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S :A PUBLIC SCHOOL STORY.

BY THE AUTHOR o r

The A dventu res of a Th ree Guinea Watch , etc.

w ar ren X VI I I .— A HOLID AY ADVENTURE .

HEN a b ig schoo l like S t. D om inic'sis gathered together within the

comparatively narrow compass o f fou rwal ls there is some po ssibility o f asoertaining h ow it pro spers , and what eventsare interesting it. But when the sam e

scho ol is scattered to th e fo ur w ind s o fheaven du ring th e holidays, it wou ldrequ ir e a hundred eyes and m ore to followits movements .It wo ul d b e impo ssible, for instance,

at one and the same time to accompany

S ATURDAY , FE BRUARY 4, 1 8 8 2 .

“ In a to rrent l ike th is It was an awf u l per il.

P rice O ne P enny .

[ALL RIGHTS RE S ERVE D .]

Raleigh and his sisters u p S nowd on ,

and lo ok on"

at Bramble catchingcrabs on th e ro cks at B road stairs no r,

while w e fo llow D r . S enior am ong th e

p eaks and passes o f Switzerland (anb

d re

m ark , by th e way , what a n ice qu iet b oyTom S eni o r 1 8 , when h e h as onlyhis fatherand his m other to tempt h im into mischi ef)ean

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w e possibly expect to r egard veryattentively th e d o ing s of S im on as h e ga

’pesabou t before th e London Sh Oe ind O WS ,and jerks be a score o r m ore stanzas o f his“ Hart’s E arnings,” which i s now abou t aqu arter d one .

S o th e reader m u st 1 magine h ow m o st o fth e boy's spent their ho lidays , h ow theyenjoyed them , a nd h ow they behavedthem selves du ring th e period , and b e con

tent to b e told only abou t two grou ps o fh oli day makers, abou t whom , as they are

destined to figure pretty conspicuou sly mnext term ’

8 do ing s at S t . D om inic’s , it willb e interesting to hear rather m ore particu l arly now .

And the fi rst group — ii we can c'all asingle person a group — is Lom an .

Lom an began his holidays in anythingb u t cheerfu l

,

spirits . No one had seemed

p articu larly sorry to say good-b ye to h im

at S t . D om ini c’s , and a go od m any h adb een unm istakably glad . And h e h ad

qu ite enou gh on hi s mind , apart from this,to m ake his hom e- com ing far less joyou sman it . m ight have been . It ought toh ave been the happiest event p o ssible, fo rh e was coming home to parents wh o lo vedh im , f i iend s wh o were g lad to see h im ,

and a home where every com fort and pleasu re was within his l each . Few boys , indeed ,

were m ore blessed than Lom an, with

all t h e advantages o f a Christian and

h appy hom e ; and few boys cou ld havefailed to return to su ch a hom e after along absence w ithou t delight. Bu t to

Lom an , these ho lidays, th e su rround ing s o fhom e afi'

orded very l ittle pleasu re. Hi sm ind was ill at ease. Th e b urden o f debtwas u pon h im ,

and th e bu rden o f su spense.

He h ad tried h ard to assure him self thatal l w ou ld come right— that h e wou ld cer

tainly win th e scholarship , and so wipe ofi

th e debt ; b u t his confidence becam e lessand less comfortab le as time went on .

He dared not tell his troubles to h isfather , for he feared h is anger ; and h e

w ou ld,not confess them to his m other, for

sh e, h e knew, w ou ld tell all to his father . He

still clung to th e hope th at all wou ld com e

r ight in th e end ; and then what w ou ldh ave been gained by telling his parents al labou t 1 t PTh e

“

one thing was har'd work— and

Loman cam e hom e determined to wo rk.

His parents saw h im ou t o f Spirits,and

were concerned . They d id what theycou ld to cheer h im ,

b ut withou t m u chsu ccess .Com e, E dward , pu t away you r books

to -day ,

” his m o ther wou ld say ;“ I want

you to drive m e over to Falkh am in th e

p ony- chaise.

”

“ I really can t , mother ; I m u st workfor the scho larsh ip.

”

“ Nonsense, b oy ; what i s a scholarshipcom pared with your health .

9 Besides ;you ll work all th e better if you take som e

exercise.

Bu t f or aweek nothing cou ld tempt himou t . Then , instead o f accompanying hisfatheror m other, h e wou ld take long so litary rides on his own ' pony, brooding allth e whi le over hi s troubles .O ne day , when in the cou rse o f one o fthese exped itions h e h ad taken th e direction o f Maltby —which was only fifteen

The 8 037’s O

’

Wn Taper.

said Lom an,fear ;

What I mean

that virtu ou s gentlem an significantly Iit

fore.

m iles '

di'_

stant from his home— h e became

su ddenly aware o f an approaching dogc art m the ro ad before h im , and a fam iliarvo ice crying ,

Why , if it ain’t young Squ ire Lom an ,rid ing a bit o f very tidy h orsefiesh too , as

I’m a D u tchm an !

It was Cripps . Wh at evil spirit9

cou ldh ave brought h im on th e scene now Q

Well , I never reckoned to see you

now ,

’

{ said h e, in his u su al jauntymanner .

“ Fact is, I was ju st tro tting ‘

over to see

you . I wanted to try.

_

what this here co b

was m ade o f , and , thinks I , I m ay as wellkil l two bird s w ith one stone, and lo ok u pmy young squ ir e while I ’m abou t it .

”

Comi ng to see me . exclaimed Lom an ,horrifi ed . I say, Cri pps, you mu stn’t dothat. My father wo ul d b e very angry, youknow .

“ Nice, th at is ! As if I wasn’t as goodcompany as any one el seO h ! it’s not that ,”

ing h e h ad given o ff ence .

“

O h , I know— abou t that there r od .

Bless me ! I w on’t let ou t -on you , mybeau ty — leastways, if you come u p to

sei atch . He’

d like to hear th e story,thou gh , th e‘ol d gentleman, . I fancy.

Woul dn’t h e, now .

Q,

“ I wou ldn’t have him know it forworld s . It’ll b e all right, Cripps, indeedit w ill

,abou t th e m oney.

M r . Cripps lo oked very benignant .“ All righ t, young swell, I hope it will .Funny I feel su ch an . interest in you ,

’Specially since that young greeny friendo f yours pu t in a wo rd for you . He

’s a

r eal nice sort h e is— h e owes you one, and

no m istake.

“ What ! ” said Loman ,. in surprise;

wh o do you mean .

‘

r’. Y o ung

“

G reen ;field .

Q

f

r‘ fTob e sure. Regul ar young chum o f

m ine, h e is . I know all about you , mym aster, and no m istakeWhat— th e young sneak ? What h as

h e been saying abou t m e l’”

1

“ E h — what ain’t h e been saying ! In

cou rse you d idn’t half m u rder h im,eh Q

In cou rse you ain’t a good hand at cheatin’

al l round . u p at th e scho o l ! What ? In

cou rse you ain’t saying nice thing s aginm e al l over th e place— and in cou rse someo f u s wou ldn’t like to see you get a reg

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1 ar

good hid ing , wou ldn’t we P Bless you ,I

know s all abou t it ; b ut I ’m mum,never

fear .”Lom an was fu riou s .Th e young liar ! ” h e '

exclaim ed . Idid owe h im one ; I’ll p ay h im when weget back .

Ho ld hard , yo ung gentleman, saidCripps, coo l ly .

“ To b e su re h e ain’t downright sweet on you ; b ut I ain -t za

-

going tohave h im sm ashed,m ind , al l to bits . Well ,

never m ind that . I’ll tu rn back “

with you ,

young gentlem an,if I m ay . We

’re only

three m iles from M altby,and maybe you ’ll

honou r a po or chap h ke me by having a

lo ok in at th e Co ckchafer . 1

Lom an did not know h ow to say N0mu ch as h e d isliked and feared hi s ho st .He retui ned with h im to Maltb y, and therespent an hou r in th e Cockchafer . He was

intro du ced to several o f M r . Cripps’s l owfriend s , in who se society h e found it easyenou gh to becom e l ow h im self. Cripps, bya judiciou s m ixtu re o f flattery and slythreats , m anaged to keep th e b oy m g o odhum ou r, and when at last h e ro se to go itwas with a prom ise to retu rn again beforeth e holidays were over to prevent Crippshaving the trouble of call ing on him ,

”as

Loman kept his p rem ise, and visitMaltby once o r twice, becom ing each ti]m ore fam iliar with Cripps and hi s 1 .friend s , wh o m ade a great deal o f h im , a

flattered h im on all po ssible o ccasion s ,that th e b oy presently found him self, asim agined , qu ite a you ng hero at th e Cocchafer .M eanwhile, naturally, his reading 1

behindhand . His parents,only too gl

to see their b oy tak ing m ore regu lar excise , never su spected o r inqu ired as to 1

d irection of his f i equ ent solitary rides .them he seem ed th e sam e qu iet, clever lthey fond ly believed h im . Little gues :they o f th e troubles that filled his b re‘

o r th e to ils that were dail y enwrapp ih im !

Thu s Loman’s holidays cam e to an e)

Th e farewell was once m ore said , pare.

and son parted , and on the first day o feventfu l term th e b oy found him self 0 1m ore w ithin thewalls o f S t . D om inic’s .

“

O liver and S tephen , meanwhile, h ad b lspend ing a very d ifferent so rt o f ho licat hom e. Therewas high feast and revewhen th e two boys retu rned once m oreth e maternal roo f . S tephen fo r once 1 1way h ad the satisfaction o f fi nd ing himia m o st u nmistakable hero . He never titelling of his adventu res and d iscou rs:on-th e wh o le m anner of his life sinceday h e left home f or S t . D om ini c’. .s To

sister hei ecounted , in all th e slang phrao logy h e h ad at his command , th e farmcricket m atches in which he h ad bornpart ; and sh e, though it was exactlyr eek to h er , drank ?1 n every word withterest .

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And to his mether h e narratedyario

‘

us fights with Bramble, and th e t

m an ! I say itwil l b e a spree.

”h

And th e

y o ungster becam e so riotou s over th ep ro spect that his elder brother h ad to

t hreaten not to take h im at all ,.

and g l ve

h im a thrashing into th e bargain , beforeh e coul d b e reduced to order.They were to take a tentwith them ,

and

c ooking u tensils , so as to b e qui te independ ent o i inns , and each voyager was to cont ribute his share of

‘ pro vender . Qui te a

R obinson Crusoe bu siness , even down to“

the d esert island , for on desert island s theboys h ad declared they intended every:ni ght to take up their quarters, and , 'come

h ail , snow , o r l ightning , there to sleepu nder their waterproo f tent.Mr s . Greenfield d idn’t half l ike the 1 dea,

and became very pathetic on th e subject o fa gue and

'

rheum atic fever. Bu t th e boysc arried th e day by prom ising fai thfu llythat they wou ld catch neither malady . The

l o oked - for d ay came at last, and to O xfo rdthey went, where the familiar sight o f

Wraysfo rd , in boating co stume, at th e realway station still ‘ further elated thei r highs pirits . Th e boat was ready. Th e tent,th e provender, th e blankets were snu glys towed away on board . The weather was

:fine, th e river was charm ing , everything

p rom ised well ; and punctually thatM onday afterno on th e three adventurersl o o sed from their m oorings and turned th e:no se o f their boat towards London

I wish I co uld tell th e reader all th e

e vents o f that wonderfu l voyage : h owt hey padd led d own m errily with th e

stream h ow they found their desert island~covered w ith nettles, which they h ad to

m ow d own w ith their cars h ow th e soupk ettle wo u ldn’t act, and th e stew—panIl eaked ; h ow grand th e potted lobstertasted ; how S tephen offered to make teawi th m u ddy water, and h ow the paraffin-o il o f their lanterns leaked all over their1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 cake and sandwiches ; h ow S tephenwas sent up inland to forage, ‘

and came

b ack wi th wonderfu l pu rchases of eggsand:m ilk ; h ow they started off one day ,l eaving their tent behind them ,

and“

h ad to:r ow back in a panic to recover it ; h ow itr ained one night, and a puddle formed on

t h e ro o f of th e tent, which presently grews o b ig that it overfl owed and gaveWraysffo rd a shower-bath ; h ow each morning“they all took headers into the stream , mu ch"

to th e alarm o f the sleep y du cks ; h owthey now and then ran fou l Of a boat, andn ow and then were tu rned o ff their camp:ing ground by an indignant keeper ! Itwasg loriou s fun . Bu t it would take a volumef to recoun t al l that happened to them.

They were com ing near the end o f theirrui se.

’ They had paddled down past them agnificent wo o ds o f Ch efden, and .

.undert h e pretty bridge o f Maidenhead ; theyh ad watched the b oys bathing at Athens ,and they h ad rowed through th e gloomyshadow o f Wind sor Castle and on pastE ton .

Here th e river is broken by a stri ng o fisland s , which in many parts m ake th estream narrow ; and the river being full ofboats and barges , o ur three adventurersf ou nd them selves called upon to fl exercisem o re than ordinary precautions in keepingtheir co urse. This responsibility becam e

a t last so irksome that O liver said , ‘

“ I say , can’t we get ou t o f thi s rabbleanyhow Why shoul dn’t we take th eo ther side o f th e island s

“ I don’t know.' It wou ld b e a go od

Seal qu ieter. I wonder none o f the boatso it .”“ Let’s try, anyhow. We can’t b e ’

farfrom th e lo ck, and then th e river will b e

The fi'ioy

’s Own I

jap ei

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WILDADVENTURES ROUNDI

THE POLE ;OR,THE CRUIS E O F THE ARRANDO ON.

(A -sE QUE L To“run CRUIS E on THE

BY GORDON STABLES , a n.

CHAPTER x 1 x . srLAS em s HIS fY ARN

r unwnrr r. WH ALE —_

AFLO AT ON -AH ICEBERG— A D RE ARY JOURNE Y — BE AR ADVENTURES— “

r 1 1 n S EALS ! THE SEALS !

wider. Take u s up inside th e next isl‘and ,S tee, and m ind you d on

’t fou l any one

while you ’re abou t it.S tephen d id as h e was b id . Th e stream

was pretty strong ju st there, and th e tworowers h ad to pul l pretty hard to get roundwithou t drifting on to th e island .

O nce o ut o f th e main stream ,they were

delighted to find the cou rse clear. I ndeed ,they h ad th e.

channel al l to them selves .What a jolly pace th e stream is go ing

at ! said S tephen ; ‘ fwh y d on

’t you d rift,you fel lows , instead Of pul ling like that ?”

“ Good idea f or you , young ’nu

,

” saidWraysford , pu lling in his o ar . O liver fo llowed his example.

“ Keep a look-o ut ahead ,” said h e toS tephen ,

and , sing ou t if anything ’scom ing .

”

S tephen said “ All right,” b ut (carelesspilo t that h e was) began pulling on hisso cks and shoes, which h e h ad d ispensedwith du ring th e m orning .

Thu s o ccupied , and th e o ther two sittingwith their backs to th e prow

, th e unnatu ralpace at which th e boat fl ew along did notfor a m oment or two become apparent .S u ddenly, however, Wraysfo rd started up .

Get ou t you r oar , No ll— qu ick !Wh at’ s the r ow P said O l iver, p ro

ceeding leisu rely to obey -the o rder .Th e weir ! Qu ick, man, quick, o r weshal l b e on to ' it IThey h ad indeed got into th e race lead

ing to th e Weir, and every m om ent th estream ; swelled by recent rains, ru shedfaster.Pull your right— hard I cried Wraysford , backing water, while O liver flew tohis car .

There was ju st time, by a tremendou seffort, to save them selves ; b u t O l iver’s carwas caught under one O f th e seats, andbefo re h e coul d extricate it th e

,

preciou sOpportunity was lo st.No One said a word S tephen, wi th paleface, pulled h is ru dder-string ; andWraysford , with his one‘

oar , tried desperately toarrest th e head long progress of th e bo at.There was a shou t from the bank

,and a .

nearer and lou der one from th e lo ck. Theybecame consciou s o f a great half-open gateon their right, and a ru sh o f footstepsbeside them . Then ,

in far shorter tim e

than it takes to write it, th e boat, side on

to th e weir, lu rched and dashed for a

m oment in th e troubled -water, and th e

next instant tu rned over, and the threeboy s were struggling in th e water. ‘

In an o rd inary current su ch an . adven

tu re w oul d have b een o f l ittle'moment , for

th e boy s cou ld swim . But in a torrentlike thi s it ,was an awfu l peril . The swiftfl eod sweeps . on '

ana sucks under its p reywi th fearful force. To resist it is imp ose esible— to escape being dashed against itsstony bottom is a lm o st as ‘ impo ssib le.

Mercifu l l-y fo r O liver, h e d id escape thislatter peril, and being cool always in the

presence o f danger , h e o ffered no resistanceto the s tream , b u t stru ck ou t hard underth e water f o r as long as his breath wou ldperm it.Wh en at , last, exhau sted and unable toswim farther, h e ro se to th e surface, h e wasin calm “

deep water many yard s below th e

weir . Help was at hand , or h e cou ldnever have reached th e bank . As it was,

when at last friendl y arm s did drag h imashore, h e was to o exhau sted even to u tterhis bro ther’s nam e .

Where was S tephen ? and where wasWraysford

Wray sford had beenm ore fortunate eventhan O liver in his first capsize. He was

swept over th e weir, indeed , b u t into _a

side eddy which brou ght h im up vio lentlyagainst a projecting branch , to which h eclung w ildl y. Here h e wou ld have beensafe

,and even able to help him sel f to

shore. But at . th e m om entwhen h e beganto draw him self up from th e water on to

_

th e branch,there was something— an arm

cast wildly u p- in th e water beside h im .

In an instant Wraysford qu itted his ho ldand p lunged once m ore into th e rapid .

How,h e knew not, b u t h e ju st reached th ehapless b oy . It was too late to recover th e

fri endl y branch . All h e cou ld do was tocling to S tephen and trust -to reachingcalm water safely. Many a bru ise th e'tworeceived in that terrible p assage, b u t th eelder b oynever once qu itted hi s hold o f th e

younger.At last, it seemed an age, calm water

was reached , m ercifu lly near th e bank .

S till clinging to one ano ther, they werepu lled ashore, bru ised , stunned , b u t safe.

Thu s ended this fam ou s holiday cru ise.

The three boys kept their own secret, and

talked little abou t the a dventur e, even to

one another.In du e time th e holidays ended , ‘

and th e

D ominicans reassembled once m Ore in

their venerable Alma M ater.” Need Isay there were three wi thin tho se wal lswh o , whatever they were before, Were nowfriends bound together by a bond th e

clo sest o f al l — a bond which h ad stood th e-test o f li fe and death F!

(To b e continu ed. )

HERE was onl y ones ubject in th e whole,world‘

that S ilas Grig was thoroughlyconversant with, and that was th e m annersand custom s o f his friend s th e seals . Had

you started talking upon either p'o litics o rscience

,or th e state o f E urope or '

I reland,

~

S ilas wou ld h ave becom e sil ent at once .

He wou ld have retired with in him self ; hi ssou l, so to speak, w ou ld have gone indoors,and not come out again until you h ad

done. S u ch was S ilas,a nd h e confessedfrankly that h e h ad never sung '

a song no rmade a speech in hi s was a

perfect enthu siast whil e talking abou t thenatu ral fam il y PhOcidae. NO ‘

natur ali st in

th e world knew half so mu ch about themas S ilas. O n th e evening o f the day on

which h e h ad cho sen his m en . from th e

crew o f th e Arrandoon h e was pronouncedb y both Ralph and Rory to b e in fine form .

He was full of anecdo te, and even tales o fadventur e, so ou r heroes all owed h im to

talk , and indeed encouraged him to d o so .

What I h e cried , h is honest, fearnothing face lighting u p w ith sm iles

.

as h e

eyed Rory acro ss th e table after d inner .Spin you a yarn,

d’

ye say ? ah ! b oy , andyou ’ll excu se m e calling ye a b O y , S ilasnever cou ld tel l a story, and I d on’t suppo se h e ever h ad an adventure as S ignifiedmu ch to you in his li fe.

”

Never mind , insisted Rory, you . tell

u s something , and I’ll p lay you that O l dtune you so dearly lo ve.

“ Ah ! b u t,” said S ilas, if my m atie

were onl y here .

'

now you wou ldn’

t think,gentlemen —here' h e'

glanced ‘ roun'

d th e

table as seriou sly as if c ontradiction werem o st unlikely you woul dn

’t think thata fellow like that, with su ch an u glychunk o f a head , h ad any sentim ent ; b u th e h as, though , and h e o wns th e prettiestwife and the sm'

artest fam ily in al l Peterhead .

”

Look here“

,[ cried Ro ry, b e qu iet

abou t you r m atie. S ure thi s is what we’rewaiting for .

”

He exhibited th e d octor’s slate as h e

spoke, and on th e back thereof ' b eh ol d , _in

'

large letters, the word s,“ S ILAS Gare

"

HIS Y ARN.

”

S ilas laughed till his si’des ached , h is

eyes watered , the chair creaked , and“

the

rafters rang y It Was a pleasant sight tosee. After this b e’lit up ahugem eerschaum

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Boy’s O wn

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Retu rn o f th e Walru s Hunters .

p ipe, h O p ing there was‘

no o ffence,cleared his throat, tu rning his face u pward sat th e pendent compass, as if seeking helpthere. Then h e began .

O f the earlier days o f S il as Grig little

need b e said . I dare say '

h e'

was no betterand'no worse than o ther boys . He nearlyplagued th e life ou t o f his grandmo ther,and drove three m aiden

‘

aunts to the vergeOf distraction ,and made any amount o f

work for th e tailo r and th e :sho emaker, andwhen they cou ldn’t stand h im any longerat hom e they “ sent h im to scho o l, rem inding th e teacher ere they left“ h im

"th ere thatto spare th e rod was to spo il the child .

Th e teacher d idn’t fo rget that h ewhippedm e three tim es a day ,

‘

d rilled me throu ghth e E nglish g ramm ar and Grey’s arithmetic, then flogged me into Caesar, and

when I translated the“

passage, Caesartriduas

'

vias fecit ’ into Caesar m ade

three roads,’ th e '

d ominie'

gave m e su ch adressing that -I f ollowed Caesar ’s examp le-I

_

m adel

thr ee days’ jou rney -due no rth ,and never returned ‘

to my maiden auntsnor th e dom inie either .I found m yself now in the heart o fwhat I then took to b e a

'

b ig toxvn,for I

wasn’t very b ig ‘

myself, you know. I t was

What u se wou ld 5th e sk ipperwhen I to ld I‘ Bless m e ! ’ h e added

size at al l ; th e bears woI’ll have h im ,

’se

you ’ll let m e, captain .

lolly-b oy and body-gu aiAnd so , gentlem en ,this I ’ve been a sailor O ’

and there isn’t m u ch tregions that O ld S ilas hfrom Baffin’

s Bay to I

lonely Spitzbergen ,

in th

in th e sou th .

”

And so you ’ve b eehave you said McBa'

“ Why , bless you , yIt was there I was ingreat white whale, andfor u s, I can tell you .

I shou ld thinkbeen mu ch under a b unju st as sly and waryforty foxes all ro lled inmany a boat h ad triedh e h ad a

'

way o f d ivinavo id th e harpoons thatrather m o re than naturthought h e was m ilesp op ! up h e wou ld con

m id st of th e bo ats, anwoul d b e if he didn’t k:sm ithereens with thatk illed h im thou gh . 0

speared h im , b u t it w zbefo re h e died . And l

rib lewas th e revengestroyers . Gentlemen ,langu age in h is '

v ocab u

viciou s wrath o f that s‘I see him now as

'

h e I

m id -winter, on a dreary shore-ia Lapland ;

But , gentlemen,that is no thing to ”

whatw e , th e su rvivors Of th e ill- fated JonathanG rey, su ffered some years afterward s. ,

Th e

«Ship go t ‘ in the nips com ing out oo

thetp ack . We were cru shed ju st as you m ight“cru sh an egg-shel l between your fingers ."Thirty o f u s embarked upon th e very i ce

b erg that h ad cau sed O u r man , Wi th two«casks O i -biscu it , and hardly cl othes enou ght o cover u s. Then it cam e o n to blow,

and ,

Eh u ddled together in the centre o f the berg,W e were blown out to sea, trymg in vaint o keep each other warm , and defend ou r

s elves from the cru el cold seas th at ‘ dash ed

«ever u s, heav ier than lead , m ore rem orseIiess than th e grave. Fifteen days werewe on the berg , and every day som e one

d ropped o ff , ay, and the living seemed tocenvy th e qu iet calm sleep o f th e dead . A

s ail in sight at last, and h ow m a‘

ny‘

o f u s

think you were alive to see it ? Three !«o nly three Itwas a year after this beforeI was fit to brave the Arctic seas again,

and meanwhile I h ad met m y Peggy—myl ittle wife that is . S ome difference, youw ill allow, gentlemen,

between-‘S il as G riga fl o at on a so litary iceberg in a troubledn o rthern sea, and S ilas strolling on th e

t op o f a breezy cliff in th e bright m oon

l ight o f m id summer, with Peggy on hisa rm , and ju st as happy as the sea-bird s .

“ Were these the only times that I was

«cast away ? No — for I lost my ship byfi r e once in th e northern ice o f WesternG reenland , and it was two who le yearsb efore either myself or my messmatesp laced foot

.

again on British so il . Therewasn’t a ship anywhere near u s, and th en earest settlement was a co lony o f transp o rted Danes, that lived abou t three h un«d red m iles sou th o f u s . ;We saved al l w e

«could from th e burning barque, and thatw as li ttle enough ; then we constructedirough sledges, and tied ou r fo od and«chattels thereon, and set ou t u pon ou r

l ong , dreary march . It took u s well -night wo m onths to accomplish o ur jou rney, fo rth e way was a rough one, and th e regionw as wild and desolate in the extrem e. Itwas late in au tumn , and th e sun shone byd ay , b ut his beam s were sadly sho rn : byt he falling snow. Five sun s in all we«co u ld count at times , though fou r , 370 1 1Iknow , were merely m irages . We did nota l l reach the colony ; indeed , manys u ccumbed to th e fatigue o f th e m arch , tof ro st-bites, and to scu rvy, and we laidthem to rest in hastily-dug graves, andth e snow was their only winding - sheet.fi t was mo re than a year before we found:a p assage back to ou r own coun try, andIkind though the poor people al l were to"

us,th e governor included , we h ad to rou gh

i t, I can tell you . But you see, sail ors wh o

ch oo se the Arctic Seas as their cru isinggro und s mu st expect to suffer at times .Bears, did you say

? Thou sand s ! I ’vec ou nted as m any as fifty at one time on

ar e ice, and I’ve had a few encounters

w ith them to o , myself, though I ’ve knownt ho se that have h ad m ore . I

’

ve knownmen fight them single-handed , and com e

O ff sco t free, leaving Bru in dead on th e ice.

D ickie M cInlay fo ught a bear with a sealOluh . Y ou may b e su re the du el wasn ’t o fh i s own propo sing ; b ut com ing acro ss therice one day all alone, h e rounded th e cor ;mer o f a humm ock, and l o ! and beho ld !t here was a m onstro us bear washing th eb lo od o ff his chop s after eating a seal .

‘Ho ! h o !’ ro ared th e hear .

‘ Ih ave d ined , b u t yo u ’ll come in handy ford essert. O ho ! Waugh , 0 ! Oh

D ick was a little bit o f a fellow, b ut

The g oy ’s OwnTaper.

The Reg io’

ns'

o f Des o latio n.

ickie,

to clear th e’ space betwixt him self and the_

hear so speedily. Then there was a du l lthu d ; Bruin never lifted head again .

’

for

th e iron o f D ickie’s clu b f

’was planted deepinto his brain .p

Th e do cto r. here, continued S ilas, can

tell you _

what ‘a _

terribly sharp and “

dead lyweapon o f

‘

ofl’ence a large ampu tating kn ife

wo uld prove, in '

theh ands‘

of a-l

p ower fu l

m an,against any animal that ever lived .

Bu t the"

doctor I d on’t; think wou ld careto attack abear w ith one .

“ Indeed, no ,” said Sandy ; I Wou ldrather b eexcu sed .

”

But the su rgeon o f th e No rth S tardid , said S ilas . “ I was w itness myselfto th e awful encounter . Bu t th e p oorsurgeon was m ad at th e tim e ; h e h ad .

hand h e wandered O ff and away all b y

a go from . a bear.

they reached th e scene “

of action they foundth e huge bear lying dead , stabb ed in fiftyp laces at least. The snow for yard s around“h ad been trampled down in th e awfu lstruggle, a nd was yellow and red wi thb lo od : Th e d octor l ay beside th e bear,apparently asleep , I need not tell youthat h e “ slept th e sleep that knows nowaking . . Th e ,

poor fell ow’s b ody was

cru shed to pu lp .

Charles Manning , a spectioneer of th eGood Reso lve, was lying on his b ack Onth e sunny side Of a hummock, snatching a

five-m inu tes’ rest, for it _

was sealing time,when a bear crept up behind h im , more.

stealthily than any cat c oul d have done.

He drew his p aw upward s along the po o rfellow’

s body. O nly once, m ind you , b ut

h e left h im a mere empty shel l .*Ah ! b ut , gentlem en , you shoul d hav eseen a two -m ile run I had not five years

S ilas him self wou ldn ’thave believed that S ilas co uld have doneth e d istance in d ouble t h e time. He was

Th e author is relating facts ; names onlyarecon,cealed.

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his rifl e firing at a s eal , and ju st at thatm om ent u p popped a bear .

All alone, are you , S ilas Bru inseemed to say .

Y es,’ replied S ilas, m oving o ff and

I don’t want you r company either. Iknow my way, thank you .

’

O h , I dare say you do ! says th e bear .‘Bu t it w ill onl y b e fr iendly like if I see

yo u hom e , Wait a bit. ’Never a wait said S ilas, and so th e

race began .

O f cou rse, they saw it from th e ship,and sent m en to m eet m e and settle Bru in .

Pufi'

ed ? I shou ld think I was ! I l ay on

my face fo r fi ve m inu tes , with no m orebreath in my o ld bellows than there -is indead badger

9 ‘ Y ou’ve seen th e sea-lion , I suppo se,Captain Grig 3” s aid Al lan .

“ I have that replied S ilas , and thesea-bear too , and I don’t know whi ch o fth e two I

’d rather m eet. on th e -top o f a

berg , for they are viciou s bru tes b o th .

”

I’

ve read som e very interesting ao

coun ts o f ' them ,

” said Allan, in th e . en

cyclopaedias.”S o have I,” lau ghed o l d S ilas, “ written

b y m en wh o h ad never seen them ou t o f th eBrigh ton '

Aquarium . Pard onm e, b ut youcanno t stu dy natu re from books .”

D o you know the S temmatop us cr istatus ? inqui red Rory.

What ship, my b oy P said S ilas, withone hand behind his ear ; I d idn’t catch (To b e m aim ed. )th e nam e 0

’the craft.”

“ I t isn’t a_ship , said Ro ry, sm iling ;

p:

THE ILL-US ED BO Y ; on,LAWRENCE HARTLE Y

’

S“

G RIE‘

VANCE S ;

BY MRS . E ILOART, AUTHOR or“ JACK AND JOHN, nrcf,

’

E TC.

CHAPTER X X I I I.— THE CONTENTS O F THE BAG .

THE contents of th e b ag were these —abroken slate, two o r three 'copybooks,

a Latin grammar, a Germ an di tto , and

a cheap copy o f Peter S im ple ; bd eed s o r l egal papers that b ag held none .

M r . Hartley was not only very m u ch d isappo inted , b u t very m u ch ann oyed . How

cou ld the b ag have got there ? How coul dth e boys have kn own o f it ? As to Lawrence, h e was convinced that Tom m eant,as he said , to sell him .

” It h ad been a

tri ck, a plant, and he wou ld pay Tom out

it 1 s a great black seal, w ith a thing likea kettle-p ot over his head

O h o .l ” cried S ilas ; now I know.

Y ou m ean th e bladder-no se. Ay , lad ! anda d angerou s m onster h e 1 s . A Greenl andsailo r wou ld alm o st as so on face a bear asfight one o f those brutes s ingle-h anded .

Bu t the bo oks tell u s, ’ said Rory,that, when su rprised by th e hunter, theyweep copiou sly.”Bo ther su ch bo oks said S ilas .

What ? a bladder-no se weep ! Cro codil e’s tears , then,

“

lad ! Why , gentlemen,this I “

onst1 ou s seal 1 8 m ore fierce than anyo th er I know . When once h e gets hisback up and erects that kettle-pot 0

’hi s,

and turns round to see wh o i s com ing,stand clear,that’s what S ilas says, for h e

m eansmisch ief ,‘

and h e’s as will ing to takehis death as any terrier . dog that ever

barked . I wou ld like to see some 0 ’ tho secyclopaedia-bu ilding chaps face to facewith a healthy bladder- 1 1 o se on a bit 0 ’b ay ice. I think I know which “

0’ them

woul d do th e weeping part o f “

the bu'siness .

D own sou th here, sa1 d M cBain ifwe can call -it sou th— th e seals have theiryo ung on th e ice

“

, don’t they ?

Y ou’re right, sir ,” said S ilas .

And where d o they go after that ?Away back to th e far , far north , said

S ilas . Wefo llowthem u p as far as we

can . They live at th e Pole.

“ Ah ! ” said McBain ,and that, Captain G rig , is in itself a p roo f that there

m u st b e op en water around th e Pole.

for itwell at th e fi rst o pportunity . Bu tit was even a m ore cru el d isappo intm ent toh im than it was to Mr . Hartley h e h ad

so“

prided him self upon showing what h ecou ld d o , and h e h ad bui lt very m u chup onh av ing ano ther watch 1 n place o f th e

one that h ad been stolen , and now, afteral l th e trouble h e h ad taken , th e ann o yanceand worry, h e h ad fetched up from d own

a tree nothing b ut a schoo lb oy’s satchelThere was so much specu lation , not onlyabout h ow th e b ag go t down th e tree,b u t why D ick h ad been sent to fetch it up ,that Ted thou ght it best to tell th e wholestory— especially as h e considered that itrather redounded to Lawrence’s cred it, as

showing how anx ious h e was to restore hisuncle’s property to him . Lawrence sat byin su lky silence— h e felt m o re aggrievedthan ever. Mr . Hartley spoke to him

k indly : Well, you d id you r best,, myb oy ,

and we can none o f u s do m ore . f youh ad told m e from .th e first , thou gh , wem ight have got up the b ag witho u tsend ing D ick d own after it. I

’

m afraid itmu st have been rathor ‘

a tight fit f or h im ,poor fellow. I shall go to » m or.row to

Acorn Hou se, and see if M aster Tom w illtell m e anything . I expect h e knows m oreof my b ag than h e told you .

”

He deserves to b e fl ogged for tellingme su ch a lie ! cried Lawrence.

Before we talk o f fl ogging , said hisuncle, gravely, “ let’s teach h im first whata l ie m eans, and why th e tru th shou ldalways b e sp oken and Miss Br ansom ewilldo that in time . have little fear ; b u t Ishou ld like to

_

KD OW h ow this b ag gotinside my walnu t-tree.

I haven’t a doubt abou t it ! ” criedS ilas and if you su cceed in getting thereyou ’ll see land and water too , m ou ntainsand streams, and m aybe a m i lder clim ate.

S eals were never m ade to . live down imth e dark water ; they have eyes and’ lungs ,,even if they ar e amphibiou s . Bu t lo ok I:lo ok ! look, men, lo ok !S il as started up from th e table as h e

Spoke, excitem ent expressed in every lineam ent o f hi s face. He po inted to th e p ortfrom which at present th e Canny S cotia.

was plainly visible, abou t half a m ile o ff ,on th e weather qu arter. The men cou ld .

’

b e seen crowd ing u p the ratth ngs and even.

m anning th e yard s, and wildly wavingtheir caps and arm s in th e air .

S ilas threw the port open wide.

ten ! h e cried .

O u r heroes held their breath, whil e over

th e water from th e d istant barqu e camethe sound o f many vo ices cheering . Then .

th e Arrand oon’s rigging is m anned , and

glad shou t after glad “shou t is sent themback .

Next moment S tevenson ru shed into th ecabin . The seals ! th e al l;h e cou ld say , o r rather gasp .

-Are there m any ? ” inquired several .

vo ices at once.

Millions on m illions ! cried them ate ;th e who le pack 1 s b lack with them as far

as ever we . can see from th e mainm astv

head .

”

Then Jam es was able to give a solu tiomo f that m atter. :A year or two back Mr .

S ampson h ad had three o f hisstaying with h im for part o f theirO ne o f them liked qu iet , h e was stu diou slike,” as James pu t it, and he u sed to getaway from th e o thers , l et him self m to M r .

Hartley’s garden by his uncle’s k ey , and;read his books on the terrace. O nce o r

twice Jam es h ad seen h im up in that verytree w ith his b ag fu ll o f books, b ut h e wasso qui et and o rderly that Jam es saw no i

reason to interfere. But one day a telegram cam e from th e country that h i sfather was very ill and not likely to live,and th e three young gentlem en

‘

vcere to go

and see the last o f h im .

“ Whi ch they

d idn’

,t said James, for h e got well, h e

was glad to say .

’

This especial younggentleman , th e qui et one, was u p in

“

h is.»

favour ite tree— h eused to m ount i t ‘

very cleverly, and

pu l l his b ag upwith a s tring afterh im and Jam esrem embered seeingh im ceme d own

th e t ree, when h e

heard the news , adeal faster thanh e went u p , and

run in to his b rothors atM r . S ampson’s . ‘

No doubth e left th e b agbehind him , and itmu st have falleninside th e tree.

M r . S ampson opened one o f th e bo oksand found hi s nephew’s nam e on the titlepage.That’s abou t it, James ,” he sa1 d . Ish ou ld never have lent . h im my key b u t

that h e seem ed so qu iet. Bu t if h e‘

wanted

to cl imb trees why cou l dn’t.

m ine havecontented him instead o f h is u s1 ng you rs ?”h e said to Mr . Hartley.

0

“ As I m entioned , sir, sa1 d James , “ h e

was studiou s like,’ and his brotherswere soful l o f life. He told me once h e did like tob e ab le to give his mind to his books in

qu iet .”Humph ! I think my p lacewou 1 d havebeen qu iet enough for h im to h ave

'

read

Peter S imple in , said Mr . S ampson:Mr .Hartley turned the conversati on b yhaving co ffee brought up for h i s fri end s ,

and instead o f returning to Mr . S ampson’sthey spent th e evening where theywere,and th e next day Mr . Hartley was dr1 venover by D ick to Acorn Hou se.

But another disappointment awaited himthere— Tom had d isappeared . He h ad

been a good b oy , m ade progress withhis lessons, and seemed very happy ,b ut

when th e bell had rung for prayers th epreceding evening Tom was m issing .

There was no wall round the garden, b ut .

a fence five feet high screened part, and a

to lerably thick hedge th e rem ainder. ’

The

gate m ight have been left open—‘

neitherMiss Bransome nor h er

’ servant was

qu itepo sitive that that h ad not h appened .

I t was generally kept locked , b u t m oreto prevent tramp s and interlopers com ingin than to keep the boys

”from runningou t. The place was not a p rison , b u t a

hom e, which no b oy was ever in a hu rryto leave, and Miss Bransom e was p o sitivethat Tom h ad not left o f his own accord .

He mu st either have been decoyed -awayo r taken by main force by some one wh o

h ad contrived to com e into th e gardenun seen and keep hidden . There wereshr ubberies and an ou thou se or two wherethat cou ld easily happen . What confirmed

Miss Bransome in this opini on was th e

fact that two o r three o f th e b oys had seena tall gipsy- like woman peering over thefence once o r twice, wh o , as so on 'as sh e

saw that sh e was perceived, went away.

O ne o f them h ad told Tom -o f h er , and h eh ad lo oked frightened , and for two or

three days after had tried to avo id go inginto th e garden .

Miss Bransome was very m u ch grievedat his disappearance ; so was M r . Hartley;Th e po or ch il d h ad been taken back tosin and evil, robbed o f his one

,chance o f

being trained to better things . Bob .felt

broken-hearted when h e heard o f it, and ,f or a time at least , Mr . Hartley forgot th e198 3 o f his b ag in th e lo ss o f p oor little1 0 1 1 1 .

(To be continued. )

The ddoy’

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A POEM OF PLACE S .

IN F IVE CANTOS AND A MORAL.BY RO BERT RICHARD SON

,

THERE was a bright b oy down in Goschen,Wh o d iscovered perpetual motion

Eureka cried h e,

In a transport o f glee,It

’

s entirely my own little notion.

A young aesthete resides in Calcu tta,Wh o lives upon green tea and bu tter

Common victu-al s,‘says h e,

Withmy nerves don’t ag reeI am far too intense, too too utter.

There“

was a young native of Java,Wh o frequently said h e cou ld halve aBald head of a neighbourWith one stroke of h is sabre

,

He was such an accurate carver.

There was a sweet you th in Madeira,Who lamented that thingswere not clearer

Says h e, Life ’

s adream,

Things are not what they seem ,

And What is this world b ut chimera!

A young sold ier was quartered at Norwich ,Wh o was

“sent . b y his co lonel t o forageBut all that he'

found

Was s'ome sausage4 0nep ound,

And a plate of cold hominyporridgea

MORAL.Boys, my bal lad of places is ended

,

Says th e “proverb, Least said soonest mended 5Get Whatmeaning you pleaseO ut of verses like these

'Get none, and I shan’t feel offended"

.

ABEARHUNT-

INTHEPYRENEES.NE season when I w as at Paris, undetarm ined “

which direction I shou ldtake f or my au tumn ho liday , I rem embereda p ressing invitation I h ad received fromth e Baron de to visit h im at his rom an

tically situated chateau ,near Bagneres deBigorre. It h ad been half settled that I and

a friend , not u nknown to h im , shou ld lo okinat Biarritz if we coul d manage it and

we hoped to find tim e for both excu rsions.We set o ff one bright morning , agreeing

to see all that shou ld b e worth attentionon o ur rou te. At Bagneres I was cordi all ywelcomed , and my friend was also askedto take u p his abode at th e Baron’s du ring th e period o f ou r rambles.In our strolls am ongst th e ham lets dot

ted abou t the su rrounding m ountains , wefell in with an ardent lover o f natu re, anda keen sportsman,

Rollo D enn is , wh o h adtemporaril y established him self at a smallvil l age inn . .

'

At th e co zy thou gh hom elysuppers that we parto ok o f w ith h im , w e

talked over th e sp ort afforded in that parto f th e country and one evening , while at

ou r repast , we were informed that a lar o epowerful b ear h ad taken u p his qu arter son th e o u tskir ts o f th e fo rest, near 1 h e i nnwhere Ro llo was staying . He h ad fo und a

secu re and alm o st inaccessible retreat clo seto som e steep ro cks , which sloped d own toth e adjacen t valley , where h e concealedhim self so effectually that h e h ad hith ertom anaged to elu de his pu rsu ers . Lately h eh ad comm itted who lesale ravages in th eneighbou ring v illages— cattle were o ftenm issing ou t of their stalls, and h e exchcised hi s voraciou s propensities with su chcontinu ed boldness , that every one feltmu ch apprehension and alarm . Childrenwere not . safe, and very recently h e h adattacked a woman returning to th e m ou n

tai'ns, wh o with d ifficu lty saved herself b yentering into a co ttage, th e d oor o f whichh ad fortunately sto od open ,

favou ring h erescape. Th e chase o f o ld Bru in was decided on, and a fine opportun ity so on p reSented itself o f killing a fero ciou smarau der,and at th e sam e time securing a valu ablebearskin as a trophy o f o u r adventu re.

O n th e very next m orning w e preparedfor th e chase. Well armed with guns, andsupplied with hunting gear, we began th e

ascent o f th em ountains, the Baron accom

panying u s , toward s som e defiles tangledover with br u shwo od , throu gh which w ildtorr ents ru shed A number o f peasantswith ru sty guns fo llowed u s evidentlynot for th e amusem ent o f hunting , b u t infulfilment o f feu dal du ties toward s theirlord .

Fortune favou red our undertaking ; fornear a ro ck to which a narrow pathwayled , we beheld som e remains , testifying taa visit Bruin h ad m ade— a mutilated

,h ai f

devou red sheep , on who se wo ol a b l acka .

d istingu ish ing m ark was seen , proving “thatth e victim h ad been robbed from th e

Baron’s fi ock . Broad , uncou th ,unfam iliarfo o tm arks which m et our view , left no

doubt that Bru in was th e cu lprit and th e

yet warm body showed that h e coul d not"

b e far'

ofi'

. S o w e car efu lly exam ined thelo ck s o f ,

ou r gu ns , lo o sened ou r huntingknives,and pro ceeded onWai ds, keeping at

a short d istance from each other , and lo oking o u t for th e trace o f h is paws , until weadvanced into th e jn o st d ifii éu l t part o f thechain o f ro cks .There, there h e g oes . su ddenly c1 ied

one o f the pai ty ; and h ewas not m istaken .

Abou t a hundred paces ahead a la1 ge nuw ieldy bear was seen , clambering acro ss aro ck, apparently intent on making h is

escape from u s . . Bu t Rollo , w ith adm irablepromptitu de, slipped down an alm o st p er ~

p endicu lar declivity, till h e came to a rento r chasm which o ffered b u t very littlestanding room , where h e found him selfface to face with th e bear, wh o was h emm ed in by th e steep ro ck to theright, thetrem end ou s precipi ce to the left, and bef0 1 eand behind h im his pu rsu ers .He was thus effectu ally brou ght to b ay ,

for al l chance o f escape was cu t o ff . H issitu ation , h owever,wasnotm o reunpleasantthan ou rs, for in th e narrow thread likepathway in which th e bear-h unter sto od ,and I beside h im ,

itWas not po ssib le toh ave a shot at Bru in w ithou t incu rringthe danger of k illing one 0 1 0 h er o f th e

party . Th e su ll en m onster seem ed per

fectly cogni sant o f th e fact , and rem ainedstationary, except th at , w ith a yawn, he

opened his capaci ou s jaw s .Wem u st get at h im from th e o ther side,yonder,” said th e Baron ,

pointing to th e

summ it o f an overhanging ro ck . Let u s

scramble u p there, and shoul d CaptainRo l l o miss his aim ,

Bru in wil l at all events

P )

ever, impelledby a sense o f

d an g e r in toe ne rg et i c e f

forts , w e at lastgained th e top ,when su ddenlyth e report o f a

sho t was heard .

Rollo h ad m issed the bear ata

,d istance o f

ha rdly twentyf eet, and h ewas

so on seen clamhering u p th e

steep to jo in u s,

a f t e r A

fi r s tthrowing th ed ischarged gunaway to aid h isfl i g ht . Th eanim al mean

whil e appearedd i sp o s ed t o

take , advantageo f this - lu ckym oment to os

cape from hisenemies , whenunf or tu n a te lyR o l l o , in h i sascent toward su s

,stumbled ,

an d g r o l l e d

d own th e ro ckagain , fallingw i th a l l h i sweight on

“

the

huge body o f

the bear !The phlog

m a t i c b ru tew as n ow a t

least as mu chterrified a s th e

v aliant Ro llo -l

fo r when h e h adshaken o ff the

load which . h ad

s o su d d en lycome u p on h im ,bo th “remainedf or a few se

cond s m otionless , oppo siteeach other . Thep onderou s bearwas the first torecover consciou sness : raising h im self o nh is hind legs , h e gave a fearfu l yell ! andwe hastily to ok aim at h im, b ut were no tqu ick enou gh , for al l at once h e pressedforward to the retreating Rollo , and , to

_

ou r

Th e

astonishm ent , b o th d isapp eared , th e interv ening ro ck ' hid ing . them from ou r s igh tand gu ns .Anxiou sly we hastened to descend to th e

rhasm , when a terrible spectacle there presented itself. ’

The bear and Rollo , clasp ingeach o ther with . convu lsive tenacity, as

thou gh their safety depended on no t lettinggo their hold ,

h ad slidden d o wn to ! th ebase of the ro ck. From th e‘bear gu shed

b ear and“

man, st il l u nited, ro l led over . th e b r ink .

A cry’ of ho rr or escaped u s and it wasre-echoed by th e peasants , wh o , arrivingon th e hei'ght we had qu itted ,.h ad witnessedth e fearfu l catastroph e;Under th e guidance cf th e Baron ‘

we allmade for th e depths b elow , in search o f

i th e'

b od iés ,’

to attain which 'h al f an hou r’scircu it became n ecessary . Painfull y imp ressed , we entered an opening whichcomm anded a v iew o f th e aby ss, z d ownwho se lofty side we thought Rollo and th ebear mu st inevitably have been dashed top ieces . “ '

With sad hearts we found our wayinto th e darksome abyss . We soon per

ceived a m otionless mass ; th e bearwas in

ih honour '

o f'

o u r va l ian thero .

1

O n . a l i t terconsisting o f

1 arge branch eso f t rees lay th e

‘ bleed ing m on

ster, in who sebreast Rollo ’sknife was yet

rem aining ,not

wi th s t an d in ghis fall . Hisvictor, raisedup on th e sh ou l l

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dérs o f two at

tendants ,al s o b o r n e

along . Wh enth e processionarrived m the

v illage, a tu

m u ltu ou s shou tof rejo icing on

all : sides brokefo rth . R o l l owas welcomed

w ith adm irationand thanks f ortheir deliverance from th e

rapaciou s ani

m al wh o h ad- b een

‘

th e cau seo f -severe lo ss .to several peasants a nd pr o

was

p rietors, and

was a terro rto a l l ;

It'

was onlyupon o u r ar

r i va l . at t h e

castle that weknew the fu lldetail s o f the

astound ing fal lfrom th e” ro cky .

pinnacle . Rol lowhile descending h ad

’

con

v u l sivel y clun gto h is eno rm ou s .

a n t a g o n i s t ;neve r let t in gg o h i s h o ldf e r an i n ;

stant, and so

it happened that upon com ing to th e

ground it was Bru in wh o lay underm o st,by whi ch circum stance h is so ft b road b odyhad borne th e sho ck cf the fall ; and Rol lo ,as though lying on a so ft‘ feather-b ed ,

w as

scarcely hu rt at al l . Upon rem o v n g t he

bear’s shaggy coat we l o b served’

tuat hisneck was broken .

Rollo soon qu itted his country quarter‘s ,qu ite satisfied with his hunting explo its .Up en -l eav ing th e Pyrenees, h is last word sat p arting w ere a recomm endation to th e

peasants that when another o ccasion shou ldo ffer, some one else in the d istrict shou ldim itate his example

The Tower o f Lo ndon. (S eep age

HE galleries devoted to ancient and modernT armour are sure to a ttract al l b oys. Greatindeed is the contrast between the o l d poniard,wi th its jagged edge, and th e modem bayonet ;greater stil l that between th e arquebu ss and th eMartini-Henry rifle. It is a questionwhetherwarhas becom e less cruel since the middle a ss, b utit h as undoubted ly become m ore scientific. We

laugh at some o f th e appliances of our ancestorsfor repelling th e foe— their stink-pots

,their cum

b ersome blunderbu sses,sometimesmadeyetmore

unwieldy b y there being four barrels to one

s tock and a spear as well . We wonder howt h eknight o f ancient times cou ld find a horse tocarry h im,

clothed as h e was in ponderousarmour from h ead to foot, and carrying a heavybattle-axe, besides a lance sixteen feet long, andvariou s o ther trifies b u t we cease to Wonderthat h e found it necessary to wear a spur b igenough

-to b e u sed as a weapon of o ffence if requ ired .

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When we remember,too

,that the un

fortunate horse was himself clo thed in steel, wecan scarcely escape the conviction that theremust h ave been a breed o f h orses of most extraordinary powers in former times . No wonderthat when horse and man were fairly under way,the poor yeom en

,clo thed o nly in b ufi

' jerkin,and with no weapon which availed against steelgave way before su ch a mass in motion.

t en gunpowder was invented th e days ofarmour were numbered , b u t it seems to havesurv ived th e u se o f cannon in battle b y severalcenturies. Canno

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n o f a. sort were u sed at the

battle of Creey, b u t whenwe inspect th e variou sspecimens exhibited in the galleries we can onlyadm ire th e .

_p 1 u ck of the men wh o fired them .

Th e balls were o f stone several specimens arestill preserved . Bu t:'gradual ly theweapons improved an enormou s

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step was taken when gunswere made to b e portable by onem an . Wemu st pity the first company of arqueb usiers,

-for theymu st have had hard times. To

begin with, their weaponswere too heavy to holdto th e shou lder, so before they cou ld take ,

aim

th e barrel h ad to b e rested “

on a fork stuck in theground . Then th e liability of bursting wasconsiderab le, and even if that danger were surmounted th e firer . received a kick ” that notinfrequently knocked him over. It seems mysterious h ow any good practice could b e made

w ith a gun whose barrel ended in a bell b ut,notwithstanding al l drawbacks, guns rapidlyro se in favour and beat th e b ow out of th e field .

When Latimer was a b oy h e h ad to practiseshooting under a law which compelled al l you thsto learn the u se of the b ow and arrow, b ut b e

fore h e d ied h e h ad Seen th e havo c wrought b ythe m ore m odernweapon upon th e armies of th eenemy.

But certain o f th e curiosities d isplayed inthese armouries are more ‘saddening than interesting, and we cou ldwish that, for th e credit ofour country, they h ad never existed . There isthe m odel o f th e rack' on which many a poorprisoner h as confessed a crime o f which he wasnot guilty, preferring th e . certainty of death toth e chance o f further torture. We have grownm ore humane now

,and wiser also

,for it stands

to reason that the baser a man is th e more prob ably will h e imp licate o thers to save h imselffrom pain. Many a noble head h as fallen b eneath the axe becau se o f testimony wrung fromsome poor wretch in th e d elirium of agony.Happily th e rack and its evil companions

,

t lu

l

lmb screw, bilboes, and al l , are now curiositieson y .

But sadder still is th e reflection that th eseinfernal machines, as

-they have been rightlynamed , were chiefly u sed in the name o f . theGod o f mercy. We m ay grieve when we con

template the ingeniou s -weapons devised forslaying an enemy in fight, b u t from the instruments o f torture we turn away in disgustand loathing.

Look too on the b lock and axe, the very blo ckon which noble lords have laid th eirheads. Th ed int of th e steel in th e hard wood can still b eseen. But it is more than a hundred years

The 8 037'

s O wn(Paper.

PART I I I

NAUTICUS IN SCOTLAND

A TRICYCLE TOUR. o r M ILE S '

IN S IXTY? “

BY THE AUT

E IGHT‘

DA-Y S .

HO R O F‘ f NAUTICUs ON HIS

HOBBY-HOR SE .

since the who was u sed

,and probably it will

never b e u sed again. Rebell ions are not so

frequ ent now as they u sed to b e, and there are

b etter means o f obtaining redress o f grievancesthan marching “

on,

Lond on in arm s. D uringour Queen

’s long reign no t a single person h assuffered death for a p o litical o ffence ; even theattempts on h er li fe h ave been punished in a

less barb arou s way than wou ld have been th e

case formerly, when th e blood o f one victimwas scarcely dry -en the block before anotherwas ready to su ffer.But th ere is scarcely an end to the sights of

th e Tower. When the'

ancient armouries areexplored there are the m odern ones, with theirend less rows of rifles, swords, and pistol/s, workedinto al l manner of

‘sh ining devices ; th e _

Beauchamp Tower, once th e S tate Prison,

with itsmem orials cut in th e“ stone of many a royal a nd

noble inmate ; the Traitors’ Gate, S t. John’sChapel, and the o ld moat . Even th e wardersthemselves are books of history, m odern perhaps, b ut none the less interesting, and a halfhour can b e spent in few pleasanter ways thanin listening to th e tales o f some o f thesepicturesque veterans, whose m edals -show themto b e no carpet knights. But leaving all thesewe mu st end b y a short description of the greatfire at th e Tower, which b id fair to render th ewho le building a mem ory only.

O n th e evening o f th e 3oth of O ctober, 1 8 4 1 ,a sentinel wh o was on guard fancied h e saw astrange light under th e cupela of th e BowyerTower. A few moments’ attention satisfied h imthat something waswrong, so h e fired o ff hismusk et. The drum s instantly sounded th e alarm ,

and

hundreds o f men of th e S co ts Fu silier Guards ,wh o were stationed in the Tower, turned out to .

find that th e Tower was in fl ames. Th e nineengines which were kept in the Tower . werespeedily brought out, b u t, as u suallyhappens insuch cases, th e supply o f water was lamentablysh ort. Before th e engines were got to work th eRound Tower was blazing, and notwithstandingthe gallant efforts o f the Guards, under th ecommand of Co lonel Auckland Eden,

it wassoon plain that ic '

was d oomed . Its greatheight prevented th e water from reaching itproperly, and, to add to other drawbacks, thetide was l ow. By eleven o

’clock it was destroyed , and the roof o f the Armoury was inflames. But b y. this time o ther engines h adarrived k and not long after th e fl oating engineswere moored o ff Traitors’ Gate. But

flth

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e latterhad to fix 700 feet o f ho se before they cou ldreach th e fl ames

,so that their efforts were

mainly d irected to supplying the o ther engineswith water. The ceiling o f th e Armoury soongave way, burying -

in its w ins; a countless numb er of trophies and curiosities. Th e flames h adnow reached such a height that a l l Londonknew a great catastrophe was impending thepeople thronged th e entrances ins u ch numbersthat a large force o f police

,reinforced b y '

4 00

Guards, were,scarcely able to keep them ou t ;severe contests took p lace at th e gates, and itseemed probable at one time that th e ,place

wou ld b e taken b y storm .

The fire m eanwhile h ad increased in fury,and the wh ole - b l oek o f bu ildings Seemed

threatened : S o fierce was theheat that som e of

the engines were burnt th e Clock Tower camedown

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with a thundering crash the lead fromth e melted pipes fl owed freely abou t, whil st, toadd to th e misfortunes, a change of wind cau sedth e flames to attack th e White and JewelTowers. Th e fear o f losing th e Regalia cau sedGovernor Major

‘Elkington to order th e wardersto carr y th e treasures to h is residence, situatedat the farther extremity o f the Tower Green ;b ut it was found th at th ewarder in charge h adonly the keys o f th e outer' door— th e o thersbeing in charge o f the ‘Lord Chamberlain. Butcrowbars overcame that d iffi cu lty, which wasfollowed b y ano ther in the shape o f the ironcage bywhich th e jewels were guarded . It tooktwenty m inu tes to break th is open, and then,under the escort of soldiers and police, the

valuables were_ rem oved to a' place o f safety.

After al l the Jewel Towerwas not injured .

Fears were entertained at two o’cl o ck th at th e

magazine near the armouly wou ld b e, attacked ,in which case a.“ fearfu l explosion was inevitab leBut this danger was avo ided more engines h ad .

arrived and the supply of waterwas at last satis~factory, so that b y half-past three the crowdso

h ad the gratification o f seeing th e fl ames beginto abate. But even in the m orning the fire was .

still breaking out, and for days th e wh ole o f thebu ild ings attacked were a mass o f smou lderingruins. O ne fireman was killed b y th e fall o f a'

piece of wall, b u t no other casualties o f any importance o ccurred . How the fire originated isnot known for certain it is supposed that itarose from the forge o f fith e a rmo urers in the.

Round Tower,or from t he overh eatingof th estoves. Th e new barracks .occupy th e; site of the"

Grand S torehouse, which was burnt to the

ground .

But enough is left to make t he Tower evennow the m ost interesting b u ilding in England if“not in th e world . Go and v isit it, boys; and seeif it doesn’t make Engli sh h istory a m ote pleasg stu dy than you h ave hitherto found it.

PART . IV._ r l l EMARKb'.

HE tourwasmost su ccessful in every way, andthe scenery surpassed -my most sangu ine

expectations. Though I ‘traver‘sed m ountainranges, ran along the edge

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of precipices,waded through rapid streams, and h ad severalnarrow squeaks and one bad accident, my d ifficul ties were never insurmountable.

I'

had been told that the _roads in Skye and

on the west coast were impracticable to the

cyclist ; whereas I can certify that, although.

very hilly, they are in excel lent cond ition.

Indeed, I was enabled to carry out my original:programme almost to the letter. It was an ex

cep tional ly wet season, b u t I was fortunate indodging the rain from place to place, and thu sseeing the mountains and other objects o f in-sterest to th e best advantage.

Having h ad a very large experience of S cotch'

“hotels, I have noted‘ them d own in my book“ ,and can recommend nearly al l -o f th em . The;

proof o f their moderate charges is. thé fact thatthe average of my daily expenditure was twelveshillings; including t ips, repairs, postage, and.

other incidental expenses .

My b ag was strapped‘

to th e backbone o f thetricycle, and cont‘

ained'

a complete “ change of

clothing (excepting a coat),gear, guide-books, etc. together with a

Waterproof, weighed eighteen;

p ounds. ( In spiteof th e hard work I did not lose fl esh, and, m oreover, gained breadth o f a

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wonderfu-l'

increase o f appetite; O n“

no o ccasion did Isu ffer from over-fatigue— iu short, I never feltbetter inmy life.

Crowded coaches and tourists’ grievancesmade. me value more than ever the advantageso f this enjoyable and independentway of travelling. With the idea of encouraging others toadopt it, I intend to submi t to the reader a fewdetails of my latetricycling experiences.0 1 1 Parts I . and II . ,

which .

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describe the

more frequented tourist rou tes, I will onlymake a few remarks here, reserving the detailsto b e published at some future date, with t herest of my narrative, in book form, and I wiltsimply draw th e attention of th e reader to a few

o f th e interesting places which are out of th e

track of the ordinary tourist.1 . Th eValley of th e Nith, the rare beauties

of which are lost to the railway traveller.

2 . O n the lonely moorland'

b etween Gal st‘onand S trathavon we looked upon the battle-fiel dso f Loudon Hill and Drumclog. The formerwas the scene o f a Vi ctory by Bruce over theEarl o f “

Pembroke in 1 307. O n the l atter th egreat Claverhouse had a good drubbing from a

body o f Covenanters in 1 679.

3. Ardo ch (between Grief and Dumblane), thebest-preserved Roman camp in Great Bri tain.

4 . G lammis Castle. The tapestry, furni ture,and everything in the interior —r even to the

ladies’ Spinning-wheel in the drawmg-room— are

kept exactly as they have been handed downfrom generation to generation. In fact, whi lewandering from room to room‘

, it seemed to u s

as though th e world ’s history had been ro lledback fi ve or six hundred years for our espemal

benefit.5 . At Dunnottar Castle we saw the place 1 1 1

which the regalia had been kept during thesiege o f th at celebrated fortress. In the Covenenters’ dungeonwe drank from the springwhi chis reported to have gushed from the rock in

answer to their prayers and in one corner of 1 texam ined th e spot where the unhappy pri sonersh ad undermined thewall and escaped from theirconfinement only to b e shot or recaptured .

6. At the quaint little village of Kineff, sixmiles from Dunnottar,I was shown '

the roomin the manse where the regalia was at first concoaled in a double-bottomed b ed, and in the

kirk the recess under the pu lpit in which Mr.

Grainger kept it for so long.

Al though hardly a day passed without bringing someth ing eithernovel or amusing to record,we d id not encounter any very startling adven

tures o r m ishaps.I incautiously allowed a smal l b oy to play

about wi th my tricycle one day, in conse

quenco of which my left tyre became loosened .

Th is, as explained in my story, gave me no end

of trouble.

A word about the roads. Those betweenTyndrum and Dalmally, and likewise betweenCallender and the Trossachs,were decidedly

b ad . From “Dalmally to Inverary, and throughthe Pas s o f Glencroe, very steep. The remaining 750 miles passed over were in splend id .con

d ition. The S cotch mend their roads veryskilfully, being careful to break up th e stoneswell before laying them down.

We were fortunate in having suitableweatherfor seeing the d i fferent places . For instance, afine

,calm evening for the Trossach s, a wild day

for the Pass of Glencroe, and a lovely afternoonfor Kenmore, where we arrived just as th erhododendrons and laburnums were in fu llblo om .

In conclusion, P. and I thoroughly enjoyedourselves during the time we were together.

PART V.

T. , wh o had answered my advertisement, andwhom I had subsequently seen, had prom ised tom eet me at Perth on July 1 5th . That d aybeing now close at hand, P. signified h is intention of returning to England .

To my suggestion that we shou ld al l gotogether for some distance, he replied with the0 1 k adage,

“Two is company

,three is none,”

b ut l persuaded h im to take a run to the northon his own account before going home.

We parted .

From the first day o f my tour I became awareth at my strengthened tricycle was too heavy fo rmy l igh t weight in this h illy country, and Itherefore ordered a new “

Cheylesmore”of the

o rd inary weight, with crank bal l bearing s, to b e

sent to Criefl'

b y July l oth .

a

O n July “

1 3th I h eard that the machine cou ldnotb e d ispatched before the 2 oth .

This newsdec ided m e to go on with the o ld one for thepresent, every day being precious.

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I set to work to take th e whole th ino' topieces, and after thoroughly cleaning it I z ucem ore stuck on the intractable tyre with indierubber solution. I sh ould have sent for theproper

.

composition long ago , had I not beenexpecting to get a new vehicle.

O n Ju ly 1 4 th I heard from T. , to say that h e

The 8 037’s Own. Taper

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had arrived at Perth, b ut as h e was m inu s h istricycle, and was not sure when it would turnup , he recommended me to go on, and leave himto overtake me b y rail.The weather being favourable, I fell in withhis plan, and f h aving sent h im a programme o f

my intended movements, I , on July 1 5th, badefarewell to my friends at Criefi‘

.

2 6th D ay.

Crieff. Dunkeld . Blair Athol .Eleven a.m . Began the journey by a . con

tinuous ascent, and turned to th e left at Mon

_z ie. About two hundred yards beyond thatvillage the road forks ; took the right up th ebrae. Cyclists are advised to walk up this longincline. Near the top is a fine vista o f th epastoral vale to the S .W.

, with pretty Comi'ielying under th e hills. Passing the temptinglooking road to the right at the sixth m ilestone,I entered Sma Glen, which is fl anked b y highand rugged cliffs. These acted as a funnel toth e wind, and in some places it was d ifficulteven to walk against it. 5

Near th e head of the pass is a large stone,which is supposed to have once covered O ssian’

s

tomb A

O ssian, last of all h is race,Lies buried in th is lonely place.

The road now crosses t h e stream , and strikingover a rough brae, slopes down to Amu lree, aham let in a dreary waste, possessing an inn.

About two' m iles from Amulree the road againforks. The left goes to Aberfeldy ; the right,which I fo llowed, declines through S tath Bruanto Dunkeld , the scenery becom ing more and

more pleasing as th e town is approached .

I lunched at Dunkeld, then rode up the hillb y th e Duke of Atho l's park, and throughmagnificent covers of birch and larch. O n emergingfrom there

,a verdant stath , watered b y the

Tummel, could b e seen stretching away to the

Grampian range.

I enjoyed about nine m iles, o f level read beforereaching Pitloch rie, a clean village'with a fine

hydropathic establ ishment. This favourite placewas already alive with tourists.The cyclist will find that the reputed charms

o f th e scenery-from Pitl och rie, through th e Passo f Killiecrankie, are not b y any means exaggerated . Its characteristic is sylvan beau ty.I stopped at the gu ide’s hou se, and whilewaiting for th e gude mon his buxom spou seentertained me b y displaying h er curiosities.Amongst other things was the skin of a largesnake from h er ‘

native home, Brisbane (Austra

l ia) . O n hearing that I was well acquaintedwith that town she almost embraced me in her

enthu siasm , and poured forth a volley o f questions after wh ich she insisted upon my partaking o f h er hospitality in th e shape of unlimitedm ilk and oatcake.

To be continu ed.)

THE CRY PTOGRAMOR, EIGHT HUNDRED LEAGUES ON:

THE AMAZ O N .

(A snonnr. TO“THE G IANT RAFT.

BY JULns VERNE,

‘

Au thor of“ The Boy Cap tain, etc. , etc.

CHAPTER XVI I .— ~THE LAS T NIGHT.

HE v isit of Y aqu ita and h er daugh terh ad been l ike al l su ch visits du r

ing th e few h ours wh ich each day theh u sband and wife spent togeth er . In -th e~

p resence o f the two b eings wh om Joam sea

dearly l oved hi s h eart nearly fail ed him .

Bu t th e h u sband— th e fath erfi retained h is

sel f—comm and . I twas h ewh o com forted th e'

two p oor wom‘

eTr‘

and inspired th em with a

little o f th e h op e o f wh ich so l ittle nowremained to h im . Th ey b oth h ad com e

with th e intention o f ch eering the p r isoner .

Alas ! far m ore than h e they th em selves .

were in want o f ch eering ; b u t wh en th eyfou nd h im still h o l ding u p h is h ead in th em idst of h is great trial , th ey recovered .

a l ittle of th eir h ope.

Again had J0 am sp oken encour agingwords to th em . His indom itab le energywas due not only to the feel ing o f h is

innocence, b u t to h is faith in th at G od w

p ortion o f wh ose ju stice exi sts in th e hearts;o f m en . No ! Joam D acosta wou ld never

l ose h is l ife'

for th e crime o f Tiju co .

Hardly ever did h e m ention th e doomm ent . Wh eth er it were ap ocryph al o r no ,wheth er itwere in th e handwriting o f To rreso r in th at o f the real p erpetrator o f th e

crime whether it contained o r di d not contain the l onged

-for vindication , it was on

no such d ou b tfu l hypo th esis th at .Joam.»

D aco sta p resumed to trust : No ; h e

reckoned on a. b etter argum ent in h is.

favour , and it Was to h is l ong l i fe o f to il

and h onour t h at h e relegated th e task of"

p lead ing for h im .

Th is ev ening , th en , h is wife and dau ghter , strength ened b y th e manly words ,wh ich th rilled th em to th e core

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o f th eirh earts

“

, h ad left h im m ore confident th awth ey h ad ever b een since h is arrest . F orth e last tim e t h e p risoner h ad emb racedth em with r edou b led tenderness . It seemed.

”

as th ough'

h e h ad a p resentiment th at,whatever it m igh t b e, the dénouement wasnigh .

Joam Daco sta, after th ey h ad l eft re

m ained for som e time p er fectly m o tionl ess.

His arm s rested on a sm all tab l e'

and sup

p orted hi s h ead . O f wh at was h e th inking ? Had he at last b een conv inced that'

human ju stice, after'

fail ing th e fi rst time,

wou ld at length p ronounce h is acqu ittalY es , h e

,

still h oped . With th e r ep or t o f“

Ju dge Jarr igu ez e stab l ish ing h is identity,h e knew th at h is m emoir , wh ich h e h ad

penned with so mu ch sincerity, w oul dh ave b een '

sent to Rio Janeir o , and was

now in th e h ands o f .th e Chief Ju stice.

Th is mem o ir , as we know , was th e h istoryo f h is

‘

li fe from h is entry into th e o ffices o fth e diam ond arr ayal until th e v ery m oment

wh en ‘ th e jang'

ada stopp ed b efore Manaos .

Joam D acosta .was p ondering ov er h is

wh o l e career . He again l iv ed h is p ast li fefrom them oment . wh en , as

'

an o rph an ,h e

h ad set foot in Tiju co . Th ere h is z ealh ad r aised him h igh in th e o ffi ces o f th e

governor-

general , into wh ich h e h ad b eenadm itted wh en stil l v ery young . Th e

futu re sm il ed on h im h ew ou ld h ave fil ledsom e imp ortant p o sition . Th en th is su dd en ,

catastr oph e th e r obb ery o f ' th e diam ond »,

conv oy, th e m assacre o f the escor t, th e su s »

p icion dir ected against'

h im as th e only

o fficial wh o coul d h ave d ivu lged th e secr et

o f th e expedition , h is arrest , h is appear

a nce befo r e th e Ju ry , h is conv iction m Sp ite

o f all th e effo r ts o f h is advo cate, th e last

ih ou rs spent in th e condemned cel l at Vil laRica, h is escape under conditions whi ch"

b etokened alm ost su perh uman co urage, h is

fl igh t th rough th e no rth ern p rovinces , h is

a rrival on th e Peruvian frontier , and th e

r ecep tion which the star ving fugitive h adm et w ith from th e h ospitab le

o

fa‘

z ender

M agal haes .

Th e p r i soner once more p assed 1 1 1 reviewth ese events , wh ich h ad so cr uel ly m arred

h is li fe. And th en ,l o st in h is

,

th ough ts

and recol lections , he sat , regard less o f_

a

p ecu l iar no ise . on th e ou terwal l o i th e convent , of th e jerkings o f a r op e h itch ed on

to a b ar o f his window ,o f th e grating

s teel as it cu t th rou gh the ir on , wh ich

o u gh t at once to h aveb

attracted th e attent ion o f a less absorb ed m an .

Joam Dacosta continu ed to l ive th e

year s o f h is yo uth‘

after h is arrival in

Peru . He again saw th e -faz ender , th e

c lerk, th e p artner o f th e o l d Po r tuguese ,

t oil ing h ard fo r th e p ro sp erity o f th e

«e stab l ishm ent at Iqui to s . Ah ! why at

th e ou tset had h e no t told al l to his b enef acto r ? He wou l d never have dou b ted

h im . I t was th e onlyerror with which h ecou l d repr oach h im sel f . -Why_

h ad h e no t

c onfessed to him wh ence h e h ad come,and

wh o h e .was— above all , at th e m oment

The g oy’s Own

(Paper.

And now th e no ise ou tside becam e l ou denou gh to attract th e p risoner

’s attention .

For an instant Joam raised h is,h ead ; h is

eyes sough t the window , b u t with a v acant

lo ok ,as th ough h e were unconsciou s

, andthe nex t instant h is h ead again su nk intoh is h ands . Againh e was in th ough t back‘

at Iqu itosTh ere the old

“

faz ender was dying ;before h isend h e l ong ed for the fu tu re o f

h is dau gh ter to b e assu red , for h is p artnerto

'

b e th e sole m aster o f th e sett lem ent

wh ich_

h ad grown so p r o sperous under h ism anagement . S h ou ld D acosta h ave sp okenth en .

9.

P ;erh ap s‘

b ut he d ared no t d o it .

He agai n l ived th e h appy days h e h adsp entwith . Y aqu ita , and again thou gh t o f

the bir th of h is ch il dren , again fel t th e

h ap piness wh ich h ad its only tr o uble 1 n theremembrances o f Tijuco and th e remorse

th at h e h ad .no t confessed h is terrible secret .Th e ch ain o f ev ents was rep ro du ced inJoam s m ind with a cl

'

e‘

arness and com

p leteness qu ite rem arkab le .

And no w h e was th inking o f th e daywh en h is daugh ter

’s m arriage with Mano el

h ad b eendecided .

‘

Cou l dC

h e al low th at

u nion to take p lace u nder a false name

with ou t acqu aintin'

g thelad with th e mys

tery Of h is l ife 9 No ! And so at th e ad

v ice o f Judge Ribeiro h e resol ved to com e

and claimthe rev ision o f h is sentence, todemand th e rehab il itation which was h isdu e ! He was starting with h is peopl e, and

He s carce ly s p o ke o f th e Do cument.

f righ tful a crime.

and h is_

l ife , and th en th e denunciation and

th e arr est !

S uddenl y th e window fl ew O pen with a

vio lent p u sh from w ith o ut .

Joam started up ; the S O zwem'

rs o f th e

past”

vanish ed l ike a sh adow ;

Benito leapt into into th e room ; h e Wasin th e p resence of h is fath er , and the next

m om ent Mano el , tear ing-down th e remain

ing b ars , ap peared before h im .

Joam D acosta wou ld h ave u ttered a_

cryof su rprise. Benito l eft h im no time to do so .

Father ,”h e said , th e Window g rating

is down . A r ope leads to the ground . A

p irogu e is waiting f or yo u on th e canal

not a h undred yard s off . Arau jo is th ereready to take yo u far away from Manaos ,

on th e o th er bank o f th eAmaz on , wh ere

you r track wil l never b e ‘ discovered ! . Fa‘

th er , you m u st escape th is very m oment !It was th e ju dge’s ow

'

n suggestion“ I t must b e d one ! “

added Manoel .‘

Fly ! I ! —Fly a second time ! Flyagain 9

”

And with crossed arm s , and head erect ,Joam D aco sta stepped backwards .

“ Never ! ” heusaid , in a v oice so

‘

fi rmth at Benito and Mano el stood b ewil dered .

The young men h ad never th ough t o i

a diffi cu l ty . like this. They h ad never

reckoned on th e . h indrances to escapecom ing from th e p risoner . h im sel f .Benito advanced to h is fath er,gmd l-o ok

ing h im straigh t- in th e face, and takingboth h is h and s in h is , not to -force him ,

'

b utto try and conv inceh im , said ,

’

Never, did y ou say , fath er ?”

Never !”

Father , said Mano el for I al soh ave th e r igh t so , to .cal l . you fath er

l isten to u s ! I f we tel l you that you o ugh t

to fl y w ith out lo sing an instant , it isp

b e

cau se if you rem ain you Will b e guil ty toWards oth er s, t owards you rsel f _

5“ To remain ,

”continu ed Benito

,

“ is torem ain to die ! Th e o rder for execu tionm ay com e at '

any m oment I f you im aginethat th e ju stice o f m en wil l nul li fy a wr ongdecision, if you th ink it wil l rehabilitateyou wh om it condemned twenty years

since, you arem istaken ! There is h ope no

longer ! Y ou m u st fl y ! Com e !”

By an irresistible impu l seBenito seiz ed

h is fath er and drew h im towards th e win

dow l 1

Joam D acosta sstruggled from h is son’

s

grasp and recoiled‘aLsecp nd time.

_

To fly,” h e answered

,in the tone o f a

man wh ose r eso lu tion was unalterab le,is to dish onou r m ysel f and yo u w ith me

It woul d b e a confession o f my guil t ! O f

my own f ree wil l I s u rrendered mysel f t o

m y country’

s ju dges , and I wil l await

th eir decision, whatever'

that decisionmayb e

“ Bu t th e presumptions on wh ich youtrusted are insu ffi cient,

”rep l ied M anoel ,

“and th e m aterial pr o o f o f you r inno

cence is'

stil l wanting I f we tel l yo u th at

you ough t to fly , it is becau se Ju dge Jarriqu ez h im sel f to ld u s so . Y ou h ave now

only th is one chance left to escap e fromdeath !

”

f“ I will d ie, then ,

”said Joam , in a

‘

calmv oice. I wil l die protesting against th edecision

'

wh ich condemned m e.Th e fi rst

tim e,

’

a few h our s before the execution—TIfl ed ! Y es ! I was th en young . I h ad al lmy l ife befo re me in wh ich to struggleagainst man

’

s inju stice ! But to sav e mysel f now , to begin again the miserab le ex

istence o f a fel on h iding under a fal senam e

,wh o se every effor t is requ ired to

avo id th e pu rsuit o f th e p o lice, again to

l ive the life o f anx iety wh ich I have led

f or three-‘

and -twenty years , and obl ige youto sh are it wi th m e ; to wait each day for a

d enunciation whi ch so oner or later m ust

come, and a claim fo r ex tradi tion wh i ch

wou ld foll owm e to a foreign country ! Am

I to l ive fo r . th at No Never“ Fath er ,

” interrupted Benito , wh o se

mind thr eatened to give way before su ch

o b stinacy, you shall fl y ! I W i ll h ave

it so ! And h e caugh t h o ld o f J0 amD acosta, and tried b y force to drag h

im

towards th e Window .

No no !”

Y ou wish to drive‘

me m ad

My son ,

”exclaimed J0 am Dacosta,

l isten to me O nce already I escaped

from p ri son at Vil la Rica, and peop le b e

l ieved I fl ed from well -merited punishment.

Y es , th ey h ad reason to think so . Wel l ,

fo r th e h onou r o f th e name which you b ear

I sh al l not do so again.

”

Benito h ad fal len on his knees before h i sfath er . He h eld up his h ands to him h e

b egged him

But thi s order , father ,” h e repeated ,

th is o rder , wh ich is du e to -day—r even

now — it will contain you r sentence o f

death .

”

“ Th e o rder m ay come,_ b u t my deter

m ination wi l l not ch ange. No , my son !

J0 am D acosta , gu ilty, m igh t fly J0 amDaco sta, inno cent , wil l no t fl y !

The scene wh ich fol l owed th ese wo rds

was h ear trending . Benito struggled with

h is fath er . Manoel , distracted ,kept near

the wi ndow ready to carry off th e p risoner— when th e do or o f th e room opened .

O n th e thresh old appeared th e‘

ch ief o f

th e po lice, accomp anied b y th e h ead warder

o f th e p rison and a few so l diers . The ch ief

o f the p o l ice understood at a glance th at

an attempt at escape was being m ade ;b ut he al so understood from th e prisoner

’

s

attitu de that h e it was wh o h ad no wish to

fly ! He said noth ing . The sincerest pitywas d epicted on h is face. D oubtless h ealso , l ike Judge Jarriquez ,woul d have likedD acosta to h ave escaped .

I t was to o late

The ch ief o f th e p ol ice; wh o h eld a paper

in h is h and , advanced towards th e p ri

soner .

Befo re al l o f you , said Joam D aco sta,“ let m e tell you , sir , that it only rested

with me to fl y , and that I would not do

so .

Th e ch ief of the p olice bowed hi s h ead ,and th en , in a voice wh ich he vainly tried

to contro l ,“ J0 am D acosta ,

” h e said ,“ th e o rder

has th is m om ent arrived from the Chi ef

Ju stice at Rio Jsu eiro .

”

“ Fath er !”

exclaimed Manoel andBenito .

I

Thc goy’

s Own Paper.

who h a

requi res

Ii

th Padre

To fl y i s to d is h o no

i

u r m e. and to,d ish ono u r y o u !

Y es ! ”

And th at wil l take p lace ?To -m orr ow.

” “

y

Benito th rew h im sel f on h is fath er .

Again woul d h e h ave dragged “

h im from

h is cell , b u t th e so ldiers cam e and d rew

away th e p risoner from his grasp .

At a sign from the . ch ief -of th e p oliceBenito and -Manoel were taken away . An

end had to b e, pu t to

'

th is p ainfu l scene,

_

wh ich h ad al ready lasted'

to'

o l ong .

“ S ir ,”said th e do omed -man,

“ beforeto -m orrow , before the h our o f my execu l

May I see my fam ily ,and embrace for

a last time my’

wife and ch il dren ?

Y ou'

shal l see .th em .

”

Thank yo u ,

"

sir ,” "

answered J0 amand now keep guard over th at wind ow

it will not do for th em to take me ou t o f “

h ere against my w il l .”

And then th e chief of th e p olice, after a

resp ectfu l b ow, retired with th e warden

and th e so l dier s .»

The d o om ed man , wh o h ad now b ut RM.

few h ours to l ive, was left al ohe.

(To b e continued!)

O UR S E A RCH IN TH E A RCT IG R E G IO N

N the 1 5th April we discovered that NedMcIntyre, one o f th e men named b efore as

unab le tn read, had strayed from the‘

sb ip. Hewas seen al one on the top of a h il l . A com

pauy o f men were at once sent after h im one

o f our quarter masters, Josh . O rgan , was th e firstto come up with h im . After a long chase h ecame upon theman in th e act of b iting h is arms,apparently mad or pretending to he so h e hadto b e knocked down ere he cou l d b e secured .

His hands were found to b emost severely fro z en,so much so that it was feared that hewoul d loseone of them. O rgan, the quartermaster, al so

4

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BY COMMANDER CHE YNE , R.N. ,

CHAPTER‘

ix .

had his feet b adly frostb itten, having foolishly,

taken off h is b oots to cl imb the'

h ill after this

unfortunate madman.

“

O n the afternoon o f the 1 7th April JamesGray, A.B. , died ; He was b ereft of h is senses

for two or three days b efore death . His case

seemed to b e one o f pure melanch oly and

despair , he having a settled idea that th e sh ips

wou l d never b e released from the ice. The poor

fel low was b u ried on th e 2 l st, alongside of

Coomb es,‘

of the Investigator . O n the 3oth

Dav id Jenkins also died , and was laid in our

increasing little cemetery in due course.

5 iron“

FRANKL IN .

The steam launch b elonging to the Investi~

gator was-

convey'

ed to Whaler Point and de

posited t here in depdt‘

,the carpenter had

cut h er ‘b ows“

off end l engthened her. The foxes»

left us this month , th ough they had previouslyb een in continual attendance upon the traps.

O n the 3rd May S ir James Ross and myself,with two sledges and eigh teen m en

,accompanied

b y Dieutenant Barnard and D r. Anderson, of

th e Investigator, l ikewise with two sledges and

an equal numb er of men, started _

from the ships

at a m. , and arrived at the depot under“

Cape Clarence at 92 0. Here we transferred .

“

the stores and provisions— th at h ad prev iou sly

"b een b u ried— to ou r sledges, and at con‘

rtinu ed our jou rney to th e westward , keeping on‘

t h e ice close along th e coast-l ine. At no on

we hal ted , l igh ted fires, co ok ed and ate our

d inner , and pro ceeded on ou r road . At 6°

50 p m .

wepitch ed our canvas tents for th e nigh t.

~ Theywere five in numb er, and were pitch ed in a single

new on a l ow Sandy plain, alb eit covered with

snow. Nve Speedily l igh ted ou r fires, and pre

pared a h ot supper, consisting o f concentrated

p ea-soup, cocoa, and b iscuit

,with a rel ish of

~cold p ork . S even men sleptf in each tent— S ir

James Ross slept . in th‘

e first,I in

’

the second,“

no

«o ffi cer in eith er th e th ird or fourth , Mr . Barnard"and Dr. Anderson in th e fi fth .

’

We passed the evening with much pleasure,ib eing al l on a par fof th e time and a truce to

nfdi stinet-ion we had some jol ly songs and yarns,b ut th e fatigue of our march so on induced u s to

«cl ose th e do ors o f our respective tents, and ere

unany m inutes we were al l fast asleep , each in

dais b lanket b ag, cl oth es, sealsk in cap, and b oots.

The temperature during th e nigh t was exactly“

z ero,b ut, thank s to a b u ffal o rob e th at was

.s pread over al l l ik e a large counterpane, we

passed th e h ours pretty comfortab ly .

E arly in the' m orning, after , h aving had our“

b reak fast , we started again,-l

_

eav_

ing b eh ind u s

«al l th e sk ins and b lank et b ags, togeth er with-t he tents and , one stove; the sergeant o f Mar ines

"o f th e Investigator remaining to takecharge o f

the tents, etc.

,so left. After very rough travel

l ing am ongst th e hummocks we arrived at no on

.at our destination, under a cl i ff, and deposited

at depét, to aid S ir James Ross’s l ong march to

w ards the mag netic‘

po le.

’ We th en had our

”d inner and returned with empty sledges to th e“

tents, one o f which was . stru ck «and taken on

with u s, and 'th e oth er four,.

_with b lanket b ags,

ask ing, etc. left wh ere th ey ! were. Having

p assed a second nigh t at th is spot, :wenext m orn

i ng, at six o’

clock, started for the sh ip‘

s,’

wh ere'we arrived b ynoon. I

'

and several .o f the m en

were snow-b l ind a few h ours b efore our return,a nd many morehad.their eyes

’

greatly inflamed ,~owing to th e constant glare o f the

'

snow,wh ich

Lin these regions sparkles like d iamonds .

O n the 8 th Lieutenants'

Browne and Rob insonil eft with th eir parties to

‘

advance the south

western depét a sh o rt distance farth er towards

F ury Beach , from wh ich du ty th ey returned on

Tthe l oth .

O n th e 1 5th May S ir Jam es Ross started on

ib is l ong and final journey to th ewestward . Th e

o nly oflicer wh o accompanied h im the wh ole of

t h e way was Lieutenant McClintock ,who after

wards b ecame so fam ous in the annals o f Arctic

stravel l ing ; b u t'

Dr. Rob ertson, surgeon of th e

E nterprise, Captain Bird, Lieutenant Barnard ,and Mr . Cresswel l , o f the Investio ator, each with

a separate sledge par ty, started adso with th em ,

f or the purpose of laying out depdts o f provisions

a long th e coast in aid o f th e more extended

p arties . S ir James “

Ross and Lieu tenant Mc

fCl intock each had a sledge crew of seven m en,

m ak ing sixteen, for wh om forty-five days

’

pro

v isions were tak en out . O n the 2 3rd , after an

a b sence o f nine days, th e fatigue parties re

t urned to th e sh ips, l eaving S ir Janaes’s twos ledges proceeding to th e south

-westward en rou te

t owards th e magnetic p ole.

O n th e 3l st two sledge parties started, one

across Prince‘

Regent’

s Inl et , under charge o f

Lieu tenant Browne, th e other across BarrowLS trait, under Lieutenant Barnard and D r. An

d erson,b oth h aving to ‘go ab ou t forty

-five m i les

«o ut and th e same d istance b ack . O n th e 2 8 th

Lieutenant Rob inson proceeded with a sledge

«c rew for . Fury Beadh , . wh_ere th e Fury, under

S ir Edward Parry, ,h ad b een wrecked . O n

b oard th e vessel s we ,were actively empl oyed

g etting ready for sea against our good fortune

m igh t o ffer to release us from present captivity .

The mean temperature for May was 1 63 , the

m aximum and the m inimum 92 th e

m ean b arometer was 300 35, and th e mean force

o f wind 2'

6 much snow fel l during th em onth .

O n the 8 th June th e second man b efore re

f erred to as b eing unab le to _read ran away from

-

the ship, h iding h imsel f in the cliffs near th e

s ummit ofNorth -East Cape. We, h owever, dis

The. 8 037’s Own

(Pap er.

THE.

E ND .

OURPRIZ E‘

GOMPETITION'

SJ

( renni n S ERIE S .

Literary Competition— S ea S ong or

Poem .

(Continued f rom p age m ,

covered h im bymeans of the track of a bear thatwas al so in search o f our poo 1 mad sh ipmate.

O n the evening of th e 6th and 8 th bothparties returned from Bai row S trait and PrinceRegent’s Inlet respectively, with ou t h avingmade any particu lar d iscovery. Wh ite b eai s

now congi egated in 0 1 1 1 locality, seven beingseen at Wh ale1 Point . in th e cou 1 se of a few

h ours,th ough in vain did I stay o ut a wh ole

nigh t on the h unt, fo 1 I failed 1 n_ getting near

one o f th em ,th ey being qu ite satisfied with eye

ing me fi om a d istance.

O n the 1 5th June our Assistant Surgeon,Mr .

Hem y Math ias, died of consumption, and wasburied in the cemetery, deservedly reg1 etted byevery one. 0 1 1 1 surgeon

“

was at th e same time

dangerously ill under an attack o f scurvy.

O n th e 1 7th Lieu tenant Reb inson and partyreturned from Fury Beach Th ey found no

traces o f Fi ank lin ,b u t cam e across th e stores and

p i ovisions left th e1 e by S i 1 James Ross in 1 8 33,since wh ich time th ey had remained untou ch ed .

Two cakes were even found exposed on the beachthat h ad beenmade by some o f S ir James Ross'scooks in th e sameyeai

,1 8 33, wh ich were even at

th is date,1 8 49, eatable. Th is fact speaks

vo lumes fo1 th e preservative quality o f th e

climate.

0 1 1 th e 2 31 d S ir James Ross and LieutenantMcClintock 1 eturned to the sh ips, h aving failedin leach ing th e magnetic po le, owing to theirp i ovisions 1 1 1 nning sh o rt “

; they had been absentfo 1 ty days“, on a newly d iscovered coast

,wh ich

h ad been thei eby added to 0m ch arts Not a

trace o f F i .1 nkl 1 n did they see, and our spiritswe1 e consequ ently much dep i essed . They hadtravelled o ve1 1 8 0 m iles outwai ds ; and i ctui ned

by th e same track. The p arties su tfered much

from the j-eu rney ; one man neVer went 0 1 1 du tyagain ,

two or th ree h ad frostbitten feet and hadridden for some days on the sledges. A solitarycrack had opened i n the i ce (leading s o1 oss the

entrance o f the h arb ou 1 ) wh ich opened and

closed with the tides. Nume1 ous bu ds came toit

, many o f 1wh ich were -sh o t

,prey ing a most

valuable anti-scorbutic, and possibly saving thelife o f our surgeon, wh o was ,

. b e1 ievcd to b e

dying wh en th ese birds cam e to h is’

rescu e.

Th e mean temperature fo i June was 31 7, th emaximum 54 0

,and tHe m in imum 1 1 6. The

mean barometer was 2 9 876, and themean forc eo f wind 2 76. By the3oth o f the m onth not ad 1 op of water could b e seen f 1 om th e summit o fNo rth E ast Cape, excepting the one so litarytidal crack across th e entrance of Port Leopold .

In th e early pa1 t o f July numerou s pools o f

wate1 had fo rmed 0 1 1 the surface of the i ce, and

th e line o f canal was becom ing qu ite h oneycombed , owing to the ab so 1 ption o f th e sun

’

s

rays by the g1 avél that h ad been spread ove1 it .O n the 8 th we lost another of our men, E dward

Binsk in,wh o was buried on the 1 2 th in the

cemetery, wh ich now 1 eceiv'

ed th e'

name o f PikeRow,

from the fact o f a b oai ding pike b eingstu ck . into th e ground at the h ead o f each grave,and th e g1 aves being in a straigh t line O n th e

1 2 th theb long seventeen feet saws were set to

work, and a cut commenced down each side o fthe canal, th is work progressed steadily al l themonth , both sh ips’ companies being fully employed at thewei k. By the 1 5th ofAugust thecanal was nearly completed , wh en the finish ingst1 oke was given by th e last po 1 tion breakingaway, and sti ong indicationswere appa1 ent thatwe sh ou ld soon b e released . From th e top of

North East Cape cracks o f open water.were seenextending some fifteen m iles in length . The

fo llowing day the me inside th e harbou r commenced to move in th ree separate po i tions, thatto seaward breaking up fast and giving it l oom .

A continual movement went 0 1 1 , until at last,on the 2 9th Augu st, we w _ :e1 e enabled to makesail and b id farewell to Po rt Leopold , wh ere wehad been fro z en in for a wh ole year al l b ut .

th irteen days, leaving six graves beh ind us .

We made a clea1 run o f twenty m iles th e sameday

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in good open wate1 , wh ere ‘

only twentyi ouih ours b efo 1 e hardly a h ole of wate1 h ad beenvisible, such are the vast and sudden changesthat take place.

O n the 30th we saw five whales, lunning ou _

1

sh ip agwiDS t one of them wh ile asleep . Itotook

th e concu ssion very qu ietly, merely s inkingdown out of sigh t.O n th e l st

D

S eptemb er, aft 'er b- eing only twodays in open water, we were closely beset in thei ce, and for fou i -and -twe1 1 ty days we drifted a

d istance o f two h und red and fo rty m iles, withou t being once able du ring that time to see a

drop o f water even “ from the mast h ead . The

Investigator was beset abou t two miles f 1 om il s,

and each was obliged to cut afire h ole alongside,wh ich remained intact during th e wh ole periodof our drift. O n th e 2 4th

°

tl 1 é ice su ddenlycracked

,and a general d isruption took place in

al l dii ections, and th e sh ipswere oncem 0 1 e free,alter d

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1 ifting through Bari ow S t1 aits intoBailin

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s Bay.

S ail was immediately made fo 1 E ngland . A

rapid , 1 un ensued down Baffin 5 Bay, and con

sidei ing th at we wererunning am ong numerouslarge b e1 gs, du i ing da1 k nights, the excitem entfor th ose

o

on Watch rose to an intense pitch , es

pecial ly as it blew h alf a gale of wind , and a

d istance o f nine h undred m iles h ad tob eaecomp l ish ed me we we1 e finally clear o f th ese giantso f th e Atlantic seas . After a favou rable run

across th e Atlantic and through the PentlandF i ith , we ran down the coast of S cotland , andar 1 1 ved at S carb orough on th e 31 d Noverhb e1

,

wh ere S ir James Ress landed, the sh ips go ingon to Woolwich , at wh ich place we arrived on

the 1 1 th , and paid off th e sh ips on the 26th of

th e samemonth .

None b u t th ose returning fromsuch a voyag(r e

can possibly realise the delight we felt at againsigh ting the English coast

,Jo

the nervous excitement experienced until our lette1 s were brough ton board or the satisfaction of oncemore placingfoot on English soil and meeting friends fromwh om we h ad not received even a single letterdu img a pe1 iod o f eigh teen month s.

Little did I th inkwhen I landed that I sh ouldembark on two m ore expeditions to th ose 1 egions, yet such u ltimately took place ,

and afterfive-and -a half years’ separation from al l livingbeings, both civilised and savage, I have come

to th e conclusion that a little society new and

then_

1 s both natural and agreeable} F1 ank l in s

party has pei ish ed and the search is relinquished ,b u t a most “ important object, th e d iscovery of

the North Po le, i emains to b e accomplish ed ;th is ach ievement i s England ’s b irth i igh t, and _it

would indeed become an . everlasting nationald isgi ace should any othei countryo effec’t ‘

th e

enterprise.

I h ave volunteered to _lead a private exped i

tion,v ia Sm ith ’

s S ound, if only funds can b ecollected to meet the occasion. The question IS

,

What nation will have th e glory of planting itsfl ag . at th e North Pole ? Th e many resu lts,scientific and o therwise, follow as a matter o f

course, and will redound to the credi t, ever

after, of th e country th at sh all first discover theremote spot. May E ngland conside1 in time,and not allow the final words Too late to b e

i nscrib ed on the tablets o f h er former daringach ievements in th ose Polar regions.

S ENIOR D i v 1 s 1 0N.

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. Award in th e S enior D ivision, wh ich embracesal l ages between 1 6 and 2 1 (see Vo l . 1 1 1 . page

The Pri z e is One Gu inea, and the

winnerALFRE D BENJAM IN Coornn (aged 1 7 years),

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DOINGS FORTHE MONTH.

HE PO ULTRY RUN.— Take th e advantage o f dry

days to see to any repairs that may b e neededab out th e foWl -h ouse and run ; warmth . and freedomfrom draugh ts and damp are wel l worth th e trou b le ofsecuring. A thatch ed roof p ossesses many advantagesover a slated or fel ted one it is not

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. onl y warmer inw inter b ut co ol er

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1 n summer . Th e main secret o f success in rearing goo d fowl s , and ob taining a large supp lyo f eggs, l ies 1 n jud icious feed ing, and at no time of th e

year is th is more val uab le than at th is season. Foodmust b e supp l ied with no niggard ly h and .th rice.dail y,and at regul ar interyals . Neith er sh oul d it b e for

go tten that in th e early sp ring month s grub s andinsects are not procurab l e ; a supp ly o f animal foodsh oul

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d th erefo re. b e su b stitu ted in smal l quantities.

Greenfood 1 3 anoth er necessity o f h eal thf ul existenceth e refuse of gardens is relish ed b y fowls, so is a large

green turf ; b ut noth ing sh ould b e l eft to decay in th erun

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. Th ose o f our readers wh o meditate go ing in”

f or f owl s sh o u l d 1 ememb er that th e larger th e r uns

and h ou ses are'

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th e b etter for th e sake o f exercise. S eth ens now inwel l sh el tered p laces, and let th e nests b ecomfortab le. Feed and tend ch ickens with extra care,

and see that cocks are no t al lowed to go ith out their

p roper al l owance. It may even b e necessary to'

feedthem separately.

THE PIGEON LOFT.— Th e mating season wil l soon b e

coming on. Have th erefore al l°

preparations for it.Ré-sto ck th e lo ft if it need s it. S el l or kill u seless orunnecessary b irds, and make up your

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mind what youare go ing to keep and b reed f rom . Comp lete repairs,and go in for a t h orough spring cleaning towards theend o f th e p resent or b eginning o f next month . Th iscleaning sh oul d emb race not only th e lo ft itself , b utthe food and water utensil s ; b ut do not forget to th e

rough ly d ry up th e work Damp 1 3 a fru itful source ofi llnesses o f al l k inds . As the b ird s sh ould not b e

p air ed for ano th er month , it is still time to th ink ofb eginning a lo ft.THE AVIARY.

— If you h ave not already selected

your b reed ing stock d o so now with out delay, th enset ab out making p rep arations for th e com ing season.

Have everyth ing in read iness,and everyth ing p erfect

— nesting-b oxes, nesting material s, and cag e u tensil s,and lastly attend to th e b reed ing cage itsel f . If th isb e

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not a‘

new one it must und ergo a th orough wash ingand d isinfecting. As p airing must not b egin til lab ou t th e m iddl e o r end of March , p l enty o f time can

b e taken to th e cleaning of th e cage or cages. Th e

The {Boy’s 0 e

(Paper.

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_exp l

wo l k patterns to b e sent you for nothing'

Will n’

e'ver O b tain an il lustrated catal ogue for

_stamp , th ough in

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every o th er instance we

you woul d havehad a civil ansvirer, stating tho f its no t b eing forwarded . Messrs . Chur

2 8 , Wi l son S treet, Fi'

nsb ury, pub l ish a l o t o f

can p atterns. Y our oth er questions have Iswered .

A GAE LICSPEAKER— Th e l icence for armorialco

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sts one gu ineap e’

r annum , and i f you use yi

on anyth ing, you are supposed to take on

l icence, Sand are su b ject .to p ro secution if yo 1

It is “a far cry to Loch Awe and we rejc

we have got there ; b ut we ave even h a1 from

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th e O rkneys and th e Heb rides, to sayo f our mo1 e d istant Col onies.

process consists o f scrap ing, scal ding, d oing overwith a so lu tion o f carb ol ic acid , ab ou t one p art totwenty o f water, exp osure to th e air , and final lywh itewash ing. Do not forget sand for th e b ottomof th e cage. S til l keep th e sexes apart .

THE RABBITRY. —We must see that our rab b itsare k ep t d ry

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and warm , and wel l -fed ,and any one

th at app ears sick or ail ing put in a h u tch b y itsel fand feed on th e b est it can eat . A few d rop s

— ten

to twenty— oi cas tor o il may d o go od . Clean outth e hu tch es regularl y, and d o th em over with goodwh itewash , tak ing care th at th ey are sufficientl yd ry b efore the rab b its are returned .

THE KE NNEL O ur remark s o f last month wil l

y equal ly wel l to th e p resent . We h ave stilland frost to figh t, and must keep our d ogswarm, and wel l fed .

W._

HARDY.— We can never under any ci1 cumstan

ces answer questions t h rough the p ost .

“ The

Crick et Fiel d, and oth er work s b y th e Rev'

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Py'

cw ft, are pub lish ed b y Messrs. Longmans 1

A BO Y O FKENT.— In No . 1 38 -we gav

’e ful l infor

mation on th e su b ject of regil ding smal l “articles.

Th e index te th e th ird vol ume inclu des th e'

xCorresp ondence“ Whynot get it ?

A . ROWE R.— Hanlan rows in an American-b uilt b oat,and k eep s h imsel f always in condition, as we shou l d

al l do, and special ly trains for each race.

F . A . LE E . Beat b uilding“

for Amateurs,b y .L. U. G il l , S trand, -w.c.

GE ORGINA.— S ituations in b ank s are ob tained by

.

private infl uence. The commencing sala1 1 es vary; b utare never very 'h igh . Y ou require '

a thorough know:

ledge of E ngl ish and accounts, and , as in every otherwalk o f li fe, th e more you know of evel yth ing th e

b etter, and th emoremodernand genu ine you r knowledge is, the greater . i s l ikelyto b e your success.

Z EUGMA.— The Great Storm occurred in 1 703. A ser

mon was annual ly preach ed on th e 27th o f Novemb erin Little Wild S treet Ch apel Linco ln’

s Inn Fiel ds,to commemorate it. Two th ousand ch imney-stackswere b lown down in London al one ; and th ree h un

dred sh ips, including men-oi-war , _

were l ost at sea.

Fox .— Good ink for u se with indiarub b er-stamp s is

made b y mixing h al f an ounce of any o f th e anilinedyes in a sol id state with two and a hal f o unces o f

b oil ing water, and th en adding th ree and a hal f

il racl

ims o f glycerine, and a drachm and a hal f of

reac e.

H . B -England'

1 3 so cal led from its b eing th e countryo f th eEngl ish . Th eEngl ish .who

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1 nmost o f our sch oo lb ook s are cal led th e Angl o Sa

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ns, have p ractical lyalways b een known as th e E ngl ish b efore and eversince th ey came over h ere in 4 49. Th ey were, as youh ave doub tl ess l earnt a l ot o f “ Lowand came from th e neigh b ourh ood o f th e mouth of

th e E l b e, near wh ich , at th e present day, th ere isstil l a d istrict known as Angeln or E ngland . GreatBritain is not so called b ecause it consists o f NorthBritain '

and S ou th Britain. I t b ears th e p refix to

distingu ish it from the other Bri tain. th e Little Britain, not th e street near S t. Martin’

s-le-Grand , b utth at part of France now known as Bretagne or

Brittany, and wh ich , l ike our own land , was3

cal ledBritannia b y th e Romans, a practice wh ich 1 n reading th e Latin auth ors is confusing, as it is o ccasional ly difficul t to find out wh ich country is meant, th enames o f th e towns and rivers frequently alone giving th e clue. Britain— or, in its Latin form, Britannia— means th e country o f th e Britons ; and th elanguage o f th e Britons or Wel sh , as our old fo refath ers call ed th em (very much as th e Greeks andRomans call ed al l foreigners Barb arians), is Britishor Welsh , and is su b stantially sp oken in th e Continental as wel l as th e insular Britain, Cel tic b eing the

moth er tongue o f Irishmen, High landmen, Wel sh

men, and B1 etons. In al l such matters you wil l not

pu b l ish ed

find a safer guide th an Mr. E . A. Freemanwil l not find a b etter or more interesting b oh is O l d E ngl ish History,

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pu b l ish ed b y Maand Co . at six sh il l ings . It contains th e son

o f Brunanb urh and Maldon.

00 .— If your young p igeon is total ly b lind th e

cure for it and reall y it ough t no t to b e kelIf it is only p ar tial ly so, p erh aps a l otion o f

of silver, two grains to an ounce of d istil lec'

m igh t . b e used twice a day with advantage.

b ird 1 3 a pet you might try th is.

AN Anxrous INQUIRE R .—Work h ard and wnestly, and you will soon find out wh at el b ovis

,and wh at are th e wond ers it can do . I

so l d“

in p ots at 1 3. 1 5d ,Government stamp in

I t i s th e p ersp iration resul ting from energet

cular ekertion,and b ears its reputation for b l

b est p o lish for very o b vious reasons.E . O . T.

— The level of th e land is constantly aAt Revel , wh ich is now h al f a mile from tth ough the waters us ed to wash its very w:h ul ls o f .some men-oi -war wrecked a l ittle mca century ago were only th e oth er day d ug oth e ground onwh ich streets arenow b uil t, an.wh ich a railway runs.

A BEAUTY WITHOUTPAINT.—Both th e comets

meteo rs are memb ers o f th e so l ar system ta

our earth b elongs. I f you h ave got th eBO‘

PAPER from th e commencement,"as yo u 3

h ave'only to turn to th e ar ticles on Bees

second vo lume .to . find o ut ~

all the informat'

Vo l . IV.— No . 1 6 1 . S ATURDAY, FE BRUARY 1 1 , 1 8 8 2 .

P rme O ne P enny .

[ALL RIGHTS RE SERVED . )

E,F I F TH . F O RM AT S T. D I N I C

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A PUBLIC SCHO OL STORY.

BY THE AUTHOR ~ or f‘THE ADVEN

TURE S or A THRE E GUINEA WATCH,

CHAPTE R x 1 x .—AN OLD F IRE RE

KINDLE D .

T. DOMINI C’S reassembled after

th e h o lidays in . an amiablef ram e o f mind .

“ a“

The Guinea-

p igs and,Tadpo1 es,

as th e Doctor h ad prophesied , h adcoo led dewn

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considerably in spirit

du ring th e period , and now returned qu ietly to workif th e m igh ty strike had never existed . S teph en

’s

figh ts with Bramb l e recommenced th e very first day,everythingWas qu ite like o ld times.

“ Not to b e entered with o ut perm iss ion.

O liver found th at theF ifth , al l.

b u t one .

o rtwo , h ad qu ite.forgo tten th eir su spicionso f hi s b ravery wh ich h ad spoil ed the p leasu re

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o f h is last term , and th ere seem ed

every pr osp ect o f his getting th rough t h iswith l ess r isk to hi s quick temp er th an

b efore.

As for th e S ix th , th e Fifth h ad forgiventhem al l th eir o ffences , and w oul d h avebeen qu ite p rep ared , h ad it been all owed ,t o l ive in p eace with th eir seniors, and

f o rget al l jthe dissensions o f th e summer

term . But it /was ,not al l owed , and an

event wh ich h app ened early; .in . th e term

served to revive al l_

the , o ld . animo sitiesb etween! th e two h ead classes .

At for reasons b est known

t o th e al l -wise beings wh o p resided o veri ts -m anagem ent , th e p rincipal exam ina

t ions and “

r emoves o f th e year took p lace

no t , as in’ m ost sch oo l s, at th e end o f th e

ll/Lid sum'

mer at th e b eginning o f

the au tumn term ,ab ou t Mich aelm as ; con

sequently now, with th e ex aminations

l o oming in th e distance, everybody wh oh ad anything to h ope f or from h ard wo rk

settled down t o stu dy l ik e mad . Cricket

was over for the year , and fo otball h adn o t begun . E xcep t boating th ere was notm uch d o ing ou t o f d o ors, and for th at

r eason th e season was favour abl e fo r work .

S tudies which u sed to b e bear -gardensn ow su ddenly assumed an appearance Of

r esp ectability and 'qu iet. Book s to ok th ep lac e of boxing -

gl oves _

and p ens of fencings tick s . The disorderly idl ers wh o h ad

b een in th e h abit o f invading at w ill th e

qu arter s o f th e indu strious were now givent o un derstand th ey mu st

“ kick up th eir

h eels el sewh ere. They m igh t not want

t o grind , b ut oth er s did . .

Th e idlers o f th e Fifth , to wh om th is

warning was addressed on every h and , h adn othing fo r it b ut to O bey» and , feelingth em selves greatly il l -u sed , to retire sadlyto some sp ot wh ere th ey cou l d kick _

up a

r ow to th em selves .

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Casting abou t th em for such a spot, it

h appened that Braddy and Ricketts one

one day lit alm ost b y accident on an o ld

empty study , wh ich some year s since h ad

b een a m oni tor s’r o om , b ut was now emp ty

and tenantl ess .

I t at once o ccurred to th ese two astute

h eroes th at this wou l d b e a magnifi cent

p lace for boxing -m atches . In th e o th er

s tudies one was always banging against

t h e corner s o f tables or tripping overf enders , b u t h ere th ere was abso lu telyn oth ing b u t four bare Wall s to

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interfere,

.wi th anybody .

Th ey cal led in two m ore friend s— Tom

S eni or and ano th er— Wh o declared it was a

S p l end id find , and th e fou r thereup on took

f o rmal p o ssession o f their new territory,and

inaugurated th e event b y a te‘

r'

rifi c eigh t

h anded ‘ b ox ing m atch .

Noth ing coul d have been '

m ore satisfac

t ory . The ro om was wel l o ut o f th e way ;th e studi ou s ones

.

of th e Fif th were Span'ed

all annoyance, and th e rio tous ones h ad an

a sylum to go to . No one was a. b it th e

w orse for th emove ; every one, on th e con

trary,_ f ound h imsel f decidedly th e better .

G o and k ick up a r ow in th e m oni tor s’

r oom ,

”b ecam e qu ite a comm on o b ju rga

t ion in th e Form am'

ong th e'

dil igent ; as

comm on , in fact , as Com e along ,.old

m an ,and h ave it out in t h e m onitors

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am ong th e idler ,s .

Bu t , as ill - luck wou l d h ave it, th is del igh tful retreat h app ened to b e situ ated

imm ed iately o ver th e stu dy occupied b yWren o f th e S ix th . That wo rth y h er o ,

seated one afterno on over hi s bo ok s , was

The isoy’s Own li b ret

startl ed b y a ter rifi c noise, foll owed b y avib ration , fol lowed b y th e rattling o f al lh is tum b ler s in th e cupboard , fo ll owed b ya

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du l l , h eavy th ud o ver h is h ead , wh ich"

temp ted him to b el ieve either th at an

ear thquake Was in p rogress, or th at one

o f the ch imney- stack s h ad fal len on to th e

1 o'

of . When , h owever , th e noise was re

p eated , and with it were.bl ended laugh terand sh ou ts o f ,

“ Now then, l et h imb

h avei .t Wel l parried

‘ ! Bravo, Bul ly !O ne . for h is nut !

”and the l ike

, Wren

began to ch ange h is ,.mind , and laid down

h is pen .

He . walked up th e stairs tothe upperlanding , wh ere, at once th ennOise gu idedh im to th e ol d ,

m onitor s room . Th en th etru th dawned u pon him . He stayed l ongenou gh to get a pretty clear idea of wh o

th e “new l odgers

”were

,and th en pru

dently retired with ou t attemp ting a pa1 leysingle

-h anded .

Bu t nex t m orning, when th e f estiverio ters o f th e F ifth approach ed once m o re

the s cene o f th eir rev els , _wh at was their

am azement and rage to find th e door

l ocked , and th e foll owing notice, on a

p iece o f sch oo l p aper , affi xed to . the panel "Monitors’room . Th is ro om is cl osed

b y d irection o f th e m oni to rs .

”

Y ou m igh t h avekno cked th em over witha feath er , so stup efied were they b y th isannouncem ent ! Th ey stared at th e d o or,they stared at

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one ano th er , and then th eybrok e ou t into a tempest o f rage.

The blackguard s . What do th eym ean ? ” ex claimed Braddy , tearing downth e p aper and crushing it up in h is h ands .

“ Monito rs’ r oom , indeed !”cr ied Rick f

etts . We’l l let th em seeWh o ’s room it is !Kick op en the door , can

’t you

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'P. s id

TomS enior .

Th ey did kick open th e doo r betweenth em : Th e look was .a weak one, and spoil

gave way .

O nce inside, th e evicted ones indu lgedth eir trium ph b y an uproar o f m ore than

u sual veh em ence, longing th at it m igh t

tempt into th eir clutches the daring intruder s wh o had pre

sumed to interfere with

th eir p o ssession . No one came. They h adth eir fl ing undistu rbed . Bu t before theyqu itted th eir strongh old one of th eir num

b er , b y dili gent searching , had found in

th e l ook o f a neighbou ring study-d oor a

key wh ich wo u ld fi t theirs . Repairing,th erefo re, th e catch , damaged b y, th eir

late fo rcib le entry , th ey calm ly l o cked th e

do or b eh ind th em -wh en they went and

affi xed to it , in th e identical'

place wh ere

the o th er notice h ad b ung ,

Fifth Form . Private stu dy . Not tob e entered with ou t permission .

O f cou rse th e news o f th is interestingadventure soon sp read , and fo r a day o r

two th e dil igent as wel l as the idle on

eith er side l o oked On with increasing ih

terest for th e'

i ssueo f th e contest .

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For awh il e th e Fifth h ad th e b est o f ‘ it .

Th ey defied th e enemy to turn them ou t ,and procu red and fixed an additional lock

on the do or . The S ixth th reatened to

rep ort-th e m atter to th e Docto r , and sum

moned th e invaders for th e last tim e to

capitul ate The invaders lau gh ed th em to

scorn, and pro tested th e ro om bel onged toth em , and leave it th ey wou ld not fo r all

th em oni tors in th ewor l d . Themonitors retired , and th e Fif th enjoyed th eir triumph .

Bu t next day th e'D octor abruptly entered

th e Fifth Fo rm r o om’

, and said ,Th ere is an unoccup ied r oom at th e

end o f th e top landing , wh ich som e boysin th i s class h ave b een m aking u se o f to

th e annoyance O f other boys . Th is room ,

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the S ix th , whil e S teph en felt decidedl y numom fortab le

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as*

to the consequences ofBram b l e

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s di scovery o f his secret V1 s1 ts last“

t erm to th e Cockch afer .

S teph en h ad in a confident1 al m om ent

d uring th e h o lidays to l d O liver o f thesevisits , and o f h is intimacy with M r . Cu pp s .

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Th e elder b roth er was very angry and a s

toni sh ed .wh en he h eard o f it . He‘

set'

b efore th e b oy, in no m easur ed.

terms, th e

.r isk h e was running b y b reakmg one,of

t he ru l es o f th e sch ool than

that, h e said Cripp s'

was‘

a b l ackguard‘

, and

d emanded o f S teph en apromi se, th ere and

1 th en, th at h e wo ul d never again enter the“C ockchafer u nder any p retext wh atever .

S teph en,fo rced to

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subm it , al th ou gh not

-convinced that Cripps was su ch a wi cked

man as his broth er m ade ou t, p romised ,2b u t reserved to him sel f m entally th e righ t’

to see Cripps at l east'

b nce m ore at th e

fL ock Hou se, th ere to return him the

bicycle lantern, wh ich it,

will b e remem

b ered th at kind gentleman had lent the'

b oy b efore th e h olidays ._As to th e Co ck

xch afer , he was th oroughl y frigh tened at“

th e though t’

o i having b een '

seen th ere, and“

fu l ly determined , even before Bramble’s’

th reat, never again to cro ss its th resh ol d .

A fter all , S teph en knew h e h ad l ittle

menough to fear from th at small b raggaf'd ooio ; Bramble had neith er th e wit nor

“ the skill to u se h is discovery .to any ad -j'

pv antage. For a day or two h e fo ll owed'

h is adversary up and down th e passages‘

with cries of Pot-b oy ! til l-

everybodywas sick o f th e sound , and felt h eartil y

g lad when, one fine afterno on, S teph en

”quietly dep osited h is adversary _On his b ack

. o u the gravel o f th e playground . s returning fr om one o f h is‘

But to return to th e feud between Fifth now,frequ ent v isits to

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th e Co ck ch afer .

(To b e continu ed . )

TH E TW O CA B I NEB'

Qty -s

A ST O RY O F ADVE NT URE BY'

TLAND.“ AND

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S E A .

BY

CHAPTER xv 1 1 1 ..

-'rHE VA LLEY or rHE ZG

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LENE LG .

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THE foll owing m orning th e two travel lers ,with their ligh t b aggage, set out on

i their journey.

Traversed b y th e capriciou s windings o f(th e which , under a thi ck dom e o f'verdure, p layfully leaped am ong the sh in: ing bou l ders, the val ley narrowed towards”th e east .

Th e landscape was truly ench anting .

i‘

S up erb clump s o f tree-ferns grouped th em;

s elves in m asses o f somb re green at th efeet o f th e giant gum -trees , wh ose s il versummits l ost th em selves in th e cloudlesssky, while th rough th e verdant cur tain

p eeped th e hi ll sides, covered with tufts ofacacias, casu arinas

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, and hundr eds o f sp ecieso f flowering p lants . Wh o wou ld h avesupp o sed th at th is magnificent sceneryconcealed the bu rning desert wh ere th eshipwrecked lads h ad imagined they weredoomed to die o f h unger and exhau stion ?N0 par t o f th e globe presents such contrastsw ith greater ab

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ruptness than Au stral ia.

E verywh ere th e frowning desert gives placesuddenly to th e smiling oasis and th echarming glade wh o se b eau ty is due to

.s ome spring or som e river ferti lis ing th evirgin so il .'

Th e two friends travell ed thr ough th isE den . There was noth ing to cau se th emat e hur ry , time was no object to th em , and

Things after a l ittle seemed to quietdown once m ore. Th e exiled rioters , aftera long and di sh eartening search , found

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restfor th e soles o f th eir feet in Tom

'

SeniOr ’sstudy, which ; th ough not

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nearly so con

venient,afforded them asylum dur ing th eir

pu gil istic enco unters .

Th e stu diou s ones settled down once

m o re to th eir work , and th e near app roacho f

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th e examinations p resently absorbed allth eir attention .

Th e struggle for th e “ Nightingalesch o larship natur all y was regarded withth e m o st intense inter est— not becau se itwas th e m o st imp or tant examinat ion o fthe year : it was not.

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Not becau se it was

worth £50 a year for thr ee years . That tomost o f th e sch ool was/ a m inor consideration. I t was

l

as no thing to th e fact th at ofth e th ree .

_candidates

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for th e sch o larsh ipone was a S ixth Fo rm b oy and two Fifth .

I f onl y one o f th e latter coul d com e outfir st, th e Fifth and th eir p artisans, al l th esch oo l

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over , felt th at-th e insu l t o f th e past

month would b e wip ed ou t , and the gloryo f th e Form avenged for ever . And it mu st

b e confessed that th e S ixth , h o wever mu ch

they pro fessed to ignore the r ivalry o fth eir juniors , were '

equ al ly anx iou s forth eir own m an,

. and o f late Loman h adbeen working h ard . He h ad wo rked , so itwas rep orted , du ring th e h ol idays, andnow , ever since term h ad begun, h e h adremained m ore or less seclu ded in hi s study ,or el se,

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.with a bo ok under h is arm, h ad

taken walks outside.

O f course, th e S ix th Form b oy woul dwin ! Who ever h eard o f a F ifth b oybeating a Six th ? And yet, in O liver andWraysford the Fifth , every one admitted ,h ad two strong men . Th ey woul d at l eastmake a h ard figh t for th e prize. The S ixth

wh il e on th eir way th ey frequ ently stopp ed

to adm ire'

th e innumerable birds whichp layed amid the foliage .

No p lace in th e world can rival "

th ese

sou th ern regions'

in'

th e beau ty o f th eir

b ird s . Here is th e h ome o f .the bird o f

paradise, th e diam ond o f th e animal

k ingdom , and h ere, in th e m idst o f an

incomparable co ll ection of cockatoos , par

rakeets ,-

and p arro ts, th ere l ive th e g o l den-4co llared regent, the lyre -b ird w ith its

graceful b ifurcating tail , th e b lackbird withits b rill iant . reflections, ar

id a h undr ed

varieties o f tu rtle doves , ‘

orio les, and

p igeons , of dazzl ing p lumage.

Daniel from time to tim e knocked down

with hi s sling some o f these b ril liant den-i

zens o f th e wo ods . Pengu in hunted for

fru its fi nding a few sour b erries, or else,as h e walked al ong , cu t

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ou t a Sp o on from

th e b ranch o f a gum -tree. Th en, w h en

th ey h ad ch osen th eir h al ting-p lace at th e

foot of '

a tree, the fi re,blaz ed up ,

th e water

fr'

om th e. river fil l ed th e sau cepan , and ,chatting p leasantly, themeal was soon p re

pared .

Pleasant itwas, assur edly ! and th e quiet ,h appy

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l ife so on m ade the .exil es alm ost

forget'th e bitterness ‘

o f the p ast . Th eywere at th at age when everyth ing wh ichis new amu ses, when th e mind in its

only h op ed th ey woul d not run th eir man

too, cl o se, and ’so m ake theg l ory o f h is

certainv ictory at al l d oubtful .

Lom an was not a favo uri te even with hisown cl

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ass -fel lo ws, b u t th ey cou l d forgiveanyth ing now p rovided h e m ade sure of

th e Nightingale .

”

“ He’

ll b e al l r igh t ! said O al lonb y to

Wren one day , wh en th e two"

h app ened toh it on th e top ic of the h ou r ; h e

’s a great

deal steadier th an h e was l ast term .

”

I wish he‘

-’d read ind oo rs,

"

th en , andnot b e everlastingly trotting out with hi sb ooks .

”

O h ! I don’t knew ; it

’

s mu ch -j.ollierreading

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ou t .o f doors, if you can d o i .i’

“

,

As l ong as h e does‘

rea’

d f, Wel 1 , -

_

it wil lb e '

a regu lar sel l if h e com es to grief th e

Fifth will b e into lerable.

”

They’re not . far. short o i '

th at now.

Hu l lo Z

This ex clamation was p rovoked b y thesigh t of Loman i n th e p layground underth eir window . He was returning from one

o f his stu d iou s ramb les,'

with h is bookunder hi s arm , sl owly .m ak ing f or thesch o ol .

There was noth ing in th is to astonishth e two b oys as th ey looked d own . Wh atd id a

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stoni sh th em was that h e was walkingunsteadily, with a qu eer , stup id l o ok on

h is face, u tterly unl ike anyth ing h is sch oolfell ows h ad ever seen th ere b efore. Theywatch ed him

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cross th e p layground andenter th e sch oo l -h ouse. Th en 'Wren said ,

gravely ,

“ I t’s all

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u p .

’With th e ‘Nightin-v

gale at th at rate.

”

Lo ok s l ike it, said th e“

other , and

youth fu l freshness rep laces the h al f-driedtears b y the m erry laugh , and when

courage knows . no_

danger and makes

straigh t fo r obstacles b y wh ich ,after l ong

years o f . struggle and failu re, it wou ld

easil y b e repel led .J

And thu s th e days passed b y , and th e

lad s seemed to b e appro aching th e end\o f

their journey . Th e vall ey narrowed; th e

h il ls b e'

nt r ound and enclo sed th e riverm ore comp letely, th ou gh its vol ume didnot dim inish in th e least .

Th is l ast fact .did n ot escap e th e ob ser

vant eye o f Penguin , and h e could not

h elp expressing h is surprise wh en, . hav ingreach ed th e end o f the valley , h e ; b ‘

eh eld

th e stil l rap id r iver escap ing i n a foaming »

cascade from a narrow gorge in .themountain .

r

I sh ou l d h ave th ough tw e had got t o

the source o f th e river , said he. The

vall ey ev identlyjends h ere, b u t th e torrent

whi ch fal l s from th e top o f th at ro cky wallbrings down as mu ch water as it did wh en .

it ran into th e sea . I t mu st com e“

from a

di stance, p robably from a table-land .

”

Perh ap s,” ob served Daniel ; b ut see

h ow barren and wil d -l o oking the surr ounds-ling m ountains are. I ,do not see a single.

tree. .We sh al l b e wrong if we go amongstth em ,

for b ehind t hem thereWill only b e a ,

“ Th ey b oth too k a im at the same animal.

likethis, th eremu st b e trees and vegetation .

us go on ; we need not go too far , so

as t'

o'be unab le to '

retu rn .

”

Th ere was '

cer tainly nothing attractiveabou t t h e defi le th rou gh wh ich ,

beforefall ing in a cascade into th e vall ey, t h eriver wound its way . I t consisted o f grey ,

slippery rocks , amongst wh ich grew a few

tal l th o rny bu sh es . Dur ing th e floodsthe tor rent evidently fi ll ed it , and it thenformed a terrible g-u l f. Th e bank s werecrowded with l

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o fty reed s, and th e su r faceof th e water was frequ ently h idden b ythem .

The h eat o f th e sun h ad converted theravine into a regu lar o ven , so that th etr avell ers increased th eir speed t o get ou to f it as qu ick ly as p ossible, b ut after a

m arch o f a coup le o f h ou rs th ere was no

indication -of their nearing th eO pen country,

as fast as its legs cou ld carry it. Two o r

th ree tim es Daniel aim ed at it with h is

sl ing , b u t either h e m issed h is m ark o r h is

pro jectiles h ad no effect on so h eavy an

animal . At last th e bir d gained on th em ,

and sh ortly afterwards disappeared at a

turn in the ravine.

The two cab in-boys , convinced o f th e

fol ly of furth er pu r su it , th rew th em selveson

,

th e ground . Th e p resence‘

o f th e largebird h ad intensely sur prised th em . Neith ero f th em was

“zoologis t enou gh to recognisein it

'

the emu o f Austral ia,'

wh ich , smaller

th an th e African o stri ch , is distinguish ed

from'

it_

b y its uniform ly grey plumage as

well as b y the absence o f th e large p lum es

at the tail and wings .

An o strich !”

said Penguin at last, in

an ab sent tone. In wh at country can

we b e, then

sel f,”replied Daniel .

.Th at is ju st wh at I was saying ‘

t

I th ink yo ifind o stricb es in Africa .

" ‘Bu t'

it is'

qu ite impo‘

ssib le t h at vb e in Africa .

Wh ere are we, th enWel l

, one th ing is certain , and ,

tth at this b ird is mu ch Sough t

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after

p lumage, and al so th at it is very rar

if our island p o ssesses o strich es yordep end up on it m en som etimes com

“

to hunt them ._

Let u s fol lowth e'

ro

bird took , and b y k eep ing in then eiglh ood of th ese anim al s we shal l son

h ave a ch ance o f b eing delivered .

events , let u s m ake h aste and, get

th is f urnace for I am being _

co okea lo b ster .

”f

In a few step s th ey h ad reach ed thbeh ind wh ich th e emu h ad disappand a sigh t m et th eir eyes at wh icl

cou ld no t restrain a cry o f adm iratioTh e defi le h ad su ddenly vanish ed ,vast circle, su rrounded b y h il ls and c(

with stunted bu sh es , h ad tak en itsTh eWh ole p lain wh ich form ed th e arth e amph itheatrewas a

,

m eadow o f en

green , in th e m idst o f wh ich th e wiriver flowed on , fu l l to th e brim : 8trees , iso lated o r p ictur esquely gr;th rew h ere and

yth ere their sh adows 4

verdant tur f and gave it th e appeara

an . immense p ark . In th e fo regroundnum erous qu adr up eds, which ou r tra

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at firstmistook for deer , and several go f emu swere quietly m oving abou t anth em .

If I saw a few fences h ere and tsaid Penguin, I ( coul d b e s ure W(near Montreal , in Canada, in one

p ark s wh ich are in itsneigh b ou rh oodI not righ t in tel ling you th e r iverlead u s into a spl endid country ?

’.I

better th an ou r valley , and if we on]

a gun th e h erds o f deer down belowwou l d

.

sufiice us for fo od f or th e 1

ou r lives .

”

D o'

you th ink th o se animal s real

deer asked Daniel th ey l o ok"

smal l .

Perh ap s th ey are o f a species p f

to th is isl and , said th e Canadian.

u s approach qu ietly , and we sh all sowh at th ey are.

”

Leaving th e defi le, th e lads ca]

glided into a group o f trees, near

som e o f th e qu adrupeds were grazingo f them was nearer to th em than

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t‘

h e

and was only a few paces from fltl

behind wh ich th e two cabin-boys h aden th em selves, so th at th ey were e:to exam ine it quite at th eir ease.

Pengu in cou l d not‘h elp mu t1

What a qu eer animal !

It was, indeed , a singu lar creatur

bu lk it equ all ed th e deer , b ut its

wou l d h ave cau sed it to b e m istakengigantic h are. With its l ong h ind

b ent under it , it supported itsel f

b rowsing on its sh ort thin fore legs,were p rovided with a s ies o f b ar

th e aid o f whi ch it ca'

ed its fo od

m ou th every now and th en l ik e a sqDaniel , h aving m ade an invol ‘

m ovement , th e creatu re appeareduneasy . It su ddenly ro se on its b in

b alancing its body b y mean s o f it

which gave it th e app earance o f

seated on a‘

tr ipod , and th en 1 1 th

shr il l cry .

At,

th is appeal th ree little ones wh rtravellers h ad not befo re noticed raxing toward s th eir mo th er , wh o ,

"1 iftin¢

up with h er h ands, p laced th em ,.on

another , -into'

a sb ft of open p ou ch

h er breast, wh ere, after squ atting down,

th e youngsters only all owed th eir h eads to

b e seen as if they were ranged on a b al

cony .

Th is was too much for ' th e lads, wh o

coul d no t restrain a simu l taneou s exclam a

t ion O f su rp rise, and instantly th e

'

.

fri gh t

ened b east sp rang up up on h er h i nd l egs

and fl ed‘

straigh t fo rward in 1mm ense

b ounds, carrying away h er faml ly Wi th h er .

Daniel and Penguin l ooked at one

anoth er astounded . Had Pr ovidence,t h en , cast th em upon one o f the mysteri

o u s isl ands in th e Th ou sand and O ne

Nigh ts Never h ad eith er‘

o f them h eard

o f such animal s , and th ey asked one

ano ther if wh at th ey h ad seen was not the

e ffect o f a m irage o r a temp orary h al luci

natio n .

I t was b u t a simp le, kangaroo wh ich had

cau sed th em such excitem ent . Th e p o or

Canad ian h ad never h eard o f it ; b u t h ad

Daniel , instead o f p laying tr uant, stu ck

to h is lessons with m ore assid uity , h e

woul d . not only h ave recognised b y its

s trange ch aracteristics th e great sou thern

m ar su pial , b ut he woul d at th e sam e time

h ave learnt that h e was in Au stralia, forth e kangaro o is only fo und in t h is qu eeno f the islands .

Th e fi rst moment_

O i su rprise h avingp assed , th e b oys r egretted th at th ey h ad

n ot managed to capture th e mysteriou s

c reature .

I t is a strange fell ow } rep eated Pen

g uin b u t as it feeds only on grass i ts

fl esh mu st b e good to eat ; Wh at a pitywe were not ab le to knock it down , it

w ou l d h ave made a capital m eal .1

“ When I saw th e b ig h are p ocket its

b ab ies and escape on its hind legs l ik e a

m an I was so taken ab ack that ‘ I nevert h ought O f making u se o f my sling . But

THE ILL-USE D BO Y ; O R,L AWRENCE -HARTLE Y

’

S GRIEV-ANGE S .

BY Mus. EILOART, A UTHOR O E"f JACK AND JO HN, rare.

The ll oy’s Ownra n.

th e beast is not al one'

; I see th at it hasgone to rejo in th e flo ck wh ich is b rowsingd own b elow there. Perh ap s we shall getwithin range again .

O u r p resence d oes no t seem to frigh ten

them very mu ch ,

”said th e Canadian , b u t

I d oubt if you wil l su cceed in kno ckingover su ch large anim al s with yo u r clayball s. I do not see wh y we sh ou l d not do

l ike th e Canadian Indians : th ere is no lacko f reeds , and I h ave

—

got som e string . Let

us try and m ake a b ow and arrows, and

with th em it wil l b e p o ssible to kill one o f

th ese gi gantic h ares .

Wh at anex cel lent idea ! said Daniel .Let u s set to w ork at Once .

Th ey very soon , f ound a flex ib le reed on

th e bank s of th e ri ver , wh ich was rapid lyb ent b y Pengu in into a prim itive b ow andfastened with _

strong twine , f and1in the

m eantim e th e young Frenchmancu‘

t'

s

’

om e

l igh t dry ru sh es t o serve fo r arrows .

Divided into l ength s o f'

ab out two feet , and

sh arp ly p ointed at one end , th ey fo rmed

m issiles of a'

form idab le character ; To

give them . a m ore accu rate fligh t,Penguin.

fixed on'

them a fe,w_

co ckat-O o_

s’feath e

'

f sh

and took care .to h arden'

th e'

p oints at fthefire in o rder to make th em str ong ,

and

penetrating .

In spite o f th eir h ard work ,nigh t su r

prised the ingenious l ads befo re they h adcomp leted th eir p reparations ,

-b u t ,th ey.

continu ed . to Work b y th e l ight ,o f their

fi re, and did not l ie downto rest u ntil th eyh ad qu ite finish ed “

two b ows and a dozenarrows . IThe first streaks of

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th e dawn’found th em

0

F

on th e m ove, anxiou s to"

try th e'

effect o ftheir weap ons. The p lain

"was deserted ,and th e eager h unters l ou d ly

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expressedth eir disapp ointment saw

'

th e

kangaroos descending the“h il l

“

and ap (To b e toniiaru'

edl)

CHAPTE R XXIV.— LAWRENCE ACCO UNTS .F OR)TOM

’

S D ISAPPEARANCE , AND .PRE PARE S F OR INVADERS .

LAWRE NCE h ad a great deal to say aboutTom ’

s disapp earance, and as Ted wenth ome th e very day Mr . Hartley h eard o fit , h e h ad onl y Robert now for hi s con

fi dant and l istener , and a listener to h ist r oubles was indi spensable to Lawrence.

“ I always knew that fell ow was a l ittlesneak ,

”h e said .

“

‘He knew wh ere th at

b ag was well enough , and it was all humb ug h is telling me it was downWh at a m uff I was to b elieve h im ! He

’s

left M iss Bransom’

s o f h is own accord . Al ittle rascal l ike that do esn

’

t want'

to b eanyth ing better than h e is. And you

’

l ls ee

,Bo b , we sh al l h ave h im back some

fine nigh t with som e o f his friends ;t h ey

’

ll b e after that b ag if it’s still about

th e p lace, and it’

s m y b el ief ; it is. O rt hey

’

ll b e getting into James’

s room ; Tomknows wh ere the plate is _

kept now ,and

fa l l th e ways o f th e h ou se. But there’

s one

t hing h e doesn’

t k now— th at uncle m adem e give up m y revo lver , and th at, with al lth is property in th e h ou se, we

’

re actu allyw ith o u t any firearm s to defend it

“ I don’

t b el ieve Tom ever lef t MissBransom o f h is own accord ,

”said Rob ert,

s tou tly .

“ Perh ap s h e knows th ings thath e is af raid o f tal k ing abou t, and h e h asb een car ried ofi

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t o m ake su re th at h ewon’

td o so . Po or l ittle Tom ! what a miserablething for h im !

”

“ Don’

t waste your pity on th e little

cad ! I dare sayh e’

s a . deal h app ier whereh e is, said Lawrence, in h is l o f tyway .

But th e thing~

_is _

ab ou t. _

ou r selves . ; I f

uncle onl y , had not that absu rd p reju diceab ou t fi rearm s ; I

’

d u ndertake to keep th e

coast clear o f th o se rascal s Pol ice, indeedO ne p istol

"s a d oz en p o l icemen !

I f don’t th ink Dick th ou gh t so ,

”said

Robert . 5

Th ere you are ! ju st l ike everybodyelse. I

’

m always being twitted ab ou t th at

Dick ; jjrst as _if I cou l d h elp h is com ing in

the way wh en h e wasn’t wanted . NO w,

if

I had only h ad pr oper p ractice, ju st as a

gentlem an ough t to h ave, I'

sh o u l dn’t h ave

been in such a h u rry , and th en I sh ou ldh ave brou gh t one o f th ose rascal s

“

down to

a certainty . Wel l , I’

ve g iven th em a scare,

that’

s one com for t. Bu t I tell you wh at ,Bob — I know I can trust

’

yo u you’

re an

odd fel low , b u t you can keep a secret ?”

Bob nodded ; h e was qu ite p leased at th e

idea o f his cou sin taking h im into h is con

fidence. Th ey Seem ed r eal ly b ecom ingfri ends now . O f cou rse, I sh a

’n

’

t tel l

anything you woul dn’

t l ike m e to tell .

Wel l , I’ve bou gh t a p isto l — a new one ;

a mu ch better thing than th at r u sty o l d

revolver o f Ted ’s . NO wonder th at went

off before I h al f knew wh at I was

ab ou t ! ”

“ Bu t wh at wil l uncle_

say asked

Robert, appal led at th e idea o f eith er de

preach ing th e river , and soon af terward sthe leaping , gam

'

b o ll in-

g h erd was ranged

on a part o f th e bank whi ch form ed"

a

natu ral watering-

p lace.

Th e O pp or tunity was favou rable. Th ecabin-boys slipped qu ietly to w ith in a

d o zen yards o f th e kangaro o s , and , h avingagreed to aim at the same animal , th eyeach let fl y an arrow . O ne o f th e dartssh ot away , whi stl ing ab ove th e h erd

,and

was l ost in the river , b u t the Other enteredth e flank of a young kangar oo,w

‘

ho sp rangu p and u ttered a shrill cry , wh ile the wh o leherd to ok

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to fl igh tand’ b ounded i nt o th e

bru shwood . T h e wounded animal } h adfollowed its companions, b ut

'

th e'

w oundh ampered its movem ents , and it

'

was soonovertaken b y the lads, w h o rushed in pu rsuit.

‘D'

aniel'

fired a second arrow po intblank , wh ile P'

engu i'

l

-laid ' it'

dea'

d"

at h is~

feet with'

h ieh atchet ; 3 '7

onseeing ,th em selves master's o f th e rich

pr ize, th e two cab in - b oys‘Were seiz'ed with

enth u siasm, and, uttering sh outs’

o f triumph ,

'

th'

ey execu ted r ound thevanqu ish edkanga

'

roo a'

war-d ance'

wh ich woul d h avedone credit

.

to the.

l ur on Indians—th ecompatriots

"o f th eworthy Penguin .

,Th ey

then careful ly -

'

examined th e anim al‘

whichthey th ough t so

'

strange, and then qu ar ;te

‘

red_

it, and very so on th e fi rewas aligh tand grillin

‘g

'

fla‘haijn ch

'

o f ex cellent venison .

Th e or rath er th e b ighare,as th e boys cal led it— Was p ronounced firstrate, and

~

when fth e repast was .finish edth e Canadian p roceeded to sm oke th e re

mainder,

o f the carcass in th eRed Indianfash ion, so as

‘

to'

p reserve'

the flesh , wh ich

otherwise wou ld have r ap idly decom po sedu rider

"

tlr‘

e bu rning rays of -th e Au stral ian

sun .

ceiv ing or disobeying on’

e wh o had been so

good to h im .

’

How. sh ou l d

b e know, stupid

unless you tell

h im ? ” a s k e d

Lawrence; And

after all ; wh at

h arm shall 'I do

I f I can’tmanage

my pistol wel l ,m ost l ikely th e

only person , Ish all h u r t wil l

b e mysel f . Bu tI am going to

m anage it well ;I sh all p ractise

every day at,a

'

t a r g e t W e

ou gh t to have som ething o f th e k ind at

sch oo l . Why , my m oth er and sister s are

staying at a p lace— Heidel b erg , I

'

th ink

they call it —wh ere du el'

ling is a regul ar

part o f th e stu dents’education , only th ey

do it with swords instead o f p isto ls . And

my moth er writes to m e th at t hey go ab o ut

with su ch slash ed faces ! Th e b raver th eyare, th e mere du el s they

’ve fough t , th e

m ore th ey h ave to sh ow . Wh y sh ou ldn’t

we . h ave som eth ing o f th e sort at ou r

E nglish Universities ?“

.I h ope we never shal l ! said Robert.

The idea Of two fell ows, go ing to th e

sam e sch o o l or th e sam e col l ege, standingu p and trying to ou t each o th er

’

s eyes ou t

—fancy , you and Ted Pratt now !“ I sh ou l d b e very sorry for Ted , b u t o f

cour se, if it was a p oint o f h onour

O h , h onour ! Wh at’s h onou r to do

with deceiving uncle, and doing th e verything th at h e says is not to b e done ?

”

cried Robert .

“ I won’t tel l h imab ou t the

p istol , o f cou rse, Lawrence, as I said Iwo

‘

ul dn’t, b ut I wish I knewnothing ab ou t

it .’

Robert walked . away , . h u rt and angry .

S ecrets were not in h is way at all secrets

from one h e l oved — th at i s, one wh o was

al l goodness and kindness— seemed things

that ough t never to b e.

Lawrence l ooked after h imwith a l ittl e

contempt .

“ I sh all never m ak e anythingo f that fell ow . He h as su ch queer ideas,and 4 8 su ch p oor comp any .

’

However , as h e h ad tol d Robert 1 n con

fidence,h eh ad veryl ittl e fear o f .h is

pistol being di scovered— at any rate ,

,un til , to u se h is

o w n -w o r d s , h e“sh owed wh at it

cou l d do ,” ‘

o r , as

was far m orel-lik ely ,h al f k ill ed Some

, body with it. ;He

p ractised steadilyat every O pp ortu

nity, a nd b efore

l ong tol dRobert h ewas getting on so

wel l that h e sh ou ld

so on b e a dead

sh ot .

I dare say . you wil l,

”answered hi s

cousin, significantly , and then tu rned

WILD ADVENTURE S ROUND THE"

PO LE ;

OR,THE CRUIS E O F

'

THE

(A S EQUE L To “THE

'

ORUIS E or THE SNOWBIRD .

BY GORDO N STABLE S , M .D . , R N ,

CHAPTER X X .— SEAL-STALKING— A

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GLORI O'

DS ,DAY

’

s,e RT— r i rER PETER. AND THE .BE AaR-w-A

'

S TRANGE . . DUE r —.THE SEAL-s rALxERs’ ’

RRTUR:

T was abou t m idnigh t on th e 2 4 th of

April wh en th e seal s were sigh ted .

'

Midnigh t , and th e sun was l ow down on

th e h orizon , b u t , for th r ee l ong m onth s,never m or e w ou l d it set o r sink b ehind th e

sea of i ce. Th e w‘

eath er was brigh t , b racing ,

beau tifu l . Net a cl oud in th e sky,

and h ardly wind enough to l et th e sh ip s

get wel l in th rou gh th e p ack , towards th e

p lace wh ere th e seal s l ay [as th ick as b ees,

and al l u nconsciou s o f th eir appro ach ingfate. Bu t th e Arrandoon got steam up ,

and comm enced forcing h erway th r ou gh

th e clo sely packed yet l oosely floatingbergs , leaving b eh ind h er a wak e O f clear

wate1 , whi ch m ade it easy work for th e

S cotia and th e saucy l ittle two stick

yach t”to fo ll ow h er examp l e.

My young reader m u st dismiss fromh ismind th e id ea o f tall , m ountainou s, p in

n-aoled iceb ergs, like th ose h e'

sees in com

m on engravings . Th e ice was in h eavyp ieces , i t i s tru e, from fo rty to six ty or

seventy feet squ ai é, and pr obably six feet

ou t o f th e water , with h umm ock s h ere and

th ere, and p iles o f b ay i ce th at l o oked l ike

p acks of gigantic“

cards , b u t so fl at and

l ow 1 1 P0 1 1 th e t e, th at f l 0 1 1 1 th em asth ead The fanwith wh ich Greenland captains gu ide ti

a stretch Of snowclad ice could b e’

seen,men m the direction o f th e seals

away . He was so unsympath etic th at

Lawrence felt m ore ill - u sed th an ever_at

'

h aving su ch a companion , p articu larly as

some one to talk to was a necessity o f,h is

l ife, and Ted was no l onger so accessible ash e h ad

'

b een .

Bu t b efore sch o ol h ad begun for a fortnigh t h e h ad Ted with

,

h im once m o re .

Now th eir younger ch il dren were al l well

again,M r . and Mrs . Pratt h ad decided on

taking a

'

sh ort h ol iday on th e,Continent

b y th em selves. Nothing seemed m orenatural to M r

,Har tl ey , wh o was always

doing go od-natured th ings, than to ask

Ted to com e again and stay'

with h is

neph ew.

'

After a l ittle demu r.on Mr .

Pratt’s par t, cau sed b y . h is remembranceo f Ted ’s skil l in climbing h is friend ’

s trees ,h e consented

, and so Lawrence h ad hi s

listener and di scip le again .

Bu t even Ted did no t qu ite l ike l

th e idea

of th e p istb l . You r uncle is su ch . an

,ou t-and -ou t good one,

” h e said ; th ere

isn’t ano th er like h im .

.I d o th ink , .as h e’s

set his mind against th ese sort o f th ings,

you sh ou l dn’t h ave th em .

”

You ’re as b ad as BO said Lawrence.

Su pp ose th e h ou s cgi s attacked again

wh ich it wil l b e I’m certalz z

,th at l ittle

rascal'

Tom h as bo lted on purp ose— I shall

b e able to g ive th e fell ows such , ,a . p epper ?

ing th at th ey won’t come h ere again in a

h u rry.,I sh al l h it th e righ t o i es this

time !n

Well , I only h ope I sh e. 1 1 t b e in yourway ,

”said Ted .

Th en th e conversationdropped ,and eachb oy w ent on with h is stu dies— th ey . were

p repar ing l essons f o r th e next day— for at

least fiv e m inu tes m ore.

I t was now th e middle Of S eptember .

The .days were sh ortening fast, b u t th eweath er was very fine, and M r . .Haftl eyand Mr . S imp son were talking o f taking

spread-ing westwards and_

north'

for manyand many a mi le

Wh en even th e p ower _

O f steam fail ed to,

force the Arrandoon farth er into thepack ,

th e sh ip s were stepp ed , fires were bankedand sails

,were,

cl ewed , and al l,

.h ands pre

p ared for instant action . Th e m en girt

th eir knives and steels around th em , and

th rew”

their lowr ie-tows acro ss th eirbr o ad shou l ders, and th e O fii cer s , dressed

in th eir seal ing co stum e, seized their riflesand sh ot-belts . jNext m oment th e bo ’s’n’

s sh ril l. p ip e

sounded ou t in th e still air , and th e o rder.

was’

sh outed,All h ands over the .side .

In ,five; m inutes m o re th e sh ip s w ere

apparently deserted .‘ Y ou wou l dn

’t h ave

h eard'

a sound 'on b oard , for few w ere left

b u t stewards and co ok s ; wh ile l ittl e b oyFreezing Powders and h is wonderful -cockatO O

‘

h ad it all to th em selves down in th e

sal oon o f the great steam sh ip ._

Th e b oywas bending down beside his favou r ite inth e corne

’

r “

What’s th e row ? Wh at’s th e r ow ?

What’s the row ? th e bird was saying .

I. don

’

t know nu ffin’m ore nor you do ,

Cookie,”was th e boy ’

s rep ly ; b u t it

h o l iday togeth er and going on th e Cont:nent as several o f th eir friend s h ad d one.

Lawrence’s m o th er was at Heidelbergas Lawrence h ad to ld Ted ; sh e h ad l et h ch ou se fu rnish ed for ,

a twelvem onth , an

h ad decided on sel ecting some“

G ermanBelgian city, wh ere h er d au gh ter w

'

oiilh ave go od .m asters . Mr and Mrs . Pra

'

.were going no one.

knew wh ere— not .e'

ve

th em selves . They were going to beginwii,Paris, and from th ere woul d run o ri , .

1

S witzer l and orNormandy .

“

Bu tMr . Har'

ley and Mr . S imp'

son'

had decided -to b eg:

‘with Switzer land , and th en '

i nake a'

sh o

tou r in Italy . Gu ide-books h ad b eebou ght , p lans laid d own , bu siness '

arrang i

‘

ments m ade, and th e ordering O f th e r

spective househ old s settl ed . Alm o st ever

th ing was in readiness for a departu retwo o r th ree days

’twe ; th en Mr . Hart

asked,M r . S im p son to com e and take

quiet dinner wi th him , th at th ey m igi

talk some o f th e detail s o ver at th eir leisu rTh e d ining

-r oom was very l ong , ar

over l o ok ed th e garden . As I th ink I he;said , . l eads ran a long th e top in frontM r . Hartley

’s bedr oom wind ow. At 0 1

part O f th ese lead s was a small'

skyligl

or r ather a'very th ick fl at fram e o f grou i

g lass . Thi s was over th e large l obb y Wh l lled into th e drawing

-room .

'

F r om'

t'

.

lar'

ge'

d ining-t oon

’

i window. therewas :good v iew

'

o i thegarden, and b y th is W 1d ow th ree boys were at work round

good—sized writing-table, whil e th e ,t i

gentlem en.

were at . the, dining-table, ,frcwhi ch th e dessert h ad not yet b een clear sdicu ssing th e _ respectiv e

'

,m erits o f differs

h ot‘

el s, wh en Mr .

“Har tley l ooked up , .

“ Lawrence, you seem to h ave doneworWill you run up to my ro om—

'

yOu’l l fiJ

a guide- b o ok b y my bed side table.

b e glad if y ou’l l b ri ng it to(To

'

b e conf irm ed!)

strikes dis ch ile dat dey th ayer all'

tak

leave o f,der senses , .e

_

b ery m o der’

s son

dem ..And de captain h e hav e gone

into de cr OW’s-nest, wh ich l ook s fer al l

worl d l ike a b ig barr el o f treacl e, ,Cock

and hehave sh u t h issel f and nui

does h e do b ut ,wave a l ong stick wid

bl ack b all at de_

end o f_

it .

* D at is.

allknows ; b u t .oh ! Cockie, d on

’t y ou ta

su ch -d refful b ig m onf -fu l s O’h em pg S u

p o sin’any

-

ting h app en to you , Co ck le, dI hab . nob ody to talk to,dat

.

f ul lyu ndestand

,dis c h ile . g 1 l

TheCanny S cotia was m o ored to th e i

sovcl o se to the Ar randoon th at th e cap tai

o f the respective ,

shi p s cou l d m aintainconversation with ou t stressing th eir lun

to any very great . extent . "Talking .th t

each in h is own c rew’s-nest, they look

for al l th e world l i'

ke a coup le p f . ,chim i

'

re

sweep s conver sing togeth er’

‘

from _

.

r ii

chimneys. Th e cook s were p o t'

idl e ru t

gal leys , th ey w ere b u sy b oiling h am s a

h u ge jo ints of th esewh en cookwere .taken on deck ; for sealing

“

is h ungwOrk,

‘

and every time a man b rings a dr

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“ if that isn’

t a b ig lum p o f a bearcom ingalong , and I haven’

t even a stone to thr owa t h im . Wh atever shal l I -do at? all , at

a ll O ch ! and och ! thi s 1 s th e end o f m e

now,at laSt. S ure enou gh it

fism arching

t o my o wn funeral I’ve been al l th e time ,

instead“

o f going to meet th e sp o r tsmen .

O h ! Peter, Peter ! you ’

ll never see yo ur

o ld m o ther in th isworl d again , nor S cotl and eith er . Yonder b ig b ear is l icking’h is ch op s to devour you . Yonder is th eb ig h ai1 _ysarcoph agu s that

’l l so on contain

y our mangl ed remains . Wh o woul d haveth ough t th at Peter o f Arrando on wouldh ave lived to p lay h is own coronach P

Hardly knowing wh at h e did , p o or Petersh ou l dered hi s p ip es, and began to p lay a

d reary, dronm g , yelling , squ eal ing lam ent .

At th e‘

same m oment Bruin commenced'

to perform some of th e queerest antics evera

“

b ear tried b efore.

l eg , th en ano th er , and b e stretch ed h is

Coronach— a funeral hymn or ’

wail for th e de

He stretch ed fi rst one

The(

Boys Own(Paper.

neck and described cir cles in th e air withh is no se, keeping time with the mu sic.

Then h e sat u p entir ely ono ne end .

O h ! ” h e seemed to say,“ flesh andblo od co

'

uldn’

t stand that ; I mu st, yes, Imu st give vent to a .Ho— o — o 0 — 0 I

And lik ewise to a

Ho o— o o— o o— cc— o o I .I

Reader ,'

th evoice“

o f an asthmatical steamengine , h eard at m idnigh t as it enters a

'

tunnel,is a melanch oly sound , so is th e

Wel sh h oo ter , and th e fog-h orn o f a Newcastle co al b r ig ; b u t all com b ined , and

sounding togeth er , wou ld“

b e b ut a feebleimitation o f th e agonising notes of th at

g reat whi te b ear as h e sat on h is h aunch es

l istening to Peter ’s p ipes . Peter “

_h im sel f

.saw th e effect h is mu sic had produ ced , and

l ike the towsy tike 1 1 1 Tam o’

S hanter

He b otched and b lew wi’might and main.

And , as if Peter h ad been a great m ag i'cian , Bruin felt impell ed to try to foll ow.the notes , th ough I_ am bound to say h e

d id not always keep even in the key-note .

Peter and the'

Bear.

Surely such a,

du-‘

et was nevein this wo rl d. Th ere was

space of water not far fromon

,wh ich th e piper

'

p f .Arrantioned h im self ; it _

was -so'

onh ead s of h undred s

,

of seal s

up to ,l isten,

'

so up on th e W]

a_m ost app reciative aud io:

yonder , '

is th at a seal on’

w

creeping'

cl o ser and'

cl o ser

bear ? Nay, for seal s dor

and now th e new-comer lev

for a m oment , th ere is a pu l

sm oke, the bear springs hifall s pr o strate on th e snow .

ar e'

over for ever and aye

_

a merrier air , and advancesmeet o ld S eth and the rest

men , wh o ,‘

glad as

'

th ey‘

a l ive, greet h im with u p roa1

l au ghter . Th en a, process

and with Peter,and h is p i}

in front , th us do theseal -“

st

th e Arrando on .

OUR GREAT GUNS“

AND"

1 1 1 1 .

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3THEM .

N b eforeth eruvention of gunpowdel ; viol ent forceh ad b een exertedin b at t l e b y,m ean s o f m a

ch inery for h urling stones and

d ar t s at t h e

enemy. S omeidea of the de

structive power

of th ese engines

can b e gatheredfrom th ewritings

o f Jo sep h u s,wh o asserts th at Vespasian empl oyed a h un

dred and sixty engines“

wh ich th rew lances'

with great noise, and stones the weigh t ofa talent, togeth er with fire and a vast mu lt itude O f Again,

“th ese engines

cou ld not b e seen at a great distance, and so

what was th rown at theb

Jews was h ard to b e

avoided, for th e force with which th ese engines

th rew stones and darts caused great hurt toseveral at a time. . And any one may learnthe force o f the engi

o

nes b y wh at h appened, foras one o f th ose that stood round Josephus wasnear the wall , h is _

head was ca1 ried away b y a

stone and flung as far as th ree_

furlongs . The

no ise o f“

th e instruments themselves was verytei r

‘

ib le.

These instruments o f destruct/inn were b adenough , b u t more powei ful engines came into

u se after th e invention or d iscovery of th e foi cco f gunpowder , andwe am pretty Su re al l

‘

readers

o f the BO Y’

s O WN PArER will beglad to h aveput b efore them a trustworthy and careful lym ade selection of remarkab le guns.

Th e curious f 1 1 unel shaped m ortar sh own inth e engrav ingwas b rough t from Cyprus, and thel a1 geTurk ish cannon with h oles

"

in the sides form 0ving it with a handspike was b rough t from

th eDardanel les and presented to our Queen b yth e late S u ltan . Both these ancient impl ements

o f warfe1 e can b e seen in th eWoolwich Rotunda.

Th e now wel l known and p opu lar piece ofordnance at Dove1 known b y th e name o f

Queen E lizab eth ’

s Pock et Pistol ” was “

cast at

Utrech t b y James Tolkys ln th e year 1 54 4 . Itis twenty four feet l ong . A tradition exists thatthe tou chh ole was an annul et of gol d ; if so , the

p i ecious m etal h as l ong since b een invisib l eO n its b f eech are th e fol l owing l ines 1 1 1 Low

Dutch

Brecek servet al inure eude walRin re geb eten

Loor Berch .en' dal b oart minen b al .

Van mi gesrneten.

”

The vivid imagination o f Some sh owman has

invented th e t 1 anslat1 on thus .

Chan ge me well and keep me cl ean,

I wil l send myb al l to '

Cal ai s Green.

The real meaning of th e m scripti on is more

ectly t1 anslated as :

O ver h ill and dale I throwmyball ,Break er my n ame o f mOun‘

d and wall .

Th is b eautiful piece o f ordnancewas presented

to Queen E lizab eth b y the S tates of Hol land as

a tok en'

of 1 espect for the assistance sh e aff ordedth em. against Spain 1 1 1 their contest to estab l ishth e independence of theil country.

A cannon doub tlesswel l known to our S cot

t ish l eaders l s Mons Meg.

” It s tands on. th e

north side o f the'

citadel adjoiningE dinb urghCastle. Th is piece of ordnance was forged b ya b lackSm itlf

"

in G al lowav cal led M’Kim

,and

p resented b y h im‘

in 1 455 to Jam es 1 1 . at th esiege of Thrieve Cdstle. It measures fi fteen feet

in length , twenty inch es in diameter, and weighs

!I’

he 8 037’s O wn

(Papef .

upwards of five tons .-I t consists of l ong pieces

of forged i 1 on, with a compact girding

o

of iron

h oops . It was employed in 1 4 8 9 at the siege ofDumb artonCastle, and in 1 497 at the siege

“

of

Norhem Castle. It b ur st m 1 68 2 wh en fi ringa salute to the Duk e of Y o l l1 , afterwards JamesVII . and it has never since b een restored to ser

viceab le condition. It was . sent to London in'

1 754 under an order fr om th e O rdnance O ffice

for th e col lecting o f old gun‘

s b ut in at

th e urgent solicitation of S ir Wal ter S cott,“

itwas

returned to S cotland , Wh ere it stands on th e sitealready m entioned , and m ounted on an elegant

carriage. S ome of Meg’

s Old bal ls l ienear0

h er

b y th e .side o f th e parapet

Anoth er o f our il lu strations represents th ewell -known m 0 1 ta1 p 1 eserved _On th e parade

ground in front o f the Royal Ho 1'

se Guards at

St . James’s Park .

“

It was constructed .by directionO f the first Napoleon for th e pu rpose of. throwingsh el ls into Cadiz, and was thelargest morta1 that

up to that time h ad b een’

cast . It was ab andonedb y the b esieged on their retreat f l om the b attlenea1 S alanianca, in consequence of th e v ict0 1 ygained b y th eDuke of Well ington. Th is implem ent

‘

of war ‘fz ue was afterwards given to George

IV. , th en Prince Regent, as a token of gratitudefrom the S panish nation.

We now come to aweapon of wh ich one h ash eard a good .deal Of l ate years— the GatlingGun . Attempts were made 2 00 years ago tocomb ineseveral b an el s l n oneweapon, examples

of wh ich can b e seen at the Tower of Londonand th eWoolwich : Rotunda. Th ey failed ‘

fOrwant o f chemical knowledge and mech anicaladjustment of th eir pants .

o

The comparativelyrecent invention of the r igid metal l-ic cased car

tridges aided an'

American23

o f .the name of G et

l ing

o

to .c onstruct amach ine that discharges 400b u l lets in a minu te, wh ich are effective at amileand a quarter“ The main features of

_th is

weapon, which'

1 8 nowused.b Oth

_

b y the Bri tishArmy and Navy, are— first, each

“

hai rcl on the

gun i s proVided with its own independent l ock

with a firing“

ni echaniSm ; second , al l the l ocksrevolve Simu ltaneously .with th e b arrel

’

3 carrier

and inner b 1 eoci1 1 1 hen the gun is in ope1 atl on

The l ocks alsO h ave a reciprocating motiOnwhenthe gun is i otated A mechanical principle developed in th e gun is that wh ile th e“

gun itsel f i s under uniform“

constant_

rotarym otion, the lock s rotate With the b arrel s and

b reech ,'and at th e same time h ave a longi

tud inal reciprocat ing motion, performing .the

consecutive operations i_of l oading, cock ing,and firing with ou t pausein the several continu ous operations .

- Th e gun cannot b e fired when

eith er the b arrels or lock s are at rest.

O'

u'

r central il lustration represents TheWoolwich Infant,

”8 1 ton gun, of wh ich the

fol lowing {description h as b een k indly furnish ed .

for the readers o f t heBoY’

s O WN PAPER b y a

leading official Of th eWar. OfliceTh e 8 1 ton,gun ismade of

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steel and wroughtiron. Th e steel

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consists O f aninner tub e, wh ichis b ored ou t of a so lid cyl inder, one end b eingleft ab ou t eigh t inches thick , to form the end ofthe b ore. It is toughened b y b eing plungedinto oil wh en h ot . This tub e i s surround ed: b ycylinders, five in numb er, made b y coilingmassive b ars of wrough t i ron when at a Whiteh eat, as a th ick rope might b e coiled round

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a

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windlass, and th enwel ding them togetherundera steam h ammer . Th ey are afterwards turnedand b ored to the dimensions required, accordingto th e

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positions they are to occupy in the st rueture of th e gun ; and b eing. made slightly toosmal l .

”In d iametei to go into th eir p laces when

celd, th eyare h eated so asto expand them sufficiently and are thensl id on into their places.

The contraction wh ich takes p lace on their cooling is su fficient to make them grasp th e struetu re inside of

,th emw ith enormou s force and to

render th em immovab le. Theou te1 coil , whi chextends fer some ten feet from the b reech Of the

gun, is furnish ed with apair of tremendous arms,upon whi ch -the

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gun is supported 1 1 1 its carriage.

The fol lowing

b

are. th e principal dimensions

of the finish ed gun“:

Extreme length , 2 6 feet 9 inch es.

Greatest diameter, 6 feet.

Diameter at muzzle, 2 feet 1 inch .

Length o f h o l e, 2 4 feet .

-Diameter o f b ore 0 1 cal ib re,1 6 inch es .

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1 1 msoAnxsErme,

PLEASURE OR PROFIT :

APRO FE S S IONAL JURGE .

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tLé—Goars‘

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LA. HO BBY F OR BO YS— THE GOAT-3

The b reech end o f th e here to. a length O f’

nearly-5 feet is enlarged to a diameter O f 1 8

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inch es, so as to. form a chamb er -fo

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r th e cartridge.

The projectiles to b e fired from th is h uge;

gun are : o f th ree k inds—r vi z fi th e so called.‘common sh ell , th e Pall iser shel l , and th e

Sh rapnel shel l .The comnron sh el l is rath er over 4 feet Iona"

and Weigh s empty ab out 1 ,640 1 b .

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Itwil l centain a b u rsting charge o f 60 lb . of gunpowderThe Pall iser sh el l 1 s intended for pi ercing ironarmour

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lates ; it is ab ou t 3 ft; 8 in. l ong, andweigh s empty ab out

'ih . Its b ursting;charge rs only 1 6 l b . Th e Shrapnel sh el l rs a

th in 1 ron sh ell fill ed with rron sh ot and contain~

ing a smal l charge at the b ase,"

wh ich is1

intended_

to fire ato

the proper m oment, b reakopen the shel l , and

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scatter the b al ls Thisis u sed for firing against b oats, th e riggingO f sh ips, etc. The Sh rapnel sh el l rs ab out

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4 ft .

long, and werg‘

hs wh enfil led _ab out l b .

Its contents are 8 60 sh ot, each Weigh ing 4 o z .

or each rwergh rno 35: o z , and a b irrsting:charge o f 4 db .

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3 o z . Th e d iameter O f eachO f the projectiles is of course rath er less than.

that .O f the b ore. O f th e g un, wh ich rs 1 6 inch es.

And now a wdrd' ab ou t th e powder to he used.with th is terrib le

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monster . E xcept ln its ingre»

dients,‘

it has little in Common with_

th e gun

powder wh ich b oys are accustomed to See” It is :

pressed , inmanu facture, intomasses‘

Or “

grains,” f

forming six sided prisms nearly one inch thick

(O and measuring from side t o side 1 367inch , having a perforation . th rough the axisfacilitate ignition. O ne charge o f th is powderconsists O f 4 50 l b , wh ich . is

°~made .up in four

parts, eeach consisting O f_1 1 25l b . O f the prisms

carefully b u ilt up and enclosed in cartridge

b ags of cloth made from refuse silk . {The gunis fired b y a vent or touchh ole m ade th roughth e b reech in the axis O f the piece.

S ome idea O f th e power of'

th is gun may"

b e formed from the fact that a projectile fi redfrom it leaves th e muzzle at a velocity Of ab out :

1 ,650 feet per Second , and rs capab le O f p iercing 1Wrough t Iron plate 2 4 inch es th ick with a b ack

ing O f 1 2 inches o f timb er at a distance O f 1 ,500 »

yards.

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A s one contemplates such a terrib l e weapon,expressly designed to destroy human l ife, who »

would not pray for th e time so grandly foretOldb y th e inspired prophet , when men shal l b eattheir swords into plough shares, and their“spears into pruning

-h ooks,”and the “

nations :

shal l learn war no more’”5

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and careful ly note down therein all your outlayin the matter of food , b edding, h ousing, etc. ,

and every item o f profit in th e shape of milk or

k ids sold th en make an audit periodically if

that audit sh ows a b alance and not a deficit, as

no dou b t it wil l , it will b e a source of very greatpleasure to you . And th is b alance, mind you ,will not constitute al l your profit, for b y

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actingas I advise, you wil l acquire b usinessWh ich may b e o f u se to you in after l i fe, and

wh ich may lay for you the foundation o f weal th

and fortune.

Now ab ou t goats . Five or six _ years ago myown knowledge of these interesting and u sefu l

animals was very l imited indeed . I knew,for

instance, that'

the goat was a ruminating mam

mal b elonging to a sub -division_

O f the Bevidoe

call ed Cap rece, that the female rejoiced in thename of Nanny, and th e male was cal led Bil lthat it was a half -wi ld k ind o f an animal , some

what too layful when d omesticated, given to

practical jo ing, and quite capab le of taking itsown part. I knew that th e flesh o f the kid was

sometimes eaten, and its skin used in the manu

facturing O f loves i that o ld goats could b e h arnessed to chi dren

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s carriages, wh ich th ey .

made

a point of b olting with whenever a fitting op

portunity o ffered that their m ilk was rich and\

nourish ing ; and that _when defunct th eir skins,if wel l feathered, cam e in h andy in m akingthat portion of a S cottish High lander’s attire

wh ich he cal ls the“sporr

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an ; b u t O f the points

and properties and appearance o f a real ly good

goat I knew little, nor did I -knowwhat a sourceo f profit, if rightly managed,

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a goat:migh t b e

come in many ways .

S omevisits to th eCrystal Palace Goat S h ows,h owever, and many interestingconversationswithmy friend, Mr . Ho lmes Pegler, the enthusiastic

secretary .o i the British Goat S ociety, opened myeyes, and I now hasten to communicate to you

someth ing of what I have since‘ l earnt .

The first question that wil l naturally occur to

you is th is :“ If I get a goat, wh ere am I to

k eep h er?” Like every o ther animal , .th e g oal:

that has the most fresh air and e xercise_

willth rive th e b est b ut I know that h undreds Ofgoats are kept and do wel l al l round _

ab out Norwood way, that h ave no o th er accommodation

than an outh ouse, getting every day a l ittl e

exercise b y“

b eing led out. But if you h ave noteven an outh ouse to spare them, in a corner o f

the garden or yard a smal l place may b e b u ilt

for your Nanny. It may exerc ise your ingenu

ity to b u ild such a h ouse. Lay down the floorfi rst if the"ground b e soft

— ab ou t six inches ormore of rub b ly b rick and shingle, run over withwel l-mixed l ime or concrete. The h ouse itsel f

may b e from six to eight feet square, simplya wooden sh anty or lean-to , with a slopingroo f.It ough t to b e ab out seven feet h igh b ehind , andfive feet in front, with a b it o f fel t over th e reofwel l tarred and sanded . The sid es of theh ouse,and th e door too

, may b e as rough as you p lease, .b ut l eave a space near the top for ventilation.

This sh ould b e covered with perforated ,zinc tok eep out the snow.

The floor sh ould b e,as a matter of course

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several inches h igh er t han the surroundingground , else the animal wil l have to '

stan'

d in a

puddl e.

The fi ttings of your goat-shed are th ree, viz . ,

th e col lar (with chain) , th e rack , and .the, man

ger. The chain sh ould b e a strong ironab out eigh teen to twenty

-four inches l ong,attached b y one end to a powerful staple in th ewal l near the manger, and with a spring h ookat the o ther to fasten to th e iron ring - in

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the

goat’

s leather collar wh ich latter sh ou ld not b etoo tight.The rack shoul d b e as simple _

in constructionas p ossib le for cheapness

’sake— merely a kind

o f a wooden grating, into wh ich you~can place

the hay just with in easy reach of the goat.This wil l prevent the animal from s poil ingm ore than she eats , and, alth ough it may cost

a l ittle at first, the expense is soon more thansaved . As to the m anger, simpl icity

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may againb e studied ; a shall ow wooden trough , or thei ron enamel led trough you see in

lironmongers

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sh ops, does excell ently wel l .'

It’

sh ould b e eley ated ab out ten inches from the ground :

The 8'

Oy’s-

:3l' -Own Idaper.

Y ou ough t“

to have some place to keep your.b edding, . food

,and forage dry . The arrange

ment of th is and its wh ereab outs I must leaveto your

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own‘ judgment , only it '

sh ou ld nb t b eforgotten.

A s you wil l often, during th e dark nights'

O fwinter , wish to find your way .to. the goat

-house,some k ind of l igh t.wil l . b e found necessary. fY oucan purchase a common tin lantern to b u rneither candles or dips for one sh il ling ; it wil llight you to th e goat

-house and b ack , and , wh enwork ing ab out .your favourite, you can h ang iton a peg placed there for th e purpose.

A fork ,“

a h oe, and sh ovel are al l th e tools. youneed,

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b ut I earnestly recommend the dailygrooming o f th e goat

—4 0 1 1 t _ of doors, not inside- with a wide-tooth ed comb and a dandy

-b rush .

(To b e continued . )

RUGBY FO O TBALL, AND HOWTO

E XCEL IN IT.

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BY DR. IRVINE , THE S cor r rsn CAPTAIN.PART KIL— H IN'

TS'r o PLAYE RS (continued) .

(5) D r i b b ling. This feature’ o f the .game is

usuallymentioned in connection with Association

Footb al l , wh ich is'

often cal led .

“ the Drib b l inggame

,

”as contrasted with Rugb y footb al l, wh ich

is cal led th eCarrying game. The distinction,

in as far as_

it impl ies t hat dri b b l ing is not animportant element in Rugb y foo tb al l , is an en

tirely erroneous_

one_

.

"I h ave-

said that the team

wh ich excels in;“

passing” Wil l as a rule win

its match es..S til l more is this true o f th e team

wh ich excels in drib b l ing. O ne migh t write

pages on th e importance O f'

it. To b e effective,it mu st . b e done in comb ination . O ne sol itaryd rib b ler wil l n ot es a ru le go far b efore hi s

career is stopped , b ut t h’

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dri b b l ingtogether , b ack ing each oth er up , are almost inv incib le) Though b ack ing each other up, th eymu st not interfere with

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one another . Th eymust k eep close on -the b al l . They need . not go

at a tremendous speed . The great thing is not

to run over the '

b al l , and always to keep th em

selves wel l in hand .u'l‘

here are many proud

moments to the soul O f a player , b ut I know of

none more glorious than wh en h e is goingth rough h is opponents with th e b all at h is toe,and a few trusty comrades atfl h is el b ow. Heshould keep the b al l always so cl ose to h im that

no opponent can have time '

to p ick it up and get

away b efore h e is on him} He sh ou ld neverkick it hard . O nce started, h e sh ou l d .just keepit going, and guide it .

.

A man need not'

think that he can’t drib b le

effectively b ecauseh e is a slow runner . Many o f

the b est cl rib b l crs are sl ow runners,and o ften

just b ecause th ey are slow runners th ey are good

drib b lers.

"Men wh o are very f fast earrying th e

b al l ,you oftenseein toomuch Of'

ahurrydrib b l ingit, and either overrun it or k ick ,

too h ard Go od

drib b ling is not a hasty, b ut a del ib erate-th ing.

Its great advantage is that you can’

t b e tackled .

Y ou may b e charged , b ut ,

i f you are properlyb acked -up, your b ackers-up.wil l carry it on. A

good dr ib b le is nots o much th e fleet rush o f a

th oroughb red‘as th e ponderous and resistless

th ough slower progress o f a dray-h orse.

If asked , Wh en sh ou l d one_,drib b le

.I

sh ould say, Whenever you h ave the b al l freeb efore you ,

.and you do not see a very clear

ch ance to pick it up-and get away with it,

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and

wh enever y ou are not cl ose,to your O pponents

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goal-l ine. O f. course, if you see a clear chance

to dr ib b le it over the gOal -l ine, and certainty of

b eing first on it yourself, or one O f your side,th en drib b le O ver and get your try . But as a

ruley ou d rib b le, over the goal -l ine simply to letan Opponent drop on th e hal l , , and

“sel l you .

Y ou are O ften comp elled to d rib b le th e b al l

through the h ands O f an opposing hal f-b ack ,

wh o

h as the'

temerity to; attempt to, p ick it up at

you r toe and stop your rush ._

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Avo id kick ingh im if possib le, and

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f‘

you-

mustk ifck h is hands ,try fa

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nd do it as gently asl

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yOu flc'

an. In drib

b lingr'

rc'

memb er - L.That itmust b e a"

comb ined

rush . “ 2 . TO drib b le‘

cl oser —s imply k eeping theb all going, not k icking it.

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3.That you must

n

d.

not b e in too much O f a hurry, th ereb y eith er"

running over the b al l or k ick ing too hard . Acomb ined drib b le 1 3 the most d iffi cult thing tostop in al l Rugb y fo otball .

(6) A mau l, 07 tight scrum/marge. This i s th ewfeature of Rugb y footb al l which perhaps does itth e least credi t

,and certainly 1 s that one wh ich

is most pointed at with th e finger of scorn b yenemies O f th e game. Wh at science is th erein mere dead -weight sh ovin’g match es anyone coul d do that

,i t i s not play at al l ,

”th ey

say.-I have al ready describ ed what a mau l is .

I may h ere say that it is neither a mere deadweigh t sh oving-match , nor is it a th ing wh ichany one can d o with out practice, nor is it am.

entirely unskil ful proceeding. But it 1 s a perfectnuisance, and spoi ls a game entirely, if it occursv

too fretiuently. The seldomer a mau l 1 3 formedth e b etter, and th e sh orter time it remains tigh t

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th e b etter . Maul s were far too frequ ent,and

too l ong,’

in th e old days o f twenty a side andnot much drib b ling. As a ru le, wh enever a .

man is tackled with th e b al l , and wh enever theb al l is thrown ou t o f touch , a mau l resu lts .

That i s a reason why a man sh oul d always rather

get rid of th e b all b y chu cking, or k icking, or"

drib b ling, than get caugh t and th e b al l h eld .

WhyD

is mau ling a nuisance Because it;

b rings th e game to a standstil l ; and b ecause it"

involves a very needless waste of mu scular fO 1 c .e

It 1 8 ab surd to see, as one o ften does see in playb etween even first-rate team s, . the o pposing;forwa1 ds sh oving fu riously at each oth er, and,

the b all lying untou ched on th e ground b etweemthem . Rememb er th is, and you wil l work pro

perly 1 1 1 a-

.maul Th e ob ject o f your efforts -is

not .to shoveyour opponents b odily b ack , b ut todrive th e b al l through them . If you can do

th is, and c'

arr'

yvthe b all th rough wh ile you leave ‘

them where they are, you do far b etter th an 1 f

you havemau led b al l and men b ack togeth er .

It . is b y rememb ering th is th at l igh t forwardsOften carry th e tigh t scrummag es time after"

time against h eavy°

.forwards Sh oul d you k ick .

the b al l m a maul g. Most certainly. It carries .

it th rough far quicker ; and , m ore important, it ,

b reaks themau l up qu icker . It i s a .great matter “

in a maul , as in most trials o f strength , to b ethe aggi essors. As soon as you h ave the b al ldown

,start sh oving at once a1 1

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d with al l you rm ight. Lean wel l

o

fo1ward, and u se your arms.

to protect yO urO own l ib s and to sh ove aside your “

O pponents . I don’

t b el ieve in l ink ing a1 ms,

for Wh at the_forwards gain in coh esion

b

b y this

plan th ey lose in freedom for individual exer

tion. Any o f you try sh oving at a waggon, or"

any h eavy b ody, with you 1 31 1 ms spread eagled

out to each _

side, and. with your arms in iront of“

your ch est, dou b led up and shovingb efore yOu ,and seein wh ich position you have most power .

Y ou will find that you have poundsm ore power

in the latter position And so you have in a

maul .“Linked t ogether , you can

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t possib lycome thr ough amaul . Y ou must either pass

over'

or under your O pponents, or you must

sh b ve th em ah ead of you . Wh ereas, .unl inked ,

you may th 1 eed your several ways th rough b e

tween you r opponents, one tak ing the b al l at

one time, another at another, till you get to th eback -O f their side of the maul , and , uniting,b u rst th 1 ough with it togeth er There is no

great good ln coming through without th e b allone man may do so , thereb y O pening a road ferth e b al l , b ut h e 1 s almost sure to b e O ff side.

Look after th e b al l in amau l more b y feeling ;with your feet thanb y seeing it}.Wh en sh oul d you g

d o in formau l ing, and Wh enfor k eeping it l oose ?

l If your team are as goodas your O pponents, keep it l oose. If your teamare hu lking, h eavy men, forward , and not so

good at th e loose game,keep it tigh t as your

only chance. If your team are not h eavier thanyour bppbn

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nts, and net up to .th em l n the l oose

game mau ling tactics will give you th e onlychance b ut reckon on b eing licked wh ichevertactics you adopt. If your b ack s are inferior ,keeping i t tigh

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t saves th em a l ittle. But tigh tscrimmaging, While it must occur, and in.

moderation 1 s a capital pa1 t o f the gam e, sh ou ld.

always b e k ept downas much aspossib le ; forin excess . .it utterly Spoil s it .

(To b e continued . )

The f li oy’s O t

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yn' Tap er.

TH E CR Y P T O G RA M ;

(A _S EQUE L TO “

.THE G IA NT nu n”)

BY JULE S VERNE , AUTHO R O F THE BO Y -CAPTAIN, are , ETC.

CHAPTER xv 1 1 1 .-a Aeoso.

fr 1 end -‘

am on’gst h is comp srecently d ied

‘ F‘ Ju st fThe Ga llows .

NI ) so the order h ad come,and , as Ju dgeJarr iqu ez h ad f o reseen, it was an o rderrequir ing th e immed iate execu tion o f th es entence pronounced on J0 am : Dacosta .

N O p ro o f h ad b een pr odu ced ; ju stice mu sttake its cou rse. 3

I t was th e veryday— th e 31 st o f Augu st,a t nin e o

’clo ck in the -m orning o f wh ich

t h e condemned m'

an'

was to p erish ion th eg al lows .

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Th e death p enal ty in Brazil is generallyc ommuted excep t in

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the case o f negroes,b u t th is tim e it was .to h e su ffered b y a

wh ite -m an. n

S uch are th e p enal arrangements relativet o crim es in the "d iam ond arrayal , fo rw h ich ; in the publ ic interest, th e lawa ll ows no app eal

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to mercy.Nothing,

cou ld nOw _saveJoam ,

Daco sta.

I t l ife, b ut . h onou r that h ew as ab Out t o l os

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egBut_

o_n the August , a man was

.app roach ing'

lMa

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naQswith -all the s p eed h ish o rse was capab le

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o f, and , Su ch h ad b eenth e p ace at which h e h ad com e th at h al f a

m ile fr om th e t own-th e gal lant creatu rezfel l , incapab le o f carrying h im any farth er .

Th e rid er d id not ev '

e‘

n‘

stop to raise h iss teed . E vidently

I h e h ad asked and oht ained from it

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al l t h at was p o ssible , and ,d esp ite th e

_

stat'

eb f exh au stion in wh ich h ef ou nd h im self

, _

h e.

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ru sh ed o ff in the dir ect ion O f th e

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cit'

y .

Th e m an,cam e from th e

l

eastern prov inces

, and h ad fo l-l owed th e left b ank o f‘

th e r iver. A l l h is m'

eans h ad gone in th eP urch ase o f th is h orse

, wh ich ,

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swifter farth an any p ir ogu e on th e Amazon, h adb r ough t h im to Manao s .

It was Frag o s o l

I t was Fragoso .

Had, th en, .th e brave felthe enterp rise o f wh ich hno b ody ? Had h e found thTo rres b elonged P Had h esecretwh ich w oul d yet savHe h ard ly knew . .But

_

:

was in great h asteto acquaqu ez with what he “

h ad as(h is sh o rt excu rsion .

And th is 1 9 wh at h ad ha

_

Frago'

so had,made no I

recognised To rres as ”one O i

the partywh ich Was e'

mphp ro .vinces o f theMadeir a .

He set out, and on r eac

O f th at tr ib u tary h e l earntth ese ca

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p c’

taes da'

m ato . wnei ghb ou rh o odWithou t lesin-g. a

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m ihutin search o f h im , and , mcu l ty , su cceeded inm eetingTo .Frago so

’s qu estions t

party h ad -I iO < 'h esitation ih ad no “interest in k eepiiregard to the .few simple 1 1 1

h e was interrogated . In ftions were asked him b y FTwere,

D id not a captaino f tl

Torres belong to you r partago

9 n

go ut. Let us takefor granted that we al l know‘t he tale of : Columb u s

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s egg— h ow h e made an

«egg stand uprigh t b y cracking one end '

of th e

egg, thus getting a fl at surface for the uprighttegg to stand on . I have often wished that

C olumb us h ad b een a“

l ittle more wideawake

and made h is.

egg stand upright without crack

ing an end o f it . I wil l tell you h ow to do sob y way o f putting you in a

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good temper for.s tudying praxinoscope geometry. Rememb er,pl ease, that an egg consists of two parts

— th e

y o l k and th e wh ite. Rememb er next that th e'

y ol k is h eavier _

than‘the white, and}is natu

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rally suspended in th emiddle of th e latter. But,

Tb y tapping an ,egg smartly against th e palm o f

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the left hand,.

the egg b eing h eld in the righ t"

then th e yo l k ; b reak ing away from its central«connecti

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on, “s inks down to" th e

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tapped end ,which sh o

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uld b e t h e large'

end ,‘

making _it

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h eavier than o riginal ly. Th is increased weigh ti s, _

as‘

you . must al l .knOw,

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favourab le to “

thes tanding uprigh t ofjany mass having a

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smal lb ase.

'By careful and deli cate”

management ant

~egg, prepared according to directions,“

may,'

aft_

er

: a few trials; b e made to'

stand uprigh t,~heavy

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«end downwards, on"

a‘

_

flat surface. A ll th e easier

:i t’

the flat surface“

b e covered with '

a cl oth b ut

I have seen th e feat accomplish ed upon an un

( covered and h igh ly-

pol ish ed mah ogany tab le.

Now we will learn al l ab out the praxinoscope.

.MonsieurReynaud, aftermany fru itless attemptsat di scovering some m echanical means for sub

stituting in progressive order a series of succes~

.s ive designs without interrupting continuity of"vision, h it upon the idea of effecting th is sub

s titution,

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not upon th e designs themselves, b u t-u pon th eir images when cast ,

upon a'

mirror .

This po remem b ered, my d iag rammatic il lus

t ratiOn wil l b e ob vious "

to all b oys wh o care to

ereflect.

S uppose a flat m irror , A 1 3, p laced at a certaind istance from a. picture, 0 D

,then the image of

”that picture will b e visib le in“

C'D .

Around the. point ; 0 , midway b etween c

’and

.

“

TD'as centre, let us turn the mir ror and the pic

‘

ture b y the same movement. Let B E and D F

b e th e new .p osition assumed,

‘

the image wil lb e th en in .C

"D", the axis 0 wil l not b e dis

rp laced . In the p osition A B and o D first ocenb y th e m irror and th e picture, let us place

anoth er mirror and anoth er picture. Fancy th eeye situated at

_

M:_

O ne h alf of th e first picture'wil l b e seen in o D

”, one h al f o f the second

p icture in 0 c'. If we continue the rotation o f

“

( the system we sh al l presently have th e mirrorNo . 2 in T T

’

, and picture No . 2 in s s’. At

‘

t his moment th e complete image of pictureNo .

'

2'

wil l b ecome visib le in C’”

S oon after the“

m irror No. 2 and its picture wil l b e in B E

a nd D F . Let u s imagine now anoth er mirror

,and its picture to b e in A B and c D , the_

same

s uccession of phenomena will foll ow in course.

Th e u ltimate"

result is that a series of designs4 31 1 the perimeter of a regular p olygon and re

v o lving round th e centre of s uch polygon wil l-

.come under the eye successively at the centre if

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NAUTICUS IN SCOTLAND

A TRICYCLE TO UR or MILE S IN'

sixrvE IGHT DAYS .

BY THE AUTHOR or,

“ NAUTICUS O N“

HIS

HO BBY-HORSE .

”

PART v r.

receivingmy sh il lingher husb and took me

o th eQueen’

s View, pointed out the“S ol

dier’

s Leap , and sang some Gael ic songs as perrou tine; I must confess to having b een rather

disappointed with this particular part of the

len.

1

gTh e stone wh ich mark s th e spot wh ere Cla

verh ouse was -killed l ies at some l ittle distance

Wh eel revo lve more tru ly.

.It was b efore my stee

th e Tilt BridgeHotel .

DistancesCrieff to Dunkel d

Pitlochric

P. to BlairTotal run

the mirro rs have b een placed”

On a concentric

polygon h aving a surface one-hal f smaller, andcaus ed to revolve b y th e same movement.In its practical form the apparatu s o f

“

Mon

sieur Reynaud consists of a po lygonal b ox , orm ore simply a circu lar b ox (for the polygon andits designs may b e replaced b y a circle with ou taffecting in the centre of wh ichis p laced a prism in di ameter

“

exactly hal f thato f th e polygon or circle, and furnish ed with

plane m irrors of“

ordinary l ooking-

glass . Ab and of cardb oard impressed with a series ofdesigns of the same ob ject indifferent phases ofth e same action is placed inside the b order ofthe b ox in such manner th at each position maycorrespond to one face of , ,the prismatical ly ar

ranged l ook ing-

gl ass . A'

m oder'

ate rotation im o

parted to th e apparatus, wh ich is m ounted on a

central p ivot, is sufficient to"

produce the sub stitution of

"images, and the animated

“

il lusionresu lts at the prismatic centre of mirrors with a

neatness and p recision“

impossib le under anyoth er manipul atio

’

n. Having go t a praxino

scope, it can'

b eworked in any room -with no

other accessories t han‘

a candle and a l ight-reflector . our finished

'

picture"

on the"

previou spage sh ows you

“

h ow,

_

s o I need not -“

write more

ab out it. The praxinoscope is, as you wil l perceive, a convivial toy ; any numb er of eyes can

directed to -it at omand the same time“

.

I asked my guide, wh o ,

was equal ly well ac

quainted with E ngl ish and G ael ic, which lan

guage he considered the most expressive.,He

repl ied that when speak ing on any Su b ject thatrequ ired explanation, h e coul d make h imselfmore clearly understood in

My tyre having played“ fast and loose

with me for so long, the crank gear now got out

of order b y way _o f variety. Constant friction

had caused th e righ t cog wh eel to'

revo lvel oosely on th e crank

_

sh aft,th us giving it play

to cant and jam, which greatly increased the

lab ou r of driving.

O n reach ing Blair I at once went to a b lack

the latter .

I succeeded . in getting-

som

ment, and on I went . Th us fanto e scape the fresh .

metal b yedge o f the road ; b ut from thi

face o f the “ h ighway to th e

came almost as b ad as that b e

and Dalmal ly, the only differ

it was firmer, and that th e l oose

qu ite so large.

To make the matter worse, Iwith a c onstant incl ine and

wind , wh ile the dismal r solitude

sh ower mademe pretty m iserabit seemed th e l ongest fourteen 1

cycled .

Even Dal'wh innie,three

,

1 1 0

plain surrou nded b'

y'

most uni

was to me a very pl easant sigh t.

I was scon set up again b ythis h otel , whi ch stands h igh

S cotland .

“S ome anglers .were staying in

getting very good sport in Loch3. 1 5. S tarted for ,Loch LaggaTurned to the l eft '

after cros

hal f a m ile from t efhotel, and

cu lty in push ing y ,tricycle 1 1 1

wh ich'

is conspicuous from D z

surface. now changed to s and,and soft. I exp'

erienced'

steep 1

principally the latter,' for fro

miles .

Before descending into it ,

I'

h

view of Lag‘

gan Vale and its

p leasant tc'

sec green fields and

trees again .

1

Th e road now dipped down- t

Ab out amile b eyond that hamle

left and ran b etween ranges of l:

sl ope of _Lochab er b eing on

‘

theThe road and scenery now

b etter, and th e view ab out t

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th ey are more h appy if in p airs.

0 . s. 1 ,— 1 . Th ere aremanyways o f arranging b ird s

'-eggs nicely

in a. case. Wh en a b oy,we O urselves adopted th e fo l-lowmg

p lan, and , we th ink , with success. If you want to foll ow

th e examp le we wil l try to make It as p lain to you as we can

with out a diagram . Procure.’

then, a p iece O f cIrcu lar ‘Y O O d

ab out twelve inch es in d iameter . It sh ou l d b e an inch andquarter th ick ,and h ave a h o l e in th e centre onaxis:

ab out an inch in d iameter . Pro cu re next a few o f

.th e smal ler b ranch es of a y oung larch -tree ab out

h alf an inch in w id th ; cut th em fl at on_

one side, andglue them on to you r wh eel -l ike b oard , with th eb ark on, so

‘

th at th ey'

shal l radiate from th e centreh o le to th e

'

circumference at equal.

d istances, l ike

th e sp okes : o f a wh eel . Th en get qu Ite'

a numb er of

smal l twigs o i th e _same tree not th 1 .cker thau.

_a pen,

h o lder, cu t th em th e prop enlength , and glueth emon the b oard b etween th e r ad i atIn-g b ranch es til l you

h ave covered the wh o l etop o f th e b oard . Y oumay nail th em on . withh alves o f pins if you

o b ject to th e glue. Th ensurround th e outsiderim .with th e same kindo f rustic work o f . twigs,Next p lace in the centreh o le a tree, wh ich you-must make O f a smal l

b ranch ab pu t,a fo o t and a quarterh igh , fastening on

DWARD .

— TO p revent the gas , leaking, v paint th e b agover with th e indiaru b b er so lu tion we have so o ften

given o r d isso lve indiaru b b '

er in five times its weigh to f epu ita o f turpentine, and b o il gently with eigh ttimes as much b oi l ed l inseed -o il . S train it and letit coo l , . b ut warm it up when you want to use it.

b ranch es in regu lar rotation, the lower b eing th el ongest. Th is tree, l ike every oth er

'

portion o fth e work ; sh ould h ave th e b ark left on. Y oumust h ave a glass . b ell -sh ap ed sh ade o r cover , b igenough to cover th e wh o le stand . Having b ough t;th is— a few sh i l l ings is th e p rice— you are ready tob egin

‘

arranging th e eggs . Th ese are'

p laced notonly on th e foo t b u t on th e tree ,

'

accord ihg t o th eirS ize ; tree and s tand : sh oul d b e d ecoratedwi th b eautifu l b u tterfl ies— th e

‘

smal ler ones are th eb est— and w ith b eetles, a

i

d ragonafly or two , mo sses,and artificial fl owers . The wh ole effect is veryp rettyand artistic. 2 . As to ferrets, we have an article inour l ast vo lume on th em ; refer b ack , p lease . We

h ave only Space h ere‘

to say - give th em larg'

e, roomyh u tch es ; f oo d — b read -and -m ilk , with

‘

a mouse or

b ird or b it of fl esh now‘

and th en. Keep “

very clean.

H. E . C.— Glaz ie1"s

’

putty is made of p owdered wh itingand raw l inseed -oil . Plum b er

’

s so ld er ist h al f leadand h al f tin tinman

‘

s solder two -th ird s tinland oneth ird l ead ; b ut th ere are d ozens o f , sol ders, th eircomposition depend ing on th e su b stances it iswish edto unite— so ld ers for go l d , silver ; zinc; nickel, andevery metal , not to mention th e fam iliar “

softsawder

”for mak ing th ings p leasant al l round .

‘V. KING — We know o f,no such

'

exhaustive geography as you mention a go od county top ography ofour country h as l ong b een wanted , S ome ’

O f th egu ide

-b o oks , such as th ose pu b l ish ed b y Murray or .

Black , m igh t give you a good deal‘

of th e informs-Et ion.

OLKINSTE IN.—Tl

'

y S ilver's “ Au st ral ian Handb ook ,

pu b lish ed at 67, Co rnh il l ; or Major Jones '

s" Emi

grant’

s Friend , p ub l ish ed b y Hami l ton. Adams, andCo . ,

Paternoster Row, and u se your own judgment .

We do no t undertake to rep ly to al l questions y ourspace d oes no t al low u s to d o

,so .

O ANNIS VENATOR.— 1 . .The d escrip tion o i your stamp

is net expl icit enough . 2 . The great,

Duk e o f {Well ingtou was b o rn on

,April 3oth , 1 769, at

' MorningtonHouse,

~ in Dub l in. 3. Th e present Governor o f CapeCo lony is S ir Hercu lesRob inson. The seven kingso f Rome,

vgenerally b el ieved to b e imaginary, wereRomulus, Numa Pomp il iu s, Tull u s Ho stil ius, Ancus '

Martins, Tarquiniu s Priscu s,‘

S erviu s '

Tu l l ius, andTarquinius S

'

up erb u s. Th e family name o f th eE arl of Derb y is S tanley ; th at o f the E arl of Carnal:.von, Herb ert. 6. The Cinque Ports are S andwich ,

Romney, Hastings, Hyth e, and Dover . Th eir. present L‘ ord Warden is E arl

'

G ranvil le. 7. Brough amis, .p ronounced

“ b row n - ih fact, almost th e sameas b r om .

VAURIEN. S urely yourn‘

oO k wil l tell you the lan

guage o f th e coup‘

let1

Th e quotation may b e

genu ine, b ut we‘

-h ave seen“

someth ing susp iciouslyl ike it b efore, and that was decidedl y o f h omemanufacture. 2 . Saint Pau l

's i s one o f th e o ld est

church sites in E ngland , i f th at is wh at you mean.

3. Nel son was b orn at Downh am Th orp e, in Norfo lk .

4 . The b est cure f or"

swo l len faces after toothach e is— patience. I f you d on

’

t like this p rescrip tion, go to

yo ur doctor.

No . 1 62 .— Vo l . IV.

CHAPTER .KER— THE COMING FRO ST

— S l LAS * WARNS : T HE"

.ARR,A'

-ND O ON

O F DANGER— FORGING THRO UGHTHE ICE RE S E T— A

". S TRANGE AND

ALARMING ACCIDENT.

0 wil l ingly and merr ily w ork sall h end s on -ih l ess

th ree days'

the Canny'

§c_

o tia was al

th ough b y no m eans a

'

b um per

and p oor“

S ilas b egan to see y isions .O f

.

.

e h app iness in h is m ind’

s eye, wh enh esho u ld return

,

to his nativel and and com

p lete th e joy o f h is fam ily .

'

Unfortunately,h owever , h is '

g‘

oo'

d fortune d id n ot last fo rth epresent . HQ,W,

_

sel dom ,indeed , go od lu ck

Ro ry in tro u b le.

d o es last 1 1 1 thi s world o f ”O ur s I O ne day ,towards midnigh t , th e Sky apparently. as

su med a brigh ter blue. Thi s seemed .to con

cern S ilas considerably? Th e good m an

waswalk ing th e d eck at th e time, with hi sinsepar ab le companion th e fi rst

_

m ate,neither of whom ever appeared now to

cou rt sleep or r est .

Matie'

; said S iIaS , p0 1nting Skyward‘

s ,

d o you _

see any d ifference in th e colou r

yonder .

That do I .I rep lied . themate.

Andh asn’t it got m u ch col der .

‘

r’

Wel l , b o th Of us h ave beenwalk ing ,

t ee chief“

O fficer r eturned ,

“

at the rate o f

several lm ot'

s, ju st to “

k eep the dear life Inu s , and I never

_

saw you , sir , with your

h ands so deep In you r p ock ets befo re.

Down ru sh ed th e captain to consul t h is

gl ass ; h e was speedily up again , h owever .

It 1 3 j ust as I th ough t,” h e said .

“ Nowcom e up into th e nest w ith m e ; th ere

’s

ro om f o r both o f u s . Look ! ” h e added ,as soon as th ey h ad reach ed their barrel o fO b servation , th e . rascal s know wh at is

coming .

“ Th ey are taking th e water , andbefore ten m inu tes th ere won’

t b e a seal

with h is nose on th at b it o f p ack . Heigh o ,m atie .

I h eigh o .

I th at Is ju st l ikemy l u ck . I f

I ’d been b o rn a tail o r , every m an w oul d

h ave been bo rn a High lander , and -m ade

h is own kilts . But h i ! u p ,m atie, S ilas

d o esn’

t m ean to let h is h ear t d own yet for

a b it . A black fro st Is on.

th e w ing . Th ereis no h elp fo r that, b ut th e Arrando on

’

s

p eop l e d on’1; seem to know it . I

_

mu st

o ff o ver and tel l th em and even as h e

spoke S il as b egan d escending th e Jacob sladder . Ca

'

l l al l h ands ! h e cried , as h e

disapp eared over th e side we mu st work

h er r ound as l ong as th e pieces are anyth ing l o ose

- l ike.

”

I t was not a l ong j ou rney to th e b igsister sh ip , and th e stu rdy l egs o f th is

ancient m ariner wou ld so on get h im th ere.

Bu t h e wou l d not wait til l alongside ; h e

needs m u st h ail h er wh il e still many yards

from h er dark and stately sid es .

What h o , th ere . h ebawled . Arran

d b o‘

n ah oy .I

Th at vo ice o f h is was a wonder fu l one.

I t m ight h ave awakened th e deaf ; it wasl ik e a te

'

n-h o r se-p ower speaking-tru

mpetl ined with

“

th e rough est em ery paper . S eal s

h eard it far dow n b eneath th e Ice, and came

to th e su rface to l isten and to m arvel . A

great bear was sitting not twenty yards

from S ilas . He th ough t h e sh ou l d l iketoeat S ilas b u t h e cou l d nOt swal low th at

voice , so h e went acro ss th e ice instead .

Th en th e voice ro l led in over the vessel ’sbu lwark s, star tled th e o ffi cer on duty , andwent ringing d o

'

wn bel ow th rou gh th e

state- r o om s , cau sing ou r sleep ing h eroes

to tumbl e ou t o f th eir bunk s w ith d oublequ ick sp eed , even th e u su al ly l ate and

l azy Ralph evi 'n ci'ng m ore celerity-th an

ever h e h ad d one In h is l ife before .

Th ey m et , rubb ing their eyes and l ooking co l d and foo l ish , all in a knot in th e

salo on . Co l d and fo o l ish ,and a l ittle b it

f righ tened as wel l . for th e wo rds o f S ilassounded terribly like th e Arrandoon on

fir e 1

Not a b it o f it, for th ere came th e h ail

again ,and d istinct enou gh th is time .

0“ Arrando on ah oy ! I s everybody dead

on b oard P”

Wh at i s th e m atter cried McBain ,

as so on as h e got on deck , dressed as h e

was in th e garm ents o f nigh t .

Black fr ost , Captain M cBain,

an

swered S ilas , springing u p th e side and

you’

l i so on find that matter eno u gh , o r m yname ain

’t G rig , nor my lu ck l ike a b ad

The goy’s O wn

(Paper.

warks,

tion .

' Th e seal s are . g one ,

m o th er’s son My ! advice is

b ut , dear ime, gentlemen ! andrig

'

out . Why, h eré’

s-‘

f ou’

r more of you“

!Th at ain

’t th e raim ent for , a b lacku frost l

Y ou‘l o

'

ok l iketfiv e ;candidates for a ch ok ing,

good -infl u en za !”

This fi rst: b itf 'o f,advice b eing taken

"

ingood part,

Now ,

”c ontinued S ilas, f

‘

you r n extbest . h o lt,I,Captain b e to. ,get

u p steam , and get her head p ointed awayfo r th e b lue water, el se t h ere is no sayingwe

'

m ay not leave our..b '

ones' “

h ere.

”

Ah ! exclaimed ..McBain ,

i no

wi

sh to do that . -And h ere com es our

worthy engineer : Th e o ld qu estion , chi ef— How soon can you _get u s under way ?With th e Am erican h am s , sir

,

”was

th e qu iet rep ly , in abo u t twenty minu teswith a

'

m orsel o f nice b lubb er th at I laidin especial ly for th e pu rp o se of emergen

cies, in far less time th an that.”

Th ank s ! s aid McBain , sm iling u se

anyth ing ,b u t 'd On

’t lo se

“

time.

”

Th e sh ip s lay far f rom th e open sea.

Th ey h ad been “r ove a l ong way in

th rou gh th e pack , to get cl o se to th e seals ,b u t , indep endent o f th at , fl oating stream s

of ice, one after anoth er , had j oined th eou ter edge o f th is imm ense field o f b ergs,

p lacing th em at a g reater d istance - from

th e welcome water .

S team was speed ily -roaring , and readyfor its w ork . Then ,

not With ou t considerable d ifficulty, th e vessel was pu t abou t ,and th e voyage seaward was comm enced .

S low and tediou s thi s voyage was boundto b e, for there was nso li ttle wind . it 'was

u seless to sh ake the sail s l oo se, so th e du tyo f towing h er consorts devol ved u pon th e

Arrandoon, Instead o f remaining on h is

own Sh ip , S il as G rig camezon b oard th e

steamer , wh ere h is services a s icen'

ian were

ful ly appreciated .

As yet _th e fro st

'

h ad m ade no appre

ciab le difference to th e so l idi ty .Of'

th e

p ack ; a very gentle swel l'

was m oving th ep ieces

~

'—a swel l th at r o ll ed in from sea

ward , cau sing th e wh o le scene around to

lo ok l ike a tract o f snowclad land , acted

ou'

b y th e giant force o f an , ear th qu ake .

Fo rging ah ead th r ough su ch ice, even -b yth e aid o f steam ,

is h ard , sl ow work ; and ,assisted as th e Arrando on was hy

'

m en

walk ing in front o f h er and pu sh ing on th ebergs with l ong p ol es, h ard ly cou ld sh e

m ake a h eadway o f h al f a m il e an h ou r .

Hal f a m ile an h our , and there were

twenty go od-m iles to

.

traverse ! ;It was a

weary task , b u t th e m en bent th eir b ack sch eer fu l ly t o it , as British sail ors ever doto a du ty th at h as to b e per fo rm ed .

[Ligh t l ie th e ear th on th e breast of th egal lant Captain Brownrigg , R.N.

,and

green b e th e grass on h is grave. My

young readers know th e story ; it is su ch

stories as h is th ey o u gh t to read ; su ch

m en as h e ou gh t to b e ensh r ined in th eir

m em ory. Betrayed b y treach ero u s Ar abs ,with a mere h and fu l o f m en h e fou gh t

th eir -p owerfu l dh ow and guns ; and evenwh en h ope itsel f h ad fl ed h e m ade no

attemp t to escape , b u t fou gh t on and

fou gh t on , till h e fel l p ierced with twentywound s . He was a h eroic sailor , and he

was doing his duty.]E ven h ad it been p o ssible to keep u p

th e m en’s streng th ,

forty h ou rs m u st h aveelap sed ere th e A rrandoon wou ld b e r isingand fal ling on blue water . But m anyh b u rs h ad no t

'

gone b y ere th e m en go t a

rest th ey l ittle cared . for— for down went

th e swel l , th e motion am ong th e bergs‘

l ike m ill -stream s in under the,ice.

,

“ Well ,suppose

'

your torpedowere to b e floated ,m

u nder my ship , and went f b ur sting o ff

there ?”

1“ Wel l , your sh ip _

woul d b e h oisted,”

7rep lied McBain th atw oul d b e a

Ay l said S il as , th at wou l d b e al l 3

th at woul d end al l th e luck , good o r b ad,

”

But th ere is no fear of any su ch .acci

d ent . And now let u s ju st h ave a t ry.at it .

Bl owing u p iceb ergs with torpedoes isb y no m eans diffi cul t , wh en you k now howt o d o it , b ut sometimes the current Wil l

sh ift th e gui ding-

p o le or rope, and were it'

to get under th e stern o f th e ship itself, it

w oul d make it awkward for'

the Arctic ex

p lorers . In th e p resent instance everyth ingw ent well , and b erg after b erg su ccum b ed

'

t o th e fo rce o f th e gun-cotton , until th e

l ast, when, b y som e m ismanagement , one

torpedo was shifted righ t under a p iece o f’ ice on wh ich stood , too l s in h and , about'

ten men, b esides S ilas, Rory , and Captain

IM oBain h imsel f . O f course, it Was _not

l ik ely that b oy Rory was going to'

b e far

away wh en any fun was go ing on , so that

is why h e h app ened to b e on top o f“

this

i dentical berg wh en th e blowing-up to'

ok

p lace. And h ere is p recisely what was'

seen b y disinterested bystanders a

sm oth er of snowand water and ice, mixed ,"

rising in sh ape o f a rounded column overten feet h igh , and , d imly visib le in th e

mi sty m idst th ereof , a m inglement o f

h ands and h eads and arm s and legs. Th esound accomp anying th e columnar risingwas someth ing b etween a pu ff and a thud

I cann ot better describe it . Then th erewasa su dden c ol lap se, and next m oment th e

arm s and th e legs and the h ands and the

h eads were al l seen sprawl ing and strug

g ling in'

th e .frothy , seeth ing water b elow.

I t simply and purely l ooked as if they -were-

all being b oiled alive in a huge caul dron.

Bu t th e strangest part o f the story is to'come . With th e excep tion o f a few triflingbruises, not one of th ose wh o were th u s

s urprised-b y so su dden a rise

_ia th e wo rl d

was a b it the wo rse. The du cking in th e

c ol d sea was certainly far from pleasant ,b u t dry cl oth es and h ot cofl

'

eeoso on . pu t

t h at to righ ts, and th ey came u p smil ingzagam .

Freezing Powder s, wh o was on deck‘

at

th e tim e o f the accident, was dreadful lyfr igh tened , and ran d own below instantly

'

to repo rt m atter s to h is favou rite .

“ Wh at’s th e row ? Wh at ’s the r ow ?Wh at’s th e row ?

”cried th e bird as

'

th e'

b oy entered th e sal oon .

Don’t talk so fast , Co ok ie, and I

’l l tel l

yo u , said Freezing Powders, sink ing d owno n th e deck with one arm on th e cage.

I tink I ’se al l r igh t at p resent, th oughcm y b reaf is al l frigh tened ou t o f my body ,

and I must l ook ’b out as p ale as you ,

C ook ie.

”

Deah m e said Cookie.

But d on’

t h ang b y d e legs , Cookie.

Wh en yo u wants a m ou f - fu l o f h emp ju sth op down for it, el se de blo od al l r un to

yo ur p oor h ead , den you die in a fi t !Po or d eah Cook ie ! Pretty ol d

Cook ie ! said th e bir d , in m ournful tones .

And now I got my b reaf again. I try to’sp lain to you wh at am de r ow . D ed refl

‘

ul wo r l d r ound de sh ip is al l wh ite,C ook ie

,and to -day dey h as comm enced

b lowing it up , and ju s’

now , Cook ie, deyh as commenced to b l ow derselves up !Deah me f rom Cookie .

D at am qu ite tru e, Co ok ie, and d

h ead s and de legs am flying ab ou t in alld irections I t is too drefl

‘

ul to beh ol d !

The Boy ’s O wn(

Paper.

New th en , young Roley F o ley-j! cried

entering at th at m om ent ,“ ‘ f 'toddl e

away forward fo r som e b o iling -h ot co ffee ,

ind run quick er th an ever yo u ran in your

I’

se o ff l ike a b ird said FreezingPowder s , darting ou t o f th e cabin as if

there had been a bo ot af ter him .

To b e continued . )

THE CRY PTOGRAM;OR, E IGHT HUNDRED LEAGUE S ON

THE AMAZ ON.

(a S EQU'E L .TO“THE G IANT RAFT.

Br JULE S Y E R-NE ,

Au thor of TheBoy Cap tain, etc. , etc.

CHAPTER xvm .

UD GE Jarriqu eiz ! ‘Ju dge Jarriq’

uez

sh ou ted Frago so , and , p anting an

bewil dered , h e r ush ed towards th e city gatedash ed up the_ p r incip

‘

al street o f , Manao s,

and fel l , h al f dead , on th e lthresh ol d of th e

judge’s h ou se. The do orjwas Shu t. Fra

go so h ad Still strength enough left to

kno ck'

at it ..

2‘

O ne o f th e m a'

gistrate’s servants came to

O pen it ; hi s m aster'woul d See

‘

no one.

In spite o f t h is denial ,* E ragoso p u sh edback th e m an wh o

lgu arded the entrance,

and with a b ound th rew h imself into th eju dge’s study .

“ I come from the p rovince wh ere Torres,

pu rsu ed h is”cal ling

-as captain o f th e ;

wo od s ! h e gaspe'

d ; 1 “ M r . Ju dge, To rrestold th e tru th . S top

— stop th'

e execu

tion !”

al one !”sh outed J p rey to

an outburst o f rage, he grasped th e do cum ent to tear it to

'

atom -s , .

Fragoso seized h is , h and s and stepp ed

him . Th e tru th is th ere ! h e said .

“ I know ,

”answered Jarriquez ; b u t

it is a truth which will never see theligh t !

It will appear —it mu st it mu st !

O nce m o re,'h ave you th e ciph er

No ,

”rep l ied Frago so

‘

, b u t, I repeat,Torres h as not l ied. O ne o f’

his companions,with wh om,

h e was very intimate, died a

few m onth s'

ago , a nd t ere can b e no doubtb u t th at th is m an gave im th e document

h e cam e to sel l to Joam '

ajcosta.

No ,

”answere

‘

d'

Jarriquez no , th ere

is no doubt about it— as far aswe are eon

cerned '

,b u t th at is not enou gh for th ose

wh o d 1 sp ose o f th e do omed man’

s l ife.

Leave me !F ragoso , repu l sed , wou ld

—

,

not quit th eSpot . Again heth rew h imsel f at th e ju dge’sfeet.

‘ “ Joam Dacosta is innocent h e

cried you will not l eave h im to die It

was not h e wh o committed th e crime o f

Tiju co , it w as th e com rade o f Torr es , th eau th or o f th at docum ent It was O r tega !

As h e u ttered th e nam e th e ju dgebounded b ackwards . A kind o f calm

swi ftly su cceeded to th e tem pest wh ich

raged with in h im . He dropp ed th e docu

m ent from h is clench ed h and , sm ooth ed

it ou t on th e table, sat d own ,and , p assing

h is h and o ver h is eyes Th at name9 h e

said O rtega? Let u s see,

”and th en h e

p roceeded w ith th e new nam e b r ou gh t b ack

b y Frago so as h e h ad done with th e o ther

names so vainl y tried b y h im sel f .

Af ter p lacing it

’

ab ove the sixfi rst letterso f th e p aragraph , h e obtained th e foll owing formu la :

Le veritable au teur du vol de

A yel l o f deligh t escaped h im ! Th isnumber , 4 325 1 3, was th e number sough t

O r t e g a

P h yjs l

Noth ing !”h e said .

“ That gives u snothing .

I

And in fact the h p laced under th e r

cou ld not b e exp ressed b y a ciph er , f or , in

alph abetical o rder , th is l etter o ccup ies an

ear lier p osi tion to th at o f th e r .

Th e p , th e ey, th ej, arranged beneath th eletters 0 , disclo sed th e ciph er 1 , 4 , 5,b u t as for th e s and th e l at th e end o f th eword ,

“

th e interval wh ich separates th emfrom they and th e a

‘

was a d o z en letters,and h ence im p o ssible to express b y a single

ciph er , and so they corresponded to neith er

9 no r a .

And h ere app al ling sh ou ts aro se in th e

street ;- th ey were the cries o f despair .

Frago so jumped to one o f the windows,and op ened it b efore

'

th e judge cou l d hin

der h im .

The peop le filled th e r oad .

“

Th e h our

h ad come at which th e doomed m anwas to

start from th e p rison , and th e crowd was

flowing back to th e sp ot wh ere th e gall owsh ad b een erected .

Judge Jarri qu ez , qu ite frigh tfu l to lookupon , devou red th e lines '

o fo

th e document

with a fixed stare.

Th e l ast l etters .I he mu ttered Let

u s try oncem ore th e last letters !

I t was th e last h ope

And th en , wi th a hand whose agitation

nearly prevented him‘ f rom wr iting at all ,h e p laced th e nam e o f O r tega o ver th e sixlast l etters o f th e paragraph , as h e h ad

done over th e fi rst .A

'

n exclamation imm ediately escaped

h im . He saw, at fi rst glance, th at th e six

l ast letters were inferior in alph abeticalo rder to th ose whi ch composed O rtega

’8

nam e, and th at consequently they m ight

yiel d th e num b er .

And wh en h e redu ced the formu la,reck oning each later letter from th e earl ier

letter o f th e word ,’

h e ObtainedO r t e g a

~ 4 3 2 5 1 3

S u v j h d

Th e number th us discl osed was 4 32 5 1 3.

But was th is num b er that which had

b een u sed in th e do cument ? Was it,

not

as er roneou s as th o se h e .

had previou sly ,

tried ?

At th is moment th e sh outs bel ow re

dou b led— sh o u ts o f p ity which betrayedth e sympathy o f th e excited crowd . A

few m inu tes morewere all th at th e doomed

m an h ad to l ive .I

Frago so , m addened wi th grief , darted

1 0m th e r o om ! He wish ed to see, for th e

last time, h is benefactor wh o was on his

road to death ! He lenged to th row him

sel f before th e m ou rnful p r ocession and

stop it , Sh ou ting ,

“ D o not kil l thi s ju stm an ! do no t kil l him !

”

But already Judge Jarriqu ez h ad p lacedth e given numbo 1 ab ove th e fi rst let ters o fth e paragraph , repeating th em as o ften as

was necessary , as f ol lOws :

4 3 2 5 1 34 3 2 5 1 34 3 2 5 1 34 3 2 5 1 3P k g/j l d d q f d z oc g a s g z z g

'

q e k

And th en ,reck oning the tru e letters

‘

accor ding to th eir alph ab etrcal order , h e

read

Ha lt l Ha l t 1

Da ‘

costa , and withou 't reading any m ore h e

fl ew fr om h is stu dy into ,th e street, sh ou t

m

Hal t ! Hal t ! ”

To cleave th e crowd , which O p ened ash e

r an , to'dash to th e wh ence th e

'

cn ed ~dar r iq uez .

"

Stopp ingb efore JoamDaco sta, he‘

coul dnot .sp eak

' fo r a second , and th en these"

wo rds escaped h is l ips :Innocent ! Innocent !(To b e continued. )

THE FIFTH FORMAT- ST. DOMINlG’

S :A PUBLIC SCHO O L STORY.

BY THE AUTH O R O F ,

The A dventu res

’

of a Th ree-Gu inea,

CHAPTER Xx ,— A CRIS IS .

HZE eventfu l day, wh ich at th e b eginningo f th e term h ad seem ed an age away , .

s lowljr b u t surelydrew near .~

Th is was S atu rday . O n Monday the

ex amination woul d b e over'

, and in a w eek

th e comp etitors wou l d know th eir'

fates'

!

S ome O i_

my reader s may kn ow th e qu eersensation one sometim es gets at th e ap

p roach O f a‘

l ong- l ooked -fo r and h ardly

:

wo rked—for . examination . F o r a week o r

so you have qu ietly b een counting up wh at

yo u do know. Now th ere b r eak s u p on

you an awf u l . p ictu re o f wh at you-d o not

k now ,andAvith it th e ab solu te conviction

that wh at you'

do not k now is exactlywh at y ou ou gh t to know ,

and what you

do know is no u se at al l . I t is to o late to

do anyth ing . Y ou canno t get u p in a daywh at it woul d take you ,

a fortnigh t to go

th rou gh ; And it is no t mu ch go od ; now you

ar e su re it is u sel ess , to go over again wh atyo u h avedOne. Y ou begin to feel a so rt O f

despair , wh ich becomes, as ‘

th e h ou rs cl o se

in, p o sitively reck less . Wh at d o you care

if you d o m iss ? What’

s th e u se O f'b o th er

ing any m ore abou t it -It cannot b e

h el ped ; why m ake you rsel f m iserable ?O nly , you wou l d gi ve wo r l d s to h ave th ething all over .

sensation‘

s wh ich stirred in th e b reasts o f

O l iver G reenfield and Horace Wraysfo rd

as th ey sat somewhat dejectedly over th eir

S u ch at l east were th e

I give it u p ; it’snot a b it O f ‘

u se go ing ,

b o ok s in O l iver ’s study th at S aturday af ter - 1

no on .

They h ad b oth work ed h ard since th eh o l idays, generall y togeth er , neith er con

ceal ing from th e oth er wh at h e . had read

or wh at h e intended to read . Very b adri val s were th eSe two'

,fo r th o u gh each was

intent on winn ing th e sch o lar sh ip , each fel t;

h e wou l d not b reak h is h ear t if th e o th er

b eat h im , and that, as every One knows , is;a m ost unh eard o f p iece o f to l eration . New ,

h O wev er , each felt h eih ad h ad enOu gh o f it .

O liver in p articu lar was very d esp onder‘it .

He slamm ed up h is b O O ks su ddenly, and

said( 6

Wraysf ord pu sh ed back h is ch air sl owly,and said , not very ch eeringly,.

Upon my word , I th ink you ?re r igh t,NO 1 1 .

I’ve a go od m ind ,

”said O l iver , l o ok ingvery m o ro se, to scratch and leave you

and Loman to figh t it o ut . 4Don’

t b e a jack ass,Nol l

, r ep l ied

Wraysford , h al f laugh ing . That “

Wou ld “

b e a sensib le th ing to do .I

Al l very wel l fo r you to laugh ,(said

O l iver ; h is b row clou ding . knoWyou

’

re wel l u p and are going to winI’

m no b etter up th an you are, said

Y o u know you’re g

I

O in‘

g to win},peated O liver .

I only wish ._

I d id,

SaidWraysford

with a sigh .

“

“ Why ,

”

pu r su ed O liver , evidentlybenton a m elanch o ly tack ,

“ I assu re you ,

Wray , I’ve forgo tten h al f even O f whatIdid know . I was gow g o ver some o f th Osebru tal “

Rom an History dates in b ed . last

nigh t, fO'

r instance, and I p ositivel y co u ldn’tremember ‘

one; Then I tried th e map OfG reece,

“

b u t I “

was stil l wo rse th ere ; I 1

coul dn’t remem ber wh ere one single p lace}

was excep t Ath ens and Co rinth and I’

m

Sur e I u sed to b e pretty Wol f-“l up in th at .

I expect you were hal f a sleep at th etim e,

'

su ggested h is friend .

No I wasn’

;t I cou ldn’t sleep .a w lhk

I say ,Wray ,

'

wouldn’t it b ejelly if we Only

knew now wh at th e qu estions are going toJb e on M onday P

“ Why don’t you go and ask th e DOO

tor ?”said Wraysford

“

,laugh ing h e’(T

b e d eligh ted to tel l youWh at a h umb'

ug you are , Wray-l “Tsay, supp ose we sh ut . up wo rk new and!h ave a turn on th e r iver “

. I’m certain

_.i t.

will d o u s -m oregood than crack ing our“

sku l l s h ere .

”

“ Ju st what I h ad b een think ing . Thigam e, and it can

’t make.much d ifference

“

;

I su ppose Loman 1 s gn nding up tO the

last ?I suppo se so ; I was in h op es he

wou l dn’t k eep it up .

Never m ind , i t will all b e over on

Monday ; th at’

s a com fo r t ! Gomfo al ong ,

O l d m an . Su pp ose We get young S tee

’

to

cox u s up to th e l ock and b ac .

Hu e and cry was fo rthwith .m ade f or

S teph en ,b u t h e was not to b e found . He

was out, Pau l said ; at th e“'

p o st, o r som e

wh ere .

“ O h ,al l r 1 ght ; you

.

can com e and cox

u s you rsel f , youngster ,

’S

‘

aid Wr aysfo rd .

Cox you !”

exclaimed Pau l ; _

“ wh-y;am t the Nigh tingal e exam . com ing on

th en , on M onday ?”

O f cou r se it 1 S .

I

And you two going ou t to r ow !"

I

say ,th e S ix th w il l w in it if you don

’

t l ook

ou t ! said Pau l , in a'

very concernedvoice.

I t was qu ite a revelation to th e two

boys to discover h ow great was th e interesttak en b y ou tsiders in th e com ing event.Pau l was in a great state

_

o f alarm , and

was actual ly incl ined to refuse to aid and

ab et wh at h e imagined to b e. a wicked

w aste o f p reciou s oppor tunity,until , pu t

ting h is h ead into Loman’s stu dy , h e

f ound th at th e S ixth Form fe ll ow was al so

n o t at work .

Wh en O liver andWraysfo rd appeared in

b eating fl annel s . in th e p laygro und th ey

created as mu ch sensation as if th ey h ad

b een gh o sts.

Y ou don’t m ean to say you

’re going

o u t, you fel lows ?”

exclaim ed Ricketts,

o ne o f th e idl e ones o f th e Fifth .

Y es, I do ,” said Wraysfo rd .

But th e Nigh tingale,’ I say ?

That’s not til l M onday.

I know , b u t aren’t you grinding fo r it ?

Hu ll o— my eye— hu rrah I Sh ou tedBramble, taking in th e situation in a m o

m ent . Th ere th ey go ! I h op e th ey getdrowned ; don

’

t you , Padger

Padg'

er was under sto od to assent in this

b enevo l ent asp i ration .

G'ro it. Y ou

’l l get th e

‘Nigh tingale !’

I th ough t you w ou l d ! Hop e . you get

drowned , do you h ear ! Hu rrah fo r the

S ixth !”

'

At th is juncture Master Pau l gave ch ase,and f or a few m oments Bram b le and h is

friends were to o mu ch engaged to sp eak ,

b ut at last, wh en th e chase was over , andfurth er repris

'

al s were ou t o f th e qu estion ,

the h ero o f th e Tadpo les summ oned up al l

h is remaining p owers to yell ,

Y ah b oo ,‘Nigh tingal e .

’ Hop e you

get drowned ! Y ah ! af ter wh ich h e

went h is way.

I say , don’

t let'

th em

b eat you Hadn’t you better wo rk instead o f go ing

°ou t

Ricketts , b y th e way , h ad not d one a stroke o f wo rk th at h e coul d

p ossib ly h elp all th e term

All the oth er Fifth Form fel l ows they encountered ech oed m o re o r less

anx iou sly th e sam e adv ice. Bu t th e two friends were ob durate . Th reats ,pr omises , entreaties, wou l d not pu t th em off th eir row u p th e r iver , “

and

t h ey went on their way , l eav ing beh ind th em anunu sual gl oom on th e

s p irits o f their dearest friend s.

Th e only person wh o seemed reall y glad to see th em leaving th eir*w ork was Bramble. He

, with h is fr iend Padget , and a few oth er ir re« concilab les

,were ju st retu rning from a rat-catch ing exp ed ition, and ,

th e

e ight o f th e Fifth Form h eroes in b oating costume fi l led th em with joy .

The two friend s p addl ed qu ietly u p'

th e

r iver . They tal ked very l ittle , b u t b’

o th

fel t rel ieved to b e away fr om th eir bo oks .

As th ey went on th eir Sp irits r o se, greatly

to Pau l ’s disp leasure . Th at young gentlem an

‘

, imm od erat ely jeal o u s fo r'

th e glo ry

of th e Fifth , was content as l ong“

as

”

th e

two r owers rem ained grave and ser ious ;h e cou ld th en mak e h im sel f b el ieve th eywereengaged in m ental ex ercises favou rable to

‘

Monday’s

'

ex am inatiOn . Bu t '

as

soon as th ey began to wh istl e, and ch aff

h im and one

,

anoth er , and talk o f th eir

h ol iday adventur es , Pau l b ecame d is

p leased , for th ey cou ld not p o ssib ly do th isa nd b e inwardly p rep aring for th e exami

nation at the same tim e .

However , h e h ad to subm it as best h ecou ld , and gave al l h is attention to steerI ing th em ca1 eful l y, so that it Sh ou ld b e no

S tep hen ro ugh ly h and led .

fau l t o f h is , at any rate, if th ey were p revented from sh owing u p on th e critical

day .

Th is o ld Sh ar isn’t h al f su ch a jo l ly

river as th e Thames , is it , Wray .

‘

9

Rath er no t ! r eplied Wraysfo rd , rest

ing on h is oar ; and yet it’

s pretty enoughin p arts .

”

O h ,u p at th e weir -

yes . Bu t I ’mo u t o f l ove with wens at p resent . Ish u dder every tim e I th ink o f th at one upth e Th am es .

”

I I t w asn’t p leasant, certainly,

'

SaidWraysfo rd .

“ Pleasant ! O l d m an, if you hadn

’t

been th ere it wo u ld h ave b een a good dealwo rse th an unpleasant. Po or S tee .

I

“ Pu ll you left , Greenfi eld S enior , or

y ou’

ll b e into th e bank sung ou t Pau l .Th ey p addled on again until Gu sset Lock

came in sigh t . Th ere were very few boatsabou t , the season was, in fact , at an end ,and the river , wh ich a m onth or two ago

h ad general ly swal m ed w ith b oats ju st atth is p ar t on Saturday afterno ons , l ooked

quite deserted .

S h all we go th rough the look or turnr ound .

I’ inqu ired Pau l .May as well tu rn , eh ,Wray PPaul was about to Ob ey th e o rder and

tu rn th e boat, wh en, casting h is eyes on

th e b ank , h e started su ddenl y to h is feetand ex cl aimed , p o inting towards th e l ockh Ou se, Hul lo .

I I say, there’s SO'

meth ingup th ere .

I

Th e two oth er s l o oked round ; some

thing m ore l ively th an u su al was un

d o ub tedly tak ing p lace at o ld M r . Cripp s’

S

residence, to judge .b y .

'

th e sh outs andlau gh ter wh ich proOeed ed

'

fromthe groupo f p eO p l e assembled near thedoor .

Fr om wh ere th ey. were t h e boys in th e

boat_

cou ld not see what the nature Of .theexcitem ent was , and therefOre p addled on

with a view tO satisfytheir curiosity .

As th ey cameu p to th e lock Pau l sud;denly exd ai

'

med ,“

That’s yO ung Greenfi el d .

I

‘ fWh at .I S aid O l iver

“ S teph en9

Y es, and—f wh'

at onear th are'

they doingto h im ? ”

Th e boat being lOw '

down under thebank , it was imp ossib le to

'

see wh at_

Was,

g oing on on_

th e towpath O liver , newever , h aving on

'

ce S tephen’s name,

o rdered Pau l to put them into th e oppositeb ank quick , where th eycou l d land .

Wh ile th is was being d one a sh riek fromth e b ank sent th e b l o od suddenly to the

‘

faces o f th e two friends . I t was Steph en .I

Th ey d ash ed ash ore and"

m a m oment were

across the Idol: and on‘

th e sp ot. The spectacle wh ich met th eir eyes as th ey came

u p was a strange one. Th e central figure

was th e l uckless S teph en , in th e clutch es o f

th ree or four . disrep utab le fel l ows, one o f

wh om was Cripps the younger , wh o , withl ou d l augh ter at th e b oy

’s struggles and

b rutal unconcern at hi s terr or , were h al f

d ragging, h al f carrying h im towards thewater

"5 edge.

Beside. th emstood Loman . flush ed , excited , and laugh ing l ou d ly . Po or S teph en,

very unl ike h im sel f, app ear ed to b e u tterly

cowed and ter 1 ified , and u ttered sh riek

u p on sh r iek as h is per secu tor s d ragged h imal ong .

O h,don

’t ! Please, Cripp s ! Don’

t

l et th em , Loman— d on’

t l et th em drown

me ! hesh ou ted .

A l au gh was the only -.answer

I t was at th is m oment , and ju st wh en ,

to . all appearances , th e b oy was ab O‘

u t to

b e th rown into the water , th at O l ive1 andWraysfo rd appeal ed on th e scene.

The 8 037’s OWn

(Paper.

Was th at Loman

No ,”said S teph en ,

to deny it .

Wh at d id b e vdo

They al l

Wh at d id Loman d

ask ed O l iver .

I t was no u se'

tryin

th ing .

He u l led my ear s,

Real ly , I expect it wasTh is was said qu ite b eSeeI th ou gh t th ey were

“

al l

d o ing wh at th ey did ; b u t

at th at, and cal led m e a

Th eir appearance was so su dden and un

expected that th e fell ows, even th ou gh

th ey d id not know wh o th e two b oys were,werem om entarilytaken aback and dropp edtheir p rey .

With a bound O l iver Sp rang furiou slyat Cripp s , wh o h appened to b e nearest h im ,

and b efo re th at respectab le gentleman

knew wh ere h e was, h ad deal t him a bl owwhich sent h im stagger ing b ack in th e

u tm o st alarm and astonishm ent . Wrays

ford , no less p rompt , tackled one of the

oth er blackguards, wh ile S teph en , now re

leased , and-

cu red o f h is m om entary terror

b y th e appearance o f th e rescu er s, did h is

share m anfu lly w ith one o f th e oth er s .

The contest was sh o rt and sh arp . A

p ai r o f well trained ath letic Sch ool b oys ,with a p l u cky youngster to h elp th em ,

are

a m atch any day for twice th e number o f

h al f -tip sy cads . In a m inu te or two th e

fi eld was clear of al l b u t Cripps"

,wh o ap

p eared , af ter h is sh ort exp eri ence, b y no

m eans disp o sed to continue th e contest

single-h anded . As for L

'

oman, h e h ad

di sapp eared .

Wh at rs al l th is .9 dem anded O liver ,

wh en at l ast , breath l ess and pale with

rage, h e cou l d find word s .

“ O h, No ll !”cried S teph en ,

“ I ’ll tellyou all about it. But let’s get away fromh ere.

”

No , I won’t go I

”sh ou ted O liver

not til l I know. wh at it al l m eans . Y ou

fel low .I added .h e, walking up to Cripp s,

you’

d b etter speak o r I’ll th rash you .

I

Mr . Cripp s, wh o had had“

time to recoversom ewh at fr om h is first surp ri se, l ooked a

l ittl e incl ined to defy hi s young antagonist ,b u t , th inking better Of it, su ddenlyassum ed

h is u su al impu'

d'

ent swagger as h e r ep l ied ,with a laugh ,

“ Come, I say , you do do . it“

wel l , you do I I t was a joke-

ju st a joke,young gentleman Y ou

’y

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_

no Occasion to

flu rry zyOurSel f ,'

we wou l dn’t h ave h urt a

h air o f th e yOung gentlem an

’S h ead . Ask

M r. Loman .

”

a nice young prig h e is , com ing'

down anddrink ing at my pub l ic

- h Ou se,and

,th en

tu rning r ound on me. Never fear I I’ l l letth em know , m y beau ties .

I I’ll have a talk

with you r Doctor and O pen h is eyes for

h im . G o od—b ye, you sneaking youngfr

Look h ere !”said Wraysford , quietly

w alking u p to the b lackguard ln the m id st”

o f th is discou rse, if you d on’

t sh ut updirectly you

’

l l b e sorry fo r it .

”

Cripp s stared a m oment at th e sp eaker ,and at th e fi rst h e h el d o u t . Then , with ou t

anoth er werd , h e tu rned on h is h eel into

th e cottage, leaving th e th ree boys standing in undi sputed possession o f th e tow

path .

Come on now , o ld m an I’said Wrays

fo rd ;“we can

’

t do any goo d b y stayinghere

’

O l iver l o oked d isp osed to resist, and cast

a“

glance at'

the cottage door b y wh ich

Cripp s h ad ju st vanish ed . But he let h im ~

self b e persu aded eventual ly, and turnedglO om ily towards th e b oat . Here Pau l ,wh o h ad been a witness o f th e f racas on

th e towp ath , was waitin

h om e, and bu rsting withal l S teph en h ad to say .

Greatly to h is disg 1

p'

eremp tor ily ,

“ Y ou’ll h

Pau l ; S teph en w ill steerWhy , you

“

said I mi 'gO liver was in no h um

m ent , so 'h e gave Pau l a

and adv ised h im to, go h (

h e wanted a th rash ing,ato any one abou t wh at hPau l h ad noth ing f or

obey ,and walk back .

got on board and pu t o ff

Now , said O liver ,on h is car and bendingS teph en .

O h ,Noll ! begar

youngster ,“ I am so

I

v e

was al l

None of th at , angri

el der broth er . Ju st te.

abou t .

”

S teph en , qu ite cowed

angry m anner , told hi s

h u rr ied ly .

Why ,

”b e said ,

“

yor

you never to go to the I

and I didn’t,b u t I th ou

Cripp s and give him I

lamp .

’

Young mu ff ! ejae1S o ,

”p u r su ed , S teph e

teringly, I th ough t,

af terno on .

Well , go on , can’t y<

l oo sing h is temp er at th euneasiness .

Crippsasked m e intth ere were som e fello wand

_dr ink ing ,

‘

and pl ayinWas Loman one o

Wraysford .1,

“ I th ink so , said ph ad evidently started h io f keep ing Loman

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Think so , you yo

O l iver Why can’

t yStraight ou t .

I’. Was h e t

Y es h e was.

“ I didtru th , 1301 1 , ,

rehlly, onlyneed to get Lom an in a

G o on ,

’’

said O liver .

Th ey m ade fun 0

woul dn’t smoke and p la

know I p romised m o th e

No l l . I didn’

t mind ;wh en I wanted to go a

Cripp s— Wou ldn

’

,t l et maway , b u t h e stopped

th ey’d m akem e p lay .

L

“ Wh o said ? D id .L

O liver , again .

Why— yes, said Steh e and th e rest . The

a ch air, and m ade m e

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NAUTICUS 'IN SCOTLAND

A TRICYCLE TO UR or M ILE S IN sixr r

E IGHT DAY S .

BY THE AUTHO R or“ NAU'

r i cus ON HIS

HO BBY -HORS E .

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PART VII .

2 8th Day.

Glen Roy. Fort William .

BRID GE ofRoy (a post o fficeand a few scatteredh ouses ) 1 s on a smal l p lain at th ejirnetion

of Glen Roy and Glen S pean . Th e 1 n-n i s b u tl ittl e frequented . Th e landl ord was civil , b ut_

I am s0 1 ry to add that the cooking and atten

dance were indi'

ffe1 ent.

After b 1 eakfast I trudged up GlenRoy. Thel ower part is a sheep

-wal k . Having gone th 1 eem iles 1 came to a fenced-in stone

, on which a

cup was rough ly carved . It a ears that Mass

h ad once b een said there, and th e spot hassince b een gua1 ded as h o ly ground .

A m ile b eyond this I hado

an excel lent viewof th e th ree celeb rated paral lel roads . Theywere cl early marked on the steep sides of the

glen, wh ich b ent to the right from the pointwhere th ey commenced— five miles fi om theinn. S o remarkab le was their appearance thatit seemed as if some one h ad go

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ne up on eachside of the glen and traced them with a pairof gigantic 1 1 1 1 ers.

I wal ked u p _to and along al l three 1 oads,

noticing that their countei parts we1 e equal lydistinct.

They are supposed to b e raised b each es or

te1 r ,aees formed . either b y the action of th e sea

as the land rose, or b y a pent _up l och which

released itsel f l n stages.

Th e h eigh t of the lowest ten ace from th e vall ey is

“

ab out fi ve hundred feetthat to the second 2 1 2 ft. From the second tothe upper 8 2 ft.I made them al l ab outthe same width— viz .

THE'

Tw o CA BI N - B O Y S :

HE ;two cabin-boys"

continu ed , b y easystages, th eir exp loration of th e charm

ing v al ley o f t h eG lenelg . Th ey had decided to pu sh

“

on to the sources o f the

river , and,after having

" ascertained

ex tent of th eir dom inions , to return andestab l ish them selvesnear the m outh o f th e

ravine, withinreac1'

1'

o f th e mountains and

the sea.

Daniel , with his usual versatil ity,qu ite enthusiastic at th e idea o f

Robin son‘

Crusoe life. . Look in‘

g forwardwith ou t alarm to

“

a l ong sojou i n in th is

u ninh ab ite'

d val ley , h e already talk ed of

m aking a garden r ound h is‘

fu tur e resi

deu ce, and form ing a h erd o f tam e kan

garco s . ePeng-uin'p

o f quieter mood , re

served h is seh e'

mmgs— not th at h e Wasaf raid o f th e l onely?

!

existence, for h ad h e .

no t p assed h is early years am ong them o st impressive s

'

ol itu des'

- b ut he .was

anx iou s to assu re h im sel f, in th e fi rst

p lace , th at th eir isolation yvas ab so lu te

and l ik ely to l ast:Th e lads got on very slowly , passing

th eir days 1 n h unting th e kangaro os , andsleeping at nigh t b eneath th e b ranch es o f

som e l arge tree. Th eir safety w as com

p lete, f or they h ad as yet m et w ith not a

single dangerou s anim al . Th is p art o f

A u stral ia is no t , h owever , destitu te o f

th em,f o r it contains num erou s w il d cats

and wolves o f a p ecu liar species, wh ich ,

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2 9th D ay.

FortWil liam. S peanBridge; i‘

I n‘

vergarry.

Myprincipal ob ject in visiting F0 1 1; Will iamwas to ascend the h ighest mountain in Great

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RO US S E LET.

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small in size, and onl y leavetheir d ens 1 n the night time.

Af ter m any days’ j ou rneying th e tra

y el lers r each ed a large swamp , su rrounded

b y h ill s; wh ich form ed the upper reservo irof th e G lenel g . Num ero u s water -fowl

wi

th b rill iant p lum age h overed over th e

m arshy b ank s , b ut on th e app roach o f th e

visitors a frigh tened flock tumu l tu ou sl'

yfl ew away and

.

settled ou t o f reach o f th eir

arrows .

"

Pengu in, in no way discou raged , fear

lessly entered i nto th e water,and , h iding

h imsel f am ong . th e r u shes, advanced to

with in a sh or t distance o f som e b ird s .

D aniel saw h im draw h is b ow and let fl yan arr owtoward s som e invisib le objectsuccessfully, w ith ou t doubt, for h e in

stantly h ear d sh ou ts o f triump h , and th en'th e Canadian regained th e bank in a few

bo ‘

und s“ Th is time it '

is too mu ch o f a good

th ing .

1 cried h e, at last , qu ite o u t o f

br eath .

“ Assu redlywe are in an ench anted

Wh at I S the matter ?Why ,

wh il e h idden in th ose ru sh es I

saw,cl o se b y m e

,th e h ead o f a large du ck .

I aim ed carefu lly , and h it it , and it stru g

gled . I was afraid it wou l d fly away , and

ran towards it, and it pr oved a funny. sort

o f bird , 1 can tel l you . Ju st l ook and

believe ! ” and h e h el d out to h is com

1 1 a strange animal s

a small o tter , b u t p

Wh ile pursu ing my investigations heavy rainset in, and ou my return I h ad to wade throughstreams wh ich I had easily stepped over an h ourb efore. I may m ention that th is road i s ju stcycleab le ; b ut , as it is sandy, I should advisethose wh o have time to go on fo ot.My afternoon was unpleasantly d isturb ed b y

a drunk en farmer, wh o persisted in relating notonly h is own private affairs and specu lations,b ut th ose o f h is neighb ours as wel l . I feigneddeafness

,and resorted to other artifices to b oom

h im off, b ut eventual ly was o b liged .to l ock thedoor to keep

"

h im ou t o f theparlour .

7 p .m Th e rain having ceased,I determined

to escape from th is comfortless inn, so I packed

up my traps and got under way .

The mountains l ooked uncommonly grand ;and th eir summits b eing swath ed in clouds, th eirapparent h eigh t was greatly increased .

For threemiles .trees afforded some protectionfrom the wind b ut I felt the fu l l force of itacross the open moor, and the road b eing verysoft from the recent rain, it was h ard wor k getting over th e irregular ground b etweenS peanBridge and Fort Wil liam .

O n th e way I amused mysel f b y stalk inggrouse, wh ich just h ere ,

were very numerous .

My wheels were sometimes with in a few feet ofthem b efore th ey b ecame aware o f the proximityo f their natural enemyMy first sigh t o f Fort Wil liam on

'

l ow“

land b yth e seaside

“

was'

not encouraging. I locatedmysel f at the Macdonal d Arms

,a wee inn

,with

a tariff to correspond .

Roy Bridge to S pean BridgeS pean Bridge to Fort Wil l iam

Britain. In connection wi thquestions this morning.

Q. Wh en was th e summit -o

visi b le 2?A . We have not seen it for aQ. What do you think o f tinA . Impossib le to say. Last

only fine day we have had for aThe ab surdity of waiting for

for carrying out my wishes v

parent. I wal ked ab out, and :Wil liamdid not improve on a

m oreover had ‘

an ailrnof gloon

pressing, I reso lved to giveother projected excursions, andonce.

S tarted for InvergarryThe ru ins o f Inverl ochy Cas

seen from the road . I lunch eda great improvement ,

on'

Boy I :is only three miles b etween 131 1 1

the tour ist to put up h ere.

The River Spean at th e b ridgAfter crossing it I turned tou p a long steep b rae,. and hadeffective b irdseye .view of the G

A splendid spin o f threemil lto the

'

shores of Loch ; Lochieroad has b een cu t

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o'

ut of th eMIwater

’

s edge. I ran merrilych eck ed b y

"

the Spates w‘

h icitowards th e east end .

Beyond the l och the road 1After crossing x

a b ridge I wentside of Loch O ich .

The road now gradual ly rose

the l eft, until ab out a

'

m ile 1

when it turned . sharp to : th e ri

Garry . Not having expected t

particular, I was all the more

myself in a l ovely neigh b ourh o0 1 1 coming to .

th e b ridge w e

only describ e th e b eau ty o f th (

that h ere Nature had arraye

wildest ch arms.

Hal f an h our afterwards only th e b ones

o f th e du ckb ill remained . I t was unani

m ou sly ag reed th at its delicate white flesh

w as su perior to th at o f th e kangaro o , andPengu in carefu l ly pu t on fi ne s1 de th e ski n

and th e beak , as indispu tab le ev 1 dence o f

h is m arvel lou s discovery .

The m eal conclu ded , th e b oys p repared

t o continu e th eir jou rney, wh en suddenly

Daniel_

u ttered a cry o f terror , wh 1 ch

cau sed Penguin,wh o was p acking up th e

cooking u tensils, to l ook rou nd .

Pale, trem b ling , and incapable o f speech ,

th e young Frenchman p ointed W i th 11 1 8h and to a neigh b ouring b u sh , under whi ch

was

.

a human form ,h al f h idden b y th e

b ranch es. Th e Canadian grew p ale in hi s

turn, b u t, grasping hi s h ow , h e strung it,

p laced an arrow in p o sition , and , p o intingit at the

'

b ush , stood on th e defensive.

Th is bold front pr odu ced its effect , for

imm ediately a black m an,entirely naked ,b ounded out of h is h iding-

place.

Instead o f rush ing'

ou the lads,‘

ha pro s

trated himsel f at a few paces off , and , with

h is face on t he ground , ,mu ttered a. fewu nintelligible word s .

He is a savage l said Daniel .Y es ; b u t h e l o ok s as mu ch afraid of

u s as we are o f‘

said P enguin .“ Besides, h e is a m an, and may b e u sefulto u s .

”

Lowering ,h is h ow , th e Canadian ap

proach ed the savage . as h e lay on.

the

ground and tapp ed him gently on the

sh ou lder . Th e b lack raised h is h ead and

sh owed rath er a fine face,‘ su rrounded b y a

sh ort cur ly b eard , and th en slowly rose

and began to speak with great volu b il ity .

He finished h is l ong , unintell igible sp eech

b y th ese words, twice repeated , Good

m an ! good man’! and at th e same tim e

touched th e. ch est“'

o f Daniel'

and th en th ato f th e Canadian .

Th e savage sp eaks E nglish ! ex

claimed they ._

Bu t alth ough th ey asked him . m any

questionsyth ey coul d ‘ob tain no o th er reply,

th an , Goo d man 1 go od man

I t is evident,” said Daniel , that h eknows only th o se two words o f E ngl ish ;b ut h emu st have been with E ngl ishm en to

’

l earn th em , and so E u ropeans mu st some

tim es v is'

it th is island,”

Thism an ,

”continu ed Pengu in ; isnot

th e only one o f hi s k ind . We m u st fol l ow

h im , and h e will lead u s to h is tribe, '

-

and

then '

perhaps'

we shal l one day find ou r

selves iii th e company o f th e m erchants

wh o come to trade with th en egroes .

”

Meanwh il e th e Au stral ian qu ietly scru

tini sed th em , and never m oved . Th e m an

was alm ost a skeleton , and from t im e to

time cast enviou s l ooks on th e supp ly o f

sm oked k angaroo flesh wh ich fi ll ed Pen

gu in’

s b ag . Th e Canadian o ffered h im a

little, and h e devou red it eagerly .

Gained over b y th is k ind treatment , th esavage extended hi s h and towards th e east ,as if to invite the lad s to fo ll ow h im inth at direction, and th e two cabin -boysh aving rapidly go t togeth er th eir b aggage,t he Au stral ian set o ff

, turning h is'

h ead and

g rinning with satisfaction at seeing thath is p antom im e h ad b een so wel l understo o d .

Th e r ou te taken b y the black . stru ckaway fr om th e river , and l ed u p th e h il l ,w h o se side was h ere covered w ith eno rm ou sb lock s o f stone and mu ch b ru shwood . Asth ey ascended

, the vast p ano ram a o f th eG lenelg val ley ,

w ith its m agnificent p ark ,unfo l ded b eneath fthem . At l ast, af ter an

h our’

s cl im b ing , th ey reach ed th e edge o fa b arren p lateau , stretching away as far as

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s Own Paper .

th e fo o t o f som e l o f ty blue m ountains in

th e distance. Hal f -d ry lagoons , coveredwith a saline efl lorescence, sh one h ke m irr o rs in th e m id st o f the extensive p lain .

Near one o f th ese p o ol s was erected a

m iserab le tent m ade o f kangaro o s kins,supp orted with a l ittle wood . And th is wasth e black m an

’s h ome 1

He p ointed it o ut to them with pride,and as th ey neared it h e u ttered two guttu ral cries, wh ich cau sed a scantily -clad

wom an and two perfectly nu de ch il dren toappear fr om ou t o f it. Th e l ittle savages ,at th e sigh t o f the strangers, gave a l ou dscream and ran back into th e tent

,b u t th e

m oth er advanced with ou t fear towards th ecab in-boys and saluted th em with th e

p erennial , Go od man ! go od m an

Th e Au stral ian’s w ife knew no m ore E u

glish th an h er hu sb and , b u t sh e seemedm ore intel ligen

t, and , after Penguin h ad

goneth rou gh an exceedinglygraph icpantom im e, th e wom an p o inted with h er fingerto th e m ountains, as mu ch

~as to say that

th e wh ite m en were in th at d irection .

We are saved“

! said Penguin. I f

th ere are E ngli sh in th is country th ese

good people will l ead u s to them .Befo re th e ’

night came on th e lads waron the b est term s with al l th e Au stral ian

family Mr . Friday , M r s. Friday , and

th e Master s Friday,”as Daniel playful ly

named th em .

Th e next m orning , after a nigh t passedb y th e side

,

o f th e wretch ed tent, ou r twofri ends t ried to make thei

'

rh o st understandthat h e Was a long tim e befo re h e startedon th e jou rney . .Th e savage contentedhim sel f with shak ing h is h ead and

'

p oint

ing in th e direction o f th e G lenelg val ley,th en h e picked up two p ieces o f wo od ,curiou sly sh ap ed ,

“

wh ich were lym g on th e

ground , and ,made a sh ow b f going away

from th e tent . Daniel and Penguinclungto h im , and b y their gestures

“

b egged h imnot to ab andon th em. Po or Mr . Fridayseem ed greatly embarr assed . At last,noticing th e

,

'

sm oked .;fl esh wh ich Penguincarr ied in h is b ag, h et o ok am orsel in h is

h and and sh ook it_rap idly _

in th e di rection

o f th e val ley , and th en ,“ tu rning toward s

th e m ountains, h e gath ered a h andful o f

sand and pretended'

~ to‘

pu t it into h ism ou th .

Good‘man“

! exclaimed"

th eIWhat

[

dees.

h e‘m ean interposed

Daniel . i

Mr . Friday is explaining to n s th at

before we star t’

we m u st go into the val leyto get a supp ly o f th e flesh o f th ose b ighares becau se, in order to reach th e m ou n

tain, we sh al l h ave to traverse a desert

wh ere th ere is nothing b u t sand .

O h , th at is it ! said Daniel . Y ou

mu st h ave l earnt to speak hi s langu age or

you cou ld no t h ave u nderstood h im,so

qu ickl y ,

”and , turning texth e Au stral ian ,

h e continued ,“ G ood m an, we will aecom

p any you .

”

O n seeing th em fol l ow with th eir bow s ,th e Au stral ian took th e road to th e val leyat a gentle tr o t.

Ar rived at th e r iver , a her d o f kangaroo swas no ticed brow sing not far o ff . Danieland Pengu in h ad already

'

fixed th eir

arrow s , wh en th e Au stral ian stopp ed them

with h is h and .

‘

Assum ing'

an attitu de

worthy o f an ancient ath lete,'

h e wh ir led

r ound h is h ead for a m oment one o f th e

p ieces o f’

h ard w o od with wh ich h e wasarmed , and sent it wh istl ing th rough th eair . I t stru ck a kangar oo , wh ich fel l

h eavily to th e ground , and befo re th e

panic-stricken h erd h ad time to fl y, th e

savage h ad th rown h is second stick b u t

h e was too eager , and th e weapon ,failing

in its o b ject , wh istl ed over th e h ead o f the

animal h e h ad aim ed it at , and then, turn

ing on itsel f , swept rap idly r ound toward s .

th e h unters and fel l at th e feet o f th e

Au stralian .

Th e lads were astounded ,no t so mu ch

at th e sk ill of th e savage as at th e m ar

v el lou sq ual ity o f th e w eap on ,wh ich , h av

ing failed in its o b ject, r eturned o f its o wn

accou nt into th e h and s o f the hunter , and f

togeth er th ey ex claimed that th ey _

had set :

fo ot on an ench anted isl and .

Neither o f th em h ad h eard o f th e boomerang, th at ex trao rdinary m issil e cu t b y

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th e natives fr om th e w o od o f th e eu

calyp tu s , and wh ich , combining th e m ovem ents o f p ro jection and rotation, retu rns,after descri b ing a l ong el lip tical course, to

th e p oint from wh ich it h as b een th rownfi t

Th eir b ows and arrows now seem ed verypeor inventions ; and so leaving the nativeto continu e the ch ase single

-h anded , the

two f riends out up th e dead kangar oo ,and h aving l igh ted a large fi re began to ~

smoke its flesh . Mrs . Friday , accompaniedb y h er interesting fam ily, hastened up to .

o ff er h er assistance, and the d ay was

passed in p reparing th e animal s kil l ed b yth e Au stral ian .

’

Th is continu ed for two days . E videntlyth e savages h ad come to the b order s of the »

val l ey to renew th eir stock o f p rovisions ,and it was to th is th at the boys owed

th eir good fortune at h aving fall en in with

them .

At last Mr. Friday was Satisfied and

gave th e signal to m ove. Th e sm oked

flesh was divided into bundles wrappedr ound with eu calyp tus twigs , and th e

travel lers , b lack and. white, took u p th eir

l oads and returned to th e p lateau . Th enth e tent was stru ck and ]: transfermed

into two l argewrappers, inWhich th e w il dm an and h is Wi fe majestically envelopedth em selves , '

and th en , casting a last l o ok

over th e gl oriou s val ley o f th e G lenelg,Daniel and Pengu in p lunged into

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th e

deser t at th e h eels?of .th eir gui des.

Fo r a wh ole Week th e little trooptravel led th rou gh a h orriblepl ainscorchedup b y

‘th e sun; During .

the day th e

travel lers h alted for a m inute or'

so to tear

apart a m orsel o f kangaro'

o'

h alf warmed

on a bru shwood .fire and to drink a mou th

ful o f w ater .

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At_ nigh t they lay down in

the sand , and th e two cab in-boys wrapp edth emselves with p leasu re

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in O ne o f th e

Au stralian’s tent cOverings, f or th e nightly

radiation -ou th ese tab le- lands render s

th e air extrem ely co l d and p iercing . At

last th ey r each ed th e m ountain chainto wh ich th e col onists h ave given th e nan

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re

o f Th e Pyrenees .

”

O u r two fr iends th ou ght th eywere at

th e end o f th eir j ourney , fo r th ey u nder

stood th at th is region was inh ab ited b y

th e E u ropeans, and . great was th eir di s

app ointment wh en th eir guide p lunged1 down into th e desert val leys and l ed th emb y goat

-

path s th r ou gh’

the p asses w h ere

every m inu te th e wind th reatened to b l ow“ A skil fu l Austral ian, says Mr.

aim at and h it with th e b oomerang an ob ject wheth erb efore, b eside, or b eh ind h im . I h ave seen one o fth em th row h is b oomerang over a h undred yard s.Wh en it h ad arrived at th e .e1 1 d o f th e straigh t, th eforce o f p rojection b eing exh austed , it rose

’

in th e airwi th fearfu l rapidity ,

and spun al ong h orizonta ll y l n~

s tead of vertical ly as at first . Desmib ing a very l ongel l ip se, it p assed b eh ind th e th rowe1 f or some fif tyyards, and th en returned , stil l revo lv ing and wh istl inglou dly, and so describ ing concentr ic el l ipses until it

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fel l into h is h and . Th e instrument had travel led overth ree h undred yards, and returned to th e exact spot

from wh ich it sta1 ted We h ope in an early numb erf ul ly

tto d esci ihe the b oomerang and h ow to make and.

use 1

p ear .

O verwh e lm ed and s p eec h les s t h ey g a z ed at t h e'

p la in.

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O ur isl and is a very large one ! ”t h eyth ou gh t.Th e ch ild ren o f th e aborigines h ad

r eadil y acc‘

u stomed .th emselves to th e

p resence o f th e strangers . Notwith standing th eir tend er age th ey cl imbed th e rock sand r an al ong with o ut any appearance o f

f atigue th r ou gh o ut the jou rney . Danieland Penguin h ad made great

‘ f riend s withth em , and in th e very r ough and dangero u s p laces they each took one o f th e l ittl e

o nes on th eir sh ou lders . Th e Au stral ian ,

l

unm o v ed , contented h im sel f wh en th is oc«cu rred w ith m u rmu ring

“ Go od man ! ”

b u t th e p o or m other , b end ing b eneath th eb ur den with wh ich sh e was l oaded , casta ffectionate l o ok s towards th e lad s , andth anked them in a few sweet w ords , thetone o f wh ich enabled th em to understandth eir m eaning .

How l ong th ey were wandering in th esem ountains neith er Daniel nor Pengu inwou ld say , fo r th ey h ad neglected to keep

to draw h im towards th e p lain h e had d i s

p layed a fear th at was qu ite comic, and

refu sed to ch ange h is cou r se .

I understand savages ,” said Pengu in .

He k nows -wh at h e is abou t, and we

m u st m ind not to thwart h im , fo r if we do

h e wil l ab and on u s . Perh ap s th e p lainsbelow a re inh ab ited b y unfr iendly trib es,am ongst wh om we sh ou ld not b e in greater

safety th an with h im . We mu st m ake upou r m ind s to fo l l ow h im

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to th e end .

”

And th ey'march ed al ong with resigna

tion, th ough worn ou t and somewh at dis

cou raged . Th e farth er th ey went th e

rou gh er and wilder became th e m ountains .

Th e peak s r ising r ound th em h id th e p lain

from,

v iew and they fo ll ow ed throu gh th e

deep r avines wh ich . th e f uriou s torrents

h ad h ol lowed ou t th rough th e granite.

O ne m o rning , after a frugal m eal var iedb y som e sou r b erries ,

‘

th e,lad s were p re

paring to continu e th eir_

way wh en th eir

friend Friday grandly march ed in front (To be continued . )

and cau sed th em to ascend a

o verh ung th e south ern side of

Arrived at th e summ it b e'

sh ow

p lain at th eir feet , and gravelyG o od m an !

”

Su dden unexpected h app ineterr ib le as m isf ortune. The ph as passed years in

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a d unge

com e bl ind on seeing th e sun .

m an wh o l o ses h is way in th

and th en recover s th e gu id

wh ich h e has sough t w ith fev

faints as h e tou ch es it . . An

cab in- b oys, astounded , overw

speech l ess, gazed at th e p lai

h and o f th e placid Au stral ianto th em . .Their eyes leoked o

h abitations dotted am ongst s

dens I Before th em ,at some 6.

a large city with tal l ch imu e

around it. E verywhere th e siised l ife . Bu t th eir h eads s

h earts failed , and, b efore th e

. th ey fel t as if th ey co u ld die .

an ench anted island , and th e bwh o h ad b rou gh t th em to t

som e gnom e desirou s,

b y mean

ceitful vision to feast,

on th eir

m ent and.

to l ead th em backth e sand and th e r o ck s , am o

ster s with.

b ird s’b eak s and 0

Bu t th e bl ack m an was re

ch ant h is everlasting ,

Good m an ! G o od m an !

And th e wor ds were th e tab

rou sed Pengu in from h is leth al“ Y es , you are a good . m

h onest h eart under you r b lack

h e to h im as h e fel l u p on h i .

wish I h ad al l th e treasu res i

to recom pense you wi th .

”

Daniel '

w ept and gradual lyconsciou sness, and th en h e en

b lack m an and Mr s . F riday ai

ters Friday .

And now th ey fel t th at _

th e Inot a m irage. A real ity was l

and th ey l onged to reach it

Au stralian refu sed to advanceth eir p rayers h e r ep l ied b y sim]to th e nor th . Th ey w ou ld tl

separate. O nce m o re th e lad

th e savages , and th ou gh th e

m odest p resents , th ey left

h atch ets, vessel s , b el ts, and

p o ssessed . And th en th ey badego od

-b ye and descended t

valley , and l o ok ing back unti

far away th ey cou l d still see

fo l l owing th em with th eir eyes

An h our later th ey were w

cl eared ro ad . Near th em ,in .a

E u r opean sh eph erd .was tendin

sh eep .

With h ear ts trembling withth ey went u p to h im .

“ I b eg you r ar 1 1,sir , ,sa

b u t can you te s wh ereweO n th e r oad from Ball ai

bou rne, rep l ied the m an , sh or 1

Wh at is th e ,nam e o f the ci

front

Why ,M elbou rne

Th en we are inAu stral ianot

”asked Daniel , in a treml

Unl ess you are i~n1

th e m o

th e sh eph erd , savagely ; and

ceiving th e young '

.Frenchm z

qu ite giddy b y th e news , h e

rou gh tone, Y o u are d runl

Not a very nice_

th ing for lads

I f you were not in th at state Iteach you not to get u p to you

me I

THE ILL-USEDBOY ;O R,

LAWRE NCE HARTLEY’

S

GRIEVANCE S .

BY Mr s. E ILO ARI‘

,

A u thor of“ Jack and John,

"etc, etc.

CHAPTE R X XV.— HOW AN UNE XPE CTE D VIS ITO RWAS “ ’E LCOMED .

AWRENCE got upwith th e

_

air of a

m a r t y r . W h ycou l dn

’t h is uncle

h ave rang for Jam es

o r Dick , and sent

them for th e bo okh e wanted ? Th enh e went to th e b ed

r oom , tu rned overseveral b ook s and

pamph lets that

were on the table,and at last came

d own with ou t th e

gu ide,th ere was none on th e tab le.

“ But I l eft one there . I am p ositiveth at I p laced i t on th e table wh en

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I cam e

h ome,”

said h is u ncle,

‘

rather peevish ly .

Rob ert , d o you go and see i f yo u can fi nd

it . Perhaps your eyeswill b e sh arper th an

Lawr ence’s .

”

I f th e book h ad been th ere, I ‘

m sure I.sh oul d have seen it, m uttered Lawrenceand th en , as h e could not very wel l argue

the p oint with h is uncl e, h e walked o ff

with Rober t towards th e bed ro om for the

p u rp ose o f sh iwing h im that th e b ook was.

not to b e found .

A sm all corri do r ran from the t0p“

o f

the best staircase t oward s M r .

’ Hartley’

s

b edroom ,and as the two boys walked

along it, Lawrence raised h is vo ice, and

said , with no sm all annoyance, I knowyou won

’t

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find it. Th ere wasn’

t a guide on

the table. As h e sp oke th ey h eard a

sound as o f a window in th e bedr o omopening . The boys

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l o oked'

at,each oth er .

Wh at’s th at ? ” Wh o ’s th ere ? ” a nd in

th ey ru sh ed into th e bedro om to find one

o f the windows wh ich had been secu redfor th e night wide open, and the windb l owing th rou gh the cu rtains wh ich th eh ousemaid , wh en she ar ranged th e r o om

fo r the nigh t, h ad drawn cl o sely together .

S omething’s up ,

”said Lawrence, and

ru sh ed to th e O pen window, b ut it was toodark to see anyth ing , b ut not too dark toh ear a great d eal . Th ere was a sound o fbroken glass , 8 . scu ffl ing , and oath s and.curses . The vil l ains are trying to m aketh eir way th rough th e conservatory ,

”

th ou gh t L awrence ; sm ash ing th e glassfinely . l

’

ll scare them .

”

.

Up he ran to h is room for h is belovedp i sto l , cam e down again th rough h is uncle

’

s

b edr o om . in case h e sh oul d find any foodfo r p owder th ere ; then seeing all qu iet

, as

Robert h ad cl o sed the windo ws and goned ownstairs , h e, to o , went d own the beststa1 rcase, b y which m eans b e avoided th elob b y , o r inner b all as it was call ed , andwent straigh t into th e d ining

-r o om, and

b y so do ing l o st a very“

l ively scene.

Th e cr ash o f th e b r oken glass h ad beenh eard in th e dining

-ro om , and ou t Ted h adr u sh ed , saying , ju st as Lawrence h ad '

done,“ Th ere’s someth ing up ! The gentlemen

f o l lowed mo re leisu rely . The servants,wh o h ad also h eard the crash , were in th el ob b y before them . Co ok h ad h er kitch en

p oker , th e h ou sem aid h ad seized thero ll i ng

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p in, Jam es h ad h is b est umbrella,

decl aring .

The {Boy ’s Own

“ h aper‘.

and Dick a rather nice stick ,with wh ich

he was in'th e h ab it o f beating carpets .

Th ere was gas in th e inner b al l as Wel l asin th e ou ter one, and on th e k itch en s tairs ,so

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that th ere was p lenty o f l igh ts for th em

all to see a'

th ick pair o f l egs , in veryshabby trou ser s, dangl ing th rough th at

p ane o f gl ass of wh ich I have sp oken . An

attemp t, of wh ich there h ave b een '

many

sim ilar al l over th e country and in Londonal so , h ad been m ade to

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enter M r .Hartley’

s

b edro om wh ile th e.fam il y were suppo sed

to b e at,

dinner ;fth e vo ices o f the-two b oys ,as th ey came al ong th e corridor , h ad scared

th e invader h e had m ade a“

rush for th e

trell is-work b y whi ch h e h ad ascended ,and no t being aware o f th e square o f

ground glass in th e l ead s , h ad -fa1 1 en_

as

nicely thr ough a trap as everw il d beast h adfal len into

“

one.

Cook v'

vas a p er son o f great p resence o f

m ind and many resources . As so on. as she

saw‘

th o se legs, knoWingf as sh e did , th at

th ey h ad‘

no bu siness th ere, she told Dickand Mary

‘

the'

h ou éem aid ..to hol d th em

fast, wh ich they d id , in‘

spite _

o f th e kick

ing and s truggling o f th e legs b elow, and

oath s and cur ses . of the mou th b elongingto th em ab ove. In a minute Dick hadfetch ed a rope,with wh ich

“

th ese legs were,on th eir part , m ost r el uctantly secu red ;

th en cook .h el d th e rope b y one end , and

tol d Dick to sh ow th e gentleman h ow h e

du sted his carpets .

” S o Dick did , beatingth e legs with th e steady , th orough persist

ence h e u sed wh en Mary gave h im a piece

o f carpet th at was mo re du sty th an u su al .

The owner o f_

th e

legs writhed and

str uggl ed, r oared

and h owled , b u t

D i ck k e p t o n

steadily ,

b eatingh is carpet, ,

that is

to say, his legs, ina style th at d id

h im credit, James

and Mary lo ok ingon and encou raging h im at everystroke.

S eeing h is ser

vants so wel l em

p l oyed , M r . Har t

ley went to th e

b ack -

garden door , observing to h is friendMr . S am pson ,

I sh all go and look abou t, and see if

RUGBY FO O TBALL, AND HOW TO

EXCEL IN 1111.

BY DR.

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nvmn,1

131 1 1 1 SCOTTIS H CAPTA IN.

PART 1 1 1 1 1 .

th ere are anym o re o f th o se fell ows in the

garden .

' Perh ap s you w ou l d rath er no t

com ewith m e , James . I th ink co ok and

Dick ar e equ al to th is fell ow . Supp o se

you r un ou t for a cou p le d p o licem en , in

case th ere ar e any o f his friends lu rk ingab o ut .

James did’

as h is master h ad d i rectedMr . S amp son , tak ing/h is goo d stou t walking-stick with h im ,

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went ou t in th e garden

w ith Mr. Har tley ,and th is h ad all tak en

p lace wh ile Law rence was fetching h is

p istol and ex am ining th e p r im ing . so th at

h e was quite unaware o f wh at h ad been.

d one, .o r h owDick was emp loyed when h estepped into the dining

- r o om .

(To b e continu ed . )

HERE are many tricks in maul ing. Y ou see a

fér’

ward getting the b al l b etween h is ank les,and h o lding it th ere, letting

‘

his“

friends shoveh im th rough .

’ ‘

Kicking the’

b al l wil l usual lycure th at forward o f h is p ropensity, for h is

ankles are pretty su re to get t h eir share of th e

k icks, and [serve th em righ t.:

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Y oucsee a team ,

pressed n ear th eir goal,systematical ly fal l on

the b al l” and tak e a l ong t ime to“

get up again .

Th at is simply dish onest play,and it is merelydone to gain time. A veryCommon th ing is to

see f orwards h ab itual ly get ,

to’

one; side of th e

maul ,‘

and‘ doing no good in sh b ving,'

trust to a

chance to h ook it out at th e'

sid e. That also isnet

“

h onest play, and such“

forwards sh ou ld b e

told eith er to get b eh ind _th e

_

mau l and sh oveh onestly, or to stop playing

-forward .

“

Th e laws

forb id‘ pick ing up in ,

thefmau l

'

,

'

so‘

I need not

waste time condemning that ; Another dodgeis for a ‘

man to get ah ead of th e . b all ,“

and then,instead of coming dutian

'

d gettin‘

g‘

vround b eh ind

it again (as he is b ound b y the law o f of side to

do ), straddling h is legs and i ftrulstjng to h is

friends to carry it past h im,

‘

and so put h im

on side. That is a vice in a forward .

‘

Sh oveh onestly straigh t through , keeping b ehind th eb al l

,and you will b e a good forward in a mau l .

The spectators don’

t in ~ the least real ise th e.

work that is going ori in a good hard mau l . To

them it l ook s like“

a stupid sh oving-match .

Themen in,the

“

h eart of it know very differently.

Y ou can’

t mau l“

wel l and play to the gal lery atthe same time

,O ne dodge in maul ing I shal l

refer to ; and have done with the sub ject . Heel

ing ou t— tie , l etting the b al l b ack through you ,wh ile you continue sh oving til l your rear m en

k ick o r throw it b ack to a b ack . Is th at fair

Much h as b een said on th is point. I most , cer

tainly maintain that it is fair ; as fair as it is

to th rowp

th e .b al l b ack wh en you are gettingtack led . It is just another form of passing. Ido no t th ereb y advocate its general u se. Butwh en near

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an o pponent’

s goal , what“

earth ly-u se.

is there in sh oving th rough ju st to let them tou chdown, and h ave a k ick at the 2 5 ? It is cer

tainly rath er against the spirit-

of“

the game.

Bu t after al l ,“

th e spiri t o f the game is, get goa ls,and if you find that the b est way to . get goals

is to heel ou t, do it. Don’

t do it al l over the.

fi eld , 6b u t do it

,if you can, near goal . I f your

opposing hal f-b acks are h al f qu ick ,“

they wil l

prevent its b eing mu ch good . I t mu st b e done

very . rapidly, or it is i llegal . If the b al l isal l owed to l inger on itsway b ack , [

wh ile th e for

wards in front of it are sh oving away, they are.

o ff side and impeding opponents when off side.is il legal . Th erefore in scientific and lawful.l i eel ing out

,the b al l sh o ul d b e passed b ack

:almost instantly th e maul is form ed .

S o much,

for maul s.

(7) Loose S cm mmaging. A l oose scrummage

may b e describ ed as half way b etween a mau l

and a drib b le. It is a drib b l ing mau l . In a

loose,

scrummage th e players are not wedged i a

,g eth er as in a mau l , nor are they running clear

d own the fiel d as in a d rib b l e. Th ey are in a

mass,and yet. each player h as elb ow-ro om, ,and

instead O f h is work b eing sh oving, it is morec lose-quarter charging,

_

’

It“

is,the natural and

proper finish o f a“

mau l . The elements of the

maul b reak up , and th e b al l is knock ed ab out

l oose among them . It is th e most dash ing,'

the most hard -working, and the rough est thing“

in footb al l . It is in a l oose scrummage that

t he true good forward sh ows up .

Watch the'

game, and you will see

_,that th e

same man, or at leas -one‘

of, th e same . set'

O f

two or th ree men,is always

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the one wh o comes“

away out . of a lo ose scrum-mage with the b al l .

Why ? Because th ey keep on the b al l . Theyd on

’

t rush ab out furiously, l ike a mad b u ll in a

c h ina-sh op, nor'

d o they stand h al f-dazed, norwatch outside for a chance to pick it up and b e

O ff,l eaving their friends in th e melee to get the

‘

knock s,wh ile th ey get the hal fpence. They

k eep th eir h eads fol lowing the b al l , keepingc lose on it, and ready to pounce on any opponent

into wh ose arms it may rise, wh ile th ey drivei t through with

~th eir feet, cleaving th eir wayt hrough th eir . O pponents with their sh oul ders .

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I n a loose scrummage is not the time for a

pl ayer to b e squeamish ab out knocking ab out

h is men.‘If hard play means roughness, th en

.a l oose scrummage must b e,

rough , b ut it need

not b e coarse, nor need it b e dangerous. If a

m an is fool enough to pick up in a l ob se,scrum l

mage, he runs a chance o f b eing sent h ead fore

m ost, with a lot of men on the top of h im,and

getting h is neck or spine stretch ed , and seriouslyinjured b ut th e ,remedy is ob vious— l et no manstoop to .pick up in a l oose scrummage.

‘

If men

will only k eep their h eads‘up and their l egs b e

l ow th em, th ey need fear no accident in a l oose

s crummage, b eyond a kick on the sh in or a

k nee in the th igh , b oth painfu l and disab ling

p ro tem . , b ut not serious injuries.I sh oul d advise th e loose scrummager to keepon the b al l .Keep your h ead and your temper.

Don’

t pick up th e b al l .

Go straigh t ah ead , and don’t b e trying to get

it ou t at th e side.

Get through as quick as you can, and drib b le

it on.

(To b e continu ed .)

GOATS'

AND GOAT-KEEPING,EOR PLEASURE OR PROFIT.

BY A-TPRO EE S S IONAL JUDGE .

TART I I.— E E DD ING .—PURCHAS E O E STO CK

PRICE , E TC.

b edding. S trawis b ough t b y th etruss, and one

Would feel in

cl ined ,to b e

grudge the ex

pense o f it, did

h e not remem

b er that th e

soiled b eddingmakes the veryb est o f '

v

garden

manure ln

deed , in many

p ar t s o f th e

Country smal l

farm er s W i l l

supply you with

straw"

if theyare permitted to h ave th e manure.

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It is a

.good p lan, as recommended b y Mr. Pegler,to have a b ox o f dry,

‘

,sifted

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f

garden'

mou ld

in a corner o f th e goat-sh ed .

v A little O f this

c an always b e sprinkled‘

down under the straw,

-or'

thrown over any wet o r m ess.

Y ou cannot b e too particular in th e cl eanl i

n ess o f your goat-sh ed . Never permit it to

s mel l h igh Or strong clean it ou t daily, sum

m er or winter, shaking th e b edding wel l up and“

r emoving the soiled parts. Th e b est time to

The 8 037’s OWE(Paper.

cl ean th e place o u t and make everyth ing “

snugand tidy is th e evening.

In '

th e country a deal of stuff may b e gath eredin dry weath er ab out the

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hedge _sides, wh ich

wil l d o excel lently well for b edding, _such as

withered grass, dead leaves, and especially deadferns or b reckans .

After you have made every preparation forher keep and comfort

,and not b efore, it wil l b e

time’

to th ink of b uyirig the animal h ersel f.Then the fol lowing questions wi ll present themselves to your m ind and demand reply ,

1 . What breed of gOat sh o ul d I go in for ?2 . Where em 'I l ikely to o b tain such a one ?

3. HOW am I to tel l wheth er it b e good or

b ad ?4 2 What is a fair price to pay for a good goat ?I wil l try to answer these questions ser iatim

et ver batim .

First, then, as to the b reed or. species. u I do

not think mysel f that this is of paramount

consequence. If you go in for th e b eautiful

and th epicturesque,you may h avea long-haired,l ong

-h orned lVelsh goat, or a l ong-haired

’Irishgoat.

- The former are said to b e very good

m ilkers ; b ut my advice to '

you is to let b eauty

give place to sound util ity.

S econdly, pro b ab ly the b est plan of O b taininga good goat wou ld b e to advertise in either the

Exch ange and Mart,

”o r

_

the Live S tockJourne The advert isement need no t b e a

l ong one. Y ou wil l get several “

answers, and

th e animal you think will suit sh ou ld b e sent

to you on approval, after she has b een ful lydescrib ed b y letter and warranted quiet, b ecause th ere wou l d b e no

_good"

b uying an

animal t hat defied you to milk h er . Anoth er

p lan to get a good goat would‘

b e to procureb y writing to the secretary for it

— a catalogue

o f a recent Crystal Palace Goat S how. Y ou

would see b y this who were th e m ost successful

b reeders, and a letter to one of th em woul d , inall prob ab il ity, insure courteous reply.Thirdly, you have received the goat on ap

proval , and you wish to know wheth er it. b eworth k eeping or not. Uppn .th is questionh inges

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your future s uccess or failure. It is'

to

b e presumed, then, that the animal to b e ex

amined is in ful l m il k . By keeping h er for twodays, h aving made arrangements to that effect

with the sender, you wil l b e ab le to find ou t

two th ings- first, whether sh e b e quiet or net

secondly, the amount O f m ilk sh e gives. And

here are th e properties you are to look for in

a good m ilch goat. She ough t to b e of large

size, with a smal l h ead and b right prominent

eyes, th e ears ough t to b e of good size and ”

some

what h anging, and the h orns sh ort or entirelyab sent . Y ou can tak e in

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al l th is at a glance,and you wil l then turn your

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attention to th e

siz e of the udder and teats. Both ough t to b e

b ig, the former,’

indeed, sh ou ld give to . the

animal somewhat o f a straggl ing gait. Bothth e udder and teats sh ou ld point a little forwards instead of h anging pendu lou s.

Next, as to th e age— you want her to b e fromtwo to fo ur years old . A young goat is -ful l .of

l ife and frisk iness, b u t the teeth form the great

criterion of age. There are no front teeth or

incisors in the upper jaw o f a goat— th e animal

is'

l ike a cow in this respect— b ut it is b y th e

incisors_

o f the l ower jaw that the age is got at.A goat of a. year o l d has al l its

-teeth , namely,th irty

-two twelve on the upper jaw,side teeth

only, and on the lower also twelve side teeth ,with th e addition o f eight front teeth or incisors:

The fol lowing would b e the formu la

'Th e incisors in th e young goat are smal l and

pointed, b ut in th e second year the two centre

ront teeth are replaced b y two larger ones,

leaving th ree smal l on each side. In the th ird

year one_on each side of the new central b ig

ones fall out, and are replaced b y large teeth ,l eaving only two smal l teeth on each side o f

,

four large ; the fou rth year‘

oth er two fal l out

and are rep laced , and th e fifth year th e last pair,so that now all the front teeth are large ones.

(To b e continued . )

OUR. PRIZ E‘

GOMPEI ITM IDD LE DIVIS ION.

Illuminating Competi'

th is Class th e Guinea Friza hb ut in proceeding to award

ourselves in a‘

difficu lty. S ix of'

th

one another so closely,'

th ough

ferent styles, that itwas al l b ut“

judge as b etween them— or , at an]fair to give th e prize to one, and

oth ers . Th eir work was al l ex<

way ;“

and th e diversities Of treat)marked that onl y adjudicators b iaof a particular sch ool of

_art wou l (

nounce any .

,particu lar specimen“

We h ave,th erefore, increased th

the prize in th is Class from O ne CuGu ineas, and award it in S ix Frizeach as fol lows

E DWARD WO O DALL ‘ O AKLEY (agPenn Field '

s, Wolverhampton, S talS IDNE Y KIFE IN GRE ENS LADE (a;

6, Bed ford Circu s, E xeter.

ALBERT C. BREDEN (agedmonth s) , 1 49, Skidmore S treet, H'

Mile End, E .

E DWIN FIRTH (aged'

1 6 years

S treet, Derb y.

HARRY SMITH (agedRoad , Sheffiel d .

HOWARD N. DAVIE '

(aged'

l lBank , Bideford, North

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Devon.

Certificates.

FREDERICK CO LIN“

TILNEY, 8 , Citizen I'

N

JO HN THOMAS PE GG, 4 1 , Dove Street,“ Yo rk .

E DGARJ. BALDWIN, 1 0, Cath cart Street,Kentish STown, N.W.

GE ORGE F . DAWS ON, 2 7, High PetergatTHOMAS S UTTON LONE S, south Road ,mingh am .

WM. E . PILLEY, Carnf orth House; 8 ,Road , Sh effield.

ERNE ST'

RY LE Y , 1 2 , St. James’s Street,'JO H‘

N WM“

. SCHO ON, 1 2 1 , Priestman Sh am,

Bradford , York shire.

LEWIS GRE Y, 6, Catherine Grove,GreeARCHIBALD J. JACKS ON, Berrin, HonsCh ippenh am,

Wilts.;VICT'ORMccowEN, Tral ee, Co . Kerry.

FRANK INNOUS , 1 , Leigh ton Grove,Kentish Town, N W.

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GE O . LENO LONG, 35, Theb erton S treeARTHURHARWO OD, Lea Green, MirneE DWD . W. KE EN 6, Camb ridge .

,TeDevonp ort.

THO S . .RIDING LEWIS , 1 84 , Clifton .S trManchester .

FRE DK. WM.

,Cork .

W. F . LITTLER, Tib enh am RectoryNorfol k .

FRANCIS AIDANHIBBERT, Bridge S treARTHUR F . E ALEY, care o f Mr . A.

Coggesh all , E ssex.MARSHALL BRO OMHALI? 2 , Pyrland

Park .

ANDREW WARWICK, 62 , Carol ine S t

Dumfriessh ire.

ALFRED JOHNFOWLER, 8 , O val , HackSAMUE L JOHN CARTER, 1 0, Berkel eyLane, Clerkenwell , E .C.

FREDERICKKNE E BONE , 1 5, Preb end S

ALFRED J. RUSHTON, 1 74 , Lodge R0m ingham .

JO HNCAMERON, 4 0, Grove S treet, GlaWM. J. G IDDINS , Royal Mews , Pim l ic

ANDREW ARCHIBALD , 1 7, New S treet,BENJAMIN McCALL BARBO UR, 1 08 , Rb urgh .

G OODCHILD, Raul b ow

JO HNA . CUMMING, 35, “

Ash l ey Place,

HENRY E . RYALL, 34 , Alma S treet,KeHENRY E . MALLET, 4 , Bed ford CircusTHO S . W . E LLDRED , 56, Herne Hil l RW-MaDELL, Ch urch Walk , ,

U1 verston.

HERBERTA. HALL, 77, Pennywel l R0DONALD MACKAY, E astnor House,G loucester.

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AJAX - Y ou must re-p ol ish your tab le. Th ere isnoo th er way o f getting r id,

of h eat marks.

E . J. H. CHURCHE R.— Try Mr . H. Sweet

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s -“ Handb ooko f Ph onetics

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( 4 s. p u b l ish ed at th e ClarendonP ress ; o r Dr . J. H . G ladstone

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s‘ f S pel l ing Reform

( 1 5 . p ub l ish ed b y Messrs. Macmi llan. . Th e subject is no t one which we th ink advisab le for sch oo lb oys to trou b le th eir h eads ab o

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ut .~ S ch oo lmasters

are natural ly interested a l etter to one ofthe p ro fessional pap ers woul d d oub tless p rocure youfull information.

,The B0 .Y

’

s OWN PAPER . is writtenf o r its readers, and correspond ents can only claim a

smal l p ortion of o ur attention, h ence we only give al im ited Sp ace for answers ; and

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wh en we h ave to dealwith ten th ousand

_

l et ters a year , and at that rateth ey are now coming in, it must b e o b vio us that b uta very smal l f raction o f them can b e rep l ied to . . Thereason o f d elays and omissions - ia ou r rep l ies h aso ver and over again b een exp lained in th ese col umnsf or th e guidance o f ou r sup porters, and we h ardlyunderstand why th e constant sub scrib ers

"d id not

th ink fi t to p oint it out to you .

CRICKETER.— Th é only ob jection to th e introduction of

ano th er stamp is th e addition i t would make to the

p resent numerou s varieties, and th e consequentl yincreased comp lication of th e Post O ffice accounts .

I t seems a smal l matter to you .wh en you are ab l e to

get ju st one o ther sort of stamp ; b ut the GeneralPost O ffice b ooks wou l d sh ow you th at th e p roduction and ch ecking of th at single var iety necessitatesh undr eds of extra entries, h ou rs of add itional lab our ,and p ounds o f .add itional wages. Th e question re

solves itsel f, as‘

d o al l sudh suggestions. into— is th eextra conveni ence worth the extra cost ?

Mi k é .— Armatage's Companion, and

o t

hier b ooks on the Horse, p ub lished b y F . Warne

’

an Co .

O RNY .

—O f th e b ook s you mention perh aps Harting’

s

.

“ Hand b ook o f Br itish Bird s ,”

p u b l ish ed b y VanVo orst at 7s. 6d . ; and Job u’

s British Birds in th eirHaunts, p u b l ish ed b y the Society for PromotingCh ristian Knowledge, are th e b est. Two o f o ur b estknown ornith o logists

‘

are Dr . Dresser and Mr. J. E .

l i ar ting .

W . E . M .— To cl ean o l d gil t frames, sp onge th em over

l igh tly with a l ittle h ot sp irits o f wine, and l eaveth em to d ry .

H. Smut — Ramsay’s “ P hysical Geo logy o f England

and Wales,

”o r Jukes and Geik ie’s Manual .

GAMMA.— Th e Irish terrier, th e Y orksh ire terrier , andthe fox-terrier h ave . th eir tails ,cropped al l theo th er terriers are

‘

sh own wi th th eir tails in a naturalcondition.

MARQUINAfi— Th ere is not'

a single wel l-au th enticated"

instance o f f rogs o r toads b eing-found ia '

a so l id

p iece o f rock ,in wh ich th ere d id not exist some cure

v ice b y wh ich th e animal had found entrance to theh o l e. Th e ab surd ity o f a living animal inh ab iting a

continuous l imestone sh el l— sayfo f Devonian age

s —issu fficiently apparent to any onewith ev en

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the sl igh test smattering

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o f geo logy. Y o ur o ther questionsh ave b een frequent ly answered .

W . H. A .—Messrs . S earle, of Lamb eth , or Turk , o f

Kingston, wou ld » b u ild you a canoe. The price wou ldd ep end on th e finish and fittings. App ly d irect tothem f or p articu lars .

HORATIO . cannot account for p eop le‘

s tastes, b utt here is no h eal th ier fo od th an p orridge, w ith p lentyo f m ilk . Th at made with coarse oatmeal is b est.

RIMUS and O th ers wh o desire information regardingh o oks in foreign languages sh ou ld consu lt th e catal ognes o f M r . Nutt, o f th e S trand ; Messrs . W il l iamsand Norgate, o f Henr ietta S treet , Covent Garden or

M essrs. Trii b ner, o f Ludgate Hil l . In cases o f d rillcu l ty in getting p ar ticu lar b ooks in ou t-o i—th e-wayp laces , a letter to Messrs. S impkin, Marsh al l , and Co . ,

o r some o ther of th e large wh o lesale h ouses, encl o sing stamp s fo r p rice and p ostage, and . giving fu l lau th or

’

s name, and p ub l isher if p ossib le, wil l procure

you th e b ook in a day or two .

JThe 8 037’

s Own(Paper.

CRICKET. 1 . Th e ech inoderm s of the ch alk , more especial ly th e common Anamohytes ovatu s, are frequentlycall ed sh ep herd

’

s crowns”

,b y th e quarrymen.

Ga lem'

tes is p erh ap s as wel l-known as Ananchytes b ythe same name. I f you go fossil-h unting in _

anyquarry on th e Upp er Ch alk you are almost sure tofind some sp ecimens— they are th e commonest of al lth ecretaceous fo ssils! 2 . Hard ly in our line.

S . MARSHALL — Th e slur marks in v iol in music alwaysmean th at th e notes so connected sh ou l d b e p layedb y one sweep o f the h ow. Thecases you send are al lfree from d ifiicul ty, b ut you can get very nearly th esame effect wi th ou t th e slur, al th ough it wou ld notdo to tel l a music-master so

(1 .

HENRICK.~—Thank s for your letter . The crown is th e

Post O ffice d istinguish ing mark . Y ou simp ly p rovewhat we a re. constantly s aying . an you no t . see

th at th e comm on defaced stamp s of a‘

country are

only o f valu e when they are’

sent out'

of it ? Takingth e p r ice yo u mention. it only means sevenpence

a th ousand , and yo u wou ld not get th e commoneststamps o f th e French Repu b lic o ver h ere at that

rate.

ROWLAND HILL — Th ey are circular stamp s. To save

th e troub le o f affixing adh esiv’

e stamps in larg e quantities, inland letters and b ook

-

pack ets may,'

at a. few

o f th e-p rincip al o ffices , b e pgepaid in cash , provided

th e amount h e. never l ess th an a sovereign; and th atth e l etters or b o ok -packets b e tied up in b undles

representing a p ostage o f fi ve sh il lings each ,.and

with th e ad dresses al l arranged inthe same d irection,

to make th ings easy fo r th e defacers . When suchquantit ies are p osted the stamp s used are th ose youmention.

Jmoo — To m ake'

h ard water so ft th row in p owderedl ime, and th is, uniting with .th e carb onic acid , willrender the water incapab le o f h o lding in solut ionany l onger th e l ime so contained

,b efore, you

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added

FI Z .— The second v olume oi

_theBO Y’S '

Owls PAPERb egan with No .

E IN KNABEL— Tt dep ends on th e way you ride yourmach ine. I f yo u

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r id e a b icycle -p roperly it wouldh ave qu ite th e oppo site effect .

A.—The keys need not necessaril y b e p la

tinised— that is only d one to[p revent rust. Y ou

must h ave fai led to insulate your wires prop erly

A CO IN COLLECTOR h as simp ly got aDanish ore, and

it is worth— a farthing

ROB.—Niggerminstrels b lack th eir faceswith powdered

b urnt cork .

LE RO Y .— Th e ring on aW inter‘s mach ine must b eof

wo od G lass wo ul d not d o as wel l

0 .

MATEUR.

—Swimming was gone into at l ength in our

first v o lume. We know of no good b ook such as yourequ ire.

WM. WHITE — Y our p arrot, you say, h as sores of th e

mou th and round‘

th e ' b eak , and redness round the

eyes . Th ese are symptomatic of derangement of th ed igestive organs. Ch ange th e d r ink ing-water daily,as well as th e gravel , and see th at th e cage is keptsweet and cl ean. G ive daily fresh b read -and -mi lk,with , in co l d weath er, a l ittle h emp -seed , and now

and th en a cayenne p od . P ut a few d rop s of iron inh is water ; and a d essert-spoonfu l o f Dinneford

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s

fl uid magnesia. Paint th e mouth end round th e

b eak with p owdered al um ten grains, water twoounces, th ree times a day.

J. F . ROBINS ON.

— Y our first l etter must h ave . gone

astray: Ab out gu inea-

p igs driving away rats , it i scommonl y said th ey will , b ut our own experience is

contrary to-th is no tion;

J . E . G ORDO N.— 1 . Y ou want th e points of th eLaverack

setter . Here th ey are, ep itom ised from Mr. Lave

rack's own descr ip tion.

_

Head l ong, l igh t ,’

b ut not

snake—h eaded o r deep -flewed , b ut with a sufficiency of

l ip ; fore-quarters strong, ch est d eep and wide, loin

very strong, sh ou l ders slanting, and no t h igher th an

th e h ind -

q uarters the b ack level , in fact, and b road

and strong"

; sh ort l egs; especially from Ni ck to foot.

Coat l ong, so f t, and si lky ; dark h az el eyes, mild andintel l igent ; ears l ow set on and cl ose to th e head ,

giving a r ound d evel o pment to th e skul l . Colour

b lack or'

b lue-and-wh ite,ticked or l emon-and-wh ite

Bel tons’

. 2 . Laverack , wh o d ied ab out th ree. years

ago , wro te,a b ook On the setter . It is pub lish ed b y

Longmans and Green.

Qumr an — Wh en a

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canary su ffers from so -cal ledasthma , there is very l ittle good can b e done for it .

Bu t you may put a sennal eaf or two in its water nowand th en, and wh en very

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b ad a few drop s o f'

w'

armedcastor-o il may give relief . Feed very p lainl y on

b lack and wh itemanary-seed ; keep warm , dry, and

fire

sifrom draugh ts, and avoid giving dainties o f any

in

STAR — Be cautious in argu ing on th e ab sence o f ath ing. Y ou , are

'qu ite wrong, f or Mars has got twomoons, no matter what your class-b ook s may say.

AN AMATE UR ANGLE R . — 1 . Th e add resses as given inth e ar ticles are qu ite su ffi cient, and wh en an address

is so given you wil l find i t almost invariab ly to b eth e one generally u sed , and in the sh ortest formthat wi ll ensure l etters reach ing their intended

destination. 2 . S end th e money with the ord er .

3. Meth ylated sp irits a re sp irits-oi-wine, to wh ich

h ave b een add ed certain p rop ortions o f .sh el lac and

wo od -sp irit, so .as to render th e mixture undrink

ab l e, and consequently al lowed b y th e E xcise

auth orities to b e_

so l d with ou t duty. It is used formanu facturing. p urp oses only.

0

TICKET and HE SPER.

— Th e name is no t“ M ie

“ Th iers"— Ado l ph e Th iers, th e famous Fre

tor ian, p ol itician,

and President of th e R1

b orn 1 797, d ied 1 877.

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GMA.— Gustavus Ado l ph u s d efeated Tilly at

— th e Battle of Breitenfel d — again at ti

wh ere h e'

received th e wound from wh ich hf ortnigh t afterward s at Ingo l stadt , and h e

‘

Battle o f’

Lu tz en against Wal l enstein, th ou g l

sh ot dead early in the figh t. jWal lenstein w.

‘

sinated fifteen m onth s afterwards b y o rder

Emp eror Ferd inand . See S ch il ler’

s“ Th irt;

War ,

”of which th ere are several Engli sh

'

tions.5

F . P . STARR — Y ou can b uy your design. O ur

gn Dogs in th e Second Vo lume contain whator .

G . G . B.—S ee our articleson Gymnastics and

'J

Two -

p ound b el l s are qu ite h eavy enough .

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over and over again endeavou red to exp l

dumb -b ell s d o not imp rove in th eir effects

p ortion; to th eir weigh t, and th at in fact th l

th ey are the b etter . In th e Swed ish systemd um b -b el ls are u sed . I f you can twist a coupl

'weigh tS'

ab out as easil y as you say , l iftingat arm

’

s l ength level with you r sh ou lders, et

you so kind lyme'

ntion in‘

order to give us anof

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your accomp l ishments) ,we are afraid thatfind dumb -b el l exercise very p oor fuu indee1

PO IS S ON.— Th e ground was gone over b efor l

Agnari-um articles .

A . BURTON. — Th e autograph to th e r igh t isAdmiral Col igny i the o th er is th at o f Wil l ie

H. and P . R.— 1 . A ch eap th ermometer ma)

th ing. We d o no t th ink'

that such a temp e

you name was ever registered in th is con:

p roper ly verified instrument . 2 . Mr . Ch ile

First Lord O f the Admiral ty in th e lastAdministration . 3. Wines al l , contain alcoh

. h ave b efore exp lained ; and some h ome-mare h igh ly intoxicating, th ough general lyinnocu o usk

W. BANGERT.~ —There are always more fems

t han mal es,b u t th e death s m ore than re(

b alance in a few years.

o z co ;— To gil d leath er you first dust it overp owdered whi te o f eggh yel low resin, or gu tThen lay on a l eaf o f go ld

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and p ress -it ( 1 1

your stamp , h eated to a good h eat .(npt a ,

Wh ere th e stamp tb u ch es th e resin is mestick s, wh ere it d oes not ~ the go l d can b eo ff . A

“

greasy clo th is used for th is d ustingcess and “wh en th e rag gets ful l -oi go l d ,

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3

. in , time, you sel l your duster to a refinerb urns it and regains th e p recious metal .

AaaownEAD .—f l

‘

h e smal l’

l etters‘

under th e hecoins are

‘

th e d ie-sink ers’

initials ; th e oti

,let ters th e in-itial s o f

‘

th e f ounders . We do

pr ices . A fl int arr owh ead is not wor th in0

pecuniary sense.

O LD ~BRIGANDER.— Physio logical diagrams .

l ish ed b y Bail l iére, Church il l , W . and A,

ston, and S tanf o rd , and you ‘can get then

and p rices .

QUIS , THETA, and : O th ers —‘When a king i

ch eck , b u t canno t b e moved with ou t go

ch eck , and you h ave no'

o th enp iece,to p la)

to make,‘

yo u are said to b e”

stal emated ,game is _

drawn. S ch p lar's mate is that s«

given to a tyro at th e fou rth move, wh en 1tak es th e k ing

'

s b ish op’

s pawn, and ch f

.Smoth ered’

mate is given b y a knigh t wh en

is so h emmed in b y h is own men that h e .isu seless . The pawns

-is said : to -b e~ worth

knigh t 3 05, th e b ish op th e rookqueen '

99 4 . Th is is o f course supp osingother things are equal . I J

[ALL-RIGHTS RE SE RVE D .

Wh e re a re t h ey ?

AT 8 T. DOMINIG’

S .

CH A PTE R X X L— THE F IGHT THAT D ID NOT COME O F F .

m ou th to m o u th, b u t it fl ew l ike wildfire

th rou gh S t . D om inic’

s al l th e same.

Wh en '

O liver and h is f riend with Stephenentered th e sch

‘

o ol h Ouse, group s o f in

qui siti'

ve’

i boys eyed them askance andwh isp ered as th ey

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went b y . I t seem ed

qu ite a disapp o intment_

to not a fewth at th e th ree d id not app ear coveredw ith b l ond , -or as p ale as sheets, or withb roken l imbs . No one knew exactly wh at

had h app ened , b u t every one knew someth ing h ad happened , and it wou l d havebeen m u ch m ore satisfactory if the heroeso f th e h ou r h ad had som eth ing to sh owf or it

":

O liver was in no mo od for gratifying th ecu rio sity o f anybody , and stalked o ff toh is stu dy in gl o omy silence, attended b yhis ch um and th e anxiou s S teph en .

A h u rried council o f war ensu ed .

I must go and ch al lenge Lom an at

once,’said O l iver .

Letme go ,”saidWraysfo rd .

Why PBecau se m ost lik ely if you go you

’ll

h av e a r ow in h is stu dy . Mu ch b etter

wait and h aveit ou t decently in th e gym

nasium . I’l l

“

go and tel l him .

”

O liver yiel ded to th is advice.

Look sh arp"

,

“

o l d m an, h e said ,th at

’s a

Wraysfordwent Off on his missionou t delay.

‘

He found Loman in h is stu dy wi th h isbo oks before him .

Gr eenfield senior wants me to say h e’l l

figh t you after tea in . th e gymnasium if

you’l l come there

’said the ambassador .

Lom an, wh o was ev idently p rep ared for

th e scene, l o oked u p angrily as h e rep l ied

Figh t me ? Wh at d oes h e Want to

figh t m e for , I sh ou l d like to know ? ”0

“ Y ou know as well as I d o , said

Wraysford .

“ I know noth ing aboutit , and wh at’sm ore, I

’

l l h av e no th ing to do with the fell ow . Tell him th a .

Thenyou won’t fight . ex cl aim ed th e

astounded Wr aysford .

No , I Won’t to please him . When I ’v e

nothing better to do I ’ll do it ; -and with

th e words his face flu sh ed crim son as h e

bent it once m ore over h is bo ok .

‘

Wraysford was qui te taken aback b yth is unexpected answer , and h esitated

before h e turned to go .

D o you h ear wh at I say .9 said Lom an .

D on’t you

-see I’m wo rking P

Look h ere,”said Wraysford , I didn

’

t

th ink you were a coward .

”

Th ink wh at you l ik e. D o you suppose

I care ? I f Greenfiel d wants so badly tofi gh tme, why didn

’.t h e do it last term wh en

I gave h im th e ch ance. Get ou t o f mystu dy , and tell h im I

’

l l h ave noth ing'

to d o

with h im or any of your stu ck-u p Fifth

Wraysf ord stared h ard at the sp eaker ,and th en said ,

I supp ose you’re afraid to

“

figh t me,eith er

I f you don’t clear ou t o f my stu dy I

’ll

r ep ort you to the D octor , th at’

s wh at I’

ll

do ,

”g rowl ed Loman .

Th erewas no u se staying , evidently ; and

Wraysford r etu rned dejectedly to O l iver .

“ He h e anno unced .

Not figh t I exclaimed O liver .

ever not P“

. I supp o se becau se h e’s a coward . He

says becau se h e d oesn’

t ch oo se.

”

Bu t h e must figh t, Wray .

”

We mu st

m ake him IY ou can

’

t . I cal led h im a coward , andth at w ou l dn

’t -m ake h im .

r

Y ou’

ll h ave to

give it up th is time, No l l .

The dioy’

s O wn(Paper.

1 .l 'l / fi w l n “

NO, h e won p ried P'

au l

Turn h im o i i t .

if sh ou ted Bramble.

No one“

wants you h ere, do we . Padger

Get you rsel f ou t o f th e m eeting , you

sneak !Get you rsel f ou t , retorted 'Paul z

’

Th e u su al liv ely scene ensu ed , at the end

Bu t O liver woul dn’t h ear o f giv ing it

u p so easily . He got u p and ru sh ed toLom an

’

8 stu dy h imsel f . Bu t it Was l ocked ;He knocked , no one answer ed . He Cal ledth rough th e

“

keyh o le,'

b ut th ere was no

reply . E vidently L'

om an did not intend tofight , and O liver retu 1 ned crestfallen anddi sapp ointed to h is stu dy .

I t ’s no go,”h e said

,in answer to his

friend’

8 inqu i ry .

O h wel l , never mind , said Wraysford .

E ven if you cou ld h ave fou ght , I dare sayit wouldn’

t have .done much go od , for h e’

s

such a su l len b eggar ,“

th ere wou l d h av e

been no m aking it u p afterwards . I f I

were you I wou l dn’t b oth er anym o re ab ou t

I’l l .let al l th e fell ows know h e refu sedto fi ght you! 1

“ Wh at’s th e use o f th at "” said O l iver .

Wh y tel l th em anyth ing abou t it .9

But , tel l th em o r not tel l th em , th e fellows knew al ready . I t had o o z ed ou t veryso on th at a figh t was com ing o ff , and in

stantly th ewh o le Sch oo l was inexcitement .

For , h owever l ittle some o f th em cared

abou t th e p ersonal qu arrel between O l iver

and Loman, a figh t b etween Fifth and

S ixth was to o great an event to b e passedb y unh eeded .

The Fifth were del igh ted . Th ey knewth eir m an cou ld beat Lom an any day o f

th e week , and'

h owever mu ch th ey h ad

once d ou b ted' h is cou rage, now it w as

known h e was th e ch al lenger every m is

giving on th at score was d one away with .

“ I tell you,”

said Ricketts to a sm al l

knot o f h is class-fel l ows, h e cou l d finish

h imu p easily In one round .

Y es ,”chimed 1 1 1

‘

ano th er know ing one,Loman

’s got su ch a wretch ed knack o f

keeping up“

h is left elb ow, th at h e’e s not a

chance. A ch il d cou l d get in under h is

gu ard , I tell you ; and as for wind , h e’s no

m orewind than an ol d p aper -b ag .

I wish mysel f it was a clo ser th ing , as

l ong as our man won ,

’’sa1 d Tom?Senior ,

with a tinge o f melanch o ly in h is voice.

’

I t wil l b e sudh a miserably 11

0 1 1615 affair ,I’m afraid .

”

I’m sorry it

’s not 'Wren, or Call onb y,or one o f them?

"said anoth er o f th ese

amiab le warriors “ f ‘ there’(1 b e some plea

“

su re in ch awm g th em up .

”

At this m om ent u p came Pembury, witha v ery l ong face.

“ I t s no figh t after all , you fel lows,said h e .

“ Loman funksit !Wh at

l

l ‘hewon alm o st sh riekedth e rest . It mu st b eWrong .

”

O h , all right, if i t”s wrong , snar led

Pembury . I tel l you t h ere’

9 no figh t ;

you can b el ieve it Or no t as you l ike,”and

o ff h e h ob b l ed , in unus ual il l'

h um ou r .

Th is was a sad -bl ow to th e F ifth . Th eysaw no comfort anywh ere. Th ey.

flo ckedto O l iv er

’s study, b u t

'

h e was not there,and Wraysford

’

s‘

door r was l ocked . The

news , h owev er , was confi rm ed b y other

reporters , and 1 1 1 great grief and p ro found

melanch o ly th e Fifth swall owed their tea,

and wondered if any set o f fel l ows were sounl ucky as they .

Bu t th eir rage was as noth ing to th at ofth e Gu inea-

p igs and Tadp o les

Th ese am iab l e young animals h ad o f

cou rse sniffed th e battle from afar v eryearly th e evening ,

and , as u su al , ru sh ed

into al l sorts o f extremes o f enthu siasm on

th e subject . A figh t ! A figh t b etween

Fifth and S ixth ! A figh t between G reenfield senior and a m onitor ! O h it was

to o go od. to b e true, a p e1 fect lux u ry ;someth ing to b e gratefu l fo r , and no m i s

take !O f cou rse a meeting was forthwith

He'

never funked , you young cad ,

assem b led to glo at o ver th e au spiciou s

event .

Bramble veh em ently expressed his'

con

v iction . th at th e S ix th Form m an wou ldeat up h is opp onent , and went th e lengtho f o ffering to cu t o ff h is own h ead andBadger

’

s if it turned ou t o therwise .

Pau l and h is friends , 0 1 1 th e o ther h and

as veh em ently backed th e Fi fth fell ow .

“ Wh en’s it .to com e off , I say

9 ”" dei

m anded Brambl e .

To night , I sh ou ld say , o r fi rst th ingin themorning .

S ure to b e‘

{co -nigh t . My eye ! won’

t

Gteenfiel d seni or look

b black and b lue after

itH

‘6

-Wh ere’s th e figh t , young Greenfield ?”

sh outed Bramble .

Nowh ere,”repl ied S teph en.

Wh at ! not com ing off .r“ sh rieked th e

youngsters .

No ,” laconical l

’

y‘

answered S teph en .

Has you r b r o ther funk'

ed it again .

9

demanded Bram b le, in hi s u sual concil ia

tory way .

r e

torted th e you ng bro th er .

’

h e did’

, didn’t h e, Badger .

9 Th at

tim e, you know , last te1 m . But I say,

Greenfield junio r , why ever’s th e fight

not com ing off .9

Lom an won’t figh t, th at

’

5why ,

”said

S teph en ; and th en , h av ing h ad qu iteenough of catechism , turned on h is h eel

and l eft the indi gnant youngsters to con

tinu e th en ru sh back to th eFourth Junior ,th ere to spend an h ou r or so in denouncingthe caddishness o f everyb ody , and to make

up b y th eir own confli cts f or th e sh or t

com ings of Oth er s .

O l iver m eanwh il e h ad settled down as

b est h e co u l d once m ore to wo rk , and tried

th e influence ,o f ‘ Greek accents and Roman

h istoryAfter al l

,

”Said h e to Wraysfo rd , if

'

th e fel l ow 1 s a coward wh y need I b oth ei f"

O nly I sh ou l d h av e rather l iked to th rashh im for wh at h e did to S tee.

Nev er mind ,—th rash h im o ver th e

Nigh tingale instead .

Th em ention o f th e “ Nigh tingal e, . h owever , did not serve to h eigh ten O liver

’s

Sp irits at al l .

He turned dejectedly to h is b ooks, b u tsoon gav e u p f urth er stu dy .

Y ou can go on if you l ike, said h e to

Wraysford , I can’t . It

’

s no u se, I th inkI sh al l go to b ed .

”

What ! I t’

s not qu ite nine yet.

Is th at all it is ? Never mind ; geod

migh t, ol d m an. I’m glad itwill al l b e ever

« o n M onday .

”

Before O liver went to b ed he h ad a talk

with S teph en in his stu dy. He su cceeded

in pu tting pretty vividly b efore hi s youngb ro ther the p osition in whi ch

'h e h ad p laced

h im sel f b y going down to“

thep ub l i c—h ouse

and associating with a man h ke CI‘IPPS“ What I ‘

advise you is, to-m ake a

'

cle'

an

breast o f it"to th e D octor at once

‘

. I f h e

h ear s of it any other way , you’re d one for .

”

O liver certainly h ad an uncomp romi sm g

way o f pu tting“ O h , No ll , I never cou ld ! I know I

coul dn’t . I say, wil l you P Y ou can tel l

h im anything you l ike .

”

O liver h esitated a m om ent and th en said ,

Al l serene ; I’ll do wit h M ind

, I mu st

tel l him everyth ing , th ough ?”

O h ,

'

yes ! I say ,do you

-'

th ink I ’ll b e

expel led

I h 0pe not . Th ere’s

'

no'k

‘

nowing ,

thoug p

O h , N0 1 1 -

'

wh at sha ll I doIt

’

s your only ch ance, I tel l ‘

you . I f'Cripp s comes up and

‘

talks'

abou t i t, or

Loman tel l s, you’r e: sure to b e eifpelled

‘

.

Well ,”said S teph en , with a gu lp , I

.s uppose you’d better tell him , Noll . Need

'

I come too ?”

No , better not , said O l iver . I’ll go

.and see if h e’s in h is stu dy now. Y ou go

up stair s , and I’ll com e and tell you wh at

'

h e says .

”

S teph en crawled dism ally away , leavingh is brother to fulfil h is sel f -imposed task.

I

O liver went straigh t to the D octo’

r’s

stu dy . The do or sto od h al f'

op en , b‘ut th e

D octo r was not th ere. He enter ed , and :

waited inside a couple o f m inu tes,expect

ing that -‘

th e h ead m aster f woul d“

r eturn ;b u t no one came. Af ter all , h e woul d

'

h aveto pu t off h is confession o f S teph en

’s de

l inqu enc‘

ies till'

' to-m orrow; and , h al frelieved , h al f

‘

d is'

app ointed,h e"qu itted the

r oom .

'

As h e came out"

h e encounteredS im on in the passage.

Hul l o , Greenfield ! s aid th at worthywh at h ave you b een u p to in th ere

’f’

I want the D octor ,”said O l iver"; do

you know wh ere h e is ? ”

f ‘ I saw h im go u p stairs a m inu te ago ; ith at is , I m ean downstairs, you kno

'

w,

”lsaid th e l u cid -

p oet .

’

" i

Th is information was sufficiently vague!

to determine O l iver not to attempt a wil d

go o se ch ase after'

th e D octor th at nigh t,so , bidding a ' h u r r ied a

'

go od night to‘

S im on, b e t ook h is way"down th e passage

‘

wh ich led to S teph en’

s do rmitory.

A He h ad not, h owever , gone many step swhen - la . b oy met

,

him . I t was Loman.

Th erewas a -momentary _

str uggle in O l iver’

sb reast . Here Was. th e v ery opportunitywh ich an h our or two ago h e h ad so eagerlydesired . Th e wh ole p ictu re _

o f that afterno on

’s adventu res cam e u p b efore h is mind ,

and h e fel t h is blood tingle as h is eyes

caugh t sight o f S teph en’s p ersecu tor .

S h oul d h e pay off th e-score nowLoman saw hiny and changed

'

colour .

He evidently guessed wh at was passingthr ough hi s enemy

’

s mind , for a qu ick (To b e continu ed . )

TH E\T~W -O CAB I N-B O Y S :

A S TO RY o r ADVE NTURE . BY LAND AND S E A.

MELBO URNE is one o f th e youngest cities

_L on-the face o f th e gl obe. In th e year

1 8 5 1 a d ense forest o f gum-trees, in wh ich

th e wil d Au stral ian wandered in ch ase o f

th e kangaroo covered the site whi ch th ec ity, wi th its th ree hundred th ou sand in f-s

h abitants, its nob le streets and ‘ innumer

able monum ents, risen from th e soil as if

became necessary to buil d for th eir aecom

m odation its taverns and h otels to facil itate th e cir cul ation of th e metal wh ich th eadv enturers h ad so easil y am assed .

Th e new city thus suddenl y brough t intoth e wo rl d liv ed an

'

ardent, feverish sort o f

l ife, resemb ling in noth ing th e cities o fE urope. Th e gol d -d iggers wh o

' returnedthi th er r ich h ad qu itted it p oor ; for tunesw ere m ade and l o st with equ al rapidity ,and ev ery day . new discov eries were an

u ounced,and th e go ld f ever augm ented .

None o f th e num erou s pedestrians wh o

Jostl ed one ano th er in Swanston S treet onthe 1 0th of O ctob er , 1 8 65 , p aid mu ch at

BY LOUIS RO USS E LET.

CHAPTER XX .— ME LBO URNE .

tention to th e two young sail or s wh o , in

r agged cloth es[

and Edith h aggard and

astonish ed l ooks, were walking down it .

Anywh ere el se some ch ar itab le sou l wou l d

h ave -taken p ity on th eir trou b led glances

and p al li d faces. m arked with want and

_

fatigu e ; b u t ,h ere every one hurried b y

with ou t even a turn o f : the"

'h ead , and

Seemed to b e running towards some mysteriou s object.S ince D aniel and Pengu in had reach ed

Eth e fi rst h ou ses o f Mel b ourne some h ours

a go , th ey had wandered aim lessl y th rough‘

th e streets, db u t th ey h ad b een walking all

th e tim e so‘ras th e better to b u ry them selves

in th e city and satiate th emselves-with th at

del iverance th e s uddenness o f whi ch stil l

staggered them . By degrees th is sensationlost its acuteness, and th en , without h avingexchanged a singleword , _th ey felt so l onelyand ab andoned in th e m idst o f the bu sy ,selfi sh crowd , th at th ey b egan to regret

th e desert and th e almo st h appy l ife th eyh ad su cceeded in li v ing th ere.

.Po or Friday !”Isaid . Peng uin, at l ast ;

h e Was a r e‘

al ly good fell ow !

And our l ovel y“

val ley , w ith‘

its b igtre

‘

es and'

gl orious river ,”said D aniel ; and

then , com p leting h is idea, h e continu ed,

Bu t -what w ill b ecome o f u s h ere with ou t

m oney and with ou t friends P.

”

“ I feel v ery h ungry ,

”r epl ied th e Cana

-f

diaii ; and ,'

as I’

v ery mu ch d oubt th atth e innkeepers o f M el b ou rne will give u s

credit on th e strength o f our appearance, Ith ink we wou l d d o wel l to eat a little ofou r sm oked mea

Y es, said D aniel ,“ let us turn our

attention to th at next . For tunately I did

not l eave th e wh ole o f my supp ly with M r .

Friday , and We h ave enough to keep _

u s

going for a day o r two .

”

They sat down -ou a step ga'

nd,ate a fewfi r.

flu sh cam e to hi s face and an angry scévirl

to h is b r ow.

O liver fo r one m oment slackene‘d pace.

Then su ddenly th ere cam e u p on h im’

a

vision o f S teph en’

s appeal ing face as h e

intercede‘

d that afterno on for th e hey wh oh ad d one h im su ch m isch ief , and that

vision settled th e thing .

’

Hurr iedly resuming h is walk, O l iver

passed Lom an, with averted“

eyes, and

went on h is way .

Well P said S tephen,'

1 1 1 the midst o f

undressing, as'

hi s br oth er entered thed orm ito ry .

He wasn’t there. I

’l l see h im in th e

m orning ,

’’said O liv er .

“ Good -nigh t, S tee.

G o od nigh t , No l l , o ld m an

b

! I say ,

you are a'b rick to me ! ” and as th e b oy

sp oke th ere was a tremble in his v oice

wh ich went straigh t to h is b rother’

s h eart .

Y ou are a brick to m e !” A p retty

b u ck h e h ad been, letting th e'

youngc

ste1

dr ift anywh ere— into b ad' comp any ; into

b ad ways , with out h olding ou t a h and to

warn h im ; and in th e end coming to h ishelp only by accident, and serving him bundertaking a taskwh ich wou ld qu i te p o ssib ly resu lt in hisexpu l sion fromthe Sch ool !A brick, indeed ! O liver went o ff to h is

own b ed th at nigh t m ore disp irited and

dissatisfi ed with h imself th an h e h ad ever

felt b efore. And all th rough h is dream s

his br oth er’s troubled face l o oked u p at h im ,

and th e trembl ing voice repeated , again

and again ,

“ Y ou are a brick to me— a

brick to me !

to get m oney ju st now ?

Th at i s it’

; and it i s rather emb arrass

ing to _say . However , we mu st not b eg .

S omething m ay turn up’

They continu ed th eir wal k in qu est o f

an opp o rtunity, b ut the nigh t was cl osingi n, and none o ffered . At l ast they saw,

com ing towards th em , a l arge b reak, drawn

b y six p owerfu l h orses Both veh icle and

h orses were grey with du st . E videntlyth e break had come from sbm e dis

tance.

“ Th at will do for u s,‘

said Pengu in .

Com e along, .D aniel , and th ey ran after

th e carriage .

A minu te afterwards it stopped in

front o f the coach office. F irst , two

so ldiers , armed with mu skets , descendedfrom . it, and th en fol l owed a m an wh o

migh t h ave been taken for th eir prisoner ,

so mu ch did_

h e resem b le a bandit, with h isragged clothes and neglected beard .

D aniel m ade a gr im ace at seeing so few

p assengers ; h owever , th e sold iers de

parted , and th e man wh o rem ained al one

paid h is fare to th e condu ctor , and , th rowing over his sh ou lder a large bundl e o f

cl othes, was m oving o ff , wh en an idea

struck Penguin . What i f th e unknownman were a digger returning from the

gold field s .

‘P In such a case, notwith stand

ing h is mi serable l ooks , h e _

was doubtlessr ich , and perh aps generou s, or at all eventsvain . With o u t th e sligh test hesitation theCanadian stepped up to th e travel ler , and ,raising h is h at, humb ly asked ,

“ May I carry your lu ggage to you rh otel

“ Ah ! th at’

s a good idea ! ” exclaimedth e stranger .

“ I m igh t save mysel f th etrouble,” and

, th rowing his bundle over

Pengu in’s sh oul der

'

, h e continu ed , F or

ward , my lad, and take m e to th e besth otel in Melbourne. I h ave go t th e stu dto p ay th em, my b oyThe Canadian h ad net the sligh test idea

as to whi ch was “ th e best h o tel in Mel

b ourne,”b u t

.

without saying a word h e

turned into Swanston S treet, accompanied

b y th e gol d digger , and seeing th ere one

o f th e newly erected caravanserais, h e

walked in . The trav el ler , in Spite of his

dubiou s appearance, was received with th e

m o st pro found resp ect .

D aniel , wh o h ad fo ll owed at a distance

with ou t understanding h is com panion’s

m anoeuvre, very soon saw him com e out

and run bounding up to h im .

I hi t it,”h e exclaimed . I th ough t

h e was a digger . He h as com e back withh is p ockets full of gold , and is going to

TheGel—

icy’

s OWI] Paper“

.

make up for wh at h e h as suffered . S eewh at h e h as given m e for c

arrying h is

bundle for five minutes.

”

“ A fi ve-sh ill ing piece !”

Y es, and a b eau ty ! It is now ou rtu rn to seek an h otel . Perh ap s we h adbetter l o ok in a less aristo cratic quarter .

”

D escending Swanston S treet, th e cabinb'oys reach ed_ th e h arbou r . O n th e quay

was a crowd o f numerou s .taver'

ns, wh ose

h umble app earance prom ised l ow-

priced

lodgings , b u t neither luxury nor com fort .

Am ongst these inns there was one with ,

p erh ap s, a m eaner l ook abou t it th an th e

rest, and on its la'

mp th ere sh one forth 1 n

t he darkness ,Au Gai Compagnon . Hotel Frangais .

Let u s go i n h’

ere,’said D aniel . “ We

may find some fellow- countryman wh o

m ay h elp u s .

’

S o_ b e it ,”said th e Canad

ian.

And pu shing open the glaz ed door , theyentered into a ro om so feeb ly l igh ted with

a p araffin lam p , and so fi ll ed with smoke,that th ey cou ld h ardly di stingu ish in th e

semi -darkness a d o z en tab les .occup ied b ynum erou s sail or s , drinking , singing , and

making a frigh tfu l uproar .

Ar r ived in Melb o urne.

Penguin nego tiated with the landl ord

for a room with two tru ckle beds for th esum of two sh ill ings, payab l e in adv ance.

Then'

h e'

ordered a very m o derate dinner ,and th e two f riends install ed them selves

in a corner o f th e sal oon with out attractingth e attention o f th eir noisy neighbou rs .

Thi s r oom ,h owever , did not constitu te

th e wh ole of th e'

Gay Comp anion res

taur ant, for , as in al l th ese inns, a p arl ou r ,shu t off from th e ordinary room b y . a

p artition, was reserved for distinguish ed

v isitors or lovers of retirement.

The p artly glaz ed partition , h owever ,f ormed a very ,

insignificant b arr ier , and ,

f rom tim e to tim e th e two cab in-boysh eard the l oud v oices o f th e b oister ou s

guests seated at tab le on‘

th e o th er side.

‘

Pengu in ,after

'

SWall owing h is s oup and a

few mou th ful s o f b read , h ad fal len asleep ,

with h is h ead on th e table, qu ite overcomewith fatigu e.

Daniel d reamtwith h is eyes O p en ; he stillh eard I t is Austral ia r esounding in h is

ears, b u t in h is wearied brain h e coul d no

longer pur sue th e train o f h is ideas . Whyh ad h e so fervently l onged to com e to th is

country He no , 1 onger knew .

4 A 1 1 0a‘

su dden h e seem ed to h ear aboveth e tumul t th ese word s, Mine— secret

treasur e, p ronounced on theo th er side o f

th e par tition: He listened , and th en a l oud

v oice said ,

Y ou may keep you r secret . to you rself .

I wou l d no t giveyou twop ence for it. E veryonewho arr ives h ere ,

"

h as“

a secret or a planin h is p ocket .

”

Wh at is theu se o f‘

sh outing l ike th atsaid ano th er v oiceu

And sil ence ensu ed , orat all events D ani el

h eard no more. Bu t it h ad been suffi

cient for h im . He rou sed Penguin, and

th ey gained th e m iserable attic‘

which was

to b e th eir bedro om .

The Canadian th rew h imself at once On

h is b ed , and a m inu te afterwards h is breath /

ing sh owed h e was asleep , , b u t D aniel tdokh is knife ou t o f his p ocket, a nd with i t h e

unripp ed part of h is tr ou sers seam ,

‘

and from

th e fol d dr ew ou t a p iece o f pap er wh ich he

b egan to read attentively.

It was Bastien M oreau’

s plan .

(To b e continued . )

We have rare good times always in sugarings eason, which is just com ing on now in my far‘

away h ome, and h ere am I, in b usy b lackLondon, where there are no sugar orchards at

al l .,I sh an

’t b e ab le to go to sugar camp this

year, that’

s certain sure, and so I’

ll just sit downand write out what I know ab ou t CoingSugaring

”for the b enefit o f poor E ngl ish b oys

in wh ose country grow no sugar maples . I

know they won’

t like me to cal l them poor

on this account, and very l ikely a good manyof themwill say, Well , if we haven

’

t got sugar

The g uy’s Own

(Paper .

G O I NG'

S d GARI NG fi ‘

maples we’

ve got lots of other th ings to make

up'

for themwh ich you haven’

t. 10

dcii’

t want

t o get into any argument, only I will say that

it does seem to me as if they are real poor”

not - to haveI

any sugar orch ards, and net to

knowany‘

oI

f the jel ly times we h ave, camping .

ou t in the woods sometimes for a whole month ,

and l iving most of th e time on the b est of candyand al l sorts of sweet th ings made from th e

maple syrup .

I b el ieve if I knew h ow to write ab out th em

al l, and tel l of th e cakes al l h o t off th e middle

with maple syrup poured over them, and o f the

delicious candies we make, _

I

and h ow,coming

into camp after gathering the sap amongst th e

b ig trees and snowdrifts, one is just as hungry .

as a b ear, and hungry for sugar al l the time— if

I knew h ow to write th is al l out properl y, I

fancy I cou ld make E ngl ish b oys’mou ths

water .

E very year ab out this time, a l ittle later

perhaps, we al l'

b egin to feel l ike it was sugaring

time— just as soon as th e frost b egins to give a

l ittle, and th e sun grows strong enough to start

the sap in th e t 1 ees. Then we get'

ou t th e sI

ap

b uckets and the taps, and take a day to wash

th em al l clean and to soak th em to keep th em

from leaking, b ecause they h ave b een put away

in the dry since last year . Wh en we have themal l ready we load them into the waggon and

start with the -cx-team for the"

orchard to tapthe trees.

Righ t b ack o f our housief wh ich is away up in

the New Hampshii e h il ls, in Mei rimac Co .

far away from Mount Wash ington, we have a

large sugar orchard wh ere we . tap ab out five

hundred0

trees every year . S ome o f them are

real old veterans, that have b een tapped regu

larly every year for more than fifty years, and

stil l they .yiel d good sap .

Hei e we have our camp .

'

Inthe midstof al lthe trees we have a range o f b uildings censistingo f a b o il ing

-h ouse,a place to store,

away wood ,and a

I

'

room to cat in, and .in ,wh ich'

we have

b unks fitted up for those to sleep in who stay in

the camp, and take turns in sets in b oiling th e

sap . It is a very snug and comfortab le place,

wh ere I’

ve had many a real good time.

I rememb er I was a l ittle scared at first to

sleep there, b ecause some o f th e b oys h ad told

me that b ears h ad b een seen in th e camp. O ne

b oy said that when h is f ather was’

at work at

our camp one year , h e was going out to th e

spi ing at nigh t to fetch water , wh en he saw a

b ig b lack b ear p i owl ing round . Th is made me

a l ittle scared at f ust wh en I u sed to sleepm

camp, and I hated to go out al one to fetch

water or to gath er sap, b u t I don’

t mind now.

I have never seen a b ear, although I know th at

they are seen sometimes in the neighb ourh ood .

Th e fir st th ing to b e donewh en wego sugaringis to tap th e trees . We go round

b

with taps,wh ich are just simp ly h o l lowwooden tub es, andb uckets to hang on to th em ; in each tree web ore a h ole with an augur, and drive in the tap,on wh ich we h ang th e

0

b ucket We general lyh ave to take an cx-team and a sled

, b ecause thesnow is deep in th e orch ard and we cannot getround wel l on wh eel s . O ne b oy h as charge ofth e team and anoth er general ly h elps the manwith the b uckets and

b

taps . Wh en th e treesare al l tapped we go b ack to camp, and b eginto get th e b oil ers i eady for the sap .

We have a row o f b oile1 s ranged up themiddle of the b oilei -h ouse

,one

0

ab ove theoth er , and al l connected with each other .

Undeineatli each we b u ild a la1 gewood fire, andkeep it going night and day al l the time we aresugaring . This

b

1 s no easy work , and it needsa good strong b oy to put th e wood under and

keep the fires going, for we b urn la1 ge l ogs andl im b s of trees just as mu ch as most b oys

0

wou ld

want to l ift,and I guess moi e than most London

b oys coul d manage.

It i s i eal hard work to sit up all nigh t b oil ingsap , and some b oys don

’

t l ike it a

c!

h it ; th eydon

’t mind eating the maple sugar and having

tne sy1 up on their b uckwh eat cakes, b ut theydon

’

t mu ch fancy keeping th e fl i es going al l

night ; and yet there’

s a good deal o f fun in

it. I’ve had some jol ly times ove1 it. I

i ememb er one yeai we had a man to h elp wh o

knew all ab out th e Ind ians, and h ad b een ou t

West hunting and t1 apping, and h e used to

tel l me ab out what h e had seen— ab ou t th e

griz z l ies and b u ffal oes, and ab ou t th e Comanch esand Utes, and h ow they would scalp .wh ite men

wh enever th ey cou l d get a ch ance. O h , it wasj ust fine to sit there 1 1 1 thc °s team of the b oiling

The goy’s Own (Paper .

W I L D A DV E NTUR E S R O U ND t r iti um-D O L E ;

OR, THE CRUISE or TH-E_ARRAND O ON.

(A SE QUE L TO"‘THE CRUIS E on THE ' s

'

NowmnD . ) 1

BY G ORD ON STABLE S , M . D .

,

CHAPTER XXII .— CAPTAIN COBB RETIP E S— MORE TO PPE DO ING— TIIE GRE AT ICE HO LE - S I TANGE SPORT— THE TERI‘ IBLE Z UGE NA— THE D EATH

O TH CaptainMcBain and S il as G rig fel tB'

more easy in th eir m inds wh en th eyh ad got fair ly r id o f th e green

- rooted

m onsters'

o f icebergs th at h ad lain so

p lacidly yet so th reateningly al ongside th eir

respectiv e sh ip s . And oh ! b y theway , h ow

v ery calm , h arm less, and gentle b ergs l ikethese can l ook, wh en th ere i s 1 1 0 d istu rbingel ement beneath th em , th eir snowclad

tops asl eep and glistening in th e sunligh t ;b u t I h ave seen th em angry , grinding and

Crash ing togeth er , each u ph eaval rep re

senting a h eigh t o f from fi f teen to thi rtyfeet , each uph eav al representing a strength

hydrau li c, equal in force to th em igh t o f th egreat o cean itsel f .

O ur h eroes . h ad taken tim e b y th e fore

i ock . Th ey h ad guncottoned th e bergs ,”as Cap tainCob b term ed it , and lay for the

t im e being 1 1 1 squ are ice- l o cked h ai b ou rs,and cou ld b id defiance to alm ost any o r

dinary o ccu rrence, wheth er gale o f wind

in th e p ack or swel l from th e d istant

sea.

As th e days ,went b y th e black fro st

seemed only to increase i nseverity .

“ How l ong d’

ye think,

”said Captain

Cobb , one m o rning , wh il e at breakfast intheArrando on— 4 “ h ow l ong d

’

ye th ink thi sstate o f afi

’

airs’

l l 'l ast ?’cau se, m ind

'

v e, I

begin to feel a kind o’r il ed already .

M cBain l o oked inqu iringly at S ilas .

“ I f it’

s asking m e you are, said th e

l atter ,“ I m akes answer and says, it may

STRUGGLE .

b e for m onth s, b ut it can’

t b e for

ever"

sap, b y th e side of th e roaring fires, and l istento h is stories . , O ne nigh t when h e h ad b eentell ing me ab out h ow the Indians scalp

'thewh ites, h e said , Bu b

,I wish you

’

d go across

and see if th e . b uckets are ful l‘

I guess we shal lh ave to send out and gath er th e sap first th ingin th e morning.

”I got up and went ou t

, b utI never felt so soared in al l my l ife. It

’

was . a

real dark nigh t, and the wind was making a

h ateful noise in'the trees .

-Before I”

h ad gonevery far

'

I stum b led against someth ing, and Ifelt ‘

as if som e one had struck me from b eh ind ;I had only tripped over the roots

, of an o l dmap le

-tree and struck my: head ,“

b u t -“

for th emoment I th ough t that it must b e an Indianb eh ind wh o was going to scalp me. I

"

tel l youI just put b ack to

'

the camp as fast as I could,

and h ow the rest of the fell ows did laugh atme

But I mu st go ou tell ing you ab out the

sugaring. Wh en our trees are all tapped , andwh en we have al l in readiness at th e b oil ingh ou se, sugaring b egins in real

'

earnest. As.

fastas th e b uckets fil l with th e sap , wh ich fl ows veryreadily in good seasons, wh en we get good _

sap'

weath er, col d nigh ts and warm days, we go roundand col lect it

'

in b arrels,and carry

' it to th eb oiling

-h ouse. It is just aswh iteand as clear asgood spring water, and is delicious to drink .

" Ith as a b eautiful sweetnesswhich is quite pecul iarto itsel f

,very refresh ingand exh ilarating: Then

wefil l the b oilers and the sugarin'

g process b egins .

We k eep the sap b oil ing al l th e time,and th e

water passes off in steam,leaving

'

b eh ind final lyin th e lowest o f the b oilers a thick syrup, wh ichwe cal l maple syrup , and wh ich Americans arevery fond of .

“

It tak es a great deal o f sap to make

ev ery l ittle syrup; and I guess you woul d thinkso . if .you had to keep fi l l ing the b oil ers with sap,

’

Bu t the fr o st isn’t -l ikely to go . for -a

week , is it now?

Th at it won’

t, wo rse lu ck,”was th e

‘

reply .

Wel l , then , gentlemen ,

“

said Cobb ,‘th is ch ild is going O ff , straigh t away ou t

0’h ere b ack to Jan Mayen .

”

Back to Jan /Mayen

Back to Jan Mayeu l”everybody said ,

or seem ed to say , in one breath . s

I reckon ye h eard'

aright,”

said the

im p ertu rb ab le Y ankee . 1

It’

s ju st l ike th is, ye see,” h e continued .

I’m p aid b y my emp loyers to m ake oh

ser vations on th e ol d island d own yonder

stopping h ere ain’

t taking sigh ts, b u t it’

s

taking th e comp any’

s do l lars f or noth ing ,

so‘

if you’

ll — eith er O’

ye— lend m e a h and

o r two , and p romise! to h oist up Cobb’s

cockle- sh el l in the ev ent o f a squ eez e Cob bhimsel f is o ff h om e,

’tain

’t m ore

’

n .fi ftymiles .

Th e jou rney was a dangerou s‘

one, no

body knew th at better th an th e bo ldAm erican h im sel f , and it was a tru e senseof du ty to h is emp l oyer s th at cau sed him

to undertake it . But h av ing once m ade uph is m ind to a thing , Cobb was not th e

'

m an

to b e deterred from accomp l ish ing it .

S o , with m any a gob d wish for h is safety ,

accomp anied b y. onl y._threefi;m en h e set ou t

on h is l ong jou rney'

over'

th'

e snowl'

Rery,

“

al l d epends upon th e weath er .

and if you saw the am ount of steamwh ich rises inthe b oil ing process.

The syrup may b e made intO sugar , b ut we do'

not general ly do th is at'

th ec amp .

’

We send th e‘

syrup in small kegs or demijohns up to the h ou se,and . the women folk mostly make the sugar .

They put the syrup-in pans on th e stove over th e

fire, and keep stirring it until it'

grains or turnsinto sugar, wh ich they put into al l sorts of sh apesand si z es ready for h omeuse or for market .Th e '

suga'

r season_

sometimes'

la‘

sts for a month

or six week s, and sometimes not hal f so long. It

S ometimes th e

sap fl owsvery fast and continuously,“

and then theseason is soon Over . S ometimes it fl ows veryslowly, and th ere wil l b e days when it will not .

flow at al l ; This .mak es th e season l ong and

tedious for grown'

f olks wh o do not care mu chab out th e fun of sugaring. Th ey are m ore

interested to get theWOl‘k done quickly, and get

th e syrup'

and sugar into market,if it is t o b e

sold, Or ready _

for h ome use.Ju st ab out th is time'

our‘

b Oys and girl s i n th ecities are anxiously watch ing the grocers

’

stores

for the first maple sugar of‘

the season. I wislrI coul d send -

you . al l a. Sample of it, so that youwould know for yourselves h owgood it is b u t

you may take my word for it b eing just th esweetest and nicest o f al l

, sw_

eet and nice th ings.sold in -caii dy stores, as you cal lthem in th is

'

country,‘

and you may al so b el ieve

_

me th at to spend a’

wee‘k or two in a sugar camp

in the sugaring season is ar eal .pleasant outing,especially if there is a man there wh o knows albab out -Indians and

'

scouting and hunting on th e.

plains.” I cou ld tel l jyowa

,

wh ole lot ab out h owwe l ive iand do in the United S tates if I hadmore space at command.

from th e deck . O i the ,Arrandqon ,

_

andiMcBain from th e nest , watch ed th em as

,

“

l ong as they were in sight .~ Indeed , I am z

not at all Su re th at Ro ry di d not feel'

a

l ittle sorry h e h ad not asked l eave to

accompany th em , so fond ,was h e o f advenftu re in every sh ap e and form .

I t Was a relief for h im — and not for h im;al one— wh en McBain,

in o rder to break them onotony o f ex ist-ence, and

‘

b y Way o fdo ing som eth ing ,

«

propo sed'trying th e:

effects o f h is torpedoes again «at some,d is

tance from th e sh ip , and form ing a great .

ice-h o le. g»

” Thingskwil l come u p to b reath e and

look abou t th em , you know ,

” h e exp lained ,“and th en we m ay get som e sp or t, and

S ilas m ay b ag a seal o r two .

”

O ur'

h er oes were over joyed wh en th e

working p arty was call ed away . At lastf

th ere was a pro spect o f doing someth ing ,

and seeing an anim al o f som e kind ,for: not

only th e'

b ears, b u t‘

th e v ery birds h ad :deserted th em .

-S om etim es,. indeed , a'

s_o l i

tary s-nowb ird wou l d com e flying ar ound

the sh ip s. It wou l d h o ver fo r » awh il e in ,

the air , giving v ent » to many ,a p eevi sh , ,

m ou rnful chi rp , th en fly away again .

No , no , no it seemed to_

say , th ere

is nOth ing go od to eat down ther'

e— eno r aw

fl esh -

, n o b l o od— and so I’m fo ff again to

the distant seal ing-

gr ound , wh ere th e

yel low b ear p rowl s, and th e. snow is red

with“ blood .

”

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w asn’t m u ch wind , b ut a nasty

'

ru'

m b let um b le sea t here was no doub t, gentlemen ,

from'

th e l o oks 0 ’th at sea, th at we h ad ju st

come th rou gh a gal e 0’ “

w ind , and therewas evidence enough to go to jury on th atth ere was ano th er no t far

,Well ',

'itwas ju st in th e du sk o

’

th e evening—we

were p retty far sou th f-th at . th e

_cry got up ,

M an overb oard .

I twas our b o’

s’

n’s b oy ; a lad

'

_ o f fo-u rteen , wh o h ad g one b y the run . ; S ingin

’

gou t to th e m ate t o lay to, I ran fo rward , andif ev er

‘

I 'f orget th e expression o f‘

the p oo rb o

’

s’n’s face as h ew r ung h is hand s

“

and criedO h ,

‘

save‘m y laddie I .O h , save m y ladd ie I

’

m y nam e wil l ch ange“

to someth ing elsethan S ilas .

I‘

l l save'

h im ,

’cr ied a voice behind m e.

S ome one-:r u sh ed p ast; Th ere was a s p lash

in th eWater next m om ent,and 'I h ad barely

time_

to seeit -

wiis -S andy. Befo re th e b oatreach ed th e spot th ey were

-,a qu arter “

o f'

a

m il e a_

stern, b u t .th ey were saved theyf ound th e b o

’s’n’

s lad-die r iding Cookertyrcoosie

’

on Sandy’

s sh oul der , and S andy sp it

ting xou tj th e.m ou th ful s o f sal t water , lau gh ingand crying ,

"I’ve

'

wvon th e breeks ! I’

ve won th e‘

canvas

b reek s, . b oys IHe h ad

'

l

won t h em , and th at r igh t 1 1 0n to o .

Well,after h e h ad w orn t h em fo r ov er a m onth , it

becam e painf ully evident even to S andy th at theyso rely needed wash ing ; is .m e ! S andywas to o

‘

laz y’

to . pu t ,a h and to . them . Bu t

’

hethou gh t o f . a p lan ,

neverth eless, to'

He steep ed them in a_soda l ey , attach ed a strong

line to them , and p itch ed th em overboard to tow .

S eth sp rang to h is f eet.

When, after two h ours’towing , S andy

went to hau l th em up , great was h isastonishment to find a .great h amm er -h eadsp ring h al f ou t o f th e water and sei z e th em.

Sandy had never seen,so awful a m onster

before ; h e pu t it down'

as an evil spirit. ‘

Let go ,’h e roared ;

‘ let go my breeks,ye beast . ’Now,

’

m aybe, with th o se h ooked teetho f h is, th e sh ark Cou l d no t let gq

'

; anyh ow,

he did no t .‘ I dinna ' ken wh o ye

“

are, o r wh'

at yeare,

’cried S andy, b u t ye

’

l l no get'

mybreeks . Ah b ide a wee.

’

Luckily th e d o lph in- striker lay handy ,

S andy m ade a grab at it , and next m inu teit was hard and fast in .the h ammer -h ead

’

s

neck . To see h owth at. m onster wriggledand fou gh t , _

m ore l ike a fiend than a'fi sh

wh en w e go t h im on d eck, woul d haveb u t lo o

‘

k—‘

lo ok j

S eth h ad not been idle_wh ile h is com

,panions Were talking“

. He h ad ’

cut o ffch o icepieces of ,

b lub b er and th rown theminto the sea ; h e

'

h ad coiled h is r ope'

on‘

the

ice“

clo se b y ; . th en , h arp oon

.knel t ready to str ike ,_

Noalong to wait . Th e b ait to oktaken , th e h arp oon ,

h ad l eft

h and and gone d eep into i.b odyfi u

I will not attempt to descith at (fo l lowed— it was a ;.dea

no.

p en cou ld do ju stices truggle o f the giant sh ark ,

h is m ad and frantic m b tionto death on

‘

th e ice,and

’

his te

_ance

,as h e snapped h is dres

everyth ing with in'

reach ; bfact, strange and

"

weird th e

.read w full y h al f an hou r afte‘

seem ed dead , arid lying“

on iour .h ero es stood silently rc

th e . wild birds wh eeling ; ai

closely overh ead ,

“

the z ugath rew itsel f on its

‘

stomach'

a

swim 'away ."It

“

was the lastand

,

a mere spasm'

o‘

d icone, th ough very di stressing

1 1 0 1 1 1 1

THE h eart shoul d ever treasure most

The place where we were b orn

In l ife’s advancing eventide

We miss its early morn

O ur b oyh ood’

s h ome h ow oft in’

dreams

I'Ve seeth e old , o ld place,

And ev’

ry-wel l rememb er

’

d nook“

In fancy love to trace

Not al l the charms of oth erlands,However b righ t they

'

seem ,

Wil l b ring you hal f thejoy you -feel

Wh ene’

er o f h ome you dream

. Take h eed no act of yours may b ring

The canker of disgrace

Around th ose dear , dear forms ivh o fi ll

5That'

b lest and holy place

v

WVh en doub tful pleasures lure you on

From h onour’

s path to roam’

,

Th ink not of wh at the world will say,

But wh at they’

l l f eel at h ome

LEW IS NovnA .

BALLO ONS AND'

ALL ABOUT;

THEM.

BY A PROFE SSIONAL 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 11 r AND BALLOONMAKE R.

PAPT I I .

Y rel ative, experienced aeronaut though h ewas, m anifested signs of anxiety as to th e

safety o f 0 1 1 1 descent ; for we h ad for some time

past commenced descending b y letting ou t th e

gas from the valve at theo

top of the b al loon,

b ut th e nearer we approach ed the earth .th ed ense1 b ecame the fog, wh ile the shades ofevening warned u s that the descent was an

impe1 ative necessity.

“ Hoping to al igh t in th eopen countrywe let fal l the gi apnel , wh ich veryspeedily caught h ol d of something wh ich check edo ur progress. Unlucki ly th is so meth ing provedto b e a tree, and no t the earth

, as we had, o fcourse, h oped it wou ld b e.

“ Charl ie, said Mr. Green, th ere is onlyone th ing to b e done, and that I S for you to getd own and release th e grapnel from th e t1 ee

,

and ascertain if you can h ow fa1 we are f 1 om th e

open ,

‘

for if th e net gets entangl ed with the

b ough s we sh all b eb

-,

l ost and th e b all oonspoiled .

To m e, wel l versed as I was in al l kinds of

gymnastics, it was a m atter o f l ittle difficul ty.

to descend th e rope wh ich connected us in somevay with th e ear th so putting anothe1 stou t

cord onmy sh oul der I went down“

hand over

hand until I found myself m a large elm-tree,

and as the fog h ad risen considel a'

b ly ab ove th e

earth I was ab le to mak e out our whereab outs .

We were‘

in th e middle of a th ickly wooded

park , th ough ab out 200 yards to the east, in

th e direction in wh ich we h ad drifted , I cou l dsee a large open space em inently fitted for thedescent . I call ed out th is information, ch eerilyadding that there was no feai of the net b eingb roken this time. Th en I quickly disengagedth e grapnel , up onwh ich th e b al loon sprang up

gaily into the air,and next prepared to mak e

my own descent from the tree b y m eans of th e

cord with wh ich I h ad prov ided mysel f . No

sooner had my feet tou ched the ground than Ifel t mysel f i oughly seiz ed b y two m en, whob ound my arms b ehind me in a j iffy '

and at once

commenced to 1 ateme sound ly .

Ah . said th e el del man,savagely,

“ we’

ve

caugh t you at last, you rascal , h ave we ? S o

The 8 037’s O wn

(Paper .

many m ore

step to . my

(To b e continu ed . )

THE GRY PIOGRAM,

OR, E IGHT HUNDRED LEAGUES ON

THE AMAZ ON.

(A S E QUEL TO "‘ THE G IANT

BY JULE S VE RNE,

Au thor b f“ The Boy Cap tain, etc” etc.

QAI’TE R X IX .-THE CRIME O F TIJUCO .

you’

r

ze,

the ch ap as steals ourgovernor’s pheasants,

is -it‘

j‘ Y es

, grinned th e o th er,

and it’

s with a

net as you takes’em , just as I 'th ough t We

’

llsee wh at th e squire

’

l l say to you now

f‘But , my good friends,

”I ob served

,

“

youhave made a m istak e. I

’

m not a poach er, b uth ave just come down from a b al loon

,and shal l

b e v ery mu ch ob l iged to you i f you will h el p m e

to secure it wh en it descends again, as it will,

away from the trees .

”

“ Ha ! h a ! h a ! Ho ! h o ! h o ! roared . mycaptors,

“ that won’

t do for us, young master. .

Th ere ain’

t no b’loon up that th ere tree ; b ut

what th ere is th ere is your pal with thenot what

you catch es the pheasants with ; and ,”raising

h is voice,“ “ h e may as wel l come down at once,

’

cos we means nab b ing h im now we knowswh ere h e is.

”

S ome passing lab ourers were h ail ed sandstationed round

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th e tree'

to await_th e descent of

th e other poacher,”wh ile I, wh ose remon

strances ; were of no avail was b u ried up tothe h ou se,

”wh erein ,sat on h is chair of s tate,

th e redoub tab le squ ire, to wh om_the domain

b el onged, and1 wh ose ph easants _I was accused

of steal ing. Again I to l d the story o f theb al loon. The old

"

gentleman regarded me 1withstern dignity, and w agging h is , finger a t mesdl emnly inqu ired o f th e

wh eth er h ad ; seen any . b al loon.,Upon

receiving a reply i n_

.the negative he assumed .

h is.mostmagisterial demeanour .

Y oung man,”h e said

,

“ it'

is sad'

indeed tofind a person of edu cation in

, ,ygu r u nfortunatep osition. Y our tale of h aving come down ina

b al loon is as'

audaciousas it_isjii dicu l ous . No

b al loon was seen .b y my se'

f valnts;-

g,and‘

you were

engaged m e to write a practical treatise, not to

prattle ab out my adventures,so I wil l setmysel f

seriously to work at once and wil l b egin b yshowing in a fewwords wh at a b al loon is not.In-th e first place, a b al l o on is m ost certainly

not what it is sometimes erroneou sly cal led— . a

flyingmach ine. Upon th e su b ject o f aerial fl igh tI -h ope, to h aveth e opportunity o f writing on a

future o ccasion. Al l I wil l say now is th at one

m igh t as wel l compare the gracefu l swimm ing of

MissBeckwith or CaptainWeb b with th e aim less

fl oating of a dead dog, as to pretend th at the

h elpless drif ting of a b al l'

oon_

h as anyth ing in

comm on with the-as yet only partial ly aecom

pl ish ed science of,aerial fligh t. What th en is

’

a b al loon, and h ow is’

it constructed

A b al loon for carrying passengers consists o f

a ._

certain numb er of gores cut in such a form

that when th ey are. .sewn together th ey—form a

perf ect sphere, .the l ower part or neck b eingel ongated , which gives a pear

-sh aped appearance.

”

This el ongation at th e neck -ismade in order to

al low the gas to -pass freel y into,th e b al loon

during inflation. O n the top is placed a valve,wh ich is a circu lar doub le .door comp osed o f two

sem icircles.

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To each of‘

these semicircular

openings is attach ed a l ine, wh ich, meeting a

l ittle lower down, form one l ine, wh ich passes

through the -centre of th e'

b al loon, and comes out

at the neck ; so that wh en th e aeronau t desires:to descend h e lets out

‘

th e gas b y pu lling t heh ue. Th e

.

doors openinwards and cl ose‘

them

zil

t

v

eis b y means o f

“

springs . with wh ich they are

e

The b al loon itself is composed of .very fragilematerial s . It is merely a. gas-h older, and isnowadays almost invariab lymade of fine camb ricwel l

_

varnished . Silk was th e first-used material ,b ut 1 t is a needless expen

‘

se.

‘Thus it will :b eseen th at

.

the b alloon itsel f h as’

practical lygnos trength m it wh atever .

«All th e“

space, h owever

,and the pressure o f th e gas, is h el d in b y a

netting, wh ich covers the wh o le of . th e b al loon,_

to wh ich it is fi tted -exactly,“

b eing shaped f rbm.the original pattern gore o f th e

“

b al loon itselft o ; b e fu lly descr ib ed h ereafter. f.Ju st b elow th e neck of the b al loon is a HO O P,

N th e arrival o f th e“judge

fu l p r ocession h alted . .A r o aring ech o

h ad r epeated after h im and again rep eated

th e cry wh ich escap ed _

from every m ou th .

“

I nnocent I Innocent I

Th en.

com pl ete silence fel l :ou a l l . Th e

peop le d id not want to l o se one syl lable o fwh at was ab ou t to b e p roclaim ed .

Judge Jarriqu ez sat down on a stone seat,and t h en, Wh ile Minh a, Benito , Mano el ,and Frago so sto od r ound h im , wh il e JoamD aco sta clasped Y aquita to h is h eart , h efir st

,unravel led th e last p aragraph o f th e

document b y means o f th e num b er , and as

th e wo rd s appeared b y th e institu tion o f

th e tru e letters for th e cryp to l ogical ones ,b e d ivided and p unctuated th em , and th en

read it out in a lou d voice. And thi s is

wh at h e read in the mid st

i lence

o f p ro found l

The di oy’s Own Taper.

hi s accom p l ices , and thu s it was that th esolitary so l dier wh o survived th e massacre

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The real"

au th or of th e robbery “

of th e

diamonds and o f th e m urder of th e soldiers

wh o escorted the convoy , committed du r ingth e nigh t of th e twenty

- second of Janu ary ,one th ou sand . eigh t h undred and twentysix , was thu s not Joam D aco sta, unju stlycondemned to death ; it was I , th e wretch ed

servant o f th e Adm inistration o f th e di a

mond district , yes, I alone , wh o sign th is

with my tru e nam e, O rtega .

”

Th e reading of th is h ad h ard ly finish ed

wh en th e air was rent with prol ongedhu rrah s .

Wh at cou l d b em ore conclu sive th an this

last pai agraph , wh ich summarised th e

wh ole o f th e d ocum ent , and pro claimed so

abso lu tely th e innocence o f th e faz ender o f

Iquitos , and wh ich snatched from th e gal

l ows thi s victim o f a frigh tful judicial .m i s

take !Joam D acosta, su rrounded b y h is wi fe,

h is children , and h is f riend s, was unable tosh ake th e h ands which were h el d ou t to

h im . S uch was th e strength o f h is ch aracter ,that a reaction o ccu rred , tears o f joy es

caped from h is eyes, and at th e sam e in

stant h is h eart was . l ifted up to th at

Providence wh ich h ad come to save him so

m iracu lously at th e m om ent h e was abou tto offer th e last expiation to th at G od wh o

w ou l d not p erm it th e accompl ishm ent o f

th at greatest o f crimes, th e death of an

innocent man !

Y es ! Th ere coul d b e no doubt as to th ev indication o f Joam D aco sta. Th e tru e

au th or of th e crim e o f Tiju co confessed o f

h is own free will,and describ ed th e cir

cum stances under wh ich it h ad been perp etrated I

By m eans o f the number Ju dge Jarriqu ezinterpreted the wh o le o f th e oryp togram .

And th is was wh at O rtega confessed .

He h ad b een th e coll eague o f J0 am D a

co sta, emp loyed , h ke h im , at Tijuco , in th e

o ffi ces o f th e governor o f the di amondarrayal . He h ad been th e o ffi cial app ointedt o accomp any th e conv oy to Rio de Janei r o ,and , far f rom reco iling at th e h orrib leidea o f enrich ing h im sel f b y means o f mu r

dei and r ob b ery , h e h ad informed th e smu gglers o f th e very day th e convoy was to

l eav e Tiju co .

D u ring th e attack o f th e scoundrel s wh oawaited th e conv oy ju st b eyond Vil l a Rica,h e pretended to d efend h im self with th esol dier s of th e escor t, and th en , fal lingamongst th e dead , h e was carried away b y

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4 3 34-32 5 1 3

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spp 3 22 277221 .

had rep or ted th at . O rtega h ad perish ed inthe struggle

Bu t th e lr ob b ery .

did‘no t p rofit“ th e gu iltym an in th e l ong run, for a little time after

wards h e was r o b b ed b y th o se wh om h e

h ad h elp ed to comm it th e crim e.

Pennil ess , and un able to enter‘

Tijucoagain , O rtega fl ed away to th e p rov inces in

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the north of Braz il , to th o se di stricts o f theUpp er Am az on wh ere th e .

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capi'

taes d e

m ato are t o b e found . He h ad to l iv e

someh ow , and so h e j oined_

th is not v eryh onou rab le company ; th ey neith er asked

him wh o h e'was nor wh ence h e cam e, and so

O r tega became a captain of th ewo ods, andfor m any years h e foll owed th e trade o f ach aser of m en .

D uring this time Torres , the adventurer ,h im sel f in ab so lute want , b ecame h is com

panion . O rtega and h e becam e .m o st inti

m ate. Bu t , as h e had to ld Torres , r em o r se

began gradually to troubl e th e scoundreli s

l ife . Th e remembrance o f h i s crim e

became h orrible to h im . He knew th at

anoth er h ad b een condem ned in h is‘

p lace IHe . knew su b sequently th at the innocent

m an h ad escap ed from th e last p enalty, b u t

th at h e .wou l d never b e free fr om th e

sh adow o f h is capital s entence I~ And th en,

dur ing an exp edition o f hi s party for

sev eral m onth s beyond th e Pei uvian fr ontier , ch ance cau sed O rtega to v isit the

neighbou rh ood o f Iqu itos, and th em in

Joam .Garral , wh o d id no t recognise h im , h e

recognised Joam D acosta .

Henceforth h e resolved to

v

m ake al l th ereparation h e coul d for the inju stice o f

,

wh ich h is o l d com rade h ad b een the‘

v ictim .

He commi tted to th e d ocum ent all thefacts

rel ative to th e cr im e'

o f T1 ]u co , w riting it

fi r st in .French , wh ich h ad been h is m oth er’

s

nativ e tongu e, and th en p utting it into

th emysteriou s form we know, h is intention

b eing to . transmit it to th e . faz ender o f

I quitos with th e ciph er b ywhi ch it coul d b e

rea

D eath p rev ented h is comp leting h is

w0 1 k o f reparation . M o r tal ly wounded in

a scufliew ith some negro es on th eMadeira,O rtega felt h e was d o omed . His com rade

Tor res was th en with h im . He th ough t h e

cou ld entru st to h is friend th e secretwh ichh ad so gr

'

iev ou sly. darkened h is l ife. He

gave h im th e ' d o cum ent , and m ad e h im

swear to conv ey it to Jo am D aco sta,wh o se

nam e and add ress h e gave h im , and w ith

h is l ast b reath h e wh isp ered th e number

4 32 5 1 3, with ou twhich th e document wou l dremain undeciph erab le .

O rtega d'

ead ,we know h ow th e Lunwo rth yTorres acqui tted h im sel f o f h is m issi on , h ow

b e reso lved to tu rn to h is own p rofi t th e

secret o f wh ich h e was th e p ossessor , and

h ow h e tried to m ake it the su b ject o f an

odiou s bargain .

Torres died with ou t accomp l ish ing h iswork,

and carried h is secret with . h im .

Bu t the nam e o f O r tega ,b rou gh t back b y

Frago so , and wh ich was the signature

o f th e d ocum ent , h ad afforded the m eans

o f unravel ling th e cryp togram ,th anks .to

th e’

sagacity

o

o f Ju dge Jarriqu ez . Y es,

th e m ateria l p ro of sou gh t after f or so l ongwas th e inco

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ntestabl e witnes s o f th e innocence o f Jcam D acosta, retur ned to l ife, re

stored to h onou r .

The ch eers redoubl ed wh en th e wo rthym agistrate, in a l ou d v oice and for th e

edification o f al l , read from th e docum ent

th is terrib l e h istory .

And f rom that m om ent Judge Jarriquez ,wh o p ossessed thi s indu b itab le p ro o f , ar

ranged with th e ch ief o f th e p o lice, and

declined to al low Joam D aco sta , wh ile

waiting new instru ctions from Rio Janei roto stay in any p rison b ut h is own h ou se.

Th ere cou l d b e no difficul ty ab ou t th is ,and in th e c entre o f th e cr owd o f th e entire

p opu lation s o f Manaos , J0 am D aco sta , ao

companied b y al l h is family , b eh el d h im

sel f condu cted like a conqu eror to the

m agistrate’

s residence.

And in: th at m inu te th e h onest faz ender'oi IIqu itos was wel l rep aid fo r all that h e

had su ffered du ring th e l ong year s o f ex ile,and if hewas . happy for h is fam ily

’s sake

more th an for. hi s own , h e was none th e

less pr oud for h is country’s sake th at th is

suprem e injustice h ad not been consum

mated !An d inal l th is wh at h ad b ecome of

Frago so .

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P

Wel l , th e go od-h earted fell ow was .

covered with caresses ! Benito , Manoel ,

and'

M inh a h ad overwh elm ed h im,and

Lina h ad_

b y no m eans sp ared him . He

did not know wh at to do , h e defended

h imsel f as best h e cou l d . He d id not

deserve anyth ing l ike it . Chance al one

had done it . Were any th anks du e to h imfor h av ing recognised Torres as a cap tain

o f th e wo od s No , cer tainly not . A s for

h is idea o f hu rrying o ff in search o f th e‘

“

b and to wh ich -To rres h ad b el onged , h e d id

not th ink it h ad -been worth m u ch , and as .

to th e name o f O rtega, h e did not even

know its v alu e.

Gall ant Fragoso .

I Wh eth er. hewish ed it0 1 no

’

h e h ad none th e less saved Joam

D aco sta !

And h erein wh at a strange su ccession o f

different ev ents all tending to th e sam e end .

Th e del iverance o f Fragoso at th e tim e

wh en h e was dying o f exh au stion in th e

forest of I qu ito s th e h o spitab le r ecep tion

h e h ad met With at th e faz enda , th e m eet

ing with To rres on th e Braz ilian frontier ,h is em b arkation on th e j angad_ ;a and lastly ,

th e fact th at Fragoso h ad seen h im some

wh ere b efo re .

Wel l , yes Fragoso ended b y ex

claim ing ;“ b ut it is

0

not to m e th at all

th is h app iness is du e, it i s du e to Lina !

To m e ? rep l ied th e young mul atto .

No do ubt o f it . With ou t th e l iana ,

with ou t th e idea o f the l iana, coul d I ev er

h av e b een th e cau se o f so mu ch h appiness9 ”

S o that F ragoso and Lina we1 e p raised

and p etted b y al l th e fam ily ,and b y al l th e

new friend s wh om so m any trial s h ad

p ro cu red th em at M anao s, need h ardly he

insisted on .

The 8 037’s Own Taper.

dar r idu e z a t rest at last .

b een able to read th e do cument , wh ichwas ab so lu tely undeciph erable to any one

wh o h ad no t go t th e key ,h ad h e no t at

any rate d iscovered the system on wh ich- th e cryptog ram was com po sed ? With ou tTh im wh at cou l d h ave b een d one with only1 he name o f O r tega to reconstitu te th e

n um ber wh ich th e au th or o f th e crim e andT o rres , bo th . o i Wh om were dead

, al one’knew

And

t hanks .

Need less to say th at th e same day th erew as sent to Rio de Jamei ro a detailed repo rt-o f th e wh o le affair , and w ith it the or ig inald ocum ent and th e ciph er to enableit to b eread . New instru ctions from th e M inister

so h e al so received abundant

o f Ju stice h ad to b e waited for , th ou gh _

th ere cou ld b e no d ou bt th at th ey wou ldo rder th e imm ed iate d isch arge of th e p r i

soner . A few d ays w ou ld th u s h ave to b ep assed at M anaos , and th en Joam D aco sta.and h is

, p eop le, free from all ,constraint andr eleased from al l appreh ension , wou ld take

.

l eave o f th eir h o st to go on bo ard once

:m o re and continu e . th eir descent o f the

.Am az on to‘

Para, wh ere th e v oyage was

i ntended to term inate w ith th e d ou b lem arr iage o f M inh-a and Manoel and Linaa nd Frago so .

that o f O rtega, wh o had been formerlyemp loyed in the d iamond d istr ict, and

th ere cou ld b e no -dou bt th at th e confessiono f h is cr ime, w ith th e m inu test details th atwere g iven , had been entirely wr itten w ithh is own h and .

The innocence o f th e convict o f Vil laRica was at length adm itted . Th e re

(To b e continued . )

RUGBY FO OTBALL, AND H

EXCEL IN IT.

“

BY -DRJ'

IRY I-NTE,firms S cor r

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rsn_C,

o ffi cial ly proclaim ed .

That very day Ju dge Jarriq 1 .e z d ined

w ith th e fam ily on board th e g ian t r aft,and wh en evening cam e h e sh o ok h andsw ith th em al l . Tou ch ing were th e ad ieu s ,b ut an engagem ent was m ade fo r th em to

see h im again on their retu rn at Manaos ,

and later on at th e fa z enda o f Iqu ito s .

O n th e m orn ing o f th e ino r row , th e fi ftho f S eptember , th e signal fo r departu re wasgiven . J oam D aco sta -and Y aqu ita, w ithth eir dau gh ter. and sons, were on th e decko f the enorm ou s raft . Th e jangada h adits m oor ings

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slackened o ff and began to

m o ve w ith th e cur rent, and wh en it d isappeared i ound th e bend o f th e Rio Negro ,

th e h urrah s o f th e wh o le popu latio n o f

Manao s, wh o were assem bled on th e bank ,again and again re-ech oed across th e

stream .

To uch . its u se. and abu se.—

. T1

th e tou ch i s evident. Its primary u seto bound the field . of play, and al l

uses to_vVhicl1 it ,

can b e p 1'

itl

i r

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1 tooth

havegradually been “

developed as

has been more studied and scientificalI need not recapitulate th e laws 1

touch . Y ou will find th em ih' “

any c<

laws of Rugby .Football . The“

essent

in touch 1 s th is, th at the ball mu st 11‘back to b e sent into the field of plathe spot atwh ich it oi ossed th e line ar

left th e field o f play. That_means

.

time'

the'ball ent‘

eistouch ‘

th e game 1

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fi1 r .a longer or Shel-tel t1me,a

_cc

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ord i

d istance it h as gone into touch , to a

"the sides have time to range up againgam e b egins afresh . A l ittle_

_

conside:showgthe 1 advantages and , th e disadv

th is" In a d 1 ibble,

“

aloose $0 1 ummade'

it will b e read ily seenwhat .anuisancto the attackingpai ty, aridwhat a 1 e

defending: The b al_ ,l if loose, thecarrying

o

,the ball, m ust no t CI O S _

S'

, I

nc

0 1 1. the to uch line, or the career'

ot

abr uptly 1 1

I Wi ll give a broad 1 1 1_

lé.

'Keep t]of

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tench whenmak ing any 1 aid into“

h ents" counti y

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f Cha1 go th e b all i“

when yo ur opponents are making“

a

yo ur oouut 1 y. , Speak ing, not from tl.view o f one side or other

, b ut-from

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t

Vi ew o f spectat‘

ors, _

and lovers o f pre

wou ld say that th e less th e ,ball goes

the better, in th e l oose_

i‘

orward play;use of touch by th e kickers, wh ich 1 1 1 9:

solely th e backs,that attach es to i

_

interest . Y ou wil l see the whole l enground gained step by stepwith the 1 1cei tainty and p i ecision by backs

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h ow i t) drop into touch properly.

shou ld b e_k icked at such an angle

will b e plenty o t time {0 1 the k icke1to get up to the spo t before the op

have time to bring the . ball th ere a n

into the field of play.

'Time after tinb e repeated , unless . th e opposite par‘the b all, and prevent the subtle backssu ing th is plan.

’ Th is is the'

way it iis worth , a d iag1d otted lines repcourse o f the

k icks o f the'

b ad

th e black l inesball th 1 0wn

_ou t

and pa'ssed.

backcourse th is 1 s an 5“

b u t it representspens in actual f

with th is d ifl '

eren’

actual experienc1

a r. somewhere, 1

b e reckoned withnot w0 1 tl1

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l 1 is sah

not only thwartsnot always, b utt 1 eats h im to so

own m edicine.

tacking side thu se touching t<

They may alsoanother puipose,close to th eirgoal to

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chance to take long throws out in h eand so drop at goal , 0 1 rush in b eh im

(To b e continued .)

’

h is acquaint.

ance by inscribing on a tea

ch est the.

words “ Tug

doces .

”

It was some time before theyfound out the wit of th is in th eliteral translation “ Thouteach est (Th ou tea-chest).

“ That’s a very h ard case,

as the Irishman said when h e

h it h is friend on th e h ead.

I’

ve just looked in to see ifyou are doing well,” as the cook said .to th elobster,‘ when she lifted up the saucepan l id.

Boy, wh at is your name'

2” Robert, sir .

Y es, that is your Christian name ; b ut what isyour other name ?” Bob, sir .

”

The goy'

s own i’apef .

THE ILL-US ED BO Y ; O R,LAWRENCE HARTLEY

’

S GR-IEVANCE S . .

BY Mes. E ILOART, Au rnon or“ JACK AND JOHN, E TC.

CHAPTER X XVI .— HOW THE PISTO L wmir orF, AND THE M I SCHIE F IT 1 1 1 1 1 .

HAVE om itted to saythat Ted and Robertw er e a s s i s t ing ”

w ith great relish at

th e punishment o f

th e burglar , th at is'

to say , th ey were

lo oking onwith th eirh ands in th eir pockets, th e form er saying every now and

t h en A li t t l eh igh er . A littlelower . He

’

s veryh ar d to p l ea se,D ick whil e Ro

bert , after a wh i le, asked if h e h adn’t abou t

enough , and th at, b ad as th e fellow was,h e wou ld b e none the b etter . for h avingh is legs broken .

“.O h , th ere’s no fear ab ou t . h is b ones ,

”

said D ick, ‘ f b is trou sers are a deal_to o

th ick for that ; b u t I don’t think th ere’ll b emu ch du st ‘ left in th em after th is.

Thu s it h appened th at Lawrence foundth e dining-room deser ted wh en h e wentin ; b u t h ear ing th e no ise in th e inner h all ,went ou t th ere,and cau gh t a hu rr iedgl im p seof th e pr oceedings. Th en it seem ed to h im

th at as one bu rglar h ad fallen th rough th eskyligh t th ere m igh t b e ano ther up abo veon th e leads . S h oul d h e go back to h isuncle’s room and reconno itre from th e

window , instead o f from th e dining- room

as h e h ad at fir st intended ? Th e gardem

doorwas shu t . Ted and Robert, o f cou r se, .

h ad been anxiou s to accom pany Mr . Har t

l ey in h is search , b u t this h e h ad refused ,and sh u t th e do or beh ind h im to give em

ph asis to his refusal . Lawrence h eard

som eth ing being said abou t th e'

policem en

com ing , and concluded th at h is . uncle and

Mr . S am pson h ad gone to lo ok for th em , so

th at h e considered h e h ad th e coast to h imself

,and Splendi d oppor tun ities o f displa r

ing h is prowess and h is pisto l .I ’ll go u pstair s,” h e th b u g'

h t . I sh allh ave a better v iew o f th e garden

'

even ifnone o f th e rascals are on th e leads . IfI’

ve only lu ck I sh all h ave h alf done '

the:

po licemen’

s Wo rk before th ey come.”

A little b oy pu t a ligh ted match into a nearlyempty powde1 keg to

b

seewhat wou ld happen.

He will not do so again, as h is curiosity is satisfied b ut the girl wh o sits next h im in sch oolth inks he looked better with h is nose 0 1 1 .AWord to theWise .

A Kee'

p so'

.

Sydney Smith ’s reply. to th e beautifu l girlwho complained , “ O h , Mr. Sy ,

dney th is peawill never come to perfection l” Th en perm i tme to lead perfection to the pea

4 is in i ts

style perfect.Upon a couple of talkers Th ere is th e

same d ifference b etween their tongues as b e

tween th e h our and th e m inute hand one goesten times as fast, and the other signifies tentimes as much .

Why 1 s it that you and I.

mu stnever “dine togeth er —

.BecauseU can never come until after

T .

wants a mate.

Why does a duck put its h eadunder Water For d ivei s l ea

sons .

Why sh ou ld railway. ti av el lei sinvariably avoid th e 1 2 . 50 train— Because it wou1 d b e 1 0 to 1 ifth ey caugh t it.Why are fowls th e most eco

nomical th ings farmers keep 22Becau se for every grain of com

thayb0five a peek .

Why IS a th ief in a geri et likean h onest man — Becau se h e is

.above doing wrong.

What word of seven letters will read the samebackwards ‘

.Z— REVIVER.

Wh en is a'

fish fit for a lunatic asylumWh en it is in S eine.

He h ad no fear for h imself.’p isto l and th e skill h e considered 'h e h adn ow acqu ired in u sing it, h e felt h imself am atch f or .any bu rglar . Upstairs hewenta gain , o pened one o f t h e W indows, and

p eered

All was quiet b u t th e vo ice o f th e b u r

g lar , wh o was su ppor ting h imself by h ish and s on th e fram ework o f th e skyligh t,and trying desperately to force h is legsf rom his assailants below. Th e n igh t wasc lou dy, b u t now and th en th e m oon gavel igh t, and Lawrence th ou gh t once: wh en

sh e d id so that h e cou ld perceive two -figures

m oving abou t in th e d istance. HeWas notmi staken— th ey

‘

were h is uncle '

and M r .

S ampson . Pr esently th e bu rg lar pau sed inh is vo ciferations for sh eer lack o f breath ,

and Lawrencewas certain th at h e '

h eard ;

I’

v e go t h im co vered nicely. Here goes

f or th e tal l one .I

He fi red ,and down “ th e tall one

d r o pped prone on‘

th e grOund like a dyingm an ,

and a vo ice th at sounded terr ibly,'

.h orr ibly fam il iar 1 n Lawrence’s ear ,groaned'o u t ,

“ S ampson , lo ok to your sel f l the _

vil

. lains h ave d one for me .I

Lawr ence felt his head go ing round :

Was it cp ossib le— cou ld it b e that he h ad

s h ot an innocent person by m istake,and o fan inno cent persons h is Uncle Rich ard °He r u sh ed forward h eadl ong like a m ad'creatu re,with awild idea o f running d own

cinto th e garden by th e trell is-wo rk th at.th e burglar h ad m ounted , h ard ly knowingwh at h e was do ing , mad beside h imselfand th en stumbled on the h ead and

sh ou lders o f th e man above th e skyli gh t,send ing th em down by the force o f h is

weigh t, and falling down h imself th roughth e same o pening , so that th e servants.below called out , Here are tW-o

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o f th emI’

. and found two indeed , b ut one was Law

rence, stunned and insensible.

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p le abou t .

The -8 037’s 0 1 1 71 1 .

(Paper.

It was h on-r s after wh en Lawrence cam e

to_

'

h im sel f ~'

in hi s own r oom'

. Th ere was ag reat sm ell o f v inegar , and h e found th ath is h ead was bound w ith cloth s steeped init. Th e gasligh t was bu rning,and h e sawMar y sitting in a l ow ch air

,looking in

tently at h im . S he h ad evidently b b eencrying a go od deal . Wh at fo r ? Becau seh e was h ur t ? Th at coul d h ardly b e, fornone o f hi s u ncle’s ser vants ever seem ed to

do ctor toL flo‘

ok -l t o you r as so on as h e coir-I'

d

b e spared ; He said th ere wasn’t -much

am iss . We Was to pu t. you t o b ed and

keep you qu iet, and '

m o'

st likely you ’d sleep '

it oEE ' Bu t I t h ough t, and so d id'

co ok it

Was asWell y ou sh o u ldn ’t b e left, so I cameh ere to sit w ith you Master Lawrence.

”

"5 1 . thank “

you , Mary,” '

said L awrence,with ,

for h im, unu su al civili ty Where’smy

'

cou sin? h e added ,“ and Master

Pratt ? He was afraid to ask d irectlyabou t h is uncle, b u t h o ped th ese questionswou l d elicit someth ing .

With — Wi th — ‘

m aster , said Mary. h er

lips quiver ing and eyes filling.

“ S o’

5 Mr.S am pson and the doctor . Th ey’ve got

to b e as stil l .as m ice, b u t they?6. rather b eth at and in h is r o om th an away from h im .

I suppo se . you heard . the p isto l go O E ,

M aster Lawrence ? We all said it was thesound th at gave you a scare and sent Y oudown th e skyl igh t. It m u st have beenone of th ose vill 'ains h id ing in th e grounds.

We h aven ’t caugh t him , b u t th e pol iceh ave got th e o ther that you fell atop of,and I su ppo se , as h e was m ixed up in it,if anyth ing happens to master they’ll h angh im , anyh ow

”

Lawre’

nceh id h 1 s face inthe bedcloth esand so bbed bitterly thenh e said prefsently,

How i s my uncle ?M ary shook her head .

Cook says Sh e doesn’t think he’l l getover it. Th e do ctor lo oks very grave, andwon

’t_

say no thing . h I th ere’s th e younggentlemen com ing up . I

’l l ask th eifikhow

m aster ’

s going on .

’

S he Stepped '

o'

ii t

Bob , who inform ed h er th atUncleRich ardh ad opened h is

eyes, lo oked . at

th em , said verykindly, ju st m h is

u su alway,“ Wh at

are you do ingh ere, boys ?” th enseem ed as if h ewas going oE intoa do z e again, and

th e doctor h ad

to ld th em theymust ceme away .

If Uncle Rich ardsaw th em ' th ereagain it m igh texcite h im to see .

so m any p eo

Lawrence h eard it all , h e

.solitary 1 nn, was reach ed at 9.

seemed able to h ear anyth ing now . Th enBob spoke and said , softly, How

’

s mycou sin ? ” and M ary answered ,

“ Wideawake .Won

’t you come in 9and in they

cam e and lo oked in_at h im as they h ad

never looked befor e.

Th erewas a great p ity 1 1 1 Rob ert’s face .

It was as if Lawrence h ad done somethingterr ible and sad . He said very gently,How are you getting 0 1 1 , Lawrence

Ted came and sto od With ou t a word .

Th ere was no p ity in h is eyes ; only '

a

pecu liar feeling of repu lsion and‘

strangeness , as if Lawrence and hewoul d never

b e fr iends again .

“ Then h e cam e forward ,and said in a

a

_low tone, as if h e th ou gh t h e

understood th e eye quest1 on1 ng glanceLawrencefixed u pon

“ The pisto l hasn’t beenfound, and Ish all tell noth ing .

I‘

He went away {With ou t another Word ,takin"g

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_

Rob ert wi th h im , and Lawrencedrew th e clo th es o ver h im and sobbed inb itterness and sham e.

-To think th at Tedshou ld fancy h e only wanted to ’fe‘

el su reabout h im self ! As if it m at tered Whatb ecame o f h im if onl y his '

unele réCovered'“I

What a po or , wretch ed creaturé’

h e mustthink him ! And then , even if no one

knew ,h ow coul d h e live amongst th em al l

and‘meet eyes”that looked h imas Ted

h ad done !

A 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 a 1 0 1 1 1 1 or“MILE S IN

BY THE Ahrno r. or‘l

‘NAU’

IjICUS J 0 1 1 m s

HOBBY Honsn.

”

PART.VII I .

F OUND Invergarry Inn hal f a m ile fartheralong the no 1 th bank .

I h ad tea with an elderly g entleman, wh o ap

peared to go in for enjoying life,hunting all the

Wintei and fish ing al l th e summer . From h im

I gained the following informationgarry caps are named from th is The

Gar1 y Falls sh ould onno account ’b e‘m issedTomdoun’

Inn is a good one, and situated in th e

finest valley1 51 1 S cotland ; ( 4 ) Th e roads 0 1 1 the

west coast would b e-too h ill'y for my tricycle.

7.30. All th e inh abitants tum ed out to seeme

start, ( a tr icycle 1 never having been seen h ere

Th eneat cottages about h e1 e assist to ornament the glen .

1

0

About three m iles fi om athe

inn, and just beic1 e sigh ting Loch “

Gar 1 y, _

I leftmymach ineby

“

th e roadside and walked throughth e wood to th e Falls .

There is no_

real fall, b ut a tremendous i 1 1 sh

of wate1 th ough a vei y nar1 0w. ch annel, thesou th side of wh ich 1 s a h igh ly pictu 1 esque c1 agabou t 2 00 feet h ighThe tu rbulent surface o f the i ive'

r, the splendid t1 ees, th e gracefu l iei ns and mossy bankstogethei with th e lich en covered rocks, l en-derth is the most superb view of its kind that Ih ad yet seen.

Having regained my steed , I padd led by LochGar 1 y. At first it was like r id ing th i ough a

park, b ut towards th e west end th e trees ceased ,and the upper part of th e 1 ive1 was a poorinsipid stream ,

“

with l ow banks and haugh s .

Th e 1 0 ad,-wh ich from Spean Bridge had con

sisted of h a1 d sand, nowbecame soft, and covei edwith fresh metal .1 —Ie1 eab outs I began to look out for th e

finest valley in Scotland, b u-t bleaker and

bleaker became the 1 ,-

vay until Tomdoun, a

It 1 1 as beingenla1 ged wh ich was unfortunate, b ut as I wasth e only lodge1 I managed p i etty well.Whi le th ey were prepa1 ing my meal I took a

survey o f th is Wi ld place among th e h ills , andwh ilewatch ing the national game of Throwing

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ME S FINLAYS ON (of S hawlands , G l asgow) writes us

under date January 9, o r immediately af ter the p ubl ication of M . Ju les Verne's thirteenth chap ter :The cry

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ptogram wh ich Judge Jarriqu ez consideredundeciph erab l e wi th out th e key may b e readi lysol ved with o ut it. After work ing at it fo r an h ou ror so I found th at th e l etters E D

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G RU_z B r ep re

sented th e name ‘Dacosta.

’

I th us found ou t thatth e key to th e cryptogram was the fo ll owing comb ination, 43251 3, reckoning b ackwards.

”To al l of

wh ich we can only say ,Bravo , Finlayson Many

’

o f o ur readers during the p rogress o f the-

story haveannounced th eir intent ion of so lving th e mysteriousd ocument forthwith , b ut yours is th e first and ‘

onlycase in which we h ave h eard o f its h aving b eend one.

O f course M . Verne‘

s admiration '

oi Jarriquez 'sefforts is rath er extravagant, for th at learned judge,once h e h ad assumed th at. th e

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name b f Dacosta wasin th e final p aragraph , h ad only to take each o f itsl etters in succession as answering , to th e D in th ename of th e injured man, and in th e course o f a fewh ou rs h e wou l d have arrived at th e same gro up ofsymb ols as you h ave d one, and so found th e num b erand so lved th e ridd le ; and h is knowledge that nol etter b eyond the ninth b efore I) , or th e ninth b eh indit— in o th er words , none o f th e letters b etween Nand s or T inclusive could app ly— sh ou l d h ave rend ered h is task even more simp le. Th e circumstanceonly sh ows h ow true the axiom is that no cryptogramof any length is undeciph erab le.

RORY, AE S ON, and O th ers — Get more roomy b o ots ;th at is all you can d o . Ready-made b oo ts h ave mucht o answer for . Th e most imp ortant articl e of attireis— your b oots. Y our clo thes ough t al l to b e madef or you, b ut ,

th is every one cannot afford ; our

r eaders, h owever, sh ou ld rememb er that th oughth ey may b uy al l th e rest of their apparel readymade

,a few luxuries sh ou ld b e sacrificed if p ossib le,

and an excep tion insisted on from th eir very ear liest

years in favour o f th eir foo t coverings. Leath er wil lnot give l ik e cl oth and cal ico , and u nless your b ootsare made to fit your feet, your feet will h ave to growto fit your b oots. Tigh tly-fitting mach ine-madeb oo ts mean. as we daily see and h ear

, a corned andb unioned nation.

vertical .

The 8 037’s Own

(Paper .

SMITHERS .— O ur articl es on th e Mer

chant Service commenced ih No . 66.

STOLZ ENFE LS .— Th ere Were five arti

cles on Bird S tutfi ing in our lastvol ume, commencing with No . 91 .

CARNABY. Leave so ld iering alone,and go in for some o ther o u tdo or

o ccupation. Y ou wil l b e woeful l yd isapp ointed at th e “ freedom andexercise o f th e army.

R. A. 53.—Lord Rosse‘s telescope h as a focal lengthfi fty-th ree feet, and an ap erture of six. I t h as tsp ecula, one weigh ing th ree and a. h al f . th e o therfour tons ; and a strong pressure of

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th e h and atth eir b ack s, .al th ough th ey are six inch es th ick , p rod uces a fiexure sufficient to d istort th e-image of a

star . Th e specula work on an arrangement of

triangles, with b al ls at each angle, and th ere are'

eigh ty-one such b all s.

VI OLIN.— Chapp el l , or any other music-sel ler , wil l pro

v ide you with th e b ook you want . O tis “ O n the

Construction and Preservation of the Vio lin is th e

b est auth ority. Crookes and Grace-Cal vert h ave

b ook s on“ Dyeing and Cal ico -Printing ; b ut th ere

is no manua1_suited for d omesti c p ractice ; in fact,

dyeing is"

a m ost comp l icated b u siness— it d oes not

consist of simply d ipp ing a fab ric into a .coloured

so lution, as some p eop l e th ink ; and it is an ex

tremely nastyand'

exp ensive p rocess-for »am ateurs to

h ave anyth ing to d o With unless th ey restrict themselves to th e anil ine b ranch of th e su b ject, wh ich ,af ter al l , is a very unimp ortant one.

GO ODRICKE . My uncle’

s is a miserab le attemp t at.

a pun on uncu s, th e h ook wh ich th e pawnb rokersu sed in th e p re-sp out days . Going to th e uncle

’

s

is th e same th ing as go ing up th e ,

sp out - th at is ,d isappearing up the l if t

-shaft into th e pawnb roker'

s

store-room .

R. SANDS .—1 . It wou ld take a mil lion and a quar ter

earth s ro l led ,into one to make up a b ody th e siz e o f

the sun. It rotates on its axis ab ou t once in every

twenty-six. days. It is .not the centre of th e.

euni

verse, neith er is it th e largest b ody travel l ing th rough

space. I t is simply the centre o f th e smal l system to

wh ich th e gl ob e b el ongs, and wh ich is b ut one

amongst many . 2 . Alexandre Dumas, of“ Monte

Cristo"fame, was b orn in 1 803, and d ied in 1 870.

3. Noth ing th at we knowof , and you wil l find th at .

your tattooingswill take‘

a lot of sucking b efore th eydisappear .

With the current Month ly P ar t or,“ Boy

’

s O wn

S hadow S h ow is issu ed , with a ser ies of am using-S il l

hou ettes f or wor king i t. These sh ou ld b e caref u l ly ou t

ou t and mounted on card boan'd . No. 50 supp lies in.

structions f or su ch shows.

A. B. CHADWICK.-To mak e a mush room-b ed , you first

_get some wel l rotten manure, and mix'i t up with a

' l i ttl e l oam . Its temp eratu re sh oul d not b e ab o ve

Pat d own the m ixture and b reak up th e Spawn,

and insert it in th e su rface in l ittle p ieces , and th encover over with a l ittle doam and straw r .efuse

Wh en th e m ush rooms app ear water them— not b efore. Th é great th ing is to keep th e b ed dark .

E PS ILON LY RAé.— S ee answers to STELLA and R. A . 8 .

- With al l fossi ls it is onl y a question o f careful lywork ing th em ou t with lcnife or ch isel . Th e ch isel

sh ou ld b e d irected away from th e fossil when you

strike, and remem b ei th at th e d irection o f th e b l ow

is always in a straigh t l ine. S ee Pennel l’

s“ Hand

h o'

ek o f Field Geo logy.

”A satu rated solution o f

G lau b er’

s sal ts is said to b e o f use in extractingfo ssil s from th e sof ter l imestones ; b ut there is noth ing l ike a smal l sh ar p knif e, water , and

— p atience.

Rot your l eaves in sof t wate1 , clear th em with teasing-needles , and b leach th em with ch l orid e of l imeA sixteenth -o f—an-inch immersion l ens, giving a.

th ousand d iameters, is ab out th e h igh est for usefu l ,

p ractical work

ANXIOUS .— Mel t togeth er equal p arts o f cop per and

z inc,and th en try to sol der your b rass work .

W. B. (Manch ester . )— Bueno s Ayres is Bonos ArizAirz , wh ich ever you l ike .

0 . P .— Th ere are estimated to b e 97,790_

death s in theworl d ineverytwenty-four h ours, and 1 04 ,8 00 b irth s, orab out seventy p erm inu te. Th ere are ab out 54,square m iles of land on the glob e, o f wh ich E u ropehas America Asia 000,Af rica and Austral iaand th e restTh e p opul ation o f Africa is not knownwith in fiftym il lions. O f th e rel igions th ere ar e m ore Buddh iststhan any oth er creed . Ab out a thi rd o f th e p opu lation o f th e earth is Chr istian, and of th ese moreth an h alf areRomanCath o l ics, and a fi fth are Greeks .

O nly ab out ten p er cent. of th e world’

s inhab itantsb elong to th e Protestant rel igion, and h ence the

great need of missionaries.

AN INQUIRER — O l iver Cromwel l was of course at th eb attle o f E dgeh il l . He was th en “ Captain Cromwel l . I t was h is experience in th is b attle wh ich ledh im to make th e wel l-known remark to hi s cousin

Hampden th at They woul d never get on with a set

o f p oo r tapsters and town-apprentice p eop le figh tingagainst men of h onour— to copewith men of h onour

th ey mu st h ave men of rel igion ;" wh ich they did,

and with the resul ts you know.

The Boy’

s O wn Advertiser .

WEATHER-DR'

NOT.

We admi re th e ph il osophy o f th e unfortunateman,

wh o , wh en everyth ing h ad b een swept

away, said , Well , th ere’l l b eweath er and taxes

left, at any r ate.

”Alas ! weath er 1 s th e

“

yel low

d og”

o f al l su b jects ; everyone thm k s it h 1 s

cial ri h t to tr to b etter th e weath er , and

girls h is gnath emgs against. “ O l _d Pro b ab il 1 t1 es,and all wh o endeavo r to ass 1 st h 1m m regu latmgth e weath er Th e fo l lowing communication 1 s

f rom Pro f. T1 ce, o f S t. Lonis , Mo . ,th e renowned

meteo ro l ogist and weath er p roph et o f th eWest .

I t d oes no t d iscuss th e weath er b u t som etbmgmo re impo rtance to th ose wh o antl erpainfu l malady. h e S peak s o f Th :

conclud ing my lectures at Bu rlmgton

Iowa, on th e 2 1 st o f Decemb er last, I was sei z edwith a su dd en attack o f neu ralgia m th e ch est,

giv ing me excruciating pa1 n and almost revent

1 1 g b reath ing. My pu l se, u suall y 80, fel to 25 ;intense nau sea o f th e stomach succeeded , and acold , clammy sweat covered my entire b ody.

Th e attending1p

h ysician cou ld d o no th ing to rel ieve me. ter su ffering for th ree h ours . Ith ough t—as l h ad b een u sing S r . JACO BS 0 1 1. withgoo d e ffect for rh eumatic pains

— 1 wou ld tr it .

satu rated a p iece o f fl annel , large enoug to

co ver my ch est, wi th th e O il , and appl ied n. Th e

rel ief was alm ost instantaneou s. n one h ou r Iwas entirely free from pain. and wou ld h avetaken th e train to

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fi l l an app o intm ent th at m.

h tin a neigh b or ing town h ad my friend s no t i s

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