HOVSE^AftM GARDEN *"*wMsper pl"Thiyaarer Outward or Homeward. Duval looked at him with a savage sir, where you and my lady was, she glare of his keen dark eyes, and slowly, rushes in, and as my name's Sarah Still are the ships that in haven ride, Chambers, that's all as Emily Carter said in a deep voice trembling suppressed The mans gaze'was fixed upon the a* s^St Waiti ig fair winds or turn of the tide to me." rage, said: Nothing they fret though they do not get childre.n Sir William's was^fixgd upon Out on the glorious ocean wide. ^"You had better not." him Though Chamber's information was He thought he remembered' fiimt hy should%iming O wild hearts, that yearn to be free, rdTT)e scientific? t/*Duvalr said* his** wife, gently pulling neither copioussnor distinct, it conveyed and so he did, for it was the acrobat Look, aud learn from the ships of the sea! Because .the ,xnanufacturer. labors in a him by the sleeve,and in a tone of mingled forcibly enough that the cbildren were in It was Duval!Duvkl. who had prayed scienrificcwayVnis *prbfifefcr-greater and pathos and humility, "never mind the danger,\and that the boat had something for vengence as the, sole lavaorffor Bravely the ships, in the tempest to sed|^ gentleman. We shouldn't have come in surer than the agriculturist whe has neither to do with it. which he would trouble heaven it wa Buffet the waves till the sea be crossed i. without-his leave. We humbly ask your machinery nor,, system .but it is the Not in the despair of the haven fair, Duval, at whose door, if he could be said It was impossible to describe'the pardon, sir. Come, Duval, let us go." Though winds blow backward, and leagues be unreasonable custom of many to sneer at ever to have had one, all the miseries of ghastly hue which spread over Sir William's lost. "Take your wife's advice, my man." life had knocked, and at whose hearth all innovations, and to look at all methodic face, as the thought flashed across O weary hearts that yearn for sleep, said the gamekeeper, "and don't came they bad seated themselves. For did not variations upon, the old' usages ts the his mind that his children had been Look, and learn from the ships on he deep! into gentlemen's parks no mere till such The Spectator. she, whom he had loved more than himself-Marthadid drowned. But he had hardly time to fanciful and unprofitable schemes of visionaries times *as you're invited. There now she not lie in, her realize the possibility of such a calamity, with more mqnej than commonsense. gather up your toggery and get out." cold grave, with her baby bv her side, in when in stole the curate, with a soft and It is the peoplev,who sneer that While Martha and the gamekeeper had THE ACROBATS REVENGE. the same pauper's coffin?" And now, smiling face. .are,usually the most deficient in the latter been speaking Duval's eyes* remained wTiafiwas lefVto, Duva)?T tolhait '"There is no imminent}dange^'* tie laid The sun was setting behind the hills of quality, however aht^ had, they a little riveted on Sir William's, The baronet for,,deatb. Mfiy^ so^thin|^more^%olive at "once. "There is yet half an hour, Mald6n, one June evening in the year had dared to threaten him with a blow more of it shey might .perceive that careful for revenge. during which it is quite possible to save of that whip with which he was wont to 1845, -when an acrobat, "with his wife, book-keeping and the adoption of improved No boat made its appearance, the tide them. But lose not a moment in sending and impliments are as chastise.dogs. Duval would have died methods1 were seen plodding along the road toward had risen six inches more, and nowyfliev a messenger on horseback to the sooner than endure such a degradation, saw tne boy Kneel down in' the, water, necessary in farming as in any other business. the next market town. nearest fisherman,bid,him bring lound his and he felt half inclined to spring upon and look up as if he wereipraying. And 4 boat directly. If you'll fend me one of T'ley were weary and sad. The acrobat Sir William as it was. and show him that only Duvai could save' him and5 his your horses, I'll go myself." himself was a man about thirty, of dark In'a Side hollow ol that hill from whicet when it comes to close fighting between sisteronly Duvall. He alone of all who Litchfield, first became visible to, us severalVer/ Orders were given tor the immediate complexion, with rayen-black hair curling man and man, wealth and rank make no stood there pould breast tne flood io the *l boy.1" distinct echoes cau be ob'tained, saddling of a horse and meanwhile Sir difference in pride of manhood or over his forehead. His eyes were rock and, ba'ck'risain with the thij^Wspoiisivehess of" the "purple William learned from Mr. Ling that Master strength of hifb Sir William saw tne black and piercing, and there was something 'Wjlry pot tel Sir William so? Why glens" gave a name to this farm. It vis William had run his boat upon a fierce spirit that was strugling in the acrobat's not indeed. Is not reveng& sweet? in his look which bespoke a nature Echo Farm-a pretty and poetically sugu sunsen rock and that the boy, with his breast. He telt that he could not jndeed which eonjere And still the .tide was rising. above that of a mountebank. Lady name,1 gestive sister, were now upon a point of rock a bear the steady gaze he fixed on him Windus, restored for a moment to oon, vissions of loveliness, and sets one to quarter of a mile from the shore from His wife was some years vounger, and and that his" proud and pver bearing an s-jiousness, but no sooner realized, ,her dreaming Of entertwinlng vines knitting which they were cut off by the flowing ture had met his match* His blood carried an infant child on her breast. position than she relapsed'irito insensibility. their pliant tendrils' and sweet-scented tide. In half an hour the point on which boiled with rage. She too had the appearance of a person leaves through the hospitable porch and "Ii they stood would be a foot below water, Sir William," said Duval, seue vou "Impudent villian!" he at last exclaimed, superior to her lot, and her face was open lattic the checked pichard of fruity and unless a boat be procured by that stamping on the giound, "do remember me. Once I thirsted for "re- comely to look upon. abundance the garrulms brook thatnever time they would be in peril' you dare to beard me,to browbeat me with venge upon you. For two years I thirsted tires of its own monodv ther* Tneir life was a hard one, but they bore In a few seconds more the saddled your insolate look? Take that." for it. Heaven has sentit to me. verberant trees that appease lire's turmoli horse stood at the door, Mr. Ling mount ii well. Nor, as yet, had all the harl And, lifting his arm, he brought down A bright light shot fiom his eyes as he with their easy undulations lofty barns ed it, and rode off. his whip with a thud on the acrobat's ships which poverty had brought into said this, and then walke4 slowly! down mostey with age and clattering mills down "By this time, however, Lady Windus back that could be heard as far off as the HeJ their door sent love, as tne proverb has it, to within a few paces ot" the water. in the seclusion of grasy hollows. was on her way to the shore. The moment Lodge. undressed he waded into the sea till it flying out of the window. But, alas! dear reader, 1 model farming she learned ot the boat, she guessed Mad with rage, frenzied with insult, came up to his bieast, and then, throwing They were now journeying to the market outftr*- is not idyllic or Aroadian i^is all the rest. inflexibly Duval, with a tiger spring, rushed at the ,y himself forward sfruck" jEhe' AAJ utilitarian it keeps all its bulldogs in a town of Maldon, and as to-morrow baronet, and dearly would Sir William The truth, however, was that Emily rock. perfect state of repair it sub rdinates would bb market day, Duval thought he have paid for his rash act if the acrobat and Miss Joan had been sent out in the We shall hot describe the Joy with the picturesque, if it ever recogn zes it it could only have had one blow at him delivered phaeton, under the charge of the page, might come in for a portion of the money which the parents, who hadj.watched in pulls down tne old mill becauset hat venerable with the prodigious strength of lor a drive that William, seeing the that would be changing hands. But as agonized suspense the acrobat's attempt is in the way -of the rectangular his muscular arm and broad shoulders. equipage, ran his boat in shore aud that to lescue their children, received them it was very desirable that he and his wife new dairy it diverts the brodk fiom its But, as Duval rushed forward, Leo, one as Emily declined to venture on accoun back to their arms. But while fhey were should have supper after a long day's ferny course into the most commonplace of the noblest* hbunds in Sir William's of her tendency to bile and her disiike of fondling them, Duval had dressed and oumey, and a place to sleep in, he was ot earthen pipes it tears away the mines kennel, wtiicn had for some time watched sharks, he took his sister, of his own slipped away. He had regained the road, that obscure the light, and it "looks upon anxious to earn a few pence in the town the parley between his master and lordly will and authority, under his protection. and was pursuing his journey with a every thing witn a prir ot the most ractical Duval with grave, sedate face, sprang upon or before reaching it, and presently an The boat struck, filled and went light step and a light heart, for he had eyes set in a head that weighs, measures, the acrobat and intercepted his attack. down and. by tne greatest good fortune, opportunity arose by which,as he thought, had his revenge. audits, analyzest^it chemical exactness. Meanwhile two under gamekeepers had William, with Joan in his arms, was able ,he might ao so. No, not all of it. Sir William no sooner The proprietor of Echo Farv arrived. And Lady Windus, from her to reach the point of rock on which he Almost opposite to him, at two or three missed him than he went in pursuit of conducts it as a manufactory. A record bedroom casement, saw the struggle between now stood. hundred yards' distance, was the lodge him. is kept of the milk and butter produced the man and the dog, and wonder and noble g? tew ay of a gentlemen's park. What were the feelings of Lady Windus Here," exclaimed the baronet, when by each cow for each day, each month, ed what it all could be about. As Duval approaced it he heard voices when she reached the shore and beheld at last he came up with him, endevoring each year all the feed is weighed and "Down, Leo, down!" cried Sir William sounding high and mirthful in the air her children on a small spot of rock, to put a well-filled purse, into ,Duval,s the quantity enterd upon books, both that and the dog sprang away from the the voice3 of children makidg merry, with with the sea all around themsmooth hand. "You have saved my*'Qnldren, purchased and that produced and a seperate man and sat down by his master's side. their light, young hearts, and their clear, almost as as glass, it is true, but with and are entitledI say entitledto a account is kept of the yield of each Now put him out," said the baronet, ringing laughter. tide flowing, and every minute covering reward." *j t*\ i fieldi Nothing is wasted, nothing is as he turned away and walked off toward As he came nearer and looked through a fresh portion of the rock on which hei Duval drew back his hand. done by guessing, and nothing passed the hall. the gate, he saw 'between twenty "and babes were standing. I have had it 1" he exclaimed, darting uniecorded. The empiiments are of the thirty children, in holiday attire, playing "It's no use making any more fuss a look of fierce and withering scorn But in vain did her mother's heart latest or most approved model. Three upon the lawn before an old and spacious about it," said the good-natured gamekeeper, at the baronet, and then turning from swell wilhin her till it was well-nigh sets of "horse" hay-forks are in use by mansion, which had belonged to the Windus as Duval ?prang upon his fee', him with an expression of contempt pursued bursting, as she saw the little dimpled which hay is unloaded at the late of a ton family for many generations, and his face and handsecoverediwithedust begind an his journey. hands of her Joan'' stretched out 'towaro iKyfour^forktulsa^d in four minutes, inc'uding Yo wer wrong th was now in the possession of Sir Windus, blood. her, and her brave boy take off his cap And the proud baronet stood looking in some ^njtanpes the carriage l\ the tenth baronet! and it was the birthday ning. Be advised, and go your way after him, rebuked and humbled. and wave it cheeringly to her with a hay 150 feet. The other machines also of his little daughter which the children quietly." manly courage, which he drew from her embody some W5velabbr-'&aying principles. were celebrating. fg And Duval was advised, the more eas 1 i i own generous blood much more than No manure or fertilizers are found A Model Confession. The acrobat's eyes kindled as he looked ily because of the appealing look hi$wife from his sire's. necessary, except the 1500 loads made Her in at t^e bevy of holiJay-makers' gave him as she gently wiped the blood Several years ago, in a Western town, a But could nothing be done? upon the farm, and -a sort of muck, of'' was a grand chance ldr him. Surely it from his face. He flung his box ence young lawyer, a member of a large Sir William now appeared on the road which there are several beds would delight the children to see him more over his shoulders, and walked church, got drunk. The brethem said he which ran along the shore. He wag followed The history piihe farm Is,interesting. flash his golden balls the air, whirling slowly toward the gate. He passed must confess. He demurred. He knew by the old gamekeeper, by Emily A gentleman ^ft/education, intelligence, 1 them up and down, iike. ttie veveraprmg through it, closed it, and then, pausing, the members to be aft good pteople*! but Carter, who had recovered, by Sarah hand1, and lifting it up and wealth came to Litchfield some nine ing stream of a fountain, purely all the he clenched his that they'had their little fruits, snob as Chambers, who wished to see with her years ago.in search ot a summpr home. other wonderful* thing's fie could "do towards Heaven, cried out, in the agony driving sharp bargains, screwing the laborers own eyes what the precise extent of the He'had the most tsupeificial knowledge would be the very thing for them. Surely of his heart:* "if down to low wages, loaning money danger was, by the housekeeper, the of farming, and entertained no intention^tl the great and wealthy parents would pay My God, I only ask this favor of Thee at illegal rates, misrepresenting articles stable boy* and a rat-catcher who happened of entering that business. But having 1^ handsomely for the amusement of the little that I may one day be revenged!" fhey had for sale, etc But they were to be passing along the road at the purchased sixty-six acres and cleared ladies and gentlemen, He paused for ^So he and his wife resume their journey. good people, and pressed the lawyer to time and was drawn to the beach by that them, he purchased additional tracts a moment, then slowly pushed open the come before the church meeting and own love of the terrible which kings, philosophers, which becamse the nucleus of Echo Farm. gate, and walked in toward the lawn, fol area i now about 40 0 acres Presently a pony chaise, diiven by a lady, up his sin of taking a glass too much for high damsels and low, noble whose1 lowed by iris wife. was heard behind them when it came they were temperance people, and abhorred marquises, baronets and Tat-catchers share intorest was enlisted in the raising Had there be#n any one there whose close toithem, the lady drew up, and asked intemperance equally among-them.' choice stock, and beginning with a ht permission he* could have asked, he them, with alight agitation, the way to The sinner (finally went to the confesof Well, was there no one theie who fiye,-he gradually ineT*?5d he nurl would no doubt have done sd. But there Natwich then asked Martha whether the sion, found a large gathering of brethem could swim? berito &U0, all the'-heM being ,'p^re was no one but the children themselvesand, infant she carrried was a boy or a girl, aud sisters, whose bowed heads lose' and seys. with authentic and. valuable pe Unhappily Sir William coijld not, nor therefore* addressing one of f$he oldest, looked at it, kissed it, dropped a sovereign whose eyes glistened with pure delight grees. Thu "rocky fields "were dearth.nost tht gameKeeper. The rat-catcher being he asked her if they would iike to into Martha's hand, and suddenly as the lawyer began his confession. laid out, and inclosed by massive applied to by Emily Carter, looked at see some of his feats. The girl smilingly drove off. It was Lady Windus. "I confess," he said, "that I never took walls'.-. "'Old and inadequate Imildings on that young peison solemnly for several replied that they would and*all the little ten per cent, for money On thaf!\don- the consolidated land were demolished, seconds, and then quietly closed his eyes, CHAPTER II. faces, with their great eyes, were turned fession down went a-brother's heaoV&wlth and new ones of improved patfem erected. and thus addressed her Two years past, and a beautiful lady upon the acrobat and the w6ndertu box a groan. "I never tarned a poor man In 1873 a bam 66 feet by 25 was 'Young woman, do you see this here reclined upon a sofa in a large and richly which he took from his 'shoulders and from my door who needed food or shel- built an addition, 100 feet b,y 40, was rat in this here cage?" furnished drawing-room of a couutrv laid upon the ground. tAnd ter." pown went another bead.! ^IXonfess"I made the following yeari and in 1875 another "Well?" demanded Emily, with much mansion/ every thing about which betokened now th&reyes o|/wond,er openeoas never sola a sMui milk cheese for a addition was made, of 191 feet by dignity. the great wealth of the proprietor far as they could go. And so intent was new milk one, 'whereupon a sister shrieked 35. These three buildings from the three who sat by the window, patting the head his little audience in watching the aero "Then, unless some on you can swim for mercy. "But," concluded the sinner, sides of the barn-yard. Tht are built of a noble mastiff, which every now and furder nor me, or unless a boat comes up, bat, and so intent was Duval in catching "I nave been drunk, and am very of pine upon massive granite foundations ihen looked up at its master, aifd gave a tf or unless-something else happens, which his brass balls, that none of them perceived fir sorry for it.'P I about two feet wide, which are laid in cement. bark,' as it to ask what he could do for sees no promising sign on, I that Sir William Windus was approaching Whereupdh the meeting very pea'ceably All the'wood-work is painted him. There was not much that dog or wouldn't give the life of this here rat ftu with his gamekeeper. He dispersed. soft drab color, even the propnetor's res man could do for the wealthy owner ot the life of them two children.*' came forwaid with lapid strides, and idence, and the telegraph poies that line Windus Park, for time had lavished on And the tide was rising. Smooth as when within a lew paces of Duval, he Wnat the Hired Sia'n Sahi?, tha.roadwa^ him all her favorsancient de-cent, great glasssmooth, spacious and smiling as called out to him, in a voice of thunder: nplicft.f .4 rfs J,n d|r|bili,iy Gentry was wont to employ a singular wealth, a beautiful wife, and two promising A qesirjj a lying hypocrite it was rising, and Lady "Vagabond! how dare you enter here?" O jraaatfeptitioji or showi- method of slackening or quickening the children. Well -niight Sir William Windus could see that it was alieady For a moment Duval stood astounded in pMfereliC le*:veryWlki| Merevis pace of a walking companion to suit bis no be proud. licking the feet of her children. and dumb at this sudden interruption. lateriandFtr, pre ire rmMw Jntfhe jencfes own inclination. To say,'' he would Suddenly the luxurious silence of the "Look, look, William I" she exclaimed, He saw before him a gentleman much chwlreffo)Q inches argue, "you walk too fast or too slow is yuJistiti room was disturbed by a loud clamor in at the same time directing her husband's taller than himself, in shooting coat and \o twenty-four in thickness, every crevice unpolite but to sing softly an air t6 the the hall, in which questions were heard attention to the rock "he lifts her up boots, with a felt hat, norrow shouldered, being tilled like a mosaic with a stone time of the walk of your companion, and rapidly put by some one in an agitated The water is at their feet! My God! fair, with a shaven lip and chin, but bushy that exactly fits it. Oare, thrift, and ingenuity the by degrees either to quicken the time can we do nothing?" voice: "Where is mylady? Where is Sir whiskers of deep tawny hue his eyes, of have acted like threet or make i slower,.is as jr-nocent as it is charms. William?" and the next moment Emily a bluish gray, large and bright, and his Yes, it Was true. The water was* at convenient."/? Tne JprJhdiplelof Gretry's When the fields were being clesfcea,'iuch Carter, Miss Joan's maid, lushed into"the bearing that of an aristocrat, with a strong their feet. William had raised Joan in ruse was well exemplified in the case ofthe large quantities' of btpnei were gathered drawing-room. dash of the Dully. his arms and as he saw his mother bared hay his1 stingy farmer who gave that some perplexity^arlose as to where Sir William and,Lady ,Windus started direct the baronet's attention to them, "Come, pack up your trumpery and be maker buttermilk and whey for breakfast, Sftfe^sjijpuld be put Many hundreds cf he called out, though she couldn't hear gone!" said the baronet, seeing that Duval p 7- and Agoing ?tq, the ^fielfl heard the Jpads were used in foundations of the him: stood looking at him. man singing in atdrawftng wfcy, bulidings, in the fences, and filling ravines, "What is the matter?^ demanded the But the acrobat had recovered his self "All right, mamma there's, .plenty of B-u t-t-e-r-m-i 1 and whey, but more remained," and these baronet. time yet." possession, and now said, with a firm v| I Faint all day, timejtall faint day$ r/ were "Oh, Sir William! oh, my lady- oh, deposited upon several sterile hillock's'of roice: Plenty of time! The sea w&s flowing the tune. The hisr scythe keeping no value, where masses of swap my dear, good lady" "I meant no offense, your honor, nor in. Otten as the party on the shore next morning the farmer set 4 good meal grass were laid over them, and covered Aud then Emily shrieked three or four to harm any one or anything belonging turned their eyes in the direction in of .bacon and eggs before tfte man, and withjaJLightjitessing oj sfiil. fQrasg seed times running, and, turning white as to you. I saw the children, and made which Mr. Ling had ridden to procure a when he went to see how he""was getting -W death, fell back into the chair in a fit. bold to enter, thinking it would please boat there was nothing insight. on with his work, iound his arms going loon transforming the barren "heaps" to "Heavens and earth!" exclaimed them to see my'' Lady Windus had fainted. Sir William s^viftly[1tofBac6dfand eg^Jfeka^cm of verdant knolls,iWhose blades are remarkably Sir-William "What is the meaning of all "Oh, that's a very old story," said the stood a picture of agony, Jpoking ydurle'gs!"-(7^wi6iJ's mhialP VK hardy. It was not so much for the this? Chambers, do^ou know?" baronet. "When thieves and gypsies at his children Sarah Chambers, Emily, sake of the land gained 'that? the stones "Only. Sir Willijm," said Chambers, prowl about gentlemen's parks we all and the stable boy were grouped Most housekeepers throw away the weie thus dispo0d of, bjrb it fwas. .rather veiy wly, and' selecting her words know that their intentions are perfectly round the old gamekeeper, who assisted leaves and green tops of celery! There to prevent the formation of nurseries for with a precision which showed that she innocent." them in shedding many tears, but had is a better way jthan this. "Dry them weedp, shrubs^an i(br^mb"tes, was resolved neither to under or overstate which the "Do you call me a theif, sir?" said nothing better to offer to his young thoroughly in the oven, pulverize to a would have quickly become. what she [had heard fJcom Emily Duval, his dark cheek coloring aud his master and Miss Joan, though he avowed, fine powder, and sthey make a very de "Only, Sir William, this much. "Emily Two and ahatf acres are 'planted with eyes flashing fire and perhaps truly, that he was ready licious seasoning for soup, the,Aroma and Carter came to the door, as I were looking beets which'are theViniy toots feefl'to the "Scoundrel!" rushingexclaimedfac Sirand William, to die for them. strength of the celerv beyig remarkably his biood into his mak out of the lawn, and with an awful cattle, therbp -averaging 1000 bushels The rat-catcher had seated himself on well preserved* After being pulverized, countenanceand evecy one knows what an acre, and more than S000 tons of hay ing it in a moment red with rage "do hepowde^should^be kept in ajar or a stone. Emily's countenance ia when Emily's in are housed a year.W. H. Bideing, you think I would chat logic with a losed bottle'to pr ppprvp the strength. "Are those your children?" asked a one ot her ^s Hamper's Magazine for Oetbher.' strolling vsgabond like you! I told you man who stood at Sir William's side, but "Confound it wpman| come lb the to pack up and be off. Do so at once.",. whose approach had not been noticed. There isn't much difference between an Centennial Cake. Two capa of sugar poin*!" cried Sir Williaml And as the baronet uttered his command The baronot did not turn to look at the old Roman soldier and a cannibal who 1 a*f i cup of butter half a cup of sweet "So, sir, she say&tto^nic," said Chambers, he raised the hand in which he speaker. It was some seconds, indeed, has iust dined on a nice young female iLilk, thiee cups of flour, five eggs, (beat suddenly quickening her pace "the held the whip as if about to strike the before he recognized that any one had Missionary, lor the former was a gladiator, the whites separately) two teaspoonfuls children,' says she 'the boat,' says she: acrobat. addressed him, but when he did, he re- and the latter is glad-be-ate-her too of baking powder. 'where's my lady?' And when I told her A &? 4~ v&& "BPRrr iTrfaffffl.1ifWmffiTSSTfl Jra