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OLD ENGLAND.

PROF. F., Honor/m s.

C HAPTER xvm .

BEAT were the preparations f or ‘

brief. British war . H is losses,too ,were

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very slight his gain w asvet-Ty. large . _ He added

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to the Englishside a great extent o f land that laybeyond the English marchesupon the British side . Beyondthis gain f or England

, be re

ceived from M orw en Penm ddockgold to pay those troops that

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The re He lay som e timeabet-fo re he co u ld take aga in part m the ir romgh bOY'Sh gamesl

helped him to his crown . From Llewyd;he gained , besides the land referred to , somuch gold as should be w orth the herioto f two king’ s thanes , four earl

’ s , five com

m on thanes , ten knights , and twenty freem en ,

to be quit o f service in the fieldagainst the British. O f Blue - tooth ’ s forcebut thirty had been killed in the greatslaughter o f the British under K ing Llew ellyn . Presents in gold and gem s hehad in multitude , and for the promise hehad m ade the Dom ina to build a churchfor her on . English ground , a certainBritish bishop sent a sum equal to ratherm ore than two thousand pounds o f

m odern - inoney—a gift o i gre tt munifi

cence,especially for men of that old iron

tim e .

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The autumn leaveshad left the blackenedtrees w inter was looked for as a pleasantguest . NO snow had fallen , but the air wascool

,and it was j ust the w eather for a

m arch . For m iles before the entrance tothe grounds around Earl Blue - tooth ’ sdwelling groups o f boys , arrayed likem imic soldiers , trod the ground like oldexperienced w arriors . Here all likenessstopped

,for they w ere loud and noisy, not

sedate and sage as o ld w arriors can be .

They w ere arm ed w ith m im ic w eapon s o fw ood , silvered to look like real “ ringbiters . ” Shields they w ere m ade of w ovenbasket- w ork , and on the head the curiouscap w as w orn much like the bonnet o f thePhrygian m ariner . They carried tokens—standards m ade to show the badge o f

earl or chief . Fantastic w ere these ensigns ;som e w ere formed to represent strangeanim als o f shapes never seen in nature ;som e bore flags

,or rather narrow pen

dants,from their staves ; others bore

m im ic spears and lances . M any groupso f w omen thronged the w ays to greet EarlRolf and his victorious host . The n ame

rou s colours o f their dress and w implesm ade the whole district bright, for theyflocked f rOm far - off places to m eet theirfriends whose valour had led them to thew ar . Dau g hters to m eet their fathers ,w ives to their hu sbands , cam e each , certainthat her here was first in all the train .

The throng to m eet the victors_was

densest near the “ hall,where the Lady

Edelgitha had caused to be prepared hugevats “

o f m ead and foamin‘g ale , flesh of theboar and ox ,

and m any a dish now quiteunknown in this our m odern day . U ponthe fields the boards w ere spread , wherethat huge banquet groaned .

And now w as seen a cloud of dust arisingfrom the w est, and every eye w as on thew atch to be the first to see the f oreguardo f the grand array that the grim earl ledhom e .

At last they cam e , and from the throngswelled the full chants of praise in honouro f the brave Earl Rolf and all his w ar

w orn friends . They w elcomed them w ithfervent j oy , and flew to give their toil thebest reward a m an can have—praise fromthe lips he loves . But foremost at theouter field sat Harold , w ith the boys upontheir li ttle ponies , w aiting the earl

’ s return .

A sm ile of recogn ition w as all that Bluetooth gave to that small band of heroes ,but it flew right to th e ir hearts . for i t toldthem m ore than w ords could tell o f all hispride in them . H ow happy w ere thosefaithful hearts to see that smile of pride !H ow glad w as Kenul f when he saw hisfather

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s w ell - pleased glan ce . Then—thearray 3 H ow splendidly the horse of Thorskull rode ! H ow strong they looked !H ow pleased and bright looked everyhonest f ace I The m en w ith double - axes

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m arched, in dense column , next , and horns

w ere blown,and then there cam e the burst

o f martial song Next m arched the m en

at- arms w ith spears and j avelins and bills ;the bowmen came next in order, then theshield - bearing slaves . Then cam e thetroop o f nurse and priest and priestessclad in white , then—oh , what j oy f or

Harold ’ s heart l—his friend the“

Dom ina !She rode upon a stately steed ; her maidensrode behind

,and after them a train o f

slaves w ith trophies o f the w ar . Behindthese rode those earls and thanes whosetrains m arched on before , then cam e thelight horse in the rear, and the processionclosed

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We cannot paint the revelry thatcrowned that j oyful day . Few w ere them ourners in the crowd , f or the earl had lostbut f ew o f those he led w ith him to w ar on

false Llewellyn ’ s band .

On high bank in the hall w as raised aseat for her who , w idow ed , childless , nowhad come a guest am ong her f e es. The

Lady Edelgitha hailed her as “ sister ,”

friend . Her health w as drunk in m ightydraughts by all the w arriors round , andthe scOps sang forth her praises , and theirsongs are sounding still when the purethrill o f gratitude vibrates in Englishhearts .From the hall the feast spread m errily

over the arm ed plain,and the w hole arm y

feasted and drank Earl Blue - tooth ’ s health .

And round the tables . fair - haired form sfilled up the horns again and lit the f eastw ith w om an ’ s sm ile f or joy to see thosem en . The w arriors, brown w ith travel andstained w ith dust and grim e , sat there likethunderclouds at rest

,dark in ‘ the setting

sun . The m aidens bright.

behind themfilling the m ighty horns looked just likeflashin g m eteors behind a cloud o f storm .

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And when the night descended and theblaz ing fires w ere lit the talk grew loudand m errier till the noon of night hadcom e , and then they lay down peacefullyin battle - m antle w rapped , and w ith theirround shields f or pillow s they slept aschildhood sleeps , while over them thestars . above their night w atch set . Form en w ere rough and ready, fought hard ,and lived hard too

,but they clearly loved

a hom e gathering like this in that old irontim e .Then the Lady Edelgitha prayed thegood Dom ina to pass w ith her to whereshe w ith her m aidens w ove the snow - whitew ool or w orked the tapestry to m ark thedeeds o f their heroic race . Here theyfound Gwennyth w ith the girls and Hilda.

Sweet w as the greeting that the princessgave to our good friend the Dom ina

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had feared that K i ng Llew ellyn ’ s conductreflected upon her m ight cause som e painto Gwennyth . But she sm iled w armly ,

embraced the w idow of her f e e ,and w el

comed her to England . This ladym other of the daring boy who ventured tocross Llew ellyn has been so good to m e

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poor and friendless outcast . Oh ! w ereshe only C hristian and knew our light anddoctrine , then she w ould be quite perfect .But, alas I f ear her confidcnce in the falsetales of Odin is much too strong for us . ”

Fear nothing ,

” said the Dom ina . I f itbe His good will who caused His light toshine on us that she m ay see its m y a ll w illbe w ell ; but if He find it right for His ow nholy plan to veil it from her sight w e can donothing

,Gw ennyth . Unless He build the

house ou r labour is in vain .

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A ll this w as said in British ,and theLady Edelgitha , not know ing what w as

said, was glad to see such loving confi

dence arising between those whom she hadknown to be opposed in thought and interests at hom e . So she was very glad tosee them in this m ost pleasing strain

,f or

she saw their eyes m eant kindness,she

saw their looks w ere love . And shepaused a m om ent

,then she spoke

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asked the Dom ina if she w ould like toshare the chamber Gwennyth used untilher own w as ready

,which w ould take

another day to order as she w ished . One

country and one tongue ,” she said , are

alw ays tender ties,and here you m ust feel

strangely among ou r rough - hewn crew .

But they are gentle souls in peace, those

men so fierce in w ar , and I am sure thateven at hom e in your own British landyou w ould have no truer w elcom e thanfrom our English hearts . ”

Gwennyth assured her in the w arm estterm s that , she had grown to love theEnglish greatly, and she w ould have beenquite happy save for one saddeningthought, w hich she w ould one day tell her ,but not this very night . Then they allspoke of Harold and his pure and noblem ind, w orthy o f such a m other and o f

such a noble strain . Then the Dom inagently began to m ake allusion to hiscraving thir st for know ledge , and how heused to ask her o f the faith , and then shehoped the lady w ould not be very w r athbecause she had explained to him som e o f

its leading truths . For w e b elieve themholy , the w ri tten w ords o f God,

and w e

are glad to tell them to such as w ish tohear the m ercy that is prom ised by theSaviour o f us all .

To - m or-row ,gentle Dom ina , said the

lady , w ith a sm ile ,“ thou shalt teach

m e_

this doctrine o f peace and gentlelove . Earl Rolf desires greatly to knowm ore of the tale and how He reigns inheaven

,the God who m ade the I f

thou canst teach m e this indeed I shallbe glad , because my husband seeks it, andhe feels—I know it well—that our pri estsare not as they have been , that their firehas died out, and that Odin

’ s star is palingbefore the gentle C hrist . ”

Then the D omina rose softly from thequaint Saxon chair and embraced thegood Edelgitha w armly, saying,

I am happier now than I ever thoughtto be again this side the tomb .

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With m any w ords o f kindness they thenparted for the night.I n the m orning Harold , Beorn , and

Romul i j oined the boys ’ gam es , and show edhow the grim EarlRolf cut the false robbersdown and paid the ransom w ith his axe .

The boys w ere never w eary o f the theme ,and m any a curly - headed little Saxonsighed that he could not be “

out l ike

Harold the boy - earl,and w i n a name like

him . But Oscar , son o f C erdic , rathersneered at what w as said o f Harold , anddeclared he thought much was invention ,little truth .

So Harold when he m et him asked himwho he thought had m ade a lying story .

“ Fo r ,” said he

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“ either I lie or the EarlRol f must lie , or (lo st thou call my fathern ithing for his tale of my small trip toBritain ? ”

I never said he lied , said Oscar , butI think too much is made o f this absurdadventure .

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“ I cannot see i n what it w as absurd ,said Harold ,

very coldly . IVs w ere sentto do my father

's bidding , and w e rodeover the plains to Britain , nothing more .

And hark ye . Oscar ! Say o f m e whatthou w ilt. for I can bear it , but if thouGayest aught against my father, though

thou'

art so much older than‘

I am , I w illschastise thee for it . ”

Now Harold never quarrelled . . All thet aunts that boys are apt to utter in thei rplay he here w ith staunch good - hum our as

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m ere,j ests

,but when this Jealous Oscar

d ared to hint a w ord that m ight be takena s reflecting on his father his Englishb lood was up ,

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and boiled directly .

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Oscar,“ in w anton sport, continued m ocking , anda t last he said , “ Of course the son .

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Blue—tooth is a Thor, a “

Tyr , an Odin , all‘ln one , and the poor _

do ting earl mustgneeds m ake Harold out to be a sort o f

aged, whatever he the real truth o f the

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Oscar, said Harold , I have . w arnedthee fairly that I will bear

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'my father, how ever slight“

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then new hast spoken there is no help'f or m e; Look -to” thyself;man I

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T he lads w ere only arm ed w ith ashenstaves such as they used in ‘Hilding’ s mim icw ar , but they

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Were stout and strong.

O scar was glad to h ave a fair' exf cuse

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for a good blow at Harold ._

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Butthe waryf boy wa s not so lightly struck .

He knew e ach Ward to practise“

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rsary showered-his blows like hail , not o ne could r eachjyoung Harold . C oolly he stood and eye dastout Oscar’ s play

,gua rding his head and

limbs as calmly a s in_

j est,although in

rsavage earnest Oscar struck , increasing inhi s rage . At last, tee blindly sm iting at«our earl

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open .

“Quick as thought the staff of fH arold d es cended and Oscar fell to earth .

Get up , myh eartyfl Harold said,

a nd lau-ghe ’d .

“ I only want“

to teach theen ot to speak despisingly o f good EarlfRol f ,

“my father . “1‘

t‘ cut ’

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ta'

nght

m e in the robbers’ cave . I never shall

forget it . C ome,w e are friends until thou

rspe‘

akest aught against my father’ s honour,

f er if thou ‘darest such'

f oul speech. again,

I’

ll be‘a-‘

t thee .

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the heavy blow was m ore severe“

than Harold had intended , and . Oscars carce could "crawl to Hilding ’ s -

‘ house,

a ided by. Beorn and Kenul f . There he laysom e time be fore he. could take again part

'in their rough boyi sh gam es .New

, whéh this fray comm enced , thee arl had just approached the;ground wherethe boys f ought, and the tall shr

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andu nderwood t hat fenced it f rom the . parkconcealed him f rom their view .

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The otherboys w ere too intent upon the “ stubbornfight to notice“ anything hut -that

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he was unseen. He marked how Haroldb ore himself, and sm iled to see

“the blowwhich he had taught him in ' the cave bringtaller

,Oscar down . U nseen,

«he stalkedaway from thence

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and sought his lady’ s

bower, and. told her that some day her”

son

w ould be as great am an at arm s as anyinthe land . H ow

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proud she was to hearthis praise I and how she thanked the earlfor giving Harold high - souled thoughts tom ake of him a m an .

“ I hate the blusterin‘

g bully race, f or

e ver seeking blows, but I love“

to see my«own brave boy hear him as fits a m an .

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But the boys w ere all delighted w ith thel esson they had seen

,and Harold ’ s praise

a nd fame rose higher than before,

and then they begged him to teach themh ow to g ive

“ Earl Rolf ’ s c ut,

” and . thew hole forenoon they practised it and neverh ad enough .

Then after their accustom ed meal theyb egged to have a ride w ith Harold throughthe camp to see the

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many sturdy wrestlers and m any m en atarm s . And the ea1 l gave his perm issionand allowed the boys to rid

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, oh !what pleasu1 e for the lads ! As they p1 epared to m ount he rode into the playground ,and called out from the troop Harold andBeorn and Kenali and the four youngerboys who

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had shared their dangers w iththem upon the British side .

Harold ,” he said , advancing, thou

hast proved thysel f’

a man in the fam ousride to Britain . Bu t,by the gods of w ar 7

then w ast not alone 1n valou1 nor i n w ar

like shift o f w it. They are all good littlew arriors , and. I wish to give a proof o f mypride and’ satisfaction w ith thy companionsall . ‘ I premised thy

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friend K en‘

ul f a noblebattle -

.axe' when his strong arm couldw ield it ; he chose the gift him self. Butit Will be some years , I fear m e , before hisstrength 1 3

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such as to let himlift it f 1 omthe earth . So I had one made for him aslike it as two brothers , but it 18 sm all andlight, and he m ay learn to use it and keepi t for my sake . He shall ride to the hallw ith ‘

m e to fetch it .”

I t"Would take a clever penman to tell

how this w ell adapted gift pleased theboy s

,and it would task him still m ore to

show_how enthu siastic . their pleasure w as

when he proceeded to ask each boy 111 turnwhat he w ould like :best . B eom said“ hew ould like a battle sword “ like the earl ’ sown blade , only _so .m ethinglighter .

” Hugosuggested a lance w ith a real . cuttingpoint . Harold a sked . a sword like .Beorn’ s ,and the other boys did“ the sam e . Aridhaving exhausted o ne historian 1n describ

ing the joy produced by the prom ise of theearl to provide each boy w ith the w eaponhe

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desired, w e should have'

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w riters todo justice to the scene which w e are aboutto describe .

Earl Rolf rode of f , and:w as closely. follow ed by the delighted youngsters untilthey halted . on the large g ravelled spacein

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o f the eastern enti .ancc to the hall,Whence he returned , and w ith him certainarmourers bea-ring Let the reader guesswhat they bo 1 e l Buté —no—they w ouldnot do it , so w e tell them what it was.

Each bore , f or each o f those brave lads ,a m odel a xe of steel, like Rolf

’ s , onl y w ithashen shaf t instead o f such a handle as hissolid

_ iron staf f . For each , besides , thereWas a b rand new model battle sword o f

steel, Seven m odel j avelins, seven spears,seven glowing shields with bosses gleam ingin the sun like gold, and li ght as basketw ork . They . w ere o f l inden boardsC overedw ith white go

‘ ats ’ hide , and sevenhelmets m adeof gilded“ leather boundWithsteel rings around, save that f or Haroldhis helm

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w as bound .with gold . On eachaxe - head w as Written in the runes o f thatold time , Rolf se tor l me hebt gewyi can ,

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and und er that the nam e of each boyseverally, so that in m odern English itw ould r ead , “ Rolf the earl had m e

wrought , for or K enul'

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as it stood . .,Oh they w ere very glad .

But the w ise earl spoke thus :“ These arm s are given .as a m ark o f

trust ; w ear them 1n riding out beyond thepark

, but never the p laygr ound. That islaw. f or Harold and his ‘ ride1 s . ’

A secondlaw i s not to draw the sword or point thespear or brandish ax

‘ e against your ow n

companions .Who does this has my displeasure and :is m

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thtatg’ Bat ye shall

ride w ith“

. me to—m orrow,

to behold thew arriors depart . Now, Harold, see thatmy commands are w ell attended to .

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-ou as surety f or the band . New

gallop to thy m othe1,Harold ;

her boy w ea1 s arm s , for he 15 w orthy .

What a cheer theygave ! H ow it rang

through the w elkin ! Then the earl w ithdrew ,

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and laughing cniehts now helped toarm the lads . The axes w ere slung t otheir saddle - bows , the sword hung from asword - belt round the hips , and all them ountings w ere o f poli shed bronz e ; theshields w ere held in their left hands , andthe bear spears hung behind them in theirproper slings . I t was a gallant gift forthat old stern tim e .On the day o f the departure of the tr00ps

to seek their several homes a rum our w as

spread that a tw in of armed warriors w as

com ing on in the direction of the hall fromthe east portion o f the di strict known asthe country of theWest Saxons , on whosehorder front Earl Blue tooth ’ s land w as

situated . The distant w atch posted onthe farthest stations when relieved saidthat som e peasants had told them of sucha grand array com ing from the east .Who these m en m ight h

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e passed the grimearl ’ s skill in guessing But as all thehost at noon w ere to feast high at parting ,

he coul d not leave his gu ests to ride andview the strangers . Therefore he orderedall

“ the host to be by just an hour beforenoon 1n arm s upon the plain . The sevenboys arm ed w ith their much - priz ed gi ftsrode out w ith the good earl j ust like theseven

“stars which sages say are servants tothe sun .

But now m ore messengers cam e in conf irm ing all the news

,and so Harold begged

his father to be allow ed to ride under theguardianship o f o ld Hilding to dem andwhat - these men m ight be . And the grimearl consented , for the boys w ere tall f ortheir age and stately to look at, m ore likeyouthful knights than boys just tryingarms , and he thought it w ould not be aslight o i careless reception i f the lads werefirst to m eet the strangers . But he couldnot . o ff end his chieftains , and the - otherm en o f w ar whose aid had been extendedin that tim e o f need .

The three great friends, Harold, Beorn,and K enul f , rode together ; K enu l f veryproud because his battle - axe was full halfa pound heavier than those . o f his com

pani ons , and his axe cam e to be calledThe Earl ,

” and he h im self The Battleaxe Boy .

”U nder the guidance of Old

Hildin'

g,the boys rode laughing on ,

flourishing their w eapons , or , at the old

m an’ s bidding, carrying them according to.the discipline

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o f the tim es . The youngerboys rode after the front l ine , and , whatw ith j est and m erry laughter, am ore j ovialparty never trotted forth in the brightautumn air . The grim earl rarely laughed,but when he saw the carriage and bearingo f ' the youngsters he laughed a pleasantlaugh that became him very w ell .The boys had ridden onw ards in that

direction from whence the new - com ersw ere said to be com ing , and they 1 ode onand on until they becam e aware of a largebody o f horse right before them . Forem ost rode the E thling, on a spotless coal

say that1 ”

b lack horse , in his tunic of white andgold . Beside him rode a horseman w ith a“ token —

a shaft o f w ood , surm ounted.by the

“

Sembla'nce of a grif f in w rought inbronz e . On the right hand rode an equerryw ith a precious casket of noble presentsf rom the king . TheE thlingw ore a falconon

“ his w rist—a gentle bird, proud o f itshood and bells .

When Ethelwu lf the E thling saw .theboys he cried, Y onder is Harold , s on togrim Earl Rolf . I hold it “ a goo d om en

«I

that he comes forth to m eet us on our en

trance to the land whi ch his good fatherowns and guards w ith so much skill . Ride

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forw ard , Osric, and greet him well from

Now when the boys saw a stout- arm edthane ride out alone to m eet them , Haroldsaid, I think they are not friendly theyride. too

ztrimly armed . this

fellow here can m ean by riding out

upon us I really cannot tell . I ride tomeet him ,

if Hilding will but give me

leave .H

“ Ride out, my son, quoth Hilding ;hold thy shield before thee and de

press thy lance .”

Good . said the boyrearl , laughing ;I shall not forget to give him m eet re

ception any w ay.

”

And then he spurred his little pony onand

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soon had reached the stranger . Thenhe reined hi s tiny charger in and cried ,Whom have w e here to b reakK in g Ken

walch’

s peace P.

“ Fair sir ,” replied the horsem an , we

break no m an ’ s peace but if‘

we m eetw ithroughness w e too

’

can be rough . I t seem sto me that the late British war has thinnedyour num bers o f your fighting

- m en , thatboys and greybeards are sent out to meetus

said Harold, “ ISir Thane , am

THE TIGERSKIN : A STORY OF “

C ENTRAL INDIA .

Auther alf The Two C abin Boys, The Drummer Boy, etc. , etc.

N Spite o f this tranquilli sing conclusion , unlucky

The idoy’

s Own(Paper.

BY Lours ROUSSELET,

C HAPTER XXVI I I.—: THE PIC N I C .

K ing - o f - the - tigers hadthe Maharaj ah ’ s narrative had thrown appeared .

a gloom over all . Even the sportsm en ,- His highness had

-

condescended to take

Bro ught it down with a crash betw e e n the T ige r'

s eyes.

anxious as they w ere to com e face_to face

w ith the terri ble K ing - oi - the - T igers , didnot care to expose their w ives anddaughters to such a m eeting.

Happily a j oyous fanfare sounded , andchanged their thoughts . I t w as fromH e rr Becker ’ s band , that had accompaniedthe

. colony of “ the Armoudjan to thepi cn i c .

Beneath the dense shade o f the greattrees in the park sumptuous tables awaitedthe guests , and soon am id the festivity the

part in ' the picnic; and presided , assistedby Mrs. Butnot and Mr . Peernose

,

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while

the colonel , flanked by Butnot and Holbeck , sat at .the other

“

end .

Such an occasion could not be all ow ed topass unimproved . As soon as the viandshad been dispatched the toasts began .

Goulab Sing proposed the health of The

Queen ,

” and the colonel responded w iththat of his highness , “

t he em inent andhospitable Sovereign o f Mahavellipore .

As the toasting threatened to continue

nothing loth to show thee that a boy likem e wears not hi s arm s f or nothing. Be

take you to your shield ; I have'

a f ancythat . my fw eapon , the gif t o f good EarlBlue - tooth, wi ll su ffice to cleave that

plated linden - board in twain ! ”

And though in that'

day'

youth was keptin awe

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o i m en’

s super ior w isdom,Harold

had f elt himself so raised above his boyishstate . that when

.this horseman’

s chafingtones attacked his

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ear he f elt as though

he coul d have given battle to the whole

party'

w ith his single arm .

But Ethelwul f r ode up , and . laughingcried, My lords, I bar contention ThaneEgbert, this young m an—or boy, as thouwilt have it —has earned, I am sure , a r ightto carry arms, f or he is son to Blue-t ooth,

a man who w ould not sto’

op to give his sona privilege he was unworthy o f . Besides,to seek me out, andbr inghis f ather tidingso f my f ate,he rode so f ar into the Britons’

land as n igh had cost'

him dear . Mybravef r iend Harold , I am glad to see thee r ideto - day in arms. Thy shield isWhite , butsoon I h0pe

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to see the oroch’

s hide or skino f the grim wolf borne to show token o f

thy skill in war . B e f r iends w ith goodThaneEgbert. Now

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r ide On and tell me .

Harold;what makes the good‘

Earl RolfThe kindness o f the JEthling soon re

moved all trace o f Harold ’

s anger . Egbert

laughed, an 3. greatly l iked the pluck ofthe young earl, and they rode lovingly towards 'the p lain where Rolf had drawn hisf orces up once m ore in battle guise , and soreceived the ZEthling w ith the shout o f

warr iors flushed w ith victory.

M ost courteous was the greetingbetweenRolf and Ethelwul f the ZEthling. Ken

walch had heard o f the complete success o fB lue - tooth

’

s expedition , and w as in hasteto ratify whatever terms the earl hadmadewith Br itain . Theref ore the ZEthlingw as

dispatched to him with gif ts and courteousphrases.

Without dismounting f rom his tiredhorse, the ZEthling rode all down the

ranks and praised the martial bearing, thewar like skill, the

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discipline and conduct o fthe troops, and gave most costly braceletsto Thorskull and the other earls and thaneswhom Rolf j n special lauded . Nor did themen o f less illustrious bir th come o f f withslighting notice . Rings and battle - swordsand other gif ts w ere given , which, w ith.their portion o f the

:booty brought f rom

the late scene o f conflict, sent the‘

men

singing home .

Then the grim earl invited all the trainto enter his poor hall to rest and take re

f ection . There w e must leave them f or a.

while and seek our hero’

s noblemother .

(To be continued.)

until it w as time to return to the Armoud

jan , the young ladies, with the maternal

.co

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nsent, le f t the table , and with them went

the younger men ,leaving their elders to

continue by them selves their po liticoscientific dissertation s.

Gladly did the laughing juniors plungeinto the leafy shadows o f the park on theirw ay to the cascade , which they had heardwas very picturesque . But when they had

arr ived there they f ound on the veryborders of the stream that bo re away thew ater f rom the f all such .a splendid stretch

o f unbroken green tur f that a shout o f ad

m ir ation arose f rom every one .

“ What a fin e croquet-

ground it wouldmake I said the young ladies.

Y es, . it“

w oul d be difficult to find a .

m ore per f ect ground,”

said M r . Griffin ,

w ith the air o f‘

a'

. conno isseur . Un f ortu

hately, I do not suppose that his highnesshas a. game here to o ff er us.

”

“ But unless I am m istaken , said thecharm ingMiss Shaughnessy, there ought

to be a box in the carriage which broughtMirs. Butnot and my aunt. Papa orderedone to be put in ,

in case we f ound a nice

place to play.

H ow lucky ! exclaimed the ladies.

Mr . Griffin andM r . Blueco at disappearedat a run , and in a f ew minu tes returnedw ith the box that w as so much desir ed.

I f you like ,”said the eldest M iss But

not, w e w ill play the return to our lastmatch. M iss Shaughnessy can choose he r

side , as she did the other day, and I w illkeep my o ld partners.

”

That is it I exclaimed the girls. We

will have the r eturn . Gentlemen , takethe same colour s as be f o re .

”

But,”timidly observed M r . Grimm,

which side am I to be on ? Y ou knowthatmy wretched headache prevented mytaking part in the first m atch.

”

“ Y ou can look on , said Miss Shaughnessy, m ali ciously,

“and act as umpire,

unless Mr . Everest, who took your placethe other day, cares to give you his now .

”

I f you w ill allow m e ,”said E verest,

I have mymallet, and I w ill keep it.

”

“C ertainly,

”said M iss Butnot, inter

posing.

“ M r . Everest w as the champ ionin the lastmatch, and he cannot retir e today w ithout causing us, if we Win it, tolose the f r uits o f our vi ctory.

”

M r . Griffin thus saw himself refused thehonours o f combat, and had to content

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himself w ith looking on . And Everestwas qu ite happy at being able to inflictthis innocent vengeance - on the unhappyauthor o f his past mi ser ies. But these

m iser ies seemed completely f orgotten , or

else the young lord w as scrupul ouslyobeying the orders o f Dr . Holbeck , f or he

threw him self into the game w ith qu itejuvenile ardour .

This time Mi ss‘

Shaughnessy’

s adver

saries endeavoured to w in victory to theirside , and the battle was long and w armlydisputed.

M iss Butnothad made a very able disposition o i her f orces, and while she and

her f r iends tr ied to pass the hoops and

r each the stick , she confided to her partners the duty o f looking a f ter Ever est andtorm enting him

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w ithout m ercy. But the

young lord was a very much better handat the game than they bargained f or , and,notwithstanding all they cou ld do , con

tinned to send their balls rolling to all

sides o f the horizon , and, clear ing o ff the

obstacles one byone , flew to the help o f his

associatesandhelped them alongto victory.

Miss Butnot saw‘

w ith dismay the num

ber o f rovers augmenting in the enemy’

s

camp . Def eat, crushing and humiliating,seem ed again inevitable .

Suddenly f rom the . m ountain was hearda conf used no ise , which seemed to rap idlyapproach the place wher e theywere playing. At first but slight attention w as

paid to it, but soon , to their aston ishm ent,a group of natives Sprang into view , and,shouting as they w ent, seemed to be run

n ing f or their lives.

What isthematter w iththose p eopleasked Miss Butnot, rather alarm ed.

She had scarcelyfinished , when amongthe shouting she w as able to distinguishthe terri ble w ords,

“ Bagh Rajah ! The

King- o f—the - Tigers At the sam e tim e ,

f rom among the r ocks close by cam e a

f ear f ul grow l , rep eated again and againby the echo .

The players, both ladies and gentlem en

paused f or a m oment undecided , but as

they again heard the grow l they w ere

seized with a panic, and rushed towardsthe palace in disorder .

Amongst those who thu s fled, withoute ven thinking o f coveri ng the retreat o f

the f rightened girls, not one would havehesitated, gun in hand , to have f aced thetiger , but pow erlessness paralyses the

bravest, and panic is the most catching o fcomplaints. Everest himself , brave heartas he was, fled carr ied away by the irr esistible instinct o f self -

preservation .

Engrossed in the gam e, he had been one

o f the last to qu it the ground, _and the

f ugitivesw ere som e distance ahead o f him .

This mattered l ittle ; he knew that in a

f ew strides he could catch them up ,f or

none o f them could outrun him .

Suddenlyhe heard behind him a p iercingshriek which made his blood run cold,

The Boy’s Own

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lj agpei‘.

(To be continued. )

HOMES OF MANY LANDS.

PART II.and stopped him . Turning, he saw MissShaughnessy on the ground . The unhappy

girl in her flight had caught her f oot in

one o f the hoops and been thrown down .

Everest ran towards her to help her tor ise, when he saw leisurely approachingf rom am ong the rocks an enormous tiger ,w ithoutdoubt the King- of - the - Tigershimself . With his eyes flxed on the young

gir l , the monster advanced , scratching the

ground like a cat, ready to leap on his

victim .

At this sight a flash passed bef ore the

young man’

s eyes, and he f elt his hear tbeat so as almost to burst its w alls. At

last he was f acingthe deathhe had so longdesired and expected, and, happ ier thanhe had ever dream ed he could be , he w asbyhis death to save the l if e o f the poor childon the ground . Y es, he w ould die , and

gladly give his valueless lif e to r etain f orColonel Shaughn essy all that remained tohim o f happ iness in this w orld .

Mechan ically he p icked up one o f the

boxwood mallets that lay on the grass,and

,armed w ith this f rail plaything,

he

r an towards the tiger . The monster

stepped when he . saw the young m an

coming to m eet him . H e Op ened his hugejaws and gave a loud growl . Doubtless itseemed strange to him that any one w ou lddi spute the prey that had been prepar edf or him . An d so , haughty and m enacing,

he was pulling himself together to pun ishthe m adm an f or his tem erity.

But Everest had reached him . With a

movem ent o f unconscious bravado ,the

young man brandished the mallet f or an

instant, and then , w ith all his strength,

brought it down w ith a crash between thetiger

’

s eyes. The toy broke in a hundred

p ieces on the brute’

s f orehead o f stone .

At the unexpected attack the King- o f

the - Tigers had reco iled. Everest w aitedf or him to spring, and instinctively shut

hi s eyes. Whatw ashis surpr ise—his stupef action—when he opened them a secondaf terwards to see the redoubtable m onster

in f ull retreat, w ith his tail down, like a

dog that had just been whipped IWell , ”

thought the young lord ; it is

wr itten that death is not to com e to me .

”

Amazed, he stayed there , oblivious o f

all that had preceded and brought on thism eeting. But the reverie only lasted f ora minute ; soon he r emembered that the

young lady w as still on the grass, perhapswounded , and more or less in a sw oon .

H e turned round ; Mary was alreadystanding up , and as he appr oached to r e

assure her , or to question her , sheheld outher hand to him and

' bashf ully said ,Thank you ; thank you f or both my

f ather’

s sake and my own !

The young man bowed , and respectf ul lyclasped the brave gir l ’shand . The sports

m en cam e running up w ith their guns, butthe King- o f - the - Tigers had disappearedam ong the impenetrable thickets o f the

jungle .

HE Indian who paddled his canoe about at

the late Fisheri es Exhibition had a wigwam at the side of the pond, which gave a veryf air idea of the general run of Red Indian homes.

It consisted o f a f ew sticks planted in the

ground, leant up against each other in the f orm.

of a cone, and covered w ith strips o f birch bark.

All the houses, however, are not conical.

The Ojibbeways have pole huts covered with.

matting, and the Iroquois occasionally live innumbers in sheds f rom fifty to a hundred f eet:

long with about a dozen fires under one roof .

TheMandan Indians build their dwell ings in theshape o f a flat cone, almost like a pie, some f ortyf eet in diameter and twelve f eet in e xtremeheight, with the floor sunk a f oot below the

sur face, and the roof covered with willow mat

ting, grass, and earth, and strongly built so as.

to a ff ord a general lounge f or the gentlemen

during the evening.

The winter Wigwam o f the Dacotahs wasbuilt o f fifteen- f eet saplings. TheWallawalla

Indians of British Columbia dig round holes in

the ground f rom ten to a dozen f eet deep and

f orty or more f eet round, w ith a roo f o f mud

and drif twood, and having a hole on one o f its.

sides with a fl ight o f steps into the mansion

made out of a notched pole. In the summer timethe Wallawallas live in lodges made o f rush

mats hung on poles. The taste of theWalla

walla is peculiar ; his greatest delicacyis rottensalmon . The Paraguay Indians in the south

are as easilyprovided f or as the Columbians ;theystick two or three boughs into the groundand over them throw a cowskin. In the gipsy

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tent of our own countrywe see the same arrange

ment of bent sticks and cover, though the mat

ting

and the skin have given place to canvas .

an shirting. I t is amongst these Indians o f'

Western Ameri ca that when f uel is scarce a cow

is cooked with her_

_

own bones, the flesh being'

cut o ff , the bones taken out and a fire made

of them at which the meat is roasted.

In Nootka the houses are built o f very long:broad planks rested on each other’

s edges and

f astened with pine bark . Theyhave only slen»

der p oles at considerable distances, but theseare stayed with larger poles placed aslant.

within. They are seven or eight'

f eet high, .

sloping slightlyupwards, and the roof is loose , .

so that the planks on top can be moved aboutto allow the smoke to escape or the light enter

and indeed the Nootka Indian not inf requentlycom es home through the roof . Round the in

terior are benches seven or eight f eet long,f our

or five broad, and six inches high, on which thef amily sit and sleep. At one end o f each house

are the trunks o f verylarge trees f our or five

f eet high, with the f ront carved into a human

f ace, and arms and hands cutout upon the sidesand painted so as to make that very curiousfigure, the Klumma. A very f ull account of

these Nootka dwellings is given in CaptainCook ’

s third voyage, and in the journals o f thegreat circumnavigator there are many notices o f

the rough- and- readyhouses o f the Polynesians.

In Fiji the native houses are oblong,r in shape,twenty or thirty f eet long and fif teen f eet high .

They are made o f cocoanut wood and tree fern,and are verywell built with two doorways on.

opposite sides. The posts are about a yard .

apart and the intervals are fill ed in withwicker»work . The roof is o f veryhigh pitch and has

rafters of palm-wood thatched wi th sugar

- cane

and f em - leaves. The door is o f matting, and

there is a regular stone hearth f or a fireplace.

The house is undiv ided bypartitions, but thetwo ends are raised about a f oot above thegenera l floor, and here the natives sleep . In

Tahiti the houses are twenty- f our f eet long,

eleven wide, and nine high. Theyare thatched

w ith palm- leaves, have a so f t hay floor, but no

sides. In the Sandwich Islands the houses arequite f our times the size , and have also hayfloors, but the sides are filled in and the door is .

a low ob longhole which looks as though it weremade for the f amily to roll throu h. The

Australian but is o f the gipsy type, just large

The 8 037’s Own l

aacper

‘.

Panama Hut.

Batavian'

Ho use .,

sleepers into a hut in which were one to lie atf ul l length either his head or his heels wouldhave to be outside . In the north, where theweather is warmer

, the lee side o f the hut isle ft open. There was a time when everyAustralian hut

, alone amongst the houses of theworld, had a filter . I t is true that this was theonly f urniture, but still the oblongpiece of barktied up at each end with a twig o f a tree showsthat sanitary knowledge had therein

, made an

advance which might veryprofitablybe imitatedamongstmore civi lised nations.

The Maori houses are about six f eet high andabout twenty f eet by ten .

__

The roof slopesnearly down to the ground. The

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f rame is o flight sticks o f wood and the walls . and roof are

made of dry grass firmly knit together and"

sometimes lined with bark . The ridge-

poleruns right along the top and is occasionallyornamented with a carved portrait of the pro

regular stages f or def ence, and in f act the architecture generally is in advance of that of mostPolynesians.

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In Sumatra and Java and the islands of the

Archipelago the contrast between the houses of

the poor and the palaces o f the rich i s moremarked than in any. other countries of the

world.

(To be continued.)

TRY AND Trauma—There are two little wordsin

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our language which I always admiredtry

”and Y ou know not what you

can or cannot eff ect until'

you try and i f . you

make your trials in the exercise of trust in God,mountains o f imaginarydifficulties Will vam sh

as you approach them, and. f acilities ,

W111 beaf forded w hich you never anticipated l—Rev.

John Wi lliams, of ‘

Erromango.

A BOY’

S TOUR THROUGH EGY PT,

THE DESERT, AND PALESTINE.

PART I I .

HE f ollowing daywe started f rom Cairo at

1 1 a .m . , and arrived at Suez at 8 p .m .,a

most uninteresting and dusty r ide . NVc were o f fthe next morningearlyf or AyunMusa

,where we

expected to meet our caravan . Going by boatdown the Red Sea, the water was o f the deepestblue, in many places so clear that the bottomwas distinctly visible, with the fish darting inand out amongst the rocks. On our right werethe mountains that shut the Israelites in on

our lef t the sandy desert, soon to be our home

f or six weeks. As the water was too shallowf or the boat to approach within a quarter of amile of the shore, we took o ff boots, turned uptrousers, and, mounting the backs o f Arabs

,

were carried to where it was supposed to be aboutup to our knees, those unf ortunate enough to

be rather short being dropped where the waterwas over their middles. The tents were pitchedclose to the little oasis known as the “Wells o fMoses.

”Not very f ar o f f was an immense cara

van of Mecca pilgrims, who are f ed by the

Turkish Government . This doubtless accountsf or their numbers.

_

As they were in quarantinewe

_did not pay them a visit. We have longbeen eagerly looking f orward to this desert por

tion of our journey. The majority of travellersto Sinai return to Suez, but we hope to be ableto «enter

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Palestine byway of Gaza. Our tentsare most com fortable . The dragoman , a Nubian,and a rather . stout old man,

has .been through

the desert .thirty- two times. Our escort.is

rather . f ormidable, consisting ‘

o f twenty- two

camels, and about thirty quarter - clad, savage

looking Arabs, who are to act as guards,though they .most probably would

“

be the

firSt_

to rob or murder us could‘

they do so

with impuni ty._

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l‘

he first day’s journey‘

is over a .perf ectlyfiat

.waste o f sand, with not -a vestige of vegetationof anykind. About mid-daywe halt f or lunchthe baggage camels

“

go o n before, with some

guards to pitch the tents. Fortunately f or us

the skywas cloudy, or the heat here would havebeen intense . .We spent our first Sunday inWadyWardan, and were veryglad o f the rest.Camel - riding is all very well f or a time

,but

eight or nine hours of it isvery apt to give one

the backache, as the long, swinging step o f the

camel necessitates the rider making a successionof not verygracef ul bows. Our canteen arrange

ments are excellent, nothing surprisingmemore

than the number of dishes the cook produces.

With .his little fire and a . f ew tin pots he would

serve up five or six courses in no time. We, all

considered that we f ared better in our tents

than at hotels.‘

No,

doubt “ hunger was thebest sauce,”but our provisions consisting of a

thousand eggs, and about a hundred livechickensand turkeys, there is certainly something overwhich to pour the sauce .

Towards evening camels,chickens, . etc. , are

all let loose._

There is no f ear of losing them,

f or as soon as darkness sets'

in they all huddle

together near the tents.

The . second day’

s journey brought us toMara.

The gr ound was very dry, but we ascertained

that there is plenty o f ‘ Water here in the wetseason ,

and it is still bitter .

Riding on,

wewere glad to leave the plain and

encamp among the waving palm - trees and bythe side of ru

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nningwater . We are at the Elim.o f Scripture . It is still a most f ertile spot.

Aboo, our dragoman,warnedus againstwanderingf ar f rom the tents, as the Arabs in these parts

have no verygreat respect f or lif e or property.

We were provided with some flea-

proof nightshirts, most necessary things f or the East.These are made in one p iece, the only openingbeing at the neck . The hands are providedwith a thumb , to make it possible to handle arevolver . Once in a night- shirt of this sort

(whichmust be seen to be appreciated), well tiedup round the neck, and powdered with Keating

’s,

”the traveller may rest in peace. On the

whole we succeeded very well, yet, now and

then,in spite o f all our precautions, some

unwelcome visitors would disturb'

our midnightslumbers.

Everydaytravelling becomesmore enjoyable.

We passed through some exceedingly grand

wadies(or valleys). The sandstonerocks in many

places were o f all the'

colours'

o f the rainbow.

At one timeWe camped by the Red Sea, withinsight o f the

“ Baths “

o f Pharaoh,”where the

water rises boiling f rom the ground. The shore

was covered with most beautiful shells, withwhich we filled our pockets, and then had a

most ref reshing swim in thewonder* f u

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lly bluewater , much to the alarm

'

o f our dragoman , who

f eared the sharks would relish a meal - o ff an

Englishman .~ 1

The next morningwe enjoyed the last s'

wir‘

n

we shall have f or manyw eeks. -We'

are now

entering the"

mountainousl d istrict of { theSinaitic Peninsula. The

"

sceneryis verygrand,crag upon crag towering abo've: us

_

o'

n everyhand. Towards eveningwe

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rea'

chWady~Moka~

teb, or the Written yearsthis spot has beennoted

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f or the curiouswritings

npon t he rocks. Some think it is the work of

the Israelites. We visited the ancientEgyptianturquoise '

mines. Here lived a Major Mc

Donald, - who worked,in the old eircavations f or

some years, but never gained sufficient to repayhim. It is not surprising, as

- it cost him 2s.

“

6d.

a day f or water . We saw almost

As-

‘

w'

e always reach our t ents a bout "

sunset,there issome spare time after dinner f or reading,writing,

‘

etc.

3 ' Thi s”. evening we hadfla soc

'

ial

meeting—readings, r ecitations, and music, and

very pleasant ‘ it was; Anp‘

ther'

day’

s“journey

brings us‘

to Wady‘

Feiram,‘

the Rephidim‘

o f

Scriptur e. H ere are hundreds o f palm- trees,

looking' doubly beautiful af ter so much;sand

and rock . A ‘

young'

Arabf

’

mét u s on crutches,who some years

-

ago was bitten by one - o f the

many snakes~ 5that ‘ ii1 fest ~ these parts, and the

sheik to save his life,hewedhis leg o ff with his;

sword.

-We camped early, and wandered o ff to

explore the‘ruins ‘

o f a: C hristian church built.

here in the six'

thgc'

entury;

The rocks all around are full o f holes,in

which the anchorites lived, or rather ex isted -i

Now they'

areonlydens of‘

wild beasts. iThe f ollowingmorningbe fore breakfast wedetermined to climb

'

a hill at the back o f - our

tents,There 'were a

'

f ew ruins'

on the top,whi ch, in the

'

clearmorning air, seemed distantabout half a m ile ; but we were

“

notin England,and distance was deceiving, f or it took an hour’

s

hard climbing“to reach

’

the summit.

~

'Here we“

had a~most magnificent view. Mountains on

every side. Bef ore us rose the jagged peaks o f

Serbal, behind were the wadies through whichwe had b een winding our way, and beneath

‘

us

the White tents, almost hidden among the

wavingpalms. We fired‘

a revolver and listenedto the sound

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echoing and re- echoing in everydirection .

But who everh eard of the“

grandeur of nature

compensating an Englishman f or the loSs of

breakf ast? So we hastendown for -that importantrepast.

Travelling '

o'

n-ward, we began i-

gradually to

ascend until we reached what is called the

Pass of theWind,

”a verynarrowgorge in the

mountain'

s. The ' camels h ad to -

'

go‘

roundanother way, and we

'Were to meet them ~

'

at the

f oot of Horeb . Having gained the tOp o f the

pass, Mount Sinai rises immediatelyin f ront of

as,though some distance o ff . After lunch,

when looking about,'

we discovered one o f thesnakes (cerastes) o f which we -had heard

,

so

much,but had not seen one

,as the weather was

too cold. While ‘ d’

etermining as to the bestway o f taking it without injuring its '

skin, uprushed our olddrag oman

,and in broken English,

with tears streaming down his cheeks, entreatedus to “ make f

im dead qui ck, " intimating thatitwouldmake us dead quick i f we did not ;thenshrieked out in a perf ect f renzy o f f ear to -myf ather, who was some distance Biggentleman

, come quick, quick snake eat yourThis only shows the dread in which

”

all shakesare held by the Arabs . As this one was onlytwo f eet long it would have had some difficulty

The go3r’s Own Taper.

in . eating“

anyof us; but its bite is u suallyf atal .2 :Havingmade a sketch, we p roceeded across

the great plain of Er Rahah, lying immediatelybefore Sinai, and where the Israelites must haveencamped . Sinai rises abruptly f rom the plain

to a height of f eet. I t is entirely o f red

granite, and as the sun set appeared as thoughit were on fire . Our tents are pitched just at

the f oot o f the mountain, not far f rom. the con

vent o f St. Catherine.

The f ollowing day was Sunday. As there

was no service at the convent we determined toascend to the summit of the “ Mount of God

”

and have service there . We commenced clambering up the rugged steps that monks o f past

ages have piled together. On nearing the topthetraveller passesunder the Needle

’

sEye,”an

arch spanning a narrow gor e. Here‘ backsheesh

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was f ormerly deman ed bef ore ascend

ing higher . A fter nearly two hours’

hard

climbing we reached the highest point, JebelMuse .

On the waywe passed a chapel, a single smallroom, with a f ew lamps hanging f rom the ceiling and absurd pictures on the walls, bef orewhich our

‘

guide crossed himself and mutteredsome prayers. Farther up

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we come'

to the

chapel o f Moses and Elijah. The interior consists o f two rude chambers, ornamented withsilver lamps. There is a cave which will holdtwo or three persons. Here

,it is said, Elijah

was when the glory“

of God passed by. It is

the only cave in the mountain.

Once at the summit we were amply rewardedf or the f atiguing clim b over the rough granite.

The viewwas magnificent : On'

one f si‘

de'

ro'

se

above ‘us the -

“

snow peaks‘

of vJeb'

el 'Katherin,'

the

highestmountain“

in the peninsul a, then, “peakon p eak f in -

grand r elief , and beyond the u blue

waters o f the Red Sea. Northward, some sixtymiles distant, rise in blue outline the mountainsof Moab

,and between us and

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them .the waste,

howling wilderness where the Israelites wandered for forty years, and through which we

intend to travel in a f ew days.

A fter a_

short service we descend into the

valley that separates the two peaks. Here are

some trees and a pool o f water, and we gather

round f or lunch,'

and then another service, f orwhere in the whole world is there a grander

natural temple for the worship o f the Christian’s

God than among these rugged peaks and immense boulders, upheaved in the wildest con

f usion, pointing back to the time when “a

great and strong wind rent the mountain , andbrake in pieces the rocks before the Lord, ”o r,

farther back still into the dim past, when lightnings played around the summ it and the crash

of the thunder proclaimed to the wonderingmultitudes whose white tents studded the greatplain below that Jehovah was revealingHis wil lto man

Ascending the peak known as Ras Sasafeh,we have a magnificent view o f the plain o f Er

Rghah

, hemmed in by mountains on every81 6.

Here we were in all probability on the veryspot f rom which the Commandments were

uttered. Opening our Bibles, we read the

twentieth chapter o f Exodus, and then‘

had‘ ‘

to'

hasten down, as the sun was setting. Te mekethe descent by night would have been certain

death: o . '

The f ollowing daywe visited the convent o f

St. ‘ Catherine} Trave’

llers at‘

one time were

drawn up in baskets f or f ear o f the Arabs,but now the massive iron -

plated doors are

opened:-One of themonks, or, as our drag oman

called them,monkies,

”took us round. The

church is very small and beautif ully decorated.Gold and silver lamm hang in great numbersf rom the ceiling. A monk showed us a veryold copy o f the Gospels, and one o f the

“Psalms,so small that it can onlybe readwith a magnifying lass. Having taken o ff our boots, we entere the Chapel of the BurningBush.

” Thisis the very spot where the bush stood that

Moses saw burning so said, at least, our guide,though deep perchance the v illain lied.

" We

asked to see the bush, as it was not consumed,but our interpreter f ound it convenient not to

understand us. Perhaps the monksmayfind it,and thus f uture travellers will be benefited byour inquiries . I t would be quite as worthy o fveneration as the majority o f their relics andsites. We then saw the library, containingmany books o f great value, among them thecopy of the “ Codex Sinaiticus

,

”the oldest

manuscript of the whole of the New Testamentand a portion o f the Old, discovered byTischendorf some years since.

Following our guide, we were soon in the garden o f the convent. Having crossed it, wef ound ourselves at a low doorway this was theentrance to the dead- house. The monks areburied outside f or three years, then dug up,their bones labelled and put in a basket finallytheir skulls are piled together, and the bonessorted and stacked in heaps. Entering withlighted tapers, we are in a

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long dark chamberwith an immense ile of skulls on our lef t

,on

the right a small oor, and at the extreme enda great stack o f arms, legs, and ribs

, with hereand there a whole body.

Having made a careful sketch, and taken a

f ew of the bones with which the floor was

strewn, we entered the door on our right. The

first thing that caught my attention was theskeleton o f a man propped up on a box. Thiswas St. Stephanos. The head leaning f orward,the skull appeared to grin horribly, and was

not improved by a crimson velvet cap stuckjauntily on the side .

Heaps of bones lay on everyhand, and at one

endwere some boxes containingskeletons. Twobrothers were in one, a chain they had worn

when.

alive still around them. The walls werehung . with exceedingly rough

’

garments andrusty chains t hat had ‘ been worn

.

f or penance.

The old monk'

who ' showed us round pointedsignificantlyto hisi

'h'

ead, and'

thento the . heapo f skulls in the corner, looking f orward to thetime when he should rest with his fathers. We

were not sorry to emerge into the bright sun

shine again and return to our tents f or lunchThe meal over, we explored a valley rnnmng

at the f oot o f Sinai. I t was a glorious climb .

Mountains tower in rugged grandeur on eitherside. We soon reached the “ Convent Leja .

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Here. it was that f orty monks were murderedsome time ago by the Arabs. A little fartherdown the wady brought us to what is knownas .

“ Moses’

s Rock.

”A curious marking goes

through it,resembling running water. It isbelieved bymany to be the veritable rock that

Moses struck. Arriving at our tents hungryand tired, we gathered round the dinner - table,when we discovered to our consternation thatone of our party was missing. He had lastbeen seen some way up the wady, and it wasnow dark. Our o ld dragoman

,hearing that

one o f our companions had not returned, was

greatlyalarmed,declaring that he would f all

down, kill leg, break arm,

”and instantly sent

all the Arabs in search. We resolved to start

out with lanterns and reascend the p ass. It

was verydi ff erent work, climbingin the b itterlycold and dark night. Not a star to be seen.

When found the signal was to be two shotswitha revolver.

Towards midnight all but one had returned

to the tents and nowwe began to f ear that twoinstead o f one had been lost, but the second

came inas we werebreakfastin the nextmorning,

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having seen nothing o f t e missing one.

H e had manag ed to clamber to the summit o f

the pass with two Arabs. Here their l i htwent

out, and they dared not proceed. C ol ecting a

f ew bushes, a fire was lighted, but the'

next instant the wind carried it all away, so theywere

f orced to huddl e together to keep up a little

warmth, their teeth chatteri ng the whole night

throucrh. Once they. heard the low

growl of

a wild’ beast—perhaps a panther or yena

and the Arabs instantly examined their o ld

flint locks, and our f riend drew his - revolver.

Fortunately they heard no more o f their midnight visitor. As soon as it was light theyde

scendedWady Leja, searching in every direction . Passingthe Convent o f the Forty, ”

theyspied a long train o f monks wending their wayup the mountain. The three searchers called to

them to stop, as theywanted to inquire o f them.

The holy fathers, however, paid no attention,so

a bullet was sent whistling o ver their heads,

causing them to run in every direction .Breakfast over, we set out in exploringparties,but saw no trace o f our lost companion, and re

,

turned, tired out, to the tents. Here we f ound

the greatest excitement ex isting among the

Arabs. H is f ootmarks had been seen some dis

tance downWady Sheikh. Two A rabs are in .

stant]y mounted on the swi ftest camels and

gallop o f f across the desert.

Fig. l .—The . No rthe r ly Sky at IO p .m . on Se ptembe r IS .

[At 9 p .m . on the 21st there are no less than twelveconstellationson themeridian. Theyare Lynx , UrsaMajor

,Draco , U rsa Minor , C

_

epheus, C ygnus, Vul pe

cula, Delphinus, Equuleus, Aquarius, C apricornus,and Piscis Australis. There are no large stars on

the line except Polaris ; but Talitha in the GreatBear and Deneb in the Swan are very closeto i t ]N the other side o f Aquarius comes

,aswehave

seen, the Australian Fish, w ith the brightstar Fomalhaut in his month. Next to PiscisAustralis comes Microscopium ,

the MicroscopeBelow Cetus and Aquarius comes Fornax , theFurnace Below Cetus and Eridanus comes

Sculptor All three o f these constellations are

still waiting f or some one to point out in them

the f aintest resemblance to the objects af ter

which they are named.Below Hydra and adj oining Centaur comes

Lupus, the NVol f , whose head'

is at the f oot of

Ara,or the Altar . I t used to be on the top of

the Altar in the days when the,Milky Way

stood f or the smoke f rom the burning v ictim.

Toncana, the American Goose, is a small cir

cumpolar constellation nearly opposite to the

Southern Cross, and cut o ff f rom it by a sin

gularly dark space ; Achernar in Eridanus isnear the Toucan

’

s tail . Triangulum Australis

is a small one,

.but verydistinct, and shines outboldly between Pavo and the two brilliantgemsin the f ore - f eet of Centaurus. Both the

The Boy’s Own

(Paper.

I t was a time o f great suspense . Would theyfind him ? I f so—dead or alive ? Time passeswe grow impatient o f inaction. But now a cloud

o f dust rapidly advancing shows somethinghasbeen f ound. Hurrah ! the f oremost Arab isholding our f riend. He is al ive, but weak,and we help him into the tent. Many o f

the Arabs are in tears ; one old sheik lif ts

his hands to heaven and says, w ith tears,“ Allah alone can have kept him through

such a night

S T A R S OF T H E M ON T H .

SEPTEMBER.

H e took the turning to the left instead o f theright at the summit of WadyLeja, and had beenwalking f or twenty- f our hours, f earing to rest

on account o f wild beasts or the intense cold.

He had heard the convent bells ringing, but theinnumerable echoes misled him . The Arabssaid,

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im verytired,’

canse marks of footsverynear each other.

(To be continued.)

2.—T he So uthe r ly Sky at IO

.

p .m . o n S eptembe r IS .

The ear was tuned f or Nature’

smusic,Not Nature

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s music to de light the ear

The eye was f ormed to revel in the prospect.And not the prospect to rejo ice the eye .

As you breathe in the beauty o f the starryhosts

,that beauty is byyou appreciated because

you are part o f one o f them.

As each globe shineth f air to ear th,

So shineth earth to each as beautif ul .

Triangle and Toucan are on the AntarcticCircle .

The Crane, the Phoenix, the Peacock, theSwo rdfish

,the Indian

,are all Southern Star

groups o f little importance . Below Hydra andnear Argo comes An tlia, which perhaps is deserving- o f most notice, but none o f these needspecial mention. They are subject to constant

changes in shape and name, and may even bealtered or disappear altogether between the

time o f our writingand our going to press I In

the diagrams their relative positions have allbeen dulynoted.

One thing bef ore we end we maymention,

and that is, that although the zodiacal constei

lations are of unequal size, the zodiacal signsappear on the ecliptic at equal intervals

, andhence the sign isnot always in the constellation.

The same slow movement which made Polaristhe Pole star instead o f Thuban has also con

siderably altered the position of the asterisms ofthe zodiac.

And with these f ew odds and ends we havecompleted our year with the constellations. We

have taken the stellar aids to memory andbrought them home to our readers in f amiliarspeech that every lad amongst us may be as

f amiliar with the groups as their inventors intended. We have shown how the constellations,instead o f having fixed boundaries, comingdown to us f rom grey antiquity, and remaininguntouched f rom the first, have been shi fted

about with the whims and peculiarities o f everyage, and are subject to constant change, in

creased and decreased, named and renamed ;and in pointing out at once the impossibility o f

the student finding in the stars the guiding

points of the patterns whose titles they .bear,we have saved him that bitter disappointmentwhich has caused so many to give up their at

tempts at identification as labour spent in vain .

And now, reader, that our notes have servedtheir turn, banish f rom your mind f or a momentthe ridiculous ideas associated with the constellations; and, gazing only at the bright pointsaround you, look f orth into the deep clear dome

as slowly its pearls sweep past. Think o f the

immensity of that which we call space ; thinko f the vastness . o f even the v isible universe ;think of the insignificance of this tiny earth

compared with the innumerable masses whose

existence but the f aintest twinkle denotes !

And then take comf ort that

The EBoy’s Own

,

Taper .

JOHN SMITH T HE GREAT :

A TRUE STORY

MITH swam f orthe island,'

which was

un inhabited save by a f ew cattle and

goats. I t was .nearly dark, so that, af ter a

prayer o f thankf ul ness f or his escape, he

selected a shelter and lay down to sleep 1n

hiswet clothes. I n the m orning he haileda ship that was lying at her anchor not farf rom the shore , and w as taken aboardShe was the Bretagne , a. St. Male privateer

, or rather general trader that stuckat nothing.

”H er captain

’

s name was La

Roche, and he w as a f riend o f the noble,man f rom whom Sm ith had had

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such'

a

hosp itable w elcome .

In the Bretagn'

e Smith sa iled to Alexi.

andr ia, and“ visited several p orts in the

Levant. La Roche , having made .his oh

servations, and . ascertained what r ichlyla

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den vessels were about to start, decidedf or the entrance to the Adr iati c, and laytonear Cor f u . Shortly af terwards a deeplyladen Venetian argosy appeared in _

sight,and the Bretagne bore down as i f to speak

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her . The Venetian , considering her l ookssuspicious, fired a‘

shot as'

a hint f or her to

keep clear .

La Rochewas delighted . The shot had

killed one of his m en, and given him an

excuse f or attacking. The fight at once

began . The Venetian attempted to sailoff , but during the chase her tackle got sodamaged that she had to turn and showher teeth. And well did .she struggle .

Twice did the Bretagnes heard her , andtwice were they dri ven back.

Af ter the fight had lasted more than an

hour and a half a third attempt wasmadeto board, and thenthe Venetians set the

privateer on fire . Half the crew were newtold o f f to keep the fire under , whil e theother half , rendered

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desperate by theflames, f ought like so many tigers. TheVenetians were driven along the decks,

or ADVENTURE, PERIL, AND

C HAPTER II.and only when their argosyhad begun to

sink f rom the number o f shots that had

been poured in between w ind and water

did she strike her colours.

H er plunder was very r ich. She was

abandoned only when the Br etagne hadbeen r endered f airlyseaworthy, and loadedas deeply as her captain dared w ith silksand velvets, and cloth o f gold , and specie ,and precious stones. La Roche made f orM alta , but finding the w ind f air , headedf or Antibes, where Smith lef t him and

embarked f or Leghorn .

From Leghorn: he w ent through Tuscany to Sienna , where he f ound the yOungLord Wil loughby and his b rother , w ithwhom he had first star ted in lif e as page .

Af ter a pleasant. stayo f f our days w ithhisoldmaster , Sm ith;went on to Rometo see

the sights, and then made hiswayte Gratzin . Styr ia .

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f‘ ”

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At Gratz he became acquaintedwithBaronEbershacht

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, and to him;in'

com se o f

conversation on mil itarym atters, explaineda new method o f signalling to besiegedtowns that he had modified f romPo lybius.

ByEbershacht he w as introduced to the

general o f the artillery, and by himto . Count Meldrieh, whose regiment he

joined, and with the regiment"

.he went ‘

.

to Vienna .

. There he didnotstaylong.

“

Thewar inHungary was still; in f ull sw ing, and

“

the

w ere gain ing: ground. Theyhadtaken Kanisa , and

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were now besiegi n'

g

Ebershacht .1n Olympa

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ch. Smith wasam ongst those sent to its relie f .

He f ound his w ay to the general , ex .

plained to him that the besieged baronwas acquainted with his new method iQfsignalling, and

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that he cou ld communicate

wi th him,if necessary. Perm ission was

-

given f or the trial. to be made , and at

night Sm ith climbed an adjo in ingmoun

tain, and by showing: as many lighted

candles on the top thereof as each letterstood . in numerical order f rom A , he

managed to spell out and the besieged todecipher , Thursdaynight I w ill chargeon the east ; at the alarm , sallyyou .

”

On the night the programme was duly

per f ormed, and the Turks w ere dr iven o f f

to Kanisa . .For his share in the exploitSmith was made

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a captain , and giventhe command o f two hundred and fif ty

horse

The armyo f Lower Hungary was com

manded by the Archduke Matthias, and

under him was that Due de__Mercoeur o f

whomWe have heard bef ore . I t moveddownto Stahl We1ssenburg and began itssiege . We1ssenburg was a very strengplace , deemed 1ndeed, bythe Turks, to beimpregnable .

H owever , itwastakenaf tera sangmnary

resistance bef ore Mahomet and hi s army

SUCCESS.

could get up to the rescue . Assoon as the

town surrendered,Mercoeur m arched

against the army o f relief , and then af ter a

battle which lasted till the n ight partedthe c ombatants, in which Sm ith was

seriouslyw ounded and had his horse shotunder him , and which nearly ended in a

Turkish victory, there came a pause in the

active hostilities, while the generals at

tempted to outmanoeuvre each other .

Winter was approaching, and soon the

Turk retreated to his base . Me1 coeur

divided his army, returned to Vienna toreceive a triumph,

and w ent to Nurembergto die . M eldrieh threwup the emperor

’

s

service and entered that o f Sigismund

Rathori,, -

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and w ith him'

went m any o f his

men,

‘

1ncluding Smith. Fighting grew

br isk all o f a sudden,and the T ransylva

n ian army shut up some o f the Turks at

Regall . I t w as a blockade rat-her than a

siege , and the Turks, finding them'

selvesbut little damaged, becam e outrageouslysarcastic in their . observations f rom the»

ramparts, even go ing to the length o f in

quir ing if the ordnance had .been lef t at,

the pawnbroker’s: For

“

the Turks o f thosedaysWere w ell acquainted w ith the arts o f

“

war in all their branches.

One day there arr ived a challenge f rom.

’ the commander to meet anycaptain o f a

C ompany in single combat,“ to give the

siege a little var iety,”

and prevent its:

being said that the Transylvanians had.

gone as they C ame w ithout striking a

blow .

The challengeWas accepted, lots w ere

drawn as to who should be the representative o f the besiegers,and the cho ice f ell on

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A truce was proclaimed in order that allmights ee the entertainment. Regularlists w ere prepared .

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The troops w ere

drawn up on three sides o f a square in“

f ront o f the town , while’

on the walls w erethe Turkish ladies and gentlem en whom.

the ‘

f Turbashaw sought to amuse .

“

The Turkish champion was the first to

appear . H e was clad ln complete armour .

On his shoulders w ere a pai r o f wings

wrought of eagles’f eathers and mounted

in silver , while gold . and precious stonesbedecked his plated harness and that o f hisnoble steed . Bef ore him came a jan issarybearing hi s lance , while on

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each side o f

him marched a squ1re . Smith also was in

complete armour , and had a page to hear

his lance .

The salute was .given ,the trumpet

sounded , the lances w ere couched, and the

combat began . I t did not last lo .ng"

The

C hrisltian ’s lance w ent clean through the

r ight hole o f the Turk ’

s helmet, into and

through his head , and he dropped lif eless

to the ground . Smith jumped ofi'

his

horse, drew his sword, and cutting o f f the

head laid it at the f oot o f his generalamidst enthusiastic cheering f rom the

Transylvanian side.

The cheering angered the Turks. An

other champ ion appeared , the bosom f riend

o f him who had been killed , personallychallenging Smith f or hishead, hi s horse,and his armour .

Next day the lists were again set up ;

Again the lances came into play, but thistime theywere each shivered into splintersand the Turk was nearly

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unhorsed. Pistolswere drawn, Smith was hit on the breast

Aga in the champion o f the lnflde ls lost'

his life."

plate , but the bullet glanced o f f Without

penetrating. (the Turk was hit on the

e lbow and the bone was shattered. Losingcontrol o f his horse , he was thrown to the

ground . Smith cut off hishead and becamethe possessor of thehorse and the armour .

The siege w ent on its dreary way, and

to break the monotony Smi th was

allowed tosend in a. challenge to meet anyo f the Turks in single combat as he had

done the previous two .

’

The challenge w as

accepted. Again the troops w ere drawnup and the ladies lined the walls, and

again, although the fight was w ith battleaxes instead o f lances, the champion o f the

infidels lost his lif e . An d thus w ere won

the three Saracens’heads which adorn

Smith’s coat- o f - arms on the slab at St.

Sepulchre’

s C hurch.

Af ter a time the besiegers w ere in a

The iBoy’s OWI ] Taper .

Sea ,‘

and the Crimean tr00ps came to the

help o f their comrades. Fighting grew

more f requent and more serious. Battleaf ter battle was f ought—it was little butfighting in those times—w ith the semisavages, and in one o f them , which beganby the C hristians f all ing into an ambush,John Smith was wounded and lef t f ordead . The camp

- f ollowers saved his lif ein the hope o f a heavy ransom , judginghim to be o f consequence f rom his elaboratearmour , and he w as sent when w ell to theslave market

,stripped in order to show

that he was sound and strong, and at last

purchased and dr iven to Constantinople asa present f rom a pasha to one o f his

wi ves.

Little did Smith anticipate his next adventure . The lady took a f ancy to him .

She had been to ld by the pasha that he(To be continued .)

position to sto rm , and the assault on the

town was delivered . I t was thoroughlySuccessf ul , despite the bags o f gunpowderhurled into the ranks as the party came on

and the logs o f wood that w ere rolleddown on them f rom the walls. A f ter the

capture the army was reviewed by Sigismund at Esenberg, and Smi th

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received the

gr ant o f his co’

at of - arms'

and a pension o f

three hundr ed ducats per year .

There was other work in store f or him ,

however . The Turks were then m posses

sion o f the northern coast Black

had captured the slave on the battlefield,and when Smith enlightened her on the

subject she show ed violent anger at the

deception, and virtuallyprem ised to marry

the Engli shman and give him his f r eedomat the untruthf ul old gentleman

’

s death.

In order that she might keep Smith f romharm she sent him w ith an explanatoryletter to her brother on the banks o f theCaspian .

Tymor was horrified when he receivedhis sister ’

s letter ; and, to nip the littleplotin the bud, he had Smith str ipped o f his

clothes,clad him in a hair coat, sha

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vedhi s head, riveted an iron collar on to his

neck, and handed him over to his chief

slave dr iver , to give him the hardest and

meanesto f labour . In this state o f slaveryhe remained f or some tim e , and greatw ere

his suff erings. At last he was set to thresh

some corn in abarn . Tymor came in , and

began :to beat and insult him . Sm ith

could,

stand it no longer , and'

with one

blow'

o f his threshing- club he struck his

master to the earth. To staywas to be

killed ; the only chance Smith had o f his

li f e was to run. H e hastily dressed him

self in Tymor’s bloodstained clothes, leapt

on his horse , and, w ith the coll ar still onhis neck , rode o ff as hard as he could

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limit o f boiled p earl - barley, boiled wheat, or even rice .

I f the grain be al lowed to stand till it f o rms into solid

lumps, it is well to add a little bran and coarse sugar

o r honey. This ground- bait requires putting in f or a

c ouple o f nights p revious to the dayon which you fish,

and some well - scoured gentles, red- worms, caddies,

and some selected grains o f pearl - barleyare to be yourh ook baits in turn—in f act, according to the seemingi nclination o f the fish . There is something, also , in

knowing how to fish f or carp . The bait must be on

theg ground, ,

f or , l ike the barbel , the carp is a ground

rf eeder , who w ill invariably disdain a floating bait exc ept when in the height o f summer he is basking on

the sur face o f the winter in shoals—and even then

~carp are only occasionally captured w ith a fly or

gentle . Retire also as f ar as your rod w ill allow

f rom the bank , and by all means preserve a silence o f

movement, so that this timid fish maynot take alarm.

Though they do . not rush awayw ith the sp eed o f a

trout, theyare nevertheless verysulkywhen theythinktheyw il l be so , and i f once they conceive somethingto ,

be amiss you may trytill you are tired without a single

b ite .

The mention of'

the gentle a sentence or two back:reminds me that however caref ully you have keptthem somewil l be f ulfilling the ir lif e cycle and passinginto the fly state. The first indication o f this change

i s seen in the hitherto white gentle turning stiff and

o f a yellowish brown. Soon af ter this brown hue

deepens. and af ter a little time the chrysalis burstsand a blow - flymarches sleep ilyabout in your gentlebox. Now these flies are some o f the best trout luresin nature and ought not to be wasted, theref ore theymust be saved and used in this way. Ar e you an

entomo logist at all ? I f so you k now what a cyanide

b ottle is.Kill your fiies by means of this, and

then place them as they are in a paper bag in the

sun to dry. When they are so dry as to be merelyhusks of the ir f ormer selves you can take them

s ingly and tie a piece o f silk round the body o f each

under the wings and over the thorax . When you are

fishing f or dace or chub or trout with the naturalffly a ll you have to do is to hook your single hook int his waistband o f silk, and the fly is secure on your'

h ook , The p reciseway o f using this fly I will explaini n f uture articles. I only call attention to the matter'

here that the opportunitymaynot be allowed to slipa way.

The Tea ch—The tackle which you intend f or carpw il l do equallywel l f or tench, and so wil l the mode o f

fishing, w ith '

this exception. C arp wi ll bite sometimes

al l the day, but I never knew tench to do so . Earlyin

the morning and till quite dark at night are their"

f avourite per iods. I t sometimes happens thatyou get

t ench one af ter the o ther when it is so dark that yourfloat is almost undiscernible . There are two ways o f

getting over this diff iculty ; one is to use a“

glow

we rni”f loat —perhaps I had better stop and explain

what this is .

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Y ou know that there are certain sub

stances which, on being exposed to l ight, have the

p ower o f retaining a certain p or tion, and o f giving itf orth again in the dark. C alcined oyster- shel ls is one ,:and the touchwood o f the withy or alder is o f ten

f ound to possess this proper ty in veryhigh perf ection.

Well , the glow -worm float is an ingenious application-o f this f act. There is a sealed glass tube on the topo f it. and in this is enclosed some substance capableo f behaving as I have said . Al l you have to do is tol ight a match now and then close to the float, which

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r enders it phosphorescent, and you w i ll be able to{ see it all n ight i f you choose to watch it. But to“

r esume . The other . plan is to stick a white f eather“

in the top o f the float. This wi ll serve until dark‘

ness absolutely p uts an end'

to your fishing. I don'

t

think all ~ night fishing is good f or boys in more ways

t han one , so when you cannot see your white f eather

give up trying and go home to bed. Be out as early

a s you choose in the morning, o f course .

Though the tench is usuallyf ound where carp are ,

;yet it sometimes occurs that carp are not f ound to be

where tench abound. The f act is, they are verygoodf riends, but the tench is a tri fle more independent,and i f half the taleswhich have gained credence aboutthe medicinal virtues o f the tench are correct, this

:self - op iniativeness is not to be wondered at. I t is

said that the p ike will not touch the tench out o f gra

titude because o f its kindly o ffices in sweating the

h eal ing balsam f rom its sides when the pike' is

wounded or out o f sorts. This is, however , o f coursee xaggerated. I am lo th to deny even a p ike some'

r edeeming f eature o f its f erocious character , but‘

though it dislikes the tench probablybecause o f the

l arge secretion o f slime on its body, I must doubt thegratitude o f Execs lu cius and I know that, gratitudeo r no gratitude , the pike will take even a tench if put

to it by hunger ; so that stern truth f alsifies the poet

when he says,

And howsoe'

er by raginghunger p ined,

H e Spares the tench—a medi cmal k ind .

i t is, however , r ight to say that the tench is a mostbene fi c ial fish in an aquar ium or small pond, as I havep roved ; though what o ld C amden,

in his“Britannica,

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says about the wounds o f p ike beinghealed by “ touch

o f tenches is w ithout doubt a f able . The benefit ite f f ects seems to be owing to its extreme lyglutinouss lime, which renl lydo cs good to ilsh su ff ering f rom the

f ungus o r mould so o f ten observable in aquar iums or

o n the c losely C on f ined inhabitants o f a small pond.

I n some parts o f England a tench cut open and spread

on.

the breast o f a pe rson su f f er ing f rom jaundice issaid to be a complete pall iative ,

i f not a cure . I know«c l one or two cases where it has been sa id to act l ikethis, but whe ther the medic inal action come f rom thevi rtues o f the tench o r the imagination o f the wearer

j‘ deponent sayeth no t. We all know how potent

. imaglnatiou is in the cure o f disease . Then, again, it

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is a known f act in the history o f the tench that it hasthe power o f sustaining l if e in situations where mo st

other fish would soon be dead. Daniel, in his “ RuralSports,

”speaks o f one which weighed an enormous

amount, and which had been imp risoned under the

roots of a tree until it had almost grown to the angu

larities o f its abode in shape and size . I have carriedtench by rail mysel f in damp moss, and at the end o f a

ten hours' journey in a stuff y carriage have f ound

them none the worse , and quite capable , af ter a f ew

minutes, o f resuming the ordinary f unctions o f swimming and breathing.

Bream .—This is another sportingfish o f a verygood

class, inhabiting most o f our rivers. Especially is it

p lentif ul in the Norf olk Breads and in the Thames.

I t i s not unusual f or the bream to “come on

" bitingearlier than September, but in that month it can saf elybe said that it is in its prime. Moreover, i t is not socapricious as it is in early season : and if one mayesteem it as eatable—some like it—I would saythat inSeptember it is less insip id than at any other time.

I ts f orm bears some resemblance to that o f the tench,but beyond that there is little similarity in them . As

f ar as habits go the bream is barbel - like rather than

THE I

’OULTRY RUN.

- Probably our f owls requirequite as much attention during this month

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o fSeptember as they do any time all the Y ear round.

All the more in that it is the month in which moultmg shows itsel f , and continues f or the next twomonths in the run, the exact time depending on theage o f the f owls. The o lder the bird the later itmoults. Y ou will not expect the chickens youhatched in the earlymonths o f the year , however , todo other than lose a f ew f eathers o f their youngplumage , but they will moult a month earlier thanthis next season.

I t is sometimes advantageous to get the moult overas soon as possible , especially if you intend going inf or shows, which later on wi ll be common enough allover the country. Any boywho takes a pride in hisf owls—be he an o ld boy or a young, f or we find wehave both as readers o f our DOINGS—will, even whilehastening the moult o f his birds, take care thatnothinggoes wrong w ith them . Well , let him separate thesexes, and put each lot in a nice, comf ortable , warmhouse ,

where theymust have access to the dust- bathand shelter by. day, and kept caref ully f ree f romdraughts at night. I f very valuable you may pen

them altogether, but we cannot say thatwe approveo f keeping the birds f rom their exercise during thesixweeks o r two months the moultingmay last. Feed,however, extra well—oatmeal and p otatoes warm , w ith

a dust o f cayenne pepper in it, meaty scraps mixedw ith bo iled meal , etc . , e tc . Some mix ale with the

f ood. This may or mayno t do good, but nice milk issure to be beneficial .Let the birds have plenty o f gravel , and clean water

everyday, and it w ill be we ll af ter the f owls have beenmoulting f o r a f ortnight to give them a tonic in the

shape o f a p iece o f rusty iron in the water . Little e lsew i ll be needed. But buntams can have hemp - seed .

Read o ur DOINGS f or August. I twill be as well now

to go in f or a regular course o f cleaning and limewash

ing. I f possible shi f t your birds into some temporaryhouse while do ing so . o r you may have them catch

co ld. Mend and patch whe rever needed. I f the rainyweather has no talreadycommenced i t soonmay, so be

prepared.

I f your shelter- shed is not in good o rder attend to it.G ive it a slop ing roo f , and thatch that w ith straw ,

heather , f e rns, o r ro d- bark . This last is cheap and

excellent, but hardly to be go t in towns.

I t is a good plan, when time is an object with the l

tench- l ike , and the tackle necessary f or its capture

more closely resembles that f or the f ormer rather thanthat f or the latter fish. Rather a l small er hook isnecessary, and rather finer gut, so also the smaller o fyour worms but in every other respect what you use

f or barbel w ill do equal lywell f or bream. The breambites in rather a dif f erent style, however. Like all thew ide hat- fish—and this applies to rudd and tench—ittakes the bait standing on its head, as itwere . This isthe case nine times out o f ten, and the resul t is pecul iar to your bite - indicator

,be it the float or the rod

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pomt. The f ormer assumes a horizontal position instead o f disappear ing, f or the fish rises as it takes thebait ; and the latter simplygives two or three tiny,tremulous twitches, which, though so minute, maymean a five -pound fish. I f you are lucky enough tohook such a fish as this the fight he will make is something to remember.

Bream are to be f ound in all deep parts o f theThames up to Penton B ook f rom Richmond . I amnot

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aware that they have been taken outside thesel imi ts. C ertainly not within my experience ; but atWalton and Shepperton, as wel l as C hertsey, they are

present in the deepest parts in swarms. J. H. K.

possessor o f f owls, to have pieces o f board put downwherever droppings f all ; these are very easily taken

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fiand scraped, and they should be washed occasion

a y.

Whenever during this month a bird seems to be ailing, take it in hand at once . A simple castor - o il capsule has saved the l if e o f many a valuable f owl , but itis o f no use if not given immediately. War mth to a

sick f owl is ha lf the battle. That should never be f org otten.

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Verygood and usef ul f owls are Dorkings. Theyare

large a nd meaty, very excellent mothers, and good tmate w ith a large num ber o f breeds f or the sake o

obtaining birds'

either f or the table o r to lay. There

are several di f f erent kinds—dark,white, cuckoo , and

silveiugrey. The points are as f ol lows, bar the co lours,which you must learn f rom the show -

pens. C ocks :

Big, square , and stretchy, solemn and steady- lookingw ithal

,a broad protruding breast, a big but shapely

head, with short neat beak, comb e ither rose or single—ii the latter it must be big and high, smooth and

nicely serrated ; i f the f ormer, broad in f ront and

peaked behind. Wattles long and handsome and

deep ears about a third in size short neat neck, w ith

grand hackle ; body square when viewed in profile ;large well - sickled tail immense thighs ; five to es, the

fif th being large . The hen in general shape is like the

cock i f single - combed the comb falls the ta il is f ull

and spreading. The po ints o f the Dorking are veryeasily borne in mind if good specimens are seen once

or twice.

THE PIGEON Lora—As among f owls, so in the

pigeon lo f t is great care o f sto ck needed this month.

C ontinue, there f ore , watching the lo f t, and i fanycases

o f illness come on let them be quarantined at once .

Not that you may be always successf ul in caring a

case, but in o rder to p re r ent the compla int sp readingamong the o the rs. Y et inasmuch as the same causes

inlluence all the f eathered inmates o f yo ur le f t. con

sider these well , and remedy any mistake you may

have made . C o lds are common now ,so is the disease

to which the name o f m ap has been given. I t is only

a sp ecies o f severe co ld a f ter all , but it a ff ects more

particularly the l ining o r mucous membrane o f the

nostri ls . eyes, and Sn ll l c tilm’ s even throat. Give a

little Epsom salts w i th a f ew drops o f glycer ine - justa p inch o f the f o rme r . Put the pen in a wann c orner ,

and bathe the eyes and head and no strils f requentlywith warm green tea, o r milk

- and-water, or with warm

w ater in which a hal f - teaspoonf ul of pure carbolic acid

has been added to each tumbler f ul. Give daintie rf ood, and a handf ul o f hemp now and again.

K eep weeding and thinning the lo f t. C ommence

p reparations f or winter . A thorough cleansing out

side and inside the lo f t should not now be longdelayed.

We mentioned the trumpeter p igeon last month.

T here is a bird of the. same style cal led the drummer , a

great f avourite in some parts o f Germany. A .good

a uthority o f that country makes, among others, thef ollowinggraphic remarks. When excited the birds’

voice immediately alters into a ro lling, quivering,deep hollow drumming, the beak is moved. the cropslightly puf f ed, the wings tremble , and the f ront parto f the body is moved to and f ro The sounds becomelouder and weaker, and finally di e gradual lyaway.

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THE AVIARY.—C ana 7 ‘i es. We

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gave simp le airee

tions last month f or the guiding o f canaries saf elythrough the moulting p eriod. We hope our readers

w ill ref er back to and be instructed by them . Y our

birds—those you have bred—wi ll now be‘

o ld enough to

show what they are likely to turn out. Sell all those

you do not need to keep . I t is al together wrongpolicy:to keep live stock o f anykind to eat its head o ff

, as

the common but graphic phrase goes.

Boys who have not been very successf ul in theirbreeding operations this year must think back, andgain knowledge f rom their very f ailures. Prepareearlyby reading

«everywhere there is an Opp ortunityeverything sensible about the canary, and next seasonmaybe a f ar -more successf ul one than that which is

gone .

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Foreign B irds—Do not.purchase any more

stock at present, but thoroughly overhaul the outdooraviary. We will by- and- bygive short directions in our

DOINGS column f or -the bu ilding o f an aviary. It isvery p leasant emp loyment, easilydone, and w ill helpto pass away the long, drearymonths o f winter:

THE Bu mme r —I t is time now to_

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begin to see

about w inter com f orts f or your rabbits, and to make

plans f or building a rabbit- court if you intend goingquite in f or the f ancy. This last need not be a very

UN IfE'ri r C URIEUX .

—Always wr ite to the paper inwhich the statement appears. We never give thevalue of old coins

,f or the verygood reason that no

stated value exists ; a coin that might f etch a sovereign at one sale would not f etch Sixpence at - ahot

her . The value , in f act, is simp ly what you can

go

H . A. B .—Tii e most popular books on the North Ame

:r i can Indi ans are those by C atlin and Scho olcraf t;Of the hi story of the tr ibes very little is known.

BADEJ.

.

—Y 0u can get coin cabinets with trays havingthe c ircles in them at Lincoln

’

s in Holborn, and at

fiber shops in the neighbourhood of the Britishuseum.

C .

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E . BJORLlN.

G.—F0r

,Teglier

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s“Frithjoi

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s Saga, either- i h the original or in translation,

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apply to Trubnerand C o . , Ludgate H ill, or any f oreignbookseller

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s.

H . V. BnAp E.

—i -ing to recent legislation on explo

s1ves, i t i s now undesirable that lads should attemptto make fireworks at home, '

and we no longer answerqueri es on

.

such subjects.

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large place ; the f loor should be cemented ; it oughtto be in a corner sheltered by walls f rom the northand east ; the other . two sides should be f enced ; itshould be roo f ed, and properly pro tected againstvermin in the shape o f rats and cats. There should hebreeding-

p ens, pen f or bucks, and - larger ones f or theweaned young. A very l ittle expense w ill build a niceone , and we may tel l our boys that rabbits do pay,whether they are kept f or the purpose o f breeding upto standard points and p roperties or only f or the mar

ket. Wild o r half - bred rabbits also do well in a

warren.

THE KENNEL—Build new kennels, or care f ully re

pair old ones. Be caref ul that in wet weather yourdog does no t turn inwet. Damp and hunger kill moredogs than anything else . Beware o f diarrhoea. C heckit by opiated chalk mixture and a change o f diet tof ood wholly f arinaceous whenever you notice it.

.THE K ITC HEN GARDEN.

—~Potatoes maybe taken upabout the end o f tli ismonth, or, indeed, whenever theliaulm turns brown and f ades . Lettuces may still besown and endive should be p lanted. Plant cabbages.

K ill weeds bef ore - they have a chance o f coming toseed. September issea terribly weedy month. I f no tdestroyed now more labour w ill be entailed in spring,so down with all weeds.

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Attend to borders and walks.

THE FLOWER GAifiDEN. down weeds. K eepthe ground everywhere loose , and neat and clean andtrim . An inexpensive edgi ng may be made o f ordinary

- bricks. Grass”l ooks nice , but takes a deal of

labour to keep neat.'

Annuals maynow be sown indrills. They stand the w inter we ll . We have alwaysnoticed

i

that those flowers which are sel f - sown are

hardier and are up months earlier than those putdown in spring. Plant spring flowers where they aremeant to remain .

THE WINDOW GARDEN.—C ontinue to water regu

larlyboth baskets and boxes. The f ormer, f requentlysuf f er ; sometimes they are so placed that even raindoes not . f all on them Keep the show of bloom bytransplanting f rom

-the flower garden.

MEMBER or Y ou can get any o f- the annuals f rom the C ricket Press, o r cricket

=outfitters. They dost

“

a'

shilling each. The prin~

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cipal are James and John Lil lywhite’

s, and Wis

‘ denf a. Y ou should‘sen

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d r eports o f your matches tothe “ Field "

and‘

other pap ers. Get a copy of‘

the2newspap er called

“C ricket. 2. The “ Exchange and

Mart is publishgdat 1 70, , Strand. Y ouc an get itf rom any o f Smithfibookstalls.

TAP 0 NM EL—Thewastelpaper dealers buy old pennystamps, but at per hundredweigli t, not per tho

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AcHILLE'

s.'—Nearlyfl

e_.ieryLondon publ isher has a book

on the C ivil Servicel '

,C onsult a first- class bookseller.

G.—Y ou must withdraw your app lication, and re

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train f rom applying again f or a situation in which a

certificate is requ ired . No crueller wrong can bedone a chi ld thanthe - re f usal to complyw ith the lawas to the registration o f its birth, etc . Y our parentsare l iable to a fine f or their neglect, to saynothingof

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the injustice theyhave doneyou.

OLD C RIC KETER.—1 ;‘ Under no 'circunistances

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could a

bal l p itch beyond a‘

wicket, and then, untouched,return to the -f ront and b owl the batsman out! Do

you mean that af’

f ul l p itch is no p itch? 2. The

striker'

is so called to distinguish 'him f rom thebatsman at

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_tli e

,bowler -

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s wicket. Age does notalways imp lywisd

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om.

HARRY.—In the - second volume we gave a long series

o f articles on bicycle riding._No f uller inf ormation

is publ ished . Y ou will , however , hardly ever learnto r ide a machine by reading about it you must seehow the thing

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is done f rom some f riend.

C OLONIAL—An entertainmentwith the usual thoughtreading tr icks is now being given by a well -knownLondon ;conjuror, I t is advertised in the news

papers.

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At“

present it is a trade secret, and there isno literature on

' the subject.

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G . H . P.—Soak the engraving f or a short time in a

dilute solution o f hydrochloric acid, made in the

preportion o f about one part to one hundred'

o fwater , and then cover it

,on a flat dish

,w ith chloride

o f lime water. Rinse with clean water, dry, andi ron.

A . P. (Manchester . ) Screens, and how to makethem

, began in No . 222.

NEEDLE—The C ardinal points are the f our N . s. E. W.

The Hal f - C ardinals are the f our N.W. , s.w. , N.E .,and

S.E. The False Points are the eightetc. , etc . The By.Po ints are the sixteen N. E. byE. ,

etc .

,in which the word “ by

”appears. The Lubber

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Point is not on the card at all ; it is the l ine drawndown the c entre o f the metal hea din which the cardis shipp ed, and. which

, being in a line with thevessel 's keel , '

is as“

good a guide to steer by as thebowspr it end.

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H .W. M .—Y ou had better get a new tyre . The only

way to make it smaller is to cut it on the slant andtake a p iece out, .

- cementing af terwards with one o

the elastic glues;

W. J. C iti ci- i 'roN. How to Work a Shadow Show

was in No . 1 7 2. The vo lumes are pub lished annuallyatM ichaelmas.

F. N . have no t seen it. Inall such cases

kindly give date o f paper in which descriptionippears.

Anxi ous—From the Scotch ports apprentices are generallyindentured i

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o r f rom three to f ive years, and the

premium ranges f rom twenty guineas to twentye ight pounds, and is in most instances returned as

pay. I n cases where no p remium is paid no pay is

given. An inquiry at the Mercantile Marine Officewould obtain the very latest inf o rmation f or you.

Letyour parents make the inquiry.

MESi -I .—1 . Eae li yarn in a good quality rope is sup

posed to be capable o f supporting one hundred

pounds. 2. Hawsers are f o ur stranded, w ith a centre

strand .called the heart, whose use is to allow o f thef our strands lying smo othlyw ithout a ho llow . I t

is a r ight- handed rope , and made in lengths o f one

hundred and six f athoms. Th e smal lest li awsersmade are the two - inch ones, used f o r royal backstays ; the largest the f ourteen - and- a- liait- inch ones,used f or f orestays in large ships.

TEDDY (Melbourne). —1 . We never criticise handwriting or composition . Keep

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your stamps. There

is no established firm engaged in such business. Y ou

would get the crests in an easier way f rom a cheap

peerage . I t is a mistake to suppose that p eersmakea habit of having their coats- oi—arms embossed on

note - paper . Mo llie Darling'

s questions have beenanswered bef ore.

PETER POSSUM (Paramatta) .—Y ou would find paperson the subject in the proceedings o f your institute .

A letter to one o f the Sydneypapers would procure

you volume and date . We never give Op inions on

current pol itics. Sir Staf f ord Northcote was bornin 181-8 . He is

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a Devonshire man. We should be

glad to hear about the boomerangs, but we havealreadyli ad an article on the subject.

C AVE C A'

NEM.-To give you the points of any animal

according to the system adopted by pro f essional“judges would occupy too much o f our space . Y ou

can get them f rom any of the expensive manuals.

r . A . A—The “ bill or“pee o f an anchor .i s the

extreme point. o f the arms and fiukes.

BAN’

JOIS'r .

—C ommon burnt cork is the cheapest, sim

piest, and best. I f .the cork has not been used it

makesa cleaner ash than that obtained f rom bottlestoppers.

NUMBER ONE—Our “Training articles, byM r. J. a .

Squires,were in the second volume . Theybegan in

No . 7 4, and there were six of them .

PITTENWEEM. For Government appointments you

should app ly to the department, and not trust to

published inf ormation o f old date . There are now

no va

l

cancie'

s open except to pupils o f Greenwich

Schoo

H . M. H - We never s'uwgest or improve we accept or

reject. We would rather not use the specimen o f

yb‘

ui‘ ear lypowers. Y ou_

have not yet even masteredthe arithmetic o f versification .

- NERO.

'—In Goodman’

s“ Fen Skating,

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publ ished byMessrs. Sampson Low and you will find sketches

o f several ways o f strapp ing on skates. Unless the

e lastic sides are much worn"

there is no di fficulty.

NVe are glad you like the look o f“ Boy

’

s Own Li f e

b oat No . 2; she is, as you say, very powerf ully

manned.

SANTA”

C l aus—To make large crystals you must use.

avery much stronger solution, and evaporate it

gradually.

A . L. HARRIs.—The author of

“ Toni C ringle’

s Log”

was Michael Scott. H e died in 1835.

A. WATTS (Brantf ord,—A f ew cop ies o f the

“ Exchange and Mart, pub lished at 1 70, Strand,

would give you the“

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breeders, and you could make your own selection.

EVAN DAVIES.—For inf ormation as to the Army apply

f or pamphlet to the nearest p ost- o f f ice . I f you de

cide to go to sea apply to the Mercantile Marine

Office, Liverpool .

ROWLOC KS. 1 . Mr . S.

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Darbishire was stroke o f the

Oxf ord EiOht f or three years, winning in 1868 and

1 869, and losing in 1 870. Mr . J . H . D . Go ldie was

stroke of the C ambridge boat f or f our years, losingin 1869, a nd winning in 1870, 1 87 1 , and 1 87 2. 2. Han~lan beat Elliott in 18 7 9, Tr ickett in 1880, Laycock in

1881 , and Boyd'

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s. c. H .—The best woodcut of which to cut the chess

m en is box, owing to its short gram . The only tool

to round them with is the lathe.

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into consideration our r eaders would not. Such

stories - are useless to us. K eep them by you, and

when you grow older you wil l. know why.

L. B G.

—The numbers o f the second volume are outofpr int, but you can have the parts.

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change and Mart, and take what you can get f or

them . There is no truer test o f value than what a

thing f etches when it is sold.

RED FROGGIEs.

—Ref er to our second volume . Y ouw ill there find a long series of arti cles on bee

keeping.

M. M .—1 . The address o f the Football Association is

28 , Paternoster Row . Letters f or the Ru byUnion

should be sent to Mr . G . Rowland Hi ll , T e C ircus,Greenwich. The Secretary o f the ScotchAssociation

is Mr . JohnM cDowell , 11 , C arlton Place, Glasgow.

2. Ne ither tripping, hacki ng, or jumping at a player

is allowed at Association Football, nor can any

p layer use his hands to hold or push an opponent, or

charge him f rom behind. In the Rugbygame also

no hacking, hacking over, or tripping up is all owed.

J. S. MOORE—1 . Algebra was invented byDiophantus,or rather he always gets the credit o f being its ih

ventor. I t came to us through the Arabs. De Burgo

appli ed it to arithmetic, Descartes to geometry, and

Eul er to trigonometry. I t was verymuch improvedbyVieta. 2. Never put nails or screws into

,hard

wood w ithout greasing them, and then you will find

no difficul ty.

P. F. T. Y .—1 . When peop

le put up stags’heads and

stags’

horns in their hal s and passages they are nu

consciously f ollowing a very ancient custom. In all

temples of Diana stags'

horns were nailed against

the walls, and it is in imitation o f this that your

f riend’

s“ villa ”

has got'

the p laster - oi -Paris,head

screwed over the door. 2. Mr. W. W. Read'

s bowl

ing average f or 1883 was fif ty. He does not shine as'

a bowler ; were he to do so he would have been the‘

best all - round player in England.

A Bren n er—C oat your machine with vaseline. I t

will keep away all the rust.

The go3r’s Own i

3axpe1

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GR.

-\MPUS.—Messrs. C ollins and Sons publish a very

usef ul guide to London, as do also Messrs. Ward andLock, and other firms. I f you want a little amuse

ment you should buya French guide and translate1

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H . FORMAN.—The playing o f the p iccolo w ill not prevent your master mg the art o f ventriloquism al

though, as you say,‘

ji t requires wind to p lay it.

"

I t requi res no more wu d to be a ventriloqu ist thanto

‘

be anything else . Y ou will some day bedeceived. See our arti cles in the first volume.

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pictorial dahnbat .—§ cpizmbtr.

t.

LUX LUNA-L—l . No . 2. Y es. 3 . The'

distance f romPlymouth to the C ape o f Good Hope is milesby steamer, and by sailing- vessel . The distance f rom the C ape to Melbourne is by sailingvessel miles. The sooner you Spell Australiawith one i the better .

F. C omma—The name o f the ship is pronouncedSeltlc inordinary parlance the word is Kel tic but,like a man

'

s name, a ship'

s name is pronounced asthe namer names it.

Tg URSDAY .-For gas - stoves for laboratory purposes

you could not do better than apply to Mr . Fletcher ,Warrington.

'

He is the great authority on gas as af uel . Gas fires

‘

are much used in the arts. What doyou think o f a gas fiame f orty f eet longand onlyhalfan inch thick?

G. W. C . B.—Se '

e our article on“ NavyRanks.

" Y ouwil l there find the distinguishing marks of all navalbfiicers.

“

W. S. STEVENSON.- I twould riot be “ legal, nor would

it be to publish two or three columnsout o f the BOY ’

S OWN PAPER in another weekly journal . In America you can do as you p lease , buthere all rights reserved”

ef f ectively stops you.

Imus —The portrait you send is that o f a sea-horse .

I t is not uncommon. See our articles on“ Sea

horses"

in the fi f th volume.

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cadets are f requently sold. Wait till you are a noncommissioned o fficer , and then you wil l know .

H . P. LYLE—Y ou have been misinf ormed. All candi ~

datesmust pass the preliminaryexamination unl essby speci al grace of the judges.

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orange shellac broken small, and three parts of rec

tided spirit. 2. To extract ink f rom mahoganycoverthe spot with spirits o f nitre diluted with water laido

tnO

by'

a f eather. Wipe it o f f quickly, or it will8 am

SATURDAY ,

“

SE IZTEMO

BER 13 , 18 8 4 .

“ The Spania rds ran

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the ir vesse ls aboa rd, and a te r r ib le com -bat began .

Pr ice One Penny.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. )

JOHNSMITHTHE‘

GREAT

A TRUE'

STORYOF ADVENTURE, PERIL, AND

SUC C ESS.

C HAPTER m .

0

FTERsixteen days r iding Sm ithdegood hi s escape to the

banks of the Don . Here at one o fthe Muscovite settlements he t e

ceived a heartyw elcome and hos

pitable’

treatment, and only when

f ully recovered did .he leave f orTransylvania . H e reached H er

manstadt‘

w ithoutI

.m ishap ,

'

and

then w ent on t o Prague to report

himself to Sigismund and'

a sk f or

his di scharge . Sigismund listened

in astonishment to his story, and

w ith a. gif t of fif teen hundr ed

golden ducats granted him the

f avour he “

sought.

Sm ith then started o ff into

his cash run

n ing "

short, made' his way

”

to Gib

raltar .

“

Thencehe crossed toTan

g'iers

’

and - took up hi s abode f or a

ti‘me ' in Barbary, where “

English

m en were in great request as

skilled w orkm en . Here he. m et

Archer the watchmaker , who is

known in connection with the

f amous lion -

story.

A lioness had her pups stolen

f rom her while bathing. She gave

chase and one o f the pups was.

dropped. This she bore back inher mouth and the

with the other three .

’

Two o f

them w ere'

given to Archer , and

one of these survived. Archer had.

The 8 037’

s Own,

Taper.

brought it up like a dog, and to be

justtQ’

such a companion as a dog should

b e . Af ter a tim e he gave it away to

a Marseilles merchant, who gave it to

the F1 ench king, who gave it to KingJames, who put it in the Tower . Sevenyears af terwards one o f Archer

’

s servantswho had known the l ion went to see the

Tower . The lion recognised him at once,

and m ade such a f u'

ss that the m an w as

adm itted into ; the den , where he w as w el

com ed w ith such l ickings and f awningsand f riski ngs that the spectators w ere

amazed, and)

when_he lef t the l ion raged

w ith grief and w ould not touch f o od f or

f our days.

Finding no chance o f a suitable . Openingunder the Sul tan, Sm ith returned to Safli

on his w ayhom e, but here he was invitedon board a ship under a C aptain Merham ,

and while the f estivities were on a storm

ar ose which drove the vessel out to sea .

M etham w as a gentleman o f the La“Roche

stamp , and as soon as the st01m had lulled

and he f ound himsel f near the C anar ies, hebegan to look about f or what he could

p ick up .

A small barque w as the first prey, and

then af ter a f ew trifles two mysteriou svessels were sigh-ted o f f Bojador . T

'

o

M erham’s

'

hail they dipped their topsailsandi invi-ted him to come aboard, as theyw ere but poor buccaneers.

” Merham ,

however , smelt a rat, and put his shipabout shor t and sharp . They w ere two

well - equ ipped Spanish -men - o f—war .

A r egular fight then began ,and such a

fight ! One o f the Spaniards tacked af ter

him and received'

his broadside , the otherf ollowed su it, and f or . an hour the dons on

each side kept pounding away. Then

they closed to board, and were dmven offwith f our or ‘ five o f thei i men lef t dead on

M erham’

s gratings. For another hour thefight continued, andfithen one o f themclosed again .

’

Grapnels were thrown andthe yard arm got locked in the shrouds, THE TIGERSK IN : A S TORY . or C ENTRAL INDIA.

but a shot . making its way into the

Spaniard’

s bow between wind and w ater , B ‘L Rthe vessel began to sink. The grapnels

Y OU IS OU'SSELET”

w ere slipped, and she sheered off to repairdamages. A : runn ing fight w as kept upWith the other

_Shlp tl ll nightf all , and then “ 11350 . .

3 m:age

?C HAPTER XXIX .

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I

T ITE C HAMPIONthe firing ceased.

The next day the battle . began. at daylight of f C ape Nun . The Spaniards sailedup and commanded Merham to surr ender

to the K ing o f Spain . M erham called f or

a glass o f wine , .drank to his m aj esty

’

s

very good health, and then let fly his

quarter p i eces. The Spaniards ran theirvessels aboard,

‘

and a terr ible combat

began . Som e o f .the dons w ent up the

rig

o

ging to get the _

mainyard out o f its

stringsandwere shotdown , others crowded

on to the deck and swept'

nearly all the

buccaneers below . As the victors stood

on the f orecastle grating Sm ith blew themup with a bag o f gunpowder . The af t

m agaz ine exploded, the ship caught fire,and the Spaniards retreated, leaving theirdead and dying behind them .

The flam es w ere soon got under , theshot holes w ere stopped w ith sails w arped

o ver them , and preparations w ere made tor enew hostilities. The Spaniards hung outa flag o f truce to give M erham a chance ,but he had made up his m ind to fight itout to the last man , and r eplied w ith hisr emaining guns. And so the battle beganagain , and was continued into the n ight.No f urther attempt was made to board,however , and in the darkness the vesselslost each other .

Merham had twenty- seven killed and

A uthor of The Two C abin Boys," “ The

Z

Drummer Boy, etc. ,etc

.

'

f,OF THE T I GERSLAY ERS .

sixteen wounded, while in the ship ’

s hull

w ere one hundr ed and f orty shot holes.

What becam e o f one o f the Span ish shipswas never known ; the other saf elyr eached

her port. M erham got back to Saffiw ithout f ur ther adventure , and having landedw ith the survivors o f the d inner -

partySm ith came back to England.

H e was now five - and - tw enty, and had

served a stern apprenticeship f or the w orkhe was to do . The exp er ience o f coun tr iesand m en gained in his ten years

’

servicew as that which fitted him so w ell to ru le

and guide ‘

the f ortun es o f a youthf ul

colony.

»When he came boma he f ound all kin

dred spirits f ull o f the . w onders o f Am erica .

Raleigh’

s“

expedition under Am idas and

Barlow had coasted round the C arolinas'

,

taken possession o f, .Wingantidoia , and

named itVirgin ia in honour o f the VirginQueen . Ralph Lane had been out to f ound

f ailed, and came‘

h‘

ome with SirFrancis Drake . Sir Richard Grenville hadalso lef t som e fif ty f olks to settle , and

these had been lost, although Raleigh hadsent f our expeditions in search, and it wasnot till a fif th w ent out that it was f ound

they had all been murdered, and thatVir

ginia Gabriel , the first B ritish baby bornon American so il , had been adopted by the

natives.

Smi th met w ith C aptain Gosnold, who

in the C oncord in 1602had discovered thenorthern part o f Virginia , and who was

now proposing to go out again a nd f ound

a colony and plantation . The chance o f

more adventure w as too much f or Sm ith tor esist, and so he put hi s m oney into the

scheme . I t was not,however; till 1606

that they'

got the charter , and then . two

HE sudden apparitioniu o f the King- of

e - Tigers, who was thought to be f araway f rom Mahavellipore , produced on them embers o f the Armoudjan colony an

ef f ect which Dr . Holbeck, not w ithout a

li ttle malice, compared to that excited by

a m an in the m iddl e o f an ant- hill .At first the panic was great. The ladies,

half dead w ith f right, w ere helped intothe carriages and brought back to camp ,

nuder the escor t o f Sportsmen armed to

the teeth, and supported by a detachmento f the Maharajah’

s troops.

Once at the Armoudjan the alarm some

what subsided but, to reassure the ladies,most elaborate precautions w ere adoptedsuch as a triple cordon o f sentinels, fires atall the garden gates, and watchers bef oreeverytent.But w e must go back a little to resume

the thread o f our narrative . The elder

guests w ere .still at the table when theshouts o f the f ugitives and the growl o f

the tiger m et their ears ; the pan ic and

con f usion had been even greater w ith themthan am ong the croquet—players. Severalo f the ladies f ainted, among them Mrs.

Whata f ter and Mrs. Butno t, and theywoul d have been lef t behind ’

on the ground

had it not been f or the devotion o f

Barbarou, o f the colonel ,-

and a f ew o f

companies w ere f ormed, one f or London ,

the other f or Plymouth.

The r t presentatives o f the London com

pany w ere Sir Thomas Gates, Sir GeorgeSomers, Richard Hakluyt, o f the voyages,and Edward Maria Wingfield ; those o f

the Plym outh company w ere ThomasHanham , Ralegh Gilbert, William Parker ,and George Popham . The date o f thecharter w as April 10, 1606.

Som e m onths w ere spent in preparation ,

and on December 19 the expedi tion startedf rom 'Blackwall . I t consisted o f thr ee

ships—one o f a'

hundred tons, one o f f ortytons, o ne o f twenty tons. These w ere

under the‘

comm'

and o f C hristopher New

port, who gave his name to NewportNews.

C ompare the tonnage o f his fleet to that o fthe steamers who trade to the seaport

named af ter him ! On board were Wingfie ld

, Sm ith, and a . very m iscellaneousassortment o f fif ty other gentlemen ad

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v'

en

turers, a minister (the Rev. Robert Hunt),two surgeons (Wotton and Wilkin son ),and f orty

—five labour ers and m echanics.

As i f to keep things as unp leasantlyromantic as possible , King Jam es had ihvented a new m ethod o f naming a leader .

H is majesty had evidently been struckw ith the M erchant o f Venice , f or insteado f nom inating a man he presented thevoyagers w ith a w onderf ul box all coveredw ith seals. The box was not to be opened

til l the site o f the colonyw as r eached,and

then . the king’s w ishes w oul d be f ound

therein . The boxwas taken on board w ithgreat ceremony and looked at longingly bythe fif ty gentlemen adventurers, each -

_

o f

whom w as f ully persuaded that he alone

was the luckyman .

(To be continued.)

the ,o fficers, who carried them into the

palace .

When Miss“

Shaughnessy told the storyo f Ever est’

s behaviour , it seem ed§o impro

bable that very f ew believed it. A f ur ioustiger stopped by a blow f rom a croquetmall et ! I t w as beyond the bounds o f

r eason , and the inventi on could only be

attributed to the delusion o f an overexcited brain .

The colonel , however , never doubted hisdaughter

’

s truth or coolness. An d so

Everestwaswarmlyand sincerelythanked,notwithstanding his r emark that he hadonly done his duty. I t ishardlynecessaryto say that in the eyes o f Holbeck and

Barbarou Everest was an incomparablehero .

I n the evening the conf erence w as most

excited. The question under discussionwas, o f course , the appearance o f the Kingo f—the - Tigers, his unw arrantable intrusion»,into the picni c , and the ways and m eans

o f checking such impertinence which f ortunately had had no serious result.As f ar as chastisement w ent, there was

but one opin ion Death w ithout delay.

”

As to the m eans o f puttingthis into execu

tion everym ember had something to sayevery one had som e special plan . B olbec

preposed to poison the f erociousbeastwith

strychnine , and Bai barou volunteered tocatch him i n a trap as he had seen lion'

s

caught 011 the Senegal These two pro

posals w ere rej ected w ith indignation as

unworthyof discussion by the Tigei slayers’

C lub .

C olonel Shaughnessy again suggested

a combined attack o f all the sportsmen ,

a ssisted by several thousand heaters.

Butnot, on the contrary, insisted that

e ach should fight f or his own hand, and,

so as not to damage one another , that each

Spor tsman should take his tum , the candidate

’s nam e to be writtendown, and the

c lub to decide the order in'which hewasto make his attempt. This propositionw as put to the vote and carr ied unanimously“ The president, _

af ter registermgthe vote , announced that on the morrow

theywould proceed to the election of can

didates.

Bef ore the m eetingclosed be repeatedthe advice that he. had gi ven three“

w eeks

bef ore at the inauguration o f the club

H e said that the younger members, whowould be the first candidates, should re

member . that prudence is the sister o f

c ourage , and that, whatever theymightsay, kill-ing a tiger ’

was not'

a triflingmatter . H e inf ormed his colleagues thathencef orth theyWould be continually ihf ormed o f the Kingyo f the

- Tigers’m0ve

l

iments, that he would be w atched by theshikaris, and that his highness w as goingto throw a strdngcordon of troops

=

round

the country to prevent all attempt“

at

flight on the part o f the monster .

During this long tumultuous con f erence

it seemed to H olbeclr that Everest w as

mere thoughtfu l and a‘

nxious than .us'

ual ,and as they came out

"

o f the club he tookthe youngman

’

8 arm,a nd said to him;- 1 '

n

a kindly tone , What makes you so

thoughtf ul to - night ? Are you not satisfied w ith what you have done

'

to - day .9

Without you our excellent f riend Shanghn essy would perhaps a t this m oment he

plunged“

in inconsola‘ble gr ief .”“ Do not talk like that,” saids

_

Everest.“ Y ou are m istaken; -I wi1l .

_

no

.longer delay telling you what f6-r

t im e I have f elt. Inwhom shall I C on fidei f not 111 you , my

"

onlymentor r’

“ Well, say“

on ? said_

the'

doctor ; -

'

the

night is delightf ul, and, while Barbarousleeps, we can talk as

'

we walk I do notsuppo

‘

se 'that the K ing- of the- Tigers Tw illpursue 118

‘ into this garden when it is

guarded by two h-undred sepoy

‘

s

Leaving" Barbarou to go

'

to bed alone,theh ire men

'

strolled ofi amongthegloomythickets of the ArmoudjanWhat was the subject o f their interview.

9We do not' know , but anyhow Everest’

sconf ession must have been o f some length,

f or more than an hour elapsed bef oretheyregained their tent.As they entered, Holbeck stepped the

youngman , and said,I“ Believe me, my dear Everest, it I S

always"

,better once ydu have f armed a

resolution, to put“

it 1n execution at once.‘

G ive me p erm i ssi on to act w ithout delay.

Who knows what m ay “happen

"

? Qurcolony f or some reason

_

or another maysuddenly break up , our f ri

ends w il l dis

sperse, and then—T’

I leavemyself entirely 111 your hands,anSwe

frlod

b

'

éthe young

“

man ;

‘

64 3seeme st I s not the fli f e at stake 9

ortune Of my

So be it, replied Holbeckg'

“f a-i“

m orrow morning; Bu’

t'

there i s one thing1, filia

to askyou . Letme tell the wholer

I

'

Suppb'

f ted; by'

a detachment o f the Maharajah’

s tro o ps;

L ike you ,dear doctor , answered

Everest, “ I hate a f alsehood. But“

our

artifice is “

a very i nnocent one and cer

tainly excusable i f it can assure myhapp iness and cure m e f or ever o f my malady.

ook upon me as but convalescent and

pai don my eccentricity. I rep eat I w ishto owe nothing to .my title or f ortune

, andi f I think toob well o f the p eople I havebeen speaking o f to believe them sensibleto such influences, I do not w ish the worldat large to thinkanyless o f them than I do .

“Well , then ,

”said '

the doc'

tor ,“to

.WhenH olb'

eck wasalone he mechanicallyifiook o f f his gold spectacles, and re

mained f or some seconds gazing blankly. at

the wall o f the tent. Then he seem ed

qu ite satisfied, rubbed his hands rapidlytogether and murmured

We=

'

flare getting as, and very muchbetter than I expected.

’

I n the morning,as ten 0

’elo'

ck struck,Holbeckpame out o f’

his tent. His cravatw as whiter than ever , and in sp ite of theearly hour he wore his bestblack coat.The good doctor made his

“

. way to

C olonelb

Shaughnessy’s encampment. A

servant introduced him into an apart

ment where the pr esident o f the TigerSlayers C lub

’

was seated bef ore a table

arranging the reports of the shikaris whohad been out watching the enemy.

As he saw Holbeck. enter , the colonelrose , and, holding out both his hands,

greeted himwith,What good w ind has brought you

here at this hour , dear do ctor ? I -hope

you“

;have come to breakf ast. __Mary

w illbe very sorry to have. m issed your visit.

She hashad to go and“

lock af ter M r'

s.

Peernose, whose f eelingswere so harrowed'

yesterday that she has"

had a series o f

nervou s attacks, and the poor Womancannot get

"

rid o f them.

I regret to hear that Mrs. Peernosehas not yet recovered f rom the shock shereceived at MontiMalia , answer edHol

beck “ and I thank you f or your hosp itality“ but themotive that brings ‘

me hereat this earlyhour is a very seri ous and important one for me;

’

“ Sit down , then ,

o ff ering a chair. I am listening. . Letme tell you bef orehand, though, that if , Icanhelp

'

yoii‘ in any _

w ay I will . .

The tdoctor sat down; and af ter”

adjust?ing his spectacles, which had slipped down

said”

the colonel ,

to the end o f his nose, he said, in a slightlyagitated tone ,

C olonel Shaughnessy, I come in thenam e o f mypupil and f riend, M r . Evei est,to beg you to do him the honour o f givinghim the hand o f your daughter , M issMary.

Holbcckhad rolled this sentence of f veryrapidly, as i f he w as in a hurry to reach

the end, and that done, he da1 ted a pierc

inglook at the gallant colonel , who jumpedout o f his chair as he finished, and ex

claimed,

The hand'

of my daughter } But youdo notmean

_

it.

‘

That is where“

you are mistaken , mydear sir . We do m ean it very seriously,

replied 'Holbeck , who regained his assur

ance as he saw the old o fficer’

s con f usion .

The colonel resum ed his seat.

Excusemy abruptness,”said he .

“ Mysurpri

'

se—such an. u nexpected request—Iam .muchfiattered—I am greatlyhonoured—butObviously the gallant president f elt

himsel f on dangerou s ground. H e stam

mered and stuttered in search o f some

good reason to keep hér whoWas so dear

to him , and whom the doctor had com e to

take away f rom him ; f earing to o ff end or

even to cause a coolness w ith a man who

had inspired him w ith pro f ound esteem .

_Holbeck came to his help by saying,I qu ite understand all the reasons that

you w oul d give m e, but you‘

know what a

high op inion I entertain o f your charm ingdaughter . Y ou can ther ef ore see that i f

I m ake myself the m terpreter o f a demand

which aff ects hiswhole f utu1 e, it i sbecauseI consider Mr . Everest the most loyal and

straightf orward o f m en , and endowedw ithall the qualities that a f ather could requ irein a son - in - law .

Af ter this beautif ul speech the doctor

persuaded himself that he had conqueredhis adversary, buthe soon saw that he wasm istaken . The colonel had at length f ounda substantial ground of def ence .

Bef ore consulting mydaughter on so

serious a matter ,”answ ered

_

he ,“

you w illpe1mitme to speak to

.

you in all f rankness.

I havea veryhigh opini on of M r . Everest ;I have watched him with great interestsince I had the honour of hisacquaintance .

I consider himaper f ect gentleman . Y ou

know that amongst Englishmen that goesa long way. Now to that f eeling o f in

terestwhich I have taken inMr?Everestthere has been added since yesterdayone

The 8 031’

s Own dbaper.

onel

The hand o f . my daughte r !

enough to make me gladly consent f or mydaughter to bear the name of so estimable

a man . But Here a cloud passed overthe old o ff icer

’

s f ace ; he hesitated, and

continued, w ith some embarrassment, Iam a poor m an , D r . Holbeck , and if I donot seek a f ortune f or my child any m ore

than she hersel f does, it is at least myduty to see that I find her a home suitablet o her station in lif e . Now Mr . Everesthas no f ortune his position is precarious.

”

H olbcck was on the point o f exclaim ing,

Quite the contrary ! The young man

that you think so much o f , in whom you

have f ound every good quality, has the

enormous advantage into the bargain o fbeing one o f the richest and m ost influen

1 ial noblemen in the U n ited Kingdom .

”

But he remembered hispr omise to Everest,and contented himsel f w ith observing,

Iadmit that the present position o f myyoung f riend may no t be verybrilliant, butthat may improve , and one day it may

and I can see that you have f aith in yourpupil

’

s f uture . Still , that f uture is ratherproblematical , and I cannotThe colonel did not finish the sentence .

The look o f sadness which came over H ol

beck ’

s f ace made a deep impression on him ,

and he rose , and, w ith soldierly abruptness

seizing the doctor’

s hand, exclaimed,

Doctor , I w ish I w ere a rich man I B ut

I have onlymy pay—not a penny more

and that is no t enough f or three persons

to live on . And I like the lad verymuch?more than you w ou ld thinkHolbeck had also risen , and waitedanxiously, f or the old officer seemed to be

thinking o f som ething.

“ Your f riend is an Englishman , is henot said the colonel .

Y es born in Yo rkshire , I believe .

I s he related to Lord Everest ? ”

H e belongs to the same f amily,” an

swered Holbeck,who could not suppress a

smile .

said the

Indeed said the colonel , who seemed

to be f ollow ingup some secret idea . Do

you kn ow whether he woul d di slike to become a soldier ?

I do not know , said the doctor ; but

I never heard him express any objectionto such a career .

”

Well then ,

“

in that case , continued

C olonel Shaughnessy, if we w ere once

to get him into the Indian Armyw e m ightpush him on . But what is he to do in the

meantime There is only one wayw e can

manage it.

”

I do not understand, said Holbeck .

The onlyway is f or Everest to kill theK ing- o f - the - Tigers l

H ow so ? asked the doctor .

M r . Everest is an accomplished sportsman ,

”continued the colonel ; he

kill the K ing- o i - the - Tigers, take the skinto the Maharaj ah, take the reward o f the

lac o f rupees, and the interest on that w illgive him enough to live on till he gets

f airly started

And then ? asked H olbeck , seeingthe colonel pause .

“A nd then—we will see ,

colonel .

I w il l convey your conditions to my

young f ri end ,

”said Holbeck , and I hope

w ith all my heart that he wil l be able to

accept them .

”

“ And so do I ,”said the colonel as the

f riends shookhands.

Once outside the tent, Holbeck coul dnothelp muttering,

“ So much f or this lad’s idiotic inven

tions. H e had only to say, We are LordEverest, o f Grosmore C astle , a peer o f theUnited K ingdom , wi th w ealth unto ld, and

in givingus your daughter not onlyw ould

you add to your happin ess and ours, butyouw ould crushw ith jeal ousyall thePeernoses,.Whata f ters. Beynons, and other indivi

duals that hold their noses so high abovethe horizon . Shaughnessy is a brave man

w ithout ambition or pretension . All could

have been 'done at once . I could havef ound

'

out M iss Mary and I could havesaid to her , " This lord that loves you hasthe 'best heart o f anyman I know in sp iteo f his title and his m illions.

’ While now ,

w ith our d uplicity, w e are in a n ice oldmuddle . We have got to run af ter an uh

seizable monster , kill him , skin him like'

a

r abbit, and, clothed in the spoil , are to

play the young H ercul es bef ore the eye

glasses of M rs. Peernose and the curl

papers o f e s. Butnot. A f ter that w e

have got to mount the red jacket and do

whatever the colonel chooses to order .

Ah, w ell ! The patriarch’

s labour was in

dul gence itself compared to that o f thisfierce president o f the Tigerslayers.

”

As he finished this peroration H olbeckreached the tent.

Everest was w aiting,at the door , and

anx iously asked him ,

Well ?

My dear f riend, said the doctor , by

your own fa ult you have put your self insuch a position that you must conquer or

1e .

H ow so

Bef ore you become his son- in - law that

cold—blooded colonel requir es that you

should bring him the tigerskin .

“ The skin o f the K ing- o f—theJfi gers ?Of the K ing- o f—the - Tigers himsel f . "Then I am saved exclaimmEverest.

I n eight hours o r less the tigerskin

shall be at C olonel Shaughnessy’

s f eet ;and he added, so quietly that Holbeck didnot hear him , or I shall have ce ased to

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The doctor did not share the youngm an

’

s enthusiasm . The enterprise seem ed

unduly dangerous, and he blamed himsel ff or having urged Everest to act as he had

done . I n acquainting him w ith what hadpassed at his interview w ith the colonel ,he endeavour ed to raise all the obstacles

that he could. But Everest’s determina

tion w as taken ,and no difi culty could

turn him f rom it.

I n the evening, af ter the club dinner ,the m embers proceeded to the election o f

the candidates who,w ere to m ake the first

'

attack on the K ing- o f - the - Tigers. Twelvenames, amongst which w ere those o f

Everest and Barbarou ,appeared on the

l ist.

As they w ere about to proceed to thevote by whi ch they w ere to select the f or

tunate sportsman who w as to lead o f f the

campaign ,the pr esident “

m ade '

a short

speech.

Gentlemen , said he , “ I am about to

ask a f avour o f you on behal f o f one o f

our young colleagues, which I think he,

hasmer ited owing to his noble conduct in

HAROLD ,THE BOY - EARL : A STORY OF OLD ENGLAND .

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C HAPTER XIX .

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N the large chamber where the lad}r sat

wi th all her maidensround her at theirl abours, w e took occasion once to hear how

theyw ere w ont to cheer each other at theirw ork by readings f rom the sacred hymns

and Saga Hoard which they had f rom

their f athers. We have seen how Gw ennyth lef t the place in pain “

_at hearing

songs o f pagan gods and creeds o f senseless

idols. She had learned to love the LadyEdelgitha and the earl as though theyw ere the parents she had lost, and now

that Rolf had placed Penruddock on his

throne and j oin edw ith him Pr ince Llewydand his land, saving that portion taken bythe earl to sw ell the size o f England, she

had f ound it kind in such a son o f Odin toleave a p ortion o f the c onquered land to

those f rom whom he took it, when all w as

in his power to keep or manage as he f ound

it best. The lady too , although her viewsw ere pagan and not C hristian , had a highsense o f dutyand a pur e high soul , such as

has since com e down to our own mothers,

blended w ith all those graces whichthrough so m any ages have but increasedin f orce , making the name of C hristian theglory o f the globe .

And now the pagan“ lady

”sat w ith

those B ritish w om en and heard the tale o f

mere? then new to English ears. The

m ighty act o f grace so f ul l o f love and

w isdom had touched her noble heart, andf ull o f adoration o f The Lord she weptm ost precious tears ! Just them

'

a w oman

slave approached to say that Earl Rol fhad com e , and had commanded her to ask

if he m ight then obtain admission w ith a

f riend dispatched to them f rom K enwalch.

“ Tell the earl ,”

exclaimed the lady,

drying up her tears,“that I should have

been better pleased to see him at a lesstrying time , but he is master here and w eare always glad to know that the goodc ar] is w ith u s.

”

Rol f did not understand about the iry Advise.

a r ecentmatter . When the other day w e

fled beneath the shadow s o f the M onti

M ahal , a prey to justifiable alarm , inasmuch as w e had not our w eapons w ith us,

one alone amongst us dared to remain ,

and, w ith a m ere toy in his hand, f ace the

terrible monster . Now , it seems to m e

that it is only justice that he who f aced

the tiger '

then shoul d be .the first to f acehim now .

U nanimou s applause greeted this declaration o f the president, and Barbarou ,

taking Everest by the shoulders, ran him

out f rom the background, where he w as

m odestly hiding.

“ I propose , gentlem en ,said General

Butnot, that w e vote by acclamation f orthe courageous candidate whom ou r f riendSha ughnessy has so j ustly r ecomm ended :

that our coll eague Everest be the champ iono f the Tigerslayers.

”

Everyhand w as raised in confirmation,

and there cam e a shout o f ,Thr ee cheers f or Everest

Everestwas now in the centre o f a circle

which had f ormed r ound him .

ing time ,” but thought the latterportiono f the m essage su fficient war rant f or hisstalking in together w ith the ZE‘

thling.

“ What ! ”he cried.

_

“ I n tears ! ByOdin ’

s sw ord, I swear to cl eave the wr etchin twain (unless it be a

'

w oman) who hascau sed these precious drops to flow f romthy bright eyes, dear lady ! Now tell m e

who has caused thy heart to bleed, so that

thine eyes have lost their lustre WhoThe Lady Edelgitha smiled to see her

lord so fierce , and w ith a beaming glanceglow ing beyond her tears she said,

No one has wrought me wrong, bravewarrior . I w eep f or pleasure caused bytoomuch good, and.

thou shalt hear the storyBut, my lord, the ZEthl ing is standing !Pray you rest. I n my -

,p oor chamber itis true there is not much f or w arriors.

B ut, Hilda , br ing a horn o f Roman wineB ertha, set grapes bef ore the E thling.

Pray you be se ated,noble Ethelwulf !

These ladies are f rom,Br itain . This is

Gwennyth, whose f air head may w ear a

crown i n Br itain . This is the ‘ Dom ina ’

who was so gentle to my darling boywhenhe w as seeking thee in B ritain, and bysome boyish f reak or want o f brains contrived to come in pr ison !

“ But,”

said Rol f , “ I have not heardthe name o f him who caused thy tears toflow . I long to hear it, that I may show

what English vengeance m eans ! I w il lnot saywhat I w ill do , but I am not them an to leave such w rong unpunished IThen the Dom ina

,

”in those dear tones

that Harold loved to hear , briefly r elated

to the w arlike earl what she had told his

lady, and then said,

I have not sought to make unw illingconverts to our f aith. but I believe that allmy f ormer w oe has been a pr eparation f orthe task o f bringing to these dear ones the

ho ly light o f truth. I f it be so , I thank

H im f rom my heart who caused that heart

to bleed that theirs might dance f or joy

n ithings.

My dear colleagues, he said, I thankyou f or the unm er ited f avour you have

“

shown m e . . I w ill try to sustain as brayelylas I can the honour o f the Tigerslayers

’

,

C lub . I f I f all in this glorious stri f e Iknow that amongst you I shall find m anywho w ill avenge m e .

The colonel advanced and held out hishand. Everest

‘

shook it respectf ully andmurmured,

colonel . Y ou may trust me

to do my duty.

”

(To be con tinued. )

The gr im earl never spoke , but paced thechamber up and down w ith

‘anxious strides,

thenw ith a kindling look towards Ethel ;w ul f

, who now w as seated quafiing wine

which Hilda had poured out, and o f f ered

to him , asked him abruptly thus

E thling o f estern Saxons ! r ead "

m e, I beg, what‘

shall I do to answer thiscreed thus brought to us ? What doesK ing K enw alchw ith those C hr istian slaveso f pr iests just -com e to England ? Tell m e ,

I pray, what course thysel f w ouldst take ,should the bright crown o f the West

Saxon land d erive f resh lustre f rom thynoble brow , and C hristians sought thyaid ? What w ouldst thou do ?

The ZEthling sm iled.

~ Gi ving the hemto H ilda , he said, to the surprise o f all andto the joy o f som e ,

Friend Rolf , I am a C hristian .

Rolf started as though smitten by a

lance . Wonder held all his senses. L ike atower he stood, so strong, so stern , so

stately. Speech seemed to leave him .

D umb and turned to stone , he gazed upon

the JEthling. At last he uttered,w ith a

puzzled look , as if half - dazed w ithw onder ,Thou !“ Y es, said the JEthling. I have

been to Rome and heard the doctrine o f

our blessed Lord, and am m ost glad to .

understand that o f the labours here begun.

in Br itain fif ty years ago by the good

priest Augustine great things are now t e

sulting. Then the m en o f Kent began to

see the truth, though partially. Bu t the

good seed struck root, and much has been

achieved.

“ But, said Earl Rol f , I w onder thou

shouldst love a f aith whose f ollow ers are

Pardon , my lord ; I do not

speak o f thee . But I am told that these

same C hristian—m en,”he added, though

the “C hristian dogs w as the phrase

ready on his tongue to use never obeytheir God. They have , m en say, ten laws,

o f which theybreak each day som e five or

three , but'

. rage w ith bitter anger when

they hear that e ther‘

men who never heardthe ir law s, mark ye , presume to break butone . Penda , my lord, held them in great

contempt“ Enough, my f riend, ”

the laughing

E thling said.

“ Panda thought 9 ther

w ise bef ore he died, and our good K en

walch, af ter all his w oes, has now em

braced the f aith. The creed is true , f r iendRolf , and w e are taught to see Our God as

ONE ,the great C reator o f the earth, . of

m an, and all that breathes._j,

“ Y es, said the Dom ina , in her sweet

tones, the God who m ade the sun .

”

Rol f started when he heard the w ords

that he so o f ten'

used now quoted byanother and a stranger , and so he '

said

he thought it very strange that such a

cr eed should teach the highest f orms o f

truth and yet be known f or lowest courseo f lif e . But as a simple m an , a plain ,

jblunt soldier , he w ould leave the f aith ‘

f o r

w iser '

heads to settle . For the r est,“

he

could say nothing i f his w if e a nd f r iends "

the Domina, Octavi a , , Pr incess Gwennyth'

,

and suche lse’

who liked it—r ead and con

versed with “

him upon the subj ect; H ew ou ld say- he thought it _

most importantthat the chief s and leaders o f

“

the peopleshoul d agree

“

touching the country’s f aith.

The“

churchm en he had seen in“

B ritainw ere , he ‘

thought, mean , juggling slaves,fw hile the priests o f Thor and Odin and the

other gods _

could p oise the lands or swaythe battle -sword l ike -m en .

Again. the'

JEthling laughed.

Friend he cried,

“ look here !The Lady

'

Edelgitha and her maids are

saf e to‘

turn good C hr istians, and whatthelady o f a

"

household thinks the other in

mates very'

soon believe, if - f they be Worththeir salt.

”

C om e, my good f r iend.

“ '

Next

month “

there is a solemn f olk-

gemot, and

jive-must both be there . There w ill be

talkib f the new f aith: in England, and,

“

f urthermore , I hear _there is.

’

a scheme o f

havingover all the English side ene '

onlyking as ruler ; That - is something grand .

England united could command the w orld,

a -m ightynation in a little space . Rom e -in a

nutshell , while the sea around, like Elivagarof the ancient tale , holds the '

firm earthtogether . Would that I m ight see thathappy daywhen Englishmen shall not beSplit in petty w ars among _

each other , butshall know the w ay

' to unity and peace

and love . That '

cannot be w ithout one

simple f aith, uniting all men' in one holy

bond, making them one in f eeling. .So , myf riend, myread is this L

'

et these f air ladiessearch the secret but o f how

_

that'

m ightyGod who made the sun died f or -

o ur‘

sinsand yet, is everlasting. Then talk thematter over by their gentle aid and studywell the matter ere w e

'

start, f or w e shallride together to the kinga nd speak be f orethe w itan our f ree thoughts as

England’

s council . ”

1

I

And so it was agreed between '

th0sen oble f ri ends o f o urs to in

p eace , and study, w ith « the_Domina

_

ias’

guide , the glorious f aith '

o f C hrist.“ Af terthe chase or exercise o f arms they

'

soughtthe ladies’

. bow er , and there'

w as“much

sweet converse touching holy things be:tween the heart and head, the sword

”

. anddistafi", man and w if e . The E thling, likea f aithf ul f r iend, the while assisted w ithadvice or w ith results o f his own p astexperience . The interest awakened '

inthese pagan f ees o f hers kept the good

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Dom ina f rom breeding on her grie f s, andjoy became an inmate o f her heart to see

such'

joy in theirs.

At last the dayarrived hen theyshouldstart to w itness the great meeting called

to speak on the‘

afi’

airs of England. Witha goodly train the earl and J

’Ethling le f t

the noble hall and j ourneyed to the townnear which

'

this m ighty meeting shouldtake place . Townsw ere but rar e in England, f or the warl ike race lo ved better w ar

than c ommerce .

“

The great lords drew

their retainers-

'

r ound them to their halls,as .we - have.

“

shown already. What w erecalled towns

'

or . chesters'

(places enclosed

and strengthened by som e great lordshipnear ) were n ot the stately things thatstr ike ? o ur m odern .

gaze . The houses

were mean.

sheds, the shops w ere huts,where chi efly w ork 1

‘

was don e , as w e sayworkshop now ; and in the y ery name

we"

have the traces lef tthat theyw eremore

f or 'w orking-in then show , being derived

f r om scepan—sesapan (our“ to shape—to “

The -streets w ere narrow ,

and not always paved. The chief m ater ialin the . townsw as w ood, a nd s o when fire

broke out"

there was a ». f earf u l spectacle o f

w o e amongthe su f f er ing townsf o lk . As“

the

wars,trained most m en to the

_

trade o f sol

diering,there w as

_

much danger that a

band o f'

these, a f ter a longcampaign ,

"

would join together_

to obtainby f orce such w ealth

'

f rom the peer

burghers” '

as_m ight enr ich themselves“

.

There f ore the"

toq f olk. o f tentimes sub:mitted their case

' to some great lord, .who

f romhis hall,

or burgm igh t come in arms

and dr i vew ay the robbers. Of course, f orsuch protection men-w ere. to , paythese n obles nobly 1

Through such at own , then called af ter

a certain Wis, a noble w arrior ,Wisham ,

o r the home

'

o f Wi's,- "ou=r partygalloped on

towards the gem ot, _

At’ "

the requ est -

o f

good Pr ince E thelwul f Harold,Kenul f , and. seem;had .j-gheen,

‘

allowed toaccompany assured . theLadyEdelgithalthat,

'

they'

shouldbe placedunder the special protection of . the good

Queen Saxburga , the,K enw alch.

But sha had parted ,

-with‘

them -

_most nu

w illingly. . Thane H ildéberght'

roide w ithbril liant

,train, and hézsw as -

'

glad to havehis boy w ith him . So l

they all rode m ost

lovingly,

“

and jouriieyed é'

on'

until theyreached the town o f

“ "

which '

w e : speak .

Here Haro ld begged“

the to’

. let. him ,

w ith his br other ”_ _

Beorn“

and"

.K enulf ,r ide on the first to see the burghers’

homes,

f or usuallywhen arm'

edrmén passedthroughhouses were closed and doorsw ere barred

f or f ear'

o f :lawle'

ss acts. .v The earl then

gave _ _them leave" and on they rode , and

entered the long, straggling street, where

the f ew burghers'

who pursued their tradeslooked

_

'

f earf ully around . lest mayhap in

some corn’

ér hidden thieves m ight lurk and

rob.

them_

'

o f their little earningsand theirlives.

“

[

The rode through“

this. strange scene, when theyfwere'

startled

by a'

f em ale shr iek.

'

They tu rned theirhorses do ivn the n arrowlane f rom

_

whence

the - {sound proceeded, where they f oundtwo miscreantsholding a poor burgher

’

s

wif e , while a, _third r ifled all the store

w ithin o f c loth“

and ; other things in Whichshe dealt.

r

“Unhand the th

boy- earl ;

“or

Bu t bef oréfithe'

thre‘

at had l e f t his lipsthe -

r obbers fle'

d bef ore him ..Shield “

and

lance -w ere quite enough to send the varletsflyingWide f rom the scene o f thef t. Then

Har old fiun'

g his new steel javel in and

pierced one thro ugh the back . The other

vanished down some gloomy court andsoon was lost to View , but the f oul rogue

packing the woman’s goods securely, as he

thought, w ithin the house , startled by allthe clam our o f horses

’

hoo f s and by thecry o f pain raised by his f ellow - rascal as

he dropped,'

let f all the bundle he'

w as

making up , and, rushing down the stairs,sought to escape in time , but Beorn wasready w ith his javelin and laid him how ]ing low . The burgher

’

s w if e, surprised at

this relief , asked Kenulf what amount hethought o f asking f or saving al l her store.

The indignant boy r eplied, We are no

cut- throats, hired to ' fight f or pay ! Thatwe have "

help ed thee in thy heur o f need

praise then the gods, not us. Keep allthy goods, and when thou f eelest f earthink ‘

on the ' boy- earl Harold and hi s

lance

With -

some difficulty, ow ing to the filthy.state o f the lane and the numerous holesin the road (which w as the same f or

‘menand horses through the town), the boys r egained the High Street just as Rol f , theJE

’

thling, and their party cante‘

red'

through.

Then Rol f commanded halt,“

and , led hismen in var ious little groups to certain innswhere m ead was scld to all the townsf olk.

When the new sw as spr ead that Blue- tooth

and the JEthling led-the train

, then there

was great rejo icing,f or '

they'

w ere known

as just and honourable'

m en who paid ingold like pr inces. I n the towns and insom e other parts o f Saxon Br iton men hadused certain coins called mancuses o f gold,

shill ings o f silver ,"

and . the penny p iece o f

whichfive made -a shilling, and the mancus

coin was worth .six shill ings each.

’

ButRolf held by the Scandinavian plan o f

paying in:

gold=r ings o f various w eight f or

all the service '

s which he r eceived f reinvassals or ’f rom those supplying anyw ants.

This princely mode ~

o f payment pleasedthe hostswho kept these _

taverns and“

thetown

_

soon gre‘

w“

much brighter .when the

burghers' knew

_

that=

the grim‘

earl'

hadcome.

'

(To be continued. )

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‘

FAIL'ING —W-hen . PresidentEdwards came to die, af ter bidding'

all his?

i relatives f arewell, his last‘

words were ,

“ And

now where is Jesus f o'

f Nazareth, my'

true and

never - f ailing f riend and.

so sayinghe sweetlyf ell asleep. {Jesus is a

‘

friend, ever_

near and

ever trii e,the.best f riend

_

for‘

“

earth or“

heavens

woe-ss THAT STAIN f é—‘A' '

s

'

r'

nall brush o f

camel’

s hair had . been dippedfiinto .

a, fluid inwhich was'

some nitrate o f silver , oras it is sometimes called. The brush

'

w'

aswipedupon

“

a white sheet. _Prettysoon

'

there'

appeareda black Stain upon a,

white surface. It‘

fdid notlook

. very dark at firstb'

but' '

the'

action of thelight fseemed to

" de'

epen, the c olour, until it‘

was

an ugly"

spot that could n ot be washed_

6u_

t'

nor

bleached out in a whole summer’

s sunshine.

A bright l'

ad heard a vile word and an impure

story.

-H_

e thought them over . Theybecame

fixed in his memory, and they: lef t a stainwhich

'

could not'

be 'washedf out by,

, all [the

waters of this great D'

on’

t‘

lend

your ears to be defiled.

'

In these daysfo f‘

b ad

books it is our duty to ,

'

taka care_whatWe read.

A'

.bad story smirch'

es,the heart, pollutes the

memory, and inflames the f ancy: Shun thesethings as you would poisonous vipers, and ask

God to help you.

Q

SUMMER MEMOR I ES

The 8 037’s .Own Taper.

.A

'

BOY ’

S OWN HOLIDAY ON THE'

CONTINENT.

L - niii r '

rme DOWN THE sums .

—described in No . 1 86 of the BOY’

S .OwN PAPER,in the September Part for that year—beingsti ll unfaded,we this year reso lved on another -trip _

across the C hannel, :

and choosingtheRhine as“

own hunting-

ground, proceeded

to Rotterdam .byHarwich instead of byFlushing, as '

on

our first expedi tion together.Starting f rom Liverpool Street at .

_eightc

’

clock one

eveningin June, provided with second- class returnticketsto Mayence, f or which ,

we p aid £3 12s;_

4d. apiece, wefo und that

‘

we .had passed“the f orest and .were well

away in the countrybefore we had finished discussingthebooking

- clerk’s

,

rather nebulous observation that_ we

m ight stay away a month if'

we pleased, but“

that the

companyW‘

euld rather that we did not .stay away al -i

to ether.”

:.

f

caching .Parkstone in a couple o f hours—“

the trainnow runs on tothe qua o f mile above thetown in the estuaryo f theS tour—we were dulydeliveredalongside the Lady Tyler, andin a quarter o f an hour af ter

wards . steamed out into - the

North Sea._For a, time we

stayed on deck watching the

wideningraysof phosphorescenceas the steamer cle ft the waves,and then, atmidnight,weturnedin and slept.

‘

: f.

Earlyin the morning‘

we were

roused by the hustle _on d eck

,

and'

making ,our way

, up the

companion were received withthe good. ship

’

s parting kickthat bids adi eu to

f ound - ourselves lurching,over

the bar into the Maas.

The “customed sterk

_

we‘

did not, see, _but was

,

there, starboardaway, behinditssquare church t ower.

_ _Y laa’

r

dingen we“

passedwith its,square

fishing-boats,and Schiedamwas

dulynoted with its three - hundred square f actories.that packtheir p oison in uare bottles,and pack the bottles in cubical

Tim pleasant memory o f our tour in llolland in 1882

cas'

es. At a quartert p ine we were ashorebeneath the trees on . the quay at Rotterdam,

and a f ew minutes afterwards. were comf ortablyensconced in theVictoria Hotel close by;Leaving

_

our bags in our rooms we startedf orth to see the town.

,

Of course we went to theMarket-

place and had a look at Erasmus, the

genius of the place, and o f course we dulylearnt the legend of the little corner house of

the thousand terrors, Where, duringthe butcheryo f 1572, the;inhabitants shfitthemseltesdn '

,and

killing a goat allowed its blood'

to trickle‘ into

the street beneath the f ront door, and so de

ceivedthe Spaniards into passing“

_by, persuaded

that a ll,

within had been. properly:massacred.

All that day we spent rambling about the

sort of. _

vulgar Venice,” and becoming acclimatised. ,

Rudeshe im,a nd Joha nn isbe rg.

Museum,“

we worked quite hard; and .the two

mile tramtrip "

to Schevenin'

gen and,back - f or a

breath of sea air was thoroughly' appreciated.

Leyden, Ha rlem, and"

Amsterdam we had

seen a

'

couple o f years ago, and sowe left for the

_cityof Erasmus bythe and the

“

next "

daymade apilgrimage by,

water to‘

uaint old“

Dort,where the windmills saw

'

up t e Rhine ra fts,'

and_

“the picturesque antiquity o f the s treets,

to quote Gerald, makes a f ellow

f eel.

'

as if he were his own an'

cestor. fOn theFridaywemoved onto

Gouda,’

and =thence to Utrecht,

where 7we'

spent the eveningwandering,

about'

in the m osh

light. 5Next“ morningwe were .

off . by'

the f or C ologne,and

'

devoted the af ternoon to its‘

lof ty'

ca'

thedral w'

li ich took oversix centuries to complete .

‘

_We

saw not the eleven thousandvirgins, nor did we . smell thef orty stinks, nor visit the f ortyvendors

_ _

o the f amous. eau.

"

In f actwe f orgot all about them,

but cujoy’

ed ourselves verymuchnotwithstanding. We blandlysmiled upon the . guides , andtalked to

,them in the s ingle

handed ~ deaf . and dumb alphas

bet. The attack appalled themand they lef t us to ourselves.At C ologne we spent :the

Sunday, .and then, as -we had

decided to go _up the Rhine by

rail, and leisurely drop _downit by_water, We started on theMonday f or C oblentz

, Bingen

bruck, and Mayence, or rather Maintz,as we

ought to have spelt it. Passing Rolandseck o f

the H ildcgunde legend, with K '

o'

nigswinteropposite, where tourists bound up stream jointhe steamboat i f wise, we reached C oblentz

,

and then by the banks o f the majestic river,hurriedbyC appellen, C amp, and St. Goar o f the

Lorelei , with many a gl impse o f the windingstream until we reached the old archiepiscopalcapital whose primate was the premier prince ofthe German Empire.

To Mayence and its suburbs we devoted a

day, occupied by the cathedral with its shot

scarred red sandstone walls and tomb o f the

wif e'

o f the first German Emperor o f theWest,and the Tower o f Drusus

,and above all by

Gutenberg and early printing ; and then witha run down toWorms to see the Luther Monu

ment and think of the Here I stand. I can

not act othe‘

rwiseu God help me . Amen,

”o f

the -Ref ormer, we commenced our descent o f the

n ver.

The finest sceneryon theRhine'

isundoubtedlythat beti veen the Niedcrwald and the junctionwith the Mosel at C oblentz . -As the river ‘

runs

through the winding gorge, which it has beenhard at work cutting down into the

,

“

Taunustableland ever since the dayswhen, f ar

imightierthan now, it entered the old North Sea:

o ff the‘

coast o f Norway and had f or its affiuents theThames and the other rivers of eastern England,i t aff ords a succession o f picturesque landscapesunequalled in Europe . The steep sides of theravine, broken every now and then by some

rugged buttress like the Lorelei, .rarelyrise sheer

f rom the stream. Their surf ace is covered withthe rocky f ragments that have fallen f rom the

wasting cli ff s above , and on this rough ground,and f requently f ar up the cliff s themselves

,are

clustered the vineyards that testi fy so f orciblyt-o man

’

s ski ll and perseverance. Guarding the

river as it glides along there rise the ruined

castles o f the Robbers of the Rhine , a f ew o f

whose legends f ound their place in the diary of

our trip .

Following the stream f rom Worms,where

Luther ’

s Tree had’

beennduly noted; we had

f ound the voyage through the plain somewhatm onotonous, but matters mended as we neared

the Taunus valley. Markobrunner was passed,andwe were off Rudesheim ,

when our note - book,

whi ch had been opened with the Luther ’

s Tree

legend, was again in request._

But we must

not omit the tree, f or the‘

first in order should

lead .the way,“Well

, _

my little monk, said. George ofFreundsberg, as he was ridingw_

ith Luther outo f Worms

,

“ doyou now believe in the success

o f your doctrine ? ”

Look at that little,

sprig, said Doctor

Luther, pointing to a tiny'

elm -

plant.

“As

surely as that young shoot will grow to be a

mighty tree, so surelywill'

the doctrine I teach

spread among the people o f this land.

”

And the sprig grew, and the doctrine grew .

The elm - tree exists,and the doctrine exists and

flourishes exceedingly.

The legend of Rudesheim is a melancholyone.

I t is not very novel in its incidents the names

o f the characters are special to the locality, butthe story in other respects is familiar .

Bromser o f Rudesheim went on the crusade

The 8 o3r’s OwnPaper.

leaving a baby daughter behind him. H e

f ought well and conspicuously, and even killedone of the f amous dragons that were f abled

. to

ravage Palestine . One day he had strayed f ar

f rom the camp and f ound himsel f surroundedbythe enemy. The battlewas short and sharp.

Bromser was overpowered and carried of f into

captivity. H e remained in prison f or years,and at last vowed to heaven that i f he were

permitted to escape he would devote his daughterto the church. H e did escape, and in pilgri

‘

m’

s

guise returned to Rudesheim.

Meanwhile his daughter had grown to be a

lovelywoman, and had given her heart to the

young Graf Otto o f Falkenstein. When the

pilgrim arrived at Rudesheim he was warmlywelcomed, but when he inf ormed his daughter

o f his vow and declared his intention o f abidingby it, the consternation may be imagined.

Bromser was.obdurate, Gisela prayed in vain,

and the night bef ore she was to become a nun

she threw herself down the rocks into the river.

And a fisherman next morningf ound the corpse

o f the light o f Rudesheim floating down the

stream .

Below Rudesheim the river reaches itS'

exa

trem'

e width as we pass the princelyJohannisberg. lve are in the centre o f the best wineproducing districts o f the ?Rhine, and everytown we passgives its name to some well -knownvariety. Nowhere, however , is the scientificculture o f

'

the vine carried on more successfullythan at Johannisberg ; every grape is precious,and even the windfalls are picked up singlywith a f ork specially designed f or the purpose.

The f ruit is kept as low as possible so as to giveit the advantage of the heat reflected f rom the

ground, and the vineyard is subdivided intoseveral patches, each o f which is harvestedseparatelyand has its produce stored in separatecasks.

And now we are in the Niederwald, and herewe are at Bingen . Above us there away is theEhrenfels, stormed so gallan

-tly by Bernhard of

Weimar in the ThirtyYears’ War below is theMouse Tower, whose storyhas been so

-

stirringlysungby Southey.

In Otto the First’

s time—that great em

peror who crossed the,

Al ps to rescue QueenAdelaide f rom Berenger, and married her in

C anoz a when he had raised its siege, and whoin 961 assumed the iron crown at Milan—therel ived the f amous Bishop Hatto, one o f

,the

noblest statesmen o f earlyGermany; TWO hundred years after his

‘

death; Siegf ried built‘

thé

present tower ,“

which :owe‘

s‘

i'

ts manic and itslegend to a pitiful pun.

i'

.

Beneath the waters o f Lake C onstance lie theruius o f the castle o f Giitting

'

en .

'Thc‘Freilierr

von Giittin‘

gen, in a time'

of great f amine,did

'

as C ount’

Graaf did in his attempt to reduce“

the surplus population,and shut up a crowd o f

his poor tenants in a barn and burnt them to

death. The souls of the poor murdered ones

entered into an army o f mice, to whom theFreiherr had contemptuously compared his

people, and the mice swam to his castle in thelake and there devoured him alive . And as themice returned f rom their vengeance an earthquake passed beneath the lake, and the rock on

which Giittingen had buil t disappeared deepdown into the waters.

A'

BOY ’

S TOUR THROUGH EGYPT, THE DESERT, AND PALESTINE.

AND now we gradually leave the mountainousdistrict, and travellingisnot quite so agree

able or interesting as it was nearer Sinai,until

we reach some most remarkable ruins knownas Surabit cl Khadim .

” '

A f ter an exceedinglyrough climb our guide pointed to the top o f ahill . H ere we f ound a number o f carved slabso f stone , looking like tombstones. Many o fthem had f allen down . Mr . Foster has readsome inscriptions, and says that this is wherethe Israelites who lusted

'

f or quails, and died inconsequence, were buried . A t any rate, it is avery interesting place, and one seldom visited

PART I I I .

by travellers. Having made a sketch and collected some of the curious pottery lying about

,

we journeyed on over the great plain at the f oot

of the Et Tih range of mountains.

Darkness was coming on. Our tents had been

sent f orward as usual,but are nowhere to be

seen. Be f ore us lies an ocean o f sand. We are

beginning to think o f lighting a fire and sleeping in the open air. Just then one o f the Arabs

Spied a light in the distance . We hastened to

wards it, and were not sorry to find the tents

pitched and a good dinner ready.

Before going to bed we took a stroll over the

sandywaste. Nothing can be more beautifulthan a moonl ight night in the desert the air

is so clear , and so perf ect is the silence .

C ollecting a number o f very dry bushes, welit an immense bonfire . They make a great

flare up, but in a moment or two nothing re

mains but a handf ul o f ashes. Probablyit wasone o f these bushes thatMoses saw burningbut

not consumed.

A short ride brings us to the Et Tihmoun

tains. We are obliged to ascend on f oot, the

camels going round another way. We came

upon rich f ossil beds, and filled our pockets

Siegf ried’s tower was placed in the middl e o f

the river,that the transit dues should be moreeasily collected f rom those who used the waterway. These transit dues or tolls were naturallyvery unpopular . The German f or tell ismans,

and the tower became known as the Maus

Tower, and one fine morning some ingeniousperson in an angrymood perp etrated the pun on

Mans and Mouse, libellously brought in the

name of the f amous statesman o f Otto the Greatas a substitute f or that of Von -Gii ttingen,

'

and‘

completed the l egend, which the tower has appropriated ever 'since. Neither -Von Guttingennor Bishop Hatto monopolised the rat story.

The s ame tale is'

told byWilliam o f Malmesbury o f C ount Graaf», aswe have hinted, f or merecruelty, of BishopWiderol f o f Strasburg f or. his.

suppression of Seltzen convent, and o f Adolf , theunpopular Bishop o f K

'

oln in the days o f thefifth H enry of Germany and the first Henry

‘

ofEngland.

-ln the m ostpicturesque part of the Niederwaldstands the mastei'piece p

o f Johannes Schilling,the great national monument o f Germany, onlycompleted during the last year '

or two . Tower

ing above all is the mighty statue o f Germania,

the idealisation .o f the sculptor’

s daughten Se

tin e to nature is the modelling that it is onlyaf ter prolonged admiration of the figure

’

s beautyand singular grace that its enormous size is

noticeable, f or it is five - and- thirty f eet high,weighs five- and- thirty tons, has a sword five

and- twenty f eet long, and boasts o f thumb nailsthree inches across !On Germania

’

s breast is a cuiras ith'

theimperial eagle, and below it is a coat of mail

hanging heavi ly over the richly embroidereddrapery. Behind

.

her is a substantial chair,well worthy of the weighty nation,

and at her

f eet is a huge eagle . H er crown is of oak, en:

circling the richw avyhair that almost seems toripple in the

’

breeze, as with - her pure deep‘

thoughtf ul eyes she gazes over the fatherland.

On e ither side of her are the gigantic Peaceand War . Peace, a lad with a palm

'

and a

cornucopia ; War, a youth‘

in complete armour

and gleaminghelmet, holding inhis right hand

a glittering sword, in his lef t the bugle to

summon hi s kindred to battle . On'

one side'

o f

the main pedestal are the youngr ecruit takingleave of his f ather and mother

,who sorrowfull

'

ybless him ,

the reserve man parting f rom- his

sweetheart, the landwehr soldier tearinghimse lf

away-f rom his wif e and child. On the opposite

side'

are the recruit, the reserve man; and'

the

landwehr man.

receiving their glorious welcome

home after the wars.

And then in the centre is the great groupwith the Emperor WVill iam ; the princes and

generals who helped in the good work,

bf unifil

C ation ; the kings.of Bavaria and Saxony ; and

Bismarck,Moltke; Roon,and Blumenthal , and

all the celebrities o f the empire. At one end o f

the group as an emblem o f War are the soldiersadvancing to battle, at the other as the emblem

o f Peace are the men returning home. A longthe base run five verses o f the most f amous

song o f 1 870, and above all stretches the chorus

o f that song LiebVaterlandmagst ruhigsein,steht f est und treu dieWacht am Rhein.

”

(To be continued.)

with some of the most perf ect. Eagles wereflyinghigh above us. How we longed to :havea shot at one, but theykept most provokinglyout o f range .

our last view o f Horeb. Lying about was a

quantity of curious blackglazed pottery, probably o f great antiquity.

The next place o f any importance we arrivedatwas Nakhl. It consists of a Turkish f ort and

a f ewm iserable Arab huts.

‘ We visited the

pasha who lives here . When conversatmn

flagged, as it is rather apt to do when'

one can

onlyspeak through an interpreter, our host produced a small looking

-

glass and comb. Havmg

used it he verykindlypassed it round f or the

Inglese to do -the same. Then came black

coff ee and pipes, which latter we declined.

The f ort, built f or the benefit o f “

pilgrims enr oute f or Mecca, is in a most uninteresting

spot, with not a tree or shrub in sight—nothingbut the sandyplain as f ar as eye can see. Herewe must spend two days, as the Arabswho havecome f rom Suez will go no f arther .

‘

The law o f

blood revenge still exists, and _

itmight be deathfor .them to enter the territory between Nakhl

and Gaza. Little did we think that . close here,and perhaps by.some o f these veryArabs, ,

Pro

f essor Palmer and his f riends would so soon,

be

robbedand brutallymurdered.

The pasha sent soldiers to“guard us - duringthe

“night. We called .thein the “ awkward

squad.

”.They

'

were indeed all sizesand shapes,“

'

quite ignorant _

o f anymarching order.

' Some'

of

them had .only one eye. Their old matchlocks

had evidentlynot"

been fired f or many a longday, andgave one the idea. that those who used

them would probably be more damaged than

those aimed at. Our dragoman had,introduced

us as great English pashas.

” The nextmorn

ing"

o f course our military f riends /wanted

‘f backsheesh f or guarding us‘ through the

perils of the night, or f or stealinganythingthatcame in. their

”way, Some

“

,

silver was giventhem . said theirgallant commander

,fi‘onlythis f or guarding ‘

greatEnglish pashas"and the proud title had to bemore fullypaid f or .

“

Having,got a f resh lot“

o f A rabs and camelswe had to backsheesh our f ormer attendants.In the

A

East, i f you pay a .man twice as much as

his service is worth, he always expects, a _con

siderable amount of ff ‘

.backsheesh into the

bargain as a slight mark o f your high“

esteem f orhis honestyand some other imaginary virtue.

The country f rom Nakhl to Gaza is flat. wetravel f or days without seeing a drop o f water.

The water f or drinking is carried on the camels’

backs in long cases and skins. When this is

put into .the Water-bottles at'

the dinner - table ithas

-adecidedly peculiar appearance, resemblingmilkyan

‘

d- v'

vater more than anything else . Asto seeing through it, that is quite impossible.

One advantage is'

, though. there ._may be a

dif f erence of opinion on the_ point, that -we

al ways have an aquarium in our tumblers.

There is not the slightest need o f a magni fyingglass. Innumerab’

le . l ittle . creatures are'

T'skims

ming about in everydirection .

As_

we sway _

alonghour af ter- hour we can hear

the camels bringing up the water f rom: theirstomachs to moisten their mouths, f or thoughthey carrywater f or.

’

us on their backs- theyhav-e

to carryit _f or themselves

_inside. The weatheri s now intenselyhot, ninety- five degrees in theshade, and it is difiioult to

,believe that it is

still February. We are glad to lunch .

“under

"

the shadow of a great rock in“

aweary land.

”

One af ternoon_

ou r'

dragomari said we shouldcome

'

to some deep water,where we hoped to

have a good swim. H'

ow eagerlywe looked f orward to it ! ,

Ah, there it was

,at last ! How

lovely i t looked There werepahnl treeswavingi n

.

the . breeze; reflecting their b eauties in thesti ll surface of a deep hlu

‘

e lake . It was a deli .cl ous contrast to the yellowglare of thatparchedground which only flungback the .

heat‘

e f analmost tropical sun . j How eagerlywe . .pressedf orward ! I t seemedb ut hal f a

,mile - ofif gb ut

an hour passed, and two hours,

'and yet no

nearer, and as the sun began to hasten downwards in the west

,the vision f aded into mist,

and was gone for ever . I t. was. a mirageThe f ollowing daywe did come to a stream

On reachi ng the summit we had.

The Boys Own Taper .

a f ew inches deep. We were greatly disappointed, but' determined not to f orego the

bath we had so looked f orward to . 1 But howwere we to bathe in six inches o f water ? We

thought of our small tin plates, and with thesesplashed each other

,much to the amusement o f

theArabs, to whom washing is almost unknown .

Aswe nearGaz a the countryshows slightsignso f cultivation . We killed a great many smalllizards and saw some three or f our f eet long, butthese were too quick f or us . Several largechameleons, however, were secure

/d and kept

alive f or some time . It is verycurious to watchthem . On a leaf their colour is bright green,but take them in the hand and they instantlybecome black or darkgreen.

One day about twelve o ’

clockwe noticed thata great portion o f the

'

sky. was clouding over.

It seemed as though a dense London f og wascoming on.

"

The Arabs began to look anxiouslyaround. A

,sand- storm was approaching ; some

distance o ff itwas asblackas night. Weweregladto use our spectacles and green veils to keep thesand out of -our eyes. Fortunately it soon blewover and there was no need to dismount and liedown, aswe must have done had it come more

directly over as.

‘

Leaving the desert we enter the . cultivatedcountry a - f ew

_miles south o f

_Gaza'

. H ow re

f reshing the green is to the eyes af ter'

so muchsand

'

and rock.

Passing over the '

hill up which Samson tookthe gates of the c ity we encamp in an openspace

"

nearly_

'

surrounded by'

Moslem , graves.Here we spent a Sunday and visited the

English missionary, Mr. Schapira, and his

wif e . They- very'

seldom see any Europeans,and he told - us that though there were nearly

inhabitants in Gaza there was no doc

tor,but he was trying to " establisha -medicine

shop . When first at Gaza“

he and his wif e weregloves, but ,

were n bliged to leave them off‘

as

such’

crowds f ollowed them t0‘

_

see why their"

f aces were'

a'

difi'

ererit colour f rom their hands IThe streets

'

of_Gaza are -narrow and filthy, the

houses“

made chiefly .o f mud with fiat

Our tents are in the most dangerous part‘

o f the

town,:and f our s oldiers guard us night and day.

On goingto the post- othee, almost the only sign

o f - civilisation,we o ff ered some Turkish money

in payment f or .

‘

stamps, when we were informedthat the coin, instead o f b eing worth. tenpence

as f ormerly, wasnow onlyworth about f ourpence

hal fpenny, but i f we went into -the townwe could

get its'

_

f ull value, “

as the people _did .

not yet

_kn

’

ovvo f this slight alteration.

-.Eve-rywh_

ere was to_.be seen- « traces. of

ancient greatness. Pieces -

of,marble . columns

are built_ into the wretched modern houses.

C orinthian capitals are placed as doorsteps.

We saw a gigantic statue o f Jupiter just discovered ia .the sand at the supposed site of theancient

_Gaza, some two,

m iles nearer the sea

than the present town.

A day‘

s journey brings us to Beit Jibrin,most probably the Gath o f

“

Scripture; The nu

derground excavations in the,

solid rock “

arevery “

extensive, and are supposed to have beencisterns. In some chambers were very curiousand ancient. olive presses. C lambering overbeautif ul ruins a stone gave - way, and I onlyjust savedmyself f rom f alling into a deep hole.

On further examination we discovered it to be

_

eu immense well, nearly twenty f eet in diameter

and sixty or seventyf eet deep. On leaving thismost interestingplace we werep bl

‘iged to hasten

on to Hebron, our tents having '

gone before to

be . readywhen we arrived..Darkness soon set

in . and we had great difficulty in finding - our

way along'

an execrabl'

e"road in the driving

rain. When the tents were reached theywereflooded. But there was - no h elp f or it, so we

slept .a f ew inches above an‘

ever - increasingpoolof water .

In the mornin-

gwe went into the city.

'Not a

C hrl stian l ives here. We. make a sketch o f .the

exterior of_

the f amous Mosque o f'

Machpelah .

No dog"

o f‘

a'

C hristian“

is"

allo'

wed to set f ootinside . When the Prince o f Wales entered.

every'

house - top had to be l ined'

with s‘

oldiers'

or'

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he -w ould certainly have been murdered.

'We.

were ,told“

; that it would. be death. e a C hri stian

to walk the streets af ter nightfall, and we hadno particular desire to prove the truth o f thestatement. Some little distance outside thecity is a large tree, known as Abraham

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sOak.

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Here, it is said, Abraham entertained the threeangels unawares .

Our journeyui ext led us over abominable roadsto Bethlehem . Night came on, and there wereno tents to be seen , though it was raining andblowing a gale. Some of us thundered at thedoor o f a house by the roadside to inquire theway. After waiting a long time a man appearedon the flat roof . He had evidently just got outof bed, and carried a gun in each hand. Diemcovering

/that we were benighted Englishmen,instead o f housebreakers, he told

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us . the way.

We reached the tents about 9 but our

misf ortunes were by'

no means at an end. Thecanteen was lost

,andwe shivered f or some hours

in the cold and wet. How glad'

we werewhen the

cook and his etceteras arrived ; he had missedthe road in the darknessl We dine that nightabout 1 1 p .m . , and thus, - though actually at

Bethlehem, I am afraid we thought more of the

cold, drenching rain and missing dinner thanthe wonderf ul historic interest o f the place .

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dwerewe at last to say good- bye to the

camels and Arabs and pitch .our tents close to

David’

sWell. Here a number of very capital

horsesarewaitingf or us, and,mountedupon their

backs, we slowly thread, our waythrough the

narrow streets .o f Bethlehem . Most of the

people are C hristians, and, compared with otherEastern towns, everything looks prosperous.

We visited the chief place of ‘

interest, the C hurchof the Nativity, and were shown the exact spotwhere C hrist was born, where the magi s teqd,and .a hole in the ground into which the star

that guided the wise men '

f ell't 5

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aa

Nothing tend'

s :somuch-A te glessen interest in

travellingthrough this land of the Bibleasthebarefaced lies that the monks

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so exceedingly _

f ond of f inding—o r rather"ihventing—sites no wonder, f or they .sur

round or_

build upon them,and then travellers

must pay to see -

‘th

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everyplace .

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Havingbought some of the olive-wood articleswhich -the people make, we remount our horses.

the C onvent of Mar The

path winds amongprecipitous mountain gorges,and we have occasional glimpses o f the Red" Seazand the Mountains of Moab . The guide pointed;out Mount Nebo . On reaching the summit ofahill the wind blew a hurricane, and, dismounting, we lead our horses, to prevent being blownover a precipice.

The convent is built on the side of the mountain, overlooking the valley o f the Kedron. wewere shown, among other things, a heap of the

skulls of monks who had been murdered by the

Arabs. In this . valley—or rather. mountain

gorge—a great number of anchorites andhermits

once lived. The rocks are f ull of the holes ahdcaves in which theydwelt. C lambering up the

side of the cliff , we entered one o f these, and;

gropinguour 'way along, we suddenly came upon

three dead'

bodies, that of a woman and tw'

e

men,“

whehad been murdered and lef t unburied .

Their skin resembledparchment, a f ew rags onlycovering them . Here they had been f or manymonths, and no one

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seemed to know or care

about them or their murderers.

It was a stormy night, the tents having to:

be piled roundwith l arge stones to prevent theirbeing blown away. The nextmorningwe had agrand ride among the mountains

,and arrived as

the Dead Sea about noon . The bleak and barren:

shor'

e was strewn with trees that had been

brought down by,the Jordan; and were now

bleachingin the sun. We. bathed, and f ound it

very disagreeable f rom'

the extreme saltness of

the water , on account“

of which it is almost im i

possible to sink.

1A gallop across very muddy country brought:

us to the banks of the Jordan: At first Sight.

this river, so -

‘interesting f romfiits many associa

tions, disappointed me . I tsg'

nnuddy and not.

very wide current was swel‘h’

ng down to the

Dead Sea with great swif tnesls. The banks are

coveredwith thickjungle to the water ’s edge , and .

here doubtless manywild beastshave their lairs(To be cominued .)

A Boy'

s To u r thro ugh Egypt, eta—Sec p . 704.

1 . Jerusalem f rom the Mount 0! Olives. 2. C hurch o f the Nativity. Bethlehem. 3 . Entrance to the C hurch of the Holy Srpulchre,Jerusalem.4. St. Stephen

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left 'elbowajoint and f ell down insensible.

He was raised'

f rom the ground, placed in a

doolie, and c arried. forward, with ‘

.the other

wounded. When the convoyof the wounded,

guided byMr. Thornhill, o f the C ivil Service,who

, had mistaken the way, entered upon a

large open square, theywere enveloped in ; the

enemy‘sdi re, ‘and

mmo

lst

'of the escort sought

saf ety, in'

flight, leavingthe litters behind._

But

a small ;baud .of -heroes =

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st1ll stood by the

and amongstIthem‘was Private:Henry

Wai'd,’

who ha'd c

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hai‘ge'

bfA

Lieutenant’ Have

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lock’

s doolie. When the native '

bea‘

rer‘

s‘

th’

rew

down the _ c er.

fled.Ward .encoq t

raged his bearers to remain, and to '

press for

ward through the f earful fire.‘

One,o f

”his

:c omradesWas wounded, and,knowinghis‘ fate

i f left behind, thewoundedman threw1 himselfinto the doolie in which the ybung’

ofii cer lay.

The bearers were about to drop their double

load when Ward compelled them to move on ,

and never left the -doolie"

till “it arrived at the

Residency. Lieutenant Havelock’s escape was

thus a marvellous one . becau‘

se all the other

wounded were murderedby thejenemy.

Ward,who was. a Norfolk man, although

serving ,in the 7 8th Highlanders, -also receivedthe Victoria C ross, and became the servant andf riend o f the worthyson of a worthyboth being bound together by“

ties of gratituand respect.

(To be continued. )

. C HESS. “

a“

(C ontinued f romp age 735.

Prob lem No . 8 1 .

HEarz srRUNG and H F. L:MEYER;

White to play, and '

inatein‘

three (3)moves.

T o C hess C o rresp ondents.

Gold’s book

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fof "200.

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problems isawelcome addition ‘

to the“

excellent collections byJ Brown, F.

’ He'aley, Kohtz ‘

and Kockelkorn,

P . Klett, S. Loyd, and E. Pradignat. It ' is apity there is 116 C ollection o f the 700

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problems.composed by K . Bayer .

—8 Gold hasf ,not in

sserted .any of his beautif ul lohg' $elf -mates,

whi ch, together with some of his matiyother:problems, might be published ;f in?" d§3second'volume. His remarkable power -of surroundingthe K with his own men isfiell . shpyvn in the'

two'

f ollowing examples I"_k .t

Problem No.

White, K -K B 4 ; Q-QRSq.-K

R5 ; Kt-K B 5. Black, Kb B 5, R

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s-Q Kt.-sq. and QR 3 ; B -Q -

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Q QR4.Whl te to play, and mate

Proble'

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Nolf 8 3 J’

White, K -Q, 7 ; Q-K Rsq. B -QB 2. Black,.K -Q 5 ; B - K 6 ; Ps-QB 6, Q 7 , K 3

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and K B 7 .White to play, and mate in three‘ moves.

(Items

JoHNfiY minnow- Y ewmayhave been a subscriber

to the'

B . O. P. since its commencement,” but you

certainlynever looked inside. some o f“

the numbers,or you would have f ound articles on t

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e' very sub

ject you inQuire about,'

w ith the verysameheading.

Trythe fif th volume over again,and f or the f uture

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readaswell assubscribe ;

Among- the f our movers by S. Gold only a

few are superior to the three -m'

overs. Especiallyelever is his NoJ . P.

- The pamphlet on the relative valuesof the chessnren byD. B. is verypraisew

I

ortlry,but not satisf actory, since there are omi ssionsand.wrong calculations in it (as may be seen byi ef eiringto the

“ C hess Guide, ”

pages 233

D. B. has 'not suflicicntlyconsidered the actionso f the preces

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on the domain, page '

1 3 . Let the

K be on“one of the f our centre squares, thenthe

Kt”can check f rom‘

8 squares, the Q f rom 27squares

,the Kt can attack the domain f rom 44

squares, the .Q. f rom 62 squares, and counting

together all .the . attacked squares f rom all

positions we get 72 f or the Kt and 224 f orthe

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1Q; 55 f ort

the one . B f rom,29

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sgi-1ares,‘

48

f or the other B from 24 squares, together 103f rom 53 squares f or both,

-

,Bs e which .numbers must be reduced on accountof captures,and the 224 and: 103 a lso on account o f i h

terpositions.‘

It must ‘ ‘

also considered that

the Qcan be eaptured not only.next the,K

, butalso on other

“

squares. The figures 611 page 14for

,

the B andtheKtrequiremodifications, ’

sincethe B i s easily obstructed, but .it hardlyeverhappens that rthe 8 squares for the Qor f or' theKt are blocked. The question whether the Bis stronger thanthe K

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t rs"

not easily settled. I t

is not stated that all . except the K and the Qcan be pinned Since a central P. in its _

mar‘

ch

across the board can touch any one of 39squares, it is erroneous

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ouIpage 1 7 to call this

r‘

liimber‘ ‘a very limited One. A _

PaWn m the

srxth or seventh row is of ten worth as much asan o fficer . The numbers on page

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. :16 have beenobtained f rom f alse calculations, asLismani f estlyseen byQ_

= 3 2434,and B

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4867 , etc. , etc.

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alogue o fbooks _f or

the ; use .

1 01

p eople dc,

s i r dus“

o feduca t1 ngthemselvesis

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published by JohnC alvert, 99,GreatJackson Street,M a11 che ster . I tcostsS ixp enc e,andyou can

get it bye ncl 0s ingstamps. 2.

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d c o l dtea an ex

cellent thing to clean glass with. The pro f essionalwindow- cleaners ask f or a little whiskywith _

it, butthe proportion of spirit added .to the tea seems tovary considerably, and seldom to be worth mentioning. Of comso the tea should be veryweak“

FIREMAN BILL—All metal joints can be loosened by,the sudden application o f heat to the Outside

T .

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D. P.—'The weathercocks o f .the ancients did not

have the cardinal points- aat al l . They"

worked.rounda scale on which were shown

“the dif f erent“

coastsf rom which the wind could oo

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NAU'r‘I C AL.—Applyto theMercantile Marine Ofiice It“

would be difficult to conceive a more f oolish ideathan that of your shrpp ing?on

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a coaster I t is thevery stupidest thing you could do . I f you want togo to se

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aI, go on an oceangoing,

ship

NI C KNAME (Montreal) .—An excellent bookon Seamanship rs C aptain Burney

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s Y oung Seaman’

3 Manualand Riggers Guide, published byTrubner and C o ,

Ludgate Hill . I t costs seven shil lings and sixp enceAnother book byc the same : author; the

“ Boy’

s

Manual ,”is also i n great

“

repute . For all suchbooks

phelbe

I

st plan rs to applyto some nautical warehouseor rs

. R. MM .—The time ,

requisi te to spend instudy. andthe chances of emp loyment depend somuch on

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in'

dividir

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al ef f ort and opportunity that it is impossible togiye

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g'

: o f f ers a f airer chance nowadays than mostof

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pro f essions, and theschool in Princes Street,anover Square, i s well known.

0. H . W. H .—Y ou should applyto Messrs. Stanf ord, o f

C haring C ross, orWa'

rne and C o . ,o f Bedf ord Street,

Strand, f or their guides to the C ivil Service.

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A .—Old oak 15 best got by f umigating. Make a

box airtight by pasting paper over the cracksd

umlhang the pieces o f new oak on strings, so that theymay

t’

be a! ted upon all round. Place on the bottomo f the box a saucer o f strong ammonia, and thenshut down the lid and leave f or twelve hours or so .

Y ou will find that the f umes f rom the ammonia w i llhave quite blackened the oak, providing that it hasn

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ot

e I

been sappy, and has been f ree f rom grease and

b

FRAIN .—The easiest way to make small gold letters

is to write w ith gold size instead of ink, and dust onthe bronze, or apply the leaf when the size is tacky.

A. I . C .—Thehighest f actory chimney “

In GreatBritainis at Messrs.

c

Townsend'

5 works at Port Dundas,Glasgow I t rises 454 f eet f rom the ground; and istlrirty- two f eet

“

1 11 diameter at its base. The highestchimney in England is at

‘

Mus ratt'

s chemical worksatNewcastle - on-

I

Tyne, and it is 397 f eet high,'

SAWYER.—1 . Y ou can preserve pencil drawings

easiest by varnishing them with collodion. 2. As

phaltun’

i thi'

nned ;with turpentine“

will give you a“

.

satisf actory mahogany stain . Y ou can get 11 codready stained or dyed f or f ret cutting

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f rom Syer’s,

Finsbury Street, C ity.

BUMPE'I ‘ MAJOR.—1 . Y es. A private in the .British

Armycan rise to be a comm issioned officer. 2. Thereisno examination.

QUERIST._Dumb bells we ighing aboutJa couple of

pounds are quite heavy enough. They should beused f or about ten minutes everymorning. Y ouWould find Indian clubs aff ord better exerci se.

J V. B.—For particulars o f the exam inations apply

direct to the Secreta1y, General Post Office . Thecompetitions are always advertised in the dailynewspapers.

EAST ,i JAC K

I

. See the “ Lifeon theOceanWaveI

articles ia'

our. second volume.ANXIOUSEN .

—1 . To clean 1111 Ordinary reflector there.isnothingbetter than a little :whiting: 2. Asphaltumblack f orms the best stopp ing f or lantern slides.

ALEXANDER THEGRATE.—The ladwho '

considered thatAlgebra was the Editor of Esau

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s f ables must befirst cousin to the one who , in answer to “Who wasTitus?

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replied,‘ f Tituswas a Roman emperor , who

wrote an epistle ,I

and af teriVards assumed the sur

name o f Oates.

“

Y ou are but a sham antique, OAlexander !DEAN.

—America is a large place . I f you will tellus what country in it you mean we will endeavourto

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help you Americans however, are more civilisedthan you seem to take them to be . I t is a populardelusion to suppose that f Amerrca is a howlingwilderness, with a f ew backwoodsmen dotted about

T .

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BATH .

'—~Mix fifteen parts of shred indi-ar ubber'

with

parts o f . chloro f orm , .a11d .the11 add t hree partso f mastic. This will give you one of the best trans

parent cements known.

GUNHILDA .—Vinegar Bibles are so called because the

word vinegar isL-’mispri11-te1'l f or vineyard in the run

ning headline to Luke XX II. Theywere issued f romthe C larendon Press in 1 7 1 7 .

L.—1 . According to Morton, the Englishman has

the largest brain case . Next to himcomes the German and Anglo -American. The Irishman comes

next to the Malay. 2. A“seron

”o f almonds is

about a lrundredweiglrt and a half

P. C .—I t is possible to make soap at home, and,

according to some people , the process is a clean one.

Take a hal f pound tin of 98 per cent. caustic soda,costing Sixpence, and empty it i nto a basin contain

ing a quart of cold wate1 . Stir it till it is hot andthenwait till it is cold. In

“

alarge basin melt three

p ounds o f f at—anysortwill do so long as it containsno salt—and when it has cooled down to tepidiresspour into it slowlyandregularlythe solution of soda.

Stir the mixture till it is as thinas honey, and thenpour it into a mould lined with damp rag to preventit sticking. C over it up with an old blanket, and intwenty f o

b-m hours you Will have a block of soap .

C ost .—the price o f the f at, the price of

I

tlre soda,and

the price o f your labour.

ANDY . 1 . A lump of gumdropped into the starch

will make your cuf f s and co llars shinier Ordinary

q m is best, such as is dissolved f or o ffice use. The

size of the lump depends on the amount of gloss

desired. 2. An e i'

ghteen'

plennybook on“

clock- repair

ing is published under the title of Hasluck'

s C lock

I

jobber'

s Handbook.

W. FREESTON.—1 . Y 011

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will find how to waterproofcloth clothes without shrinking them or . spoilingtheir colour in No . 1 23 , in the Part f or June, 1881 .

2 The sun looks larger when it r ises and sets thanwhen it is overhead

o

because it is then looked at

through a greater thickness o f mist . I f you draw

two circles f rom . the same centre , one a l ittle

smaller than the other, you will find that a line out

ting them both and passing through the centre , is

shorter betweenthe two circ'

b

umf erer'

r'

ces than a line

in any other directionI

3 . Get a shilling book o f

songs withmusic.

P. F. P.- 1 . The principal bard woods o f New Guinea

are greenheart, ducal ibol ly, wamara, letter -wood,

and hyawabolly, better known as zebra wood. The

greenheart is Nectandm rodie i , the letter- wood is

B rain/mum aubleti i , and the zebra is Omphalobrumlamber ti . 2. Always spel l generic names with

capital letters, and specific names with small letters.

This is the method now adopted- by the leading

scientific men, and it has the great advantage o f

aff ording at a glance the inf ormation that you are

dealing with a genus or species , as the case maybe .

AN IGNORAMUS.—l . We never recommend patent

medicines, or articles o f that sort. 2.

-A baronetcyishereditary; a knighthood is not. A baronet ranksthe highest.

W. J. B .—Apply at the Mercantile Marine Office, St.

K atherine'

s Docks, or at Poplar . Any policemanwill tell you where . Ask no questions of any one

outside the o ffice who has not the .Board of Trade

badge on his cap .

P. C . STUART.—No . C a sar

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s Veni , Vidi , Vi ci is notthe shortest .despatch known . When Sir C harlesNapier tookHyderabad in 1843 , and out-mane uvredShere Mahommed, he sent home as a des atch the

ssinglpword Pecccwi , which being translate = I have

07211. e !

S. S - l . Lecterns are generallyin the f orm o f an eagle ,owing to that being the symbol o f St. John the

Evangelist. 2. In several o f the cathedrals there arecarvings representing events in sacred history. I nthe roof o f Norwich there are three hundred andtwenty- eight figures telling the story.

READER—We described how to make Pharaoh'

s ser

pents _ih No . 11 7 .

JonN Sw a rm—The “Light Bobs, or rather “ Baker’

s

Light Bobs,"

are the l oth Hussars the 1 1th Hussarsare the C herryBobs the Death orGlory Boysare Bingham

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s Dandies”—the 1 7 th Lancers the

l 6th are the Re‘

d Lancers ; the . 19th Hussars are

the Dumpies the “Slashers are the 28thFoot,

now the Gloucestershire, a regiment also known as

Old Bragg’

s.

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N. R. G.—1 . Friable f ossils are best kept af ter being

soaked in gelatinex 2. C uriosities and luxuries haveno fixed value ; it is only necessities that bear a

quotable price .

W. E.—1 . The old Engl ish coinage was a very f ull one .

2. Sittio was one of the Kings .oi Northumberland.

In the'

treasure f ound in November, 1883 , in theHouse o f the Vestals at Rome there was f ound one

o f his coins. Sitric, C VNVNG N . with six o f Aulai'

s

-“ Oulai C VNVNG N . Four o f Plegmund

’

s (Archbishop o f C anterbury), three

‘

o f Alf red the Great’

s,

two hundred and eighteen'

o f Edward'

s, three hundred and ninety- one o f jEthelstan

’s, and one hundred

and ninety- five'

oi Edmund’

s; Were'

also'

among thespoil , which is supposed to have been a pile o f Peter

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pence .

Litmus—We decidedlyobject toyour taking one o f

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our stor ies

and sending it in f or a prizea competition in another journal. We f ail , however , to seewhat good it would do you,as it would be recognised im

mediately.

AN APPRENTIC E.—I f you were

apprenticed to the firm anychange in the partners o f thefirm will make no di f f erence

to you . I t is a great mistaketo leave an apprenticeship . I f

you cannot get a transf er see

your bondage through. Neverleave a trade until you havelearnt it.

JumBo.—The Great Eastern is

692 f eet long, 83 f eet broad,and 58 f eet deep . From pad

dle - box to paddle - box her

breadth is 120 f eet. H er ton

nage is but she does

not carry anything like her

measurement. For f urther

particulars see No . 244 .

T . R. W.—To clean morocco

leather, strain it tight and

scour it well with a stiff brush.

using so f t soap and tepidwater, with a f ew drops ofoxal ic acid. Unstrain theleather , and when dry rub a

little oil over it with a rag.

MAGIC LANTERN.—I f ordinary

paints are not bright enough,tint good shellac varn ish w ithaniline dyes—such asJudson '

s—and your colours will bequite transparent.A . E. R.

—The wi l ls are kept at Somerset House, and

you must apply there personally.

E. EBBUT'r .- C andlemas Day is so called f rom the

candle p rocession which takes place on the 2nd o fFe bruary in the C athol ic C hurch, in which are supposed to be consecrated al l the candles neededduring the year . In pagan times the candles wereburnt to the goddess Februa, the mother o f Mars, toscare away the evil sp irits.

C mcI

Kr-t'rnn (Ayr) . - The plate o f Famous English

C ricketers was in the part f or May. 188 1 .

2. C onf o und the boots !

The Boy’

s Own(Paper.

A Y OUNG READER—We do not think you would beable to make a vio lin- case in a verysatisf actoryway.

But if you thinkyou can, and if you have the woodand too ls, you had best borrow one f or a pattern,and tryyour hand.

FOSSIL. 1 . Generally speaking, by mushrooms ismeant the edible f ungi, by toadstools the poisonousones. 2. The letters I . R. are the initials o f InlandRevenue . 3 . The only wayto get rid o f insects f romw indow plants is to syringe them . 4 . A sponge is

an animal. For the reasons you can consult anyrecentmanual o f zoology that you choose .

G WALLs.—Get a list of the firms f rom a Shipping

Gazette . or apply personally to the Mercantile

Marine Ofii ce, Liverp ool or London.

T . B. W.—There is a certain amount o f

play in the flanged wheels, and hence

moderate curves can he travelled overbut there is always a greater strain on

the inner wheel,and the outer line is

always the highest, so as to check thetendency to run straight.

Pancnts POST.—1 . Had the earth a fluid

nucleus; and the f luid were not dense

enough to supportyou,you would f all to

the centre and remain there . The old

idea o f a thin crust and amightymass o ffluid washing about inside it has now

been considerablymodified, though themain contention would seem to hold

good . 2. The f irst country with which

England, as England, f ound itsel f at

war, was, we suppose, Denmark,‘

but rt

is a curiously hazy question. I f you

mean af ter the C onquest, sayFrance.

vent such p rospectuses

being inserted. All our

papers are publishedat 56, PaternosterRow; and nothingpublished elsewhereis ever mixed withthem. In cases o fthe sort the best

plan is to '

at once

transf er . your cus

tom f rom the shop ,and to communicatewith us;

C ANNA . 1 . For thetranslation see No .

104, in the February part f or 1881 .

Wlsh they we re b igge r .

2. That the dmg‘gist can make

00your physlc 1 as

pfretty as

his brightest carboys on willonly pay the p rice . or the

contents o f the mysterious botties see No . 1 70, in the Maypartf or 1882.

Exonus and J. M. F.—The arti

c les on mode l - engine makingbegan in No. 136. There weresix articles.

A. C . A .—An “

examination guide to the chartered

accountants rntermediate and final papers"

is now

published, price ten shillings and Sixpence . I t con

tains a collection o f questions and answers.

K . P. G .—Thanks f or suggestion, which will be duly

considered The number entering f or the competitions, however, shows no diminution except in theparticular case we mentioned.

ROUGE —The barber's pole representsthe staff heldbypersons when beingbled. The knob at the top isthe basin the red and white ribbons are the band

ages use during the blood- letting. The harbors

used to be the surgeons, and practised bleeding f or

nearlyeveryailment.

SKETC HES FOR LANTERN SLIDES.

“ TAKEN AT H IS WORD .

3 . What a nu isance my ha ir is !

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Pr of essor to the Russian Imper ia l“

C ollege of Practical _Sci ence, etc. , etc.

C HAPTER X I X —C ontinued.

I

LARGEP. housein this poor town’s high

street receised the earl ,'

the.

ZEthling,

and thebojs, w ith their immediate f ollowers. Tubso f ale andhorns of mead w ere

soon disposed o f by the thirsty'

train ‘ The

horses w ere all well . suppli ed w ith cord,

and the rest which theymuch needed, whilethe men were w ell regaled 'w ith

"

slices ofboiled m eat and large roundZ

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c

‘

alzes of

barleybread or rye , to which~ they did f ull

justice . T he earl was poipting out to'

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ]

Ha rold'

fl uhg his new stee l jave lin and piéi éed one through the back.

”—See ,p 7 91.

Harold how sad it w as that m en f or filthy

gain w ou ld live like sw ine or cattle .

War ,”he said, “ is a m ost needf ul art,

and w arlike m en m ay be the m ost re

spected._When in the days long p ast our

br ave f ore f athers came in arms to B r itainthey conquered w ith the sword ! Whatcoul d the B ritons do against their Pictishf oes ? Nothing ! The English came and

put those Picts to flight, and now w e rule

in Br itain . M ark thou my w ords, the

tim e w ill som e day come when all o f

Britain shall be English ground ! But

when the sword f alls f rom the nervelessgrasp o f Englishmen who , traitors to theirname and blood, chatter f or gain instead o f

boldly earning r ings and gold by theirbrave deeds in battle , then shall the

English nam e become a sco ff and byword

to the nations There was. a m ighty race

o f men , not very large o f stature , but

r ight brave , who lived beside the Tiber .

They conquered Britain and the land o f

Gau l , they o verran the Belgae . But the

Goths, the -English, and the Vandals w er e

too proud to st00p to Roman bondage ,they poured their arm ies on the Roman

troops and f reed the w orld f rom bondage .

But such a conquest'by the northern arm s

would not have taken place had not theRom ans first destroyed themselves bylu xury and commerce . The m eanest soldier

,Har old, in my train is m ore a man

than yon‘

r ich m erchant who sits and

trembles_

in his,wretched

‘

hom e f or f ear

that thi eves shoul d rob him o f his gold !

I hate the grow th o f towns it shows be

f orehand w eakness, greed, and ruin !Here they were interrupted by a burly

groom,who told them that some m erchant

o f the town sought speech w ith youngEarl Harold

“ What ? ”said the earl

“

.

“ Known to

these chafi'

erers ? What does it m ean , eh !Harold, how in the name o f Thor hast

thou made f riendship w ith these low - born

slaves ? That they are C hristians I can

w ell f orgive . Brave m en are C hristians, asI f ound o f late . Butm erchants, HaroldNay, this is too bad ! Admit the villain(tprnin

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g to the groom). ByThor , I like

it not

Then seeing Harold’

s very pu zzled f ace ,he said,

“ But very like it is a chaff ering trick o f

their s to gain my. sanction to som e :sillyguild

’ by flattering m e' with Harold !

Oh ! here’s the ch

‘

apman ! -What’

s your

will w ith ‘

us ? i”

A f air man in a simple br own dress,longer than the tunic o f the w arr iors, entered the r oom . H e was stout and statelyin his person, but had a greedy r estless

m otion in his eye that told o f avarice . H e

bore a massive silver cup shaped' like the

w ild bul l ’

s horn and set w ith gems m ost

costly. H e had a cringing and a servilegait that to the earl w as loathsom e .

The man - at- armswho brought the m er

chant in was cased in bright chain mail ,and w ore his helmet as he spoke to Rol f .The merchant

’

s head w as bare , and low he

bowed at sight o f grim Earl Rol f . The

soldier stood erect, and when he spoke hisspeech was blunt and f ree . But o f the

twain it w as not hard to see which Rol fthought m ost respectf ul .

“ Harold, see ! C ontrast that cringingknave w ithyou blunthonest so ldier . Which

loves me best, the man o f w ar or shillings ?Look at the base slave , and yet the f ellowis rich. And see that son o f Odin ; hebear s his w ealth about him . Y et, my son ,

I rather choose to know the poor andbrave , f earless o f other men , and true and

honest, than r ich and servile like that

creeping slave ! H ow now , Sir M erchant,dost thou seek my son ? Ther e stands

Earl Harold ; speak thy mind to him . Iam his f ather ; secrets w e have none .

Say out thy say and briskly, f or we w ill toho rse .

”

Oh, my lord earl , m ost m ighty lord inw ar , scourge o f the British,

dreaded everywhere , all ow me o f thy greatness to pre

Sent the young _

Earl Harold w ith thislittle gif t in token o f my love and our m ost

heartf elt gratitude .

By Thor’

s own m allet ! said the earl ,surprised, “

what gratitude canst thou

owe Harold ? We have not been two

hours in this town ,

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and he w as always

With me . I f thou needest aught, thou

and thy kindred chapm en , tell it like a

man,if thou hast anym anly f eeling in thy

hear t,and if I can I ’

ll help thee . B ut i f thou

thinkest bribes and sickening flattery dearto m e and m ine thou hast but a f ool

’

s

errand, so depart.

My lord, but just bef ore you blessedthis p lace w ith your m ost noble pre

sence I had le f t my home to visit a r ichf riend about some busin ess m atters.

Wh ilst awaysome ten or fif teen m iscreantssought the house and caused my w i f e toopen to their knocks the door o f our poor

dw elling. They seized the w r etched crea

ture , near ly dead w ith f ear “

at thi s rough

usage ; her they held while others sought

the room s where all my w ares w ere stored,and w ould have robbed m e o f all I possessand killed my wi f e and servants. But you r

son , young as he is and gentle to . behold,cam e all alone and '

rescued mypoor w if e ,released the servan ts, and f has saved myw ealth. These are good deeds I never canr epay, but I wo uld p ray thee to allow thisgi f t in memory ) f

.

the bravest deed ‘

o f

arms that ever w on m en’s gratitude .

”

Now , Harold , what is'

this Pwhat doesthis nonsense m ean i!

“ We rode to tow n

together . Hadst thou ‘

time f er such a boldadventure as this poor C hapman m entions,or is it a trick to gain myarm by flatteringmy ear

Not altogether , said the boy, and

laughed. The tale is p artly true and

partly f alse . I t is a f alsehood when he

says that there w ere ten or fif teen o f the

robbers. I saw only three . One I transfixed w ith my new javelin ; the other

fled. And it is f alse to say that I w as

quite alone . H ennl f and Beorn w ere w ithm e , as thou knowest, and B eorn cut downa robber . As to the servants, I know not,my lord. what they w ere doing at thetime . We saw no servants ; did w e ,Kenu lf ?

”

“Well , said the earl ,“ I like the

m odest w ay in which thou tel lest thy adventure , boy. G reat talkers, little doers, ’

says the scald. As to this present, I amloth to take what I am sure they prize . Ileave the cho ice to thee, Harold, to take itor re f use .

”

So please you , earl , I’

ll take it,”said

the boy, but only if thou thinkest it isr ight. I need no m emory o f the robbers

’

flight. I shall laugh o ver it enough w ithKerm it and my f riends. I t w ould seem

churlish to ref use their gif t. What says

my lord and f ather ?”

I t is w ell ,”said Rol f ; w e take thy

present, as’tis kindly m eant, and f or the

f utur e I shall think m o re kindly o f thyr ace than I have done . Vengeance is sweet,but gratitude is rare . H unf orth ! soundhorns to horse ! Adieu ,

my f riend. Thytown is none the w orse f or this thy gi f t.

Give me thy hand ; look up , and be less

cringing ! Farewell . Harold, to hor se

Tho rskull i s mounted, chafing at delay.

To horse !”

Harold now f ell behind, and in the rear

talked w ith theveterans as he rode along,and they all praised his promptitude inusing his good lance . The earl , to o , to ld

the f i lthling,and the [Ethling was w ell

pleased that the boy had shown such

courage and had such modesty as w ell .

“ True w orth is never boastful , ”said the

gentle Ethelwulf .

At last they reached the dw elling o f

K ing Kenw alch and his queen , and theyf ound a glor ious company assembled on

that day. From.all the Saxon - English

som e chie f s had come to speak in that

great solemn meeting o f the noble cause o ff aith.

Two days f or m irth and f easting w ere

spent r ight mer rily, but on the third KingK enwalch commanded all the earls

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and

thanes and cnichts and f reemen to attend

at that m o st important m eeting to decideupon the . f aith.

We have descr ibed the m eeting- house ,w ith all itsupr ight stones, and the templehouse close by them f or the sacred u se o f

priests. But this w as a p lace f ar larger

than that possessed byRol f , and five hun

dred m en could easily find room in that

huge f ane . There is one now le f t at Sal isbury upon the m ighty plain, and thi s o f

our true story was still larger and more

known .

The kingstood on the doom - stone , and

round him'

stood his earls and his thanes

and all his nobles, the f ree burghers, and

the pr iests, and he called upon that m eet

ing to show in p eacef ul sort what vo iceswere f or Odin and what vo ices w ere f orC hrist.Each

'

rank stood in its proper ringw ith sword and linden shield

,and on the

side tow ards the east ar ose the templehouse . Then f orw ard stepped a w arrior .

H is beard w as white with age , but hi s

back 'was straight, his f orm unbent, and

fire'

was in his eye , and he stood upon his

stone o f right and gave his m eaning f orth,

and his w ords”

were f ew , but had the ringo f the older iron th e

Sir king and w arriors, I am too old to

learn new stor ies about Sa int Peter and

other heroes whom I kn ow not, I havebeen baptized in the battle - blood o f the

f allen f oe,and I shoul d scorn to w orshipw ater ! I grant my gods have been sel

dom'

seen ,but call the C hristian and bid

him bring us only an angel , and I w illw orship

'

what god he w ill . What m atters

it whether w e say,Thor threatens when

w e hear thunder , or that a prophet peals

f rom on high.

’ Thunder w i ll r umble ,lightn ingw ill lighten ,

whatever we say. Icannot bringm e to declare that All - f ather

must now be call ed other than he w as o f

yore . God is Alm ighty ; call H im All

f ather , call H im High Odin , one thing iscertain , H e cannot be changed. So Icontinue to call him All - f ather , chie f o f

Valhalla,the guider o f war . Those who

like better new names and new notionsmay call Him whatever they f ancy f or m e .

As to the sto ries o f love and o f mercy, theyseem better fitted f or women than m e

H e ceased, and some applause was heard

upon the pagan side . Earl Rol f did

nothing,and his sword hung idle in its

sheath. I t w as not beat against his shield,

and he sto od sad and stem . But when

King K enwal ch looked at him he stood

upon his stone like to a statue carvedthereon , so calm , so firm , and strong. And

glancing round the warlike thr ong,he

spoke distinct and clear , and all men there

together met could note the words he

u sed.

“ I do not think my brother earl has

spoken to the point. The question seem s

to me to be , what is the god w e serve I

granthim that it ismost tru e that whatso

ever name we give the greatest god abovehe must remain that god. But the question is nothow hemaybe cal led ; that, ashe

says, is f ree to anyman to call H im what

.

‘he believes the best. But the C hristianstell us Love is God, and Hatr ed n

'ithingw ork ; that war is not so good as peace ,

a nd many things besides which I cou ld

never understand, and care not much

about . But there are things I want to

know which our priests cannot teach, and

:if these C hristians answer me, I say Ishall be glad,

-.and would . embrace their“

doctr inew ith delight. Fir st, can theytell "m e who . it was that m ade the sun above ?

Next, can they . teach us how m en can

know to whom they ought to prayThirdly,

I.want to know , i f God indeed

be_Love , the reason why His creatures are

born to swo rda nd lance”a

This speech was met with loud applause .

IEach sword - leapt f rom ' i ts she ath and

hammered on its w ell—loved shield the

praise that warriors understand .

“'

Then'

spoke the'

noble.

Ethelwul f , andf

jt old themhow. the WORD had“

taught the

C hr istians all those things which good"

E arl? Rolf would learn . The God who

m ade the sun he said,

'

was the same Godo f light who lightened all the darkness o f.the erring scul , that the light o f -lif e

_and

l ight o f day w ere both H is gloriousw -ork,

and that to H im men ought to p ray as

being the ‘

One God ;to Whom all f:'

n~

atioris

o ught to how the knee in

Then as to war and lovewas the act of

“

man , who turned. himself"f rom good and love and w orshipped blood:Hand crime a nd i f m en turned away f r oml ove, surely that did not shown thatuGodcreated hatred when man first drawn-{the

.sword !

"

Then spoke. the high priest .

lC ori'

,'

a‘

priesto f» and he said to that assemfbly,

“H igh “

chief s and champions .b'

ravel eng

'

have‘

served high Odin—f ull tw en'

tyi

;years and m ore—andwhat am . I the betterN ot:a whit thanwhen a babel naked came .

into the world;without .a .

'

helm'

or mail!H as Odin shown much.

_

'

loyezto me}?" I

reckon he_

shov’

vs none ! ;_Zw '

I'

wouldgladlyserve a God who

,has . som e love t o

,

show .

“

I f“

I w ere Only _

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fsure : o i .

_

C hristian l'ore w ere would at o ffice.

fl eave . Odin and Thor and Tyr and Freye

B ut see,

“

_

I ask‘

a -

_jI f Odin be a god;a t least

‘

_he mayjbe

'aiigry i f } he d oesjnf

ot:Zshow

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much‘ ldve .

‘

S o I '

vvi ll run'

the I‘l Si f :i t all f or the nation ’

s good. See here,lord king ! ”

and here . be'

took a javelinf rom the hand o f '

a brave soldier juststanding thenon guard.

H e leapt updn a battle steed and to thetemple rode, and then he

'

flung the w eaponat the

'

altar’

s“

upright stone . All them eeting w as excited ; each man thoughtsuch a deed w ould br ing down Odin ’

s»vengeance -upon the dar ing pr iest. Theyheld their

f breaths m ost anxiously notthe slightest token came ; So C ori' to his

"

place'

returned, and said, w ith a haughtyfS ‘ml? ’ I dared the danger f or your sakes .

H e i s no god f or me who w ill perm it hist emple to be scandalised bym en

‘

I vote f or baptism !

The dioy

’

e Own(Pa-

per.

The swords were beaten loud and longagainst the r inging shields, and the w ar

r iors all approvingly nodded to that bold

pr iest.

Then arose the Thane o f Wiston , andthus he said his say :

“ I have observed,King Kenw alch, that in the Winter time ,

when w e w ere drinking high in h all , andthe fire w as blazing high, that a little birdhas entered f rom the darkness. o f the nighta t one end o f the chamber where the doorwas open f r ee . H e w arm ed himsel f a

m oment, and at the other door he hadvanished into_darkness, and w e never saw

him more .

'So is the m or tal spir it thatlives w ithin a m an .

‘

I t com es, none can

say whence it C omes ; it w arms itsel f a

m oment in this w orld o f light and l if e ,and then vaii ishes - in darkness, goingwhither ?

_

Vs’ho . can tell ? Now i f these

peacef ul C hr istians can 'tell us'Whence w e

come’

, and whither goes the soul at death,

A very sto rm '

o f thunder -f rom the sound“

ing shields,

arose,and the

_

earls and thanes

and. heroes { seem ed Overcome w ith : joy.

“

Andy- the jvmeeting then ordain ed it that

through theWessex land the -

p eople should

be C hristian'

s,w ith household m en fiand

slaves. And . king he . thanked_

hisw itan ; .f or their " l abou r and their love"

which“

:h ad_brought them a ll . together in

these . old ? r ings“ “

o f s'

tone ._Then p riests

w'

eren seiit f or ; p r esently,

“

and -the noble

chants were“

sung“

that pea'

l'

new in many'

churches throughout the f avour ed land .

And all -

z in ; that assembly .

“

partook ,

the

pledge as C hi‘iStiar-is, and -e ntered ia - the

f old where _

the -jgood and f aithf ul Shepherdhas gl

'

orified'

His‘

own

When thethe meeting . w as dismissed

,

w alch Sprayed'his

‘

ndbles i to tarry in. his.

hall and remain w ith him-

"

t illw

yule e tide ,but they begged himsto ;al lowtthem

‘

all . to

seek their=

lto .thenews abro ad

.

that i fthéa‘

p eopxle-

_

all throughWessex“

, just’

ili

kegthe,memdn ent, mightjoin in;building churches

'

whare the truthmight be proclaim ed to the lowest humblethrall a nd to the . earl in mantle and golden

helm o f

.But ther e w as enough of f easting not

w ithstanding,

'

eand theking, :w ho , though

notjgreatly given to the pleasures o f the

table , .

- loved to see all - m en-

'

about h imhappy, gave orders that ;all p ersons ,

who

oared m ightfind f ree quarte'

rs'

in the royal

hall f or - three days.

’

space at least. H e w as

a tall thin man was Kenw alch, with a

noble eye .a nd ._brow, though -he were“

a,

look o f sadnesswhichi ‘

no ,man“

could under

standu ntil: the f ear ful -

tending that cam e .

to his good l if e made men .think that some;

f oreboding '

w as the . cause o f all - hi s

The dayf o f f . their fl eparture the witan

guests“

received "

garments . of _the

pur est;w ool as the gif t o f their good king.

~Each received a“

cross o f : solid gold: abou this neck - to

“

hang, and o f beads o f

amber to say the prayer upon , and besidesthese C hristian presents “

r ich gi f ts o f other;kind, as lances, swords, and bucklers, andhelmet-s bright and fine . The graciousQueen

'

Saxburga was loth to let the _

'

boysdepart w ith Rolf as he .w ent hom e to

C hr istianise his men .

'

.B ut she gave themnoble -

p resents and,

t aught them manythings which they. thought w ould please

the Dom ina when . they w er e - back again .

Then stout Earl“Rol f besoug

-ht the king tolet some churchm en com e to teach j hisunread peop le in their homes beside _

the

hall , So w ith a greater f ollowing he re

turned than whcn he lef t, f or his trainbore peace f ul C hri

’

stians as well as m en o f

war .

The nobles lef t K ing Kenwalch, all savePrince Ethelw ul f

,

’

who r emained behindw ith Kcnw alch to assist him in his work,f or the king w as rather ailing and not so

strong as he . One day they rode togetherunder the greenwood tree , and they saw

five f ellow s m ounted approaching them in

haste . They never m ade ob’

eisance , thatru ffian crew o f churls, and the ZEthlingw as r ight angry to see such want o f grace .

So he called out to them sternly,

Y e churls so m ean and r ough, do yenot know the king is here , that ye must

pass us so PThen

“

the m iscreants drew nearer andthey stabbed them both w ith knives and

galloped of f r ight br iskly and w ere neverheard o f

'

more ; The king’s attendants

hurr ied up , but f ound the JEthling dead.

King Kenwalch“lived a w eek ,

or two“

andthen he closed his eyes.

The widowed Queen .

S'

axburga,

Thoughherheartwas rent in twain,She governedhow the people ,Who we re happy in her reign.

And theyjsay that since Saxburga.

The happ iest times have beenWhen the nobleland of Britain

Has been governed bya queen.

”

hen Earl Rol f and all his partyarr ivedWithin the hall he f ound the lady sorrdwingas. f or a :bitter less, "

and it seemed that old

Penruddock had been asked by.young

King '

Llewyd'

f or leave to make his grand

daughter ,his br ide and noble _qu'

een. And

the,oldkinghad consented,“

andm‘

essengersh ad come:to askEarl Rol f

’

s permission- f or

Gw’

ennyth to depart to become thefbrideo f :Llewyd and. to ? qu it thei hall'j‘at '

once .

So Rolf the earl was happy; andj"

h’

e gavethe British! "

maid;a "mighty? _

weddi‘

ngfpre

_

sent'

en-a'

d eclared upenv’

.his.

“

word that'

he

would take her;back 1505 Llewyd ahd"'

give

her ’in the church.

’

H ow so” 3 said Edelgitha . Earl

Rol f is pagan still , and these dear f r iendsare C hr istians, so how it maybe done that

thou shou ldst give the br ide awaythan I can tell !

Then the good earl he smiled again uponhis gentle w i f e , _

and he

had noticed a dif f erence in his

she said _

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she only noticed that he r eturnedin peace and had brought her Haroldi jackagain . ThatWas enough

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f or'

_

ber .Whatwas th

’

et rain Rightval‘

iant men ,

"

o f that

;she was" qui te sure . But_

'

what =o f“

that

Siich vfaliant'

men as theywere of terifs‘

een

saw something fiii f" ‘

ftheleeks which she c

'

ouldnot un

derstand,'

so. she passed.

‘into the grand

state hal l , and what does

C hristian priests in,spotless white showmg

the,

martial’ train the w ay _

to enter; that

grand host whbse service is“

of.Heaven .

She turned to Rol f that he m ight ’saywhat this should now portend. H e 5drew

a cross f rom his tuni c’

s'

b reast, and the‘

ladysaw the:

'

sign on‘ her knees she threw

hersel f , and sobbed,her

“

thank at

such great'

good’

hadcome to her'

to

her happyhouse .

(To be continued. )

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and when a combined e ff ort was made to f orce

him in he kicked up his heels and awayhe went

with the bride on his back straight f or Reichenstein. Kuno saw him coming, and as he

clattered into the courtyardthe drawbridgewent

up and the walls were manned against thepursuers. The pursuitwashotandhurriedvery hurried, f or in the course o f it the

treacherous Kurt was thrown f rom his horseand killed, and Sif rid, much relieved, wasenabled to ride up alone

,off er his blessing,

and marryhis daughter to a more desirablebridegroom.

The Rheinstein was restored as we nowsee it in 1 829, as a

'

residence '

f or the Sons of

Prince Frederick. William. It is most

elaborately f urnished in the olden s tyle,

with f urniture collected or specially made

to suit the period when its quarrelsom'

e

owners were in their glory. Its armour and

its antique glass are w orthily celebrated.

Below; the castle is a narrow pass where theJews’

toll was levied, the o ld barons ofthe Rheinstein having trained their dogs topick out Jews f rom the passing crowd.

And here is Falkenburgor Reichenstein,to which the white pal freycame ; and here is the . re

stored chapel of St. C lement,

on its picturesque spur and

Hoheneck,to which came

Elsie o f the Golden Legendas the bride o f the Henrywho

‘

sat in his chamber in

the tower, and according toLongf ellow thought atmidight over his past lif e.

Hoheneck

Henry was af f licted with

the leprosy, and his maladywas to continue until a pureand spotless maiden would

shed her blood to cure him .

Elsie volunteered, and withhim went to Salerno ; but instead o f her lif eshe lost her maiden name, and as the LadyAl icia o f Hoheneck returned here with Henryto live happily ever af terw ards.

At Lorch lived Sibo, who lost his child Gar

linda to thegnomes, andwho when he saw her onthe summit of the cli ff endeavoured to ascend

to her in vain . For f our years she remainedamongthe fairy f olk,'and then the blackknightRuthelm rode straight up the rocks

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o f the

Wisper on his f aithf ul steed, and won Garlindaf or his bride. At Lorch also was brought up

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the blinded knight to make sport f or his captors

by shooting at a mark to gain his liberty ; he

did shoot,a nd the arrow brought him f reedom,

f or it pierced his captor ’

s eye .

Opposite C aub, where Blucher crossed the

Rhine on pontoons on New Year ’

s Eve, 1814,

is the island o f the Pf alz, where Lewis the Piousretired and died, and to which Henry VI .

banished the lovelyAgucs C ountess Palatine tokeep her saf e f rom any suitors other than he

should approve o f . Henry o f Brunswick, dis

guised as a page, f ound his wayhere, was mar

ried to the countess in the chapel, and the

narrow dungeon is still shown in which her

child was born.

Above C aub is the Gutenl'cls, whose legendhas quite an English interest. Guta, or Beatrix,

C lem e nts.

was the sister o f Philip o f Falkenstein, anti

though much sought af ter by the neighbouring;barons declined all their advances with

,and

without, thanks. At one of the tournaments,however, a stranger knight/whom no one but

the archbishop knew, carried all bef ore him,and

won the love o f the f air Guta. He did not,

however, reveal his name,and redo away with

one o f the lady’

s gloves, promi sing to return

and claim her in a f ew months. It was duringthat dreadful time in Germany,

“the time

without an emperor,'

when lawlessness reignedsupreme and the barons did as they pleased

Philip had ah anxious lif e o f it,and his sister

kept her‘

s'

elf apart and wept f or the unknown.

“

At last our Richard of C ornwall was chosen,

emperor, and one of his first visits was paid tothe Gutenf els, where he astonished Philip byinf orminghing,

that he was going to marry his.

sister. Philip came to Guta,and told her o f

the emperor’

s wishes, but the lady replied that

she was already pledged to a knight who hadpromised shortly to return

,and consequently

she could only decline the proff ered honour .

Fearing much that the emperor’

s anger would.

be kindled against him,Falkenstein

'

w ent back

w ith the unwelcome

m essage,whenRichard drew out an old.

glove and sent him

off with '

the news

that the emperor

transf erredhis claim

to the knight to

whom she had giventhe gl o v e . The

knight was the em

peror himsel f ! In

a day or two Guta.

became empress, and

the'

castle’s oldname

o f C aub was changed

to that o f the Guten~

f els.

Lower down the

river is Schonburg,where the sevenrocks, only visibleat low water

,are

said to be the sevendaughters of some

old owner o f the

castle, whose stonyhearts were deaf to

the charms o f theirRhenish lovers ; and:past it we come to

Oberwesel ,whcre the

echo to Who istheburgomaster o f Ober

wesel Cl” invariably

answers Reel 1

which is the Germanf or donkey.

At Oberwesel the rocks in the river bed

render the navigation difficult. Many o f them

have been blasted, but the passage is still

f raught with danger. The raf ts that float in .

such numbers down the Rhine have theirdimensions determined by the breadth o f the

channel at this spot."When once these rocks

are passed all is clear to Dordrecht. A wonder

ful sight is an old- fashioned Rhine raft, withquite a village built upon it, as it floatsleisurelydown the stream . With f rom f our to

five hundred men on board, its social economy

is most interesting. The men have their' f amilies with them, l ive in separate huts, and eventalce

'

with them their poultry and domestic'

The Giant Raft -on the Amazon hadbeen anticipated f or ages by the timber raf ts ofanimals.

'

the'Rhine .

And here is the Loreleiwith its fif teen echoes,

f amous all the world over—f or i ts story see the

BOY’

S OWN PAPER, NQ 1183 ; and here is St.

Gear, taking its name f rom the saint who hungup. his coat on a sunbeam

“

to dry and here are

the ruins o f the Rheinf els, themost extensivewe have yet seen.

JOHN SM ITH THE. GREAT

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(Paper.

The castle was built byDiether in 1245, andso, vigorously did he begin to levyhis blackmail on passing travellers that the people roseagainst him and besieged him here, in vain, f orfifteen months. Although the people f ailed,the contest resulted in the conf ederacy o f theseventy cities to reduce all such extortionatetoll - keepers to submission ; and the League o fthe Rhine proved too strong f or the barons.

The Rheinf els was besieged byTMarshal Tallardin 1 692

,but though he had f our - and- twenty

thousand men Gortz kept him at bay. Doubtless when Tallard took to ornamfental gardening

in Leicestershire—and introduced those prettylittle paths o f crockery chips, red breeze, brickyard clinkers

,Southend shells

,and golden

gravel , that final ly eu-lminated with the Horticultural Gardens—he f elt occasionally annoyedwith himsel f during his evening stroll on histerraces f or having once in rather too hasty a

manner promised his royal master the Rheinf elsas a birthdaygif t.

(To be continued. )

A TRUE STORY OF AbVlENI‘URE, PERlL, AND SU C C ESS.

API AIN NEWPORT took the old road bythe C anaries and West - Indi es. H is

start w as not promising. The w eather

w as against him , and C hristmas Day was

spent in the Downs. At lasth e got clear

o f 'the ' C hannel , and when the p assengers

recover ed f rom their sea - sickn ess troubleso f another kind began .

For K ing James’s box w as the source o f

much mi schie f . Know ing no leader , the

turbul ent spirits o f the exp edition gavef ull scope to their private jealousies, andthe

“

resul t m ay be imagined. At the

C anaries, Sm ith was arrested on pretence

that he aimed at the chi ef authority and

w as organising'

a mutiny. A ccording toSmith’

s account, he simply suppo rted the

m in ister in endeavour ing to br ing the

adventur ers to some sense o f their w icked-J

ness, f or Smith w as by: no m eans the pro

f ane drunkard that such soldiers o f f ortunegenerally were ; he w as a steadf ast, God

f earing, oathless man , and acted accordingto hislightsand the spirit o f the age . At anyrate he became a prisoner , and remained sountil the end o f thevoyage .

From the C anaries Newport sail ed toDom inica, thence to 'Guadaloupe , and

'

so

northwards. When again out o f sight o fland he lost his reckoning, and the captaino f .the p innace proposed tn .

bear up f or

England. The murmur in ‘

g m isamanagement grew into a mutiny,

~rand an

outbreak was imm inent '

when‘

the' "

w indf reshened into a tremendous gale, and thesmall craf t had -to

'

send bef ore 1t - underbar e poles. I n early morning the w inddropped, and when the sun ro se thereahead . o f them was the harbour they w ere

bound i nf—C hesapeake Bay.

“

The northcape w as there and then

,named C apeHenry, af ter the then Pr ince o f Wales, who

died five years af terwards, the south C apeC harles, af ter Pr ince C harles; then Dukeo f York and subsequently king.

Immediately the anchors w ere downsome thirtyo f the adventurersw ent ashore s

supposing the place to be uninhabited.

They w ere not long in r eturning.

“FiveIndians attacked them and w ounded .

.two ,

and as the gentlemen were unarmed theySimplyfled to the ship .

At night, the night of the 26th Apr il ,1607 , his maj esty

’

s casket w as opened.

Themystic box contain ed the mystic mum .

ber . The colony was to be governed by a'

council o f seven . The seven w ereWingfield, Smith, Newport, Ratclifi

'

e , Martin ,

Kendall , and Gosnold.

C HAPTER rv.

“

The f ollowing days w ere

'

spent in e x

ploring the coast, and on May 13 the shipsw ere finally moored to . som e trees on the

banks o f a peninsula at the north o f the

James River , then called the Powhatan .

The'

settl'

ement w as named Jam es Town

af ter the royal patron, and the'

council wassworn—ion ra ther six o f them w ere sworn ,

f or Smith '

oh som e pretence was held to be

disqualified—and

.

Wingfield, who w as

m entioned in the charter , was elected firstpr esident.

And so Sm ith f ound himsel f - in the

country w ith which his name is f or everlinked, and whose early history he w as to

wr ite . H e_

saw the bushes o f the hedge

plum , which if it be not r ipe it w ill drawa

.

m an’s m ou th aw ry w ith much tor

ment,”and the chyous in the marishes

not past the bignesss o f the top'

o f one’

s

thumbs he saw the beaver w ith f oref eet like a dogge

’

s and hinder ' f eet like a

swann’s, with tail like a racket.

and bare

without hair , and i n'

happy' f orgetf ulness

o f the rattlesnake , the curiou s “ fiys and

serpents,”which he af terwards described

as not in any w ay p ern iciou s.

”

While the others set to w ork to clear theground, Newport and Sm ith ‘were to ld o f f

with some twenty m ore to explore the

river .-While "they w ere

“

away the Indiansattacked lVingf ield and his m en ,

killed one

and w ounded seventeen ,andhad only been

f rightened o ff by_

a“

bar shotwhich broughtdown-

'

a branch o f“

am ongst them .

The,explorers returned -

Just -ih time '

to

raise What w as pra'

cticallya siege and-

t

assist in“

building f ortifications. 3.

Thishaving been done”

,Newport, thoughone o f the C ouncil , had to'

go back “

to England, and Wingfield w anted him-

“

to take

Sm ith hom e , f or all this time Smithw as

theoretically a prisoner . This b rought

matters to .a'

cr isis. Sm ith demanded a

trial, andWingfield w as adjudged to apo

l'

hgise and_to pay two h undred pounds

dam ages A p ortion o f this he paid, andSmith

“

returned it to the:common f und.

Mr. Hunt now“

made his influence f elt,peace w as a ccepted all round, Smith w as

adm itted to the next “

daythe Holy C ommun ion was adm in istered toseal the reconciliation .

Newport sail ed, and the colonyw as lef t

to its own resou rces. These were not veryabundant. Says Smith—like Prenties—y

_Our drink w as w ater

'

. and ou r lodgingsw er e castles in the air

,and had w e been

as f ree“

f rom all o ther s’ ins as w e were f rom

gluttony and drunkenness we m ight havebeen canoni sed f or saints.

” The partybegan . to die f rom impure w ater . . and

f am ine , and as it w as f ound that the'

pre

sident w as keeping back f ood f or his own

use he w as depo sed, and Ratcliff e took hi sp lace and gave Sm ith the management.

The first thing Sm ith did w as to lead an

expedition in search o f f ood, and in it he_ _

w as successf ul . Thr ee or f our j ourneysdidhe m ake , in the course o f which he f oundthe C hickahominy. While he was awayWingheld,

Kendall , and others conspiredto take the pinnace and sail f or England .

Sm ith r eturned opportun ely, turned the

f ort guns-

on the mutineers, and arrested

K endall and had him tr ied and shot.

- H is next adventure w as in search o f the

South Sea , which the council supposed w as

up the C hickahom iny, I n vain he lexplained

that it w as‘

impossible this could be so .

The council knew that the South Sea and

the road to India must be som ewhere close

by, and the C hickahom iny ought to lead

to it; i f it did not And so Sm ith started.

H e Went up the river f or som e distance ,and then his men f ell into an ambush, afight ensued, and to his

m iddle in a m arsh,w as taken prisoner .

H e handed the chie f his compass, and

f or an hour this kept his captors qu iet, butthen they broke f orth into r egrets at the

loss o f their companions who had been

shot by the Englishm en . They tied himto a tree , and standing in f ront aimed theirarrow s and prepared to shoot. The chi ef ,

however , intervened and carr ied him o f f .

He"

w as taken -up country, and f ood was

placedbef ore him,_

o f whi chhe ate sparingly,f earing that. their idea was to f atten him

f or cooking purposes

Sm ith_

was led f rom vill age to village onthe Rapp

‘

ahannock and the Potomac, and

exhibited to . the , nation , and af ter some

curious experiences at last r eached the

great chie fWahunsenacawh, whom he calls

the Emperor Powhatan .

” H is‘

squaw ,

the Queen o f Appomattox , brought“him

Water to w ash his hands w ith, and another

lady magnate handed him a bunch o f

f eathers wherew ith to dry them , and then

a great consultation w as held, at which itwas decided that Sm ith had better di e .

H e w as dragged on to tw o great stones

be f ore Powhatan ,and the clubs o f his

executioners w ere al ready in the air to

beat out hisbrains when the chief ’s daugh

ter rushed f orw ard, threw her arm s round

him , claimed him ,and saved his lif e .

This girl was P o cahontas, or Am onate ,

then hardly in her teens," ‘

the nonpareil o fVirginia, and ather i ntercession Powhatanmade f r iends with Sm i th, and sent him

back w ith guides to James Town . H e

arrived just in time to find hal f the colony

on their w ay to the pinnace to start f or

home . H e w as qu ite equal to the emer

gency. With the sakers and the f a lcons

and the muskets he Opened such a sudden

fire on the rebels that they came to theirsenses r ight speedilie and saw the ad

vantage o f staying. Some o f them

raised a dif ficulty about the loss o f the men

in the ascent o f the C hickahominy, endea

vour ing to m ake Smith by the Leviticallaw guilty o f murder , but Smith was now

so obviously the onlym an fit to rule the

colony that he was f ully supported when

he laid the lawyers by the heels in duranceuntil he sent them prisoners to England.

Again the .colony was in straits f or f ood,but this time it was helped by Pocahontas,who every f our or five days came w ith herattendants to visit Smith, and brought in

so much provision as to save many lives.

Plots were r if e to qu it the country, and

even Smith him self was asked to head theretreat and leave the m in ister and the

The ddoy’sOwn

6Paper.

(To be continued. )

surgeon and a f ew others to perish. But

John Smith had made up his m ind to

stay.

Soon C aptain Newport returned, and an

embassy started f or Powhatan to open up

the trade . With it, o f course , w ent Smith,whocomplained that the trade was spoiltby Newport

’

s liberality, and in order to

set things right so artf ully enhanced the

value o f a f ew common blue beads that

w ith a couple o f pounds of them he bought

two or three hundred bushels o f corn .

The corn was taken to JamesTown, where ,

Spontaneously or otherwise , it caught fire,

the thatched houses w ere burnt do wn , and

the arms, bedding, clothes, and even the

preacher’

s library and the palisadoes destroyed. Damages w ere repaired as well

as possible , and then the golden sands

were w ashed f or the gold that never w as

in them , and C aptain Newport set sail,

taki ng w ith him Wingfield and Archer ,

and leaving the colony very much the

better f or their absence .

Shortly af te rwards the Phoenix arr ivedwith a second detachment .o i colonists,and Powhatan began to intrigue f or arms

and weapons with which to'

oust the in

truders. M eanwhile,on June "

2, 1608

,

Sm ith, a f ter many m inor adventur es, le f tthe f ort in an open barge o f not quite thr eetons burden to explore C hesapeake Bay.

H e reached Smith’

s Isles, since called af ter

him , sail ed up the Potomac , f ought the

Indians, f ell into ambuscades, got out o f

them ,m et many f oes, and always lef t

them f r iends, and had the exceedinggood hap not to lose a man .

Beavers, otters, bears, martens, and

minxes were seen , and many fish, some o f

which he caught w ith a f rying-

pan

At the m outh o f the Rappahannock the

barge grounded as the tide went out.

Sm ith saw a cur ious flat fish lurking in thereeds and caught it, not in the f rying-

pan,

but on the po int o f his ewold. As he tookit off it stung him in the wrist. The tor

m ent was extreme by reason o f its

poison .

” In f our hour s’

tim e hand, arm ,

and shoulder had swoll en to such a siz ethat he and his companions concluded thathi s death was nigh. H e directed his

grave to be dug on the island, and thiswas dolef ully

' '

done by'his sorrowing

f riends, and then he gave the last instruotions f or his f uneral .

A Boy'

s T our in Egypt, eta—See p . 810.

1 . Town and Lake of Tiberias. , Pool o f Siloam; 3 . Monastery on Mount C armel .

“

4 . Mosque _o f Omar . 5. Ruins at Shiloh.

6.

- Nazareth. 7 . Bethany. 8 . Gethsemane .

The hoy’s Own(Paper.

A BOY ’

S TOUR IN EGYPT, THE DESERT,AND PALESTINE.

PART iv.

i‘h} camp among the ruins o f Old Jericho,and next morning start early f or Jeru~

salem . Not f ar f rom Jericho is the Fountaino f Elisha,

”where he threw the salt into the

brackish water to sweeten it. Riding on, the

sky became overcast, and as we ascended to

Bethany the rain came down in sheets.

On reaching the summit o f the Mount o f

Olives a perf ecthurricane of wind and sleet met

uS, entirely obscuring the view o f the HolyC ity. Passing the supposed site of Gethsemane

,

we enter by St. Stephen’s Gate and hasten

through the narrow stony Streets to the hotel .From the flat roof we had a strange View the

f ollowingmorning. It was the middle of March .

The Mount of Olives, and even the distantMoabite hills, were coveredwith snow .

The first place of interest we visit is the

C hurch_o f the Holy Sepulchre . On the way

we pass a row o f thirty or f orty beggars,squatting by the roadside

,all piteously crying

f or “ backsheesh .

”Our dragoman pointed to

one o f the most miserable - looking, assuring us

that he was a money- lender and verywell o ff .

I will not describe the church, but maymen

tion a f ew of the curious things that the monks

told us.

The exact spot was shown where C hrist wascrucified and buried, although it is known thatthe crucifixion took place outside the walls o fthe

f

city, and the church is near the centre . A

monk took us round, and our drac oni an trans

lated what he said. One place struck me as

beingparticularly interesting. I t was where the

skull o f Adam was f ound,immediately beneath

the cross We tried to look solemn, and askedour guide how it was recognised as the skull o f

Adam. H is grave answer,“ B ecause it was

made of terra- cotta,”did n ot help to increase

our respect f or other r elics, or ,the monks who

go out to convert theArabs to such C hristianity.

A brass plate was shown as marking the centreof the earth—. of course , presumingthe world to

be flat. I t is difficult to think that such fine,intellectual - lookingmen as some of these’

monks

are real lybelieve all this nonsense.

-The'

church was very full of poor Russian

pil grims, who appeared to be most devout, manyof them beingin tears.

There is not space to relate all we saw or did

in Jerusalem . One daywe visited the quarriesbeneath the city. Theywere discovered byDr .

Barclay, of America, as he was ‘

wandering one

day with his little dog. The animal began

scratching at the wall,and soon disappearedinto a hole . This excited his curiosity, and

a fter dark he went with his two sons to the

place. Having pulled away a f ew stones and

crept in, they f ound themselves in very extensive excavations. These are, without doubt, thequarries f rom whence Solomon obtained stones

f or building the Temple. Here theywere prepared, so that no sound of the hammer or chiselwas heard in the erection. Some immense blocksare lef t, hal f finished, with the masons’

marks

as plainlyupon them as though theywere made

yesterday.

We visited the f amous Mo'

sque of Omar, builtupon the site of the ancient Temple . Some

years ago, when my f ather was in Jer usalem,

Dr. Barclaygavehim a plan of the Temple area,and marked a certain spot where was a smallhole in the grass, which he advised him to

find, as it led to beauti ful subterranean lakesknown only to a f ew. The consul was askedabout it, but assured my f ather that he hadlived in Jerusalem f or twenty years, and therewas no such place.

'

He determined, however ,to see f or himsel f so , waiting until the consuland the rest of the partyhad ascended some stepsto obtain a better view

,my f ather and one f riend

rushed across the open space and began searching f or the hole . The consul

, seeing them run

n ing, was in a great rage, and instantlyorderedthe soldiers to bring them back. As Turks haveseveral f eet of superfluous material hangingbe

tween their legs, running very f ast is out o f thequestion,and be fore they could seize the run

aways the hole was f ound and they disappeared.

It was about ten f eet deep, and. looking up,they could see their pursuers, puffing and blow

ing, but f earing to f ollow. Lighting candles,they groped. their way f or some distance, til l

they f ound themselves at the top o f a good

staircase cut in the sol id rock. Below was a

beautif ul and extensive lake, as clear as crystal .Having made a sketch, theyreturned, to find

consul, f riends, andguards gazinginto the hole .

At length all descended and saw f or themselves.

This accounts f or there being no scarcity o f

water during the“

siege of Jerusalem . We were

greatly disappointed to find that the hole had

recently been filled up by order o f the governor,as some

'

Turkish soldiers had hidden there till

dark and then made their escape .

At thehotel wewere metbyhal f a dozenm en,

whose business it was to tattoo travellers. One

o f them produced a. testimonial to show'

that he

had punctured the arm of the Prince of \Vales.

We agreed to try his skill the f ollowing evening. As he had to come f rom Bethany, itwas

late at night when he'

was Shown into our bed

room.

"We drew lots who should be done first.

The implements o f torture consisted o f a sort

of penholder, with three or f our needles f astenedto the end. Having shaved my arm, and

stamped the impression o f what I wanted donef rom a wooden block, the tattoo - surgeon, pro

ceeded to prick it in with “

what resembled blueink. The operation lasted about half an hour ,and as he went over some places f our or five

times it became rather difficult to look as per

f ectlyunconcerned as one would like.

The f ollowing daywe went over the Mount o f

Olives to Bethany. How of ten C hristmust haveused this very road It is interesting to knowthat

,however much sites and buildings are.

mutilated or invented, the hills around the

Hol y C ity remain just the same .

At Bethany we were shown the tomb of

Laz arus, and while making a sketch a crowdo f Arabs began snow ball ing us—o f course,

obligingus to return the compliment, whichwedid most heartily.

From the summit of the Mount of Olives a

grand view of the Dead Sea and the Mountains

o f Moab bursts upon us, and on the other handJerusalem,

“ beautif ul f or situation,

”with the

hills rising on every side ; and one could not

help thinking o f the tim e when C hrist, l ooking

f rom this spot, mourned over the city, and a

l ittle later when H is prophecywas f ulfilled andthe Roman legions encompassed it round.

Passing down the hill we visit the traditionalGarden o f Gethsemane

,and read the account o f

the betrayal beneath an old cedar. A l ittlef arther along we come to the Pool of Sil oam

,

with Arabs bathing in it. C lose by a.tree was

po inted out as the one beneath which Isaiahwas sawn asunder.

WValking‘

along the Valley o f Hinnom we re

enter by the Jaf f a Gate, near to the Tower o fDavid, one o f the o ldest portions of the holycity.

Leaving Jerusalemw ith f eelings o f regret, andyet o f thankfulness that we had been pr ivilegedto spend a week in a city o f such great interest,we travel northward, over very rough and rockyground, known in these parts as a road. Not

far f rom the Jafl'

a Gate is a leper hospital ,which we visited. I t was indeed a horriblesight to see these poor men dying by inches,manyWithout arms, legs, or noses. The keeper,a German, said their lives could be prolonged,but he did not know o f any having been cured.

c hurry onwards, as this eveningwe hopeto oilcamp at the “ l lobbers

’ Fountain.

"

The

ho rses go capitally ; no matter how rough the

road is, they are always ready f o r a gallop. “'

c

pass w ithin sight o f Bethe l , and towards evening reach the narro w go rge . where our tents are

pitched. The‘

next morning was cloudy. U p

to the present time we have been most f ortunateas regards weather . The tents being struck,we mount and journ ey on towards Nahlous.

C an we really be riding through Palestine , overthe very ground C hrist walked upon ? Y es, it

“

is so . The Holy Land is o f little interest without the Bible as a guide

- book.

Our dragoman po inted out Miz pah, whereSamuel l ived, beauti f ully situated on the summit o f a hill.

About noon we reach the ruins o f ancientShiloh. Tying the horses to a tree

,we lunch

beneath an old gatewaywith curi ous carvings onthe lintel . Havingmade ahasty sketch, we rideon through the beautiful and f ertile district ofSamaria, and reach Jacob’

sWell about 4 p .m .

Springing f rom our horses,we gathered round a.

hole in the ground, and have soon scrambleddown and f ound ourselves in a small chamber,partiallyfilled with large stones. We removedsome o f these, and discovered the mouth o f theancient well. The Arabs had laid stones over itto keep the dirt out. I t is stil l deep, and thewater very good. Here we sat and read thatinteresting account o f C hrist and the woman ofSamaria. What a privilege to read it on thespot There bef ore us was the well

,with the

marks in the stone made by the ropes. Andhere it was that the Maker o f . the Universe sat,and was f ootsore and weary. C lose byis thetraditional tomb o f Joseph. Searching about

,I

f ound one o f the curious ancient lamps commonly used in the time o f our Lord. Ridingon

,we pass the decaying remains o f a dozen or

more camels, and encamp in the valley betweenEbal and Gerizim ,

not far f rom Nahlous.

The f ollowing daywas Sunday. In themornv

ing we heard the m issionary, Mr . El Karey,preach, and then went to the summit o f Mount

Geriz im and read the account o f the blessingsand cursings. We were sorry not to be able to

see the ancient copy o f the Pentateuch whi chthe Samaritans have . There had been a great

row amongst them, though only about 1 7 0 in

number, and even the tempting o ff er of back

sheesh had no eff ect.

To - night we intend to encamp at Jenin, sostart - early.

The country is most f ertile—much more so

than near Jerusalem. Thousands o f storks circle

overhead. As evening set in the jackals came

out o f their holes and began crying, f or the noise

theymake resembles children or women wail ingmore than anything else.

We continue our journey across the great

plain o f Esdraelon, passingMount Gilboa, where

Saul was slain,and reach Gideon

’

s Fountainabout 1 1 a m . This is where Gideon

’

s m en

lapped the water . I t is a beautiful spot, and,havingmade a sketch, we enjoyed a good swim.Hal f an hour's ride brought us to Jezreel . A

single tower is almost all that remains o f theancient city. We gallop on to Shunem, and

there lunch. The natives crowded around us

as usual,clamouring f or Some

were entirely naked, and f ew with more than ;

one garment. Many o f the women were tate

tooed on the hands and neck.

Passing Nain and Endor, with just time tomake a hurried sketch, we gallop as fast as the

horses can go across this gr eat battle - field o f the

ancient world, and reach our encampment at the'

f oot o f Tabor"

as the sun is disa pearing overthe wooded heights o f C armel . e coul d justcatch a glimpse o f Nazareth nestling up amongthe mountains.

Tabor f rom this point is barren, but on ridingro und to the north we find it thicklyw ooded,f or this side is sheltered f rom the sun . lve passthrough exquisitely beauti ful glades , the

branches meeting above us,and the ground car

poted with innumerable flowers, the most con

spicuous being the various coloured anemones.

Tying our ho rses to the trees, w e ascended to

the summ it. From this spot the View iswonderf ul . Below is the great plain stretching f ar

awayin the distance. There is Jezreel, Endor ,Shunem , C armel , to the

‘

west ; and northward

we just catch a glimpse o f the Lake o f Galilee,with the snowypeaks of Hermon risinggrandlyin the distance. Here it is said the Transfiguration tookplace, but it is improbable, as there

are ruins o f buildings, probably used in the

time o f our Lord. Here are two convents, bothclaiming tob e built on the rexact spot.

We descendwith reluctance, and continue ourjourney until the blue waters of the Lake o f

Galilee come in sight . The road lies through

the onlytown nowleft o f themany that studdedthe

'

shores'

of thisbeautiful”

lake in the time ofC hrist. Tiberias, as we now see it, is filthy,the horses goingup to their knees into reekingmud.

’

The tents are pitched just outside the

old Roman f ortifications, ,now in ruins.

The next morning we _

walk into the water

and enjoy a swim bef ore breakfast, and thenhire the only boat now on the lake

‘

and row .to

Tel Hum,the most probable site of C apernaum.

Lying amongthe weeds and thistles are f ragments of grand columns and carved cornices.

Whilst making a sketch . a slight shower came

on, so we took refuge in some low huts, but in

stantly rushed out covered with fleas. The

walls were red with them.-As these places are

now uninhabited they must h ave - been vege

tarians, and evidentlyglad o f a change of diet.

We were so cover-cd with them that the . onlythingto be done ’

was to undress and shake ourclothes out over the water, but it was some time

bef ore we saw or f elt the last o f these moderninhabitants of _ C apernaumWe next rowed to , ,

Bethsaida, and lunched.

_

Filling our pockets with“the beautiful shells

which “

. cover_

the beach, _

and having inede a

sketch o f the f ew ruins now remaining, werowedback to Tiberias, passing Magdale n

-

lOpposite

is the'

supposed spot where C hrist healed thetwo men possessed with devils, and where the

swine ran into the sea"

.

Next'

dayw e

'

explore some z o f the caves behind . our tents. These were . once:)the strongholds of robbers, and as they are in ,

the side o f

a cli ff , Were very. difficult Herod ex

terminated them by letting down Soldiers. in

baskets.Q

Again we travel on, and reach Nazarethabout 3 p m. I t is beautifully situated, moun

The 8 037’sOwnTaper.

tains rising on every side. And here it was

that our Saviour spent thirtyyears o f H is l if e asa carpenter. The people are almost all C hris

tians o f the'

Greek or Romish C hurch. Wevisited the church on the spot where the angel

appeared to Mary, and close by a rough rock is

shown'

on which they say C hrist and H is dis

ciples dined. Another church is built over theplace where the carpenter

’

s shop was situated,

and beneath the altar is'

the exact spot where

the bench stood 3I sketched the place where. most probably the

people

took our Lord to cast Him down head

on

Fgrom the summit o f the hill above Nazareth

is one o f . the finest views to be seen anywhere

in Palestine . Just below is.

the plain o f Esdrae

:lon , with C armel and _

the sea in“

the distance,

and on"

the other hand”

mountains and valleysstretching away as f ar as

_eye can see. Wevisited the English school, and the ladyprin

cipal told us .that they, never f elt, saf e . At

the battle o f Plevna, f or instance, the-Moham

medans in the neighbouring villages had ar

ranged to massacre all the men and childrenand carry o f f the women,_

-I t was'

only the de

f eat o f the .Turki-sh-

arniythat .prevented theirdoing so .

The next day a long ride broughtus to C aifa,'

and our road lying along the .great plain to thef oot of C armel, in a f ewhours

l

we_r

_each theRiver ,

I -was surprised to find how small it'Kishon.

was, most o f our horses clearing it at a bound,

though o ne or two_

-

s‘

back with their.riders into the muddystream . The beauti fulC armel r

r ange. extends about f ourteenmiles. I t

is so thicklywooded that“

;in ,some places it is

necessary to dismount and lead the -horses.

On‘

reaching the summit :the Mediterraneanstretches

,. away bef ore

'

us. IVe descend . and

gallop over the hard sand, reaching our tfentsabout 7 p .m .

,havingbeen twelve hours on the

road.

' f

At C aifa there is a'

tlarge colony o f_Germans,

and everything looks better than in mostEastern towns. .As .

_there is nothing of muchinterestwewill hasten on to Beyrout.

_Travelling

all day alongthe'

seacoast, the hard sand af fords

capital ground f or galloping.

(To .be continued. )

THE TIGERSK IN : A . STORY or C ENTRAL INDIA.

BY “ Lours Roussn‘

Ln'

r,

A uthor of The Two .C abin: Boys,"

The DrummerBoy, etc. , etc.

charr nn xxx.—THE

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vALLnY_or DEATH .

O'

W that the vote“

o f the T igerslayershad m ade Everest’

s decision i r’

revo

cable ,“

H olbeck was in tortures o f anx iety.H ad he not been blind in urging him down

a path"which m ight, it is true , end in‘

happiness and health, but which. w as ju stas likely

'to have '

a f atal term ination But

hé f elt that i t was impossible to r etreat,and so he did not attempt to dissuade th

young m an f rom h is enterprise !My dear Holbeck,” did Everest reply

to him“

,

“

r est assur ed that in the decisiveaction I am about to take Tw ill do all thatI can to w in .

" I n any case;my chance is a

good one,‘

and I risk little . I f I die,I find

’

what I long have sought ; if I live , myhappiness is assured - f or l if e “

.

'Whicheverhappens, I _

shall come out victor in the:

en

l

t

f

erprise I have undertaken»against myse 4

“

Take ‘car e'

that it does“

end in joy'

andhappiness f or your sel f a nd all that loveyou ,

”said Ho lbeck . I love you , f or my

part, as i f you w ere my son ,

‘

and‘ I shall

never cease to regret it if m isf ortune happens to you .

”

“ I know_

it; my dear f riend, said the

young m an ,g af f ectionately, clasping the

doctor’s hand and believe m e that my

heart reciprocates all the aff ection that,

yours f eels f or m ine . And riOW'

I have an

ready

idea which w ill p erhaps cause a littleannoyance to our f riend Goulab Sing. I n

place o f giving him the tigerskin ,I shall

have a rugm ade o f it and lay it at the f eet,

o f my betrothed—that is, i f M iss Shaugh

nessy allows m e to conf er that title on the :

girl I saved.

”

“ And your commission in the Indi anArmy P.

”

“ Lord Everest w ill a rrange that, an

swered Everest, w ith a laugh.

“ There

w ill then be no necessity to continue hispoor relation .

”

A f ter this the doctor was somewhat re

assured, and assisted more calmly in the

preparations that the young man was

m aking f or his expedition .

Barbarou, who knew nothing o f the

secret interviews of his two companions,w as radiant w ith joy. To him nothingcould bemore natural than that the sportsmen should have

‘

chosen as their championthe young f riend

’

whom he considered a.

m odel o f heroism .

With the z eal which he alwaysdisplayed,he superintended the preparations f or theattack. H e it w as who w ent to r eport to

the colonel , who e xamined the shikaris,and who cleaned and got ready the guns.

Thanks to his energy, heWas able , whenthey sat down

‘

t'

o r breakf ast next m orning;to announce tha

=

all the prelimi nari es werearranged.

" “ A t last I he exclaimed. The f amous'

King-

‘

o f -

‘

the4Tigers Will'

find out who he

hasgot to talk to ! The '

I

Maharajah may

get opt his rupees. The tigerskin is:

NQty-just yet, said Everest, sm il ing.

I t ;is just the same =thing,

”said the

san -

guine _

'

M arseillais. _

“. I tell you the

tiger is ours. B esides, ‘ -'

you know I owe

you one f or the daywhen you shot one .o f

the brutes in. the back ; and I w arn you

that if at the first '

shot you don’t bowl

Over '

this ‘

phenomenal tiger , I ’

ll make it:

my business to "

cut in"

; bang ! I run

ofiT-w iththe tigerskin I“ My dear Barbarou , ,

_

said the young"

man,I r egret to upsetyour plans, but I

have m ade up mym ind to try this adven. ture alone .

”

Impossible ! ”exclaimed Barbarou

And am I '

to do

Again I ~ regr et=-

'to J=1fef use you , an

swered '

Everest, firm ly ; “ but I w ill take :

Latchm an“

w ith jm‘e as he

’

v‘

olunteered to .

carry the guns.

‘ The:“

club‘

has entrusted.

m e w ith the missionJof

‘

attacking alone ,

and the first, our comm on enemy,'

and I

share the honour'

w ith nobody.

”

Excuse me f or having insisted, said}

Down the Ravme

The Iioy’e Own

(Paper .

He advanced stra ight on to Eve rest .

b ut really I f eel that, in such circumstances, I must be qu ite f ree in mymovem ents. General Butnot said to me yesterday, Take a leaf out o f my experiencego alone . When you are engaged w ithsuch a f orm idable enemy never have anybody to think about but yourself . ’

I f Butnot told you that,”replied Bar

barou ,regretf ully,

I bow to his long ex

p er ience . I shou ld not w ish to be a check

o n you , and possibly bringyou to grie f . ”

How ever,at the close o f this conversa

tion Barbarou took Holbeck aside , and

they had a long and mysteri ous interVl eW.

From the day that the King- o i—the

Tigers had so unexpectedly appeared at

the picnic in the Palace o f Pearls the royal

shikaris had not lost trace o f him f or a

m oment. Theyknew f or certain that them onster had reti red to an alm ost inaccessible gorge in the immediate neighbourhood

Latchman , who was a shikar i o f greatexperience and ability, w ent himself to

survey the gr ound. On his return he told

Everest that it seemed impossible f or himto de vise a hiding-

place anywhere near

the tiger ’

s haunt, and, on the other hand .

such was the terror the animal had inspiredamongst the natives that even the bravesto f them re f used to act as heaters. There

w as thus onlyone w ay le f t, and that a most

dangerous one . I t w as to ente r the tiger ’

s

r etreat in bro ad daylight and endeavourto hunt out the m onster , who was sure to

be in hiding am ongst the rocks.

That w ill do ,

”was Everest

’

s answer to

the khitmatgar .

“ I w ill go to - morrow

w ith you , and you must bring me f ace tof ace w ith the f ellow .

”

“ I w il l do my best, said Latchman ,

but I cannot guarantee that I shall not

be f rightened if the tiger appears sud

denly.

What does the Marseillais want w iththat heavygun I’ I t w ould do much betterf or elephants than birds.

”

A f ter a gallop o f a couple o f hours

When you have handed me the gun

that you w ill have w ith you , you can run

as f ast as your legs can carry you ,

”said

Everest, w ith a smile .

That evening the young lord did no‘

visit the club . Once he w as lef t alone , he

sat in deep thought f or a f ew m inutes, andthen having called his f aithf ul John , h.

~

gave him m inute instructions as to what

he should do in case he should be killed on

the morrow . H e rap idly w rote down his

last w ishes on a paper that he handed to

his devoted servant, and as the latter could

not help letting f all a f ew tears at the

sight o f these mournf ul preparations, theyoung lord said to him , w ith a laugh,

“ D on’t cry, John . I hope in place o f

black'

gloves and crape you wil l have toornament your button

- hole w ith a whitef avour .

”

“ M ay Heaven grant it so said theser vant.

_

In the morning, at the first streaks o f

dawn ,Latchman awoke Everest as he lay

f ast“

asleep .

The youngman sprang out o f bed, put

on his grey su it, examined his cartridges,and put them in order .

H e took w ith him hi s excell ent double

barrel and his heavy r ifle , his principalarm o f def ence,

"

which Latchman w as to

hand him at the last mom ent.

All these preparations took place in

deep silence .

“ Latchman waited at the

door o f the tent w ith two horses, and

Everest was just leavingwhen HolbeckandBarbarou suddenly appea red.

“ What ! said the doctor , reproach

f ully, were you going o ff in that wayw ithout saying good- bye

“ I did not like to w ake you up use

lessly,”

answered the young man , w ithsome embarrassment.

In reality he w ished to ~ avoid any scene

at his departure;Hunters’

superstition ! ”said Bar

barou . Y ou w ere af raid o f hearing our

cautions and entreaties. For my pa rt, Ihave noticed that whenever they havewished me good sport I have invariablyreturned w ith an empty bag.

”

I am . not superstitious, r epliedEverest, laughing.

“ I expect to com e

back to - ni ght w ith a bag f ull .

”

Having w armly shaken hands w ith histwo f r iends, he ‘

jumped into _

the saddle

and, f oll owed by Latchm an , soon dis

appeared among the trees in the avenu e .

Let him get on a little ,”sai d Holbeck

to Barbarou ,and they entered the tent.

But an h our a f terw ards the doctor was

up on his peacef ul mule , and o ff at a

gentle trot in company w ith the Marseil

lais.

As they reached the gate o f the Armond

jan park they m et the colonel out f or his

morning stroll .“ Off so early !

”he exclaimed to the

doctor .

I have heard o f a magn ificent ant- hilla f ew miles away f rom here ,

”answered

Holbeck , “and I am go ing to explore it

to - day, while Barbarou does a little bird-3

shooting.

”

And your f riend M r . Everest ? ”asked

the colonel .“ H e went away an hour ago .

Ah 1 said the o fficer , simply ; and hesaluted the horsemen . But as he lookeda f

ter them as they rode o ff he said to him

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E verest and Latchman rode up to the

shikaris, who w ere waiting f o1 them at the

e ntrance to the f orest. They alighted,and , leaving the ir horses 1n charge o f one

o f the m en ,f oll owed their guides into the

jungle .

For m or e than thr ee m iles they ad

vanced wi th great diflicu lty among the

r ocks and bushes, and then they f ound

themselves on the edge o f a kind o famphitheatre , girdled by a vast fissure inthe bill

’s flank . The clear - cut sides

o f the chasm rose bare and inaccessible ,and the n arrow space between w as coveredw ith huge detached blocks and a f ew

stu nted 1

That is where the King o f the Tigersr ests,

”said one o f the shikaris, po inting

w ith his hand towards the bottom o f the

ravine .

“ I saw him mysel f this verym orning walking along that path.

”

The gorge is very narrow , but it seems

r ather long,

”said Everest to the shikari .

C an you tell m e whereabouts the tiger 18.l ikely to be .

1

That aw f ul place,”said the native , is

the haunt o f m onster and demon , and hasn ever been trodden by the f oot o f man .

1

We call it the ! Valley o f Death. Look ,sahib , even the birds avoid flying across it.M y;heard i s white , and sin ce first I had a

'

tooth in my jaw I have l ived in the

j ungle;but never have I come to thi s spot

w ithout f e .ar L isten to m e , do not ber ash, _

n or brave the anger o f the divineSiva 1n pursu ing his son into this sacred

p lace .Wait till the tiger comes out, and

then you can slay him.

1

As he heard these w ords Latchman coul d

n ot repress a shudder

I f you are af raid, said Everest, “

you

c an go .

’

But I am resolved to descend ther avine . A

n

d addressing the shikar i,he

continu ed . I did not askyou f or advice .

Do your duty, and show m e the w ay thatleads to the tiger .

1

I obey,” answered the native . Thew ay is bef ore

‘

you.

'

I t is'

downthis narrowvalley that the waters o f the heavens havecarved 1D. the flanks o f the hill . Y ou must

f ollow the w atercourse am ong the rocks.

When you are at the other end a w iderand easier r oad w ill lead you out, i f the

D eotas permit you to advance so f ar .

”

Without w aiting f or f urther gloomyw arnings f rom the old shikari , Everesttook his gun in his lef t hand, lettingh imsel f down by his right into the ravine .

When he had r eachedc

the bottom Latchm an f oll owed in the sam e manner ; but

when he was a yard o r two’

f rom the

ground he slipped and f ell at E verest’

s

f eet, while the gun he ca1 ri ed w ent downwith a crash am ong the stones. The youngl ord p icked up the

o

r ifle to see if it was in

jured, and it appeared all right.

Both men then r esumedo

their advancea long the rocky path. The sun shed itsfiery r ays down on to the ash- coloured

m asses, which, never cooled by the n ightbreeze , w ere now

‘

so hot that the nakedhand cenld not rest upon them .

A dazzling bluish vapour hung in thevalley, and the terl ible m alar ia tainted theair . Over all reigned the silence o f death,

only bi oken now and then by the noisyflighto f some bird beetle as it swept ac1 osson

! 3

its m etallic w ings.

Everest f ound his br eathing grow slowa nd laboured. Fo r an instant he f elt thathe must give in , and he retreated up ther o cks to escape the hurtf ul influence o f them al :tr1 iz1 .

“ '

l he old shikari , he said to himsel f ,was right. The place is accursec

The Boy’s Own d

Oaper

‘.

But he soon conquered his w eaknessand rejo ined Latchman , who , m ore accus

tomed to the poisonous atmosphere, seemedto su f f er but little f rom it.

the declivity which ended the gorge .

The King- o f—the r Tigers is not her e ,said Latchman . At this time o f the dayhe would never let us pass him w ithoutattacking us. The man - eater never likesto be disturbed.

Everest made no reply; he was greatlydisappointed to find that once again the

w ary animal had defied pursu it.At this m oment a shadow swept along

the bottom o f the ravine , and the younglord, looking up , thought he saw a human

f orm among the trees that capped the cresto f the precipice .

One o f the shikaris w atchingus, saidLatchman , whom the. incident had not es

cap ed.

“ Perhaps they w ish to tell us

something.

“ No , answ ered Everest. Don’t an

sw er ; the no ise w ill w ake the tiger , and,as you say, scare him aw a

- 1

They had reached the endo f the chasm .

The w alls ran down to the level w ith a

sudden"

slope , and among t he , scatteredr ock masses at the f oot r ose a f ew bigtrees.

“ I f the tiger is not over there ”whis

pered Latchman , p o inting to the clump ,

h

w e m ay give up all' thoughts o f m eeting1m .

’

The w ords w er e scarcely outo f the khitm atgar

’

s m outh bef ore Everest u ttered an

exclamation o f sur pr ise . There , abouttwenty paces in f ront o f him , a colossal

tiger w as orouchmg am ongst the rocks .D

I t w as, in truth, the long- sought f or

K ing- of the - Tigers him sel f .

The m onster seemed to be w aiting f orhis f oes. Stretched across the narrow

w ay that led out o f the gorge , he cut o ffall possibility o f flight.

Everest’

s surpriset>

lasted butf or a second.

H e w as again m aster o f himself , and,

planting himself firmly on his f eet, he

grasp ed his gun . B ut the position in

which the tiger lay prevented his aim ingat the vulnerable po int near the shoulder .

Growling' like an angry cat, the m onster

never moved. I t was a splendid sight tosee him there coo llyw atchi11g, ,

and superblyconfident in his strength. H is long tail ,r inged w ith black and gold,

in r egular

cadence slow ly and silently beat againsthi s z ebr ed flanks as i f he scorned these

m en who had been r ash enough to enter

his dom ain o f this Valley o f Death.

But the deed must be done . Everestquickly brought his r ifle to the shoulder ;the tiger as suddenly rose to his f eet.

There was a flash, and then the report.

With a f ear f ul roar , which re - echoetl

along the ravine , the m onster , struck f ullin the chest, 1 olled on to the ground. Foran instant his paw s beat the air , andhisw ide opening m outh appeared to be r end

ing som e i nvisible f oe .

Wah ! 11 ah !”

exclaimed Latchman ;the Bagh Rajah 15 dead

Everest , excited by this remark,and

also by the sight o f the tiger in , , as he

thought, his death struggle , made a stepf orward and let flyhis second barrel . But

in the excitem ent o f his triumph he aimed

too high, and the bullet struck a rock j ustabove t his mark , as he could see by the

splinters that showered o ff .

This f resh attack seemed to recall the

tiger to lif e . I n spite o f his w ound , he

rose and f aced hi s enem ies. And m ore

than that, he changed his tactics, andw ithanother grow l , and his mouth w ide open ,

he advanced straight on to Everest.The young lord had thr own aw ay his

gun , and snatched his heavy r ifle f rom the

hands o f Latchman , who as soon as he

had got rid o f it ran o ff as f ast as his legs

could carry him .

Everest turned on to the tiger , who w as

not twenty paces o f f,and continued to

advance .

The young m an shouldered his gun , and

w ithout hurry and w ith adm irable cool

ness aim ed at the tiger ’

s chest so that the

second bullet w oul d enter the w ound m ade

by the first.This tim e he must conquer or die .

Everest pressed the trigger . With a

sharp click the hammer f ell , but there wasno report.

Fever ishly the young m an snapped

back the hammer . A rapid glance show edhim that the pin o f the cartridge had beentwisted, probably when Latchm an had

dropped the gun .

Everest was disarmed. The r ifle w as

but a u seless burden . Eorgetting in his

despair ,that a f ew days be f ore he had

dr iven back the same adversary w ith a

mere boxwood croquet mallet, he threw

the gun angrily away among the bushes.

Then crossing his arms, he w aited - f or

death.

The tiger advanced w ithm easured steps,cautiously, as i f f earing som e surp rise .

H is flaming eyes w ere fixed on those o f

the"

young m an . I t seemed as though the

m onster recogn ised him and grinned w ith30VThen ,

f ascinated by this appalling look,

Everest f ancied that death itself was be f orehim . I t w as no longer a tiger that w as

approaching, but one o f those f antasticbeings that the pencil o f Holbein or C allot

has l eveal ed.

The m onster rose , and his hideousthr oat, vom iting f orth flames, cr ied out,

Welcom e, noble and puissant LordEverest. I have w aited f or you long, but

now I answer to your call . Here am Iready to tear your body to p ieces, and tof ree your soul f rom the pr ison you thinkso

,

cruel . Now you can be happy, if death

al one can satisf y you . Your ingratitudecan m eet its r eward. God gave you yourhealth and strength. H e made you noble .

H e heaped on you gif ts that other m en

desire—f ortune , honour s, titles. All these

w ere n ot enough f or your pride .

An d a prey to this f rightf ul illusion ,it

seemed as though a white girli sh figul e

rose between him and the monster , and

stretchingout its arm s, imp lored hi ni in a

suppliant voice ,M e1 cy f or him M ercy f or his ingrati

tude , f or his blindness ! f or he haso

been

alone am ongst men and his heart has

never kn own a m other 8 love nor a f ather’

s

sympathy.

’

But the insatiable monster answered,No pit) r f or him . H is heart is un

changed. H e must die .

Suddenly Everest f elt the brute ’

8 eyesflam ing into his. H e gave one long

p iercing shr iek o f despair , and w ith In s

bosom torn by the. m ighty claw s o f the

King- o f the Tigers he f ell lif eless amongthe rocks o f the Valley o f Death.

(To be concluded.)

HOMES'

OH MANY LANDS.

PART IV.

EARLY ' all the devices hitherto mentionedhave been employed by the,

explorer andthe colonist. There is, however, one f orm

.

of

dwelling, the simple log-hut;wh‘ich'

i s perhaps

.asc ommon‘

as any, and ispeculiar to no particular country. Four -

poles are-

'

driven - inato the

ground one at each corner o f the intendedroom ,

and against these logs are piled one over theo ther, having their corners

1 deeply notched so

that'those -ou the adjoining sides overlapgat the

angle. When'

the walls are completed tl1e'

do‘

Ors

andw indows are chopped out, the roo f is'

put

o n, and we have the ’

up- countryhut

-Of the Aus

t ralian Or'

the . shanty o f the American back

woodsma-

nf In .. Russia and Northern Europe

this log order of architecture is by no means

to provide against . the .

‘

greater

snowfall, the roofs are made with a'

higher

pitel11 ' 1- 1

1

It is curious to note how the roof -mpe diff ersi ndiff erent conntnes. In

_

the dry“

C limates o f

the East,the roofs are flat in the rainyclimates

o f C entral EurOpe the roofs are sloped, but arefitted with gutters to carry o ff the.water

"

; .whilei n

'

the more northerly lands'

cessitatesj'

a‘

still higher“

pitch, "

anda n absence'

Oi gutters so that the snow“

may rglide'

o f f

and its; accumulatingw eight no t break intheraf ters.

1

The Swiss chalets, with their ‘projectihg roo fs

and hanging galleries, aff ord another strikinginstance. of how houses are modified. to suitc on

d itions. How di fficult it is.

to . harmonise themwith their surroundingswhen'

theyare built o f

rf oreigri material‘s f ro‘

m‘

ad esign’obtained

,f rom

some ancient or f oreign source li Howwell thesold Englishhouse '

s shown in our. group seem to

.rise f rom the‘

old- fashioned. street ! There‘

is

r eally no such.thingas a fixed order§o£architec

ture.

1The true =a11

chitecturel

.o f'

every age and

c ountryhas‘

to adapt itself to,special “

cases, and

depends f or its'

elevations on the materialsprovided

‘

fOr its use.

'

E'ven ROhinson '

C rusoe

showed . th-e true Spirit of . the ideal architectwhen hemade ‘

his palisaded cave to suit all hisrequirements.

The'

bate necessities“

Of'

man ‘ in the'

way-

o‘

i

fga'

Ve .us the'

bot'

hy o f

_

boughs and the co'

nical ' '

hut interlaced with

osiers'

and .,twigs covered 1with1bark and daubed

with mud, which we have ;f ound stil l in '

existonce -among the savage races .or drove him -

'

to

the caves, which, he afterwards enlarged and1

ornamented, ‘ 1shch as we Vaub

'

lin

valleyinTonraine andin other parts of Europe,and in such huge examples as . those not

'

the hillc ities of Mexico and C entral

,America.

“

Oncem en began to live in communities, a; di ff erenced isplayed itsel f in their hem-es. Those

'

o f z their

leaders became larger andmore'

ornamental than

the rest ; and when the first,

edifice arose f or

sacred purposes it was naturally- built so as to

be a. step in advance o f tthe'

d'

welling. of thechief . From the .straight,

1

'

up11 ight .trunks that

held the chief tain ’

s roof wegot the stone column ,

f rom the plants that twined“

round them we gotthe decoration, Frem,

thesaplings that stretchedf rom trunkto trunk at the got the architrave f rom the swelling

'

o f thereof: at the bottom we got

'

the plinth. The lower_ends

'

of thebranches

, cut’

JOff where to grow;gave us . the capital“

,and the flat stone. placed

at the top to _keep the rain f rom finding itsway

-down the ~ centre o f the trunk gave us theabacus. The s tays and bonds of the pillar.tops gave us the astragal and the fillet,

“

andthe rough ornamentation .

filling up the spacesbetween the raf ter - ends gave us the cornice andthe - f rieze .

The straightest lines in architecture are thoseshown in the Greek temples, and they are so

because the Greekhad discovered the peculiarit ies of perspective. Just as the cricket- bat isunder at the pod than the shoulder to make itss ides lookparallel , so every horizontal and vertical line in a Greek temple was

~

slightly curvedi n order to make it look straight. The column

7I

_

1 '

l

The 8 031’

s

OURPH|ZEGOMPETITIONS.

(srxr rr SERIES. )

Music C ompetition.

T will be seen. by ref erence to page 63 o f the presentvo lume , that we o f f ered Prizes, o f Two Gu ineab‘

and One Gu inea respectively, f or the bestmusical set

ting, with O11

gan or p iano f orte accompaniment, o f anyo f the verses appearing in our last volume (Vo l .There were to be two sections or classes, the Juniorembracing all ages up to 1 8 , and the Senior all ages

f rom 18 to 24 . The highest p rize was, as in all our

competitions, to go to the class showing the greatest

merit.

Our Award is as f ollows

JUNIOR DIVISION.

FirstPr ize—Two Guineas.

(1) EDWARD C UTHRRRT NUNN (aged C ollege,Weston- super -Mare , Somerset.

Extra Prize—One Gu inea. and- a H alf .

(2) _

C OLIN MC ALPIN (aged 4 , Portland Terrace,Leicester

SENIOR DIVISION.

Second‘

Pr iz e—One Guinea .

ALBERT JAMES PERMAN (aged Pine House,Wincanton'

, Bath.

C ERTIEI C ATES.

Jumior

(4) C UTEBEET E.

’

OLARKE (aged 22, AlexandraGarde11s,

'

Saudgate Road, Folkestone .

TRAVERS ;ROOFE (agedVillas

,North Park,

1 C roydon.

’

1-1 - 1

(6) EDGAR RIC HARD HULLAND (aged 1 , VictoriaRoad, Tamworth, Stafiordshire .

Senior

(10) H .

'

MOLYNEUX Asq RTn (aged,

K inglake1 Street, Liverpool .(11) ARTHUR LESLIE SALMON (aged 1 12, Y ork

Road, Montpel lier, Bristol .

(12) C HARIJ'

ES JOHN FREEMAN (aged 233, Broekley.

Road, London, S .E.

(13) PERC Y PITT [send f ull address];(15) C LAUDE HARVEY ROBINSON (aged .7 , .C am

bridge Road, Ford, near Devonport.(19) ALFRED E. BULL (aged C anvéyi sland,South

Benfleet; Essex.(22) ERNEST ROBERT POY N’I ‘ER (ag

‘

ed

Woodside, Mitcheldean, G loucestersmr e ,hf The numbers in f r ont of the names sho wthe

order of merit, irresp ective of age .

1

shafts :swelled and inclined inwards, the pavements and platf orms rose in the centre, and the

eye, instead o f twistingthe straights into curves,twists the curves into straights. What the

domestic dwellings of the old Greeks were likewe have little means o f knowing. Beyond the

f act that the f ront door generally opened 011t

wards; so as to necessitate the propri etor givinga loud shout before he opened it f or f ear he

shoul d damage the .passei by, Fwe know com

pa1ativelynothing Of the house or its fittings,and the general grOund p- lan is still under

dispute .

The temples in everynation increased rapidlyin conveni ence and beauty, and so did the

dwellings Of the '

prosperous,'

but the hOmes o f

the'

poo ,r f or very obvious reasons, did not . In

Rome itsel f , f or instance, in the later days Of

the e mpire, the“

paiipei um tehe1nes”were

the mushi o'

om shaped hiits o f unbaked b1 icks,thatchedwith straw or reeds,thathad been used

before the. republic. Then, as n ow, . the1 e were

no houses built specially f oi the p’

Oo1 ; there

was agradual descent 110111 the ,highest tO the

lowest, and 111 themarch Of civilisation com I t

ma1 ched away f rom the needy and le ft them

with the dilapidated leavmgs o f those that'once

Occupied the same dwellings—but kept themin' I ep air .

Augustus 1s said tOhave f oundRome o f brickand lef t .it o f marbl

'

e‘

andGeorge W to havefO

’

und London o f b1 ick a nd lef t'

it o f compoa

‘

comparison ve1ymuch‘

to {thedisadvantage ofLondon until it is remembered that In each case

the bricks were not ._1 emoved The. Romans

f aced their bricks wi th thin slabs Of the local'

building stone tO_

delude visitors into the beliefthat the walls, were mai nble througliOut ; theLondoners, having no local stone, made a

cement ‘out Of the sand and lime that came

handiest, and covered thei1 bri'

cks with it inthin layers to lead thei1 visitors to suppose thatthe walls were stone throughout. It

"

Is f or this

reason that when Roman villas are unearthed

the wall s appear“

.

'

tOhave been SOrough, f or the

smoothOuter f acing stones have been'

used upf or other purposes, and the i nner plasteringhasf allen away, leaving but the tesselated floor toShowthe f ermer deemation . Jerrybuilders arenot entirelya productof thesemodern days, andthough Romanwalls as a rule are built of G ood

genuine brick, there are ve1ymany cases w ere

theyare composed o f the roughest . rubble. The

almost complete destruction thathas f allen uponthe dwelling-house of

'

the Roman gentleman in

fOr'

eign lands 18 , however, prinO'ipally. duetothef act that the wal ls were merelydwarf ones sup

porting a superstructureofOur task 1 8 ended As civilisation advancesthe improvement of the impi ovable

” mecessarilywidens the gap between the poet and ther ich

,and it is impossible to saywhich is the

representative home o f the 11ation —the hOvel,the cottage, or the palace In ancient Egypt,f or example, is the typical home .the mud hut

in which the poOr'

laboure1 1s eatinghismeal o fbeans 2 or is it the many.

- cOlumned{D

hall of the

Wealthy, with its dinner 6. la Russo, the guestsseated at separate round tables as in a m

b

odern

restaurant, and served f1 om the side table , onwhich! repose the roast goose, haunch _

o i kid,f ruit" and f anOy' bread, With the wine in readi

.nessbelow2 What i s the home Of the B1iton- o f today2. ls it the lo f ty mansion at SOuthKensington .

2 or the i Queen Anne anachronismOf tl

_

1"

e

°

West 2'

-

'

Oi' the .

‘bOw windowed six

roomer Of “

the subui bs, into which the land

lord i s said net to enter until the paper is pasted

on inside’

to prevent the bricks slipping about

in the mud made mortar , in which worms havebeen occa

‘

siOnally discovered by the too OuriOuSinhabitant 2 Or

“

18 it the one room in a flat“

in

Tattyboy’

s.Rents, in which the children are

healthy as long as they are l ittle enough to

creep along the flo or and '

b1 ea‘

the f 1 om beneath

the door the onlyf resh air that reaches the

f amily, and With whom sh ome is home, butnot

sweet home 2

.l‘

(7 ) ARTHUR C HARLES EDWARDS (aged Park RoadSouth, Petei borough .

(8) RAOUL DE DREux K UNZ (aged 19,Royal C ircus,Ed1nbu1 0 11 N .B.

(9) GEORGE JOHN L DRYSDALE (aged. K ingsweodHouse, Mui tly, Pe1 thsl1 ire .

(14) GRANVILLE ERNEST HUMPHREYS(aged C hurchLane, Pudsey, near Leeds.

(16) HARRY AUGUSTUS BUROHER(ag ed 32, George

Street, K 1dde1minster

(1 7 ) ALFRED HOPKINS ALLEN (aged West Street,NewbuIy, Berks

(18)GEORGE HARE (aged 28, Upper Grange Road,Bermondsey,

’

S.E.

(20)HERBERT _

GREEN (aged 8, Al andRa C ottages,Penge.

(21 )FRED PARKER(Aged 13 , Dannetts Street, King'

Rich-ard sRead, Leiceste1 .

I t will be seen f i om this that the Juniors havecarried of f the first p1 ize. Indeed, they have muchthe best of it. The first tri p in this division come veryclose together in point of merit, and hence we havegiven an extra priz e . There is but little f ault to find

and much to commend InNo . 1 , and No . 2errs only 111

having a sl ightly meagre accompaniment, and a mis

take in f orm,in the first pa1 t of the song. No 3 , or

"

the first prize in the Senior Division, has an ax‘

vk

wardly arrangedharmony No . 4 is a good song, the

harmony and f orm the introduction) being

almost correct ; but there isnot so much made o f the

Subject as in ”the first three And soWe might run on

through the entir e listif space permitted. A goodly

number of competitors f al l into the-mistake of Over

elaboration. Stil l, viewed as a whole , the competition

is a very creditable one , and we heartilycongratulate

tho‘

se wifOhave taken p art in it.

spoiihmi‘

e.

C U . R.—1 . I t would be impossible f or give a

series o f articles on p olitics without aggrieving some

one, and i f we were to treat the subject impartiallywe should aggrieve all par ties. For these , i f f or noother reasons—the BOY '

S OWN PAPER wi ll continueunpo litical . 2. Y ou would find it just as difficult tospell in the phonetic style . Pronunciation variesmuch

_more than you seem to think, and hence it is

that all pronouncing dictionaries are f ailures.

JOHN H . JONES—The fif th volume '

began with No 195.

T . C . G .

—0ne o f the easiest ways to clean oil -paintings ,

is to rub them over with a cut potato .

AN ORPHAN.—A pamphlet is obtainable f rom most

p ost- offices,which gives f ul l particul ars as to joining

the army. Y ou wil l get the latest standards f romthe recruiting department.

A TOU C H FLAG.—The mixture is “

shred indiarubberveryfine and steep' it in benzine . The indiarubber

must be virgin,not vulcanised, and the benzine must

be f ree f rom oil.

C E SAR—The indexes are always kept in print. Thereason you do not getthem is simply that your newsvendors do not take the trouble to order them.

WOOLWIOH iNFANT .- The American locomotives burn

;vood

l

instead o f coal, and hence the shape o f theunne

W. J. MURRAY .—There were articles “

on

.

Netting inthe second volume . We cannot repeat.

HARRIER.

—The articles on Athletic Training were inthe second volume . They began inNo . 7 4 . Get theJuly and August parts f or 1880.

MADEIRA —Y our sympathy is appreciated, but quiteundeserved, as no question o f the sort ever arose.

The Firework articles began in the January part f o r188 1 , the first o f them appearing in No . 152. I t isnow illegal to make such things without a l icence.

W. ROBER'rs.—Stick your comb on the strings between

the tail - piece and the bridge . I t “so f tens the air o f

the fiddle as well as the hair o f the head A muteis easilymade bymaking a deep saw- cut in a thin

piece o f wood, and then shap ing the wood so as tocl ip the br idge . Anything that prevents the bridgevibratingwill dull the sound.

OLD lion - To make good paste ,mix together flour andwater till you get the consistency o f cream, throw ina clove or two , and then bo il slow lyuntil the mixturethickens. Another way is to dissolve f our teaspooniuls o f alum in one gallon o f water, and when theso lution is co ld add flour till you get a thick cream.

Then add a teaspoonf ul o f pulverised resin andtwenty drops o f o il o f cl oves, and pour into two£1“ ?t

bo il ingwater and stir it till it is thoroughlycoo e

The 8 037’s Own

(Paper .

E. Banana—The C hristmas number was all distributed and out o f print be fore your letter waswritten , so that your request f or an answer there in

was rather behindhand. We have no intention o f

reprinting in this paper anystorythat has p revi ouslyappeared in it. For entertainments f or parti es see

a ll the Januaryparts.

SNAP.—The nearest school of engineering to you is the

C rystal Palace School atSydenham. Applyto super

intendent there f or prospectus.

S. H . WATTS.- I f , as you say, you have had the Bov's

OWN PAPER f rom the commencement, it is strangethat you have no recollection o f the eleven articles

on Bee - keepingwhich began in the May part in 1880.

11

}“

great many readers"

do know something aboutees.

WHITE STAR EX C HANGE—Y ou can get the Bor’

sOWNPAEER f rom any bookseller in anyEnglish

- speakingcountry. I n all the Australian cap itals there are

depfits, and in all the country towns there areagents.

T .W. SL—A turtle is a reptile . Does it look l ike a

fish ? Onlysuch people as imagine that all is fish

that swims in the sea would ever imagine such a

thing.

H . P. R and NA‘

VIS.—The Lif eboat Fund has been

closed f or years Please send your contributions, aso f ten and as heavy as you can, to theRoyal NationalLi f eboat Institution, or put them in the box at your

pier - head.

NIPPERSER—1 . Y our quotation f rom H ispaniseillustratesScriptoresvarii with regard to the Oviedodesciap tion given in our columns i s very welcome,but 1n your calculations you have f orgotten the f actthat the letters must be in a certain order to makewords. Y ou can arrange the letters in 45, 7 60ways .

you canmake sense in only the number o f ways weand the Hispanise, etc. , .says 2. I f you apply to Linco ln, o f Ho lborn ,

who advertises on our wrapper,

you will find that he has such a catalogue of stamps,and so have nea1 lyall the dealers.

SPANOLA.—There are so many books that you must

take your chance . The manuals o f book keeping inuse among the students f or the Institute Examinations o f the C hartered Accountants are Hamiltonand Ball

’

,s C rellin’

s, and Gordon’

s. Hami lton andBall

'

5 is publ ished by the C larendon Press, and Gordon

'

s by Wyman and Sons. They each cost two

shillings. C rellin’s i s a three and sixpenny book,

published byGeorge Bell and Sons.

BROWNE.w Biddle

'

5“ Mode l Y achting costsf our

shillings, and is p ubli shed byNon e andWil son, o f

the Minories. Veryf ew letters are l ost in the post,but heaps are put in our waste -paper basket. Theyare all read

,but it I S simply impossible to find room

f or answers. We could more thanfill the paper withthe se replies every week were we so inclined, and

your first letters doubtless shared the f ate of then

sands o i others.

P.—C ut your boat out o f p ine , yellow_

or white, and

get a block f rom the nearest timber yard Allow a

quarter o f an inch excess inmeasurement.

KOSSUTH ._ Whenever the colouredp lates stick , if you

warm them at the fire , or pass a hot iron over them,

they will easily unf o ld. I t is an accident o f thebinding, and happens in the best regulated vo lumes.

C OLONEL MORRISON.—Manyo f the subjectsmentioned

in our article on the Indian C ivi l Service are optional . The most recent inf ormation regardingwhatis absolutely necessary can be obtained f rom the

Seei etary, C ivi l Service C ommissi on, C annon Row,

S.W

MIDDY .—We

“

cannot answer questions in respect tothe financial position o f shipowners. Regardingthe

proper name o f the f ourth mast o f a ship ,w e sho uldverymuch like to know , as the names are so various

that there seems to be no fixed rule .

H . E . W. S .—The check boards Of a shutter are the

p ieces o f wood that hinge into the slide to preventthe shutter coming down accidentally.

J . R. FOOTE.—I t is not a good plan to buy a chest o f

tools. I t is f ar better to get the too ls separately.

There is no such thing as a comp lete set."

MODEL Y AC HT BU ILDER.- Hook the tack of the jib on

to the traveller, and hook the tack o f the f oresail onto a ring fixed at the stem -head.

R. S. S. D. Y ouare under the popular delusion thatevery letter addressed to a magazine must receivean answer . I t is simp ly impossible that it should ifthe magazine has anythingo f a circulation.

T . H. W.—'

Y ou cannot exp ect to silver large pieces o fglass w ithout proper apparatus. Small pieces are

silvered by floating them in mercury, coveringthat wit-h bright tinf oil , and putting them under

pressure.

C IVIL SERVANT —Get the “ C ivil Service C andidate,the weekly circular o f the C ivil Service Departmento f King

'

s C ollege , London, p rice one penny, and readdown the particulars o f the examinations yourself .

K ing 8 C ollege holds trial examinations thro ugh thepost f or the benefit o f those who w ish to know i fthey are at all l ike ly to pass. Y ou can learn the

f ees f rom the p rospectus, obtainable post f ree f romthe secretary.

S. EAST.—The salary o f C eylon cadets is three thou

sand rupees ; o f HongKong and Straits Settlementscadets twelve hundred ' r upees. There are about

f our appo intments per year . The ages are f romtw '

-enty- one to twenty f our . The exam inations are

in handwriting, orthography, ar ithmetic , composition,Latin,

and any three out o f Greek, French ,German ,Italian, pure mathematics, geography, his

tory, law , p o l itical economy, geology, civil engineering, and surveying

E. L . EVAA.—Papers on training were in the secondvo lume . We canno t repeat. Which game do you

menu ? Y ou must specify the k ind o f f oo tball youwant, and buy the rules f rom some athletic ware

house.

FISHMONGER and VERA—“ The C ruise o f the Snowbird was first publ ished in the BOY ’

S OWN PAPERin NM. 1 11 . I t now sells alone f or as much as thevolume that contained it and all the other stor ies

and inf ormati on. .Our vo lumes are, as you say,

“ quite marvels o f cheap literature,"

and each o f

their separate parts that has yet been published haswon a reputation of the highest class.

B. C .—The f ate o f the page boywho is getting f atter

than his master l-i kes is indeed unenviable . Unless

you turn over a new leaf yourmaster will get a f reshpage, and then what w ill you do ? Hard lines on

the page, and, as you hint, li ttle justification ! Eat

less bread and potatoes, and take more exercise, 0alphabetical buttons ! and as a page you are boundto remain.

DEVIEW.—The three fieurs- de - lys alone show the Bourbons.

~ The monarch you could identi fy by the

costumeand manner_

o f dressing the ha ir .

A C HAPPLE.- Get , up your f rames as f or a mahoganybuilt boat, and cover them with Wil lesden paper

instead o f mahogany. The best book on model

yachting is the first one that was publi shed, obtainable f rom Non e andWil son, of the Minories, pricef our shillings.

H . E. H .—For the “ hat trick you must get the three

men out in three successive balls.

WILLIAMSON—Any l-ad wishing to join the armycan obtain particulars how to act f rom the nearest

post- othee .

SC HOOLBOY .—I t may be true that the combinations

o f the thirty- two chess p ieces amount to

933 , 218,012,160,000,000, but as

to sayingwhat the figures stand f or according to the

extended numeration, we pref er leaving the question to our readers. The numeration terms beyondthe millions are practically useless, and hence there

is so much laxi ty in their use.

HIGHLAND C HIEF.—The only r eason f or doubting the

storyo f William Tell is that there is one exactly li keit in the old Norse f olklore.

P. ANDERSON.—Y ou can get a manual on watch and

clock making f rom Mr . Tripplin, 5, Bar tlett’

8 Bu ild

ings, Holbo1n Viaduct but your best plan woul d beto take a quiet stroll through C lerkenwell .J . P.

—There is a five shilling book on HardyPerennials andOld f ashioned Garden Flowers, ’ '

.byJWood,

published at 1 70, Strand, which might sui t you. As

to prices o f shrubs, consul t a nuxseryman s cata

logue, or the Exchange and Mart.

K . NINE.—Y ou ought to get a f air bl ack and tan

terrier f or a sovereign. A bul ldog woul d cost you

ten pounds, a co lley about five . Thr ee pounds is

quite enough to pay f or a boy’

s dog.

'

W. S . andW. L—1 See our articles on vio lin playingin the fif th volume 2. A gun is fir ed point blankwhen no al lowance is made f or trajectory. The

muzzle is then pointed direct at the object insteado f a little above it.J. NEAL .

—The ' London Scottish are in John Street,,Adelphi ; but a letter addressed Headquarters

'

London Scottish Volunteers"

would have been quitesufii cient. Y ou need no t bother about the numberin the street in the case o f a public body.

No . v1 ;

HAROLD,

THE BOY - EARL

A STORY OF OLD

ENGLAND .

PROFESSOR J. F. HODGETTS,

Late Examiner to the Universityof Moscow, Prof essorto the RussianImperial C ollege of Practical

Science, etc. , etc.

“

C HAPTER XX.

'—C ON C LUS ION.

is the season now called

Christmas, but which

at“

the time o f ; which we

w rite was called Yule , a f ter

the twelf th name o f Odin,

Y ulg or Yolk. Our f athers

received their Christianityaf ter their own f ashion , and

very Of ten in a way qu ite

opp

i

hs'

ed tothat

en j 'o ine d '

byl

R o ma

theref ore re

tained their own

indeed we retain

at the present

day7 in thenames .

o f the days o f

thewecir, in that

o f Easter, and o f

SATURDAY,

”

SEPTEMBER 27 , 18 8 4 .

“Whe n thou~

art knighted, 1 sha ll be kn ighted toe ."

Price One , Penny.

['ALL RIGHTS RESERVED . )

certain other f easts o f purely pagan or iginand strain . The tim e o f Yul e has come .

The Dom ina has seen the good seed cast

on good ground , br inging f orth a m ightycrop o f good o f all kinds, and

“

she is veryhappy. The af f ection w ith “

whi ch Haroldregarded her is a great solace , to her .

Next to his m other he lo ved the D om ina ,and she r egarded him as her own son .

Andwhat is very cur ious, this is the onlyinstance Of a Br itish m atron e ver havingbecome one o f an English f am ily. The

B r itons never ceased to regard the Saxonsas invaders and f oes, . whi le the EnglishSa-xons regarded them w ith undisguisedcontempt. Nor was this in the m ainchanged by the assumption o f Christian ityby the Engl ish. The Br itons never tr iedto Chr istian ise them , and theyw ere worse

than indi ff erent when they f ound that

their pagan f oes had thrown o ff paganism .

I tWas the last, indeed the only point on

which the Br itons could boast o f anysuper ior ity over the English, and now that

w as remo ved . Strangely enough, thisseemed rather to increase the hatred f eltby the Br itons f or their invaders and con

querors than otherwise .

Chr istmas w as pagan Yule - tide still atthe time o f which w e wr ite . The leg was

cast on the fire to perpetuate the memoryo fBaldur ’

s f uneral pyre . The half -

globul arcake o f flour , bee f , and sundry other in

gredients was made to represent the vaulto f heaven on the plane o f ear th. The

m istletoe was hallowed on account o f the

arrow w ith which Utgz'

t rd Loké shot

Baldur the Good , whose blood is still seenin the holly bush in the f orm o f little redberries. .Al l this mythological teachingw as un derstood then , and was kept upw ith such strictness that it has come downto u s, not as part o f paganism ,

but as a

portion o f the Chr istian ity o f our race .

From the Teutons some o f these observ

ances have crept into f oreign creeds or

rather divisions o f the Christian church,

and in Russia , as in Italy, Scandinavianpaganism is received into the church.

So our Christian earl and the LadyEdelgitha, who had been w ell prepared bythe sweet discourse o f the Dom ina f or ther eception o f Christianity, kept Chr istmas

in the old Scandinavian style , as w e do"

now , to some extent at least, and var iouscustoms w er e observed which the goodp riests cou ld not do away w ith. And the

w edding o f King Llewyd and Gwennythw as to be celebrated at the hall , and

Llewyd w as in v ited to come and f etch hi s

br ide ; and the King o f,

Kent w as com ingto the f east, and so was the Queen Saxburga and the King o f Mercia, w ith greatgif ts.

External matters need not aff ect the

heart. There ar e as good Chr istians inr ed coats as in black , and Chr istianityappeals to the soul and li f e , whil e m any

p ro f essed f ollow ers . quarrel over f orms,

losing the substance f or the shadow .

And the good earl w as thorough, and

set about his w ork w ith the same degreeo f vigour that he used to show i n w ar .

And soon a church w as standing not f ar

f rom the old hall , and chants arose where

f orm erly the Voluspa was sung. Amongthose who m ost ea rnestly r eceived theholy truths none w ere m ore f ervent in the

f aith than the Norsem an robber whom the

ear l kept as a hostage when he released1he boys. And the vale , Thorgerd Herdabrud , was o f ten seen to talk w ith the goodo ld priest who taught the flock and livedw ith them in peace , f o r he w as kind and

gentle , and loved both great and small .

The gBoy’

s Own Taper .

Skittles.

So Chr istmas time had come again , and

logs w ere blaz ing high, and the gleem en

sung to the ir w il d harps just as they di d

be f ore , only in stead o f m artial deeds doneby the gods o f old, they sang the won

drous tale o f Chr istian love and hope .

The English hospitality o f those first

Chr istian times was quite as great and

bo isterous as it had been be f ore , nor w as

the change so sudden as m ight have beensupposed in their manners and their cus

toms all through the English land . So

when Llewyd and Penruddo ck and the

other royal guests ar rived at Earl Rolf ’

s

mansion it w as di fficult to say that a

change had been e ff ected in those f ew

little months. The large supportingp illars that held the roo f had been carvedin rude resemblance o f Odin and o f Thornow they w er e changed , all traces beingremoved o f anything like likeness to n

anyhuman f orm.

I t is not now our business to tell whatf east was made , or how the gleementwanged the ir harps, or how the tym

besteres danced to the j ingling music o f

their own tambour ines ; of how the

jugglers thr ew their six knives in the air

at once , and caught them def tly“

by the

hil ts'

and never scratched the ir hands.

There w ere tumblers spr inging through

their hoops and others leading bears. The

sword - dance, much in f avour w ith our old

pagan sires, w as still greatly loved inChr istian times, and always w as per f ormedwhen there w as m irth and m erriment and

gaiety and jest. Th-ese things'

delighted

Harold and Kenu lf , Beorn , and all , and

they liked to see the tumblers in_

concert

w ith the bears dancing on‘

the ancient

floor w ith many merry tr icks ; and then

they played at, taste] , a game likedraughts, _

or more resembling backgammon , and then keyles

"w ere played

by all . The w edding guests departed,and the games continued till the time o f

Easter , when the birds began to sing.

But a great'

loss happened to new boywhich we must now relate . H e lost hisold companion , Fangs, the ban - dog o f the

earl .’

And thi s '

w as how the chance bef ello f that most heartf elt loss. I t seems

when Gwennyth p etted Fangs, whow atched her f rom the first with veryj ealous scrutiny, it pu z zled him f ull sore,and he watched her still more, and at lastlearnt so to love her that he always tookhis stand to m eet her when she walkedabroad to breathe the pleasant air . Andwhen Earl Ro lf le f t home f or w ar Fangsstayed by Gwenn

‘

yth’s - side , and, like a

little lap - dog, w as gentle when she spoke .

Now , when King Llewyd came to f etchf air Gwennyth f or his qu een ,

Fangs seem edto know that he should lose his noblemistress. And he show ed his teeth at

good King Llewyd, and eyed him w ithdistrust, but he n ever sought to harm him ,

though disliking him so much. Well ,when the parting day was come she flungher gentle arms about the noble mastiff

,

and said ,“ Farewell , o ld f riend ! ”

The

tears came rolling down her cheeks and

Fangs began to whine . So Earl Rolfstepped f orward to the dog,

and said , buthal f in j est,

I think that I must give thee Fangsw ithout thee he is lost.

She sm iled , and added, also half—jestinglike the earl , “ Y es

,I should be so happy.

Fangs, w ilt thou go w ith m e and be myguard in Britain in my new royal home

Now , men perhaps may laugh at this boys

w ill believe the tale . Fangs sprang aboutthe hall like m ad as though he understood,and f rom that tim e he w ould not leave hisnew - f ound m istress’

s side, and he w ent

w ith her to Br itain , where he died o f goodold age . This w as a heavy loss f or all

the boys in hall . But youth is gay,

and other things came in to cheer their

m inds.

Now when the spr ing return ing spreadall the earth w ith green

"

the earl had promised Harold to take him out to sea , and

he had a dragon”

r eady'

(f or so w ere

w ar - ships called), down at the ve ryport inKent where the fir st English came . So hetook our Harold w ith him , and Beorn and

Kenu l f too , and w ith a train o f champ ionsthey started on the road . But they were

thr ee days ri ding be f ore they reached theplace , and the w ind was blow ing stronglyby the time they got on board . The shipwas like a m onstrous barge , w ith thirtysix stout oars, and each was f or a w arr ior ,who could row as w ell as r ide . Outsidethe ship they hung their shields, and

,

as when they w ere in hall , each shieldmarked out the row er

’

splace to sleep whennight cam e on . Below the deck w ere

spaces lef t f or horses, stores, and f ood,besides which there w as place f or thosewho sometimes braved the w aves in com

pany w ith these m en . They w ere the

w ives and pr iestesses o f those who rowedabove, but the warr ior s durst not slumberbeneath a deck or house . But af ter theyw ere Chr istianised these law s w er e soon

f orgot,'

and theybuilt them houses on theirships most strange to look upon . The goodEarl Rolf he steered the ‘

ship by a huge

oar , made f ast to the r ight side o f the

ship , whi ch was called the“ board,

”or

side o f steering—whence our starboardcomes which seamen u se to - day. The

figure- head .w as carved and gilt, like a

dragon’

s head and breast, and the stern

w as carved just like a tail high tower ingalo f t. There was a m ast—a m ighty treef elled in Norwegian w oods—and the sailwas like the mainsail o f our own men - o f

war . Then the earl instructed Harold howto emp loy the car , and how to steer the

bonn ie bark , and how to reef the sail . N0po int w as there in seamanship that he f or

get to teach. And Harold joyed in that

f air craf t. H e loved the breezes’

play,and he loved to hear them whistle throughthe r igging o f themast. Few f eelings are sojoyous to a tru e—born English boy as that

he holds in his command a ship upon the

sea . I t seem s like holding in his handsthe w inds and w aves as w ell when the

good ship flies on lovingly and then com es

dancing home .. They w ent to visit other

lands and saw the Danish coast, and

the sea - kings gave them welcome , and a

merrytime theyhad, f or , thanks to Beorn’

s

good teaching,Harold could speak the

tongue o f those o ld rulers o f the waves,the vikings o f the north.

Well pleased w ith Haro ld ’

s seamanship ,

when the good earl r eturned he gave theboy a dragon ship f or pastime w ith his

f riends, and Harold soon could guidehis ship w ithout the earl , and who so

proud as he when all these things w ere

learnt PNow he could ride a str ong w ar horse,

could m anage sword and spear , could use

the bow , could steer and row , and hunt

w ith hawk and hound . A nd he could readthe ancient runes and knew the m odernsigns which. the good f athers introducedf or Chr istian m en to read . And he could

sing a j oyous song and chant a holyhymn ,

and he was f earless in his heart and

strong as he was brave , f o1 the good Ear lRolf had taught him w ell 111 all things fit

to know .

Well , Kenulf , Harold said one day,‘I long to see the time when I shall be a

belted knight ? and w ear the,

. . shiningm ail !Kenul f . replied, Ear lRolf has

,said that

When thou art knighted, K enu lf saidI shall be knighted

b

too ; and Beorn,

he said, “should be a thane and hold his

l and f rom Rolf ! And I . shall have thebattle axe he prom ised m e lastyear .

I H ow

the time lags I when w ill it p ass 9 Hush,

boys ! hereb

'

1s the earl !. Rolf answ ered Kenu lf on

,this

.

wise :i f in two years

’time thou art a good and

valiant

j“ I kn'

ow ,

'

said Harold, .

_

f i two longyears ! Think on . the dreadf ul tim e I I tseems a lif etime to my,

m ind bef ore it cancome round.

’I’

‘swain ’

thou shalt be . belted

;

TIGERSK IN Ai, ;sroRY-

1-

“

or IsI’

oENrRAr

.Aruthor of“ The T ax)! Drummer I

Boy,

BEAT.

“ Was : '

-the consternation ; at theArmoudj en the ibodyggo f the,

uh

tunate;Everestarr ived. 0511 «a : littergborneby f ou

‘

r-

sh ka'

ris.,

I His twO .I -

,f aithf ul f r iends,

H olbeck Hand Barbarbu,. came with it.

“

Colonel Shaughnessy, whom a messenger had in f ormed of the f atal .

I

eve'

nt,

m et’

themournf ul'precession. 3 5.

Well ? he said .to the doctor as soonas

‘

he sawhim .

is‘

not dead, answered Holbecksadly, he has almost gone ,

”

The sportsmen ,who had

r aised the ir hats in . respect as the litterw ent:by.) One o f the rooms in the pavil ionhadbeen prepared in all haste , and thitherthe unf ortunate youngman was:

- carr ied .

Once Everest was placed . on . the; bed,Holbeck.p roceeded to examine and dressthe When he had taken fo il" thetattered clothes :that covered the breast, =all dripping w ith . blood, the bystandersu tter ed a . cry

'

o f horror; The monster’

s

claws_

had traced . a double f urrow downthe young lord

’s body.

Without troubling him'

Self

I

much aboutthis, the doctor exam ined the

,w ounds one

a f ter the other . H e washed them care

f ul lyw ith a sponge which he f romtime totime dipped m a .basin o f phenic water heldbyBarbarou . Then '

he proceeded to dressthem with bandages steeped in a w eaks olution o f perchlor ide o f n on.so as to stopthe bleeding. That done , he exam inedthe rest o f the . body. With the exceptiono f a f ew contusi ons and slight ecchyrnosis,due to the f all on

.

the rocks, there was notrace o f a w ound . Then he listened to . theb eating o f the heart

,made some observa

ti

gps with the stethosw pe , and f elt these .

And then he gave a deep sigh o f relief ,and in a Voice that was alm ost j oyf u l said110 the men who were waiting anxiouslyy

I see no wound that will endanger hisl if e

'

The tiger’

s claws have dug into the:flesh, but no essential organ is -i

_

njur ed .I I

think I can assure you that Mr . Everestw ill get o f f with a f ew glor iouswounds,and th

at in a week he w ill be on his legs

again .

If ‘Heaven be praised! exclaim ed the

c olonel , and an a burst o f ’

joy understoodonly by Holbeck he f ervently shbok-

‘

f! thed octor

”s hand.

Barbarou, who

_

had up to then shown

Myyoung butI

t

I

rust

I

yt f

I

rieri

I

d,

I t always seems that something ff ails,In this lif e to the end .

I

But C hristian hop e is given us

To show_

what we should pr ize ,And that is lif e beyond the grave,Glorybeyond the skies.

C HAI’ TER XXX I . I —"1 ‘

HE -’

13

I

I GERSK IN .

quite a stI

oic 1mpass1bil 1ty, as soon as he

heard thedoctor’

shopef ul words set downthe basin he held

I

iri hishand, andhurryingto a corner o f the room , burst out cryinglike a chil d

I

. .

However,

added Holbeck the ladhas received a shock f rom which his r e

cbvery must“

be .slI

ow._ He is now . in at

f ever , his although _1_

t 1s veryf eeble , is marking about a . hundred. “ and

f orty. .T That

,means he must

“

have rest and

silence I

The, visitors qmtted,the.ro'

o

I

m

I

Astheywent out thecolonel gave the most str in -I

gent Orders to stop all no ise" in the vicin

ity.ef the r

’

obm f

That evening-I

I

at theTigerslayer ’s C lub

Everestwas the one subject o f conversa

.The, majo rity o f :the sportsmen con'

I

essed that they w ould never have daredto

_

‘

pur sue ,the terrible man eater into the

malarious gorge .

I t was a hI

eroicI

folly,I

exclaim edButnot,

“I

and i f Everest escapes I proposethat in spite _

o f his apparent f ailur e we

vote him our f elicitations,and have his

name inscr ibed in letters o f gold on thef ront o f the palace of the Armoudjan bythe side o f that of . hi s brave compani on ,

o ur f ri end Barbarou .

.

'

I decline the honour , gentlemen ,

I

said

the s ailor " The sole , the true hero o fthe struggle was M r , Everest. ”

Al l this }: tim e Holbeck, sitting by the

side o f; Everest, w as do ing his utmost to

allay the delir ium which had taken possessi on

I

o f his patient. .

'

Everest ln hiswandot ings was still troubled by the f r ightf ulhallucinations that had come over him at

the fin ish o f . the'

drama in which he had

succumbed . Betrothed to death,he dreamt

that he celebrated . his f unereal'

espousalsam ong innum erable hideousmonsters, whotore him w ith their talons, trampled himwith their f eet, and inflicted on him a

thousand refinements o f torture . It was

With difficulty that the doctor , w ith the

assistance .

I

o f John and Latchman , couldkeep the unf ortunate young m an in hi s

bed.

“

Barbarou, returning f rom : theI

club,where he had been obliged to put in

‘

anappearance , opportunel

'o

y cam e“in to their

aid, and then the wanderer w as :m astered,and

,f atigued wi

th his long s truggle , f ellasleep .

My race is nearly run, myboys,And yours is just begun.

I sink to rest, ye- rise to lif e,Like the east and western sun !

Butwhen I leave this world o f hopeFor one o f certain joy,

My brightest thought will be, My son

Was a right noble boy.

’

A noble heart to any 111-anMust prove a priceless pearl,

And the grandest jewel in thyhelm,Harold, my own Boy- Earl !

(THE END . )

INDIA .

e tc. , etc.

. The khitmat‘

gar , greatly agitated at

these events, w as perm itted to retire , andthe two naturalists, aided by the f aithf ulJohn , remained to w atch over their youngf r iend .

'

I I n this manner the n ight passed , brokenby terr ible attacks o f delir ium succeededbyper iods o f

“

calm .

At . daylight the colonel entered theroom .

“ That excellent man had passeda m ost agitated n ight, and, under p r etexto f

'

bi inging lint and bandages prepared bythe ladies, had com e to inquire af ter _

.the

p atient.The attacksof f ever ,

I

said thedoctor ,ar e -

of'

such intensity that ,I never saw

an approach to bef ore .

:rn-

alar ia i s evidently telling and .compli

-The eff ect o f the

eating the case, and making it muchmoreser ious than. I expected.

_

I n f act, my Onlyhope now rests On the vigorous constitu

tion o f the patient.“ Y ou alarm me,

colonel.“ T hat .was notmy intention , said Hol

book ; “ but I am surpr ised, and a little

nonplussed , IH isghi-ghness, 1n making 1nquir1es

I

af ter

Mr . Everestyesterday,”r eplied the colonel ,

gave m e som e in f orm ation whichmaybeo f use to you . I t seem s that the ravinewhere our young f riend w ent af ter the

tiger is . pestilential, and no m an has

hitherto entered it .with impun ity. Shut

in on all sides by high walls o f rock ,situated among dense woods, the chasm is

half filled during the w inter by the rain

water . This evaporates w ith prodigiousrapidity

I as soon as the w arm w eather

returns, and then the vapour , chargedw ith '

m iasm a , remains floating above theheated cauldron where a breeze neverblows. Y ou doubtless know . how sen

sitive “

other Europeans are_

to the influenceo f the malar ia, the m er e breathing o f it

f or a'

f ew seconds" being o f ten enough to

make them f eel ._the t e f f ects f or some time

a f ter . So it isquite a miracle that Everestever cam e out o f the place alive . I n

another hou r the King -o f the - Tigerswouldhave f ound only an inanimate -

I corpse to“

f eed u‘

pon . E ven the natives do not escape ,and . as a proo f o f this there is Latchman ,

who 1s now down w ith an attack of f ever,

doctor ,

which came on a f ewhours ago .

Now I see clearlywhat, isD

thematter ,said Holbeck , ‘

I

‘ I can set to w ork more

surely. Fortunatelythere is a good supplyhere o f sulphate o f qu inine , and I shall usea good deal o f it. With care

,w e m ay

w ithdraw Everest f rom the claw s o f thisnew tiger , the Indian Fever , who i s m ore to

be dreaded than the King- o f the - Tigershimself .

Once m ore may Heaven help yo .u I

said the o ld officer . When I think that

I am the chie f cause o f this m isf ortune ,

The(

Boys Own(Pa-

per.

has been a long time since you w ent af ter

the birds they ar e so f ond o f .”

What .f i eplied the Marseillais.

On the contrary; since you have beenill I have been laying in a rare stock .

Ah I answered Everest then Ihave been ill f or some time P

Not at all , my dear f r iend ,”said H ol

beck , instantly. A slight attack of f ever .

Of no importance .

On - a litter bo rne'

by f our Shikar is.

I shall never f orgive myself if the lad dies.

And I maytell you that I am not the on ly.

one at home that has been praying f or hi sr ecovery.

’

Oh! w ell , answered Holbeck , quickly,I

if that i s so , I prom ise to save him f or

his happiness, f or yo ur happiness, and f or

- mine .

’

The strugglewas long and bitter. Forsix days the f ever continu ed its - 1 esis

_tance

to pow erf ul qu in ine doses and constant

nursing. B ut at length the victory re

m ained Wi th Holbeck , who , helped byB arbarou ,

rem ained in the breach, nu

tiring and relentless, and t i

aking but the

l eastIII

possible repose

The seventh day passed w ithout anyattack,

and Everest came back to lif e , buthis m ind coul d not bear a sudden shock .

H e recognised his two f aithf ul f i iends, butseem ed to have no r em embrance o f the terr ible events that had brought him to hisbed o f sicknessHolbeck care fully avo ided everything

that could cause excitement, and had evenf orbidden al l

“ visits f rom members o f the

colony. Even the poor colonel f ound himsel f excluded .

The doctor now changed the treatment,and bu sied himself in enabling the patientto regain hi s strength. Then

,little by

little , he tr ied to p iece together the chaino f hi s ideas.

A f ortnight had elapsed . Everest, supp orted ou Barbaren ’

8 arm , walked as f ar asthe large verandah surrounding the pavilion . There he lay back in a large armchair .

The sun setting behind the Mahadeohills w as purpl ing w ith its fiery rays the

summ its o f the tall trees 111 the A rmoudjan .

Swarms o f parakeets w ere flying about thetrees, alighting on the branches, andc ircling away again ,

filling the air w iththeir chatter and their flashes o f colour .

Everest sat w atching the movements o fthese grace f ul birds.

Barbarou , said he , suddenly, I ama f raid the Mennevals w ill be rather dissatisfied w ith yon . I t seems to me that it

The youngman pondered . H e was seek“

ing the key o f the mystery, and f eeling his

The doctor anxiouslywatched the progress o f the awaken ing, which ever sin cethe m orning he had f or eseen .

“

To meet ithe had arranged a little ‘

scheme , on whichall his hopesdepended , but he could not

w ithout apprehension see the time ap

proach in Which it was to be pu t in execu

tion .

Suddenly there came a sound o f f oot

steps on the marble floor of the verandah.

- The doctOr rose to rece ive the visitors,arid returned to the yo ung man , saying,“ Some f r iends o f yours w ish to shakehands w ith you .

“ Friends ! ”said Everest, sl

I

owly.

“ Ex

E verest looked at the colonel f or a

m oment, and then he made an exclam ationas i f the veil which hid his eyes had beensuddenly drawn

'

aside .

Ah ! now I rem ember , he murmured .

Then ,hiding his f ace in his hands, as i f he

would again plunge into the f orgetf ulnesso f the past, he added, I t is cru el o f youto rem ind m e o f my sorrow . I have beenpresumptu ous, and God has punished mypr ide . Whyneed I tell you whatyou knowbetter than I ? From the gam e in whi ch

I staked the happiness o f my lif e I returnhumbled and vanquished.

”

H ow vanqu ished exclaim ed the

colonel , w ith a ff ected surpri se .

“ Y es, sir ,

”answered the young man .

bitterly;“ I did as do the f ools and the

presumptuous that the f able tells oi—Isold the tigerskin be f oreBut he never finished the phrase . At the

moment, like an appar ition , Mary Shaughnessy stood bef ore him , her daintyhandsstruggling to hold up a huge m ass o f f ur

,

striped w ith black and gold . And as she

lif ted it she said, Y ou are libelli'

ng your

self,sir . Here is the skin o f the f amou s

King- o f - the - Tigers whom you kil led . Dr .

Ho lbeck gave it to me on your behalf , and,with my f ather

’

s consent, I have accepted

it.” Then , letting f all the skin , she stepped

up to Everest as he r ose , and, holding ou t

her hands, added , withw inn ing grace ,“ I t

was very f oo lish o f you , but I f orgive youw ith all myhear t.

Everest could hardly believe in his hap I

piness, it had been so sudden and unex

pected. H e took the girl’

s hands in hi s,and

,overcome with emotion , f ell back into

hi s chair , . p owerless to say anything but ,

Thank you.

”

And then the doctor intervened . Now ,

my f r iends, you have shown him the tigerskin , and I must askyou to go , f or he now

beloii gs to m e . Lengthened visits are

str ictly f orbidden .

Holbeck, said Everest , when the

colonel a nd his daughter had gone , i t

seems to m e that all that has just passis a dream . Tell m e that I am ali ve , inf ull possession o f

“

my“

r eason , and that Ireally understood What M iss Shaughnessysaid I

The C hurch at Se rampo re .

cept you and Barbarou , I have no f r iendsin thi s w orld .

As he ended the colonel stood bef orehim , and, ho lding out his hand , sa id ,And I P Y ou had led me to hope that I

was to be considered as one .

Y es, my dear boy,said Holbeck ;

“you are ali ve, and nearly completc ly

cured . But no ! I made a m istake . The

Everest w e used to know—the spleneticand the m isanthrope , doubting himsel f and

everybody else—is d ead , stone dead ; he

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No t at all , answ ered the sailor .

“ Y ou

r emember what Cunn ingham told u s

abou t .tigers being alive a qu arter o f an

hOur af ter theyw ere dead ? Well , that iswhat happened w ith you r tiger . Whenw e

,

took o ff his skin and exam ined him w e

f ound that your first bu llet had gone

clean through his heart. I t seems that all

he did af ter you fir st hit him w as but a

ser ies Of reflex actions; But all that is too

learned f or m e ; I do not understand a

w ord Of it.

”

“ And I w ant no other explanation ,

said Everest.

“ Y ou tw o have saved mylif e , not onl y by draw ing m e f rom the

claws Of the King- Of - the - Tigers, but bydraggi ng me aw ay f rom my cruel , tormentingmalady.

”

C HAPTER. XXX I I .—A C AL C UTTA NEWSPAPER.

TWO months af terwards the f ollowingappear ed in the Times Of India

The dramatic events which distin

guished the gather ing o f our sportsm en at

Mahavell ipore under the patronage of

o f H .H . Geulah Sing w il l be in the recol

lection o f our r eaders. An enorm ous tiger ,called by the natives the King- Of - the

Tigers, had been ravaging Gondvana , andwas killed by one o f the young m embersOf the M ahavellipore club, a Mr . Everest,

assistant- naturalist to Dr . H olbeck’s expe

dition . The gallant sportsm an very nearly

paid f or his victory w ith his lif e ,inanimate body, covered w ith w ounds,wassnatched f rom beside the monster

’

s corpse .

A Calcutta letter now gives us some sur

prising news,‘

which puts a rom antic finishto thi s dramatic adventure .

There was yesterday celebrated at thechurch at Serampore the marr iage o f LordEverest, o f Gro smore Castle , Yorkshir e ,w ith MissMary Shaughnessy, daughter o fthe gallant colonel Of the Onety

- twoth

Bengal N . I .

“ Our readers w ill have guessed that

Dr'

. H olbeck’

s assistant- naturalist and thenoble lord are one and the same person .

Lord Everest, w ishing“

to take part

incognito at the Mahavellipore gathering,

had dev ised this little scheme w ith his

f riend Dr . Holbeck . H is lordshi p"

came insearch o f the glory and excitement o f

the chase , and in the'

w ild solitudes o f

Gondvana has f ound a young and charm

ing bride,'

who byher beauty and aecom

pli shments w il l be the pride o f the ancientand noble f amily o f Everest.

The Governor - General and his ladyhonour ed the w edding w ith their presence .

Among the personages o f distinction who

w ere at the church w e noticed D r . H o l

beck,M r . Barbarou , the celebrated lion

slayer , General and M rs. Butnot, M r . andM rs. Peernose , M r . and M rs. Whataf ter ,Captain andM rs. Beynon , Surgeon

- M aj orC unn ingham ,

and nearly all the rank and

f ashion o f Calcutta .

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THE f ollowing game between Hoffman and A.

v. Petrof f appears in several books as a

specimen of good play, and it is said that af terWhite ’

s 1 3th move Petrofl'

announced mate in

eight moves, whi ch however is incorrect, as thefollowingmoves show

Black to move .

The booksnowgive the f ollowingmoves

1 3 . B—B 71 4. K—R 3 . P—Q 3 (dis. ch ):

1 5. P—K 6. Kt—B1 6. X v—Kt 4 Kt P. f1 7 . KtXKt j B t (ch. )_

1 8. Ke—Et h R—B 4 (ch. )1 9 . K—Kt 4 P—K R 4 (ch. )20. K—'R 3 R—B 6, mate.

White’s 1 7 th move was not his best, and we

give 1t as

Prob lem NO . 8 4

.to find thatmOve,which prolongs thegame four '

m oves.

JOHNSMITH'

THEGREAT:A TRUE STORY '

OFADVENTURE, PERILAND SUCCESS.

PART V.

We w ish the young couple e veryhappm ess.

”

To ' this extract f rom the “ Times Of

India w e add a f ew'

concluding sen

tences.

Everest remained in India f or som e time ,

and did not r et urn to England until thecolonel Obtained a hom e appointm ent at

the India Off ice .

Holbeck and Barbarou reso lved to term inate their engagem ent w ith the Menne

v-a ls. The M arseillais could not declin ethe lakh o f rupees whi ch the M aharajahinsisted on paying f or the tigerskin ,

and

which Lord Everest insisted on handingover to him . With this little f ortun e

Barbarou bought som e land'

at Chandernagore , and pr om ises to becom e one Of the

most active o f our Indian planters. Holbecktook up his quarters w ith his adopted son ,

as he considered him . H e continu ed hisr esearches on C ryptocem s and Myrmeao

mellvzf efr , and is pr epar ing a volum inousmemoir , which he intends to subm itvery shortly to the Academy o f Sciences.

Poor M rs. Peernose rem ains inconsolable at not having at the outset

recogni sed the noble ,lord beneath

captain’

s gravew a s n o t r e

qu i r e d . Th e

doctor droppedsome oil into the

w ound , and in

.an hour or two

Sm ith was sudic iently recovered to eat

the sting- ray f or supper

-Ou the island that now

bears its name . .

The next day he re

turned to James Town ,

and f ound Ratclifl‘

e in

ad Odour that he had to

depose him ,and. as th ird pre

sident -set up M r . Scrivener H e then

got m atters into w orking order , and on

the third'

day was o f f once more f or the

Rappahannock. A f ter seven w eeks o f

constant fighting wi th Indians and the

narrowest o f narrow wscapes, f ully re

lated « i n his book , he returned .in time to

welcome Captain Newpo rt, who b roughtout the letters patent appomtinghim pr e

sident Of the colony.Newp ort had also brought out a crown

and royal robes f or the“ EmperorPowhatan , and to deliver these an

embassy w as organised . The eer i e - comic

coronation o f that artf ul chie f must be

studied in f ull to be appreciated .

'What

w ith the difficulties he made in putting on

the robes and his flat ref usal to let the.

crown come near him , Newport and Sm ithhadno easy task . Powhatan even declinedto knee l , and the coronation w as finallyef f ected by Sm ith leaning on one Oi his

shoulders and Newport on the other at the

same m oment as three assistants slippedthe crown on to his head.

' With CaptainNewport there '

also came the first gentle“

woman to the new colony—MistressForrest. She broughtwith her her _

m aid,Anne Burras, who

,shortly af terwards

married John Layden ,and thus celebrated

the first w edding.

Smith now set to w ork in earnest to

drill his colonists into their duties. All

had to w ork , som e at’

m aking glass, otherstar , p itch,

and p otash, Others f elling trees.

To stop the terr ible pro f an ity,he had every

m an’

s oaths numbered, and at night . f or

every oath against him’

a can Of water was

poured down the culpr it’

s sleeve . At first

this -w as treated_as

“

a huge joke , but itvery soon Was taken in sober earnest and

the swearing was stepped.

On Sm ith’

s m any struggles w ith the

Indians and his own men we have now no

Space to dwell . Theyw ere ,'

it must sufficeto say, very numerous and. exciting, butthe recital is somewhat monotonou s Ow ingto their very number . '

H e w ent aboutwi th his lif e in '

his hands, and did his dutyr egardless o f . the consequences.

Powhatan was unresting in his eff orts toget r id Of the intr uders by f air means or

f ou l, but'

all his eff orts . came tO/

nought,

pr incipally through Pocahontas, who keptSm ith advised o f all she knew . TheKing o f .Pamurrkey —all these chief swere kings in the eyes o f the early colO -J

nists“

~ very“

nearly caught Sm ithin a trap ,

but he saved himself_

by seizing that warr ior by.

'

the scalp - lock and holding the

p istol to his head, f orcing him to order o f?his m en . The “ King Of Paspahegh,

”

f ailing to get him into an a mbush,

attempted to shoot him , but Smith grapp led and wrestled w ith him in the r iver

,

and only saved himself by gr ipp ing histhroat, which he did so fiercely that theking surrendered, . and was marchedpr isoner into James Town .

Powhatan at last decided f or peace , andthen

’

the colonists began to thr ive . Onl’

y fOra little time, however , f or a great change'

wasmade in’

the government Of the colony.

'NO gold being sent home’

and no. SouthSea being discovered , the company re;

quested to be relieved Of thei r commission .

The king recalled it, and issued a new one

appointing Lord D e la;Warr General o fand many .

'

Ot-her'

men o f m arkt

_o

"

-high posts under him. This was equ iivalent to recalling Smith,

" but the shipw ith the captains

-

and thehew 'commi ss'

ions'

yrent astray, and only the rest of the conyoyarrived saf ely .

'

The consequence Was,

that mvith had to carry on the government under great d ifficulties, -no definiteauthority being f orthcoming, and no one

having-

p ower .tO supersede the'

’

Old constitutiqn .

The new comers plotted and schemedagainst him without any scruple , the Oldcolonists

,

stood'

byhim“

, and the con f usionwas increasing,when on one o f his

'

expedi tions somebOdy

"

fired his pow der -

p ouchwhi le be“

was asleep in his boat. The ex

plosronzf orced aw ay the flash f r om his side

and thigh, and he leapt into the r iver toquench the fire. While he was at JamesTownin bed w ith his w ound one Of thecolonists

.

came in to murder him , but thep 1stol m i ssed fire . Things had indeed

"The igoy’e Own Paper .

On .the French ship Sm ith passed twomonths, .

'

being'

ordered :below when anyEnglish w ere f ought w ith,

and then he

was -

pi1t n on .

;‘board a

‘

icarvei‘

'bOund f or

France . On this ship he was chased by

Here lyes one conquered that hath- conquered“

Kings,Subdu

’

d large Territor ies, and done Things

Which to the -World impossible would seem,

But that the Truth isheld in more esteem .

”

(THE END . )

become so m ismanaged that he could dono good by staying, and so he cam e home .

A f ter his departure the state,

5o f the

colony became most cr itical . Lord De la

Warr discovered no m ines ; all he f oundwere

“

angry savages and a quarrelsome nu

scrupulous lot Of rowdies, render ing the

lives o f the honest, steady working settlersalmost unendurable .

Pocahontas w as kidnapped, and af ter

wards m arried M r . Henry Rolf e , came'

Over to England a f ter a time , w as p re

sented at court, and died at Gravesend asshe was going back w ith her husband .

An other Indian visitor w as the ambassador whom Powhatan sent over to num»

ber the English,and see who and what

they really w ere . U ttamatomakkin landedat Plymouth w ith a long stick , on whichhe was to put a notch f or eve1y man he

saw’

. H e filled the stick in an hour or

two , and then came to London ,where he

f ouiid out Sm ith.

Having r ecovered f rom his

Smith in 1614

w ound ,started

“

f or the coast o f

America f arther north than he hadhitherto been . H e surveyed the Shore

line, and first called the distr ict NewEngland,

‘

a nam e approved by Pr inceChar les, who also gave. nam es to a f ew

places on his map .

I n 1615 he was appointed Adm iral OfNew England,

”and w ith a ship Of two

hundred tons and another p f . fif ty startedOf f to complete his discover ies . The largeship proved

'

-

unseaw orthy,- and Sm ith had

to return af ter losing his masts. H e was

soon af ter his second in command, how-eVer , in a small barqu e o f sixty tons intowhich he had shif ted , and w ith his start

f rom Plymouth on June 24 began anotherser ies .Of adventures that w oul d fill an

ordinary book .

1

He had not been many days out bef orehe f ell in w ith

_

Fry, the notor ious p irate .

His Officers w ere f or yielding w ithout a

struggle , but Smith, although his shipwas abou t a third the size of the other and

carr ied a n inth of her guns, said he wouldsink rather than surrender , and boldlysteered f or Fry and demanded a parley.

On Fry’

s ship were m any o f his Old sol

diers,’

and he w as Of fered a command on

her . This Sm ith declined, and w ent on

his way rejoicing.

Not f er long, however , f or Off the

Azores two Fr ench p irates—the seas

swarmed w ith p irates - hove 1n sight, andagain his crew w ished to str ike , but Sm iththr eatened to blow u p the m agaz ine whilethere

“

was any powder lef t, and af ter a

smart action disabled his Opponents and

got _ .of f

A day or two af ter f ou r Frenchmen of

war bore down on the devoted barque , andthe adm iral in command r equested Smithto come on board and show his commi s'

sion . This he did, and f ound himself a

pr isoner ,his ship w as taken by the

French, and the crew divided amongst thefleet, which had been rein f orced . The

admiral, however , thought better Of hisaction af ter a day or so , and gave Smithback hiscrew , and told him he might go .

The crew wished to r eturn and w ere m utinous. The Frenchmansent f or Smith toinqu ire into m atters, and when he w as on

board a sail was sighted, and away he

w ent ln chase .

“

T'

h'

e mutineers returned to

two EnglishWest Indiamen , one o f whom

put a shot through the mainm ast.

When “

they arr ived at La RochelleSmith escap ed at n ight into the boat towing astern , and made f or the shore . The

cu rrent w as strong and the sea was high:and he Spent tw elve hours on the w ater ,and was then stranded on Char ron Island.H e was p icked up half dead by some

French f owlers, and af ter r est and f oodf ound his w ay to Sir Thomas Edm onds,then English ambassador at Bordeaux .

The carvel w as' w recked the night he

escaped , and Sm ith claim ed . dam ages out

o f what w as saved f rom her , and :

got a

good round sum .

H e then lef t f or Plymouth,and a f ter

prosecuting all the mutineers he cou ldfind and getting them var iously punished,

set out on another voyage to New England , whence his second in command hadr eturned . This was in 1616, but no r ecord

“

Of its. o ccurrences r emains. I t do es not

seem , how ever , to have been successf ul .Hence f orw ard Sm ith devoted himself to

literature . The “ True Relation ”had

come out m 1608 ; A Descr iption o f N ewEngland had been issued in 1616 ; New

England’s Tr ials ”

cam e out in 1620,the

Accidence f or Young Seamen in 1626 ;the Generall Histor ie o f Virginia in

the same year ,The True Travels ” in

1630, preceded by the Seaman’

s Gramm ar .

”On “ The History Of the Sea

Sm ith was at work when he died on June21

,1631 . Most o f his books have been

f requently repr inted . H e w ou ld seem to

have been f airly w ell Ofi,. and not to have

sunk into pover ty, as is sometimes stated .

Byhis w ill , still 111 existence, he . leaves hisproperty at Louth and Great Carleton , in

Lincolnshire, to one Of the clerks o f the

Pr ivy Seal and half his books w ent to

John Tradescant, the botan ist, who did SO

much f or the Ashm olean M useum .

Smith’s deeds Speak f or them selves. H e

was the r eal f ounder Of the first Br itishc .olony Previous to the expedition o f

which he was one Of the earliest promoters,

and Of which he w as throughout the li f eand soul , all attempts at settlementbeyondsea had f ailed, and even that expeditionw ou ld have made a di sastrous retr eat had

it not been f or his indom itable resolution .

When it is remember ed that he lef tVirginia in his thirty first year our appre

ciatiOn o f his difficu lties and w onder at his

success are considerably enhanced . The

prosper ity en joyed by the colony once he

had a f air chance o f ruling is su fficienttestimony to the abili ty Of so young an

administrator .

“ H e made justice his first gu ide and

experience his second , ever hating basenesse , sloath, pr ide , and indignitie m ore

than any dangers , he never allow ed m ore

f or himself e than his souldiers w ith him ,

and upon no danger w ou ld send theuiwhere he w oul d not lead them himself s ;he would never see us want what be eitherhad or

_could by anym eanes get us, w ould

rather want than borrow , and starve thannot pay, loved action mor e than words

,

and hated f al sehood and c. ovetousness'

worse than deathSO as to his character writes the clerk

of the council , and as to his extraordinaryadventures they w ill be f Oundn well summarised in his ep itaph, beginning,

A Boy'

s Tour thro ugh Egypt, e tc .

1 . Ruins ot- Baalbec. 2. Houses on the Walls of Damascus. 3 .Damascus. 4. Sides. 5. Source of the Barada.

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IN EGYPT, -THE DESERT, AND PALESTINE.

BOUT middaywe reached A cre, and, enter

A ingbythe old gateway, wandered throughthe streets examini g the] shops. .We. . particu

larlywished to,see the f ortificationsand prises ,

and tried several times , f or . an order, 3but were

always told that the Pashawas asleep andcouldnot be disturbed. It

_

was not t,o .be wondered at

that he made ans

excuse f or not, showing us

round if the reports o f the f rightful 'state o f the

prisons be true men, _women

,and children

hud’

dled together in _

the'

darkness, with little ornothingto eat

,the heat intenSe, and the stench

abominable .

LeavingAcre, we take a short cut inland andpass through beautiful orange groves. We rideinto one, l

and, _giving theman'

a small Turkishcoin about ‘

equal '

to sixpence, pick "

for our

selves. f'

The f ollowingdaywe ascendedlwhat is

,called

f rom‘

its_

'

steepness ,

the'

;“ I iadder o f Tyre,

”

the

path winding - along the edge of . the cliff . Our

dra'

goman pointed out a'

small house. which hesays is the headquarters

'

of bandits. T m years

ago some o f his muleteerswere robbed o f every:t

‘

hing. About middaywe reachTyre and gallopto our tents over the isthmus made byAl exander, who thre

’

w‘

the ancient city into the

water, according to prophecy, to reach the

i sland.

We are encamped at cityonce,so

f amous f or its commerce and manufactures.Wandering _

along the shore,every'

vVhere we disscover relics o f ancient grandeur . 5The. coast _

is

strewn"

with magnificent marble and granitecolumns . In one place seventeen were lyingaside by side. As we sat d own to ,

sketch'

thernsome fishermen

‘

drew'

their netsf in aridf hungthem upen th

'

e ruins to dry, thu‘

s f ulfilling,the

prophecyuttered so many'

years"

ago , Perhapsthem ost interesting thingto beseen 'is them id,o f the C hristian

'

church built in,the:beginning

o f the f ourth century.

'

Fragments.“ the easternand western endsare still standing,

'

and“

intervening area lie several splendid granite(columns

,a

.doubl e one measuring twenty

- six

f eet in length,

h is the Greek Easter, and the people are

amusing themselves by incessantly firing oh'

p istols and“

guns.

A f ew miles’

ride along the coast brings us to:S idon; The streets are better paved than anyw e have yet

“

seen inthe East. Having visitedthe C astle, and bought som

'

e f'

slippers in thehaz aars,

‘ We have '

_ride through beautif ul

o range and lemon the b ranches“

ladenwith ripe fruitm eeting above

‘

us. Our,tents

a re itched,clo

'

se to‘

the‘

_Riy

’

er Auwaly.

'

_l

‘

e next daywe.

ride to within a. f ewmileso f Beyrout and encamp among the f ir -trees,planted in great numbers to pr'

event'

thejsandencroaching on the

-land, jTwo days

’ journey.f rom

‘

here brings ,us te

Damascus ..The

'

road,i's contracted f or by the

French Government,

‘

who'

take the tolls, and isby far the:best in Syria. The . scenery, boundedby snowclad mountain

'

s, is'

grand. T he elimatei s rapidlychangingf rom that of July- to Decem-l

ber. In some places _snow is tw

'

elve f eet thick;‘but the road

'

isWell cleared. The second daya f ter leaving, Beyrout, having ridden f orty- sixmi les since . breakfast, ’

we approach,'

through'

i nnumerable.

orchards, the oldest . city in theworld . Crossing the -Pharpar, we are soon

“

atthe Hotel Demetri . It

,is -

‘

like'

most Easternhouses, with large courtyard and f ountains inthe centre, and

_

seems'

_very

'

comf ortable. We

all . sleep in one large room, with amarble,

floorand fountain in the centre .

Damascus is a thoroughly-Eastern and:we very

‘

much enjoyed wandering through the.

bazaars. One may judge how narrow,

they are

f rom the f act that most o f them are roof ed overf or the sake of shade.

.

I

We pass the veryStreet Saul of .Tarsus cani e

along. It IS still cal led Straight,"

and probably i s little altered in appearance. One housewas pointed out as that of Ananias. Many

PART V.

The next daywe went to . the quarries uf rom

whence the'

stones'

were" brought. The chief

object of interest is the immense stone that hasbeen worked on three sides, and partially on thef ourth

, and lef t f or some unknown reason. It is (THE END. )

o f the houses are still “ built upon the wallof the city, as in the time of _ .PaulThe gold and silver bazaar disappointed us

,

but on being conducted to the flat roof o f a

house close bywe had a finevi ew of the city.

We were near part o f the ,Wall o f the GrandMosque, in which was an old _do

l

orway.now builtup and almost hidden by the mud roo fs. ,Ou

the lin tel is this inscription in Greek : Thykingdom, OChrist, is an everlasting kingdom,

and Thy dominion endureth through all generations.

”It is curious that this should have

been allowed to remain here f oi aboutyears. A short distance ofi

'

,1ises a beautiful

mm which was most probably the ancienttemple of Rimmon.

_

Having .obtained an order fromthe consul ,and taken of f 0111 boots,We entered the GrandMosque.

” interior .

is divided . into three

aisles, and m the centre is a small carved and

gilt“sanctum . There is . a cave beneath, in

which i s said -tobe the head o f John the Baptist.I am afraid the knowledge that there are

several other heads o f the same man exhibitedin dif ferent places hardly increased our veneration.

Damascus 1s the last thoroughlyEastern citywe shall visit, andweleavewith f eelings of regret.By the roadside 18 a small mosque built on the

placeWhere it is sa1d1 Mohammed first viewedthe city. It does indeed look beautif ul, f romthis spot, surrounded by orchards and gardens.

A f ewmiles’

ride brings us to the source of the

Bai ada, or ancient Abana. The . water rushes

out o f a cave With great f orce, The countrywas hilly, with a few scattered patches of snowabove us.

About 6 p .m we arrived at a small . villagewhere the tents were to have been pitched.

But no tents appeared, and we had to . makeourselves as comf ortable as possible in an old

Khan, the only luxury being: that it had justbeen whitewashed. There was no furniture o fany sort, but we all Slep

t soundly on the brickfloor. The next morning a messenger arrivedto sayour baggage mul es had . been unable topass through the show

,but would

_

meet us at

Baalbec.

Our road_la

'

y_ over Anti-Lebanon. About 2p.m . We passed the traditional tomb o f : Seth,and came in sight of the magnificent ruins of

Baalbec. Riding through a long vaulted passage we find ourselves in the Great Court, whereour tents are pitched.

there are some hours before sunset we

wander round to get a general idea o f these

wonderful ruins.

“ Close byI S the “ Temple ofthe Sun.

”The doorway i s considered one of

the most beautif ul in the world. Round theinterior are magnificent columns six f eet indiameter. At one end is just distinguishablethe ruins of an altar with carved figuresupon it.

Over it some one had written,“ The idols He

shall utterly abolish._

This i s certainlymore appropriate than thescra

'

wlings o f Jones, Brown, and Robinson, whoteyt-o immortalise themselves bydefacingworks

o art.We thenWalked tothe substructions of theGreat Temple.

” Built into the Wall are . the

three enormous stones so long f amous. Theyare upwards of 60 f eet in length and 13 f eetbroad, upon a l ayer of six stones, each 32 f eetlong, and these upon still smaller stones, so

that blocks of 60and 64 f eet long. have beenbrought f rom the quarry half a mile off . andraised to a height of _

more than 20f eet.Close to the tents a large snake Wascoiledup. Before we could prevent him one of ourArabs had fired at it. The headWasshot off ,so its skin was useless. It measured about

68 f eet long, 14 f eet high, and 14 f eet broad,and is calculated to contai n cubic f eet.As we walked round it and sketched we won

dered, as all do , how three such stones hadbeen removed hal f a mile, and fitted so closelywithout mortar that a penknif e could not be

inserted between.

We visited the beautiful little Temple of

Venus. It is circular, and much shaken byearthquakes. Some o f the temples are

_

supposed to have been built by Solomon, others .

to

date back f u1ther still .Leaving Baalbec the f ollowing morning we

have a glorious ride over the plain, The snowclad peaks o f Lebanon, now impassable, rise onour right, and to the lef t those of Anti Lebanon .

Passing through Zahleh, the largest town .1n the

Lebanon, we camp near Stora, and the next dayenter Beyrout by the diligence road.Here and there are numbers of detachedvillas, telling of security, for the Lebanon is

under a C hl istian governor, andonlynominallytributary to Turkey.

The hotel is close to the sea, and as a siroccois blowing and the heat IS oppressive we enjoy. abathe. 1 do not know whether it added to theenjoyment to know that sharks had been seen

close in shore the day before. Perhaps it didafterwards.

We visited Mr. Dodge the missionary. He

said, as did all the mi ssionaries.we have seen,

that there I S no such thing as religious libertyin syria, -

a11d that if a Mohammedan became aChristian he would bemurdered. within twentyfour hours

,most probablybyhis own relations.

In the evening we went fishing with some

Arabs.- Our fishing tackle:was somewhat peou

liar, consistingof _

se-ver'

al l-ong'

spears and torches.

The Arabs go o ut at; night, and, holding a

torch near the water, _

spear the fish .as theycome to

_

the light, .Of course it was : simpleenough, yet sti ange to saywe did not catch a

single fish;

We were,nevertheless,well repaid f or going

by the beautiful phosphorescence of the water,eachdip of the oar scatteringten thousand starsround the

_

.boatAnd so our Easterntourhascome .to an end.

We are again on the bluewaters of the Mediter

rausanwith a oalm sea and cloudless sky. We

touch at Larnaca and Rhodes, and steam northward amongthe beautiful islands of the Archipelago to Smyrna. Here we landed and visitedthe old castle behind the town . When we tolda gentleman who had resided there f or twentyyears where we had been, he was horrified, andassured us that the hills wei e swarming Withbanditti

,and it was a wonder we had returned.

He said an English sailor had just been robbedof everything, but had f ollowed the brigands toa low spirit sh0p, and going in had shot three

of them dead with a. revolver, and wounded a

f ourth, causinggreat excitement in the town.

.In eight days we arrived at Trieste,and from

thence took steamer to Venice . The first viewof Venice 13 one longto be remembered, watching the sun rise over the countless pinnacles andpalaces that seemed to grow out of the sea itsel f .A week flew quickly by. Everything _ is so.

strange, . so . interesting.

_

By daywe cl imb theCampanile, wander in St.’

Mark’sor one of the

countless other beautiful churches, by moone

light glide down the Grand Canal, with nothingto break the silence but our own voices or thecry o f the

‘

gondolier.

Our journey now rapidly comes to an end.Spending a f ew hoursat

,Milan, with its-magni

ficent cathedral of white marble, and Turin—o weare soon whirling along in a -railway carriage,aid the Mont Cenis Tunnel, Marcon

,andDijon,

to Paris.

Here I spent a week, andthen C rossed 1n the“ CalaisDouvres, ’

soon .to be in the midst ofLondon and everydaywork again, and the de

lightful tour through Bible lands a thing of the

past“

T H E LOR D

The li oy’s Own Taper.

M A Y OR ’

S SHOW.

(Sec t/ec C oloured Plate,“ A rms of the C ity C ompanies.

HE first correct p anorama o f the ,Lord

T Mayor’

s'

Sliow is that o f 1585, the year

o f Sir Woolston Dix i . There were no LordMayors o f London till 1 354. There are onlythree Lord Mayors in the kingdom now—thoseo f London, Dubl in, and York. H e o f

' Londonranks highest ; he o f York, or rather his wi fe ,retains the rank the longest f or the LadyMayores

’

s o f York is mylady till the day“

o f

her death, alth'

ough her husband loses his

courtesy title'

as soon as he quits o f fi ce .

From the year 1253 the Mayor of Londonwent by land to present himsel f to - the Ex

chequer'Barons

'

at'Westminster then f rom 1 436

to 1 856 bewent bywater , and since then he has

kept ashore. The well - known heading o f the“

Illustrated London News shows uswhatthis'

water procession was like in modern days. The

MariaWood, built in f or 50, and sold

in 1 859'

_f or £630, and now so usef ul at Putney

and elsewhere as a grand stand f or regattas, is

there in f ul l glory. Near her is_t11e other statebarge, built. by Searle in 1 807 f or and

arted with in 1 860f or a hundred guineas and

f ollowing them'

come the barges -

o f the'

com

panies '

that'

made the river '

so gorgeous—on a

fine day. The 9th o f November, however;until 1 7 51 it was the 29th of Octobera—was not

always fine, nor was the tide always on the flow,

and the remembrance of several wearypilgrimages on half ebb through a seasonab le drizzle ,joined to the strong f eeling o f the City f athersag ainst

'

the Thames Conservancy Act, which

took away f rom them the sovereignty ,of the

r iver, led to Sir Walter Garden in 1 857 '

abandoning the time -honoured voyage.

The first date quoted f or the water pageant is1 436

,the authority

'

being- ih the records o f the

Grocers’ Company, but in 1 453 the evidence is

m ore definite, and ‘we'

find Sir John NormanproceedingtoWestmi nster in state barges rowedwith

'

silver oars. The eustom was to go to

Westminster, return to Paul’

sWharf , and thenride throughthe City all on horseback, two - and

two . The last Lord Mayor to ride on horsebackwas Sir Gilbert Heathcote

,in In 1 7 11

came the state carriage and f our horses ; in

1 7 41 , owing to a growth in the,

difficulties o f

the road or in the importance o f the LordMayor, the horses w

’

ere increased to six. In

1 7 53 London sawthe curious spectacle o f LordMayor Ironside go ing in pr

’

ocession'

in a sedan

chair In 1 7 57 the present coach was used f or

the first time it cost -

'

and wi th'

the ex

ception of LordMayor Allen in 1 867 every-

chief

magistrate of the capital has used it since .

The main f eature o f the -

shows"*were the

pageants, andthese 'were sometimes verygrandindeed. In 1 415 there was a highly popular

display. OneMasterMTells

,a Grocer, had been

chosen—the first mayor elected by the citiz enswas in 121 5 previous to that the mayors were

appointed by the'

C burt—a—a '

nd wells runningwine ?were devised

,sdrrounded

'

by trees laden

with oranges, almonds, lemons, dates, etc.,etc. ,

all to be scrambled f or“ bef ore the“

daywas out.

In 1 566 there is a long record o f Sir WilliamDraper

’

s show , in‘ '

which two woodmeri led' the

way,“carrying

'

clubs and hurl ing squibs to

clear off the crowd. This squib pioneeringwasindulged in f or manyyears as late as 1 686 the

show was headed bymen who bombarded thespectators with squibs and crackers. In

‘Bate’

s“ Boke o f Fireworks there is a picture of

'

these

Woodmen, and verymuch alarmed they look at

the fierymissiles theyare discharging.

“WVhiflicm,

”athletic young f ollows

,with

sticks and chains,were invariably in the

evanguard to clear the way, and also stationed at

intervals along'

the ’

procession, which yearly

grew lengthier. In Elizabeth’s time the

,show

had shyppbote o f the Queen’

s Majestie ’

s

trymmed up and ri gged l ike a sli ippe o f war .

With James 1 . Neptune put in an appearance,and some o f the pageants were most e laborate .

In 161 3 the Grocers came out very strong.

Theyhad five f loating islands w ith I ndian f ru ittrees

,and spices

“all a 1g1

'

011'111g on them . I n

1639 the pageants dropped o ff altogether, and

the show sankto insignificance, to revi ve again

under Lord Mayor Pack in 1654. In 1655 Sir

John Dethick,a Mercer , had the Virgin o f the

Mercers’ Company, with dishevelled hair and

crown complete in his procession . In 1660came

the Royal Oak—as a matter o f course ; Thenf ollowed more ambitious attempts, and eventhe story of the Golden Fleece was told in f ull

in the Lord Mayor’

s Show. Then came a greatcalamity—poor old Gog and Magog were burntin the fire . We say Gog and Magog, but, in

the words o f Mrs. Harris, there never was nosich persons. G og and Magogwere originallyGogmagog the Albione a

'

nd Corineus the

Britaine .

” Corineus had, however'

,rather a

difficult name to remember, and so' Gogmagog

still surviving in the Gogmagog Hills—wasf amiliarly nicknamed Gog, and his

‘

;missing

syllables handed over to Corineus, who became

Ma'

gog. Inthe succeedingyears eve’

ry companyhad its trade pageant, the Goldsmiths havingtheir patron saint

, St. Dunstan,with'

his tongs

as used duringhis legendary interview with thePrince of Evil , the Drapers having shepherds

and shepherdesses, and the Grocers, ever themost

_popular o f the companies .amongst‘

the‘

young, having a black king, and black portersscattering f ruits and nuts and sweets f romtheir

baskets.

' In 1672 the show had two giants~

fif teen f eet

high takingtobacco, ”_a device improved upon

in 1 83 7 , when Gog'

and Magog, each'

f ourteen

f eet high, appeared walking side by side alongthe read, their hidden machinery worked bymen inside their wickerwork bodies. Duringthe early days of C harles

’

n . the pageants

flourished exceedingly, but towards the close o f

themerrymonarch’

s reign'

di'

ssensions broke - outbetween him and the‘

C ity, and gradually the

display on the 29th October was shorn'

o f its

splendours. 1Previous to 1 501

'

the d inner took place at

either Grocers’ Hall or Merchant Taylors’Hall,

but in that year Lord’ Mayor“

Shaw inaugurated

the Guildhall banquets, ”which are

.

now‘

the

great feature o f the day. Lord Mayor’

s Day is

indeed one o f much f easting. To saynothingo f the , quiet f ami ly breakf ast in the morning,the Lord Mayor has to breakf ast o fficially, to

lunch in his rob'

es

'

previous to the departure o fthe show,

and then return to dine in state at

that huge repast which begins with 250tureenso f real turtle, and ends with .ah array of sweetsenough to make ahoy

’

smouthwater f orWeeksf or instance

, 60 dishes o f mince pies, 50 o fblancmange, 400 of jellies and ice- C reams, 100

o f pineapples, 120 of cakes, 350‘

o f f ruits,and

200 of hothouse grapes ! The .bill o f f are hasimproved somewhat since Mr . Pepys, in 1663 ,took his own f erk and spoon with him '

—as was

the '

custom in those days—li ad

v

no . knives'

o r

napkins, no change o f trenchers, and drankout o f earthen pitchers and wooden dishes.

The Banners o f the City Companies ”have

always been prominent during the day, and o fthese w e gi ve a colouredplate with this month

’

s

part. Quite a new l ight has been‘

thrown on

the history o f these associations by the recent

report o f the Guilds Commission. There are

seventy- two o f them now in ex istence; but onlytwelve—in their order . o f precedence; Mercers

’

,Grocers’

, D rapers’

, Fi shmongers’

,Goldsmiths’

,

Skinners’

, Merchant Taylors’

,Haberdashers’

,

Salters’

,Ironmongers

'

, Vintners’

, and Clothworkers’—are known as great. The others are

the minor companies, and o f li ttle influence,although a f ew

—such as the Armourers’

,Carpen

tcrs’

,Leathersellers

’

,and Saddlers

’ —have largerevenues and manymembers. The companies

were not f ormed f or the protection o f the trades

whose names they bear. Very naturally these

names caused them to be mistaken f or a sort o f

trades union, but theynever included all the

members o f a trade,and were merely clubs .or

lodges f or social intercourse and mutual benevo lence

,whose founders happened at the time

to be in the same business.

A s f ar back as 1 415 the Drapers’ Company

was not confined to drapers, and.

hardly any o f

the income was spent -

on trade purposes ; _

ih

1 445 therewas onlyone skinner bytrade in theimportant Skinners

’

.

Company ; in 1 448'

the

charter o f the Haberdashers expresslyprevidesf or the admission of members “

not belongingto the mystery

"

; 1,

the Merchant Taylors’has

been open to all trades since 1502 ; the Goldsmiths’

, f rOm almost the first,has not been ’

con

fined to that calling ; and the C lothworkers’

,

owing to the f ew members of the trade it con

tained, was specially empowered by an Act,o f

Elizabeth’s to appoint deputy searchers to per

f orm‘

some technical duties that had been en

trusted to them ..

In these daystheFishmongers’

Company, without authority by any statute,appoints and pays fish-meters, who attend atBillingsgate Market and examine the fish o ff ered

f or sale, condemning it ,when unfit f or f ood, and

prosecutes o ff enders under the close- time clauses

of the Fisheries Act the Goldsmiths’ Companyassays and marks plate, and since the reign o f

Edward‘

I . has annually inquired into the

purity of the coinage at the trial o f the pyx

the Vintners’ Company enj oys the privilege of

sell ing'

f oreign'

wine without a licence, and nu

loads wines at the London Docks ; associated.

with‘

the Dyers’ Company, the Vintners are

protectors- of the swans on the Thames ; the

Apothecaries’ Company examines candidates f or

licences to practise as apothecaries, has extensive laboratories connected with its hall , and

keeps up a botanical garden at Chelsea the

Founders’ Company stamps weights the Gun

makers’

_Company proves and marks guns,

pistols,“

and smal l arms the Scri vencrs’C om

pany examines candidates f or admission as

notaries '

; and the Stationers’ Company keeps

the copyright registry and trades as the pro

pri etor o f a score of a lmanacks.

The companies are very wealthy, and hold

considerable'

property acquired - by them under

two heads}, trust and corporate.

”To

gether, thesé‘

amount to“

about three -

quarters o fa

‘

m i‘

llion a year . Of tlns large sum

is “ tr ust,

”and this is a dministered intact.

The cost o f the administration o f the trust“

is .

paid f or out o f the Out o f

the three- quarters .o f a mill ion of revenue ,about half goes _

in charity, and that hal f

includes everything that was left the com

panies . f or charitable purposes, and

per annum'

in addition. As instances o f the

working o f the'

companies, it maybe mentioned

that during recent years the Merchant Taylors’

Company'

has expended out o f its private ihcome on

'

the school that bears itsname, that the London Hospital has received

f rom the Grocers’ Company, and that

nearly is annually contributed by theunited companies to the

“ London charities.

,The .Mercers

’ Companydates its inco rporationf rom 1 393 ; its arms are the demi - v

’

irgin withdishevelled air. The Grocers were f ounded as

The Pepperers in 1 3 45, and the'

r arms are

the“

nine cloves. The Drapers go as far back as

1 322 their arms are the,three tri le crowns.

The Fishmongers’

were incorporate in 1 433 ;their armsare the crossed keysand fishes. The

Goldsmiths’C oinpany

‘

date f rom Edward L ;

their supporters are the golden unicorns. The

Skinnerswere incorporated in 1 327 their shieldhas an ermine field. The MerchantTaylors datef rom bef ore 1 300 their patron sain t is St. Johnthe Ba

ptist, and their crest is the lamb and

flag. The Haberdashers were incorporated in

1 447 ; their supporters are the goldengoats. The

Salters date prior to Richard their arms are

the‘

three hard- boiled eggs, w ith the motto,

Sal snpit omnia.

"

The Ironmongers ex istedbef ore the reign o f Edward ”L ; their supporters

are the. green salamanders.

'

I’

hc Vintners re .

ceived a charter in 1 365 their arms are three

casks,the ir

“supporters a wreath o f grapes.

And the C lothwo rkers were incorporated in

1 482 as“the Shearmen their arms are the

tense ] aml brackets on a field o f black .

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AN Axxroos Exqumsn.—Vcry ! But we have no

space to answer live questio ns and their numeroussubdivisio ns. Your best p lan would be to l akeyour dogs to a ve t , and le t him judge o f the ir"Simmons ior himsell .

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—A paper on the subject has recentlybeen given in another magazine, and we are cousequently debarred f rom avail ing ourselves of youro ff er .

R. L. 11 .—Y ou never “

observed anything o f the sortWe have read it care f ully

through f rom the beginning, and no such statementA half - crown isworth two shi llings

and Sixpence , except at the Mint, and there it isY ou should write f or particulars to the

in the BOY'

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was ever made.

worth less.

magazme thatmade the statement, and not to us.

JULI US SMITH—Your verses on the Viking Feast arepainstaking, but 1 I

See hismen theydrinkingOut o f earthen mugs or pots,

H is little son is thinkingOf the wine he

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s had lots.

Slowly but gaily passes the mealSigurd is telling o f his ventures

Here comes Eric with some vealAmongst the ir laughs and jeers

outing, o f whi chthe

(THE END . )

Our Award is as f ollows

FirstPrize One Guinea and a H aU’

.

ALFRED HOWELL (aged 20 years), 70, Lord Street,Woodhouse, Longton, Stoke

- upon- Trent, Staff s.

Second Pr ize—One Guinea .

ALBERT EDWARD BOURNE (aged 7 4, Bucknall

New Road, Hanley, Staf f s.

Extra Pn’

z c—I I aU—a -Guinea .

WrLLI AM H . PrLsnunr (aged Grosvenor Villa,Regent Street, Stoke - upon

- Trent, Staff s.

C ertif icates.

EDWARD A . SAMPSON (aged Beauchie f Abbey, near

Shetfie ld .

l imm nn C ORDEROY H rocs (aged Gothic Villas,8 , C hurch Road, Brixton, s.w.

I t may be added that most o f the competitors were

ent.rely se lf - taught, the ir entire instruction bavmgbeen gained f rom our co lumns, and one had been con

lined to his couch six years by spinal af f ection.

We ho pe in our next number to o ff er a new and

most attractive series o f prizes.

AN INQU IRER.—Y 0ur best p lan woul d be to caref ully

read our articles on chess.

A SON OF THE C ELESTIAL EMPIRE - 1 . The series willbe gradually comp le ted. 2. A bowler can changehis side o f the w icket when he pleases. 3 . There isno trustwo rthy book. Y ou must choose your tradef or yourself .

C OMET.—There are schoolmasters to every regiment.

The amount o f education acqui red depends on therece ive r, and not on the giver.

VIRING.—l . The easiest rig f or one person to manage

is probably the balanced lug and mizen used bycano e ists . C utter rig is the f astest and most weatherly ; and yaw ] rig is the sa f est. Anydictionaryo f sea terms w ill te l l you how to make a Ilsherman

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anchor and a drogue .

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l‘

he ancho r is made o f twospars crossed and covered with a sail the drog ue isa cask o r bund le o f spars thrust out on a p o le .

C harts can be Obtained f rom any nautical wareho use . Yachts ar e bought cheapest during theskating season.

GURPRIZE COMPETITIONS.(SIXTH SERI ES. )

Pottery Painting.

'1‘ will be remembered that on the completion o f ouril lustrated articles on PotteryPainting, we o f f ered

a series of prizes (see page covering the ven ousbranches o f the art that had been described. Weregret that so very f ew should have responded to our

o f f ers. Indeed, in only one section, that o f OverglazePainting, has any work been sent in, and even herethe number of competitors is most limited—the smallest number , indeed, that has ever taken part in our

competitions.

THE s our scoan roa m s

. SEASON.

UR innings is over, you’vegot thetwelveout,

you sayThisyear havewe pi oved we ’

re as valiant“

andstout

A team as last year’

s, and as livelyand gay9

Y ou bayskeep the score, you our judges.

must

be

Sayhave we played up Havewe made any. hits

{Do you with our f orm and our tactics agree- 3

.And have wein anyway'

sharpened your wits

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Esch'

ons of the twelvehastried hard to_.succeed,

And if he has scored has no cause ..to complain .

Your cheersmake our labour a pleasure _indeed,(And tell usour workhas not all been in vain .

And now we are hopingto '

f ace you once -more,

I f you’

l lget us out‘

that is all -that we askB e sure that each one will endeavour to score,And goodhitswill constitute part o f our task.

SOMERVILLE GIBNEY.

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(We always play' twelve and now‘

what do"We would ask our readers to make the best use

of the prosp ectus of the new volum e which theywill receit

‘

e this week, as now of course is the

most suitable time in the yea1 f or new sub

scribers to begin.

The Title and I ndex to Vol . V] . are now

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these.

The plates issued with the monthly parts

duringthe year maynow be obtained byweeklyreaders in a neat packet, price 1s. 8d. The

T itle and Index wi ll be included in thisp acket;though, as

‘

already explained, theymaybe had

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f! the harvest moonHas waned ; ere long

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tWill be a crescentC old

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pleasant.

Y es, harvest time has come,and we

Must bind our leaves ln cloth or leather,For harvest

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C omplete their yearly tale together.

A goodly'

garner, SQwe hope,A sheaf of pictures verses, stories

All subjects come within its scope,From tomtits‘ to a nation’

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N0 story taught you to be kinder ?Glance - o

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nce more o’er the scattered parts

Bef ore you send them“

to the binder.

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tis time f or reapingY ou maybe readyWithout f earTo trust your souls to

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guises.

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Babes in theWood, The

Badger’s Hole, The

Baikal, Lake .

BaitsBangor C athedral .

Barbel FishingBarber

'

s Pole?TheBarring

- Out at Thornbo1ough, The

Barbotine PaintingBath Bun, Ode to a

Bathing and SwimmingBecket, The Martyrdom of

Beetles andWhere to Find Them 666, 67 9

Belgian Hare RabbitsBell Legend, A C acus and HerculesBell Rock Lighthouse, The 568, C alendar

,Another Perpetual

C alendar, Our Pictorial 1 6, 80, 208,

224, 288, 352, 432, 496, 576, 640,

BIOGRAPH IES

0 C 3 1 3 ,

7 66, 7 7 9, 7 85, 807 ,

Bird Queries. 32, 144, 192, 208, 592,

Birdlime 542“

3 89, 41 1 , 493,

Birds, Foreign 15, 7 9, 143 , 223 , 287 ,

351 , 431 , 495, 57 5, 639, 704,

BismuthBlackboards, Painting .

Black Paint .

Blacken Brass, To .

BleachingEngravingsBligh, AdmiralBlood

’s Thef t of the C rown 206

'

Boat Queries 224, 352, 384, 416, 512

Boatrace, The

Boat Signals.

Boats, Famous and TypicalBokhara, The Khan of

Bolton A‘bbey

Bone PolishingBookbinders’ VarnishBoots, WVaterproofingBoppard, The Legend o f

Botanical BooksBoulder, A LargeBounty, The 665,

Boy Lif e Afloat 127 , 254

Boy’8 Own Mechanical PennyWhistle,The

BOY’s OwN PAPER atTristan d’

Acunha,

The 1 70

Boy’

s Tour, A 7 63, 7 75, 7 94, 810, 825Brahmaputra, The

Brass

Brass C leaningBreaking- up Sports, 0m

Bi caking up Supper at Sandilandsl eam Fishing

’.reedingRabbitsBridges o f Boats

Britannia, The First

656

656

431

1 42

C onstellations, The 13 , 47 , 7 8, 159,

212, 285, 348 427 , 524, 589, 637 , 702, 7 7 8

C ORRESPONDEN C E 1 5, 32, 48, 64, 80,

96, 1 12, 128, 1 44, 160, 1 7 6, 1 92,

208, 223 , 240, 256, 272, 288, 302,

320, 336, 352, 368, 384, 400, 416,

431 , 448, 464; 512, 528,

544, 560, 57 6; 592, 607 , 622, 640,

656, 672, 687 , 7 1 8, 7 3 5, 7 51 , 7 67 ,

7 83, 7 99, 816, 830

C ourses o f Model Yacht C lubsC ourtenays, The

C rayons

C rayon VarnishC RI C KETAverages, TheLaws

,The

Queri es 96, 193 ,

256, 302, 480, 544, 608, 7 83

school Matches 523 , 5 43

Seasons, The 429, 447 , 463

Domes FOR THE MONTH

C alendar , The RepublicanC amels, The

C anadian C anoeC anadian Lacrosseis, The

C anal ies

351 , 495, 7 04, 7 19, 7 82

C andlemas 800

C anoe C ruise ln the Solent, A 668, 682, 702

C anoes, C urious 107

C anterbury C athedral

C arats of Gold

C ardboard ModellingC ardinal Points, TheC arlisle C athedral .

C aroline Islanders, The .

C arp FishingC astings, Weight o fC askRaf ts

C at, The DomesticC aterpillars, How to PreserveC athedrals o f BritainC ats, C ur ious

C aught and C aged

C ements

C ensus, The ;

C entenarian Beam ,The

C entral Asia .

C eylon C adetsC hampions o f the ThamesC harade, A

C harlie and Mr. C harles

C hess 96, 17 3 , 463, 591 , 7 35,7 99 822

C hester C athedral 392

C lumneys, The Highest 7 99

C hinese Gordon 487

C hinese Language, The . 303

C hinese Raf ts 107

C ivil Service o f India, The1 42, 1 90, 207

C ivil Service Salaries 623

C lock Tower Light, The 512

C loth, Waterproofing 512

C lub Flags and RacingFlags 3 , 30

C oinage o f Foreign C ountries, The 32

C oin C astsC ollieryDisastersC ologne

C olours f or Lantern SlidesC olours f or Pottery Painting .

C olours o f Flowers

C ompanies, The C ityC ompass, The

C ompass, How to Make a

C ompass Plant, The

Dace Fishing 639

DancingNigger, The 1 56

Death or Freedom 345, 361 , 3 7 7

Deer, Names o f 1 12

Degrees 240

Diamonds 7 35

DickoryDock 384

Dick’

s Letter 309

Distant Signals 269

Distinction Lace 270

Divers and Diving 599, 620

Dogs 1 5, 7 9, 1 43 , 160, 223 , 287 , 303,

304, 351 , 4 31 , 495, 57 5, 622, 639,

704, 7 82

C ontents .

PAGEDomes FOR THE MONTH (continued)September

October

Novemb erDecember

EarlyMarch

Earthquake HousesL‘astbyAbbeyEchpses, Early

Gambier Islanders TheEgypt, A BoyS

'I -

‘

our through 7334 825Garden, How to LayOut a 126, 157 ,

Eira Boat . Th-e'

6041 7 4’ 188’ 238’ 381 ’

Gardening 15, 7 9, 223,287 , 351 ,Elmt’ J°hu 590

431 495 575 639 704Ely C athedral 394

Emigration Queries 48, 1 12, 240, 272,303 , 400, 432, 512, 623 , 672, 7 36,

22?gig Indelible Paper3 84

Indian C anoe, The3

Indian C ivil Service, The3 36

142, 149, 1 7 5, 190, 207

Indian Houses 7 7 4

27 1, 286

67 2

67232

27

7 13, 7 24, 7 50

1 07

413

5

1-91 196

First in.the Field 430

592

688,"

7 35

Fishingf or the Month 592, 638, 703 , 7 81

FishingBoats 604

Fishmongers’

C ompany, The 826

FlagPlates, Our 303

Flags, C lub and Racing ”

3 , 30, 256'

Fl ags, Siz es ofFlagstone, A LargeFlash SignallingFleet, The RiverFleussDivingDress, TheFloors, To C leanFlower Garden, The 15, 7 9 1 43, 223 ,

287 351 , 431 639, 704, 7 82FlyingFish . 7 7 3Follq p 343

Football 7 68 7 84

Football Match, An Old

Football Seasons, The

FOR JAMES OR GEORGE ? 22, 41 ,

54, 68, 89, 100, 1 1 7 , 1 33 , 149, 165,'

1 82, 197 , 214, 228, 246, 265, 282,294, 3 10, 329, 358, 3 7 4, 394,

406, 422

32

826

470

7 19

653

48

7 52

1 12

7 57

480

1 12

470

PAC EHeliograph, TheHeraldic C rownsHeref ord C athedralHeroes o f the Ranks 7 98,Heroes o f Tod ayHill Tribes o f India, TheHimalayan RabbitsHint f or Naturalists

, A

H ippographyHockey and How to Play ItHo lidayRamblesHoly Thorn, TheHome Amusements 651 ,Homes of Many Lands 7 57 , 7 7 4, 7 98,Homography. 438, 462,Honey in the Slain LionHope Boat, TheHorn, PolishingHorn, TO '

SOften

Horseshoe, TheHotbed, The, and HOw to Make It

How to'

LayOut a Garden .i l 26, 157 ,

1 7 4, 188, 238, 381 ,Hunt in a Haystack, AHurley and How'

to Play It 254,Huron, Wreck of the

HydrantMarks

INDOOR AMUSEMENTS[Eolian HarpsAphengescope, The

BonePolishingC hess

'

96, 1 7 3 , 463, 591, 67 1 , 7 1 8,

7 35, 7 99,C ompass, How to Make a

DancingNig'

ger, The

H ippographyHorn PolishingIndoor Game, An

Lantern Screen FrameLantern Slides, Designs f or 1 44, 1 7 6,1 92, 27 2, 287 , 302,

3 19, 352, 655,

Magic Lantern, How to Make a 239,

244, 268, 300,

Magic Lantern f or Opaque Slides164, 387 ,

Marine Engine, A 637 ,

NettingMade Easy .

Pottery Painting 1 3 , 28, 43 , 76, 91 ,124, 132, 189, 237 ,

651 ,

1 4, 21 , 68,

525,

559

219

392

805

31

414

7 7

47 5

1 7 3

29

680'

4554

666

81 5

47 6

22

604

1 10

256

223

188

541366

380

204

64

822

68

156'

1 7 3

1 10

655'

415

800

31 4

404

646

47 7

262

123

666

123

551

540

68

123

Kayak, The EskimoKennel, The . 1 5, 7 9, 1 43, 223 , 287 ,

Kent, Burning of the

Ket’

sRebellionKillingBottleKingC ricketKing

'

s C ock C rower, The

Kirkstall AbbeyKitchen Garden, The 15,

287 , 351 ,

KiteWalk, A

Knight’

s Tour, The

Knots.

and C ordage

Kruman C anoe, The

1 7 3, 47 5

LacrosseLacrossers, The C anadianLanded ProprietorsLansdell , Rev. J.Lantern Paint Q

Lantern Slides 1 44, 1 7 6, 192, 223, 240,256, 272, 287 , 302, 3 1 9, 352, 655

Lantern Screen Frame

Largest SailingVessel, TheLatitude, EarlyLaws of C ricket

,The

Leather C leaningLecternsLegends of the Rhine 7 93 , 805,Lenses .

Mouse Tower Legend, The

Letterer ’

5 Scale, The Mushrooms, PreservingLichfield C athedral

Li f e ’

s RiverLighthouses, Our

568, 57 1 , 587 , 602

535, 558

Magic Lantern f or Opaque Slides 164,

Magic ,Lantern, How to Make a 239,

244, 268, 300, 314

512

1 7 6

602

C ontents .

385, 409

November Meteors, The

OpeningSeason, TheOrchidsOrder of C ommand, The

Otter TrappingOur Fathers o f Old

Our New Volume

Our Summer HolidaysOut- o f—the -way PetsOut with a Sweep

- net

OUTDOOR SPORTS AND PAsrm ns

Boatracing 526

C anoeing 668, 682, 702

C ycle Boat, A 253,364

C ycle C hampionships, The 7 5

Fishing f or the Month

Football 7 7 , 94

Golf .27 1, 286, 302

Manchester C athedral

Mange’

OintmentManifold PaperMaoris'

The .

Marble, To C lean .

Manne Engine Making 63 7 , 646, 667 ,

Marquesas Islanders, TheMartyr o f Erromango, The

Masthead SignallingMastheaded .

Matches

Matches, Mixture f o1Measurement of Model C lubs

Medusa,Wreck o f the

Meerschaum .

Meridian, The FirstMermaid, Wreck of theMeteors

Miscellaneous1 12,

223 ,

3 36,

448,

560,

672,

MissionaryStoriesMistletoe, The 7 68

Modell ing C layModelling in C ardboardModel Yacht C lubs, and How toManage

them 399, 41 4

Model YachtingSeasons 364, 382

Mole C atching 7 18

Mole Trapping 105, 1 25

Moleskins 7 35

MonsMeg 591

More about Sundials 551

Morgan’

s Head 1 85, 1 99, 217 , 232, 249,

263, 27 8‘

7 94

480

128,

240,

. 352,

464,

57 6,

687 ,

Microscopic SlidesMil itary Queries 64, 96, 144, 1 92, 303 ,

3 84, 464, 656, 7 19,15, 32, 48, 64, 96,

208,

320,

431 ,

544,

656,

7 83 ,

1 44,

256,

368,

47 9 .

592,

7 18,

160,

272,3 84,

496,

607 ,

7 35,

1 7 6,

288,

400,

512,

622,

7 51 ,

1 92,

302,

416,

528,

640,

7 67 ,7 99, 816, _

830

519, 590, 7 1 4, 7 3 4, 7 55

NOTE BOOK, OUR

Abideth f or EverAdvice to StudentsBathing and SwimmingFaithHoney '

m the Slain LionLyingMinutes

,TableOf

Neve1 f ailingFriend,AOur Prize C ompetitionsPower o f Love, ThePublic School Lif e and C hristianityReal Boy, A

Singular C oincidence, ASundials, C orrections f or,True HappinessWords that Stain

Write Home a Letter To night .

OPEN C OLUMNBOY Zs OWN e PAPER at Tristand

’

Acunha

Brave Lad, AC alendar, ~A Perpetual _

C anadian C anoeC anadian -Words o f C heer

C ardboardModel lingC at, The DomesticC urious C atsHarry’

s C omplaintMole catchingMonsMegNaturalists, A Hint _

f or

New Indoor GameNew SouthW'

alesWordsOf C heerNew ZealandWo1ds o f C heer

Ode to a Bath Bun

Out- of - the -way PetsSister ’

s C omplaint, ASpend and Spare

“rays of “f orking

PAGEOUTDOORSPORTS AND PAST IMES(continued)Hand Ball 292

-Hockey, and How to Play it 29

Hurley, and How to‘ Play it 254, 380

KiteWalk, A 437

Lacrosse 1 41

Model Yachting 364, 382, 399, 414Pickaback Tournaments 421

Raf ts and C atamarans 428, 447 , 459

Signals and Signalling 269,559

Water T1 icycle, A

Oxford C athedral

Pageants, C ityPainful Disappointment, A .

Paint f or Lens TubesPalestine, A Boy

’

s Tour through 7 63 ,7 7 5,

PallonePaper, C leaning”

Parallel,The First

Parrots of Australasia, ThePaste, To Make

Patagonian RabbitsPatagonians, ThePatterns, Weight ofPeace andWar

Pee-

rs, New

Felsart’

5 IslandsPennyWhistle, and How toPlay It, ThePersonal Incidents of Slave hunting, 332,

347

C ontents.

PAGEPOETRY (continued)New Year TheNew Year 8 EveNew Year ’

sWelcome,A

Our New VolumePeace '

andWar

Score f or the Season

Sister ’s C omplaint, A

Twelfth Night .

Write Home a Letter To -night .

Quintain, TheQuitea Square

SC IENT IFI CAstronomy 1 3, 47 , 7 8, 93 , 159, 212,

285, 3 482 427 , 524, 589, 63 7 , 7 02, 7 7 8

Beetles, andWhere to Find Them 666, 67 9

British Orchids 47 9

C aterpillar Preserving - 510

Hunt in a Haystack, A 366

Outwith a Sweep Net 607 , 622

Seaweeds 588, 607

Specimen Preservative 47 5

Ships, Masts of

SH IPWREC KS OF THE WORLD, THE

GREAT

Dunbar, The

Grosvenor , TheHuron,The

Kent,“

The

Medusa, The

Sarah Sands, The

Shot in the Dark, AShutter SignallingSiberi a .

S iberian Rabbits .

Signals and Signalling 269,

31 9, 438, 462, 47 6, 574

Sigvald theViking 1 36, 152, 168

Points of RabbitsPolar Bear at Home, ThePolecat TrappingPolishRabbitsPolish f or Mosaic PavementsPolynesian HousesPomologyPoor Regimental JackPopulation, ThePottery Painting I 3 , 76, 91 ,

Poultry Run, The 15, 7 9, 1 43 , 223 ,

351 , 431 , 495, 57 5, 639, 7 04

Power of Love, ThePrecedencePrepared f or aWhippingPreparing f or a SpringPresidents o f the United StatesPriming f or C anvasPrince, The Title ofProf essional Tints, ThePrometheus, The Myth of

Public School Lif e and C hristianityPuzzles. 7 9 367 , 423 ,

Screen f or Magic LanternScrew, The

Screw Steamer, The FirstScrews, To RemoveScriveners’

C ompany, The

Sea FishingRabbit C ourt, The Boy’

s Own 1 1 , 20, Seamanship, Books on3 7 ’

62, 7 7 , 86 Seaweeds

Rabbitry, The 15, 7 9, 1 43 , 223 , 287 , Seed Sowing.

57 5, 639, 7 04, 7 82 Semaphore SignallingRacingFlags 30, 256 SevenWonders, TheRaf ts and C atamarans 428

,447 459

Sextant, The Principle of theRalph

’

s Adventures en route to an InShakspeare, The Spelling of

dian Tea Estate 661 , 67 3, 699 Shell PolishingRankMarks of the Navy 270

SherbetRat Trapping 239, 255 Shillook C anoesReal Boy1

A 7 58ShippingLines, TheRef f ’rmm‘m

’ The 7 47Shipping QueriesRelative Rank 270 336, 560, 656 7 83

Rheinstein, Legend of the 8057 19

Rhine,The 7 93, 805, 829

Ribbons Of our Rowing C lubs 7 67

Ride to the Rescue, A 87

Rievaul‘x Abbey 4 70

Rigs, The BestWorking 830

Ripon C athedral 394

Rising Of the C ommOns, The 57

RoachFishing 592

Rochester C athedral 394

Rod, TO Make a . 592

Roland and Oliver 368

Roller Skates 3 36

Roses, Extract of 368

Rotterdam . 7 93

Rowing C lub Ribbons 767

Royal Y acht C lubs, TheRoyal Yachts, The 304

C ontents .

PAGE PAGES1LVER C ANON , THE 4, 25, 46, 51 , 7 1 , TI GERSK IN , THE 424, 443 , 452, 470, 483 ,

83, 109, 116, 1 39, 155, 1 7 1 , 1 80, 500, 51 5, 532, 548, 565, 581 , 597 ,

203 , 218, 234, 250, 260, 27 6, 299, 613 , 628, 644, 659 , 67 6, 694, 708,3 1 7 , 326, 349, 363 , 3 7 2, 3 97 , 405, 7 31 , 7 40, 7 58, 7 72, 7 86, 81 1

420, 439, 460, 47 8, 491 , 502, 51 7 ,

534, 550, 572, 586, 601 , 615, 635,{Silver GreyRabbitsS ilveringGlassSingula1 C oincidence, ASialoin, The .

Sister ’s C omplaint, A

Skerryvore LighthouseSkin Rafts 64, 192,

Slogans andWar - C riesSmith, John, the Great 7 66, 7 7 9, 7 85,

TRAPS AND ALL ABOUT THEM

807

Soap MakingSolderi ngSolomon Islanders, The

TRAVEL AND EXPLORA T IONAmong the Mongols 519, 525

Boy’

s Tour, A 7 7 5, 7 94, 810, 825

Sound and Distance Great A f rican Explorers 556

Soundings, Deepest Pioneer, The 7 14

Spanish Fowls, Points of Rhine,The

'

7 93 , 805, 829

Special Notices Stra1ght Line, To Draw a Through Siberia 7 34

Specific Gravities Stra1ght Edges WanderingDervish, The 605

S ellincr BadStranger than Fict1on 590, 7 1 4

SEen(1 211(1 Spare Streams, C alculating C ontents of Treasure C ave, The 1 85, 199,SpinningTackleSpringIdyll , ASquirI el TrappingStainingFloors.Stars of the Month 1 3 , 47 ,

Summer MemoriesSummer Number, The

Sumpitan, The

Sundials, C or1 ections f orSundials, and How to Make ThemSurp1 isingAdventures of Mr. Golightly

Swans on the Thames

STORIES :Badger

’

8 Hole, TheBarring- out at Thornborough, The

721 , 7 37

Billy’s DoughtyDeeds 61 7

Breaking-up Supper at Sandilands 85

C acus and Hercules 7 , 20, 38, 60

C aught and C aged 630, 649‘

Death or Freedom 3 45, 361 , 3 7 7

Dunce’s Disasters, A . 281 , 297 , 308, 327

For James or George ? 9, 22, 41 , 54,

68, 89, 100, 1 1 7 , 1 3 3, 1 49, 1 65,

82, 1 97 , 21 4, 228, 246, 265, 282,294, 3 41 , 358, 3 7 4, 3 94,

406,422

Harold the Boy-Earl 433 , 449, 465,481 , 505, 513 , 538, 545, 561, 57 7 ,593 , 609, 615, 631 , 647 , 67 8, 689,705, 7 26, 7 45, 7 53 , 7 69, 7 90, 801 , 81 7

Morgan’

s Head 185, 199, 21 7 , 232,

NearlyEaten 385, 409Old Football Match

, An 201

Poor Regimental Jack 104, 120

STORIES (continued)Ride to the Rescue, A 87

Sigvald the Viking 1 36, 1 52, 168

Silver C anon, ,

The 4, 25, 46, 51 ,83 , 109, 1 16, 139, 155, 1 7 1 , 1 80,203 , 218, 234, 250, 260, 276, 299,

31 7 , 326, 349, 363 , 3 72, 397 , 405,420, 439, 460, 47 8, 491 , 502, 51 7 ,

53 4, 550, 57 2, 586, 601 , 615, 635, 647

Surprising Adventures of Mr . GO

Iightly, The 3 16, 325, 343

Tale of a Tap 558

Tale o f My Grandfather, A 252

TicklishWalk, A 7 16

Tigerskin, The 424, 443 , 452, 470,

483 , 500, 515, 532, 548, 565, 581 ,

597 , 61 3 , 628 , 644, 659, 67 6, 694,'

7 08, 7 31 , 7 40, 7 58, 7 72, 7 86, 81 1 , 819

Tim and Tip 633

Under a FallingHouse 67 1

Very Special 45, 58

White Rat, The 685, 697 , 7 1 1 , 7 29

Willoughby C aptains, The 1,1 7 , 33 , 7

49, 65, 81 , 97 , 1 13 , 129, 1 45, 161 ,

1 7 7 , 1 93 , 209, 225, 241 , 257 , 27 3 ,289, 305, 321 , 337 , 353 , 369, 390,

41 7 , 441 , 457 , 47 3 , 489, 497 ,521 , 529, 553 , 569

Wraith Of Allan C ameron, The 324

PAGEWaterproo f Glue 336

WaterproofingBoots

Waterproo fing C loth 512

WaterproofingLinesWeasel Trapping

1 7 3

Wellington Statue, TheWells C athedral

WenlockAbbey

Westminster AbbeyWhat is it

_

2

What shall I be 9Whistle, '

The

WhitbyAbbeyWhite Rat, TheWhiting, AbbotWide

'

Jump, The LongestWil liam of

“PerthWilliams, Rev. JohnWILLOU G ‘

HBY C APT ,A INs THE

33 ,'

49, 65,

161 , 1 7 7 , 193 , 209,

27 3 , 289, 321 , 3 3 7 , 353, 369,

390, 401 , 41 7 , 441 , 457 , 47 3, 489,

497 , 521 , 529, 553

685, 697 , 7 11 , 7 29

Wimborne AbbeyWinchester C athedral .

Window Garden, The 15, 223,

57 5,

Winds, Names, Of'7 68

Wood Bending 224 .

Wood, Sand-

paperingWood-s, A C ollection of

Woods that.SinkWorcester C athedral

Words'

Of'

C heer

Words that Stain .

Worm C atchingWraith of Allan C ameron, The

Wrecks, Extraordinary 204,

220, 509, 585, 693

464, 591 , 758

_

Wren, Sir “

C hristopher 394

Write Home a -Letter To-night 543

Wycli ff e and Tyndale

C HR1STMAS NU MB ER.

(Not included in Volume. )

C ard BridgeC harades, C ostumes f or.

C hristmas at Halehurst Once More

C hristmas in the Bush 21

C hristyMinstrels, Our Own 4

QDastguardsman’

s Yarn, The

Dyna-mite, My Lecture on 15

Exciting C hristmas Eve, AnPam-i

‘

liar '

PhantomsFine Art Show

, A

C ontents.

PAGEFireside Amusements .

Ghost Illusion, TheHatsfor C haradesHow I Saved MyAunt’

sDiamonds

POETRYBreakingUpC hristmas ln the C olonies .

C hurch Porch, TheFaces 111 the FireHead Boy’

s C hristmasDream, TheJoe SiegNoel

Silent Bell, The

Waits, The

SONGS

Happy'

Nigger, The

One SongMore

SU MMER NU MBER.

(Not included in Volume.)

FRONTI SPIEOE C oming Home f or theHolidays Fif tyYears Ago .

Arti ‘

st’s Remembrance of Fontainebleau

Australia, Summer Holiday ln

Battle of Brentf ord, TheBicycle Tour, A

Bingén and Back, To

Rhine, TheRowing C ruise, A, on theWest of Scot

land

St. Benet’

s'

Seaf ell Pike, A Night onSkye

Smuggler’

sRuse, The

Inv1s1ble Girl , TheJack o f Nine LivesJules de BeauvilleMario'nettesMechanical ToysMoving Spectac le, AMusical NeighboursNight in the Dreadnought, A

No End‘

o f a PickleOur Boys f 1 om the Eleventh to the Nine

teenth C entury

Playground of I ce, The

Exploration of the Steb

Falls Of Foyers, The-Fingal ’s C aveFontainebleau, An Artist’

s Remembrance of

Footprints of MemoryHans sui - Lesse, The Grottoes ofHighlands, TheHome for the Holidays—By C oachLakes, A Boy

’

s Ramble at the

LewesMidnight Plunge into the Sea, A .

Moselle, The .

Norf olkBroads, The

Oban

Oulton Broad

Pigeon Flyer, The Abbot as

PAGESouthWalsham Broad

Spot to Remember, A

Sussex, A HolidayStroll in

PARROTS OF AU STRALASIABURGEES OF THE YAC HT ING C LUBSWREC K OF THE MED USA

A VIK ING VI C TORYC ROWNS AND C ORONETS

OUR ROYAL NAVYRANK MARKS OF THE BRIT ISH NAVY

OF 'THE BRITISH ARMY

C ontents .

Voyage o f the Ripple, The 54

Wales, My Summer Holiday in 8

Wherry, The Norf olk 14

I L L U S T R A T I O N S .

BRIT ISH ORC H IDs

C RI C KET C OLOURS OF

SC HOOLS

OUR BRIT ISH SEAWEEDSMONARC H OF ALL I SURVEY

OUR LEAD INGRIBBONS OF

C LUBS

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