unhappily we know but little of hugh oneill s carlv life except that he lived sometimes in ireland but much frequented the english court in hib own country an irish chief in london a courtly nobleman thit ho was high in favour with elizabeth being a youth of goodly presence and winning speech that he was not very tall in stature but powerfully made able to endure much labour watching and hunger that his industry was great nis soul laiige and fit for the weightiest businessesthat he had much knowledge in military affairs and a profound dissembling heart so as many deemed him born cither for the great good or ill of his country


this man was deemed a suitable instrument of english politicians to ruin his countrys liberty and with that view was recognised by the queen as baron of dungannon by


his fathers right and was supported as a rival to tirlough then the oneill lor thus it wes expected that the irish chieftain and the saxon baron would destroy cach other and that the great house of tyrone divided against itself would fall


hugh oneill knew well the purport and meaning of all these honours he understood what the golden chain of an english noble symbolized when worn round the neck of a celtic chieftain he felt that in those stare and ribbons there lurked danger to his country ignominy to himself


but he had much to learn amongst the english ho had their mode of warfare to master their policy to study in the characters of burleigh and walsingham intending apparently to try conclusions with them in both those departments at a future day


so with that profound dissembling heart of his he stomached their disgracesul dignities nay bore himself proudly under them biding his time


nearly twenty years passed away from the death of shane till when perrot came t ireland as lord deputy during which ulster was comparatively quiet though as thoroughly trxhefomtnd and antienglish as ever


the sacrilegious outrages by which the foreigners and their bishops prosecuted reformation in the south and which provoked the geraldine war there wore still unknown in the oneills country


abbey lands and minastcries were peaceably possessed by their religious inhabitants and three northern bishoprics those of clogher derry and haplioe seem to have been abandoned altofeland lamenting the circumstance observes ether to catholic prelates so that as dr they were still granted by the pope without control


not that the pope did not also appoint bishops as usual to the other sees but for some of these there were also nominal bishops without clergy or socks named by letters patent from the queen


during this period also the civil policy of the north remained unchanged there was not a sheriff north of dundalk


no lord president hnd yet ventured into these regions to govern with his course of discretion as sir john davics terms theirmcthod of administering justice


hugh oneill when in ireland seems to have resided quietly at his house of dungannon and to have acquicsced contrary to all expectation in the chieftaincy for a candid explanation of this scheme ee spensers view p iso camden queen eliz j ibid


davies of old


tirlough who held liia state principally in strabbne or benburb


and so long as the frontiers of the pale were not advanced northwards neither chiefs nor people concerned themselves about the affairs ofother parts of the bland for alas thee was still no irish nation


several transactions however occurred in ulster during this period which deserve some notice


in queen elizabeths reign foreign plantntions began to be a favourite project with the english


large tracts of north america were by those nil powerful letters patent taken from the red men and deliberately given and granted to such of her discontented nnd adventurous subjects as would undertake to form settlements there and establish true religion and ulster which had been so solemnly declared forfeit to the queen seemed a very suitable theatre for similar plantations


accordingly one thomas smith n secretary to elizabeth having a natural son to provide for whose illegitimacy was a bar to his attaining distinction in his own country desired to make him the founder of a noble family in ireland


he moved the queen therefore to grant this young adventurer a territory in the ards on the east coast of down for the purpose as camden assures us of civilizing and converting the barbarous inhabitants


and as it had always been found that the irish could not be civilized or converted until they had first been largely plundered every foot soldier who should accompany smith was to take for his own share one hundred and twenty acres of land every horseman two hundred and forty acres and all other persons according to their rank paying smith as lord of ards


one penny per acre


but brian mac art oneill and his clansmen to whom all that land belonged had not been consulted in these arrangements and apparently were not desirous of uch civilization as tliis foreign pirate had to offer for when smith landed is and was proceeding to establish himself in the ards oneill and his people fell upon them by surprise by treachery ome historians say as if the oneills were his natural and sworn allies and killed smith and many of his troops the rest fled to their ships and speedily weighed anchor carrying their letters patent and their civilization to some more hospitable shore


shortly after in the year walter devereur carl of essex projected a more extensive plantation in the same district


twelve hundred troops were to he maintained nnd fortifications built at the joint expense of the queen and of essex and this time each horseman was to have four hundred acres and each footman two hundred


a few scores of acres more or loss of the irish enemies land seemed to have been reckoned of small account


essex raised inii equal to ooh of thepresent money by mortgaging his english estate to the queen made vast preparations in men arms and stores and so hopeful was the expedition held that lord rich lord dacre sir henry knowlcs three sons of lord norris and several other englishmen of distinction accompanied him to liave a share of the glory and the profit


the armament set sail and arrived in the bay of carrickfergus


so formidable an invasion seems to have caused for the time a close union amongst the several chieftains of the name of oneill


brien lord of clanhurhbuidhe whose territories were the immediate objects of this marauding expedition was speedily joined both by tirlough lynnogh and hugh of dungannon who was then in this country and seems notwithstanding his english peerage nnd high favour with the queen to have been strongly of opiniqn that iueland was ron the inisu


several skirmishes occurred between the oneills and the troops of essex


the new colony began to promise more hard fight ing than either profit or protestantism and the english noblemen who shared the adventure one by one withdrew to england


at last the earl petitioned the queen for liberty to abandon the plantation and return home which was not however granted him for more than a year and the only further proceeding we hear of in connexion with the affair is that in a solemn peace and concord was made between the earl of essex and fclim oneill


however at the feast wherein the carl entertained that chieftain and at the end of their good cheer oneill and his wife were seized their friends who attended were put to the sword before their faces and felim together with his wife and brother was conveyed to dublin where they were cut up in quarters


even this expedient however did not secure essex in his settlement


the irish of that country would not bo civilized notwithstanding all his exertions and never could see the justice or expediency of allotting their lands to english soldiers


the troops were slain or scattered the money wns lost and at length the earl got permission to return to england but the geraldine war had now broken out in munster and hygh of dungannon must be followed to the south


irish ms


annals quoted by leland and curry


to he continued in our next


literature


the ministers vvooins


a tale op new evolaxd


by un eb stowc


continued from the age of oct zth chapter xv


ami now mary eaici mra seddder at five oolockihs next morning


loday you know is the doctors fist and so wo wout get any dinner nud it will be n jood timo tn do up all our jittle edd jobs mis priaay promised to come in for two or three bourn this moraine to altfir tbu wixistof that black silk niicl i ehonldnt be sarprised if we could get it all done and ready to wea by sunday


we will remark fcy way of explanation to a part of miib conversation that our doctor who wan h fpcoimfn of life an eirueat made a practice through the greater part of bis pulpit course of spending every ijnluday as a day of fasting nnr retirometit in pp sparation for the duties of the sabbath


accordingly the arly breakfest thinpa were no poorer disposed of than miss frfrsyb quick fontnlep might havo jjeen heard pattering in the kitobrn


well mi s scuds er bow rf you do this morn ing


nud liow do y cmj do mary


well if you tiiitt tho beniflrs up just oh early ns ver and nverything clewed nray i was telling mieb wil cos that there didnt ever neem to be anything dono in miss scuddf rs kitchen and i did verily beliuvc you rande yo or beds before you got up in the morning


well vrell wasnt ihatn parly last nihi i flie paid as she pat down with


the black silk and prcpnred hor lippingknife


i must rip his myhll miss set idder for theres a great deal in ripping silk ho ts not to let anybody know wbere ir bis been sewed


you didnt know that i was at the parly did you


well


i b


you see i thought id jut nep round there io see absut that money to net the doctors ebiw with ad ihuve i found miss wilcox witli po mainy things on her mind and pays bh miss prisy you dnnt know how muh it would help me if i had eomebedy like you just to look fiftr tia u little here mid eajh i mikb wilcox you just go right to your room find dress and dont give yowaelf one miiiums thought bfiut iinyihing and yuu see if i dont have every ibinir just riyht an fio there i was in for it and ijuftslajpd through and it whh well i did for diiitib tbii wonldiir


lmve put neer enough cgc in ihn coffyn if it hadnb been for me


why i just wnl und tjei up four epgs wih my owa hand ami htimd cm ino lb


giounds


well but


really wasnt i bebind the door nnd didnt peep into iho supperroom


i flaw who was awaitiunu mus mary


well they do any burt tli hdiidfomnat


most facinnting man wby all the lidiis in pliiladelpliia are in a perfect qimircl about him aud i heard he enid that he tmdnc tn fuch a beauty he didnt remember when


we all know that beauty is of small coeee rjuence eaid mrs isemlder


ihcpe llary has be n brought up to feel that


oh ol course said miss priesy its just hfco fiding fliwer all is to be good and useful nid thats liit sho i and i told em that her beauty was the least part ol her though i must say that lrea did fit liko a bifcuit if it was my own fitting


but miss scudder what do you thiuk i heard iu saying about the good old doctor


i am sure i dont know said mrs scudder i only know they couldnt say anything bad


well uo not bail exactly said miss prissy bnt mjoy say hes yetting such strange notions


iu i i hand hy t heal some of era say he wis goiig to corns out and preach agiinat ibe slave tnule anil im suie e dont know what newport folks will do if ihtitb wicked there aim hardly utiy nionsy here iuiia made aty otasr wny itll crttinly miike a grett noiso and talk and nuke everybody angry arid i hope the doctor aim a going to do anything of that sort


i believe be if mish prifsy caid mra sendder he thuka itn a grout sin that ought to be re buked and i think eo too she said bracing herelf resoluiely that waa mr scutlders opinion when i first married him and its mine


oh ab yes


well if its fin of course said mis pries but then dear me


why just tlurk now many great noue ate living on it


why theres general wilcox himself and hen a vi ry nice mau mid thou theres mojor scaforlh und why i could count you off now a dozen nil cur very hrt penile


wny doctor stvles doasnt think to and im sure hjs n good ohristin


dr


sljlss jhinks its tt dispensation for giving the light if thf gospel to the africuns why now im sire when i vd uworliin at deicon stsbbiiis i stepped over suudivy once caiia


viai siebbins she wiis wenlily ims when she was gutting up after sauiuci was born


no on the whole i be lieve uvub nehemirib cause i reueujbar he had curly hair but any way i jemumber


i stayed tlniie


and i retnembar as plain as if twas yeser dny just nftei breiktat how a mau went driving by in u chbk and the deacon he went oul and btnpjiel him lortruviilungon the lords day cause vou know he was jxtioe of tho piac and who rhnulil it in but fora sealorih and hu told the deccoa his livthcr hud jfot u shipload of neiroei i jiirt ccrne in and the deacon he just let him go


crvnv


i remember hy said that was i pliin work of necessity and rnrey


weli now who ivoud have ttougni


it


i beliuvo the doctor is better thun raosi


tolks but tliua ihu best people may be mis taken you know


the dntnr has made up his mind thxt its his duty said mtk sendder


im nfsnid ii


li make him viy unpopular but i for oue shall stand by him


oh certainly


iisa sendder youre doing just riirht rxiiclly


well tbetcs one comfort httll i have a great crown to har him peaob cue as i wis going round through the entries last uigbt i hiaril tin talking about it and colonel burr said he should be there aud


so did the general and so did mr whatshibnam


there that senator from philadelphia


i tell you youll have a full house


it was to be confessed tha mrs scuddprs heart rath r sink than iherwie at ibis announcement


aad those who have felt what it is tn be almost alone in the right in the face of all tho first fittnilies of their acquaintance may perhaps ibid some compassion for herj since after all trnth is invisible but flrai families are very evident


first families ara often vtry agreeable undeniably respectable fearfully virtuous and it takes great faith to resist an evil principle which incarnates ilseli in the buavltieb of their breeding and amia bility and therefore it was that mrs scudder fait her hetirt heavy within her and could with a very good grace have joined the doctors saturday fast


ak lor the doctor he fiat the while tranquil in his study with his great bible and his concordance open before him culling with that patient abd uily for which he was ruinarkable all the terrible texts which that very unceremonious and old fastiiontd book rains down fo unsparingly on the sin of oppressing the weak first families whether in newport or elsewhere were as inviiblo to him as they were to moses during the forty duyn that ho spent with god on the mount


he was merely thinking of hia message thinking only how he should shape it eo ns not to leave one word oi it unsaid not even imagining in the least what the retult ot it was to be ho was but a voice but nn instrument a patsi vo iuptrument tbrouuh which an almighty will waa to reveal itself


ktid the sublime fatalism of his failh made him as dead to all human considerations as if lie had been a portion of the immutable laws of nature herself


so the next raorninjj


although all bis friends trembled for him when he rose in tho pulpit


ho nevtr thought of trembling for himself he had como iu ihe covered way eitence from the secret pjace of the moat high and felt himself still abiding under ihe thatltiw of th almighty


ir was alike to him whether tho hmso was full or empty


whoever were decreed to hear the message would b rhere whether hey would hour or iorboar wan alnadi sailed in ibe counsels of a mightier will tiiau his


lie bad tha eitnpe duty of ut terance


the ruinous old maclinghouse was never so rtiditttit with ftaiion and gentility as on that morning


a june eua shone brightly the sea sparkled with a thousand little eyes the birds fang all along the wny and all the notables turned out to heur the doctor


mra scudder received into her pew with digni


fisd fiolitencah colonel burr and colonel and ma dame do frontiguao


gunerul wilcox and his portly dame major senforth and we know not what not of vornond ami de wolff and other grand old names were present there


stiff silks rustled chinese fus fluiured and the lat court fashion stood revealed in bonnets eve ybody was looking jreh and amiable si chin ming a ul respectable bii of sinner como to hw wbal ihe looior would ond to ttll them ubout their tianfgrcssio s mrsscuddir was cnlculatiug consequences and


fhutting her eyes on the tno evident world about hur pniynd that the lord would overrulu all i or good tho doctor prayed thai he might have grnce to speuk the truth and the whole truth


we have yet on record in his publifhid works the great argument of that day through which ho moved with that calm appeal to the reason which made his result


always bo weighty


if these things be true he said after a con denied statement of tho factb of the caie ihon th


following terrible cotifiequeiues which may well malie all ebudder and tremble who realise them force themselves upou us that all who havo j had any hand iu hie iniquitous businets whether i directly or iuclirejtly or have used their iifluenjp to promote it or hao consencl io it nr ertn connived at it or hnve not eppnged it by oil ro per exertions ot which they bio capable all tuese are in a greater or lesp degree chargeable with the irjuriet and miseries which millions have kiiffpred and are mfleriujr nnd are guilty of the blood of millions who lost their lives by i hia iiafc in the humin speciep


not only the merchants who have been engaged in this trade nnd the captains who have been tempted by the love of mency to engage iu this cruel work ont the ewvebolders of every desariptiod are jjuilty of fhedding vivers of hlord but all this legtruitures who have smthortsed en couniged or jveu neglected to hu


pprecw


u to ihe iiicost of their yower and nil the individuals in private utalious who have in


ny way nidod ia tbislmsincs consented to ir or hnve not op posed it to the utmost of their ability hrve u nbare in this guilt


this trade in ihe human species bus i been the first whoel of commerce in newport on whlb every oher movement in bus inesa has chiefly defended


this town has beea built tip and flourished in timiipat at the expense of ihe blond the liberty and the happiness of the poor africans and the the inhabitants hnve


i red on this aud by it have got ton mdst of their wealth ami rches


if a bitter woe i pronounced on him who buildeth his houfe by niirhteousucs bnd his chambers by wrong jcr xxii to him who buildoth a town by blood and kdtiiblifhetb a oi tj by iniquity hab ii to the bloody city kzsk xxiv


g what a heavy dreadful vjo hangs ovr the heads of sill thns whose hands are dcfilpd ry the blood of the africans especially the inhabitants of ibis mate n d this town ho huv b id a distinguished share in this unrighteous and bloody commerce


ho went over ihn recent history of the country expi tiatod on tho ualional declaration so lately made i hat nil men are born equally free nnd independent and have a natural nnd inalienable ritrht to liberty ami askfid wiui vvbnt face a nation declaring such ibingn could continue to hold thousands of their felliwmen in rbject slavery he pointed out miins of nvttonal disaster which foreboded ihn wrath of heaven the increase of public and private debts the spirit of murmuring and jealousy of ruleis among the people divisions and contentions and bitter party lipnaiionh the jealous irrigation of england constantly endnavor ing to harnner our trade the indians making war oi the frontiers the algeriuea taking cipiive our bhlpe and making ehvea of our citizens all ovi dent tokens ot the displeasure and impending judgment


rf an offended justice


the aettnon rolled over tho head


of the gay au dience deep and dark as a thundercloud which in a few duoments changes a summer sky into heaviest gloom


gradually an expression of inlonse in terest and dce concern spread over the listeners it wis the raairneti m of a strong mind which held them for a time under tb shadow of his own awful sene of gocih almighty justice


it u paid that a little child once described his appearance in th pulpit by faying i aw


god there and wps itiiairi


something of tho parae effect was produced on the audience now and it was uot till after sermou priyer and benediction were all over that the rtfpeetnblt of newport began gradually to un siilfon themselves from tho ppell and to look into acti others cjfta for comfort and ti


r assure themselves iht afcur all they were the irftfiini lies eminnntly respectable and going on in


tho good old viiy tho world had always gone and that the doctor of comae was a radical and a faoitio


when the audience streamed out


crowdirir the broad isle mary defended from the siugevf peat ami stood wilh her palm book o hand waiting at the door to be joined by her mother and the doctor


she overheard many hnrd words from people who an evening or two before hai


smiled so graciously upon them


it wa therefrro wiih no little determination of manner thit fae advanced anl tok ihe dctors arm as if anrfiou to afso oiat


h herself wilh his wellearntd ujipopularily and just at this mument fho oaujrht the hvh and bhiie of colonel burr as he b iwed racefuriy yet uot without a fusrgentioa of sometbmg sttccablic in cluitbu xvi


we suppose the heroine of a novf among other priilgcs and immunities has a pvescriptivo right to her own private houloir


wjfjre as a french writer ha


it she uppoara like a lovely picture in its frame


well our little mnry is not without this luxury and to its facrud precincts e will give you his mnruine a ticket of ndmibsi on


kuow ihen that the garret of tbi gumbre


roofed cottage had a projecting window on the eeaward fide which opened into an immensely largo old appletree and ia a lookout os jeafj and secluded as a robins nest


giirrelh are delicious pluses in any case for people of thoughtful inwgiuutive temperament


who has not lovod a gu rret in the twilight days of childhood with its endless ploves of quaint oastolf suggestiva antiquity old worm oaten chets rickeiy chairs bcxes and casks full of old comminglings out of which wilh tiny childish hand wo fished woadtrful honrds of fairy j tteasnra


whit paepholes and hidingplacus aud undtbcoverable relrfifts wo made io ourselves where we sat


rfjniciiig in osr security nnd bi ding dellance to the vague dialantcry whioh sum moned us to hchool or to some unsavoury every day tukl how dsliciouhly the rain came putter ing ont hs roof over head or the red twilight streamed in at tho window while we sat enugly ensconced over iho delicious pages of some ro mance which carelul auais had paoked away at thr bottom ot all things to bu fure we bhould never rend it


i if you have anything balovcd friends which you wish your charlie or your susio to be sure and read pack it mysteriously away at tho bottom of


a trunk of stimu lating rubbish iu the darkest corner of your garrot in that cao if the book be at all read uble one that by any possible chance can mrke its way into a young mind you may bn sure that it wil not only be read but remembered to tho longest day they have to live


mrs kaly scuddersgatret was not an exception to thii general rule


those quaint little people who touch with so airy a grace all the lights and shadows of great beams bare rafters and un plhslerad walls had not failed in their work there


was them not there a grand easy chair oc stamped leather miuustwo of its hinder legs which had genealogical associations through the wilcoxeis with the vernons and through the vornons quite across the water wiih old englacd


and was there not a dusky picture in an old tarnished frame of a woman of wtiobe tragic end btmnge btories were whispered one of the sufferers in the hmo when witches were unceremoniously helped out of the womd instead of boing s nowadays helped to make their lorlune in it by table turning


yes there were all these hings and many more which we will not stay to recount but bring you to tho boudoir which mary has constructed for heraelf around the dormervrindow which looks into the whispering old appletree


the enclosure was formed by blankets nnd bed pprcads which by reason of their antiquity had been pennioned off to an undisturbed old age in th garret not common blankets or bedcprnads either bought an you buy yours out of a shop epim or woven by machinery without indivi duality or hisory


every one of these curtains had its story


the onw on the rlgm nearht the window nud nlrcady fulling into holes i nchfnose linen and evn now displays uufatied quaint pat terns of eleipyiookiug chinnmen iu conical haia btiiidink on tbe leaves of most singular herbage and with hands for ever raiei in act to strike bulls which never iur struck and never will bo till ihn end of timo


tbesh ura kuty scudder bud ofthn instructed mary were brought from tho ridin by hor pieatgreatgraiidfather ard ware her grandmothers weddingoarfcaius the grand mother who bud bluo eyes like hers aud was jut about her height


the next spread waa spun and woven by mrskuy s beloved aunt eunice


a mythical personage of whom mary gathered vagui ncnounls that sho was disiippoiuted in love and ihut this very article was part of a bridal outfit prepared in vuiu ngoiiist the return of one from una who never cainu back uud she heard of how phe pat vrvarily and pa tiently at bur work ibib poor aunt eunico month afier month siiirting every time she huard the nato fhut


every time she heiird tho tramp of a hordes hoof every time she heard the news of a bail in fight her ooiour meanwhile fadiug and lading us life nnd hope bled away at un inward wound till nt last the found comfort uui reunion beyond the veil


next to tbis was a bed quilt pieced in tiny blocks uonis of them bigger th n a sixpene containing as mrs katy eaid piectb of the gowns of all bar grandmothers aunts cousins and female relativeu for years back and mated to it was ons of the blankets whiuh had served mrs scuddera uncle in his bivouac at vlly forge when the american boldiers went on tbe xttoivs ith bloedii g feet nnd hd scarce anjtbing for daily bread excopt a i morning tmsfage of patriotpm and hops from i george washington


such were the memories woven info the lapeslry ofonr litlle boudoir


within tronting tho viado stands the larg


spinningwheel oae end adorueu wiih a snowy pile offlcsoy roll and beside it a reel ami a basket of mccinb of yarn aud open wilh its fuce divii on tiu btam of the wheel lay always


book with which he intervals of woik were lie gulled


theduky picture of whch we have apekon hung ngainst tio rough wal in one place and in another appeared en old engraved head of one of ihu madoanas of leonardo da vinci a piclure which to mary hud a aiytteriona interest from the fact of iis having been coat on shore after u luriiu storm mid luuud like a waif lying in the seaweed and mrs marvyn who hid deciphered fie signa ture hld not coied exploring till she found lor her iu an encyclopaedia a life or that wccderrul mauvvhoe greaties enlarges our ideus of what i possible to huiriaiiiiy and mary pondiring thtitvon felt the seaworn picture aa a conatalt vague inspiration


here our heroine spun for hours and houip with intervale when crouutcd ou a low eeat in the window she pored orer her book and then re turning again to her wrk thought of what she hvj read to tho lulling burr of the eoundiuj wheel


by chance a robin hml built iis nest fo th it from her retreat she could pee thi five little blue eggs whenever the patient brooding mother left them for a moment uncovered atlft sometimes aa she sat in dtoamy reveiiu reming herpmxll round arms on thu wiudowsil she funcied that the little feathered watebjr gavo her familiar nods and wtulib of a confidential nuture cocking the small head firs to om sids and then to the other to get a better view of her gentlo human neighbor


i dire say it seems to you reader that we have travelled in our story over a loog space of lime becauio we have talked so much and introduced somany pnrsonage anj reflections but


ia fact it is only ivelne day week sinco james sailed and tho egga which were brooded when he went are still tinbatched in the nest and the appletree has changed only in having now a majority of white blossoms over the pink buds


thh one week hag been a critical ono to our mary in it she has made the great discovery tbat ho loves aud eho has made her first step into the pay world and now she comes bick to her retirement to thiuk the whole over by herself


it feetns a dream to her tbat aha who sits there now reeling yam in her stuff petticoat and white bhortgown is the same who took the arm of colonel burr amid the blaze of waxlights and tho sweop of blks and ruftle of plumes


sho wonders dreamily as the renaemoers the dctk lovely face of the f reign madame bo brilliaut under its pjsvdoted hair ond flashing gems the rwet


foreign accents of the voice the tiny jawallel fan with its guuelug pictures aud upaikling tassels whence exhaled vagus aol dealing purfumes then ehg hears again that manly voice softened to tones fo seductive and sfisa ihose


hue ey es witli the tears in them and wutidera within herself that he couli havo kised her hand with buch veneration as if ihe hid been a throned queen


butherutheeoiiiulof busy pattertug footrtepsis heard on the old creaking staircase and boou the bows of mns friasye bonnet part the folds or the boudoir drapery and her mjrry mayday fuce looks in


well really mary how do you do to be eure


you wonder to uno mo dont you


but i thought i muit jubt run in a minute on my way up to miss marvyns


promised her at least a half a day though didnt sec how i waa to spare it for r tell miss wilcox i just run and run till it daos seem aa if my feet would drop off bat i thought i must just step in to siy that i for my part do admire ihe doctor more ban ever and i was tcllt ing your mother to nsusnt mind too much wha people ay


i most made miss wilcox angry stand ing up for him butl put it rigiit to her mil says i aliss wilcox you know folks must speak whits on thei raiml


in pirticular rainistew mut and you know mis


wilcx i gay that the doctor ii a good mm sind lives up to his tescbing


if any wwjr m iuic wuiiu uuvi iviu givea away every dullar


lo cau lay hands on to thobe poor negroe and works over em and teaches em as il ibey were bis brntheip and flnyn i misa wilcox you know i dnt spur myself night ncr day trying to plajgii you and do yaur work


to


give surielaoiion but wbiu ir coraua to njy oouscieuce aayj i mifs wilcox you know i always mist kpeak out aad if it was the lnst word i hud to nay on my dying bed id eay that i think tbe doottr is riht why


waat ihius he told about the slaveship and packing those p or


creuuresso that they ouldnt move uoi b ejtbc


why i drolare every time i turned over und stretched in bed i thought ol it tuul mijh i mibs wiloix i do believe that the jotimaeata of god will come down on u if some tbiugant done and i shall always stand by iho doitor says i md if youll believo mo jist


then i turned round and siw ihogeneml


aud the general he jist hnwhaircd right out and rays be good lor you liiss lrissy


that real grit saya ho


ami i like you hotter for it laws added miss priwy r fltciiyely i sbant loso by it for miss wilcox known the never can get any body to do ihu work for her that i will


do you ihiuk said mary that there are a great rainy made angry j


why bloa your heart child havent you heard


why


uiere never was such a talk in all newport


why you know mr simeon brown is gonu dear off to doctor stiles and mis brown i was making up her ldumcolored satin a mon day and you ought to a beard her talk


but i tell you i fought her


sho tied to talk lo mo eaid mis prissy sinking her voice to a mysterious whisper cause i never could come to it to sbv that i was willin to be lost if it was for the glory ot god and she always told me folks could just bring their raind right up to anything they knew they must und i just got tbo tables turned ou her for they talked and abused the doctor till they fairly woro me out and says i well ihps brown ill give in that you and mr brown do act up to your principles you cer tainly net us if you wure willing to be dunned aud so do all those folks who will live on tho blood and groans of iho poor african


as the doctor naid aud i should think by the way newport people arn making their money tbat they were all pretty willing to go tbat way though whether its for tho glory of godor not im doubting


but you see mary said miss prissy sinking her voice again to a aolemu whisper i never wan clear on that nninf


it fllistv ilifl eaam in inn fi rlpuudf nl


iulv j w ju lit cumi cw uu uicquiui high place to come to aud it didnt seem to be given tj me but i thought perbupp if it vai necessary it would bo given you kuow for the lord alwayi has baeu ao good to me that ive faith to believe that and so i just say the lord is my shepherd i nhnll not want and miss prissy hastily whisked a little drop out of her blue oye with bur hand kerohief


at this momeit mra soudder came into the boudoir wilh a face expressive of some anxiety


i suppose mis prissy has told you fho paid the news about the brown


thatll make a groat falling off in the doctors salary and feel for him bouausa i know it will cme hard to him not to he abo to help aud do especially for tbeee poor negroes just when he will


but then we must put everything on the tnos


economical pcala we cun and just try all uf tin to inikf it up to him


i waa ennaking to couii zlicdea about it when k


wna down here on mond y aud he is all clear he has made out tbreo paperu lor ounjace and oato uud dinah and they couldnt ono of em he hired to inare him and he payslroni what hoa seen already be hiw nn doubt


but theyll do enough moro to pay for their wages


woll eail miss prissy


i hwenfc got any botly to care tor but mysblf


i was telling sister tilaabelb one lime shes married and got four children that i could take a storm a good deal nasier thin rbe could cause i hadnt near eo many aaila to pull down aud now you just look to mo for the doctors shirts ciutso after this they shall all como in ready to put on if i mvo toifiit up till morning


and i hope misa juuddor you enn lrtjt mo to make them for if i io fay it myseif i aut afraid to do fine stitching loogeide of anybody aud hemetitohing ruffla


oo aid i havtnt shown you yet that french ititch i leirned of tbo nuns but you just aat your leart at rest about she doctor


hhirt


i always honght continued jtifs prisay laughing that should bavo inide a fumoud band aoout getting ip that tabriviolo in tha wilderness with tho blue nd tbo puiplo and line twined linen iia ooe of ay favorito passiges that n dlltereut things rou itnuw are useful to diiforout penpie


well siid mra scudder i see that its iur call to be a remnant small and despite j but hope wo shant nhiink from it


i tbught


hon i saw all those fathionablo people o out sunday tofiing their head aad looking fo b rnftilihat hoped grace would be given mo to o faithful


i


and what don llm fiutor yj sad ciia prssy


ho hni siil a wf hi


inlnv


ni io bu very much fed above all these ihini


ih vir said viisp


sy


thats oiu romlort hl iilvr know vthr


his


miirs ccm frrm aud uvmdea hat mssud er i


piid nkng her voice to a ivbispsr


in


you know


f hivdnc aiy children to nnvdn fur though i ten telling elizabeth tolhr jy


hn i wa making up frcks for her children that i bel evd old maids first slid ui did more providing for rhildnn thun niairid women hut nlill i do cntrive to slip away a pouudnolo now and then


in my little old s ver teapot that wan givea to m when thry ruttled old mrs simpons pro perty n nured her all through her lust hickne


and laid her out with my own hinds and as i was favinir if tver he doctor should want money you just m me know


thcnlt you


mips prissy raid mrs scaddor we all know where your hoar


ia and now added mu priwy vhat do yon i suppose they fay


wby they say oolouel burr is struck dead in live with our mury aud you know his wifeadeal and hfis a widower aud they do


sny that hl


get to be the next pieshent


sakes alivo


wull marymusi bo oareful if eho dont want to bn carried off for they do fay that hero cint any womau rest hln ihit sess enough of him


why theres hit poor frenchwoman madame


whuf do you call hr thats say ing with lha vuriioris


they sny


bhoa over head und ears in love with bitn


but ehos a married woman said mary it cant be possible


mra scudder looked reprovingly at mis prisy end for a ev momenta there was great ahaking of


heada and a whispered confurence hotonn the two ladies cnutng in misi


pritaa going ou saying as


sho went down stiiirs


well ir wotnoa will do tor my part caufc blame the men


in a few moments mies prissy rushed back ti much discomposed as a clucking hen who has teon a hawk well misa scudder what do you think p heros colonel buir come to call on tin ladies


mra scuddera first movement in common with all middleaged gonlleit oran was to put her hand to her heud and rt hoot that she had net on her best cap and alary looked down on her dimpled hand which wore blue from the contact with mixed yarn she hid jast beeu spinning


now


ill lei


i you what snid miss prusy wasnt it lucky you had mo here


forl first saw him coming in a the gate and i whipoed in quick as a wink and opeted the best room windowshutlerp and then i was back at tbe door and he ooivod to me ns if id been a queen aud says he mifs prissy how fresh youre look ing ihis mirningl you see i was in working at tho vimons but i never thought ai hed noticed in


aud ihja he inquired iu the htindoinot way for the ladies and the doctor and so i took htm inti the prlor and suttlod him down and then v ran into the study and you may depend upon it i flew round lively lor r few minutes


got the doctors sludygown eff snd got his best ooat on and pnt ou hia wig for him and started him up kinder lively you know it tkis me to gt him dosvn into this world nud ro tuore hos in titlking wilh him nnl


no you can jusl slip down and dress yoursslve easy a not


meanwhle clonul burr vim eutcriaining the sioiplemicded doctor wiih all the grace of ayaung npopbyte com c bit at the feet of superior truth


there arc some pope wlio i cceivo from nature as a gilt a son of graceful faoiiiiy of sympathy hy which they incline to lak on for the lime being the scntimiiuih und opiuions of thos wilh whom they converac as the chamsluoa wis fabed to change its hue with every surrounding finch are often supposed to be wilfully acting a part as exerting thetnsolve to flitter aud deceive when in fact they ar only framed eo seustive to the sphere of mental imtnalion which sur rounds others toat


it would require an exertion not ia souvs meauire to harmoirzi wilh it


in approicbing othijrs in conversation they are uke a miuiomii who j ins a performer ou an instrument it


i


itnpipaiuo for them to strike a duconl ur ir very nature tirgos ilium to bring into play ficulic


according iu vibrulioil with those which another is bwr iug


it was as ua tural mf poisibu for bcrr iu oomtusneo talking wilh ih djbcr


on whukf anil iocidjnts in tbd family oi ilcsijoul kiwardi nnd his ud tutor dr bllamy


and thoaco io glide oa to tho points of diffcreuci and aroemmt


iu thoologv with a suavity and difference whicb acted on tho g iod man line a juno sun on a badling elmtreb


f be doctor was soon widd awdka lalkiui iih fcrvant auimation ou tbo topio of diinteroaled heuovo lence burr


the muatiwhile studyiig him wilh


the quiet interest ol an obsfciver or natural history who ees now fpcies developing before him


at all ihe beat possible points ho iuteipossd sug genieu qietnn nud


aut up ljeciin in tho quioibjt miinor ror the djotor kuoolc dowu smiling over the while ai a mm


may who truly anrl genuinely dors not care a son for truth on any subjrsot not prictiotlly conneottd witb his own schemes in life


lie therefore gen ly guided too doctor to siil down tho stream of hia owu thoughts till bis bark glided out iuto the rmooth waters of the millenuinni on whicb with great simplicity


ik gave hia views at length


it was just in the midst of this that mary and her mother entered


burr interrupted tho conver sation to pay them the ccmpliment of the morn ing


to inquire for their health nud hope they buffered no inconvenience from their night ride from the party then seeing the dootor still looking eager to go on he ooutrived wilh gentlo dexterity to tie again he broken thread of oon vocation our oscdleut friend he said


was explain ing to me ilia viewb of a fuiuro millennium


i atiro you ladios that wo somotimeh find our selves in company which enables to believe in the perfectibility of the human specieb wo see family rotreats so unaflocm so charmiug in tbeir sim plicity where industry and piety so go hand iu hand


ono has only suppose all families suob to imagine a millennium


i thsro was no disclaiming this compliment be cause so delicately worded that while perfootly clear to tbe internal sense it was in a manner veiled and unspoken


meanwhile the dootor who sat ready to begin where ho left oil turned to bis cemplaisaut listener and resumed au expositiou f the apocalypse


to my mind it is certain i said as it is now three hundred yoirs since the filth vial was poured out there is good reason to supposethat tho sixth vial began to be poured out at the bo ginning of the lost enntury and has bseti run ning for a hiiudred years


or more so that it ia run nnavlv lint lh fpviiith nnd last viftl will begin to rnn early in the next century


yon anticipate then no rest for tbe world for somo time to c rnie v said burr certainly not siid tho doctor definitively there will be no rest from overturning


till lie whose right it is thall come


the page ho added concerning the drying up of tho river euphrates under thu sixth vial has a distinct rufcroncct i flunk to the account iu ancient writers of tho taking of babylon aud prefigures ia like manner that tho resources of that modern babylon the popish power shall continue to be drained off as they hve now been drying up for a confury or more till at last there will oomo a sudden and fiaal downfall of thit powur


and after that will come the lirst triumphs of truth and righteousness iho marriagesupper of the


lamb


thee invest igationa must uudjiibiedl v possess a deep interest for you


sir said


burr the hope of a future as well as lha tradition of a pat ago


of gold eeettn to have been one of tbu most cherished ooaosptioci f


the human brdast ia those tinns continued the doctor tha wbolo earth will be of one language


which lbnuiigi fir do you suppose will ba oonsjdei ed worthy ot such piefmiaence inquired his listener


that will probably we deoide by an amicablo cooforeuce ct all aatioksi said the doctor and tho ono universally considered most valuable will be adoplvd and ihe literature of all other nations being translated into it thoy will gradually drop all otlusr tongues


brother sules think it will bo the hebrew


i uin not clear on that point


tho hebrew foims to me too inflexible and net ufllaiudtly copious


i do uot think he added after heine notmiileiation that it will bo tbe hebrew tongue


i urn most happy to bear it sir said burr gravely i never ftlt much attracted to that lan guage


but ladies ho added starting tip with animation i must improve this flue weather to ask you to show me the view of the roa fram thii little bill beyond your house it is evidently so floe i rust i am not intruding too far on your morning


by uo mains sir said mrs saudd r rieiug


well go with you in a rnomsot


chapter iii


the boarding house and its inmates


as they proceeded in the direction of the boarding house where harry resided the latter indulged in a running commentary upon the in habitants of the mansion called migration lodge


the presiding genius of the establishment the protecting angel of the residents said he is mrs constantia theodosia osqueeze for merly miss constantia theodosia orourke of muckanmuddy castle county down ireland


shes down enough thats clear


her ances tors were full blown princes when bills and bows were in fashion and she certainly wears the arms which once they wore for she handles stiff bills and draws long bows with great dex terity


she abuses the saxon in what she calls iligant english and dates her troubles from the union but whether from the national one or her marriage with old squeeze a commissariat officer i never could exactly define


nimporte poor woman she has her troubles no doubt and the fall from muckanmuddy castle into that slough of despond migration lodge seems not to be the least of them


miss kathleen more familiarly termed katie osqueeze the o by the way is preserved as the last lingering gleam of milesian nobility who has just passed sweet fifteen is an only daughter she does the pensive and sprightly alternately wears long curls affects french strums the piano villainously sings id est screams excrutiat ingly and has an overweening propensity for scarlet cloth


but the gem of the establish ment is the page


a page by minerva he is a whole volume


he indulges in the name of nips


whence he came from whom he de scended or his age is altogether a mystery


there is a legend extant that he was an orphan consigned to the maternal care of mrs orourke before marriage but i have my doubts


my opinion is that he sprang into life ready armed from the brain of some imp of mischief if so he does not discredit his parentage


however he has his good points he is a capital forager staunch to those he likes and keeps their secrets close as a bramahs patent lock


i fortunately succeeded in establishing a confidence by pre senting him with sixpence for placing a hot cin der in my boot and doubling the amount upon his introducing epsom salts into my water bot tle


most people would have thrashed him i took the wiser course and secured a friend


the last douceur clinched it


my word said he youre a rum un just arter my own heart youre a gennelman as likes a joke and puts up with one


i allers tries the new comers and as they takes it i does a ditter


from this spe cimen of his phraseology you will perceive that he is not an elegant speaker but he is a most expressive one


i have run through the cata logue just in timemigration lodge stands be


fore you


now for the introduction


the house was a large unmeaning looking edifice round it ran a very ricketty balcony over which two or three gentlemen with flour ishing moustaches were carelessly leaning and discussing the merits of ignited cigars


a small garden in front contained some floral specimens so thickly garmented with dust as to render their classification a matter of no small difficulty they were more like vegetable petrifactions than living things


a broken rake and watering pot wanting spout and handle manifested the care with which the dual process of weeding and irrigating was conducted in the sickly par terre


if the faded flowers had their moral the utensils also put forth their warning as they were placed across the narrow pathway which led to the house and spoke as plainly as such things can speak ladies and gentlemen look after your legs


this ingenious device entirely emanated from nips who was of opinion that many of the visitors held their heads too high and required a little moral correction through the medium of their shin bones


it was an idea worthy of a great and philosophic genius and was particularly successful and effective after the sun had retired to rest and the moon was favoring some other portion of the globe with her smiles


when such accidents did happen and they not infrequent nips was sure of obtain ing a sound rating to which he returned one unvarying reply cant help it mem them things is amongst the unaccountables ive throwed em away hundeds o times but they allers comes back


you know mem they was hairbrooms in your famly and you brought em from muckanmuddy carsel


theyre werry fond of you the only vay as i knows to get rid of em is to buy new uns to show em how shabby they are


this double appeal to the feelings and the pocket invariably carried the day and left nips munitions of war to rest in such peace as he chose to allow them


a smart rattattat at the door produced a species of scuffling inside and a clatter of tongues from which nips shrill treble sepa rated itself and rose above the storm with ter rible distinctness


no fault of mine mem how can i anser a door in this here costume rattattattaoh


go it my pippins my vord you vont be so noisy ven old thomas is a knockin nails into your cedarrattattattatta i hear em mem im just a givin my coun


tinance


a vash down and vippln on my sarveat tablerattattattattattattattattarthats a rumun and no mistake that gennelmens in a wiolent prospiration i should think he wont water his colonial ale at dinner for fear he might catch cold no certanny not


now for lt beg pardon said nips looking demurely at mordaunt did you knock


cos if you did im werry sorry to keep you a vaitin but i vas at my daily dewotions in the kitchin


a friend o yourn mr mording


an old one nips


werry good then dont neether of you eat any of that hashed mutton today


i must put a stop to them shoulders lve pretty nigh worn my teeth out a polishin blade bones


muttons bad enough but blade bones with nothink on em is werry indifferent feedin


with this piece of friendly advice he ushered the gentleman into the drawingroom where mrs osqueeze sat enthroned in all the dignity of a faded green silk and a turban cap of similar hue intermixed with white and profusely decorated with ante diluvian artificial flowersthat is if manu factories of such articles were established in those remote ages


on being presented to frank she rose with that grace which is pecu liarly characteristic of the duck tribe on land


miss osqueeze having previously ascertained that a stranger was about to join the domestic hearth selected the pensive mood for her debut and reclined negligently in one corner of the room upon a low ottoman apparently absorbed in the perusal of some interesting volume and totally unconscious of the presence of such vile clay at man


katie my darling katie said mrs osqueeze throwing all the tenderness of a devotedlyattached mother into her tones and shurely yell rise and acknowledge the jontle min


the young indy thus addressed sprang from her couch like the startled fawn and with a la mamma


how could you hid herself and curls behind the ample proportions of her dam


mrs osqueeze having apologised for the timidity of the fair one after some persuasion induced her to come forward with all her blushing honors thick upon her


no doubt a most interesting colloquy would have ensued but at that moment nips thrust his head in at the door and announced that dinner vas a vaitin


this welcome sound brought the cigar smokers from the balcony one of whom offered his arm to miss osqueeze whilst frank did the attentive to the lady of the establish ment


mordaunt brought up the rear having received a sign from the page that he had a communication to make


tell that friend of yourn mr mording not to be werry ravenous over them cabbages that chap from the turon with the big whiskers is uncommon partial to em and as we ant on werry intimate terms i biled em vith the caterpillars in thats all


frank who had been accustomed to the con ventional forms of good society was not a little astonished at the absence of the polish which throws a charm around the social band


the gentlemen of the moustache and whiskers ate ravenously and bolted their food without com pelling it to undergo the process of mastication which according to abernethy is so conducive to health


miss katie on the contrary picked up a grain or two of rice and conveyed them to her mouth with that seeming want of appetite which was exhibited by the lady in the ara bian nights who compensated for her absti nence at dinner by taking a hearty supper with the ghoul


mordaunt and frank were extreme ly suspicious of nips cookery but on his whispered assurance the beef and taters is all right they confined themselves to the discus sion of that plain and substantial fare


frank having ventured an offer to wine with miss katie her mama replied for her no thankee sir shes got some beer


katies health is dilicate and her midical attindant recomminds malt


but lor misther earle shure youre barely ating a taste


try this lovily vinison hash its prepared afther the fashion of muck anmuddy casle


the offer was respectfully declined but the gentlemen of the moustache and whiskers were more accommodating and a tolerable quantity of the bonne bouche was transferred to their plates


scarcely however had the attack fairly commenced when one of them started up in horror exclaiming whats this


at the same time exhibiting the unmis takeable semblance of a mouse


nips you goodfornothing spalpeen cried mrs osqueeze in inexpressible agony at this refutation of the excellence of the muckan muddy dainty its all your doings


not at all mem replied the impertur bable individual i knowd how it would turn out ven our cat was starved he fed upon mice vilst there vas any but he couldnt stand board vages


try another cat mem


a venison hash whispered harry to frank made shakspeare fashion with rats and mice and such small deer


but shure this is no mouse


broke out mrs osqueeze as she extricated a gigantic cockroach from its muttony bed


i should say not mem rejoined nips with his accustomed unconcern its an un common good imitashun of a cockroach


theyre in season now


shoulders of mutton ashed into vinsun allers attracts em they found that next door and cut em accordinly


leave off shoulders mem and my vord vont the cockroaches soon valk their chalks


the devilchimed in the turonite as he turned over the cabbage remaining on his plate


quite different said nips its only a caterpillar them


sort o things is werry harm less and the french gennelmen as used to lodge here allers took to em in dry veather cos you see frogs vas scarce then


every vun to his taste but for my part i perfers wegetabels plain


made any more alarmin diskiveries sir


mama mama cried miss katie with a shudder you must discharge nips the abo minable little horror


thankee miss nothins so pleasant to the feelins as a grateful buzzim


i should have given your ma varnin long ago only i vas puzzled to find a boy sootable for the place


lt ant every vun miss as is trustvorthy not as hed run avay vith the plate for that


ere jar man silver ant a werry waluable article or be bothered vith them


eighteenpenny brooches as you make sich a fuss about but you know miss it ant every day you can pick up a lad to take your letters to soger hocifers and bring back ansers and say nothin about it to nobody like i do


the sharp shot struck home the young lady emitted a piercing shriek and sank softly from her chair


the gentlemen were profuse in offers of assistance but mrs osqueeze waved them majestically away a gesture which plainly in timated their presence was disagreeable and added to the harrowing nature of the event


the two friends availed themselves of the op portunity and quitted the room


what think you of my portrait painting enquired harry


excellent likenesses i must confess


but surely this is not an everyday scene


no only a grand denouement the termina tion of an act one of number nips legendary drolleries


things will progress quietly enough for a time and migration lodge resume its placid ease


by the way if you could abjure prejudices i would recommend you to domi ciliate here


if not a pleasant it is a safe home


you will find a staunch friend in nips


you shake your head think over it sleep upon it and tomorrow issue your fiat


the friends then shook hands and separated for the night


to be continued


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


chapter ix


the marketold acquaintances


it was saturday night the market in george street was lighted up and the weekly throng was pouring in


he who is desirous of studying every phase of society the complicated ma chinery of life can find no better field than this


shut up in narrow walls as in the box of the camera obscura is a faithful and unerring pic ture which the eye takes in at a single glance


ranged on each side of the stonepaved edi fice are the little stalls where sit the venders of edibles displayed in the most tempting forms to attract the attention of passers by


in one divi sion of the market fruit and vegetables of every description are exposed for sale and in another butchers and poulterers hang out their wellfed unctuous specimens of animal food


the artisan having performed his six days toil with wife on arm and the biggest girl of the family close behind basket in hand narrowly scrutinizes each coveted joint before he invests a portion of his wages in the purchase of the sundays dinner


she good soul equally careful assists him might and main in chaffering with the shopkeeper and bating him down in price


even a penny knocked off the sum demanded is a source of triumph is chuckled over at the time and referred to again with delight as the plump and juicy meat smokes on the table it makes the food twice as sweet


how happy is this philosophy of saving not the grasping sordid selfish pinching of the miser but the honest feeling of carefully hus banding and wellstewarding those worldly goods gained from the purest of all natures sourcesthe sweat of labours brow


mixed with the swart artisan and stout labourer are the middle classes who send their domestic quota to make equal provision for the day of rest


but it must not be supposed that business alone causes this constant flow of the human tide


pauls walk and exeter change in the olden days were not more fruitful in assignations than sydney market on a saturday night


throughout the week this place of meeting is anxiously looked forward to and sure to see you at the market usually accompanies every street parting


hoary gallants well fledged libertines and downcheeked boys may be seen looking with fixed meaning and impertinent stare at every petticoat that brushes by


at the slightest sign of encouragement they proceed to whisper salutations the feminine titter and lor well to be sure


betoken success while the go along stupidim not what you take me for are as significant signs of the arrow having missed its mark


on the evening of our story the place was more densely thronged than usual


the christ mas season of festivity was approaching


stroll ing leisurely along was the tall form of eustace granyard on his arm leant sir blazes potts a military gentleman of the old school who if report did not belie him had made some ex tensive female conquests in the earlier part of his life


though he negatived by his age any more than paternal solicitude for the youthful fair he still claimed the right to take a passing glance at them


sir blazes had only been once duped of late years but the lesson read to him was sufficient


some mischievous spirit con scious of his amatory weakness despatched a delicate note appointing a meeting


the place named the pump on the south head road was not very romantic but the rosescented trian gular with its mysterious crowquill traced your own amelia finished the business


sir blazes attended at the appointed time and paced backwards and forwards for half an hour


unluckily for him a drizzling rain came on which wetted him to the skin his teeth began to chatter and his joints to stiffen


no amelia appeared but as the unfortunate lover turned away in despair cursing the sex and his own folly he met a brother officer face to face who in accents of well feigned amazement enquired what the blazes potts could be doing there


sir blazes at once saw through the hoax and took to his bed for a week with a mixed com plaint of vexation and rheumatism


the love dose was severe but it completely effected the cure of the patient


by jove


what a sweet figure cried eus tace as a sylphlike female form glided swiftly by threadjng the intricacies of the crowd with lightness nnd


dexteritydont you see her sir blazes


my dear eustace replied sir blazes my eye sight is not what it was twenty years ago nor do i enjoy such frivolities with the same gusto


in the morning of life every thing wears the couleur de rose but as the day advances the rose tint fades and the sober gray steals over the scene


thats all very true sir blazes no one knows these things better than yourself but shes pink colored so spare your homily just now and me said eustace as he hastily quitted the arm of his companion and followed the re ceding form of the damsel


just like em just like em murmured sir blazes


mars and venus


devils in love and war


egadtis the best banner to fight under after all and uttering these words with the unpleasing accompaniment of a short wheezy cough


sir blazes proceeded in the direction eustace had taken


closely following with lynx eye and stealthy catlike pace were our old acquaintances toby and lipey a portion of whose avocations was to ease the market visitors of their superfluous cash


toby sported a blue jacket and trousers and a tarred canvas hat as he then hailed for a southsea whaler


lipey mounted the moleskin and cabbagetree in the stockman style and had just brought a mob of ossos hover land from adlaide for mr ferguson


at least such was the account they were prepared to give of them selves to all unpleasantly impertinent inter rogators


toby gave his companion the office of the knucklers as this class of thieves is called lipey lounged up and without appearing to be in communication with his pal came sufficiently near to converse with him lts the swell bouger lipey as we was marmplotted of


hes got the purse in his coat tail ivw just sounded him round by the other double and vell prop him at the steps


lipey obeyed these directions and vanished like lightning while toby sauntered along keep ing his eye on eustace and gradually diminish ing the distance between them


at this moment mrs turner entered the mar ket attended by her servant


amongst the approaching crowd her quick eye recognized the gentleman who was formerly described as holding a teteatete with her when vernon stak ed his money on the hazard of the die


edward clarendon for so he was named was most ela borately and fashionably dressed but the ap pearance of unstudied negligence which he pre sented was in effect the result of consummate art


constant practice and a taste in that direction had enabled him to attain that most difficult of all achievements ars celare artem


he was by profession an actor by nature an artist the same kind mother had given him an attractive form he like a grateful son rendered the gift more valuable he graced the column with a corinthian capital


it in needless to say that handsome ned was the greatest female draw at the thespian temple


my dear ned said mrs turner with evi dent pleasure at the meeting where have you been


tis an age since i saw you


what have you been doing with yourself


where have i been


what have i been doing


replied he with frigidity and hauteur these are questions i might with greater jus tice put to you madam


hey day


whats in the wind now


well


i declare who would believe it


why the dear pet is actually jealous of its own annie


for once madam you are wrong in your surmises jewels exposed too often are apt to lose their value


my dear ned do leave off attempting to play coriolanus and timon romeo suits you much better


so faithful a juliet is certainly sufficient to put fire into an icicle said clarendon ironi cally


bright mirror ot truth and constancy i admire your choice of colours


vernon the green and the knights of the scarlet stay sir exclaimed mrs turner inter rupting him hastily while the blood flew up into her usually pale brow


i have yet to learn by what right you arrogate to yourself the power of criticising my conduct or playing the spy upon my actions


if you believe that i will sub mit to be thus insolently schooled or that i will endure these indignities you will find that belief to be visionary


allow me madam to applaud your heroics they become you admirably


you are a con summate actress and would make your fortune on any stage


but let me remark that i am just as unlikely to watch your movements as i am to feel the slightest interest in them or yourself


adieu


madamhenceforth we are strangers


as clarendon was moving haughtily away the lady forgetting herself for a moment told him to go to the devil


he turned round and making her a graceful bow quietly replied madam far be it from me to wish you so long and peril ous a journey half the distance betwixt us will be sufficient


he did not stay to watch the effect of this coup which was the finishing stroke of the game he was quite content to have made it


the wretch


she muttered to herself how cool he is but he loves me yet


what other thoughts mrs turner might have felt inclined to indulge in about the quarrels of lovers being the beginning of love were cut short by a cry of stop thief and the rush of the crowd after lipey who with his pal had been detected in an attempt to make free with the purse of eustace granyard


toby was se cured on the spot after a desperate struggle but


lipey by a dexterous sleight got out of the market but the chase was in full cry


stop thief


stop thief magical words which send the blood tingling through the veins


adult and child join in the pursuit and women raise their shrill voices to urge them on


breathless panting fearful on speeds the human game his nervous arm thrusts impediments aside an officious foe measures his length on the ground another comes who shares the same fate


on rushes the fugitive while fresh followers get upon his trailoh rare sport


hunting down fellow man


divine excitement


he stum bles hes down


hark


to the wild hurrah


nohe recovers himself but his steps flag the parched and blackened tongue protrudes from his lips the eyeballs start forward


one effort more and the covert is gained durands alley is near a few yards and all is safe


lipey makes the last desperate rushhe turns into the dark thoroughfare and falls into the grasp of a policeman


the try of the campaign


written in a lent in the crimea


continued from our last


chapter


v the battlefield


going out of our camp next morning to see where our own division lay i heard o moaning on my right on the bank of one of the ravines we had fired up the preceding day


proceeding towards the sound i found it came from a wounded russian who had made a pillow of the corpse of a brother soldier which lay on its back its breast pierced and left arm broken by a round shot


beside these lay two other soldiers one alive wo inded in the head and resting like the other sufferer on a comrades corpse which lay on its face


the first man by signs and words earnestly begged for water which was brought him and a surgeon coming up examined his wounds


the flesh of both his thighb had been torn away ho was too badly injured to be moved or even relieved otherwise than by trying to make him comfortable as he lay and next morning it was a relief to hear that he had died in the night


on the knolls around were about a dozen wounded r en who had laid there all night in torment and to whom our soldiers now afforded a tem porary relief


the sides of the ravine or rather gully wore sprinkled all the way with bodies and with knapsacks and accoutrements thrown away by the flying enemy


on the slopes too and the paths crossing them were lying dead men here and there with scattered knapsacks and arms


one dead russian appeared to have been lying on his back probably wounded or perhaps killed when a shot from our batteries towards which his head was turned had carried away all his features leaving an unsightly block and had broken his foot short off at the instep where it hung back as if on a hinge


but it was not till reaching the plain on which stood the unfinished signaltower already mentioned as the contested pcint in the french attack that iheic appeared signs of a sanguinary conflict


many rus sians lay dead there and they lay thicker near the signaltower the hillock on which it was built being strewn with them


three or snr had been bayoneted while defending the entrance j and in the narrow space within which was divided into com partments were three orfoth small groups slain


in the defence


anoi hpr spot near contained three or four hundred orpies


x


biding back up lhe coursfl of the river we came to the slopes whet the british had been jnosji warmly engaged jnd here it was that tho real nature of the struggle first became apparent the islope below tho opaulfliepv on wwchtiihe gun bat tery had been posted was covered with men of thoui rd nnd rd thickly intermixed with greycoated ihelineted hussians


within the tromtkrk the enemy lay in ranks


que company seemed to have fallen as it stood there was no heaping of the tiodios one on ariobierrbut it would uavetjeendubcult to stop between them


some lay with their faces buried in the soil as if they liao fallen as they turned to fly others on their backs with bullotholes through their foreheads a few had their hands out stretched as if still grasping their weapons or grappling with their enemy


altogether i estimated the


bodies in and about the breastwork at seven or eight hundred of whom twothirds were hus eians and the returns of the officers charged with the burial duty did not much differ from that conjecture


passing onward to


the right of the russian position tho plain was again thickly strewn with dead the i tall bear skinb showing where the guards had ionght


in a narrow hollpw way i observed a linoflf russians who seemed to lave fallen whije using f as a breast work


ascending the dope to


the top of jthe position the bodies there bore the marks of cannon shot thiswas where our are had turned the column in a spot to the left fifty or oixtybodies showed where the highlanders had poured in their fire at tho dose of the tattle and again on the plains at the top of the heights files of slain with the round shot still in some instances sticking in the farthest body marked tho line of retreat where the artillery had last fired upon the enemy


all over the ground so grimly strewn were numerous parties burying the dead and carrying off the woundid both friends and foes


hospitals had been established in the village north of the river in some empty houses on each side of the road


here the surgeons of the army and some from the navy were in terribly full prac tice j and as thosp whose wounds were already dressed were home to the sea others from the field took their places


parties of sailors carrying hammocks assisted the soldiers who were provided with stretchers for the wounded and the road to the beach was crowded with these


someatray cobsacks were been during the day hovering on our flank and rear anda detachment of cavalry patrolled tho plain we had been marshalled on the day before to protect the hospitals and burial parties


as i stood on this plain sketching the position of the russian army a clergyman approached an open grave to the edge of which a party of artillerymen brought a body wrapt in a cloak


it was that of lieutenant cockerell whoie leg had been carried away by a cannon shot th day before while in action with his batr tery near this spot aid who had died after amputation


two entire days were occupied in re moving the traces of conflict and carrying the wounded to the ships


the russian arms and accoutrements left on the field were collected in heaps from whence the curious gathered trophies to hand down to posterity as mementoes of a famous ft id the eagles on the front of the aelmets of the imperial guard seemed in greatest request for this purpose and though on the second evening i examined some hundreds of these helmets i found nil had been stript of the ornaments so contented myself with a pouchbelt


some were so fortunate as to get excellent rifles but the common muskets were very shabby in appearance and were mostly thrown away after being broken


one english soldier was said to have found forty gold pieces on a dead body and i heard of a drummer of the guards who assisting a wounded russian officer received irom him his purse


this the man wok care of and gave to the captain of his company who forwarded it to the russian on board ship but it was


returned with a request that the drummer would keep it as a token of the owners grati tude


on the plain near the signaltower where the struggle was hottest on the part of the french our allies left a stone inscribed victoire de la alma with the date


the english left no monument on their fatal hill but it needs none


the inhabitant will return to the valley the burnt village will be rebuilt the wasted vineyards replanted and tillage witl efface the traces ef the conflict but tradition will for centuries continue to point with ho doubtful finger to the spot where the british infantry thinned by a storm of cannon shot drove the battalions of the czar with terrible slaughter from one of the strongest positions in europe


cuamee vl this kaicua and the balvek


amid this scene of blood it seemed un natural that any one could find time to dis other than fc violent death


but the cholera still exacted its daily tribute


major wellesley of tbe staff died of it


oh the morning of the battle


brigadier tylden of the engineers whom i met riding over the ground in good health on the following day never left the field but expired after a few hours illnesb and there were many others who passed unharmed through the combat only to die a less soldierly death by pesti lence


tlio road between the alma and the katcha traversed by the army on the rd lay as before over dry grassy plains


here we expected to find the enemy awaiting us but ascending the ridge which overlooks the valley wo saw ithe heights unoccupied


the lesson on the alma had been bo enarp that thv enemy no ver


btoa again in toe field j and could he have found heart to hold the position it would scarcely have been prudent for him to risk a battle where the pursuit might carry the victors into sebastbpol along with tho vanquished


the position pn the katcha is in one respectj more advantageous than that on the alma


like tho latter it has a village on the norfii bank of the iwcr beyond which w a plain but the pain in bis instance instm of slopinjg npjfards against the lineof fire is quite level for abfaut jfiseo quarters of a mile and the lower range of heights on which tho cannon would have been posted being less elevated than the knolls occupied by the artillery at the alma every shot that bounded along the plain would have told with double efieot


except sttho ford the banks of the river were high and as bteep as the aides of a trench


it was such position as english troops would have held against the world in arms and had the enemy made a determined stand there the conflict would have been no less desperate and bloody than that of the th


v


though it was scarcely noon when we reached thelieighto beyond he river we encamped there for the night


the village extended for some distance along the narrow valley and became up the stream extremely pretty with nice while houses standing amid jtplara and surrounded by vineyards garaeng and stackyards


the cottages had been deserted in evident haste i bedsteads were still standing large chebts which had apparently held the household gods and treasures were open and empty and there were cradles from which the infants bad lately been snatched in burry and alarm


all the cottages were very neat and clean and the iurniture spoke of comfort this as well as the doors and rafters was appropriated by tbe soldiers as firewood to cook their rations and from every doorway might je seen emerging a forager with a beam i bench or a chest and under every ampfire were blazing the splinters of ionic cherished lar or longdescended heirloom


many cute lingered with feline tenacity about these forsaken thresholds winking lazily at the new comers as they suckled their kittens in the sun and ap parently indifferent so that mice were plentiful whether russians or british held the village


i carried a small black one which one ol our people picked up on the bank of the river on my holsters for some time feeding him with biscuit but during my absence from the saddle he made off


many ownerless dogs made friends with the army here and o doubt will long be found in the ranks all ans wering of course to the name of katcha


at this place the scotch greys and the th regiment joined the army


between this river and the balbek the allied ariies marched so close to each other on the th that the red coats almost intermingled with the blue and the officers of the two nations rode together prince napoleon conversing with tbo duke of cambridge


the guards and highlanders were on tbe right and were much admired by tbe french officers who called them superb and magnificent


they also praised highly our artillery the horses and equip ment of which were certainly not to be surpassed


a yawning rift half a mile wide separated the heights on the opposite sides of the balbek


beyond the stream the aspect of the country changes from grassy plains to hills divided by deep ravines and covered with low oakcoppice


a steep road which the knglisli and french artillery descended together led us to tbe river


down the bill we found two


waggons painted green abandoned by the uubsianb they contained a great dumber of copper pans and dishes and about rounds of rifle ammunition the balls pointed and fitting a twogrooved rifle


the russian method of folding a cartridge is particularly neat and con venient the end can be twisted off and the powder exposed in a mo ment


b be continued


a chapter from charles omalley the trish dragoon the duel


a small and narrotf ravine between two furzecovered dells led to the pen space where the meeting had been arranged for


as we reached this therefore we were obliged to descend from the drag and proceed the remainder of tbe way afoot


we had ndt gone manyyards wben astep was heard approaching and the nest moment beaufort appeared


his usually easy and degage air was certainly tinged with somewhat of constraint and though his soft voice and half spaile were as perfect as ever slightly flurried expression aboujt the lip and


a quick and nervous motion of his eyebrow bgspokfe a heart it completely at ease


he lifted his foraging cap most cermoniously to salute us as we came up and casting ah anxious look to see if any others were following stood quite still


i think it right for me to mention major oshaughnessy said be jn a voice of tpost dulcet sweetness that i am the only friend of captain trevyllian on the ground and though i have not the slightest objection to captain baker being present i hope you will see the propriety of limiting the witnesses to the three persons now here


upon my conscience as far as f amcoocerned er my friend either we ar perfectly indifferent if we fight before three or threw thousand


in ireland we rather like crowd


of course then as ypif fee no objection to my proposidonv i may oount ipon youi cooperation in the event of anyintrnsioh i mean that while we upon our sides will no permit anyof ourfriends tocomejfdrwardyou wiu equally exert yourself with jroprs


here we are bkker and niysdfneifter more nor leas we expect no oner and want no one so that i humbly cohfeetve airthe preliminaries you are talking of will never be required


beaufort tried to smile and bit his lips while a small red spot upon his cheek sprike that some deeper feeling of irritation than the mere careless manner of the major could aic count for still rankled in his bosum


we nbir walked on without speakiug except when occasionally some passing observation of beaufort upon the fineness of the evening or the rugged nature jof the road broke the sileoee


as we emerged from the little mountain pass into the open meadow land the tall and saldier lite jggureof trevyllian was theiristobject that presented itself he was btanding beside a litueston and seemed occuplies in dechfering thb inscription he turned at the nbise of oui ajpproach and calmly waited our coming


his eye glanced quickly from the feature of oshaughnessy to those of baker but seeming rapidly reassured as he iwalked forward las face at once recovered its usual severity and its cold impressive look of sternness


all right said beaufort in awhifeper the tones of which i overheard as he drew near to his friend


trevyllian smtled in return but did not speak


during the few momenta which passed in conversation between die seconds i turned fiom the spot vrith baker and had scarcely time ts address a question to himj when oshaughnessy called outhollo baker


come here a moment


ihe three seemed now in eager discussion for some minutes when baker walked towards trevyllian and saying something appeared to ti ait for his reply


this being obtained he joined the others and the moment afterwards came to where i was standing you are to toss for first shot


omalley


oshaughnessy has made that proposition and the others agree that with two crack marksmen it is perhaps the fairest way


i suppose you have no objection of course x shall mike none


whatever oshaughnessy decides forme i am ready to abide by


well then as to the distance sasd beaufort loud enough to be heard by me where i was standing


oshaughnessys reply i could not eatch but it was evident from the tone of both parties that some difference existed on tbeppirit


captain baker shall decide between us said beaufort at length and they all walked away to some distance


during all the while i could perceive that trevylliaes uneasiness and impatience seemed extremehe looked from the speakers to thfe moustain pass itnd strained his eyes in every direction


it was clear that he dreaded some interruption


at last unable any longer to control his feelings he called out beanfort i say what tbe devil are we waiting for now


nothing at present said beaufort as he came forward with a dollar in his hand


come major oshaughnessy you shall call for your friend


he pitched the piece of money high into the air and watched it as it fell on the soft grass beneath


hed for a thousand cried shanghneasy running over and stooping down j and head it is t youve won the first shot whispered baker i for heavens sake be cool


beadfort grew deadly pale as he bent over the crown piece and seemed scarcely to ave courage to look his friend in


the face


not so trevyllian


he phlled off his gloves without the slightest semblance of emotionbutfoned up his dlfitting black frock to the throatand thvowing ajapid glance around seemed bnly eager to begiia the eombat fififemifefes andtbewords onetwo isxactly i ihy cane shall mark that spot dfeyilisb long paces you make them said oshaughnessy who did not seem toapprove jpf


they havesome cohfonnded advantage in this depend upon it said the major in a whisper tq baker


are you ready inquired beaufort


readyquite ready your ground then


t as trevyllian moved forward to


he muttered something to his friend


i did not hear the first part but the latter words which met me were ominous enoughjfor


i as i intend to shoot him


tis just as well as v it is


whether this was meant to be overheard ana intimidate i knew not bat its effect proved directly opposite my firm resolution to hit my antagonist was now confirmed and and no compunctious vjsitings unnerved my arm


aswe took our places jsome little delay again took place the fluft of my pistol iaving fallen and thus we remained ml ten or twelve seconds steadily regarding each other


at length oshaughoessy came forward and putting my weapon in my hand whispertg low remember yoti have but one chance


you are both ready cried beaufort


beady


then onetwo


the last word was lost in the reporvtof fijy pistol which went off at this instant jftjf second the iiash and smoke obstruff tfiy view but tae moment after i saw trevyllian stretched upon the ground with his mend kneeling beside him


my first impulse iraqs to rush over for now all feeling ofenmity was buried in most heatfelt anxiety for his fete but as i was stepping forward oshaughnessy called out stand fast my boy hes only wounded and the same moment he rose slowly from the ground with the


assistanceof his friend and looked with the same feild gaze around him


such a look


i shall never forget it there was that intense expression of searching ansiety as if he aought to trace the outlines of some visionary spirit as it receded before him


quickly reassured as ft seemed by the glance he threw on all sides his countenance lighted upnot with pleasurebat with a fiendish expression of revengeful triumph which even his voice evinced as he ealled outu its my turn now


i felt the words in their full force as i stood silently awaiting my death wound the pause was a long one twice did hfe interrupt his friend as he wabout to glve the word by an expression of suffering pressing his hand npon his side and seeming to writhe with torture and yet this vras mere counterfeit oshaughnessy was now coming forward to interfere and prevent these interruptions when trevyllian called out in a firm tone im ready


i the words one two the pistol slowly rose fais dark eye measured me coolly steadily his lip curled anh just as i felt thut my lst moment of life had arrived heavy sound of a horse galloping along


the rocky causeway seemed to take off his attention


his frame trembledhis hand shook and jerking upwards his weaponi the ball passed higfover my head


t l


ton bear witness i fired in the sir said trevyllian while the large drops of perspiration rohedfrom liis forehead andhisfeatures worked ab if in a fit


you saw st ind yon beaufortjioy friendon alsopeakj why wjh you not speak f be calm trevyllian be calm for heavens ake


whats the matter withyou


the affair is then ended said baker and most happily so you are i hope not dangerously wounded


as he spoke ctrvyuians features grew deadly liyidllwlfdper mouth quivered slightly hiseybecame fixed his atm dropped heavily besade him and with one low faint moani hcletl fainiing to the ground


as we bent over him i noiir perceived that another person had joined our party


i he was a short determined iboklng man of about fortyi with black eyes and aquiline features


before i hd titne to guesswho it might be i heard o spafftghnesby address him as colonel conyers


h is dying i saidbeaufortstill stooping oyer


his friend whose cold hand he grasped withm iiis owls pobtj pbor fellow he red in the asr said baker as he spoke in reply to a quetion frim conyers what he answered i heard not but baker


re


yes i am certain of it


we all saw it


had you not better examine his wound said conyers in a tone of sarcastic irony i could have struck him for


is jourmend not hit


perhaps he is bleeding


yes said oshaughnessy let us look to the poor fellow now


so sayipg with beauforts aid he unbuttoned his frock and succeeded in opening lhe waistcoat there was no trace of blood anywhere and the idea of internal hemdarhage at once occurredtotu when conyers stooping down pushed pr aside saying at the same time yourfearafor his safety need not distress ybu much look here


as he ispoke hetore opeirhis shirt land disclosed to oar almost donbting ww a vest of ichldff jmfln the skin and compietey pitpl proof


i cannot diescribe the effect this sight produced upon us


beaufort sprang to hiis feet with a bbund as he iscrmed ont rather thah spoke


no man believes me to have been aware


no no beaufort yonr reputatiop is very fr removed from such a jstain said conyers


oshaugbnessy was perfectly speechless r he looked from one to the other as thoogb some unexplained mystery stillremained andf onlyseemed restoredtoanysense of consciotfeness as baker said i can feelno pulse at his wrist his lieart too does not beat


conyers placed hm band npon his bosom then felt along his throatj lifted up an arm and letting it felt heavily upon the ground muttered he is dead it was trne


no wound had pierced him the pistol bullet was found witiin ins clothes


some tremendouconflict of the spirit within badsnapped the cordsof life and the strong man had perished in ms agony


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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 viii


some passages in the life of a vagabond


continued i raised my aching head from its uncomfor table pillow and took a view of spicys domicile which was to be my future home


to me who had been accustomed only to the foulest dens of weststreet it seemed a sort of palace


there certainly were a few decorative cobwebs hanging


in the corners of it and the pink curtain which drooped over a part of the window was none of the cleanest but a walnut tree chest of drawers with brass ornaments a deal table and four or five chairs seemed to me the very height of opulence


use is every thing daylight as youll find after your five years is out


the walls were decorated with colored prints emblematical of the particular taste of their owner


richard turpin on black bess jerry abershaw jack shepperd and jonathan wild hung in a row while over the head of the latter was drawn in charcoal a rude resemblance of a gallows


these were agreeably relieved by three or four long printed slips purporting to be last dying speeches and confessions of notorious malefactors while some scenes of rural felicity evidently the taste of miss betsy peeped out from a corner niche as if deemed unworthy by spicy to grace his picture gallery


in fact to tell the truth young ladies sitting on banks of roses with straw hats on their heads and sheep crooks in their hands with gentle rustics by their sides flocks of sheep around them and churches in the distance could not be exactly un derstood by spicy whose only knowledge of the woolly tribe was gathered in smithfield market and his notions of the church from that of st sepulchre which looks over newgate


scarcely had i completed my survey when spicy made his appearance having announced his coming by whistling the lively air of on gosport beach i landed


miss betsy imme diately placed her specimens of cookery on the table and it was well that she did so spicy hav ing declared himself as being unkimmin raw and werry little time to spare


come jump up my forlorn orphion cried he at the same time giving me a shake which nearly took away the little strength left in me the hearly bird picks up the vurm


ive done a rare stroke of business myself this mornin in the area sneakin line


here take this it vill hinwigorate yer narves


spicy handed me a glass of gin a small por tion of which i managed to swallow but the breakfast passed untasted by me


not so by the master and mistress of the place who consumed it with a heartiness of will which i envied


scarcely was the meal concluded when a foot was heard upon the stair the door then slowly opened and a diminutive figure crept in


spicy introduced him to me as the weazle a most appropriate name as i afterwards found out for the young gentleman bore an extraordinary personal likeness to that animal and also pos sessed a large portion of its habits


to tell his age was impossible from his appearance as his body belonged to a boy of ten years old and his face to a man of sixty


a little blue cap slightly dilapidated crowned his topknot corduroy trousers and highlows ornamented his lower limbs and a pinafore did duty for his upper garments


he was a wonderful chap daylight


nature cut him out for a thief and he warnt spoiled in the making up


spicy welcomed him with the greatest cor diality having asked him if his grub bag was filled and received an answer in the affirmative he inquired if the chirper was all right


from some inner recess of his brown holland garment the weazle produced a sparrow which immedi ately hopped about the table picking up the crumbs in the most familiar and fearless man


ner


the weazle then gave a slight whistle and the bird flew about in all corners of the room exhibiting as much panic as if pursued by a hawk at the chirrup of the weazle however it returned to the shoulder of its master from whence it was consigned to the former hiding place


seeing me looking with astonishment at the exhibition spicy told me them vur the vunderful vurks of natur but they vur nuffin to vot i should see if i kept company vith gen nelmen


he then proposed a walk to look after business


spicy led the way up holborn carefully peer ing into every shop window for what purpose i was soon made to know


he turned into king street and after casting a scrutinizing glance at the interior of a small shop he came back to the weazle and whispered all right


that ad venturous individual without any hesitation crept into the place from whence in a short time he emerged in the same cautious manner


the same game was played in two or three other places till we came to tothillstreet westmin ster but scarcely had weasel entered a chand lery establishment there when loud noises mix ed with the cries of a child were heard


grab bed by jingo said spicy theres a screw loose orphian here take this while i go in for the weasel


he thrust a bag full of money into my hand and bustled into the shop whilst i got near enough to hear and see all that oc curred


the weazel was in the hands of a very old gentleman who was threatening him in the most alarming way whilst the other was crying and sobbing as if his heart would break


whats all this about said spicy


whats it all about replied the old gen tleman why this young reprobate was trying to take away the contents of my till


noo noono indeedeed sirir literally cried thc weazle i wur only lookingooking after my sparrowarrow which flowed intoo the shoooop


is lt possible that such a youthful chap can be guilty of such a crime said spicy let me hexamine into this ere old gennelman if yer please im a son of vun of the bowstreet run ners


now my youthful wagrant you say you kim into this here werry respeckable shop to look arter your sparrer if so vere am the bird


there it am sir please look replied the weazle pointing to the chirper who was quietly seated on a large japanned canister of tea


that takes the capital off mister sur said spicy to the elderly person


thats werry good prime faced corrobotated testyourmoney


now my lad im werry glad indeed to find you in nicent and this here wenerable person and my precious self vill help you to catch your fancy animull


but remarked the old gentleman evidently puzzled his hand was in the till and i heard the jingling of the money which brought me out of the back parlour


praps the till vere hopen


and he fancied the bird might have found a nest there


anyhows vell catch it for the poor little boy


the three thereupon appeared to employ their utmost endeavours to regain the lost favorite and the old gentleman in the excitement of the chase forgot his previous suspicion he mounted the counter and jumped over sugar bags but all in vain at length in making a desperate plunge he fell upon the floor


spicy took advantage of this to empty the till of its contents at the same moment the weazle gave the well known sig nal to the bird which flew to him immediately


ive got himive got him exclaimed he joyfully


then off you toddles mind and be more careful in future that old gennelmans nigh broke his neck and ive spiled a new paten gos simmur a clambering about arter you you young monkey you desarves a vippin for your carelissnus off you goes


the weazle lost no time in attending to this salutary advice and he passed by me at a rapid pace while i followed half stupified


the full conviction that i was the companion of deter mined thieves and the bearer of their spoil rushed upon me while the terrible fate of my parents and the strong walls of newgate rose before me in fearful array


i wended my way with a heavy heart towards home making a thousand resolutions to quit such dangerous com pany even though i starved


the place below daylight they say is paved with good inten tions if so i formed a tolerablesized piece of mosaic work that day but a few hours proved how fleeting are such impressions on the weeds of life like us the unheeded castaways on the wide ocean of existence whose parents de bauched and dishonest leave us but the choice of two professionsbeggary and vice


i cant say daylight whether such things ought to happen in the course of nature but i know they do and the poor and ragged are left to them selves till they commit some crime which brings them under the notice of the rich who then open their mouths wide and talk of the ingratitude of the wretches whom they have taken such pains to teach


it strikes me though that if the gen tlemen who mount pulpits and platforms were to talk less of their good deeds and do more of them that the world would be considerably bet tered by the change and what they call the dan gerous classes would lose most of their mem bers


howsever daylight i ant much of a philosopher


on reaching spicys tenement i found the weazle discussing the merits of a pipe of to bacco and a tumbler of hot grog


betsy was sitting opposite to him and from the grin on her countenance i could not fail to perceive that he had been recording the tothillstreet event for her particular amusement


sluice yer gums my pippen he said hand ing over the beverage and tell us how the spicy kid got on but lord help us no harm can come to him hes such a vunderful nateral genus


lobsneaking arnt a bad game am it ven it comes off right


but veres the svag


if you mean the money replied i throwing it on the table there it is and i hope it will be the last i shall over handle got in such a way


now that beats cockfightin betsy dont it


hollo spicy how are you


he continued as that worthy came in heres a lark the or phians a hactin the sqvare cove and vont take his vack


oh leave him to me weazle ill alter him afore long


spicy was a true prophet


the money amounting to four pounds and fifteen shil lings was upon the table