and perverse, and I loved it. I used to protest "John Hopper,” but which old-fashioned folks call against it; that was my prudishness. But now that the “ Cabbage.' it has all passed away, I know that I loved it.”

“Get me a lily,” said Dora. "You are quite sure, then, that the old state of "I think that I will get you a rose instead," said things has passed away,” said Sugden.

Sugden. "Old maids wear lilics." "My good — distant relation (I will not commit So they turned into the main avenue again, with myself), — do you know that you are perfectly the stupid bloodhounds round them, snuffing and foolish at times? Is not my Uncle Arthur going to scratching among the rabbit burrows. marry my old governess, Miss Lee ? Are they not “Little woman,” said Sugden, “ you have a melgoing to take up their abode here at Silcotes ? ancholy sort of mind.” You have heard of this arrangement, because I “ It is likely enough,” said Dora ; " I watched my have heard you speak of it."

father's life, and saw him die. It is likely enough * Then you think, my dear," said Sugden, "that that my mind is a melancholy one." Mr. Arthur and his bride will be inclined to look “You have made me melancholy enongh; and I round and put things square."

looked for such pleasure from today's meeting. Dora only looked at him at first. Her opinion When your aunt and I lived alone and unnoticed was so strong as to the way in which these two at that cottage we have just left, we were happy would "put things square," that she did not trust enough. We never had as much to eat as we could herself to speak of it at present. She as good as have eaten, and we felt the want of firing alopassed the question for a time.

bitterly, I can tell you. We had our great sorrow, " There is a chance that your sister, my aunt, - the desertion of her unrecognized by the poor Mrs. Thomas Silcote, or, to be more correct, Mrs. fellow who. is just gone; we had to stand al Silcote, may be able to do battle with them single- weathers, and never had five shillings in the hote: handed. She is in high favor at headquarters now, yet we bore all cheerfully. Just now, when I beand is likely to remain so. She is an energetic and lieved that all things were changed for the better courageous woman, and it seems has great influence and we were going to begin a time of prosperity, you over grandpa. But she is one, and they are two, point out to me a hundred new miseries, fifty times and she will have her work cut out for her. She worse than the old ones. I doubt you are a killjor will fight like a dragon for James, but James will Miss Dora.” be of no assistance to her at all. The Arthur Sil “Well,” said Dora, "it does not much matter. I cotes will beat her if she don't mind. However, we shall die an old maid. I always intended to be shall have a happy little household."

and I mean to be so; and I am a very deter“My dear Dora,” said Sugden, "you are very Why, bless me, it is you." worldly."

“That looks very like old maidenhood," szek "I am ; I have seen the consequences of not be- Sugden, as he saw her fairly in the arms of a 2 ing worldly, and, Uncle Sugden, I was trained in a and very handsome young man, with a dark donc hard school. I only know this, that I shall make mustache, and—I must write it down - getty James stick to his art, and be independent, for with kissed. “That looks uncommonly like dying 2 this wonderful new happy family arrangement, Iold maid. Bah! you 're just like the rest of you see nothing to prevent his being cut out of his precious family, - saying one thing and doing a grandfather's will to-morrow."

other. My boy James shall hear of this box * He will have his mother's money, — four thou- better make myself scarce, for this is getting 3 sand a year."

tender for me, - this is. Why, that can't be the b; “I know that. But it is an evil thing for a man himself? He never had mustaches. I am blesa to wait for his mother's money. He shall be inde- if I don't believe it is, though. Here, you two per pendent of that before his mother dies, if I know ple, manners! manners !" my own will."

" Who cares about manners before you ! *You are taking a black view of things."

James, and Sugden saw that it was James 3 “I have been used to the darker side of things. once. I will be more cheerful directly. Let us see what “I thought old maids were particular in the ** has become of our old Silcotes, in this newer and spect," replied Sugden." However, have it happier régime. The delightful old abandon of the own way, and don't regard me." house is gone forever. Grandpa, our ogre, has for-1 * If you don't hold your tongue, I'll kis : gotten his ways. Altogether, the old house will said Dora. never be what it was before. I know that the new “ Then here goes," said Sugden. “ Arthur 1 order will be better than the old, but I am wicked ing — " but she executed her terrible threat, / and perverse, and I hate it."

silenced him. “ For," as she said, - no one col - You have talked yourself into hating it, cared one halfpenny for you. You are of & E.! Dora," said Sugden, “with what seems to me a importance as an old milestone." great deal of common sense."

When James had got hold of one of his arms 37 * Well, I do hate it at all events," said Dora. Dora of another, when they both clung rul « They will spoil James himself among them." him and looked into his gentle, almost stupid :X

They had come in their walk before the silent Sugden thought that to be a milestone was not cottage, in which Sugden and his sister had lived a bad thing after all, if one had two such be ! for so many years. The fence was broken, and the young climbers to twine around you. bloodhounds which accompanied them had invadedl. They will be here directly,” said James the garden. The flowers, mostly spring flowers came across the fields from Twyford and a which Sugden had planted so many years ago, were beaten them, but they will be here directly. all out of flower, and lying withered on the neglect- “Shall we wait for them here, or go back to ed ground, with the exception of two groups of hall ?” said Dora. noble white lilies, which stood on each side of the Let us hurry back to the ball," said and door, and a rose which they now choose to call the “ He would like it better."

• Is he in one of his tempers, then ?” asked Dora. / wing.” And then she passed under the shadow of

"No, he has no tempers now. But I think he the porch and into the old hall, where the bloodwould like it. And Aunt Mary is mad."

hounds lay about; and Dora, looking from her dim window-seat saw her stalk along, imperial, ma

jestic, with her face set, with uneasy lips, with eyeCHAPTER LX.

brows drawn together, and with staring eyes, which

saw what was not there. THE RETURN.

But by this time the second carriage bad unThey burried back, and got under the shelter of loaded itself. the great porch, ready to receive the comers from The meeting between Miss Lee and Dora had the war, and to see the end of the ancient and the something of humor in it. Dora had never thorbeginning of the modern history of the Silcote oughly liked Miss Lee, and had seen and rememfamily.

| bered a very great many indiscretions which Miss - The girl is right,” thought Sugden; "the new Lee, under present circumstances, would have liked misery is greater than the old. Well, here they her to forget. Yet Dora had not forgotten them, come.”

and Miss Lee knew it. They were, therefore, both Two carriages came grinding through the gravel on their dignity. When the poor Princess and her up to the porch, - the first closed, the second open. brother had passed her in the hall, she came out The closed carriage stopped first at their feet, and into the porch, and met her old friend-enemy, Miss the butler opened the door of it. Silcote himself Lee, face to face. got out of it first, looking very quiet and very sol- | Miss Lee was dressed up to the point which is emn indeed, taking notice of no one: and then expected of every lady with four thousand a year, turned round to hand out his companion, the poor and Dora, having been dependent on Mr. Betts, Princess of Castelnuovo.

| by no means a liberal outgiver, was somewhat dowShe put her well-formed hand on his arm, and, dy and shabby. Yet Dora held the key of the powith her finely-formed little foot carefully pointed, sition in her pocket, and knew it, as did likewise alit gently and dexterously on the lowest step be- Miss Lee herself. fore the porch. Then she turned to Silcote, smiled “How do you do, my dear Dora ? " said Miss pleasantly and bowed. After this, she stood in the Lee. full blaze of the sunshine, and looked around her. “How do you do, Miss Lee?” said Dora, lookShe was beautifully and carefully dressed, and al-ing very calmly at her. most hung with jewels, all put on in the most per- “I am very well, indeed, my dear Dora," said fect taste. Her beauty, old as she was, was still | Miss Lee. splendid : and yet, when Dora had looked on her “I am exceedingly glad to hear it,” said Dora. for less than half a minute, she slipped quietly away “I am afraid that your nerves must have been and hid herself in one of the window-seats, saying shaken by the war.” to herself, — “ She had better bave died. It would “Not at all,” said Miss Lee. And then there be better for her if she was dead.”

was a pause. Dora would have died sooner than For that had happened to this poor Princess have spoken next, and, to tell the truth, not only which is more inexplicable, and infinitely more aw- Miss Raylock, but Arthur himself, remained perful, than death itself. She was mad. She had fectly silent; “ for,” as Miss Raylock expressed it, overstepped Kriegsthurm's line at last. Mystery Miss Lee had been giving herself airs." greater than death! The old familiar world, the Miss Lee had to speak first, accordingly. “My old familiar house, the people with whom she had dear,” she said, “ will you give me a kiss ?" lived for so many years, were all around her, and “ With the greatest pleasure,” replied Dora. yet she was utterly unable to recognize them. She "I hope we shall be very great friends, Dora." saw them as she had seen them a hundred times be "I am sure I hope we shall," was the reply. fore; yet they were other places and other people to her. It is beyond all thought and all knowledge. Better perhaps not to think of this awful death in life, or double life, but go with the doctors, who

CONCLUSION. name it as “tubercular disease of the brain," and then put it on one si ich is possibly the best So comes one more long story to an end. Noththing. ).

ing remains but to give the various characters their . before

stood a handlime. departure, and to finish one of the most difficult ef-
woman
eves of

forts of story-telling ever attempted.
ever
Il was to

I hear people asking about such and such a story,
was
Here at

Does it end well ?” as if that mattered. How can uit of e saw tl

story of deceit, folly, and selfishness like this ena to he:

ntirely well? It ends as well as it can. As people myst

ake their beds, so they must lie on them. of all.

Silcote by degrees became possessed of all the radict

cumstances with which our reader is already acher, a

Linted, with regard to his relations with his wife, now the

ich were chiefly brought about through the foolber na

ness of his poor sister. Kriegsthurm, having

un forced back to England, in consequence of the Of

nger incurred from the continental democrats, En house in Camden Town, and, being rather It of cash, wrote to Silcote, offering to tell him

whole truth, from beginning to end. Silcote it to him at once, and learnt from

his

ing eyes and pouting lips to take them up to Ox- rather than by the dull drudgery of laborons prepford, just for once," to see Commem., and Tom, aration; regardless too of Smalls, known to the Fred, or Harry especially when Tom, Fred, or Dons as Responsions, which, with ever quickening Harry wrote to the governor and seconded the pe- strides approached their victims. “You muff!" tition of those melting eyes and pouting lips like a exclaimed my friends, if ever I ventured an opinion trump. Never before had plans been so success that I really ought to look at my books, don't talk fully arranged, never had the town been so full of rot; what are Smalls ? Absolutely nothing for : visitors. The very weather had assumed its bright- man of your abilities to get through. Come down est suit, as if to honor the confidence with which to the river, and don't make a fool of yourself. the ladies trusted their lovely dresses to its forbear- You 'll get through like a bird." The awful day at ance. Everything was a great success. The glori- last arrived and found me quite unprepared for it. ous thought * no more lectures " lent an additional I shudder even now when I think of my paper vivacity to the naturally vivacious 'Varsity man. work, and my blood boils and my fingers itch to What cared he now for Dons ? The whole power smash a few examiners, when I remember the exhiof Dondom for a time was shattered. The Dons bition they made of me in viva voce. I returned to themselves were divided ; divided they were harm-college, feeling that I had at least realized one of less. Those of them whom fortune had blessed with my friend's predictions, and got through like a lady relatives or friends, and in whose breasts na- bird, - a plucked one. Bob Miller, a schoolfelor ture had planted a courage which enabled them to of mine, who was also a St. Kenelm's man, of ter see a petticoat without running away from it, or terms' standing, had gone on the hopeless errand discovering that they were late for an important seeing if by a miracle I had scraped through ar engagement, — these piled their books upon their got my " testamur"; and I, seated at my windor, shelves, and vied sedately with the gayer crowd of was now awaiting his return, picturing to myse undergraduates in the pursuit of pleasure. Others the consequences of my disgrace, my father's rape of them, unblessed with the knowledge of that sweet the sorrow of my mother and sisters, and -0. fur delight only to be found in the society of the fair, and madness! – the contemptuous sympathy of had fled in abject terror, far from their familiar dear friends, who confided to one another that they haunts, which now were ringing with the silvery never thought I had much in me tones of light-hearted girlhood. The city of spires I was roused from the painful revery into much was in the hands of the enemy; an edict of ban- I had fallen by the entrance of Miller, whore malishment had been issued for one week against the ancholy visage showed me too plainly that a dull and the austere.

doom was sealed. Not being unprepared for the But there was one heart, at least, in Oxford, sad | I assumed a mournfully joyful expression of cour and heavy ; one heart in which the note of pleasure tenance, and remarked carelessly, — found no echo. As I sat leaning out of my win- ! - Well, Bob, old boy, I suppose that those (23* dow, which overlooked the trim green quad of St. founded examiners liked me so much that the to Kenelm's College, - as I saw its sacred grass, the sire the pleasure of my company at their b constant care and pride of our worthy Bursar, exam. ?" trampled ruthlessly under foot by the trim Balmo- I am sorry to say that they do, Will; buiten ral and the heaver heel of man, - as I caught the it, man, you must n't mind it, for it is not the * hum of enjoyment wafted upwards to my room of disgrace to get ploughed for Smalls. I believe ** mourning. - my soul was filled with bitterness, and the examiners take a pleasure in ploughing the too well did I realize how utter that sense of deso- men, just to encourage them to do better. " lation is, which none, save the sorrower in the ther plongbed me, and I do not think I made 3 midst of mirth, can ever feel. And what mistor- great mistakes; did you ?" tune had cast so deep a cload orer the buorant-|-O Lord, yes; I murdered everything hope.com spirited freshman of two months' standing? What you know I hadn't even looked at my bans fearful calamity had converted the open smile of translated oöpeOS Bhoogs, on the back yesterday into the glooing frown of to-day? I will mule.'* unfold the cause.

* Did roa? I forget just now what it on Two months before this I bad matriculated at St. be. Tell me." Kenelm's. Before the solemn words - Admitto te" Something about a mountain glade. I le were pronounced, our principal had exacted a though my rendering made far better senpromise from me, and those who with me were the stupid fools did not take that into account seeking to become members of the college, that we i "0. ther never have the least consideraz? should go in for Responsions our first term. It a man's ieelings. Have rou got a weed, old? was then the beginning of the glorious summer I be your pardon, this infernal affair la term, when nature and pleasure were putting forth me forget mr duties. Help rounel, this all their allurements to win the Tanity man from that shelf. I don't care & pin for my pics his books. I had left the school with the reputation see, as far as I am concerned; but my ** of knowing how to wield the bat, and of being able will be in the deril's own rage about it to pull a good car. This reputation had preceded pected great things of me wen I cane II me to Oxtord, and long betore mr arrival there the clare I am afraid to face him." cricketing and boating sets of the college had each * War, you don't mean to say that you to! marked me for its own. The St Kenelm's eleven 'rou were going in for it did you? That res ? was weak, its eight was nearer the bottom of the I never tell & svul at bome that I am in for 1954 river than the ton Fired bra desire to win clorr 'till I'm thronh: and then, if I get throcyte for myself and recover the lost prestige of my col great honor, and if I'm ploughed the box : * lege. I threw learning to the dogs, and plunged ing about it. When are you going down! headlong into cricket and aquatics, regardless of Ind intend to do so te-night; but thi ' the sheers of sarcastic lecturers who believed not in that I shall stop up longer.** my doctrine, that learning should come to instinct * I 'll tell you what you had hetter do. W .

in the 'Varsity twelve again this year, and we go! A quick drive up hill brought us on to the beauup to Wimbledon next week. The Bluebottles' tiful common of Wimbledon. In the distance, far have sent us an invitation to camp with them, and away across an undulating tract of heath, could be there will be no trouble about food or tents or any- seen a long line of hoarding extending right across thing of that kind. They want supernumeraries the common. Over it peeped the tops of the tents, to make themselves useful about camp; so you can gleaming snowy white in the hot afternoon sun. come up as one. We shall be there a fortnight, 1 “Pretty sight, is n't it?” said Miller, noticing my and shall have a very festive time of it. By then admiring glances. “That hoarding rather spoils it, your governor's heart will have softened towards though. You see the windmill away to the left you, and in the mean time you can pave the way to there? The Bluebottles are camping to the right his good graces by a few judicious epistles. What of it, where that big flag is. That long blue builddo you say?"

Jing is Jennings's; you know Jennings? No? He "The very thing, old boy!” I cried, rapturously; is the great refreshment man. We shall turn off “it will answer beautifully, and I want to get a here soon and go over the common. Ah, here we glimpse of camp life.”

are!— Drive straight into camp, cabby, and go to “ Very well, then; it 's settled that you come. I the quartermaster-sergeant's tent. - Does n't camp shall stop up here till we have to go to Wimbledon, look well, eh? See, there's our post-office, and for I want some rifle-practice. You stop too, and there 's the telegraph-station; we've got all the we 'll go down together.”

comforts of a town. The head-quarters are round I consented; and after discussing the affair, and the windmill. That's the notice-board over there arranging our plans over a claret-cup, donned our where the orders for the day are posted. Our flannels and proceeded down to the river.

camp is at the end of this street of tents. There's

a jolly tent. is n't it? The luxurious owner has II. - WHAT I DID AT WIMBLEDON.

positively got a carpet and chest of drawers, to say It was a lovely summer afternoon when Bob

nothing of that small family bedstead. He's been Miller and I got out of the train at Putney station

here before, I'll bet. Closely packed those fellows

are, are they not? - four in a tent. It must be on our way to the camp. The platform was crowded with volunteers from all parts of the kingdom,

preciously hot and squabbly. That's a pretty tent who had come down with us to take part in the

with the rockwork and flowers outside. The man great national meeting. Well has the camp bard

in it is an artist, perhaps. Here we are at the immortalized those noble men:

quartermaster-sergeant's tent. Jump out, old boy,

and carry your own traps; our camp is before “Some were short, some were tall, Some were big, some were small; Some were black, some were blue,

Having paid our cabman handsomely, and sent Others a kind of greenish hue" ;

him away perfectly satisfied with a third of the fare and, carried away by the poetic transports of his which he had demanded, we entered the camp of soul, concluded his strains in the mystic burst of ad our friends. Dinner was evidently going on, as miration,

several Bluebottles, with bare arms and lobster" Whack fol de rydee, O!”

colored faces, were busily engaged peeping into Upon sallying forth from the station, we were immense pots steaming over a fire in the ground, immediately beset by a host of charioteers, all of and harpooning therein legs of mutton and huge whom eagerly professed the delight they should feel pieces of beef, which were transferred to tin dishes at being permitted to drive us to camp. “'Ere yer of a vast size, and carried off in triumph into the are, yer 'onors," cried the driver of a dilapidated mess-tent. Our approach was seen from the tent, shandridan, against the shafts of which calmly slept and an envoy rushed out to meet us. one of those remarkable animals whose breed has “How d'ye do? How d’ye do? All your men been defined as a cross between a Rosinante and a are here and have been expecting you for an age. gridiron; "take yer 'onors to the camp for a bob a Come in and get something to eat. Stick your 'ead." “Don't yer trust 'im, sir," warningly ob carpet-bags down; they'll be quite safe. Up at served a veteran Jehu, upon whose ruby nose there the end of the tent you can get what you want. grew in graceful profusion a number of little purple Take care of yourselves, and make yourselves hapcabbages; "jump in 'ere, gemmen, jest room for py.” With which amiable injunotion our friend two." Five men packed in his vehicle, which had rushed off again, leaving us to follow his advice, and been originally designed for a small four, protested look about us. furiously against this, and announced their intention The .mess-tent was a long, booth-like structure, of getting out if an immediate start were not effect-tastefully ornamented inside with flags; down it ed. “The wan, yer 'onors, the wan?” asked a cad, ran two tables, roughly constructed of plain deal pointing to the remains of an ancient greengrocer's boards, doubtless the work of the mechanically-diswagon; «sixpence hup.” “'Ansom, capting, 'an-posed members of the corps. Seated at these were som ?” insinuatingly inquired the pilot of one of some seventy or eighty men, chatting and joking those two-wheeled machines who had just driven gayly with each other, doing at the same time ample up. “Here, Will, this will do; jump in," cried justice to the abundant but somewhat rude fare beMiller, bringing his carpet-bag down upon the head fore them. Plates and glasses there were none; but of a man who had darted forward to anticipate us in their stead were tin platters, ingeniously devised in possession of the desired vehicle. “Beg pardon, with a view to holding either liquids or solids, and sir, but this is our cab.” “What d'ye mean, sir, by pannikins, out of which beer, sherry, and champagne that?” “What I say, sir.” “You've assaulted were quaffed indifferently. At one end was a table me grossly, sir.” “0, you be hanged, sir! Drive drawn across the tent, forming a kind of refreshon, cabby”; and away we sped up the hill, leaving ment-counter, laden with provisions ; behind this the assaulted one foaming out his wrongs to a police stood the staff upon whom devolved the duty of adman who had witnessed the affair and strolled up as ministering to the wants of their friends. Our soon as he had seen us off.

| own men were scattered up and down the tables, their light uniforms forming a pretty contrast with " Ah, by Jovel so we may.- Look here, young the somewhat sombre trappings of the Bluebottles. an ; you go and get me three blankets, and I 1 give Interchanging friendly nods with these, we took up you a shilling." our position at the table, and securing for our-I' “I'll give you the same for the same number," selves vast quantities of meat and vegetables, plied added L our knives and forks with a vigor that raised us The boy promptly vanished, and after a short alconsiderably in the good opinions of our hospitable sence, returned bearing the six desired articles. entertainers.

Giving him the promised tips, we sent him off, rejoisThe loud report of a gun, a signal for the recom- ing, and proceeded to make our beds, -3 work of mencement of firing, broke up the dinner-party. no great difficulty, as may be imagined. We then Some rushed off to shoot in prizes ; others to try procured a lantern, a hand-basin, & sal tin pan their luck at the pool or carton targets; others, who dignified by the name of a bath, a looking-glass, had nothing particular to do, proceeded to their and some sacks to serve for carpets and to cover the tents to do it, the operation in most cases consisting ancient habitations of the ants. in throwing one's self on a bed, and, pipe in mouth, Having set our tent in order, we got ou rifles devoting the passing hour to calm perusal of a novel and proceeded to the pool-targets, with the full deor newspaper; whilst Miller and I went off to in- termination of making our fortunes. The tapets spect our quarters, and to make the necessary ar- must have been very bad ones, for out of ten shis rangements for our stay.

each, Miller only scored five centres, and I two As Distance lent enchantment to the view in the case every shot cost us a shilling, and centres were with of our tent; for although its appearance from afar but sixpence each, we unanimously voted the whek was singularly neat and inviting, yet upon a nearer thing a delusion and a snare, and determined to reapproach the neatness vanished, and gloomy thoughts cover our losses at the running-deer. With a net of sleepless nights disquieted the soul enamored of to economy, we took but four tickets each to buy nocturnal repose. The tent had been pitched with with. After a couple of misses, to my great den a greater regard for uniformity with the others than I succeeded in smiting the animal; delight, szi, for the comfort of its occupants. A colony of mis- doomed soon to be changed into sorrow, fix guided ants had originally settled upon the spot perjured villains of markers declared that I had now covered by it, and, having devoured every | the haunch, and for this achievement I wae ***, blaule of grass around the settlement, had departed half a crown. My next shot hit the deer after than a again in search of happier regions, abandoning their passed the post, and cost me another halfpenetralia to the earwig and the beetle, which de- Perfectly convinced by this time that the # Lightful animals were careering in playful sportive system of Wimbledon shooting was a gigit ness all over the place. The furniture of the tent swindle, and Miller, who had had three outer ? was not luxurious ; it consisted solely of two minute him, coinciding with me in this belief, we shou.com iron bedsteads, suggestive of anything rather than ed our rifles and returned sadly to our quer* one's ability to lie down on them. One of these where we lighted our pipes and meditated proper proved to be broken; and as all the others had been ly on the uncertainty of human success, unti: engaged, nothing was left bat tor one of us to make evening gun roared forth an order to cease to bis bed upon the ground. Miller retused to decide for the day, and admonished us to seek our 1964 the ownership of the coveted bedstead by a toss, repast, - a cold repetition of dinner, with t8 and insisted obstinately on his right of possession, possible substitution of tea for beer or wine. on the ground of being a shooting-man, and conse- Having finished our meal, we proceeded to ** quently requiring care. Eventually I yielded to brail our tent, and to fasten it up for the pugui bis ar umant ie graciously as I could, and hailing a necessary precaution against the falling of the *** comp-boy, he despatbed him to procure for us ing dew. This operation having been perfect mattresses, pillows, and blankets. In a few minutes satisfactorily, we strolled about the camps. an. the boy returned, dragging atter him a couple of ourselves by inspecting the feats of the athletena long bags talled with the titlest of straw, and carry- tion of the community, until the bugle's pains ing onder mach arm a smaller bag stutled with the note sent forth a sweet invitation to grog am' Name material.

viviality. * Surely they don't call these things mattresses Returning to the mess-tent we found most it! and pillows?" asked I, in aları.

men assembled and busily engaged in * () ves, they do; and very comfortable they are fiery compound, which the members of the stoo, after a few hours, when you've made a hole in were pouring from huge tin cans into the uniting the middle," replied Miller, reassuringly.

pannikins. Wonderfully potent were its effer * Where are the sheets and blankets, though ?" the promotion of jollity; wonderful were the I inquired.

which it induced to join in choruses. Under * Sheets! you effeminate beggar, we never hear fluence Jones remembered part of a verse of 9 of such things in camp, much less Nee them. Now, his childhood's lave, and made a desperate * boy, where are the blankets?”

to sing it to us; whilst Brown endeavored tre ** Please, sir, there ain't none," answered the boy. him when at loss tor tune or word. with : sadly. - They was put in 'ore this mornin', and slightest knowledge of either. Under its ince some gentleman must have taken ou out munce." tou, cha Smith, the unromantie Smith, roll

* 0, confound it! here's aneu! te thore eves to the region of cherubs, and burst forth no more?"

an English version of " Ak che la morte. "No, ir, 'cept in t'othor tanto,"

We the others in the tent generally — .2 * What an internal hal roles in twally ought ivar, impelled by spirits not altogether animai to know better. What 40 la lla, buy

r unduce at rvery pause a most dismal chorus * Don't know, Ir.' with the

s a me thing i (cally regardless of tune and time. Some with a peculia NiNI pada majand you can Dow n edded Ong in rapid succession, and fast some from t'other than, 41,"

I n cad thu tuu-promoting contents of the