tho whole of tho french then advanced towards ihe river and followed tho bank on their own side till opposite fc village into which they threw somo shells settinc fire to some of the houses and dislodging the cavalry which retired covered by eight guns that the enemy withdrew from afieldwork on tho left bank when the french advanced


in the meantime sir colin campbell had ordered the nd to niovo out of the intrenched bills to tho right of eadukoi along the face of the mountain to kamara of which village they obtained possession without any opposition


then the french holding the defile near the bridge detached two battalions up a mountain path to their right rear to a village in the hills beyond kamara where they knew cossacks to bo posted and whom they nearly succeeded in surprising the cossacks having barely time to escape before tli french entered the village tho latter having destroyed the enemys buls and burnt a quantity of forage rejoined lie main body driving off with them some cattle and sheep and the whole of the reconnoitring force having accomplished their object which was li mited to ascertaining tho enemys actual force and position relumed to the heights


so ended the year to ninetenths of tho army beyond measure tlie most eventful of their lives and which in retro spect wore the air of romance


there were unfolded the departure with tearful friends on the one side glorious uncer tainty on the ether the scenes of tho turkish capital tlie pestilencehaunted camps of bulgaria whose dreary sites are marked by so many of our comrades graves the march across the green sunny plains of the crimea our first passage of arms at the alma the ight of the prize we aimed at the bright newlooking cily with its background of blue water tho bombardment the minor actions of tho fli nnd th october and tho gloomy struggle of inkermann leaving us undis turbed possessors of the barren plains where we had now spent long months feeling winters grasp tightening day by day


tet hat grasp evenbanded to both parties was not altogether unfriendly to us


fine weather and good roads would have brought upon us legions of enemies day after day we must have renewed for our bare footing a struggle against odds sufficient to render it ever doubtful


but now while the accessions to tho russian force must of necessity be few and scanty england and france were to us prodigal of aid


our numbers had been inadequate to the task before us but rein forcements imd come and more wero on their way


we had been thinly clad but comfortable garments were at band


tho state of the roads rendered the necessary transport of stores a work of extreme diffi culty but a railway had arrived with men to lay it


tents had for long almost ceased to be a shelter againbt tbe wind end driv ing rain but now wooden houses for the army proposed as it seemed to us only the other day and but half believed in were actually in the harbour and when put together on the heights would at once place ibe troops in comparative comfort and check the progress of disease


austria was said to have at length join ed ub in earnest though the termsof tho treaty concluded with her were as yet unannounced


best of all wo felt how we were thought of and cared for at home and know that for us tattered bedraggled mortals shivering on these muddy plains a regard more anxious deep and generous than is often shown except by tbe truest and warmest of friends now formed the one absorbing impulse of tho nation


with reference to a patsago in our last number pagdllsoar gallant correspondent writing on the sdlh deciimbor says believe i described thoboyaldragoodb an charging with tho scots grove at balnwava it should have been the eniiibuillouere instead of uic ltoyab who were not in front and only camo up t tho cad know not how i made the mistake as i was well acquainted with tho circumstances to be continued j


chapter xv


the revelthe escape


the gaol clock had struck seven the prison ers had been boxed up the watchmen had been their rounds and had reported all right and the sports were about commencing in the gaolers quarters


lipey had been transmogrified into a very respectablelooking flunky by the aid of an old suit of livery which looked very well by candlelight and the two musicians in bands mens jackets came out remarkably strong


a nate little snicksnackery as castle dubbo termed a cold collation was laid out in an antechamber and which iv not quite parfac shun had no small taste of jonteel about it


the ballroom floor was chalked out in most elaborate devicesthe shamrock predominating fresh gathered flowers filled the vases and perennials were gracefully festooned around the windows and cornices of the apartment


some young iadies attired in the newest parisian fashions were lounging upon the rich damask couches simpering most affectedly at the warm compliments which were whispered into their ears by several dashinglooking men of the military squatting and professional order


castle dubbo with his thumbs stuck in the arm holes of his waistcoat contemplated the scene in delirious enjoyment it was the correct thing the lordlieutenant himself could not have done it better


he was roused from his reverie by lipey who threw open the door and ushered in a short squab fieryheaded person age as sir skemin inflenzee


sir severn whackenzie you idiot said castle dubbo scowling upon lipey and in stantly changing his tone into the overwhelming ly polite he warmly welcomed his guest bring ing his head at the same time within a very short distance from the floor


i thought i should put my foot into it muttered lipey as he once more took his station outside


blow the old tiger how he crunched his teeth at me my vord vouldnt he fancy me for a wictim


vell it vont last for ever


hollo


heres two more on em acomin up


vots your name gennelmen


vot dye say


oh lts all rightive nicked these anyhow


while doing this little bit of soliloquy lipey once more threw open the portal and in the gruffest of all possible voices announced the arrival of mr squeal drayman and mr marble


he did not stay to watch the effect of this in troduction but quickly returned to his post


meanwhile castle dubbo fluttered around his guests redoubling his attention and assiduity and introducing each in turn to the female sprouts of his illustrious tree


a thousand pardons sir severn for inter rupting your teetateet but timpus adax rarum as we used to remark at trinity which being translated for the binifit of the ladies manes its high time to be jigging


oh pa


how can you mintion such a vul gar word as a jigit is so ixcissively irish


and therefore must be charming


miss morgiana allow me the honor of your hand said sir severn


the young lady having graciously assented the music struck up and polka gallopade waltz reel and jig followed each other with all imaginable rapidity


as a sort of respite from this desperate work miss morgiana allowed her self to be installed at the piano and after showing what could be done with the morceaux of moschelles thalberg and herz she essayed a little bit of the vocal and most appropriately selected nathans pretty ballad why are you wandering here i pray


she threw so much archness and expression into her performance that squeal brayman vowed in a whisper to mr goldforny prior a youthful limb of the law that pon his soul it was so excruciatingly perforating he could not stand it for the life of him


the silence which ensued after due honors had been awarded to the yourig ladys song was broken by a strain which came from the con demned cell and floated through the open win dows


the words were wild and the tones in which they were uttered still wilder and more hopeless


the votaries of pleasure sat spell


bound like the inhabitants of that eastern city who were suddenly turned to stone


the flowers faded before them the lamps changed to the dull phosphor streaming from eyeless skulls and a black pall seemed to spread itself over the festal scene


through tempest oer surges the pirate rides free his seahorse he urges along merrilie the prize is before him all laden with gold no tremor comes oer him the pirate is bold


but fortune forsaking how altered is he with sturdy limbs quaking neath the gallows tree


ah me


the black gallowstree


the highwayman dashes oer bleak moor and lea while forked lightning flashes deliver saith he and wasting in revel his illgotten spoil


he cares not for evilbut meshed in the toil his pallid lip quivers and cowardly he like aspen leaf shivers neath the gallows tree


the murderer creeping with stealthiest pace to pale victims sleeping hath fiend in his face his red hand is grasping all firmly the knife he laughs at the gasping of flickering life behold him armpinioned and gyved to the knee he weeps like a woman neath the gallows tree


the mournful cadence of the concluding lines struck the hearers with a species of dread re minding them of the iast warning which the un happy felon receives that in the midst of life we are in death


it was in vain that the win dows were closed and that castle dubbo ex ploited his most facetious jokes and let off some of his best stories the sounds still rang in their ears and a gloom was around them which they tried in vain to dissipate


one by one the com pany departed the lights were extinguished and all was again silent in the prisonhouse


in the midst of the gaiety and when the fun was at its highest lipey taking advantage of the absence of the nightwatchman going his rounds crept over to the cell in which toby was con fined on the upper range and carried his project into execution


he drew back the bolt and giving toby the necessary directions quietly re traced his way to the kitchen and awaited the summons for securing him in his dormitory for the night


this happened shortly before the party broke up and toby after wishing the turnkey a werry good nights rest and many of em rolled himself up in his blanket and began to snore most lustily as if overcome with the fatigues of his late heavy labours


one oclocktwo oclock struck and the so norous voices of the turnkeys were heard throughout the gaol the heavy tramp of their footsteps resounding along the stony passages


toby listened anxiously for the next halfhourly call it passed in silence


the clock chimed three


he waited a few minutes to make sure that all was right then carefully pushed open the door of his cell and passed into the passage


he descended the flight of steps which led to the lower range as he reached the bottom a light flashed upon him


he crouched down fancying that the turnkey was coming round and held his breath while the beatings of his heart were audible to himself


emboldened by the silence he crept on his hands and knees to the spot whence the light proceeded and there saw the turnkey with a newspaper in his hand over the contents of which he had fallen fast asleep


toby crept in a similar noiseless man ner to lipeys cell and drew back the bolt


the creaking of this roused the turnkey who took his lamp and ascended to the upper range


taking advantage of his absence the pair passed rapidly out and made their way to the stockade yard without interruption


the workmen who had been employed for some time previously in repairing this part of the pri son invariably left a ladder there and a coil of rope which had not escaped the quick eye of lipey


here it is toby all right my pippin


now then to raise the jacob


easy does it


easy it is lipey


crikey


how the coves vill stare ven they find veve hooked it


there it is perched agin the vall in a most bevitchinly enticin manner


vy its almost vorth a mans vile to get quadded if it vas only for the pleasure of gettin out agin


dont holler afore youre out of the vood


hand me over the oakum


is it strong enough to hold lipey


strong enough


my vord you vouldnt ax that question arter youd travelled down timber street vith it round your sqveeze


now then for the quarryman


the latter consisted of a large piece of stone which was selected from amongst those employed in repairing the yards and this being attached to the rope lipey ascended with it


he threw it over the wall leaving the weight on the inner side to ensure a safe descent


toby followed his companion up the ladder and the pair thus reached the top of the high barrier which sur rounds the prison


heres goes cried lipey and he slid down sailor fashion with the nimbleness of a cat and stood safe and sound upon terra firma


toby trusted himself to the same conveyance the baying of a large dog of the bloodhound species threw him off his guard and he slipped down the rope with a run but though his hands were dreadfully lacerated he held on till within about fifteen feet from the road when compelled to let it go he fell with a severe shook upon the ground


voices were heard within the gaol and it was evident that some alarm had been given


cut lipey


its all up vith me cried toby my legs broke or my ancles sprained or summut like it i cant move a peg


not i toby crawl on my back if its only a hundred yards vere safe enough


quick my old pal


by dint of strong exertion toby suc ceeded in achieving this and lipey had scarcely borne him halfway across the broken ground by the old mill before the footsteps and voices of the watchmen outside the building betokened that the pursuit had commenced


but they were too late beneath the shroud of darkness the pair effected their escape


to be continued


the horse in egyptthat the earliest and most valuable use of the horse was made by the egyptians appears from the third chapter of genesis where we read that when joseph car ried his fathers remains from egypt to canaan there went up with him both chariots and horse men


one hundred and fifty years afterwards the horse constituted the principle strength of the egyptian army pharoah having pursued the israelites with six hundred chosen chariots and all the horsemen of egypt


this was years before the birth of christ


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 xii


an old acquaintance with new schemes


as in a picture which requires that all its parts should be properly balanced and har moniously disposed so it is with this eventful volume in which the characters are neither made obtrusively prominent nor utterly lost in the mistiness of the back ground


though kept in shadow for a time jacob sharkey will once more resume his place in the main group of our composition


this worthy character after his precipitate flight from sydney and the unlucky mrs naillit a celerity of movement which was more typical of caution than manliness reached port phillip in safety


for a time he kept himself perdu and carefully abstained from indulging in those propensities which are so remarkably objection able to the honest portion of the community


but this species of passiveness was a ceaseless torment to his actively scheming mind and he longed for the opportunity of casting off his trammels


to work hard and delve like a slave was not in the nature of jacob sharkey it was for others to toil and garner up their stores for him to consume them in luxurious ease


alas


for the misery of mankind the world is full of sharkeys


after the conviction of his guilty associates he became daily emboldened more particularly as his name had been but slightly referred to in the course of the trial and public justice appeared to be satisfied with the victims already in its maw


this hermit lifethis dead and alive breathingwill not do for me mused he one day


i feel like the toad shut up in a stone and if i continue this much longer i shall cer tainly become a petrifaction


this tedious routine must be changed into action jacob sharkey and as you have no fortune hereditary or acquired to fall back upon it behoves you to march boldly forward and grasp the funds of others


and who are these others


if the veil were torn aside how much better would they appear than i


not a whit


all roguesalike villains rascals slaves drunkards thievespo


verty is the devil wealth the brightest angel of the millionstore of wealth plenty of stealth no mammon no gammon


and with this questionable outburst of criti cism in which many other sharkeys have in dulged he made up his mind to revisit sydney


he was confirmed in his resolution by the re ceipt of the following letter from one who had frequently joined him in levying black mail upon the public purse


street sydney


dear sharkeymy good fellow what have you been doing with yourself for these last six months


and why have you not communicated your whereabouts to me


it was only by acci dent that i discovered it and have lost no time in conveying this intelligence which i think will be pleasingyour affair is all blown over and you need not apprehend any unpleasant conse quences from it now


you can return in safety and take up your quarters with us


well put you into business at once and as we have plenty of glorious jobs on hand in which your superior tact will be worth its salt and a trifle over you will not have to encounter the word obligation


little dickson alias dewberry and sooper lowrinks are at work with me and the trio only need the music of a sharkey to form a perfect instrumental band to play upon the public


excuse the vileness of the pun and accept the inclosed note of hand as a setoff


most truly yours augustus anthony horatio clarence fitz


stephen greytricks


p sas you are a connoisseur in that way i must not omit to inform you that mrs low rinks a lovely little specimen of the feminine order presides over our domestic department


but recollect l is as jealous as an ottoman or a turkey cock and particularly objects to a community of goods in that sweet line


but she has a sister ah such a sister but paws off that sweet girl is my weakness


how do you like my name jacob i flatter myseif


it looks rayther aristocratic


come quickly


sharkey wanted but this invitation to decide him


in ten days from the receipt of this friendly epistle he was sitting in the quiet snuggery of the highly respectable firm of grey tricks dewberry and lowrinks and pledging mr l in a glass of champagne a few cases of which delightful beverage had been just obtained from a wine merchant in georgestreet in a legitimate way that is by giving a small piece of paper on which was written a promise to pay for it at the end of three months and which promise was never intended to bw per formed


when mrs lowrinks had retired from the table greytricks explained to sharkey the nature of the dealings of the firm and as he was a man who in the fulness of his heart could retain nothing from a friend jabob was not kept long in the dark about the firms particular line of business and the part which he was expected to play in the highly interesting drama to use a theatrical term in as many acts as the public would stand


fill your glass jacob said greytricks good


heres luck


you see this neat little domicile this comfortable crib as i may call it you observed the shop beneath stored with goods comprising the fragrant leaf of china the brown berry of mocha the saccharine mat ter of the western indies the rich spices of the east the currants of zante and the raisins of malaga of course you did an experienced eye iike yours takes in these things at a glance


do you know how we obtained them


you can guess


they are bought but not paid for to morrow they will be sold and shall be paid for


it is enough for us to do not to be done byany body


we are grocers jacob respectable tradesmen we never descend to any of the tricks of the trade we never mix salt with our sugar to give it a sparkle no lead ore with our tea to give it weight nor verdigris to improve its huenot we as we buy it so it goes without adulteration we are i repeat respectable tradesmen although the censorious part of the world may one day actually be base enough to term us mace coves


tomorrow jacob we clean out the shop below the goods are already disposed of for fifty per cent


under prime cost but what does that matter we are fifty per cent


the gainers by this liberal style of doing busi ness


but enquired sharkey wont this sudden clearing out and exposing an empty shop excite suspicion and surprise in the neighbour hood


yes if it were to remain unfurnished but we provlde against such things


we are not such fools as to make a gap without retaining the means of stopping it


at nine oclock out goes one cargo at ten in comes another


true


replied sharkeybut are fools so rife in sydney


i believe you my boy


youll see to morrow little meggcup the grocer will supply our deficiences and two days afterwards mr spooney boddle will lend us a helping hand


all arranged comfortably jacob goods de livered cheque on bank no funds they rush to the shop askhows this


answermust be a mistake never mind enquire overdrawn account how very strange


one of the part ners did it without informing us however all right in a few days in the meantime take a bill


off he walks with our acceptance at one two or three months as the case may be till partner who is taking his lunch in the next room returns from the country


ha ha


not a bad joke is it


but surely it cant last


dont expect itdo we dewberry


but when it comes too scorching well make a clean bolt of it


who is this meggcup you were mention ing enquired sharkey


a great public character


the sort of man that is fond of making a demonstration and getting up an agitation a restless kind of be ing who had much rather be engaged in address ing a mob than serving out a pound of tea


speechifying is his vanity every man has a rock aheadthats his


he fancies himself an oconnell freighted with the concentrated es sence of all the irish talent that ever bullied a senate or tickled the weakness of a popular assembly


he has a soul above figs and raisins the platform is his home political excitement his daintiest dish and electioneering squabbles his dessert


meggcup is a philosophically patriotic regenerator of society


he firmly believes that all the world has gone wrong and that a meggcup only can set it right


but while he attends so much to other peoples business said sharkey does not his own suffer you would say interrupted grey tricks very likely but thats his business


if he get a few such customers as our firm he is not very likely to build a hospital endow a college or enrich a church by his last dying be quests


not that patriots however rich they may be often turn their attention to such dona tions it is enough for them to expend their breath for the people without wasting their sub stance upon them


but egad this is a dozy subject and dewberry is half asleep over it


rouse up old fellow try another goblet of the sparkling it will warm the cockles of your heart and take the crick out of your neck


by george augustus i wish it would but this infernal rheumatism has put it out of joint replied dewberry whose head by the way was considerably out of its natural perpen dicular and hung over his shoulder in an ex tremely ungraceful fashionnothing will alter it im fearful


except a rope said lowrinks quickly edging tn his say


forbear gentlemen tradesmen to touch on so ticklish a subject cried greytricks in a theatrical tone id sooner stick on the stage for ever like the wandering jew than make such an unpleasant exit


if we must hang let it be round the neck of some dear delightful sylphlike form with beaming eyes and kisses warm and talking of angels theyre sure to appear


act ii


scene enter mrs lowrinx and her fair sister kate


these words were uttered in greytricks best hisrionic style as the two ladies entered the room with countenances wreathed in smiles and arms wreathed round each others waists in the most approved fashion of sisterly fondness


sharkey was introduced in due form to the un married damsel and lost no time in commencing amatory operations and laying siege to her heart


he opened the trenches and made his first approach to the citadel he then erected a battery from which he fired off a volley of red hot eyeshot and under the cover of a cloud of sighs boldly advanced but the fair kate was no novice in such tactics she was evidently not to be taken by storm and when sharkey had al


ready made sure of victory he found himself the most forlorn of the forlorn hope and at the very bottom of the ladder


his fair foe mean while shot triumphant glances at her discomfited attacker and recommended him in future to try sapping and mining in lieu of such desperate charges


jacob who was not a man easily foiled in loves warfare took the hint and changed his mode of attack


like a keen sportsman he marked his bird


pause and pon der kate ere you enter the lists with him the snake is a more stealthy and dangerous enemy than the lion the hiss of the one is death the roar of the other a warning cry


flee kate while flight is left for you


augustus anthony horatio clarence fitzste phen greytricks watched the contest narrowly and chuckled over the result he looked forward to long years of happiness little dreaming of the precipice on whose verge he stood and built a vast number of rial castles forgetting those more solid ones on earth which are con structed of stone


had he possessed a telescope gifted with the strong power of bringing futurity a little nearer he would scarcely have showed the joyous spirit which he did that night


he was the gayest of the gay he sang danced re cited told green room tales did tricks on cards and produced innumerable grotesques by the aid of his magic lantern


poor augustus your sun has nearly set and the shadows are ga thering densely and heavily around you


now then to rest cried greytricks at a late hour and tomorrow for work


gentlemen as the ladies have retired allow me to propose a parting toastplunder


man proposes but a higher power disposes


this festive scene is one side of the medal the obverse has yet to be exposed


to be continued


a manager in difficultiesit is known that the celebrated violinist m ole bull recently built at his own cost a theatre in his native town of bergen norway


scarcely had the house been furnished whenso great was the love of art displayed by the townspeopleall the boxes and places were let


no arrangement was how ever made for the police who it appears have a right to three of the firstclass places in all theatres in norway they claimed their right and m bull was unable to induce any of his subscribers to forego their seats he however explained to the authorities his inability to grant them the customary indulgence in the present season but offered them three seats in the pit they replied to this offer by a notification that on the next representation they should present themselves accompanied by an armed force and that if three of the firstclass places were not vacant they would eject three of the visitors


m bull irritated at this announcement had three seats prepared in the orchestra above which he had a black board placed on which was written in enormous white charactersplaces de m m de la police and fixed at each end of the board a large lantern similar to that carried by the night patrol


the director of the police construed this proceeding into a grave offence against the authority of which he was the head and acting on a law of m bull was ar rested and condemned to three months impri sonment


against this decree there is no appeal except to the king


it is not known whether m bull will avail himself of this resourceera march


the life of huh oneill


y joiiw mrictiel continued from our last


chapter shake the proud and the reformation


a d


the iteforniiitiori mi meanwhile pro eecdiiig vigorously in tlie english colony anil the history of ireland from the period at which vc have opened its page is so deqily cnlfiared ijy


tlmt event and its consecjucness that frequent roforenoe to its coursc and progress is csspntirilio clearness of narrative


on the grcliiepiscopal cviair of st laurence otoolo eatone george browne an apostate or reforfneil friar raised to tiiat eminence by tli king of englandin tlioeicercisc of his pontifical supremacy and to him with four other persons was directed in the thirtieth year of king henry a commission to investigiite inquire and search out whore within tlie said lald of ireland there were nny notable images br rcliques at which the simple people of the said lord the king were ivont s iperstitiously to moot together and tyit they sliould break in pieces deform and


bear away the same so tint no fooleries of this kind might thenceforth for cvexbe in use


in the said landa commission which was executed wherever tlieknglish power extended with all the zeal that religion and rapacity could both inspire


the rnrottt of these commissioners is still cstant one of the most singular statements of account on record in which they spcify the property by virtue of the commission of the lord the king aforesaid into the hands of the lord


the


king takcii and appraised and by the biforerccitcd title sold s lid


is btstcd to


he the price of divers pieces of gold and silver in mass andbullion and also of certaiji precious stones set in gold and silver and of silver ornaments and other thing upon divers images picture and tcliques


liree cathedral churches st patricks dublid lcighlin and ferns with many monasteries priories parish churches and cliapcls are stated to have been stripped


the price of livers vases jewels and ornaments ofold and silver and bells and the utensils and household stuff of superstitious buildings is se t doun at s od


and one thousand pounds of wax manufactured into candlcs tapers images and pictures produced


t


so far the material reform had beeneffected but on the death of henry viii


the doctrinal revolution was to begin in good earnest


somerset the pro ector was a zuing jian and under the advice of cranmer who was a zuinglian also from the moment of lung henrys death it was resolved in his councils tomake a more strenuous ellort for establishing the reformation iu ireland


in furtherance of that object sir ivluard bellinham was sent over a very singular apo tolic missionary with fijo horse and loot


an order of council was issued enjoining the use of a new liturgy


and sliortw aftct one bale was appointed by vh king to the bishopric of osory a bold and uncompromising reformer who was not eontent like tlie kings bishops in generalto reside in duhlin under the shelter of the cislje but proceeded at once to kilkcnnv andinrterto p okhisclarge


a most remarknblti ocacyon as he calls it was this episcopal visit of dr bale to his diocese and serve us an instance of the method in which the church of ireland was to be reformed


tlie new bishop being ignorant of irish and most of his clergy with all their lucks ignorant of english jus preacliing though never ho energetic could have little effect uponsucli ft i e therefore he ordered


irs servants ti invade tlie churches to pull cowa tku iuaa


mid pieturcs and to desttoy the vestnent andornaments which savoured offop ry


the poole of kilkenny bore the preaching very well so jong as they did not understand it but there was no mistaking s liconduct as tlii


they rose against him killed aiiiu


five uc ui of uia his ki servants vuim before uiiuie ills his lace face uuu and lie himself hardly escaped


as he relates tlie storv himself i preached the gospel of the knowledge and right invocation of god


i maintained the political order by doctrine and moved the commons to obey their magistrates


but when i once sought to destroy the idolatries and dissolve the hypocrites yokes then followed angers slanders conspiracies and in the end the slaughter of men


hitherto the religious innovations had been confined within very narrow limits and in the north the alarm of them was not yet heard


two clergymen indeed named dow iall and goodacre bad been successively appointed the nominal or titular archbishops of armagh by ilenry viii and edward vi


i


but they scarcely appear to have visited their diocese and certainly attempted no reformation there tlie former of these though not appointed by the provision of the pope was a stanch catholic and upon the death of ilenry zealously resisted any change of doctrine or practice in the church


though a


kings bishop he did not shift and veer as was expected with the court religion of the diy and for his contumacy in that respect the new english pontiff in october issued a bullor letters patent as it was termed gravely depriving dondall and the


see of armagh of the primacy of ireland and conferring that dignity upon the archbishop of dublin and liis successors in acknowledgement of the services of browne who better knew the duties of a court bishop


bat all these arrangements were unheard of or disregarded in ulster


the coahiia of st patrick still sat upon the arcliicpiscopal throne ol armagh and the sees of the north protected by the oneills and odonnells and ruled by tlie primates cromer and waucop long continued free from invasion by the barbarian missionaries of england


in the words of dr leland tlie people removed beyond the sphere of english law had not known or not regarded the ordinances lately made with respect to religion nor considered properly lorcan otnathail


t


original account in the kecordoflice custom house dublin cited in dr mants history of the church of ireland p


t vocacyon of john bale to the bishopric of ossory


wanei an folio


theinselyosas interested prcobccrticd iertied in any regulations liejecrjjbe jnude


fi r siianebneill trouhled ijiniaelf little about tlie reformation so fig as


it kept far from his borders


thofe wii wtfrlcsendugli


for luifi to do at homo


ouiouy of cavim dared to question the supremacyof oneill mid had to be brought to reason by a fisreo inroad and a bloody defeat


th chief of tyroonncll was o more formidable antagonist the odonnells hail long rivalled in power tlieir kindred tribe of tyrowen ad reduced some of


the tributary chioltains former umagiits of the


oneillunder their own sway j had wrested from the kinelowen their ancient tenritory iof inishoiven for whieli donnell paid tribute to oneill though always with reluctance and sometimes lie set the prince of ulster at defiance and denied the tribute altogether which had in former days produced iurioils wars and that famous diplomatic correspondence emphatic protocolsbreaking ot with significant atosioibsis send me my tribute or else


i owe thee no tribute and if shane was not the man to suffer the rights of oneill to bequcstioned with a large ariny lie burst into tyrconnell and top recklessly pursued his enemies intothe recesses of their mountainous country


in a night attack upon his camp his troops were entirely dispersed shane himself narrowly escaped being surprised in his tent amongst the galloglasses of his guard and for that time was obliged to retreat or even to uy j swimming the rivers ay the chroniclers of donegal and traversing the mountains by unknown wavs


lut he vowed a dire revenge and fearfully fulfilled that vow another day


the plunder of oxoilla eamp fell to the victorious odotineus and the scene upon that battlefield might remind us of clilodowig and his franks dividing their spoil upon the plains of soissons


a vast plenty of arms clothing and horses fell to the share of the victors the prodigious quantity of which booty may be judged by this that when they cameto divide thi spoil by lots eighty horses besides o weills own horse fell to the share of con the son of calvght


the odannells did not long boast of their victory till a fresh army from tytpwen crossed the foyle and earned havoc and ruin to the heart of their country


calvagh odonnell was defeated in battle his lands were waited and plundered and the chieftain and his wife carried off in chains by the triumphant shane


calvagh indeed was after wards set free but his wife remained as part of the spoils of war in the halls of hciiburb became t he concubine of the haughty conqueror and bore him sons and daughters


in cspccial one son whom they christened hugh andsurnamed xa uaveloob of the fetters or the fetteredfor whom it had been better if he had never been born


a wild and turbulent career had this shenc and few days of rest since he took the leading of that warlike sept quelling mac gnire of fermanagh briiliing the marauding scois on all sides strengthening tlie friends cmlin tlie foes of iyrowcn crushing tliem too fiercelv whereby he trea urcd


u tir himself wrath which was to burst at a flltute jiy upi his head r


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y ofjhu chief ptovarleil


and


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had reached under t z t


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from ballysliannon to dundrum was wft chief able to resist his power


so that in ss when elizabeth ascended the throne of liivliiil the oneill as reason was predominated in ulster


the english government seems to have determined that either by furce or otherwisej the northern prince must bo destroyed


sir henry sydney who was administering tlie government of the pale in the absence of sussex marched northward as for as dunda k and invited the chief to a conference


shane oneill was then at his house of the fews between dundalk and armagh and he seems to have entertained some fears thut sydney meant him foul play in thisproposed interview


he therefore declined


the invita r r


but sent a message that if sir henry of liis courtesy would visit his poor house and attend a christening there and be gossip to his child it would please him well


sir henry attended him was treated with all princely hospitality and shane took the trouble to explain to him so far as his english ideas would admit the information how the queen of england had no jurisdiction in ulster how the surrender and reinvestment of coi baccagh were void by the irish jaw as he was only chieftain for his life nor could have more by the law of tanistry nor could surrender but by consent of the laws of liis country how he shane being the lawful son of con and also elected by his sept and moreover able to defend liis rightsby the sword was now the true prince and chieftain of ulster and that as he meddled not with the queen of englands territories so he would take care she should not interfere with his when tlie earl of sussex returned to uis government several unsuccessful expeditions were made to the north in order cither by war or diplomacy to reduce this archtraitor as the english chroniclers dare to term him and at length the queen resolved says camden to disannul the patent of king henry viii wherein he declared iatthew falsely supposed tobe the son of con to be the successor of his fatherand to bestow upon this shane as his undoubted sou and heir tlie honourable title of earl of tyrowen and baron of dungannouj


yes they would now shower their tinsel liouours upon him set his foot upon the necks of all his enemies enricli liim with the spoil of numerous abbeys let hirti only consent to kneel at the footstool of a foreiga throne and place his country under the iron heel of english power


lei and hist of ireland vol p j


t wore


antiq of ireland xifing the annak of donegal four masters


by nil manner of menns as well by force as utnenwisbinstructions to suspcx


dksid


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ilibtnmca p


this visit of sydney was received by the irish us a submission and although the insolence of this overture says leland was fully conceived yet it was deemed expedient to comply ivith it


u cauiden q eli


to be continued in our next


a new series


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


chapter xiii


the plan of a dark job and its execution


since the unlooked for invasion of the darkey ken by the police that once flourishing estab lishment had fallen into decay


several of its frequenters were apprehended on that eventful night and were paying a penalty in the shape of imprisonment for not being able to define expli citly in what manner they earned their daily bread


the term laborers doing odd jobs here and there was far too comprehensive to suit the eye of the administrators of the law who look upon raggedness and crime as synonymous


had the accused ones possessed dashing exteriors and described themselves as gentlemen residing at fashionable hotels the case were widely different


it then had mattered not that their fine feathers were unpaid for their tavern bills unreceipted and their revenues derived from the billiardtable or the dicebox


not a fig


they would have been handed to a seat of honour and have received a hundred apologies for the commission of so grave an error as mis taking a gentleman for a rogue and vagabond


in this golden age the golden verses of the samian sage are unheeded nor does his doc trine of transmigration meet with a much better fate for though the soul of a snob is often found beneath the body coat of a nob man kind is remarkably disinclined to recognise the important fact


this may be a homely way of putting it nevertheless it is the true one


the falling off in business had not improved the disposition of bully


his natural ferocity and moroseness were increased as his funds were depressed and he was ready to engage in any daring scheme for levying contributions on the public


if said bully and he reasoned like a philosopher these chaps vont let a cove live decent and respectable vy they must take the conseqvence thats all


such was his observation to forky jem and knuckler as they propounded to him a little job which they had in hand and likely to be a most lucrative speculation


lt was no less than making a night attack upon the house of miss winifred scrymgour and relieving that lady of certain valuables in the shape of plate jewellery and cash which were in her posses sion


vell gennelmen replied bully as the subject was broached to him i ant agin nuffin


so tell us the rights on it


the rights answered knuckler who under the influence of alcohol had regained his accus tomed flow of spirits and poetical inspiration most noble bully are these five miles from this an ancient dame doth live and scrymgour is her name both plate and jewels there galore youll find mixed up with golden store


my word


i wish i was among em


is it easy enquired bully with considerable in terest


forky jem smoked his pipe and smiled


there was something irresistibly ludicrous in the bull dogs question


he was notorious for his cour age and strange liking for desperate deeds he had been the leader of the forlorn hope of pre datories through life


as easy as the girl i love as easy as the loosest glove chimed in knuckler


then im out of it such things ant in my line growled bully


not so fast interrupted forky jem just cut your poetry knuckler and let me explain


the house is a retired one but it is well secured in every point and there is a fierce dog turned off the chain at night


leave the tyke to me if puddin wont quiet him this will said bully exposing a huge knife whose blade flew out with a sudden spring


precisely resumed forky


there are but two servants in the place one an old man who does the butler and flunkey business well skilled alike to draw a cork or polish platter knife and fork suggested knuckler


stash it


dont be larking over business grumbled bully


the other resumed forky jem is a housekeeper or something of the sort


it seems werry easy said bully with a half sigh


they keep pistols in the house bully


vich makes it a little more excitin jem


we shall have our work to do bully


dye think so sure of it


then im in it to a dead certainty jem


now gentlemen as we are all agreed about it pass the rosy and ill give you a song for luck said knuckler let it be short and sweet replied forky jem for we must be off directly


very good jem he then tuned his pipes and did the following bit of extemporaneous upon the modern principle of words and music by mr knuckler


once three merry men left a darksome den their fortunes abroad to seek and little cared they as they strode away for the peeler or the beak


their hopes were as high as the broad broad sky they laughed as along they went and planned how the gold for which they had sold their souls in joy should be spent


when broke the bright day there was one cold clay with the greensward for a tomb


and the twoah me


were gyved to the knee in a dungeons dismal gloom


thats a werry inwigoratin chaunt and i feels myself gettin uncommon lively over it said bully


another of your grandmothers raven croaks knuckler


it is strange you should always be prophecying evil when any dangerous game is on the board


you do not want courage for i have seen you perform daring deeds which many a stout heart would have flinched at and yet you are always groaning like a field parson with a tub for a humbox


lt is a weakness i have forky but it is better to throw off the dark shadowings of the future than let them press on ones self like an incubus


cowcumbus vell they do veigh heavy if you eats too many of em said bully thought fully


theres a satisfaction in knowing your words are iike an almanac makers and dont often come true


you were just as queer about kitelys job and thats gone off comfortably goods delivered dibs in the sly and all as square as a guinea


the worst has to come forky


many will rue that affair although i may not live to see it


nap a drop of the cretur and lets be todd lin broke in bully


dve take barkers


a brace in case of accident but no vio lence bully replied forky jem


wiolence chuckled bully at the same time fondly caressing a life preserver or destroyer of formidable appearance


you heard and understand me said forky jem somewhat sternly


werry good


ill be as tender as a biled chicken


come on


they emerged from the darky ken and pro ceeded separately in the direction of the cooks river road it was in that locality miss wini fred scrymgour resided


shortly after their departure the form of detective mawler pro truded itself from the shadow of a doorway and glided like a snake in their trail


the very men thought mawler


and on a lay


if i can but grab them at it ill make a settlement of their accounts and rid the country of three dangerous customers


but i must be cautious one mistake and my life is not worth a farthing


on and on they went now boldly striding now stealthily creeping they looked at the peril before them and dreamt not of the greater danger behind


true to her promise fanny earle visited miss winifred scrymgour and in her gentle manners and quiet home found a solace and a refuge the more gratifying as they were unanticipated


however keen and caustic to those in whom she detected hypocrisy the old iady was all benig nity and affection to the sincere and the grate ful looks of the domestics afforded sufficient proof that her sceptre was kindly wielded


the villa in which she resided was charmingly situa ted in a retired and sequestered spot and every thing about it bespoke neatness and elegance


the garden was beautifully laid out


miss wini fred doted on flowers and the imprisoned count never watched his picciola with more anxiety than she her favorites


they peopled the soli tude shed a balm on her spirit and taught her those silent lessons which fall like dew upon the heart


in their various changes she read the history of the past her winter had come but those floral monitors pointed to an eternal spring unclouded undecaying


with such a being fanny earle could not be otherwise than happy and though the clouds of uncertainty sometimes shadowed the azure of her sky they were quickly dispelled by the sun beams of hope


no two more congenial spirits could have been found the electric chain once touched in a moment sped through the flight of years


the orphan found a second parent the worn and breaking heart a youthful stem round which it could cling for support


i know not how it is said miss winifred to fanny but tonight i feel a certain heavi ness stealing over me


were i superstitious i should think it was the foreshadowing of some great calamity


my dull companionship has evoked this brooding demon with his darkling wings re plied fanny gaily or to relieve myself from so unflattering an imputation let me attribute the cause to the sultriness of the weather which certainly bodes a storm


a vivid flash of lightning followed by a loud clap of thunder afforded an illustration to the remark which startled them both


the rising gale swelled into sudden gusts and rattled against the casements as if imperiously demand ing admittance


the watchdog a splendid ani mal of the mastiff breed poured forth a long deep howl which sounded fearfully through the night whilst a pet spaniel roused from its sleep ran to the windows and yelped shrilly in reply


it may be so my dear rejoined miss wini fred at all events it has affected csar and tiny


how restless the little creature is


be quiet tiny


but the sagacious animal sniffed at the doors and commenced to yell and bark more furiously than before whilst the deep baying of the mas tiff rose above the fury of the storm which had increased in violence


the thunder rolled ra pidly onwards and the pale blue lightning dart ing from the inky crouds seemed like fiery wedges riving their dense masses asunder


a loud crash was heard succeeded by a sullen boom which denoted the fall of one of those huge half charred skeleton trees with which the forests of australia abound


lt is indeed an awful night my dear


but let us retire to rest and in our prayers forget not the houseless wanderer and the tempest tossed mariner


the two parted affectionately and ere long fannys eyes were sealed in slumber


her sleep however was unsound and disturbed by gloomy dreams at one moment she saw kitely kneeling before her and the next she was seized in his grasp and borne away to a prison where frank was chained to a stone pillar


she tried in vain to rescue him when mordaunt rushed in and kitely was about to plunge a knife into his heartshe screamed and woke


was she awake


was that scream an echo of her own


she listened


another scream followed by a low moaning sob met her ear


then came the appalling sounds of persons moving stealthily about


fanny earle was a courageous girl


bashful and timid as she seemed there was a high sustaining spirit in her which was derived from purity of motive and unlimited trust in divine providence


she at once decided how to act


after hastily apparelling herself she crept cautiously forward to the butlers room where the firearms were kept


the stairs creaked and accelerated the pulsation of her heart but without causing her resolution to falter


she reached the room but what a sight met her gaze


the old man was stretched insensible on the floor and the blood was oozing from a wound in his head whilst the crimson pool around gave frightful evidence of the severity of the blow


she gently lifted his head and bound it up with a handkerchief and then provided herself with a brace of pistols


a cold and sickly feeling came over her and she leant against the wall for support but the cries and supplications of her benefactress gave her fresh nerve and she grasped the weapons with convulsive energy


after extinguishing the light she proceeded in the direction of the sounds which came from the bedroom of miss winifred


the door was partially open and unseen she could watch the proceedings of the desperadoes who were too busily employed to notice her approach


every drawer and chest were ransacked and their contents were thrown carelessly on the floor with the exception of the valuable jewellery and plate which were piled up and ready for removal


the venerable iady was reclining in a chair in an almost lifeless state whilst her dishevelled locks and torn dress showed that she had been forcibly dragged from her bed


the ruffian bully stood over her uttering threats and im precations as he endeavoured to extort the se cret of the place where the money was kept


alas


i tell you there is no other money in the home except that which you have taken


she said in a faint voice go hence men with your illgotten spoil and may heaven pardon you as i do


d your cant replied bully fiercely


turn up the blunt or ill settle you at once


bully lifted the fearful weapon as if about to strike and knuckler rushed forward to prevent him fanny mistook the action and nerved to desperation fired


the ball struck the lamp from his hand and entered his chest


im shot forky


tis all over i shall be dead as a herring directly


fanny fainted and heard no more


a loud knocking at the outer door and ring ing of bells added to the alarm of forky jem and bully


blown by cried the latter with a fearful oath the peelers are on us


we must make a running fight of it


ill try the back jump we came in at you drop from this


poor knuckler said forky is there nothing to be done for him


never mind me murmured the dying man ive got my gruel and after all it is better than hanging


off off withyougoodbye


a rush of blood choked his utterance a few gasps and longdrawn sighs and knuckler was a lifeless clod


bully crept noiselessly down the stairs to the window through which he effected an exit but scarcely had reached the ground when he was pinioned by four policemen against whom his desperate struggles availed but little


now is my time thought forky jem as he heard the confusion


he dropt lightly down and listened all seemed right and he stole like a shadow over the lawn


if i reach that clump of shrubs undiscovered i can make a sure get away muttered forky


he did reach it but it was only to hear the voice of mawler


stand or ill fire cried the officer


two can play at that my pippin replied forky at the same instant discharging a pistol the contents of which passed through the detec tives hat


a little too high jem said he quietly your nerves are unsteady


may this prove you a liar rejoined forky fiercely presenting another pistol but the de tective was too quick


before jem could pull the trigger a ball shattered the bone of his arm and the weapon fell to the ground


the game is up jem


that shot will save the trouble of handcuffing you


i am sorry you forced me to use such harsh measures


d your politeness


why didnt you shoot me through the head


because i am an apprehender not an exe cutioner


move up men with your prisoner


ill make a sling for your arm jem with this handkerchief


there that will do nicely


on you go


be civil larris but if they attempt to escape shoot them like dogs


good night gentlemen i must remain to render what assist ance


i can to the ladies


bully said jem poor knuckler was not a false prophet after all


to be continued


homeward bound or a landlubbers log


by peter possum


chapter iii


continued


whos who


the first mate is a rugged scotchmanrough as a boulder of scotch granite and as sturdy


a jolly fellow nevertheless when off duty and fond of a good song


figaro who sings a very good one in the good old braham and incledon style is the orpheus who causes this rock to roll nightly into the corroborree club


the second mate rosy rotund and merryeyeda grownup cupid in a pea jacketis a pleasant pluckly little englishman blithe as a lark and no matter what the weather as neat as a new pin


he ia an espical favourite with the c c whose meetings he allows to he held in his cabin


thither like a dove of dodona to the baby zeuss cave in crete comes the goodtempered steward laded with nectar and ambrosia or at all events with what would be without him as mythical a fare to us


there we hold our noctes omarpashaian


the savages grin horribly a ghastly smile when they see claret bottles and sardine cases whizzing out of our clubroom over the side


muff medicus esq is the ships surgeon


his professional attainments consist in a pair of profes sional spectacles which as if anxious to unmask a sham are for ever tumbling off


our crew is polyglotenglish scotch americans dutchmen danes a swede and a spanish mulatto a jew boy and a little cornstalk


the cooks matechristened saucepans from the brimless black hat he wearssays that he was once editor and proprietor of an influential journal


he looks as if he had clapped the office inkstand on his head when he laid down the editorial pen and never washed off the showerbath of ink that fol lowed


i dont feel very proud of my fllthyphizzed brother quill


chapter ivround


the horn


during the first part of thursday the th we have a grey sky and a leaden lazilyheaving sea wrinkled with unfoaming ripples


the blue hills of australia occasionally smudged by a passing shower may still be seen


a breeze springs up in the course of the af ternoon but the next morning they are still in sight


the deck however is too sloppy to permit one to indulge in pathetic valediction and they gradually melt in mist without having evoked a single senti mental sigh


on sunday we have our first duffa delicacy composed apparently of hot putty and raisin pips


i have been reading tennyson before i descend to dinner and having at length recovered from a severe attack of farinaceous lockjaw i break forth thus in parody stick stick stick to the roots of my teeth o duff


if it could my tongue would utter that i have had enough


oh tis well for you small boy his knife and fork to play and well for the sailor lads our steward to waylay as he carried away his scraps to the galley under the booms


but oh for a bit of good mincepie or a pudding thats got some plums


stick stick stick to the roots of my teeth o duff


for the slenderest taste of a crust that is crisp id give tons of this horrible stuff


for the next seven or eight days we rush through a sea of ink and snow over which the dusky booby the whitebellied molly meux and the cape pigeon with its sharp and chequered wings flit hither and thither like homeless spirits in this troublous world some times rashly venturing within gunshot of the poop when down they flop with a splashing plunge into the dark watersto the great indignation of the man at the wheel who looks as if he would like to pitch their murderer overboard


modern as well as ancient mariners think seabirds sacred and their slaughter a foul deed that is sure to be avenged by baffling winds


the pasha ploughs the billows at a rattling rate making during three days a thousand miles


water kneedeep slushes backwards and forwards across the deck


as the ship pitches a moist yellow gleam from the faint sunlight or pale moonlight runs tremblingly along the submerged or sodden planks


some one generally myselfis perpetually splashing in the lee scuppers


we are always carrying away something


when the jibsheet goes the cliphooks of the block are found to be hooks no more but bars


no wonder for the squall comes suddenly and before sail can be shortened the ship flies before the blast like a locomo tive through the seething waters


for five minutes she must have been going at the rate of twenty knots


for twelve hours she goes at the rate of fifteen


meals under such circumstances are chequered with mishaps


one day at dinner on drawing out my handkerchief i find that my neighbour has favoured me with a pocketful of bouilli


i ship almost as many teas as the rolling ship ships seas


i try to help myself to pota toes but the dish runs away with the spoon


my plate takes a slide after the slow sprawling fashion of the immortal mr pickwick and tilting like a dust cart empties its load of salt horse into the lap of one of the womenfolk at the bottom of the table


and now as the ship rolls again the whole of their equi page of tin and crockery sweeps down upon me like an avalanche to revenge the insult


the third steward makes a point of always coming down on his beamends in his journeys from the galley to the saloon


with both his feet in the air and say a ricepudding in the one hand and a sauceboat in the other and a face in which rage at his downfall mingles with twitching anxiety for the safety of his cargo he cuts a most comical figure


to get to bed undrenched we have to study the theory of probabilities and when the number of seas that we expect are shipped make a headlong rush from our respective places of shelter to the hatchway


bed by no means terminates our troubles


drip drip drip the dirty water trickles through the leaky deck upon each wouldbe slumberers nose


the ship shudders every second minute as if shrinking from a sting and creaks all over like a crushed basket


thump thump like battering rams come the big billows against her side


the booms break loose and roll about the sheep break loose and trot about above


below our tin dishes keep up a clangour like the ceaseless clash of cymbals


crack crack goes the crockery like a volley of riflery


if after having moored ourselves to our berth sides with belts and braces and fended ourselves off from the opposite sides with buffers of tightly rolled blanket we do at length fall asleep our slumber is soon broken by the cry of a pair of accursed curlews that pipe away like a couple of long winded boatswains or peradventure miss jenny not relishing the cold finds her way to the pigsty where not satisfied with the shelter she must needs afflict the inmates with nightmonkeyoppressing pinching occasionally eviscerating them whereupon they raise a row that might awake the dead


shaving being both a difficulty and a danger most of the men become rechabitesbarring the abstinence from grog and assume a very capricornal appearanee long


be


fore we cross the tropic


a few however still wield the razor and prime fun it is to see them going through the operation


the lather intended for the chin not infrequently reaches the forehead and eyebrows are mowed in the place of moustaches


fearful are the gashes inflicted on all parts of the face


the rechabites secure and derisive bestow the name of priests of baal upon the shavers


the following little incidents occur about this time


marshal haynau to the annoyance of others who wish to worship remains about half an hour in the temple of venus cloacina


a wicked wag resolved that since the marshal seems so fond of it he shall stay still longer in the shrine and turns the outside button that secures the door


presently a howl of rage is heard the temple rocks the hinges bend the portal falls and forth rushes the austrian fierce and foaming like a tiger from the jungle


he throws himself into an attitude and lifting his clenched fist towards the skies he swears by yon moon dat he vill be revenge upon de blackart dat have don dis dinkja


he vill keel him vid his een atroomend


what instrument he means we soon discover


it is getting very cold


a canadian cast of counte nance pervades the ship and the blue nose of course is an index of simultaneous numbed toes


the corro borees are endeavouring to recover a consciousness of theirs by tapping a tattoo with them on the floor of the carpenters house when madam absinthe whose berth is beneath suddenly raises her headlooking between paleness and vipery curlpapers exceedingly like a gorgonsabove the hatchway calls us a set of wild elephants and bids us instantly desist


not exactly understanding this style of address we take no notice of it but tramp the louder


medusa runs for the captain


he comes and learning from figaro how matters stand merely laughs at the lady


here upon she raves and not daring to assail the skipper attempts to drown poor little figaro in a flood of bil lingsgate


but figaro is quite a match for her at this and literally talks her down


she retreats to her cabin and her spouse


the marshal loads his een atroomenda revolverand vows vengeanoe upon figaro


the little man expresses a wish to punch the austrians head but evidently does not relish the notion of a plumbeous pill


if i do fall he says in pathetic tone to the rest of us remember that it is in your cause


we promise to raise a monument to his memory and a subscription for one of his widows the little jew is amorous and brags of no end of lady lovesshould he prove our martyr


but neither is required


the marshal takes to his bed in a fit of the sulks and is seen no more until we are round the horn


a dreary time is bounded by that until in the course of which we have and curse two wednesdays in a week


south south south we fly over the greyish black billows hemmed in by an everrecurring circle of mudcoloured mist


the ship is pooped the skylight smashed and passengers are swept like chips along the deck and hurled down the companion


bunks lose their bottoms as the timbers work and plump come the inmates upon those beneath with a smothering smash


both in the cabin and the steer age disconsolate individuals may be seen cruising about dolefully on floating boxes


sails blow out of the bolt ropes spars snap like brittle twigs blocks fall like thunderbolts and leave their mark in broken teeth and blackened eyes the wheel knocks down the steersman and spins round like a catherine wheel shedding spokes instead of sparks the bell gives ever and anon a sepulchral knell in the wild wind as the ship speeds on farther and farther into the frigid darknessscarcely less dark by day than night


the mercury goos down to zero the ropes are stiff as iron bars hot water has to be poured upon the tackle to make it run the mate comes off his watch with his whiskers hard and bright as the chinband of a silver helmet the crew have their fingers frost bitten i begin to cut up my thumb in mistake for a fig of tobacco and lose all conscious property in my toes expecting every night to leave them in my boots


icicles ten inches long hang from the eaves of the deckhouses


snow two feet deep lies in a drift upon the lee side of the poop


snow cakes the stays and shrouds and yardscovers the carved work of the gallows and lurks within the sinus of each swelling sail


a general impression prevails on board that the captain intends to circumnavigate the south pole in stead of doubling the horn for still south we fly until we are within a couple of degrees of the antarc tic circle


ice ahead is the cry that startles us one day at dinner


we rush on deck and see a cloudy mass of bluishwhite sullenly swaying on a leaden sea against a sky of dirty grey


it is now about nine miles off on the lee bow


seen from the lee beam and quarter it assumes in turn the look of a castle with two towers a breached curtain wall a gabled oasthouse the snow covered church that little nelly loved to haunt two mighty bathing machines and a huge steamer square rigged on the foremast


the icebergs length is guessed at a mile and a half its height above the water at about feet


on it surges slowly in sulkv grandeur


its glittering mass has the coldly cruel look of a redhaired celts blue eye


it is not a pleasant object to contemplate


had we chanced to dash upon it in the dark it would have crushed us like a nutshell or a bandbox


an ice watch is set


at night in the c c our conversation persistshowever we may strive to divert itin doubling back to shipwreck


our songs are all on the same topic


amongst others the white squall is sung


i heard it last at bengalla


the die vernon of the upper hunter was the singer


even on the verandah along which the slumberous evening breeze stole lazily ruffling the dark leaves of the fringing fruitstarred orange trees the heat was hardly endurable


i hear the ballad now upon the seething southern sea


a weatherbeaten tar bellows it forth to the wild accompani ment that the gale is playing with the shrouds for harpstrings


the little cabin is crowded and yet we are cold


it is a queer con trast


i remember respectfully my quiet happy life in the bush and wonder why i was in such haste to leave it


australia doesnt seem such a bad sort of place after all when thought of far away


on the th of july we are in s after the high latitudes to which we have been accustomed the weather seems quite mild


miserable fathers of families doomed to nurse babies issue from the after hatchway and pace the drying decks with their sempiternally moist charges looking a little less like intending suicides than they have looked for the last three weeks


cabin passengers come forward to stretch their legs and are instantly chalked by the crew who pounce upon them from dark lurkingplaces and drop down upon them from the rigging like spiders on entangled flies


one stout gentleman so seized looks exceedingly like a captured bluebottle


he fusses and fumes but vain is all his buzz


he is compelled to bleed to the amount of a bottle of brandy


jenny who for a fortnight past has been laid up in ordinary in the pigstyonly once during that time issuing for a cruiseon the back of a squealing pig now reappears permanently on deck and fiercely assails mark tapley a plucky social stupid little bullpup that has won his name by his jollity under creditable circumstancesthe goodtempered way in which he grins and bears a thump a kick a showerbath from a scalding kettle or any other mischance calculated to disturb the balance of a less equable caninity


mark however is not to be put upon


he seizes miss jenny by the scruff of the neck and makes her howl for mercy


being liberated she retreats baring her gums and blaspheming in monkeyets to a secure position on the booms where she slaps a protruded portion of her frame in the most indelicate manner and whence she dives into the galley plump into a pail of rice


to a good pound of this she helps herself before the choleric cook can expel herwith full chops and pawsby a copious baptism of hot gravy


part of the day we are becalmed but a breeze springing up in the afternoon we feel sure of making the horn on the morrow and indulgethe c c por tion of us that is to sayin a sumptuous supper on the strength of the anticipation


the following is our somewhat singular bill of farered herrings anchovies and sardines marmalade tart cheese pickles jam gingerbread claret gin rum and brandy


it is no wonder that i have the nightmare


a salt shark with oranges for eyes pursues me through a sea of black currant jelly


i reach the shore but it is made of piecrust and crumbles when i attempt to climb


off goes my leg


i weep pickled onions and bleed red cabbage


my head is a dutch cheese and my pursuer has just taken off its rind when i offer him a glass of grog to save my life


he imbibes the bribe wipes his month with a mouchoir of seaweed gives a knowing wink takes a sight at me with his fin and then faithless darts at me again


i fortunately just then awake but unfortunately have to knock my head against the top of my bunk with a ringing whackin order to do so


next day we do make the landa lonely island clear beneath the sunny sky and a phantasmal range of far off frowning headlands looming through a purple gloom


scattered about are some most remark able cloudsnot on the sky but hanging between it and the sea in shape and colour exactly like a row of chandeliers covered up in brown holland


we sight two sails the first that we have seen since we have been fairly underway


having reached the horn in days we celebrate the success by a second jolly supper


figaro is in bed when the steward makes his appearanoe with the beverages and viands but hearing the rattle of panni kins and plates he explodes from his berth in shirt and drawers throws a somerset gives a sotto voce war whoop


sotto voce that he may not awake our less favoured comradesand dances round the table like a dumb wild indian


mother hubbard however has been awakened and peeps forth clad in white from her apartment


figaro instantly serenades her with a whispered say say wilt thou be mine love


say wilt thou love me which causeth mother hubbard to retreat in dismayed disgust


the australasian balloonyesterday after noon the sightseers of sydney and its neighbourhood were on the qui vive expecting another ascent of the balloon which so recently delighted many admiring thousands by its short but successful flight a few days since


the weather however was in many respects of an unfavourable character and the direction of the wind which blew freshly from the westward nearly all day rendered the proposed enterprize such a very dan gerous affair that many with a laudable regard for the safety of the intending ronauts openly expressed their hopes that the balloon would not ascend and the promised sight be postponed to a more convenient opportunity


in spite of every sombre presage how ever the process of inflation was commenced at the same place as on the former occasion


after con siderable progress had been made during which the violence of the wind occasionally rendered the balloon wholly unmanageable a small rent was discovered at first of no great size


this however was soon by the sudden gusts of wind increased to such alength that the balloon collapsed and the second ascent was thus per force postponed to a more convenient opportunity


the injury sustained by the balloon is it if almost needless to observe of a very trifling nature and can be thoroughly repaired in a few hours


it is under stood that the second ascent will take place in a day or two


citaprer iii


t


al as the boatmen palled in towards theshore we perceived a few hundred yards off a grouip of h persons standing whom we soon recognised as a our opponents


charley said the counn grasping my arm lightly asi stood up tospring a on the land charley altho yoti are only a boy as i may say have no fear for your cour tl age hut


still more than that is needful here


this bodkin is a noted duelist and will try to shake your nerve


now mind that you take i every thing that happens quite with an air of a indifferencedont let him thinkthat he has any o advantage over you and youll see hlow the tables a will be turned in your favor


lt trust to me count said i ill not disgrace


yonu


he pressed my hand tightly and i thought f that


it discernedsosmething like a sligt twitch about the corners of his grim mouth as if some i sudden


and painful thought had shot across his mind but in a moment he was calm and stern a looking as ever


laenty minutes late mr consaldir iasd a short redfaced little man with a military frock and foraging cap as he held out his watch in


evidence


i can only say captain mtlwney that we lostno time since we parted we had some dii culty in finding a boat but in any case we are hero ow and that l opipe is tise importatt part of the matter


r quite right very justindeed


will you pre


t sent me to your youug friendvery proud to makeyour acquaintance sir your uncle


and i met more than once in this kind of way


i was out with hiin in gas it


no i think it was when he shot harry burgoyne who by


c theby was called the crack shot of our mess but begad your uncle knocked his pistol handto shivers saying in his dry way he must try the left hand this morning


counta ittle this sido if you please


whtle constl te and thcap


tain walked a few paces apart from where i stood i had leisure to obsetve my untagonistwho stood among a group of his frienis talking and laughing awy


in great spirits


as thetone they spoke in was not of the lowest i could caten much of their conversation at the distance i was from them


they were discussidg the last occa


i sion that bodkin had visited this spot and talked of the fatal event which happened then


poor devil said bodkin it wasnt his fault


but you see some of theth had been showing whur feathers before that and he was obliged to go out


in fact the colonel himsaif said fight or leave the corps


well out he came


it was a cold morning in february with q frost the night before going off in a thin rain


wrell it seems he had the consumption or some thing of that sort with a great cough and spitting of blood and this weather rnade him worse and he was very weak when he came to the ground


now the moment i got a glimpse of him i said to myself hes pluck enough but as nervous as a lady for his eye wandered all about and his mouth was constantly twitching take off your great coat ned said one of his people when they was going to puthim up take it off man


hle seemed


to hesitatefor au instant when michael blake remarked arrah let him alone its his mother makes him wear it for the cold he has


then they all began to laugh at this but i kept my eye upon him and i saw that his cheek grew quite livid and a kind of grey colour and his eyes filled up i have you now said i to myself and i shot him through the lungs


and this poor fellow thought i was the only son of a widowed mother i walked from the spot to avoid hearing further and felt as i did so something like the spiritof vengeance a rising within me for the fate of one so untimely f cut off


here we are all ready said malowney springing over a small fence into the adjoining fieldtake your ground gentlemen


r considine took my arm and walked forward


scharley said he i am to give the signal ill drop my glove when you are to fire but dont i look at me at all ill manage to catch bodkins g eye and do you watch him steadilyafid fire when he does


v i think that the ground we are leaving behind n us is rather better said some one


so it is said bodkin but it was trouble


some to carry the young gentlemen down that n wayhere all is fair and easy


d the next instant we were placed and i well ir remember the first thought that struck me was i that there could be no chance of either of us re escaping


ir now then said the count ill walk a twelve paces turn and drop this glove at which eirgnalyou fireand togdcher mind


the man a who reserves his shot falls by myhand


this id very summary denunciatiqn seemed to meet ig general approbation and the count struttclfdrth


i notwithstanding the advise of my friend i could not help turning my eyes from bodkin to watch ft the retiring figure of the count


at length he a stoppeda second or two elapsedhe wheeled a rapidly round and let fall the glove


my eye e glanced toward my opponent i raised nmy pistol k and fired


my hat turned half round upon my a head and bodkin fell motionless to the earth


c i saw the people around me rush forward i b caught two or three glances thrown at me with ci an expression of revengeful passion i felt some ai one grasp me round tne waist and hurry me a from the spot and it was at least ten minutes r after as we were skimming the surface of the c broad shannon before i could well collect my b scattered faculties to remember all that was pas e sing as considine pointiig to the two holes a inmy hat remarked darp spactice charley


ti it was the overcharge saved you


a is he killed


sir


i asked


i


not quite i believe but as good you took a him just above the hip


o can he recover said i with i voice a tremulors from agitation which i vainly endea


ti voured to conceal from my companion


t not if the doctor can help it said consil dine for the fool keeps poking about for the a ball but now lets think of the next step i youll have to leave this and at once too


little more passsed between us


as we rowed n towards the shore ccnsidine was following up his t reflections and i had mine alas


too many and too bitter to escape from


c as we neared the land a strange spectacle caught our eyes for considerable distance along


f thebcast crowdsofcountry people were assembled i who forming in groups and breaking into parties of two and three were evidently watching with n great anxiety what was taking place at the oppo n site side


now the distance was at least three t miles and therefore any part of the transaction f whichhad been enacting there must have been a quite beyond their iew


while i was wonder ing at this considine cried out suddenly too a infamous by jove were murdered men


t what do you mean said i t dont you see that said be pointing to i something black which floated from a pole at the opposite side of the river


yes what is it


its his coat theyve putupon an oarto show hes killed thats all


every man heres his tenant and lookthere theyre not gividg us t


much doubt as to their intention


here a tre i mendous yellburst forth from the mass of people t along the shore which rising to a terrific cry e sunk gradually down to a low wailing then rose and fell again several times as the irish death cry filled the air and rose to heaven as if im ploring vengeance on a murderer


the appalling influence of the keen as it is called had been familiar to me from my infancy butit needed the awful situotion i was placed in to consummate its horrors


it was at ones my accusation and my doom


i knew well none better the vengeful character of the irish pea sant of the west and that my death was certain i had no doubt


the very crime that sat upon my heart quailed its courage and unnerved my arm


as the boatmen looked from us towards theahore and again at our faces they as if instinctively lay upon their oars and waited for our decision asto what course to pursue


rig the sprit sail my boysald considine and let her head lie up the river and be alive for i see theyre baling a boat below the little reef thereand will be after us in no time


the poor fellows who although strangers to us sympathizing in what they perceived tobe our immninent danger stepped the light spar which acted as a mast and shook out their seauty rag of canvas in a minute


considine meaunwhile went aft and steadying her head with an oar aheld the osmall craft up to the wind till she lay completely overand as she rushedthrouglh the water randipping her gunnel through the white foam wherecan we make withouttaekieg boys inquired the count


if it bloes onas fresh sir well run you ashore withinhalf a mile of the castle


put out annoarto leward said considine s and keep lhur up moir to the wind


and i promise you my


inds yoit will not gohome fresh and fasting if you land us whereyou say


here they comeeaid the other boatman as ld pointed back


with his inger towards a large syawl which shot suddenly from the shore with six sturdy fellows pulling at their oars while three or four others were endeavouring to get up their ragging which appeared tangled and confused at the bottom of the boat


the white splash of water which fell each moment beside her show ing that the process of baling was still continued


ah then may i neverav it isnette ould dolphnm they have launcbed for the riaie said one of our fellows


whats the dolphin then


an ould boat of the lords lord clanri cartes that didnt see


water except


when it rained these four years and cracked from stem to


stern


she can sail however said considine who watched with a painful anxiety the rapidity of hercourse through the water r


nabocklishshe was a smugglers jollyboat and wql used to it


look how theyre pulling


god pardon them bat theyre in no biessed humour this morning


lay out uponyour oars boys the winds failing us cried the count as the ail flapped jazily against the mast


its tno use


your honor said the telder


well be only breaking our hearts to no pufrpose thaeyes ire to catcha us


do as bade you at all events


whats that ahead of us there


the oat rock sir a vessel with grain struck there and went down with all aboard four years last winter


theres no channel


between it and the shore all sunk rocks every inchof it


theres the breeze the canvas fell over as he spboke and the little craft lay down to it till the foaming water babbled over her lee bow keep her head sup sir higher higher stillbut considine little heeded the direction steering straight for the narrow channel the san alluded to tear and ages bat youre going right for the cloch na squirka


arrah an the devil a taste ill bat drowaed for youre devarsion said the other springing r up


f sit doviwn there and be siti roared a considine as he drew a pistol from the case at b his feet if yon dont want some leaden ballast to keep you so


here charley take this and e if that fellow stirs hand or foot you understand sme


the two men sat sulkily in the bottom i of the boat which now was actually flying a through the water


considines object was a y clear one he saw that in so sailing we were greatly overmatched and that our only chance lay in reaching the narrow and dangerous channel g between the oat rock and the shore by which we should distance the pursuit the long reef of rocks that run out beyond requiring a wide berth to escape from


nothing but the danger behind us could warrant so rash a daring the whole s channel was dotted with patches of white and re breaking foam the sure evidence of the mischief beneath while here and there a dash of spurting ld spray flew up from the dark water where some cleft rock lay hid below the flood


escape a seemed im possible but who would not at have preferred even so slender a chance with sq frightful an alternative behind i them i


as if to sddteriror to the sceen conasi a dine had scarcely turned the boat a head of the as channel when a tremendous blackness spread over all aroundtbe thunder pealed forth and ik amid the crashing of the hais and the bright h glare of lightning a squall struce is and laid an us nearly keel uppermisot for several miniitus


is i well teabembe we rushed thrdiogh the et dark and blackening water dur little draft more b than hal flled the oars foating off to leeward id and we ourselves knocling on the bottom planks for safety


roll after roll of loud thunder broke as it were just above our heads whilt in the swift dashing rsin that seemed to hiss around us every obiect was hidden and even the other boat was lost to our view


the tw poor fellows


i shallnever forget their expression one devout catholic


had placed a little laden image of a saint before him in the bow and implored its inter cession with a torturing agony of suspense that wrung my very heart the other apparently less alive to such consolation as his church afforded remained with his hands clasped his mouth compressed his brows knitted and his dark eyes bent upon me with the fierce hatred of a deadly enemy his eyes were sunken and brood shot and all told of some dreadful conflict within the wild ferocity of his looks fascinated my gaze and amid all the terrors of the scene i could not look from him


as igazeda second and more awful squall struck the boat the mast bent over and with aloud report like a pistol shot smashed at the thwart and fell over trailing the sail along the milky sea behind us meanwhile the water rushed clean over us and the boat teemed settling at this dreadful moment the sailors eye was bent upon me his lips parted and he muttered as if to himself this it is to go to sea with a murderer


oh god


the agony of that momentthe heartfelt and accusing conscience that i was judged and doomed that the brand of cain was upon my brow that my fellow min had ceased for ever to regard me as a brother that i was an outcast and a wanderer for ever


i bent forward till my forehead fell upon my knees and i wept


meanwhile the boat flew through the water and considine who alone among up seemed not to lose his presence of mind unshipped the mast and sentit overboard


the stormnow began to abate and as the black mass of cloud broke from around us we behold the other boat slso dis masted farbehind us while all on board of her were employed in baling out the water with which she seemed almost sinking


the curtain of mist that had hidden us from each other no sooner broke than they ceased their labours for a moment and looking towards us burst forth into a yell so wild so savage and so dreadful my very heart quailed as itscadence fell upon my ear


safe my boy said considine clapping me on the shoalder as he steered the boat forth from its narrow path of danger and once more reached the broad shannon safe charley though weve had a brush for it


in a minute more we reached the land and drawing our gallant little craft on shore set out for omalley castle


ir lu


barnaby rudge


o ciiapteor xxix


the applause which the performance of hugh


and his new friend elicited from the company at the boot had


not yet subsided and the two dancers were still panting from their exertions which had been of a rather extreme and violent charicter when the party was reinforced by the arrivalof somne more


guests whobeing a detachment of united bulldogs were received with very flattering marks of distinction and respect


the leader of this small party for including himself they were but threein numberwas our old acquaintance mr tappertit who seemed physi cally speaking to have grown smaller with years airticularly as to his legs which were stupendously little but who in a moral point of view in personal dignity asnd self esteem bad swelled into t agiant


norwas ijyisny rmeans cfulc iftfolr smost unob


servant pers nto detect this state of feeling in theo quondam prdnti for it not only proclaimed itself impressively annd beyond mistake in his majestlic walk and kindling eye but found a siri ing means of revelation in his turnedup nose which scoted all things of earth with deep disdain and sought com munion with itsakindred skies


mr tappertit as chief or captain of the bulldogs was attended by his two lieutenants onoethe tall comrade of his younger life the other a prentice knight insdays of yoremark gilbert bound iithe olden time to thomas curzon of thegoldn fleese


these gentlemen like himself were now emancipated from their prentice thraldom and served as journey


men but they were in humble emulation of his great example bold and daring spirits and aspired to a distinguished state in great political events


hence their connexion with the protestant asso


ciation of englandsanctioned by the name of lord


george gordon and hence their present visit to the boot


gentlemen said mr tapperit taking ffhis hat as a great general might in addressing liis troops well met


my lord does me and you the honour to send his compliments per self


youve seen my


lord too ha a ou said dennis


i see him this afternoon


mydity called me to the lobby when our shop shut up and i saw him there sir mr tappertit replied as he and his lieutenants took their seats how do on do


lively master lively said the fellow herc a new brother regularly put down in black and wliri by muster gashford a credit to the cause one f the stickatnothing sort one arter my own hc rt dye see him has lie got the


looksi ofa i


thatll do do you think


he criedas hasl pied hugh on the back


looks or no looks said hughwith adrunken flourish of his arm im the man you want i hate the papists every one of em


they hateme


and i hate them


they do me all the harm they can and ill do them all the harmni can


hurrah


i


was there ever said dennis looking round the room when the echo of his boisterous voice had died away i was there ever such a game boyl


why i mean to say brothers that if muster gasis ford had gone a hundred mile and got togetherfifty men of the common run they wouldnt hav e bee worth this one


the greater part of the company implicitly sub


scribed to this opinion and testified their faith in hugh by nods and looks of great significance


mr tappertit sat and contemplated him for a long timie in silence as if he suspended his judgmeint thein drew a little nearer to him and eyed him


over more carefully then went close up to him and took himi apart into a dark corner


i say he ibegan with a thoughtful brow


havent i seen you ibefore its likeyou may said hugh in his careless way


i dont know shouldnt wonder


i nnobut its very easily settled returned sim look at me


did you everseao me before


you wouldnt be likely to forget it you know if you ever did


look at me dont be afraid i wont do yyzu any harm ake a good looksteady now


r


the encouraging wday in which mr tappertit


made this request and coupled it with an assurance that he neednt be frightened amused hugh mightily so much indeed that he saw nothing atall of the


small manbefore him through closing his eyes in a


fit of hearty laughter which shook his


great broad sides until they ached again


come isaid


hmr


tappertit growing a littlo impatient under this disrespectful treatment d you know me feller


not cried hughl ha ha a inot


if but i should like to


and yet id haves wagered a sevenishilling piece said mr ttappertit folding his armsa nd confronting him with hm is legs ide apart and firmlyp plantedon the grqund


that you once ere hostler at the maypoleo


i a hugh opened lis eyes onehearing lisi and lookd at him in great surprise and so you were too said mr tappertlt pushing him away ith a cordeseidiigplayfulneas


when did my eyes ever deceive me unless it was a young woman i dont you know me now


swhyt ani s tiugh faltered


ant it siid mr tappertit


are you ao of that f you remember g varden dont you oertainly hugh did and he remembered d vas den too butit that he didnt tellhim


siyou remember coming down there beloreiw wa out of my time to ask aftera vagabond that had


bolted off and left his disconsolate father a prey to the bitterest emotions and all the rest of iiidonl you


sald mrtappertit


of course i do cried hughu


and


i saw you there r saw me there


said mr tappertit


i yes should think you did see me there the place would be troubled to go on without me


dont you re member my thinking you liked the vagabond andon that account going to quarrel with you andthen finding you detested him worse titan poison going t


drink with you


dont you remember that


i to be sure i cried hugh


well and are you in the same mind now


saild mr tlapportit


yes i roared hiugh


you speak


like a inan said mr tapperti and ill shake hands with you witl


th dillatory expressions he suited the action to the ord and hugh meeting his advances readily they uperformed the ceremony with a show of great heardt i find said mr tappertit looking round on the assembled guests that brother whatshis name and i are old acquaintance


you never heard anything more of that rascal i suppose eh not a syllable replied hugh i never want to i dont believe i ever shall


hes dead long agoi hope


its to be hoped for the sake of mankind in general and the happiness of societythat he is said mr tappertit rubbing his palm upon his legs and


looking at it between whiles


is your other handat all cleaneir


liuch the same


well ill owe you another shake well suppose it done if syouve no objection


flugh laughed again and with such thorough abantdonment to his mad humour that his limbs sseemed dislocated and his whole frame in danger of tumblingtopieces but mr tappertit so far from receiving this extreme merriment with any irritation was pleased toregard it with the utmost favour and even to join in it so far as one of his gravity and station could with any regard to that decency and decorum which men in high places are expected to maintain


mr tappertit did not stop here as many public characters might have done but calling uphis brace of lieutenants introduced hugh to them with high conamendation declaring him to be a man who at such times as those in which they lived could not be too much cherished


further he did him the honour to remark that he would be an acquisition fwhleh even the united bulldogs mightbe proud and finding upon sounding him that he was quite ready and willing toenter the society for he was not at allpartienlar and would have leagued him


self thatnight with anything or anybody for any purpose whatsoever caused the neceseasy prelims naries to be gone into upon the spot


this tribute to his great merit delighted no man more than mr dennis as he himself proclaimed with several rare and surprisingoaths and indeed it gave unmingled satisfaction to the whole assembly


make aything


you like of me cried hugh flourishing the can he had emptied more than once


put me on any duty you please


im your man


ill do it


heres my captain heres my leader


ha hia ha i let him give me the word of command and ill fight the whole parliament hiotuse single


handed or set a lighted torch to the kings throne itself


i with that ie smote mr tappertit on the back with such violence thathis little body seemed to shrink into a mere nothing and roared again until the ve yfoundli s near at hand were startled in their beds


in fact a sense of somethingwhimsical in their companionship seemed to have taken entire posses


slon of hiisrude


brain


the bare fact of being patronised byda great man whom he could have crushed withde hand appeared inhisaeyes so eccentric and humourous that a kind of ferocious marriment gained the mastery over him andquite aibidued his brutal nature


he roared and roared again toasted mr tappertit a hundred times de elared himself a bulldog to the core and vowed to be faithfulto him to the last drop of blood in his all these compliments bir


tappertit received as matters of course dfatteringeanongh in their way but entirely attribteable to his vast superiority


his dignified selfpossession only delighted hugh the more and in a word this giant and dwarf struck up afriendship which bade fair to be of long con tinuance as


the one eld itto be his right to com


mnd and the other


considered it an exquisite pleasantry to obey nor was hughbyany means a passive follower who scrupled to actwithout precise and definite orders for when mr tappertit mounted on an empty cask which stood by way of rostrum in the room and volunteered a speech upon the alarm


nag crisis thenathand he placed himself beside the orator


and thoughhe grinned from ear to ear at every word he said threw out


such expressive hints to scoffers in the management of his cudgel that those who were at first the most disposed to interrupt became remarkably attentive and were the loudest inr theirapprobation


s to be ontunued


ijarnabiy rudge


o ottapter xxiv


how the accomplished gentlemen spent the evening in the midst of a dazzling and brilliant circle how he enchanted all thosd with whomn he mingled by the grace of hiis deportrmient the polite


ness of his manner the vivacity of his conversation and the sweetness of his voice how it was observed in every corner that chesterwns a man of that happy disposition that nothing ruffled him that he was one on whom the worlds cares and errors sat lightly as his dress and in whose smiling face a calm and tranquil mind was constantly reflected how honest men who by instinct knew him better bowed down kefore


him nevertheless deferred to his every word and courted his favourable notice how people who really had good in them went with the stream and fawned and flattered and approved aid despised themselves while they did so and yet had not the courage to resist how in short he was one of those who are received and cherished it society as the phrase is by scores who individually would shrink from and be repelled by the object of their lavish regard are things of course which will suggest themselves


matter so commonplace needs but a passing glance and there an end


the despisers of mankind apart from the mere fools and mimics of that creed are of two sorts


they who believe their merit neglected and unap