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FIFTHFORMATST. DOMINIC’
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
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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
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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.
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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 .
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r’. Y o ung
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G reen ;field .
Q
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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
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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
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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’
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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 ;
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THE ILL-US ED BO Y ; on,LAWRENCE HARTLE Y
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S“
G RIE‘
VANCE S ;
BY MRS . E ILOART, AUTHOR or“ JACK AND JOHN, nrcf,
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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
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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 . .
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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
'
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
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 .
'
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
'
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
'
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.
-
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
“
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
~
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
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f 1
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
’
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.
-Pr z‘
z e:
IN
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our last numb er we publ ish ed 0 1 1 1 Awardin the Juni0 1 Class, and now give our
. 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),
1 8 , Ch rist Ch urch S treet, P .restonCertifi cates.
WILLIAM HENRY WE BB, 1 8, Market Place, Frome,Somerset
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.
A -W -O ULD BE FRETWORKER.—Y ou canno t
_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'
J
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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xo’
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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S :
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 .
”
_
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
’
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
“
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
’
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 .
‘
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
"
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
'
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
'
LENE LG .
Q
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
‘
, 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
'
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.
'
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
'
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
'
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,
-
.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
'
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
"
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
'
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
'
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
_
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
"
cross th e p layground andenter th e sch oo l -h ouse. Th en 'Wren said ,
gravely ,
“ I t’s all
'
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
'
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
'
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
~
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
'
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
'
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
-
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
'
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
'
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
32 0
“ 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
“
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
_
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
‘
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‘
’A_
S_
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
'
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
_ Ip‘
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
“
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
“
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
’
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
,
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
’
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’
ree'
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
,
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
"
i'
f‘
you-
mustk ifck h is hands ,try fa
'
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
’
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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e‘
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 .
I 1“
Th e death p enal ty in Brazil is generallyc ommuted excep t in
“
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
'
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
‘
egBut_
o_n the August , a man was
.app roach ing'
lMa
‘
naQswith -all the s p eed h ish o rse was capab le
'
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
'
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.
’
ru sh ed o ff in the dir ect ion O f th e
'
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
'
p c’
taes da'
m ato . wnei ghb ou rh o odWithou t lesin-g. a
'
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
’
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
”
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
‘
rally suspended in th emiddle of th e latter. But,
Tb y tapping an ,egg smartly against th e palm o f
“
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
'
on, “s inks down to" th e
'
tapped end ,which sh o
'
uld b e t h e large'
end ,‘
making _it
'
h eavier than o riginal ly. Th is increased weigh ti s, _
as‘
you . must al l .knOw,
“
favourab le to “
thes tanding uprigh t ofjany mass having a
'
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
'
«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,
”
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
The ddoy’s O wn Taper.
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
The 8 037’s Own Papef .
_
(liorrrspenh-em.
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
'
é'
_
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
’S
_na
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
'
card s, and'
one Of th em
and sh ou ted beastlywou g
3)
(Dedicated to the S ub scr ibers to the BO Y’
S O WNL if eb oat F und . )
Wo rd s b y the Rev . CHARLE S KING S LE Y .
Mu sie'
b y C. H. PURD AY .
1 . Th ree fi sh - er'
s went sail -ing ou t
2 . Th ree wives sat up in th e o ld ligh t-h ou se tow
’
r ,
3. Th ree b o - dies lay o ut in the sh i ning sands ,
KE Y C.
”
: s I‘
d ' : t : d ' : 1 I s :m : r . d :m .m
il } t? th e w est as th e sun went -down ; E ach th ou gh t on th e wo -m an wh o l o ved h im th e b est, ,And th e
tr imm d.
th e lam ps as.
t h e“
sun went down; They l ook ed at th e squal l ,and th ey l ooked at th e sh ow’r, And the
mo rn -i ag gleam as th e ti de went d own ; And th e wo
'
-m en were weeping and wringing th eir h ands, For ,r
I
m u st and
nigh t-rack came r o l l-ing up ragrg
ed‘
and b r own; F o r m u st.
wo rk, and w om en m u stweep ,Th ou gh
th o sewh o will me -,ver com e b ack to th e town ; Fo r men
'
mu st wo rk, and w om en mu st weep , An d th e
m a - ny to keep ,And th e h ar hou r b ar is
sto rm s m ay b e sud—den ,
and wa- ters b e deep , And go od . b ye to the b ar with its
soon -er’tis o ver , th e soon - er to sleep , And good b ye . to th e b ar with its
m oan
b ye to th e b ar with its
b ye to the'
b ar with its
[ m
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 .
”
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
'
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 ,
The 8 037’s Own
(Paper.
Total run 1 3
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
BY Loui s '
RO US S E LET.
a rrnn xixi— MR. FRIDAY.
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
“
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
The iioy’
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 .
’
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
'
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
'
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
-
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
'
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
”
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
'
al l th is at a glance,and you wil l then turn your
'
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
'
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.
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
'
s -“ Handb ooko f Ph onetics
"
( 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
’
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
‘
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
"
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
'
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
'
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
'
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
‘
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.
I'
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 .
'
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
'
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
'
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 ,
'
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
"
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 .
”
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
'
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.
'
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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1 34 32 5 1 31
4 3 34-32 5 1 3
o f o '
z ade‘
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
?
the north of Braz il , to th o se di stricts o f theUpp er Am az on wh ere th e .
'
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 .
‘
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
‘
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
'
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
'
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
_
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
'
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
'
giV1
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
'
o f th emI’
. and found two indeed , b ut one was Law
rence, stunned and insensible.
7
With the .
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
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
'
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
'
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
'
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
‘
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
sueded m e. As i twas , I to o k th e nigh t tram fo rmy
sigma, in S t. Louis , and h ave no t b een trou b led
cc.
TONKINBROS ,
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