"How? why?" said Karl, kindly, and with a flushed cheek.

"Nay, ask me not, dear Karl; for answer I have none to give, save that your lot is too enviable, perchance, to be looked upon without repining, and so adieu!"

"Adieu, then, if it must be so, gallant stranger," said the German, as he accompanied him to the gate.

"Quiet, Sultan," said the stranger, as his steed pranced and tossed his head, and springing into the saddle, he raised his hat from a brow upon which sat the calm of conquered passion; and raising his eyes to take a last farewell of the bride as she watched him from the casement just above his head, one bright drop-it might be from the heat of some passing summer cloud-fell upon his cheek, and sank into his heart, as the molten gold which is storied to have been poured on that of Crassus. His hand trembled, and his cheek paled for a moment; but the shout of children's voices burst upon his ear, and his steed plunged resentfully under the unwonted spur that galled him; and the Englishman galloped away. And when Karl Yugel sought his bride, he found her looking on the road whose windings hid the stranger from her sight, and her lip quivered, and her hand was cold. But both the maiden

and the stranger were rewarded; he was saved from the ceaseless remorse which Justice ever sends to follow the steps of Vice, and breathe a blight over the flowers which grow upon its way; and Mina, the wife of her youth's pure love-of him who had been to her father, mother, lover, and friend-forgot in her happy life the cloud which had once for a brief season darkened over it; and if sometimes she remembered the stranger horseman, as he was called in the village, it was not with the bitterness of wounded vanity, nor the sting of love unreturned.

Those who have never known what it is to strive with evil till the demon flees from them, will probably smile at our story; it will, however, show, how often man, in his pursuit after pleasure, may plant thorns in noble hearts, dash from the lips of one purer, better than himself the cup of living water, and by the gratification of his own ill caprices and grosser tastes, overcloud for ever some fair life; unless with the peerless prize of wooed beauty, won and within his grasp, he should have heart and loyalty enough to resign it.

For the better among men, our moral may be idle; but there are some, doubtless, to whom our tale would speak in their own language.

HANS DUDELDE E.

(From the German.)

BY ELIZABETH O'HARA.

It is a great while ago, many hundred years, that there lived a fisherman called Dudeldee and his wife. They were so poor that they had no house, only a wooden hut, where every one could see through the chinks. Dudeldee was happy, but his wife was always discontented; she wished for one thing and another, and plagued her husband from morning to night. She would never let him alone because they were not rich, and she could not have all she wanted.

They were standing one evening at his threshold, looking at the prospect; there were many pretty cottages around them; and his wife said, "See what a hut we have, the worst in the place why cannot we be like others? but you are so lazy; you will not work as other folks do."

Why what more can I do?" asked Dudeldee;" do I not go out fishing every day, and

all day?"

"That is not enough," she answered; " you should stay all night, and then you might get more fish-but you are so idle, you care for nothing but sleeping;" and thus she continued scolding him.

The next day he rose up very early, and went to fish in a large lake. And he saw people pass up and down, but his nets remained empty.

Soon it was mid-day; the reapers seated themselves under the shadow of the trees, and ate their dinners; but Dudeldee had had no luck, and he sorrowfully began to munch a stale, mouldy crust he had in his pocket. Again he threw his nets; the sun went slowly down, the reapers sought their homes, every place was silent, and Dudeldee was alone-he had not caught a single fish. He was sad and tired, and thought of going home; but as he tried a last cast he sung

"Fishes, fishes from the lake." "Dear Dudeldee, what will you take ?” answered a little fish, that came swimming towards him with his head just above the

water.

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Poor Dudeldee was so astonished to hear the fish speak, that at first he could not reply; he thought to himself, "Hum! if I may have what I will take, you shall not wait long for an answer. He looked about him, thinking what he should ask for; but casting his eyes on a country house across the lake, he remembered his wife's wish for a better house, so he said, "I should like to have a cottage like that one opposite-it would be a palace after my wooden hut.

"Go home," said the little fish, "and see what you shall see."

So Hans Dudeldee went homewards, and looking attentively at the farms and cottages, saw a beautiful castle, with many rooms, in the

place where his hut used to be. It was so very grand there was nothing to be wished for. The hall was paved with marble, the walls gilded, the floors inlaid, the parlours splendidly furnished; in short, all was so fine that Hans Dudeldee had no heart to enter it; he could not think it was his house. He would have gone on further, had not his wife stood on the doorstep. As soon as he saw her, he called out, "Are you satisfied with your house now?" and told her how it came there.

"That is just what surprises me," she answered; but, after all, I have seen finer houses when I was in service at town. It will do; but you are so stupid-you have forgotten the best part. See, are our clothes fit for this house? had you not sense enough to wish we should be tidily decent? You are always so slow and foolish, or we might have had it all at once."

She went on snarling and grumbling till he fell asleep; but he rose by day-break, and set off to the lake, where, standing in the same place, he again cast his nets, and cried

"Fishes, fishes from the lake."

"Dear Dudeldee, what will you take?" replied the little fish; and Dudeldee soon made known his wife's desire that their clothes should

suit their new house.

sung

"Fishes, fishes of the lake."

"Dear Dudeldee, what will you take?" again answered the little fish.

"A big chest of gold," he replied. "Go home," said the fish; " go up to your bedroom, and there you will find a large chest of gold."

As soon as he was back, his wife bought a coach and horses for herself, and a horse for

him, and went to the town and hired a cook and house servants; but all the neighbours laughed, and called her the haughty fish-woman. This vexed her so much, that she teazed her husband perpetually that he should set her above their neighbours; so he went out once more with his nets, and again sung

"Fishes, fishes of the lake." "Dear Dudeldee, what will you take?" the little fish again replied.

"I must be an alderman of a court, so that I may be higher than all my neighbours." "Go home," said the fish, "it is so." And when he returned home, the neighbours were doing homage to his wife, who had already imprisoned some of them for nicknaming her the haughty fish-woman.

They often now went into the town where the king dwelt, and mixed with the nobility, but they did not know how to behave, so they were laughed at, and a Countess christened them the Fish Earl and Countess Dudeldee. Once more she grew angry, and said to her husband, "Let yourself be made a King, then I shall be a Queen; I shall no longer be called the Fish Countess."

But Hans Dudeldee remonstrated with her, saying, "Think a little; we were poor; we had only a hut to live in, and that the worst in the neighbourhood; now we have all in abundance; let us be contented."

His wife, however, would not be satisfied, but said, "What! am I to let myself be called the Fish Countess? Am I to endure the pride of the town ladies? No, you must wish as I bid you; you must not be so poor-spirited and he would make her a Queen. mean. Thus she teased him till he promised

He went to the lake, and casting his nets sung his old song.

"Count Dudeldee, what will you take?” returned the little fish.

He told him he wished to be a King. "Be it so," said the fish.

On his return home he found his house much larger, and more splendid; and prime ministers and marshals, with their ribbons and orders, flocked around him. His head felt very heavy, and he lifted his hat, when lo! it was a gold crown. As for his wife, he did not recognize and jewels. He asked her if she were pleased her, he was so dazzled by her golden sceptre

now?

Yes, till I can find something better," she answered; "I should be a fool to sit still when there's more to be had for asking."

They now lived comfortably for some time, as Dudeldee's wife could think of nothing more to want, and had beheaded the lady who had christened her the Fish Countess. But this was not to last for ever. She read in the newspaper of kings and princes, and that there were kings and emperors who had more subjects, power, and dominion than Dudeldee. Immediately she began to torment him till he promised that he would be the greatest king on earth. So he

once more set his nets and cried

"Fishes, fishes of the lake." "King Dudeldee, what will you take?" answered the fish; and Dudeldee said, "Make me the mightiest King or Cæsar on earth.”

It was no sooner said than done. He found a splendid palace waiting him, and the courts crowded. There were poets, with songs in his praise printed in golden letters; schoolmasters, with their petitions for an increase of salary

in their best writing; chamberlains, their hats under their arms, hurrying about; country people who had law-suits, waiting to beg his mercy; sentinels parading before his doors; a coach with ten horses, twenty outriders, and six footmen hanging behind; peacocks and silver pheasants in his park: in short, there was all that the greatest Emperor could have, and also two dwarfs waiting to receive his orders to amuse him.

The new Emperor Dudeldee would have been the happiest of men if his wife would have allowed him, but she constantly told him any other lord might raise himself to be his equal, and that she could take no pleasure in society unless she could do what no one else in the world could. Their quarrels were endless, he was so angry that his wife would not be satisfied; but they always made it up again.

"What is the matter?" he asked her one day.

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'I am ill from the rainy weather; it has been bad for four days, and I will have sunshine. I choose to be able to do all I please, that I may have spring, summer, autumn, and winter, as it suits me. Go and make it so."

"Well," he thought, "if I can go out in the rain and come home in the sunshine, just as my wife or I like, she may be pleased at last. I should be a fool not to try."

Again he threw his nets over his shoulder,

and passed out by his back gate through the rain, up to the lake, where, casting the nets, he cried

"Fishes, fishes of the lake."

"King Dudeldee, what will you take?" sung the fish.

"Ah!" he said, "but little; my wife wishes to have rain and sunshine, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, as she chooses."

"Is that all?" asked the little fish. "No, no, King Dudeldee; I see that you and your wife are good for nothing, so you shall be the poor fisher Dudeldee again; that will teach you how to be so over-grasping and unreasonable."

The little fish disappeared, and the dark blue waves closed over him. Dudeldee cried oft and loud

Fishes, fishes of the lake," but his friend never again replied

"Dear Dudeldee, what will you take?”

No, there he stood, poor as the first day, in his leathern hose, an old, old fisherman. His castle and palace were gone; but there was his wooden hut, and his wife in her filthy rags, a miserable shrew. This is the story of the unreasonableness of persons who are never satisfied, and at last were laughed at by all who knew them.

With the darkest orange (almost brown) begin on the end of the crochet cord, 12 s c. Close into a round, and work with the same colour another round, increasing sufficiently to keep the cord flat.

2nd round. Same orange and white; × 2 orange, 4 white, X 7 times in the round.

3rd. Next orange, 3 orange on two; white on 4, X 7 times.

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In increasing on a round, observe to make the extra stitches in the centre rather than at the edges of a stripe. In working 5 white on 4, for instance, it is better to do 2 on the 2nd or the 3rd, than on the 1st or 4th. This rule always holds good in radiating patterns. 4th. Next orange; x 4 orange on 3, 6 white on 5, X 7 times.

5th. Next orange and claret filoselle; x 5 orange on 4, claret on 6 white, times. 6th. Next orange; × 9 orange, coming over 5 orange, and 1 silk at each end; 6 claret over the 6 centre of light claret, X 7 times.

7th. Lightest orange; 2 claret over the centre of 6 claret, and all the rest light orange, increas ing enough to keep the round quite flat; fasten off.

Take a piece of wire, 3 inches long, and with the violet-spangled work do 24 stitches of sc over it, leaving a morsel of wire at each end to turn down. Take the spangled twine, and do thus: * 3 d c, 2 ch, miss 2*, end with 3 d c. Turn back, and do 3 dc under every chain, and 2 ch between, beginning and ending with 3 ch, and 1 dc on the end d c. Do these two rows 4 times backwards and forwards. Then with the claret wool do a row of sc, holding in a wire, and working on every stitch of the last end: x Do between the crosses 5 times, and at the 6th join the last row to the first wire.

A line of sc must now be worked with the violet-spangled wool, at each edge of this piece, working in the ends of wire. At one edge it must be contracted to fit the round already made; the other edge should be stretched as

much as possible. Crochet it to the round. At the outer edge do a sc stitch with the claret filoselle, on every stitch.

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FOR THE BORDER.-With the violet wool, 1 dc, 2 ch, miss 2 of the last round. Repeat all round. Work with a coarse hook, say No. 14. 2nd round. Same wool; * sc under a loop, 3 ch, 2 d c under the next, x 1 ch, 2 dc under the next, x 3 times, 3 ch, repeat all round. Last round. Spangled cord; s c over the last se under the same chain, 4 ch, sc under ch before the 2 dc, 7 ch, s c under the chain between the second and third set of 2 d c, 7 ch, sc under chain after the last 2 dc, 4 ch, X; repeat all round.

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FOR THE LEAVES.-Five light green, five dark. Make a chain of 17 stitches. off a piece of cannetille, 4 inches long, work it up one side and down the other. 1st side. 1 sc, 1 short double, and 1 dc in one, 2 d c, 1 short treble, and one t c in one, 12 tc, 1 tc, and 1 short t c in one, 1 dc, 1 dc, and 1 short d c in 1, 2 sc in one. Bend the wire down the other side of the chain, and work on it 1 sc in the same stitch as the last, 1 short d c, and 1 d e in one, 1 dc, 1 short t c, and 1 tc in one, 12 tc, 1 tc, and 1 short tc in one, 2 d c, 1 dc, and 1 short dc in one, 1 sc slip. To fasten off, plait the end of wool with the two ends of wire, to form a small stem.

FOR THE FLOWERS. Wind some black floss round a card one inch wide, about twelve times; secure the threads at one edge of the card before slipping off. Cut the loops to form a tassel. Do three of these. For the poppy: with blue wool make a chain of 6, close it into a round, and work on it 1 dc in every stitch, with 1 ch between.

2nd round. Dc under every chain, with 2 ch between. Join on the darkest red wool. De under every chain, with 3 chain between. Join on the light red, x sc under one chain, 1 ch, 3 dc under the next chain, 1 ch, x all round. Sew in the little tassel of black floss at the centre of the flower, and it is complete.

Three of these poppies are to be made, and four rather smaller flowers, two of which are to be begun with straw colour, and finished with violet; the others finished with scarlet (both ombré).

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The flowers, leaves, and ears of corn sewed in groups on the outer wire of the basket. Two new stitches are introduced here. Short dc is begun like d c, but the thread drawn through three loops together. Short te is begun like t c, but the thread drawn through three loops first, and then through two. Each is a little shorter than the stitch from which it derives its name. AIGUILLETTE.

braid, which is flat, and always needs something to throw it up. In sewing on Albert braid, the stitches are to be taken across the thin parts of the cord. About four to every inch will be quite sufficient.

We have recommended black Albert and some other colour for this cushion. This colour should not be the same as the ground, but should contrast well with it. With crimson cloth for instance, green braid would look well, and vice versa. With blue, a yellow cord may be used, and with an orange ground a rich dark blue braid is very effective.

To prepare the work. Draw a quarter of the pattern, of the full size, on writing paper; then take a large sheet, fold it evenly in four thicknesses, lay the drawing over it, and prick the

outlines through all the folds of the paper. Lay the pattern, thus prepared, over the velvet, keeping it in its place by means of weights, and pounce it. Remove the paper; go over the marks with a solution of flake white and gum arabic, and with sharp-pointed scissors cut out the whole pattern on the velvet. Lay the velvet on the cloth, with every part properly arranged, and glue it down.

The black braid is laid at the edge of the velvet, and the coloured close to it, on the cloth. The fibres of the leaves are then worked in chain stitch with the coloured silk.

A square of black velvet, or of cloth like the ground, may be used for the back of the cushion, and a thick cord, with a tassel at every corner, is the proper trimming. AIGUILLETTE.

In compliance with the request of several of our friends, we give them a section of a very simple and inexpensive point lace handkerchief border. The pattern is to be repeated as often as required, to form half of each side, and reversed for the other half. It may be traced from the engraving, which gives the stitches with so much accuracy, that no possible difficulty can arise in working them. They are all to be found in the earliest point lace instructions. The three rows of Sorrento edging which form the outer border are done with W. Evans and Co.'s Mecklenburgh thread, No. 120. The same should be used for the Raleigh bars which form the ground-work for the

Mechlin wheels, and rosettes in the centres of the flowers.

The English and Brussls lace may be done with

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