpet in an ungraceful position and suffering under a considerable irritation of her shin bones


the ladies rushed forward to raise their fallen friend who was borne by them to the sofa in a well gotup fainting state


vell whod a thought it said the vivacious author of this bit of mischief a coalskuttil on the stairs and the vether as hot as a varmin pan in full operashun


the pride o som peepel is vunderful shewin theyve got a skuttil ven coals is four pound a ton and never a mossil in the house for these three months


nips exclaimed mrs osqueeze endea vouring to express anguish and indignation at the fallen fortunes of the visitor though she was in wardly delighted at the circumstancenips you wretch fetch odecolong hartshorrn or burnt fethers directly do


not knowin the spot vere them fancy articles is enjoyin of a holiday and not havin sarved my time to one of them conjurers vat turns young babbies into sucking pigs at a moments notis my nolledge is limited on this occashum as the young gennelman said ven he vos taxed vith pickin up another young gennelmans shillin


but if youll take my medical advice my opinion is that a bucket of vater vith a dash o soap suds in it voud suit the complecshun of that young iadys complaint better than all the odegoalong and brasshorn in the vorld


not to say im agin fethers vith a mixture otar mem but youd better try the vater and suds you had indeed mem cold vater cures is vonderful


bring water then you little imp but be quick


no thank you my dear dear friends i feel better now i assure you it was only the sudden ness the unexpected the malapropos nature of the affair which overcame me for a time gasped forth mrs toady tellaly who was smit ten with hydrophobia at the bare mention of the hydropathic prescription of nips


i told you so mem the werry name ovater has made mrs yellowly as red as a biled lobstir cried nips triumphantly


but are you sure you are qvite vell mem


the pump is uncom mon handy said he addressing the sufferer


yes thank you my good boy replied mrs toady tellaly looking as if she could eat him without the smallest atom of saline matter to give him a flavor


werry good indeed thank you mem


i never charges for medical adwice but wolunterry contribushons allers received with thankfulness and ceterer


the patient made a feeble effort to reach an imaginary purse deposited in an equally imagi nary pocket but failed to discover it


sorry i guv you so much trubbel mrs yel lowly nevertheless vorken ones arms about a feelin for pusses vich never vas noveres handy is pretty nigh as invogaritin as tryin to play rool britannye on a pair of dumb bells vith a sack o sawdust between em


lts like your pus mem it voud be surprisin good music if there vas a little more chink about it


he is a poor orphan lad you know mrs telaly just taken in out of charity he manes no harrm by his expressions theyre pure nathur he possisses all the irish frishness and friskiness said mrs osqueeze blandly


if hed bin a littel more scotch than inglish he voudnt have bin takin in so quick remarked nips


lave the room you spalpeen said mrs osqueeze furiously as she found the tables about to be turned upon herself


werry good mem


nips closed the door with a bang which was not an indifferent imita tion of the first gun in a royal salute


when he was outside he raised the instrument of mischief and talked to it as he trotted down stairs come on my shinin coalskuttil ill put an extra polish on you for the sooperior vay in vich you have conducted yerself on this ewentful occa shun


i dont know as i sharnt knock a few holes in yer bottom to pervent you from bein dis graced by carryin of smalls and cinder dust


yer a reglar rum un and only fit for nubbleys that you arnt


some confections and a small bottle containing a pinky liquid labelled for spasmodic com plaints the prescription and concoction of dr blarney were placed upon the table


at the pressing recommendation of mrs osqueeze her visitor was induced to taste the latter which had a strong geneva flavour about it and but for the colour might very readily have been taken for full proof gin


whatever its composition it worked miracles in mrs toady tellalys system her eyes sparkledher cheeks bloomed a deeper orangeher artificial ivories glistened and under the powerful influence of the medicine she spas modically confessed her convalescence and com plete capability of taking a prominent part in the approaching conference


faix and its meself thats glad to see you re covered spasms is dridful things no one knows what i suffer with them tis purgatory itself said mrs osqueeze sorrowfully


which the blarney mixture changes into paradise mama remarked katie in a tone well understood by her parent who winced under the sting conveyed by it


mrs osqueeze after copiously imbibing the mixture always had considerable difficulty in reaching her bedroom and it had been whisperedwhat will not ca lumny insinuatethat she was sometimes found in a morpheusian state upon the hearthrug


it is certain however that on examining her coun tenance in the lookingglass after one of these fits she discovered a magnificent pair of mustachoes on her upper lip and a duck of an imperial beneath most artistically traced by the aid of burnt cork this fact proved that her swoon or somnolency was deep and lasting


it is indeed the elixir of life for which dr blarney deserves immortalization said mrs toady tellaly in a gush of enthusiasm


she in variably adopted the grandiloquent in the pre sence of her quondam pupils as well as before those who had not left her wing


as a woman of the world she never neglected any means to keep the tellaly system in full play


how divinely delightful miss katherine looks to day


there is a stylean elegance about her quite ravishing whispered she to mrs osqueeze but just loud enough to reach the young ladys organ of hearing


felicitous mother


happy happy happy child


she murmured to herself for the general ear


the tellaly acting though inimitable was thrown away the audience were of a similar school always behind the scenes or treading the same stage and playing the same character


gracious me said katie anxious to cause a cessation of rhapsody and come to the real matter of the meeting did you hear of the horrible doings of mr frank earle


some rumour reached me of certain forge ries thats jist it upon his frind and binifactor misther kitely cried mrs osqueeze eagerly


and for thousands and thousands of pounds exclaimed katie in excitement


and thried to murder him into the bargain


screamed the mama


with pistols blunderbusses continued the daughter


a kitchen poker and a tomahawk chimed in the mother by way of a finishing stroke to the incarnardined atrocities of frank


celestial powers


can it be possible


un paralleled monstrosity


were the ejaculations thrown in by the listener during the relation of these enormities at the conclusion of which she sank from the sublime and cried in almost breath less astonishmentyou dont say so


well i never


mrs toady telluly occasionally descended from her stilts


but hell he hanged for it thats one com fort said mrs osqueeze in a pure spirit of retributive justice


unless he poison himself mama said katie with a sigh fearful that such a calamity might deprive her of a sight of the grand public spec tacle


thry another glass of the mixture mrs tellaly do now urged mrs osqueeze the word poison having perhaps suggested the thought of such affectionate offer to her dear dear friend


a single drop to drive away the recollection of hanging and the horrible images it conjures up replied mrs tellaly with a shudder


she endeavoured to look pale but the carmine defied her


the painting wanted cleaning it could not be done except in her own studio


lt will lower miss fannys pride said katie triumphantly


faix i wish miss scrymgour joy of her bar gain


folks who niglict ould friends for new faces are ginirally desaved


the girls as sly as a muckanmuddy fox


and theres something mystarious about that robbery which i could niver clearly make out


still water runs deep mama


how exquisitely refreshing to observe the germs of talent and feeling so delightfully deve loped in a pupil exclaimed mrs tellaly in an impulsive burst of admiration


yis and a fine fortune katie would have tumbled into but for these earles the tories ill niver forgive them


mama said katie deprecatingly


dont attempt to stop me miss cried mrs osqueeze furiouslyi wont stand by quietly and see my own flish and blood cut off for sthran gers not i katie osqueeze tisnt in my na thur these earles are a hurried step was heard on the stairs and ere the further opinion of mrs osqueeze could find vent the door was thrown open by nips and harry mordaunt entered the room


a bombshell thrown into a peaceful citya tiger walking into the centre of an indian dinner partya modern acton coming unexpectedly upon a flock of female bathers could not have excited more alarm and astonishment than mor daunts appearance at that particular moment


conscience made cowards of them all


ladies i must apologise for this intrusion it has resulted from the strange bewilderment into which i have been thrown by a startling and in credible rumour from you i shall assuredly hear the truth


on reaching sydney only an hour since i heard thatthati can scarcely utter the sentencefrank earle was accused of the crime of forgery


the female trio looked towards the carpet and shook their heads despairingly then relapsed into clever copies of mourners cut in stone


am i to gather from your silence that this horrible information is correct


alas too true murmured the three in concert


a dizziness came over mordaunt and his whirl ing brain denied him the power of collecting a single thought


he was like one in a trance powerless of motion or speech


at length he re covered himself and wondered at his own weak ness in giving credence to so gross a fabrica tion


surely no one believes that mr earle could be guilty of such a crime said mordaunt scorn fully


we do not cridit it misther mordaunt but the worrld is spiteful sighed forth mrs osqueeze in the most melancholy of tones


can it be possible


exclaimed mordaunt in anguish so upright manly honorableand poor fannymiss earlehow does she bear this overwhelming calamity


the swate craythur is bint down to the nirth wid shame replied mrs osqueeze softly


say love madam love


shame was never linked with the name of earle exclaimed mor daunt haughtily


pardon me madam i am sure you meant kindly


sarch my bosom misther mordaunt and youll find yourself plump on the truth of that same


miss fanny is a favorite with meself


a lovely flower bowed down by the passing storm but not broken said mrs telluly poeti cally


i thank you madam fervently and sincerely for that kind assurance


it was a shame of mr kitely to make such a groundless accusation cried katie indignantly


kitely


it is he then


ladies par don a departure as sudden as my coming


your hearts will feel for me


i must see this man without delay


mordaunt bowed and hurried from the apart ment


hypocrisy threw off its mourning robes and resumed its gay holiday suit


it cared as little for living anguish and broken hearts as children playing amongst tombs for the moulder ing dust beneath


to be continued


my second tour


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i i havs said that fear of the high wind induced me to noss a night at fluyen on the chance of a calm pas sage on thelake next day the fact is the winds on the larger swiss lakes are sometimes terfeotly tem pestuous j pot to be faced at all by amajl boats and requiring a substantiallyappointed steamer to progress against them


i remember twentyfour years agoj steaming up the lake of geneva by the first steamer established there and seeing a lady go down on her knees in terrorat the waves which a sudden storm of wind nadstirred up to a certainly somewhat alarming height and was therefore anxious to avoid if i could experiencing anything of the same kindl on the lake of the four cantons


tjriand lucerne are the two prin cipal ones which give the lake its name the others are scbwytz and unterwalden


my fears if i had any as vto the security of the steamer were groundless we had a beautiful and windless voyage down the lake all the way to lucerne where wo arrived ini time for breakfast in three hours from fluelen


wo passed numerous points of historical attrac tion in our way tells chapel built onthe spt where he leaped shore from the boat in which he was be ing carried to prison by gesler the meadow called the grutli where stauffacher arnold and frst met and swore the oath to free their country c ac


the whole country along the lake and inland in these cantons abounds with evidences and traditions of this era of swiss independence


latterly some one i am not sure whether it is not albert smith has made an elaborate attempt to prove that the story of william tell is in almost all its leading events a fictionthat the hero of switzerland is in short little better than a myth


i mentioned thesubject to two swiss ladies on board the steamer who were very indignant at the idea of there being anything fabulous jin the matter and they argued very intelligently and forcibly to show that tell was a reality and no sham


for my own part i have no doubt of the truth of all that is told of him apple included and have no patience with these dryasdust sceptics who seem to think that the most useful occu pation of the present is to find out some glaring lie about the past


sir jtames macintosh it is to be pre sumed knew something of the matter and was not likely to have grown either enthusiastic or sentimental over a mere legend


hear what he says after visiting tellb chi pel ii the combination of what is grandest in nature with whatever is pure and sublime in human conduct affected me in this passage along the lake more powerfully than any scene which i had ever seen


perhaps neither greece nor rome would have had such power over rae


they are dead


the present inhabitants are a new race with little or no feeling for the memorials of former ages


thi is perhapsthe only place in our globe where deeds of pure virtue ancient enough to be vene rable arc concentrated by the religion of the people and continus to command interest and reverence


no local superstition so beautiful and so moral anywhere exists


the inhabitants of thermopylae or marathon know no more of these famous spots than that they are so many square feet of earth


england is too ex tensive a country to make runnymede an object of na tional affection


in countries of industry and wealth the stream of events sweeps away these old remem brances


thesolitude of the alps is a sanctuary des tined for the monuments of ancient virtue


grutli and tolls ohapels are as much reverenced by the alpine peasants as mecca by a devout mussulman and the deputies of the three ancient cantons metso late as the year to renew their allegiance and their oaths of eternal union


what bootless rhapsody is this if tell was a myth


one can hardly wonder however at being invited to such a belief after the nonsense we have heard gravely propounded about the existence of shakespere


i wish some of the rascals of bygone times could be proved to be fabulousthere would be some satisfaction in discovering that we had harry viiiboth for the honour of englishman in particular and humanity in general


boscoe has made out lucrecia borgia a pattern of virtue and intelligence on evidence that ia gratifying if not conclusive and if some other of the moral blacka moors of the past male or female can bo washed white by the aid of any literary soap of respectable manufacture few would quarrel with the achievement


but william tells and william shokesperes are not so plentiful in the world that we can afford to give either of them up as a mythand we wont at least i wontdryasdust and albert smith


notwith standing


of lucerne i have sufficiently spoken in out of harness and shall say therefore no more about it here


upon this occasion we only stayed to breakfast and made arrangements with a voiturier for conveying us to interlachen a journey which wo accomplished in two days sleeping en route at a pretty village called signan and passing two or hroe hours after lunch in the delightful gardens of the belle vue hotel on the margin of the lake of thun


our first days journey was considerably lengthened by the ignorance of our driver as to the road but as his deviations brought us through some very beautiful scenery and it was a bright calm summers evening w were not disposed to complain of his mistake


the reality of the lake of thun is not quite what the many engravings ef it represent but it has certainly here and there points of picturesqueness which do not belong to die features of the larger lakes


everything is compara tively on a srriall scale so as to give some particular points ofview a highly scenic effect


hence so many pictures of this charming lake but only those perhaps will recognise their verisimilitude who have placed themselves in the exact position from which they have been sketched


the same observation will apply generally to what may be called standard picture places in every country


the artist naturally defers employing his pencil until he has made such use both of his eyes and legs as will enable him to determino to the greatest advantage his choice of subject


this to him very necessary preliminary process takes him into byways as well as highways and it is more frequently from sorao point of view in the former than the latter that he selects the scene to be transmitted to his canvas


the consequence is that ordinary travellers who have formed all their notions of certain localities from the pictures they have seen of them are disappointed at not finding a greater resemblance than appears at first sight or indeed than is likely to appear at all without an expenditure of time and trouble seldom specially provided for


intellochen is generally fuller of english visitors during the summer months than any other village or town in switzerland


it has been called the swiss harrowgate but is moro celebrated for its whey than its waters


the whey is made from goats milk and is not only drank but does good service to such patients as believe in its efficacy in the shape of a bath


i was very much temptoi to try one of these whey baths eftpr reading a pamphlet upon the subject of their multifarious virtues but the experiment involved some personal inconveniencesearly rising among the numberwhich i did not muster courage enough to encounter


the potation part of the business i ac complished tvv o or three mornings successively and found it so agreeable as to considerably modify my ideas of vaccine superiority in the matter of milk


up to this time i had shrunk with something akin to dis gust from partaking of any aqueous effusions of any other animal than the legitimate dairy cow but thanks to the mates of the bearded billies mnjestio fellows they look though perched upon the crags beneath the eternal snows of the jungfrau that help to supply milk to the good folks of interlachen i have learned not only to tolerate but to receive with satisfaction that wholesome and nutritious diet evenvvhen the production of a goat


it must be horne in mind however that no feeding can be more deli cate or unexceptionable than that of the interlachen goathoodthe fresh green mountain pasture is their only food so that they have no temptation to go else where for a meal not even were a flowergaidon in sight with the gate open and the owner asleep


those who admire the architecture and appearance ot swiss cottages will be disappointed by the buildings at interlachen


a few such structures may be found the neighbouring streets of tjnterseen but inter lachen itself is nothing more thon a singlo row of plain dutchlooking hotels or boarding houses with gardens behind and between bordering a wide well kept roadishaded by large walnut trees and forming an agreeable promenade


in front is a magnificent scene of which to adopt the language of the stage the not very distant jungfrau may be called the fiat or i back scene and the greener and nearer mountains oa each sid the wings or side scenes


the amusements of the place itselfara confined to seeing travellers come and depart looking in the inn broks to find out who and what they aro strolling up and down the solitary promenade above mentioned and inspecting the various articles of wooden sculpture with which the one or two perceptible shops refilled


to all tourists in deed throughout switxerland these shops form a prominentobject ofattraction but those at inter fachen contained the best collection i had seen


some of the subjects were exquisitely handled and with a degree of spirit finish and precision which no chisel however celebrated could have excelled


i remarked in particular a copy from leonardo da vinois last supper in which the figures of our saviour and the twelve apostles each about seven inches high are given with lifelike reality and the minor accessories of the tablecloth and the dishes rendered with a minuteness and delicacy of touch that almost chal lenged belief ia the material out of which thoy were formed i am not aware of any other art in whick the swiss excel bat in this they are inimitable and their works it seems to me deserve a much higher place than they have obtained in the estimation of those who profess to be patrons and promoters of tho fine arts


the absence of such encouragement arises perhaps from the fact that the artists themselves are for the most part poor peasants and that education and science not having been thought necessary or found attainable to the carvers any more than to the bewers of wood the have been considered at best but skilful and ingenious workmen and not worthy of collocation with the orthodox fraternity who rejoice in the name of bculptors and painters


i doubt how ever whether someof the woodwork i saw could have been executed by an altogether unlettered artificer the majority of it certainly is but be that as it may whatever may be in the head there is that in the hand of no few of these alpine woodsculptors that would have won something more than admiration from a michael angelo or a canova


many delightful excursions may be mado from intexlachen both on foot and in carriages and most of them accomplished between sunrise and sunset


the most usual are those to witness the glacier of grinden wald the fall of the staubach and thecataract ofthe gibbach


the two former are land trips the latter involves a row or sail down the lake of brienz


we went with a large party by steamer


steamers i may here observe nie to be found on every navigable piece of water throughout the continent


at the spot where you land to visit the falls the mountains come down so steep that an immediate ascent after touch ing the shore is necessary


chairs are therefore kept for travellers of weak nerves or legs and my tentoed understanding being none of the strongest and thinking that upon this occasion the shoulders of my son would be a somewhat undignified as well as unmerciful mode of proceeding i opened ngociations for the hire of one of those semisedans and having fixed the price a very necessary precaution took my seat and was vehicularised very much a la guy fawkes in the direction of tho heights signalised by the cascade of tho gies bach


half an hours ascent brought me to the plateau which commands the first view ofthe falls


here we rested awhile enjoying the beauty of the prospect and refreshing the inner man with no end of strawberries and cream


the chairbearers being ready we resumed our ascent for the purpose of getting as near as possible to the falls a very elevated portion of which may be reached if the requisite toil and trouble be taken


the water is precipitated from a height of some feet and across the chasm it has made in its descent are two bridges one above the other in front of which the torrent leaps down assuming to tho spectator behind the appearance of a moving veil and through which the landscape beyond has a very pleasing and singular effect


the spray would very soon wet any one through mid visitors therefore must take a peep from the bridge and pass on


the paths are very narrow and steep that lead to these bridges and hardly calculated to admit of convenient ascent in the fashion i was obliged to adopt


i did not wonder therefore at the consternation and disgust my chair every how and then occasioned among the struggling pedestrians we met on our way especially as they were most uncere moniously elbowed off the path by tho bearers to whom i in vain suggested a little less energy and straightforwardness


one gentleman was indeed so indignant at this summary style of notice to quit that i had borne difficulty in appeasing his ire butfiually propitiated it by suggesting that he might pitch over the chair and the porters if he would undertake to carry me back on his shoulders to level ground


the walks about interlachen are very delight ful and mado mo envy almost every pedestrian i saw capable of enjoying them


on a fine morning party after party was to be seen issuing from the various hotels indicating by their costume and other picnic paraphernalia that they were about to make a day of it


some of the gentlemen and ladies were got up very prettily having evidently taken great pains to look as if they had taken none at au


most of the male portion carried a knap sack and long pole with the spike at the end of it the females were distinguished by straw hats of gigantic dimensions head roofa rather than bonnetsand flapping about in the breeze with all the flauntiness of riboanda


an array of fishingtackle betrayed the less ambitious designs of others


it was amusing to hear them talking in the evening of the days proceed ings


i gathered for instance that the fishingparty had been nearly baked to death by the heat and that they seemed to be of opinion though no one said as much that sitting still in a boat on a hot summers day in the midst of even a swiss lake whilst one or two fish were being hooked up from it was not upon the whole a recommendable proceeding but rather otherwise


i found out too that the poles and the knapsacks and certain other orthodoxembargoes which the gentlemen had encumbered themselves with had been discovered to be very unnecessary appendages particulary the alpenstock that is the bpdced pole which though useful amid the glaciers


when you get thereyet when you are not going there nor anywhere else where it can be ot the slightest use except to trip up yourself or poke out the eye of your companion the alpenstock had better be lettbehind


there are abundanco of legends relating to two or throe ruined castles near nter lachen in those days when all sorts of atrocities were carried on by the immoral barons of that and other mountain localities under the mild name of feudal oppression


i accepted of the services of an ass to carry me to the summit of a hill where one of these ruins stands and from which a most beautiful view of the two lakes of britnz and thun and the valleys which intersect them may be obtained


the donkey tribe were always favourites with me and i generally made a point of inspecting the collection of them that was usually to be found drawn up for hire in the swiss as well as english watering places


coleridges


lines to a yonng ass had if not awakened considerably increased my interest in thefate and physiognomy ot these much abused quadrupeds and though i liad not quite gone the length of exclaiming with him to any one of them


thou poor despised forlorn i hail theo brother nile ot the woilds bcorn j or of entertaining the wish fai from tho world in some sequestered doll with them and mild equality to dwell i nevertheless do own to something like a ncisonal regard for a donkey and i dont care who laughs at the confession nor who quotes against me the couplet with which byron smashed the sentiment of cole ridge how well tho subject suits his noblo mind a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind


my quotations are from memory and may therefore not be quite accurate


but what of ray longeared friend at interlachen


why i am sorry to say his behaviour with me upon his back did not at all correspond vyith the estimate i had formed of his character from an inspection of his face


before making my choice i patted and talked to the whole rovvofthein and nothing could bo mare bland or subdued than the countenance of the virbane beast i finally selected but no sooner was i seated than his conduct became so objectionable in every way that i was obliged to dismount


one that did not look quite so innocent was guaranteed liv its owner as in capable of similar proceedings olid


so i found it but i must avow nevertheless that donkeyback is not a very eligible modo of conveyance


among other excursions is one to lnutcr brun which brings the tourist within sight of the castle of unspunnon not veiy for from tho rond in a very ruinous state but still visible at a great distance from its high round turret which has a very picturesque appsarancc


it is i again quote trom muuay the reputed resi dence ot manfred and its position in front of tile high alps renders it not unlikely that byron may have had it in his eye


the real owner of the castle wera the barons pf unspunnen a noble and ancient race who were flie lords of the whole oberland from the griinscl to tho gemini


burkard the last male descendant of this family had a beautiful and only daughter ida whowas beloved by a young knight attached toie court of berchtoldqflahriagen between whom and burkard a deadly feud had long subsisted


under


suoh circumstances the youthful rudolph of wordensohuryl despairing of obtaining the fathers consent to their union scaled the castle walls by night carried ida off and mndo her his bride


many years of bloody strife followed this event


at length rudolph taking his infant son by ida along with him presented himself unarmed and without attendants to burkard in the midst of his stronghold


such an appeal to the old roans affections and generosity was irresistible ho melted into tears for got his wrongs and receiving his children into his bosom made rudolphs son the heir of his vast pos sessions


at the time of the reconciliation the old baron had said let this day be for ever celebrated amongst us and rural games were in consequence for many years held on the spot


they were revived in and and consisted of gymnastic exercises wrestling pitching the stone c in which the natives of the different cantons contended with one another while spectators from far and near collected on a natu ral amphitheatre


a huge fragment of rock weighing pounds which was thrown ten feet by an athlete from appenzell may still be seen half buried in the ground


in the same neighbourhood as manfreds castle is a frightful ravine once marked as the scene of a fratri cide said to have occurred there by an inscription in the face of a projecting rock called from the murder the evil stone bose stein or brothers stone


the recent encroachments of the river upon the rood have i rendered it necessary to blast a portion of the rock in order to widen the carriage way in doing which the inscription has been displaced


the murderer ac cording to the story was lord of the castle of rothenflue which stood on the opposite side of the valley


stung with remorse he fled away from the sight ef man wandered an outcast like cain and perished miserably


interlachen is decidedly the cheapest of all places for hotel residence on the continent that is if you choose to live cn pension


this all staying beyond three days are allowed to do upon the very reasonable terms of six and a half francs per day a charge which includes servants


for this which is about s


d


of our money the traveller has breakfast dinner and tea in the salle a manger with no extra expense except wine or beer


his dinner he may have either at one or five the breakfast consists of tea or coffee with abundance of delicious milk honey strawberries two eggs and very excellent bread and butter


tea the same excluding the eggs


carriages for excur sions ore also very reasonable


in short a little money will go a great way at interlachen


we stayed there about ten days our party having in the m ntime been increased from four to nine by the arrivai of my three other sons and my brother and his wife


whither should wo go next


was a question which we had more than once propounded


some wore for flying away to halfadozen cities of celebrity on the wings of the railway and taking a peep of what might be visible in such rapid course between munich and vienna othes preferred voitnrior travelling and the sublimer beauties of artdefying naturewhich it would enable them to behold


finally we gave up palaces sad picturegalleries and determined to pay our respects to the alps whibt yet free from the inva sion of the iron horse


two brothers italians were engaged to drive us in their two carriages for twelve successive days according to a route which i had sketched out and which they said they knew perfectly well though we nfterwnrds discovered that neither of them had ever been in that port of the country before


very goodnaturd and pleasant fellows are the italian vetturinl but they are without exception the greatest liars and cheats under the sun


they invariably demand thrico as much as they will consent to accept and then the chances aro that even a third what they ask is an ex orbitant charge


when you once understand their tricks they become rather amusing than otherwise but such experience does not come without having dearly paid for it


on tho th july we left interlachen stopping to sleep at langnau and arriving the next day at lu cerne where we slept


at six on the following morn ing we embarked carriages horses and all on the steamer and made our second appearance at fluelen where we breakfasted


the weather was delightful and gave promise of a continuance so that i should at last he gratified with a sight of what had before been hidden from me in mistthe devils bridge


i have already spoken of the beauty of the scenery about altorff but it appeared to be still more beautiful in approaching it from the swiss than the italian side of st gothord


we stopped at amsteg to get additional horses for the ascent and whilst waiting my sons took hnlfacrowns worth of shots with the crossbows which the uichins of the village bring out to tempt youthful travellers with


of course i thought of tell and the apple but it was just then only to make the remark that if tells son was not a better marksman than any of mina the tyrants heart as sheridan knowles hath it would not have been in much danger from the juvenile natriot


by tho bye i may as well here record an execrable pun perpetrated by my brother on the subject


alluding to the recent at tempts to make out the story of toll a ftetion that part of it said ray brother about shooting tho apple off his sons head has been very naturally con sidered all my eye


why


because he strove to hit the eye of his apple in order to avoid hitting the apple of his eye


oh


after leaving amsteg the ascent of the st gothard commences


the reader is already aware of my having gone over the s me ground in my rainy journey from bellinzona and consequently that i was then de scending this part of the pass


the weather was now clear genial and sunny and all the wonders of both nature and art through which i was passing were prominently and satisfactorily developed


i say the wonders of artbecause i conceive no effort of human ingenuity to be more remarkable than that which has succeeded in cutting a pathway through these alpine heights in spite of obstructions that experience alone could prove not to be insurmountable


the earlier portion of the ascent of st gothard is amid beautiful pastures but becomes somewhat sud denly stern and rugged in approaching the devils bridge


tho spot so called is a savage gorge through the midst of which dashes down a roaring cataract throwing up a tremendous spray aoross which arc two bridges one above the other underneath the lowest of which the cataract rushes into its narrow and rocky bedat a depth of seventy feet below the arch


the formation of this part of the road was a work of great difficulty from the hardness and preci pitousness of the rocks in order to reach which tho workmen wfro obliged to bo suspended by ropes from above in which position they contrived to bore the holes necessary for blasting the granite


a ter the terrible fighting at sebastopol all previous warfare seems compiratively insignificant but the slaughter that took placo at the devils bridge in august in a battle there between the french and the austrians must from the nature of the locality have been something frightful


leaving the devils biidgc we pisa through a tunnel bored through the solid rock feet loag feet high and c feet broad and thence emerge into a sort of postoral platform called the valley of urseven


andermatt and hospital are reached in succession at the latter of which places we slept as before


between these two villages close by the road may be seen two stone pillars colled the potence or gallows an indication that tho right of criminal jurisdiction belongs to the state in which it is situated it is curious says murray to observe to what an extent the possession of a gallows and the ruht of hanging criminals thereon was an object of pride in ancient times


such relics may bo found throughout switzerland they seem everywhere to bo preserved almost with veneration and aro kept in constant repair though destined never more to he used


the wholelange of the st gothard alpsabounds with minerals of various kinds


such of my party as could walk collected one or two specimens and a quohtitv is always for sale at the inns on the road


from hospital to bellinzona is a five hours drive through a succession of scenes teeming with every variety of beautythat displays itself between pas tures creen with eternal verdure and alpine heights covered with eternal snow


our former loss was moro than compensated for by the glorious weather wo now enjoyed


nothing can equal the beauty of some of the views as you wind down the various turnings of the road which bring you in sight of bellinzona djzo grande faido giornico bodio and biasca with numerous other villages scattered over the valleys and sides of tho mountains offer a recurrence of the most delightful piospects so that one is tempted to exclaim with byron


wo garc and turn we know not where danled and drunk with beauty till the heart hecla with its fulness


port of the country throughwhich wo passed had been the scene years ago of a great battle and a great earthquake


the battle was fought at


bodio in between i the swiss and the milanese when the latter were signally defeated although strong whilst their opponents were only coo


the swiss succeeded by a stratagem inundating the flat land over which th milanese had to pass in time for it to freeze for it was winter thytin the meantime provided themselves with the crampons with which they crossed their na tive glaoiers


and thus were enabled to drive back with comparative facility the faltering and stumbling hosts that vainly strove ta resist them


the earthquake took place in and although i have mentioned it before as we have so lately had one in melbourne the following account of it in murray may not perhaps be unacceptable in an earthquake shook down from the mountain of viriorenone near the entrance of the val bologno so vast a mass of earth and rode that


it arrested the i course of the river and extended high up on the op i posite side of the volley


for nearly two years so great was the strength i of this dam that the water accumulated behind it into a lake of many miles in extent inundating numerous vilages and driving ont the inhabitants by the rising flood


at length in it began to flow over the barrier which being thus loosened and weakened suddenly gave way about easter


th delugethtis occasioned swept off every thing before it towns villages houses and trees as far as bellinzona a part of which was destroyed and the lago maggior


the accumulated debris of rocks and mud which it carried down with it covered the cultivated land with desolation and marks ofthe ruin thencausal may bo still traced along the valley


various c tuses conformable with the superstitious notions of the times were assigned for this catastrophe


some attributed it to the vengeance of god against tho sin s of the inhabitants off biaskn called forth by the power of a papal brief others traced it to the influence of certain magicians from armenia


it is satisfactorily acconntedfor by the supposition of an earthquake since at the same time a similar fall took place from tho opposite side of the mountain which buried the village of campo bagnidi in the val calasko


after having breakfasted at bellinzona we started for lugano our way lying over the monte cenere a road formerly infested by and still a most teraptinglo cality for banditti


on the summit we obtained a fiae view of the lago maggiore of which you gradually lose sight in descending but not before you get a glimpse of the smaller but moro lovely lake of lugano


wereached the town an hour before sunset and felt at once that italiatf ground italian air italian skies and italian lakes aro different from every other


what a pity thattho people arc so ig


norant idle and dirty but really there is something so voluptuously torpifying iii the air that i hardly wonder at those who grow up under its influence be coming both in mind and body somewhat spellbound


th hotel in which we slept had been a palace but was now under the namo of the albergo del lago most villainously appointed notwithstanding the mag nificnos of its apartment


i lay in a huge chamber dozing dreamily afterthb fatigue of the day when i was awakened by a sudden burst of music from below


it was the town band consisting of some twentyfour performers who fyad assembled in tho courtyard te play till midnight


they went through several of the most choice italian pieces all exquisitely rendered and giving mo a sensation of enjoyment that j think i never before experienced from music


it is all very well to talk about mario and grisi at the opera sur rounded by airing lights steaming breaths and glittering crowdsbut let mo listen when i please to tho airs i havo so often heard them sing played as i heard them played that night whilst reclining on my pillow at lugano and i care not how soon they or any other vocal stars may disappear from tho musical horizon


to be continued primitive methodist coknexionthe thirty seventh conference of tho primitive methodist con nexion commenced its sittings in bellstreet chape


darlston south staffordshire on the morning of wed nesday juno th g at nine oclock


tho home districts the missions in australasia ireland and other places were represented by delegates from the said districts and the stations in canada west by messrs g lamb and t bateman


the religious ser vices both within doors and without ia dariaston and several places in tho neighbourhoid


were numerously attended even beyond the most sanguine expectation of the delegates and most of them were highly in structive aud impressive


to the credit of the preachers both itinerant and ideal it was manifest that while they wished vto jrivo utterance to bound speechwhich cannot be condemned still they were i far moro desirous to convert sinners from the error of their ways than to make a vainglorious display of pulpit eloquence henceas a happy result of their labours many sinners were oonverted to god and serious impressions wero made on many other minda which will not soon be obliterated


on sunday june th a camp meeting was held on land near oaurch btreet belonging to s mills and a p brevitt esqs kindly lent for the occasion


four preaching stands wero oceupiel by delegates the weather was exceed ingly propitious and it was variously estimated that that from to attended the services the manner in which this vast assemblage of diversified characters conducted themselves on this deeply inte resting occasion wasa highly creditable to the town of dariaston and its populous neighbourhood


on monday evening a missionary meeting was held in bellstreet chapel barjaston and another at the same time at bliston several of the delegates addressed thess assemblies generally on tho interests of tho redeemers kingdom and specially on the suc cessful labours and operations ofthe primitive metho dist community


at the former meeting a voto of thanks was proposed to the friends at dariaston fox the very liberal and cdrdial wayhi which they had received and weloamcdthe delegates to their town and homes which was unanimously carried and responded to by the superintendent prejicherof tho circuit


a temperance meeting was held at willenhall when fervent and stirring addresses on tho necessity and advantages of total abstinence from al intoxicating liquors to promote moro effectually the tomporal and social interests of our happy country were delivered by several of the conference delegates


the conferencedeeply deplored the oont bincd and widespread efforts nov employed tor the general desecration of the sabbath and sensiblo ofthe numerous evils resoltlrtg from its profanation affec tionately and earnestlycdlledupqritho members and


friends of tho connexion to set an example of keep ing holy the sabbathday and to uso all prudent means in their power to prompte its proper observance by others


it particularly recommended tho public enforcement of sabbatic duties from tho pulpit the circulation of suitable tracts on the subjoct the con ducting of open air services where practicable and carnestprayerto the lord ofthe sabbath for his pre cious interposition in behalf of hib holy day and for hisblqssingon the efforts to promote its duo observance


the conference was gratified to find that the great head of tho church had signally owned the efforts of the connexion during the past year and that it had to i record not only an increase in thenumoer of members but in nil other departments and especially in that of sabbath scholars thus affordipg increased opportuni ties of giving impression to the mind of coming gene rations


the statistics were found to stand a follows stations members travelling preachers local preachers connoxionut chapels rented rooms sabbath schools sabbath scholars teacheis deaths emigration increase of members for the year gfrom the annual report


a beveiatioh op tut czar nicholthe spiritual telegraph contains tho following revelation from tho unknown world when the angels first brought the cnr nicholas into the spirituul world he could not breathe and they had to lay him gently on his back aud remain beside him for two days


after that time he began to move a little and askod for water


the angels brought him water but ho re jected it and threw it over tho angels who offered him it ho wanted natural water but not being ablo to receive the correspondence truth ho ro fuaeilrit and so withdrew from the angels


hu thensank down into a dark and dirty place but some gop


spirits carne to his assistance and brought luith a mixture to drink very muddy looking but wnich being accommodated to his state he was enabled to swallow


this revived him and the good spirits then convoyed him to a house anu showed him every attention


the emperor ima gines that he must have lost his crown from political events and that ho ha taken refuge with these good people to whom he pro niscs great rewards when ho regains his throne which ho tulls thom ho ii sure to do


ile moreovci assoies themthat soon there will be only one king over all tho world and that ho is to b tho king or kmperor not that ho desires he adds thisprcbminencehinself but that it is his di smr


his state is notwitstanding capable of regeneration said the secress because lie wished to do whit he thought was right and his own canso ho fancied a just one


the czar is on the left side of the world of spirits


abmidaienecstiber fiom snlteburj by w c mnrih bay mnru aiiiuder saddle olf side uko m v off neck


clicanut foal unbrmled


buy ycirling lilly unbrmded blore du fuco


black ontuebloun broad vu sbuuldoi


will be sold coth idecember


charles


ealley


the irish dragoon cavtrsa iii


continued from our is


beside


her sat a tall handsome man of about fiveandthirty orf perhaps forty years of age with a most soldierly air who asi was presented to him scarcely turned his head and gave me a halfnod of very unequivocal coldness


there are moments in life in which the heart is as it werelaid bare to any chance or casual impression with a wondrous sen sibility of pleasure or its opposite


this to me was one ofthose and as i turned from the lovely girl who had received me with a marked courtesy to the cold air and repelling hauteur of the dark browedcaptain the blood rushed throb bing to my forehead and as walked to my place at the table i eagerly sought his eye to return him a look of defiance and disdain proud and contemptuous as his own


captain hammerely however never took further notice of me but con tinued to recount for the amusement of those about several excellent stories of his military career which i confess were received with every test of delight by all save me


one thing galled me particularlyand how easy is it when you have begun by disliking a person his remarks were coupled with halfhint ed and illconcealed sneers at civilians of every kind as though every man nota soldierwere absolutely unfit for common intercourse with the worldstill more for any favourable reception into ladies society


the young ladies of thefamily were a wellchosen auditory for their admira tion of the army extended from the life guards to the veteran battalion the sappers and miners included and asmiss dashwood was the daughter of a soldier she of course coincided in many if not all his opinions


i turned towards my neighbour aclare gentle man and tried to engage ilim in conver sation but he was breathle sly attending to the captain


on my left sat matthew blake whose eyes were firmly rivetted upon the same person and heard his marvels with an interest scarcely inferior to that of his sisters


annoyed and in illtemper i eat my breakfast in silence and resolved that


the first moment i could obtain a hearing from mr blake i should open my negociation and take my leave at once of gurtrnamorra


we all assembled in a large room called by courtesy the library when breakfast was over and then it was that mr blake taking me aside whispered charley its right


i should inform you that sir george dashwood


there is the commander ofthe forces and is come down here at this moment to


what for or how it should concern me was not to learn for atthatcritical in stant my informants attention was walled off by captain hamtnerblyasking it the hounds were to hunt that day


my friend charley


here is the best authority upon tbllt matter said mr blake turning towards me


they are to trythe priests meadow said i with an airof some importance htit ifyuurgirestsdesir


a days sport ill send word over to brackleyrto bring the dogs over here andwe are sure to find a fox in your cover


oh then by all means said the captain turning towards mr blake and addressing himself by all means and miss dashwood im sure would like tosee the bounds throw off


whatever chagrin ahe first part of this speech caused me the ltter sset myjheart a throbbing and i hastened from the room to despatch a snesenger to the huntsman to come over to durtna morra and also another to omalley castle to bring my best horse and my siding equipments as quickly as possible


matthew who is thiscnaptain said as young blake met swe ia the hall


ioh


he is the aidedeamp of oen eral dashwood


a aiiie fellow isnt lie


i dont know what you may think said


but i take him for the most impertinent impudent supercilious as the ladiesihad entered to dress for the hout and


i felt no peculiar desire to ally myself with the unsocial captain i accompanied matthew to the stable to look after the cattle and make preparati ons for the coming sport


jtherescaptain hammeralys horse said matthew as be pointed out a highly bred but powerful enjlrslvbunter she came lastjnight for ai he expected some sport he sent his horses from dublin on purpose


the other will be here todiiy


what is his regiment said with an appearance of cairelesness but in real ity feeling curious to know if the captain was a cavalry or infatitry officer


theth light dragoons said matthew


you never saw kim ride said i never but his groomi there says he ends the way in his owncounltry


and where may that be in leiceatershlr s


less said matthew does he know galway


never was in it before its only this minute he asked mosey aly if the ox fences were high bere


oxfences


thea be des not know what a wall is


devil a bits but well teach him sathat we will said i with as bitter a resolutfion to impart ihe instruction ais ever schoolmaster did to whip


latin grammeer into one of the great uu breaiched


but i had better seni the horses down to the mill said mastiewj iwell drawthat cover irst


so saying he turned towards the stable while i sauntered alone towards tihe road by which i expected the huntsman


i had not walked hulfamile before i heard the yelping of the does and a little further on i saw old brackley coming along at a brisk trot cutting the bounds on each aide and calling after the struggl s did you see my horse on the road brackley said i i did misther charles and troth im sorry to see him sure yerself knows better than to take out the badger the best steeplechaser in ireland in such a country as this nothing but awkward stonefences and not a foot of sureground in the whole of it


know it well brackley but i have my reasons for it


well maybe you have what cover will your honour try first


bthey talk of the mill said i but id much rather try morranagowl


morranagowl


do you want to bre ak your neck entirely


no brackley not mine


whose then alannah an english captains th devil fly away with him hes come down here today and from all i can see is a most impudent fellow so brackley


i understand well leave it to me and though i dont like the ould deer park wall on the hill well try it this morning with the blessing ill take him down by woodford over the devils mouthits eighteen feet wide this minute with the late rains into the four callows then over the stone walls down to dangan then take a short cast up the bill blow him a bit and give him the park wall at the top


you must come in then fresh and give him the whole run home over sleidhmichthe badger knows it alland takes the road always in afly a mighty distressing thing for the horse that follows more particularly if he does not understand a stony country


well if he lives tjrough thia give him the sunk fence ani the stone wall at mr blakes cloverfield for the hounds will run into the fox about there and though we never ride that leap since mr malone broke his neck at it last october vet upon an occasion like this and for the honour of galway to be sure brackely and heres a guinea for you and now trot on towards the house they mustnot see us together or they might suspect something


but brackely said i calling out after him if he rides at all fair whats to be done


troth then myself doesnt know there is nothing west of athlone have ye a great epite again hint


have said i fiercely


couldaye coax a fight out of him


thats true said i and now ride on asfast as you can


bruckelfs last words imparted a light nesstomy heart and my step andi strode along a very different man from what i had left the house half an hour previous ly


tile story of the old wolf


translatedfromn the germna


ciiaptei


tiir wrath of the wolf was excessive but after some tinme it begani to subside


mankind it was evident did not ilipreciate as they ought the dawn t intelligence among the hluuline racethe first hlullt efforts of the lrute iilcllect to attain ilani cipation lionll ignoraice and savageismn


how ever lie wouil try njiiln


lerseveranclle might conquer destilny


the great thought lie are niot ailways thus iunfortunate


certaiinly it should not he so in lily case


but ha i herie comes anotherll shepherd niethinks a man of thloughtfil aspect


lperhaps i may yet secure a bertlh at any rate i will try


so old isegrimo began low is this niy dear friend yoll seem displeased this morllillgnothitlng unpileisiant i hope chl


friend indeed said the shephlerd pretty frtiendship you and such like rascals show will you never learn to be honest


but no matter i shall be on the alert and i


pirecautionl fillitrate the designs of your tribe


ltgdso


thats good news


cried the wolf yon have ile exactly ill the nlick of timle


its just the inicest lhling that coulll have happellned


llhat do you niean cried the shepherllid


nicest tlinig that could have ilhallendcll i i dont iuiiderstailnd youl


ill enlighlen you mily worthllycried isregrin in high spirits


what woublt you think


i have hadl i deslperate hattle with lily bretlren ill the riiicstl they alld i qllarreledl on it pilont o et iquee ll


so i tore l doihizen


anlld hal


f i themll to piices iii nlide iawiil xaiiiples of all the rest


the coiscquence is that the whole of the bruite world is tip in riims against lite i can nom longer thrd with nmy kili i iiir safetyl sake i miiist taike my dweillillg amoiiniig the chillhirenl of men


now whati can you dioi better


th


i hiire iuie as youlr assistlt l


depend upont it i shall have such a entstlant eye to your sheep i andii ls toi expense i shall cost you oll iotlhil lr as eplllploy minllt and not emiihllllllenllt is iiy olijeet i shall manage to liv ue on im moire ideainl tait i donllt care whletlher


i eat or ldrink ill ield uponi air if yoi unly take mie into your service i di you meani to say demianlded the shep hlerit i that yo l woulll protect lily flock against


the iinvasions of yonur iiwni brethren the wolves


melln to say it


i ill swear it cried lae grim


ill keep thllili it suchll a distance that io eye shaiill see them thatl their very exist ence shallll ibciole at length iant ter of tradition onlyi so that ipele sh all think there is onlyv oe wsilfttallts nmyselfill thle world


i sand pray asked the shepherd whllile you protect mly sheep against other wolves who will protect them against you


am i to suppose that though you held the place of a dog you could ever forget that you inherit tile nature of ita wolf


and if i cannollt suppose so shoild not be a ltadlllan to employ you


whatl introduce a thief into nly house that he may iforestall by his own inldi vidlal industry tile assaults of other thieves on ly property


upon lny word thats not so had i i wonder ill what school you learned such pre cilus logic master isegrimn


you be hanged i cried the wvolf in a rage as he took his departuroe a pretty fellow you are to talk to me of schools you who were never even at a hedgeschool i time advertiscr insists oi retaining the grand mothers cloak and though we decline her coun sel we shall not deprive her of a garb so appro priate were our produclltionls reduced to her calibre we should throw aside the pen for ever


she has been hoaxed with the originalpoetry the dismal dirge was intended for the tremnnlous adrvertiser and we therefore return her the first two verses which occupy all tile space we can spare as i walk through the street the people i meet seem inclined to laugh and to jeer and the boys every day io jokingly say theres a granny who hasnt a tear


hypocrisy too


i


oh what shall i do youll no longer conceal me i fear for to thee im less use than a cackling goose unless i contributo a tear


is not the picture like


swiftl somewhere says that nothing is more common than that men should first render themselves ridiculous andl then turn round and feel angry because the public laugh at thel


some old twomen are equally culpalleour grandmotiier to wit


tetley v sierwinthe third trial of this action has been postponedpossibly for twelve months and to secure a respectable ant inipar tial jury it is proposed to remove the case to oat tendersseveral parties on thlls side com ilain that the time between advertising fur ten ders and the day fixed for receiving them is too limited and that strict inmupartiality in accepting the oilers of tenderer is isnot always evident


ijrlu


ranvlast tuesday evening sonime per sol iburglariously enlered the dwelling of mr keeble near the cataract mill while he was from home and after breaking open his boxes and scattering his clothes about tile room made off with nine poullds ill gold a one pollund note and some articles of clothinlg


tirm union anti ocean queen froml london may be daily expected


it will gratify thle friends of our respected police magistrate mr ireton to know that his appointment has been confirmled by the authori ties at home


time streetssomie time ago his excellency issued peremptory orders that a gangl of mcti should ble exclusively employed in repairing the streets anid we believe the men have been at work ever since but tile continlued comliplaints that reach its of the impecrfect workmanship per formled in sonic places tled the neglect of others induce its again to call the attention of those ill charge to thile sublllject


at tile meeting of the teetotal society held last tulesday some most imarvellous chemical atits were impllarted to tile mieetilg anlld very extra ordinary explanations ofttred of somie rather per


pilexinglm portions of the scriptures


we think the teetotil holy are sadly conmilromilsing their object inl the imode of advtcating it adopted by their orators


suisted the insolvent we understand left the colony last month in the industryu for port phillill


lie had becei seen there on his way to sydney


not satislied with defraudling his creditors of their money he was doing his utmost to injure their credit by publicly stating that various respectable firms ll this town had been declared insolvent


wve have seen a letter fiommi mr frenchtl police mlagistrate at portland liay dated st may ad


dressed to a relative of tle lahte mr dolah m kenzize who was mlurdered by the llatcks ion sundllay the th lilt


mr french states lie had taken piossession ofi the piapers iiland pirtierly of the deceased ithe sliceli driven aiway iby lhe mna tives with the exceptitonl of labolit a illmlldred were recovered and plilaced ill charge of mr oneill ofl slimoky lriver landll il troopler left on the sptot by order of the police imagistrate


insovient court lrludesdtty juinti ijohll wise flldjourned llt litlther priolof lebts to th instaint ljlohn uinm adjutmred to th instanlit john grien mr atkinson appointed peiriiaielt iussigiee mieeting l rill jrniiiced o th instantit


the following eases tire fixed tlil wedlviesdlay ilext the hth instiantiedlmiind btryanllt al joiiurneil meetingl john wilkins ditto and one discharge ohin james iloyce first mieeting of creditors jiames glre ditto i


siistedl snlecial mlilletitg


a vwarnant has nrrived from lohbart townl li tihe execulltion ofif elijlth ainsworth on whom seiteince of death wais pissell at tihe last sitting of the suptireme coulrt oil ite th april


the imlihaip py mian will undergo the extreme penllalty of the law oil monlday mornling


soutit austialiavwel havc papers to tile th ultimo


titu southern australian of that date says scarcely any tea is now in the mar kct what little there is is realising s


a cheat whilst at sydney it is now selling at is


of the same quality


sugars are also greatly wanted notwithstanding the late arrival as is also collee which is fetchilng in our market s


per ilb


the emmaa it is true is chartered folbr syd iey and back nad the william fulcher may he lhourly expected from lallnceston but these ves sels will hardly bring til t tfull required supply


flour is onil the rise best new fetching per toll


a regular overland mail between adelaide and portland bay is spoken of the inland chain of coluilnicationl wouhl then extend fromll the former place to moreton bay


it is expected that next years oil and wool clip will load eight vessels at least the size of the caleb anguas and that the proballe value of the exports exclusive of produce to the neighbouring settlemenlts will exceed


cape of good hopithe somersetahire brought the last news papers to the th april have reachied usadnmiral w f wise cib is appointed to the cape comnnand vice sir edward i kingtrade was doll and the wine market lanich depressedfrce labour was in urgent de mand at the cape anld the governor was rather unpopllalr on account of his peculiar views on this question lie lhought emigrants allured to their shores would charge the colonists with amils representationl and it was money and not labour that was wanted to develope the resources of the colony


the prevailing inpression and that most to be depended on was opposed to the governors view of the matter


port natalie have received a comnlllll nication from the umzlinvoobo dated thi inst and which we are lad to say does not corroborate as regards the hostile intentions of the natal emi grants the accounts brought by the mlary as given in our last


a letter before ius fully bears oult tlhe opinions formed by ils from previous accounts as to the farmers having suflicient good sense and discretion to induce themll to decide oni pacific measures


it states that a few of the more vio lenlt temlpers were for resistance but this had been overruled and that they in conseqlcuencei had resigned their otlices


the troops at the date of this account were prelparing to cross the unmlmim voolbo down the precipitous bank of whicel ia tole rable road had been formed by them durilng their detention there occasioned by the swollen state of tihe river


its waters howevers were fast subsiding anid it was thought wouhld be fordable in tile course of three or four daysgrahams town journal mlarcl


an inquest was held at the courthouse on tuesday last st ult before p a muigrave esq coroner on view of the body of an infant minelll theodore wilson who died ill the female factory on thie previous sunday


george maddox assistant colonial surgeon


the deceased has been ulnder any care in the female factory for the last tlhree ilmontlhs lie was healthy until the th inistant whven lie was attacked by dysentery caused by dentition and the collsequence of his beilng weaned he was properly weaned i t that time on account of the state of his illmothers health ad his age i visited hilm every inorning and allplied tilhe usual remc dies in sulch cases lie haid every sort of suste nuinice that was necessary and was exceedingly well attesded by both the mother and nurse the ward was airy lhe died of the beforenlentioned disease oil the th ultimoa


eleanor wilsoni am tile mother of the de ceased hlo was bolrl oil the st september last at avoca and i came into the thctory with moy child on thlie i decemllber last lie had not had a days illness until the instant when lie was afllictedl with purging and


continued sulfering under that ilisease


illuntil between tell land eleveni oclock ol last sullnday lorniig wlhen lle died in tile fictory whilst ill lie was regularly attended by dr maddlox and had all the nlollrishlmenllt that was requjiilte it was lneccsary to wean the clild on accolllt of tile state of ilmy health


ann slitlhi an nlliurse ill the felmale fac tory at launceslton andi have attended the de ceasedl silnce the th illstanlt hlis anotliher aplllpeared very tlllid of him lie was afililcted with dysentery ianli died of thalt coulint oil sllllllly lmorlinlg last ii


maddox attendle the deceased regu larly anild soilmetillmes dr lelnsonl lie had mledi cinles that ere senlt him anlll the nourishment lie requlired alliiliogst other thilngs wine aind airrow root lie was as well attenllded as lie could have becl il anily other sitliatioli


verdictlicd by the visitation of clod


wfe regret to recordl what hais hitherto been uill kilowil on board the prison ships boullnd for these coloniesan attempt at mutiny on board the soierslelhire


ilhelll neir the capie twelve prisonllers lavilng glinied over solle of tile soldiers iof thll gtarl consllilred to seize ulle vessel throw the sulllterll ii in elmlallndll overboardli oritire the colllmmanding oflicer r the sill lnl shore and scuttlel her while theyl idestroyedl that lipart of ilhe crew and guard who wouill not tlavour the ilertakiuig


thllle conspilracy iiwas sooln discovered as all such iust by one of llte men of the th regientil mi they attempted to ll


in lhivelgle into ithie illtll lllld lle consequence ws thatll promptll iniiasures were taken ito prievenlt the explosion


tile shi was pult illiilt ll the cape it cllirt li ftil ili andl ole of the soldiers shot two mllore tralnspllorted t lie lprlleincipal ringlliaderls itliaig tilhe prisoliners were confined mund irniled t the ves sel proceededl oin her waiy to this port whicih she reacihed ill snity


il hioulrd theii isalbella a like mutinousllil slirit adll dlevehloiell itself hllt owilng to causes whvichl lilliverially lrevail in such a society it never showed itself il ally olvert lersullre andll the cmll o cprenulltionls alwnvays taken in ii ship of this kiltl wevre tiiemiselvei s siullicient to stile it in its birthlolatl town adlcrtloer


the mysteries of sydney


not by the author of the mysteries of paris or the mysteries of london but by one of ourselves


part iichapter vi


mrs


turner gives a ballwhat happened thereat


having thus fortunately obtained the permis tion of mr penny algiers for an extra hour or two after the regulation shutup mrs turner determined to make a night of it and astonish the weak minds of her neighbours by a most startling flareup


to use the very graphic american expression it was to be a screamer an event that generations of south head road ians yet unborn should be told of by their aged greatgrandsires and greatgrandams


unluck ily the size of her house interfered somewhat with her gigantic plans which nothing short of the two large rooms at the royal hotel thrown into one bob coopers blackwattle swamp folly or the victoria theatre could have enabled her effectually to accomplish


never mind my dear


she said to her con fidante miss dunboe what we miss in size we can make up in a thousand other pleasing ways and we flatter ourselves fanny that we are rather extensively skilled in the honey and barleysugar line


do you know ive a great mind to visit the castle and ask charles to give us a look in


what the exclaimed fanny amazed at the brilliancy of the idea


and why not


he is the man of the people and nothing pleases him more than to see folks happy around him


besides it will all be on the sly incog


you know


take my word for it fanny it wont be the first time that he has enjoyed himself in the quiet way


i am sure it will be quite a treat to him to leave a parcel of starched and stuckup people for a little bit of nature unadorned


well


but he cant dance my darling remarked fanny


i am aware of that but he can


what do you want mary


you should never enter without knocking at the door


this interrogatory and bland reproof were ad dressed to the above plumplooking damsel who had selected the attendant line to help her on her passage through life and who most uncere moniously bustled into the room without the slightest regard to those laws of politeness and good breeding which govern society in general and such an establishment as mrs turners in particular


ive told you of this fifty times


continued mrs turner and it sometimes really is very awkward mary and places persons in unplea sant dilemmas


why maam replied mary rather pettish ly and with manifest dislike at the snubbing you told me to bring up a plate of oysters at eleven oclock


ah oysters


ducky oysters


well mary youre forgiven this time


are they rocks or muds


rocks maam as fresh as fresh replied the servitress


they do look plump and nice


now fanny over a few of these and a glass of dunbar we will discuss and arrange all our little plans


the ladies for these delicate creatures sometimes condescend to eat as well as rough masculines sat down and invigorated themselves with the shelly delicacies and washed them down with divers imbibings of the malty


having performed this pleasing task they busied them selves first in superintending the cuisine then in throwing an air of elegance over the ballroom


green boughs from the bush interwoven with flowers carefully concealed certain stains in the walls the sad effects of damp wear and tear and spermaceti candles in small tin sconces were artfully introduced among the foliage in order to realize miss fannys poetical idea of glow worms twinkling in their leafy bowers


some time having been expended in the preparations and the finishing touch put to the picture the ladies turned their attention to selfdecoration


at the aristocratic hour of nine the rumbling of wheels betokened the arrival of the guests


cabs pulled up short at the entrance hall steps were let down with a clang that roused the slumbering echoes of the sand hills drivers cursed and swore at other drivers who broke the ranks and put their horses heads where their tails ought to have been panels went smash as they discovered the pole in fact there was all the noise confusion and excitement which usually accompanies a grand entertainment of this description


some adventurous gentlemen on horseback too much imbued with vaulting ambition took the fence without waiting to have the gate opened for them a line of conduct which disabled two unlucky ostlers who were specially engaged for the night to look after the stables


quiet however was at last restored and the guests having passed through the bar and taproom and clambered up a narrow stair case found themselves in the brilliant terpsi chorean assembly room


mrs turner and her fascinating friend decked in pure white muslin over delicate satin slips cut rather low in the body and remarkably full in the skirt their hair wreathed with white roses and their countenances wreathed with smiles were there to greet the visitors


num berless were the compliments paid them by the males and equally numerous were the envious glances and whisperings of the females who are never particularly partial to stars of greater magnitude than themselves


pon soul drawled out brayman as he moved up in a listless and nonchalant way pon soul


ladies you look charmingly


will you honnour me mrs t with your inexpres sibly snowy taper fingares for the daance


really


mr brayman replied the lady in her most bewitching tones you are so se ducingly polite that one can scarcely refuse you anything


positively


you dont say so


but if i am brilliant it must be from the light of your eyes


oh my


emma


do look


theres lam my murmured fanny in her friends ear


i shall certainly faint nonsense my dear


keep your spirits up


why who in the name of all thats gracious has he brought with him two black gentlemen as im alive


who can they be


are they african princes or ohio serenaders


the conversation was disturbed by mr lam mys approach with the two gentlemen in black whom he introduced as ohionebbersaydienigger blowme president of the corncobhoecato in the back settlements of amerikay and tambou rinebonebanjo his prime minister


these illus trious personages being accommodated with partners a quadrille was formed and in honor of the military gentlemen the lancers was se lected


the ebony strangers were remarkably lively in their movements and occasionally over stepped the strict conventional rules of pro priety by their extraordinary saltations and ges ticulations so much so that mr tomwake a stout elderly personage who kept a vine waults in the neighbourhood was to use his own term struck stupid and all of a heap


ecce signum


and well indeed he might be


but the prince was an angel of quiet to the minister who went off at a railway pace reminding one very strongly of a gigantic inkbottle undergoing a galvanic operation


he chassed croissed and pas seuled in a most magnanimous and malig nant manner while his skin under the influence of the excitement shone forth like an ebony table niggerpolished not french polished


by jove or pluto rather said floss to a gawky ensign with a curds and whey complexion that fellow would make a devilish bad soldier


and why enquired the juvenile bit of scarlet


because he seems to throw away his arms and cut with his legs ah floss


thats too bad


really youre excruciatingly funny


ha


ha demned good


do spare my nerves doey now


look at the fellow theres an attitude


a kangaroo in convulsions by all thats remarkable


at the mystic hour of twelve supper was an nounced to the great relief of the dancers who began to feel rather peckish


if his sable ma jesty and friend astonished the company by their previous performances they certainly did not lessen the surprise by their table amusement wings of fowls slices of ham bosoms of turkeys ropes of sausages boiled custards calves feet jellies cheeses and salads disappeared with alarming rapidity and the fair hostess was not without some fears that the next event would be the disappearance of the table down the ca pacious throats of the distinguished foreigners


this feat however was not executed for these gentlemen having wiped their mouths upon the tablecloth declared dat de supper wor better dan ebbery ting else debilish good an plenty ob him and dey was full as de tick


fine fellows these on a station where ra tions are short said lammy to miss dunboe by whose side he had managed to place him self


ah lammy sighed fanny almost inau dibly that dear station


when shall i ever see such happiness again


in the noisy scenes of the metropolis i sigh for the mooing of the moo cows and the baaing of the baalambs


as i look at the chalkandwater of the breakfast table fond memory recals the rich creamy vac cine fluid of the aldearny dear delightful dairy suppliers with their sleeky hides who talks of hides said mrs turner sud


denly as her ears caught the word


not i replied fanny with some asperity our conversation was quite our own without any reference to any other person so dont put yourself in a bad skin my dearest


oh replied mrs t at the same time re hasing into a slight flirtation with mr bray man


and continued fanny in the same melo dious monotone when i see broiled kidneys can you blame me lammy my own no alas


once my own


for dreaming of the grassy meads in which those kidneys gathered fat


shiver my timbers shouted a stoutbuilt somebody in the costume of a middy whose de velopement in front and behind was remarkably full for its size and not altogether in harmony with a very shrill squeaking voice shiver my timbers but the pair of you are cutting it fat hallo shipmate avast heaving and splice the mainbrace


heres to pretty poll of ports mouth plymouth yarmouth or any other mouth for the matter of that and may she never die in as i have not the honor of your acquain tance said lammy hastily i should feel ob liged by your confining your observations to yourself


demme sir do you mean to be personal squeaked out the middy


game by mars


george whispered floss to the ensign the cocks shrill clarion betokens mischief


a hen bird for a hundred responded georgeill back the unknown to show the white feather


by my manton


as white as a ptarmigan already


lammy a little infuriated jumped from his seat and was about to take the nasal organ of the middy between his finger and thumb when his wrath was disarmed by the most powerful appeal of whatever you do please dont mark my face


the roman youths if we recollect aright were whacked in their great anxiety for the pre servation of their countenances


it is not wonderful that the middy wished to keep his perfectly unimpaired in order that his mother might know him in case he had the felicity of tumbling over that revered relative


a woman by venus said flossim dead floored


george youre a winner on the filly


who the devil is she


this young person is under my protection i calkilate and under the protection of the american flag i reckon and i should like to see the britisher that would insult this young per


soni guess it would not be good for his health cried a sallowlooking longhaired downeaster from the starsandstripe country


im for a row thundered lammy


im wid yez responded the little doctor who made his appearance at the very nick of time


go it my flowers


ejaculated the leader of the hitmedeaderfasthothouseplant gerani ums


murder


murmurmurder erere shrieked mrs turner and by way of accompaniment falling feinting into braymans arms


fire fire


fire


protect me dearest lammy screamed fanny hiding her head in the dress coat of her adored to the great dis arrangement of his shirt front and the loss of his breastpin


one for his tibi cried lammy as he boomeranged a decanter at the middy but which luckily missed the target and embowelled itself in the violincello at the other end of the room


that shows the advantage of having two strings to your bow remarked floss quietly


whos to pay for my cremony enquired the disconsolate musician gazing like sternes beautiful portraiture of somebody lamenting over a dead ass


draw it mild said tomwake who being used to such fracas had deposited his carcase under the table in comparative security


will nobody protect female innocence interrogated mrs borbes a lady weighing twenty stone full out with a voice like a bull frogs in wet weather


what nobodythen female innocence will protect itself


a candle stick hurled promiscuously with the force of a jupiter tonans thunderbolt showed a female delivery equal to the conception


take care of my dressmind where youre treading spooney


cried miss billett a thin bustlemadeup young needlepusher belonging to the quarter


it strikes me the ensign beganand he was right a well despatched missile in the shape of a willow patterned cheeseplate put him as flat as a pancake on the floor and illustrated his frontispiece with cuts


george the ensign was evidently not anxious for the issue of a second edition from the press


crash went the glasses overturned were tables and chairs the ladies screamed the men swore and belligerency was at its height when ned clarendon rushed in the very em bodiment of terror and dismay


if an appari tion had appeared the effect could not have been more startling and instantaneous


mrs turner recovered from her swoon fanny from her alarm and all gathered round him in enquiry


he needed not their voices to construe the ex pression of their countenances


four words from him poured oil upon the troubled waters and calmed the hotboilings of strife


vernon has shot himself said clarendon slowly and emphatically


poor fellow


poor fellow went simultaneously through the room


and such was the epitaph of as fine a hearted but misguided piece of mother earth as ever breathed in a world of trouble


the guests departed sobered down and per haps better and wiser men and so ended mrs


turners grand ball by the special permission of mr


penny algiers


to be continued


chapter xix


the mail robbery


the last faint halloo of the watchmen of dar linghurst died upon the breeze before lipey and toby ventured to move from their concealment


with a kindness that would do credit to those whom the world calls honest and who stand high above their fellowmen lipey refused to quit his companion in misfortune and by dint of main strength succeeded in carrying him away two or three miles from the gaol in the direc tion of cooks river before daybreak


here lipey made free with a horse which he found quietly grazing in a paddock and lifting toby up he led the animal which fortunately was not very restive for some distance till he came in sight of a small hut entirely surrounded by bush


the thin smoke issuing from the rough wooden chimney apparently satisfied lipey that it was still occupied by friends but with the caution which perilous avocations had taught him he crept through the bushes with the noise lessness of an aboriginal till within a few paces of the dwelling and sufficiently near to peep through the slabs


he then gave a peculiar whistle which after a short lapse of time was answered the door of the hut was opened and a tall slim lad apparently about seventeen years of age came out


no sooner did lipey catch sight of him than he quitted his conceal ment


vot young daylight said he youre alive still are you


vy they told me you was pickled by a high toby crush on the blue moun tains


dont bleve all you hear lipey replied the lad at the same time shaking hands cordially with the former speaker there was two of them mounted police and they certainly squirted at me but i dived behind a log and afore they could come up i crept into another like a bandi coot


blow me lipey you would have laughed to see em when they fancied they popped me off


and it was the fun of the world to hear em swearing at their luck cos they couldnt find the body


youre a plucky young wagabone said lipey fondly and im werry proud of you youll be a credit to me in my old days


but vere vur you ven they vur a talkin


in the log to be sure and they a smokin their pipes right over me


they sat there till they vas tired i spose for arter theyd been cracking their whids for halfanhour i went to sleep


verry good my game chicken ill make a man of you yet if so be providence spares your precious life and i dont think no vun could be so cruel as to cut off sich a wigorous plant afore it comes to full bloom


but stow it day light veve been forgettin toby


come this vay all right inside i spose


right as an eightday


only my old man and your old woman my old voman


oh


heres a go


come on


lipey during this speech cut as many antics as a whole tribe of blacks at a corroboree and it was evident that the last piece of news he received was remarkably pleasant


followed by young daylight he soon reached toby who by their joint aid was conveyed into the hut and placed upon a sheet of bark which answered the purpose of a bed


lipeys old woman who was a very pretty looking girl began to make preparations for breakfast by slinging the royal george anglice the iron pot and amalgamating the farinaceous preparatory to its being transmuted into fritters


nor did she for get to attend to the ailment of toby she quickly made a decoction of herbs generally used amongst the dwellers in the bush and fomented the sprain


the application soon relieved the excruciating pain the sufferer had borne uncom plainingly for hours and worn out by fatigue he shortly afterwards sunk into a deep slumber


the rest of the inmates made a hearty meal during which young daylight informed lipey of a good chance which might come off if well managed by stopping the mail on its return from the races


the lad gave lipey all the information which his wariness and cunning had procured and he exhibited so many marks of talent in lipeys peculiar line that that worthy could not forbear from expressing constant marks of approbation during the narrative


when lt was concluded lipey jumped up knocked the ashes out of his pipe and put it in his pocket


now old voman just give me vun checker and im off


this here lively kid is a vunder of the vorld he cumbines in his precious person all the liveliness of the munky vith the stam inner of the hippopotanose


id trust myself vith him amongst a hole tribe of darkies in a conwulsion


if sir tummus had only knowed this here innicent infant and tooked him for a guide hed a diskivired prince albit and all the royal family as vell as the wictora river


ven i looks on that lad it makes me veep as knowin he cant last for ever


cut my daisy for a vun moment vile


i says good by to the old voman


you neednt give no office now its quite harmless


young daylight attended to the command of his tutor but as the sonorous smack of lips took place inside the caboose he could not re strain himself from expressing his satisfaction at the fond manner in which lipey and his mistress bade adieu to each other


young daylight seated himself on a log till the other joined him


he then proceeded to spring his plant of two fowling pieces the barrels of both were chalked to suit them better for night work pow der ball and caps were also provided and every preparation was made to carry out successfully their dangerous scheme and to avoid detection


for the latter purpose they blackened their faces and shifted their garments for other tog gery which the thoughtfulness of young day light had induced him to plant near the spot


many a weary mile the two tra velled across the bush avoiding every hut and shrinking behind trees or diving be neath logs when any human being appeared


yet they went on and on with untiring energy and showed a perseverance worthy a better cause


at length they reached the end of their journey and as some hours of waiting were be fore them they secreted their pieces in the high grass and bushes and stretched themselves on the ground


lipey was in the arms of sleep when young daylight roused him


the boys quick ear enabled him to detect the rumble of wheels although they were at a considerable distance


his older companion was up and ready in a moment


now


my kinchin said he as the vehicle came nearer at the next turn of the road youhere they are by g


pull up and deliver


the last words were addressed to the driver and to ensure their being attended to lipey seized one of the horses while young daylight levelled his piece at the coachmans head


these summary proceedings produced the required stop page the driver was compelled to dismount and after he had undergone the process of frisking as gents of the road term searching the pas sengers were ordered to dismount one by one in order to submit to the same operation


fortu


nately there were not manya bouncing sydney boniface a flash pugilist a jockey and a gen tleman or two returning from the races


the publican went through the fiery ordeal and pulled a very rueful face when his family time piece was extracted from his fob the pugilist being rather more wideawake dropped what trifle his illluck at the races had left him in the body of the vehicle the jock and the gents got eased of their superfluous cash and when all had been turned over to lipeys satisfaction he expressed himself extremely gratified for their kindness in having travelled that road and re quested as a particular favor that they would give him due notice when they were coming back


shall i rush him enquired the pugilist in a low tone of boniface


no you dd fool better lose our money than our lives


no officing there cried lipey or the squirts will be at work selp me tater you un derstand that my flash customer if you or your pal offer to move for the next halfhour ill give you pepper enough to take all the steel out of the pair of you


as for the gennelmen ill take their words


and im werry sorry hard fortin compelled us to best them


we missed our mark thats werry ewident but another time ve may vin the toss


now gennelmen i vish you a werry good mornin and many of em and take a partin vord of adwice never trust your selves agin halfamile away from home unless you take your nusses with you


and as for you my pippetshere he pointedly addressed the pug and the publicanjist bear in mind for the future that them as plays at bowls must ex pect rubbers


having delivered himself of this admonitory peroration lipey plunged into the bush while young daylight kept sentry


when the eyes of the party were taken off him he likewise disap peared


but how it was difficult to tell with draw your glance for an instant from the snake and the reptile vanishes


to be continued


wbt uitttatv lecor


a chapter from charles omalley the irish dragoon


night after talavkba the night which followed the battle was a sad one


through the darkness and under a fastfalling rain the hours were spent in searching for our wounded comrades amid the heap of slain upon the field and the glimmering of the lanterns as they flickered far atid near across the wide plain bespoke the track of the fatigue parties in their mournful round while tbe groans of thewounded rose amid the silence with an accent of heartrending anguish so true was it as our great commander said there is nothing more sad than a victory except a defeat around our bivouacfires the feeling of sorrowful depression was also evident


we had gained a great victory it was true we bad beaten the frfiimed legions of france upon a ground of their own choosing led by the most celebrated of their marshal and under the eyes of the emperors own brother but still we felt all thehaeardous daring of our position and had no confidence whatever in the courage r discipline of our allies and we saw that in the very melee of the battle the efforts of the nemy were directed almost exclusively against otir line so confidently did they undervalue tbe efforts of the spanish troops


morning broke at length and scarcely was the heavy njut clearing before the red sunlight when tlje sounds the fife and drum were heard from a distant part of the field


the notes swelled or sunk as the beftze rose or fell and many a conjecture washazarded as to their meaning for no object was well visible for noe than a few hundred yards off gradually however they grew nearer aid nearer and at length as the air cleared and the hazy vapour evaporated the bright scarlet uniform of a british regiment was seen advancing at a quick step


as they came nearer the well known march of


the


gallant fortythird was recognised by some of our people and immediately the rumour fled like lightningit is crawfords brigade


and so it was the nobie fellow had marched bis division the unparalelled distance of sixty


english miles in twentyseven hours


over a burning sandy soil exposed to a raging sun without rationb almost without water these gallant troops pressed on in the unwearied hope of sharing the glory of the battlefield