emmu J-.-. EVEN THIS SHAIX PAS3 AWAY." THE SPANISH TH1SONE. which had already siezed the skirt of onethe had emptied a good many How Single-Handed a Robber "Isn*t that worthy of Plutarch, Bricourt?" the old tunic, grew motionless, his face glasses since the morningshrugged Tied up Seventeen Men to Trees. Once in Persia reigned a king, his shoulders but fortunately the captain face darkened, his lips began to tremble, And then the pain in my arm was From the Pall Mall Gazette, An Account of the Disputed Succession Who upon his signet ring did not notice him. and locking down, he muttered, so great that I fainted away again, and and the Claims of Don Carlos. Grave a maxim true and wise, The other day in one of the jail, of in a tone of horror: In the middle of the ni*ht I was heard nothing more. Which if held before his eyes tt& New Zealand, there died a man who Philadelphia Times. "My God! Supposing it were his?" wakened up suddenly. I sprang from You know "what followed. I have 'Gave him counsel at a glance for many years had been an object, the heap of straw I had been sleeping The dispute over the Spanish succession, Then, with a &udden movement, he often told you how they hacked about Fit for every change and chance '^1 first of terror, then of interest, to the on the corner of a farm yard, and by turned the tunic round.so that I could "Solemn words, and these are they to which the death of Alfonso my shoulder, and how I lay in the ambulances colonies. The early years of Henry "Even this shall pass away." the light of the moon I saw Thirsty see, in the middle of the back, a little for two months with fever gives fresh interest, has its origin in A-', Garrett are shrouded in a veil of mystery, with a young girl in his arms, all torn round hole in the clotha hole made and delirium. And in my restless, the abolition by Ferdinand VH., by Trains of camels through the sand but in 1842 herecieved a sentence and dishevelled, and calling on the by the bulletwith a dirty-looking wakeful hours, I was always wondering Brought him gems from Samarcand tne pragmatic sanction of March 29, in England of ten years penal servitude. Madonna and all the saints in heaven black circle round it, of dried blood, what I ought to do apoutThirsty. Fleets of galleys through the seas 1830, of the Salic law of the Bourbon to save her. He was struggling furiousiy, As at that time penal servitude probably an ill-looking hole, that Brought him pearls to match with these, Ought I to denounce him? I thought like a lion,with a lot of peasants and family. This was done at the instigation also meant transportation. Henry But he counted not his gam made one feel both horror and pity' I ought. But then, what proofs soldiers who were trying to rescue her Treasures of the mine or main, was removed to the colony of Norfolk as if it had been a wound. of his wife, Maria Christina, a had I to show? And after "What is wealth?" the king would say, from him. I ran up to help, out Captain island. In that Pacific region he disported "Oh, oh!" said I to Pere Vidal, who all, if he was a scoundrel he was a Neapolitan princess, and the result "Even this shall pass away." Gentile got there before me. himself his full term, for it is had dropped thegarment and walked brave soldier. He had killed Captain was to make their daughter, who was With one glance"he had a very commanding not until 1855 that he again appears. on with a hurried step, hanging his Gentile, but he had taken a flag from In the revels of the court, born in that year,the heir to the throne glance, had the little Corsicanhe In that year Garrett, having reached head "there is an ugly scar." At the zenith of his sport, the enemy! I could not make up my in place of his brother, Don Carlos. drove back the sergeant cowed When the palms of all his guests And guessing there was some tale attached Australia, boldly conceived and boldly mind what to do. When at length I then when he had spoken a few The latter entered a protest against his Burned with clapping at his jest3, to it, I added, to goad my companion carried out a most daring bank robbery. began to get better, I learned that, He, and his figs and wine, reassuring words to thegirl.in Italian, exclusion from the throne, which was into relating it: Garrett determined to carry as a reward for his briliiant conduct, 'Cried: "0, loving friends of mine. he came back and stood before the culprit, "It is not generally in the back that sustained by the Bourbonic courts ot out his scheme single-handed, and proceeded Thirsty had been promoted into the Pleasure comes, but do not stay!" and shaking his finger before the a captain of Zouaves gets hit by a bul- with the utmost coolness to do regiment of Zouaves of the Guard, and Even this shall pass away!" Italy, and on the death of Ferdinand other's face. let." his little job in broad daylight. Posting that they had given him the cross of VII. in 833 he was proclaimed Charles Fighting on a furious field But he did not seem to hear me he a notice on the outside of the bank the Legion of Honor. For the first "They ought to blow out the brains V., being supported by a majority Once a javelin pierced his shield.' was mutteiing to himself, and biting moment it made mefeel disgusted with at Pallarat he had selected for his of wretches like you," said he. "As Soldiers with a loud lament of the clergy and the country people his mustache. my own cross, that the colonel had operations, that the establishment soon as I can see the colonel you shall Bore him bleeding to his tent. throughout the kingdom. "How could it have come there? It brought me in the hospital. And yet would be closed for an hour, have your sergeant's stripes taken ^Groaning from his tortured side, is a long way from the battle-field of "Pain is hard to bear," he crief after all, Thirsty deserved his as well The Salic law, ft may be explainedwas from you and it will be for good this he went in, shut the front door after *'But with patience, day by da Melegnano to the Boulevard de Grenelle. as I did mine but he deserved, too, the code established by the Sali, time. There will be a battle to-morrow him, and, presented a loaded revolver Even this shall pass away!" Yes, I know, there are the vultures, that his ribbon should serve as a target ans or Salic Franks who, under Clovis you had better try and get kill- at the heads of the surprised and who follow the army and plunder for a file of men told off to shoot founded the French monarchy. Under ed." somewhat disconcerted officials, he Towering in the public square, the corpses. But why just there, him. All that happened long ago, and the Salic laws females were prohibited demanded the conterfts of the safe. Twenty cubits in the air, We went back to bed again. But not two steps from the Military I have never seen the sergeant since, from inherting landed property and Rose his statue carved in s.tone. Receiving this he quietly locked the the captain was right, and before the School, but where the other's regiment Then the king, disguised, unknown, he is still in the service, while I have this feature of their law continued to clerks in the building, and departed break of day we were awakened by a is quartered? And he must have Stood before his sculptured name turned civilian. But just now looking prevail in France with respect to the smiling by the back door, with a profit cannonade. We flew to arms and Musing meekly, "What is fame? passed here he must have recognized at that tunic which its bullet-hole inheritance of the crown, and also in of 6,000 as the reward of his commercial formed in a column, Thirsty taking Fame is but a Blow decay it. Oh, it is like seeinz aghost." and God knows how it ever got there! Spain, under the Borbon line, until enterprise. his place next to me. I thought I had Even this shall pass away!" "Come now, Pere Vidal," said I, hanging there in the shop, with the the date referred to. The transfer of, never seen his fierce blue eyes look more taking him by the arm, intensely interested barracks where the murderer is quartered the crown therefore, to the Infanta Struck with palsy, sere and old, terrible. The battalion began its With this sum Henry escaped to "you are not going on talking only a few yards off, I remembered Isabella, with the Queen Mother Maria Waiting at the Gates of Gold, march. We were to dislodge the England, but being followed by a detective riddles you may just as well tell Said he, with his dying breath, that crime that had gone unpunished, Christina as regent, was a departure white coats, who had taken "Life is done, but what is death?' he was caught in the streets of me what that old, torn tunic has reminded and. it seemed as if the captain's from,tradition that was opposed by a up their position in the village oj Then in answer to the king you of." London. The trick by which he was ghost cried out for justice. very large parfc o"f the natron. The Melegnand", which they Tiad fortified Fell a sunbeam on his ring, captured was rather a mean one. The But I verily believe that if he had Carlists were at first so successful that I quieted Pere Vidal as best I could, with cannon. Forward march! We Showing by a heavenly ray, not drank those two absinths I should detective thought that he recognized Christina was compelled to obtain for his story had put him in a great "Even this shall pass away. hadn't gone two miles when, bang! the i never have heard the story for when his man, but not being quite sure that foreign recuits for her army, but after state of excitement. I assured him Austrian cannon burst upon us sidewise I asked him to tell me, Pere Vidal he was the right one, he gives a loud the death of Zumalacarreguy, theCarlist that he acted for the best, and that and knocked over fifteen of our THE BULLET-HOLE. shot a suspicious and almost frightened "coo-ee" from the sidewalk, and the leader, the royal troops, under the heroic conduct of the sergeant of men. After that the officers, who glance at me, then suddenly, as if unsuspecting Australian, doubtless command of Espartero, gradually Zouaves had fully balanced his crime. were only waiting for the order to he had made up his mind, he began to thinking to help a fellow-colonist in gained the ascendancy. It was not, But a few days aiter, when I went to charge, made us he down in the maize speak, in a dry, hard voice: however, until 1830 that the Carlists distress, turns sharply around, and is the office, Vidal handed me a newspaper, BY FRANCOIS COPPEE. fields like the sharpshooters. They Well, then, yes, I will tell you about were finally overpowered and Don as sharply nabbed. Sent back to folded so that I could only see At the time when I was employed in remained standing themselves, of it for you are a clever young man, Carlos fled to France, though the war Austraina he was tried and received a one paragraph, and remarked, solemnly: course, and I can tell you our captain the War Office, I had a companion and honorable, and I can trust you was not fully ended till a year later. sentence of ten years' penal servitude. stood up as straight as any of them. who worked in the same room with and you will tell mehonestly, on "What did I tell you?" Upon the expiration of his term Garrett This was not acomplished until the We men, kneeling among the cornstalks, your consciencewhether you think I me, called Jean Vidal, an old noncommissioned shook off the dust from his prison I took the newspaper, and this is government had made many concess kept up an incessant fire on was right to act as I did. Let me shoes and crossed over to the what I read- officer, who had lost ions to the progressive party or exaltades the Austrian battery, which was within seewhere shall I begin? Ah! in the neighboring colony of New Zealand. and radicals, and had been compelled range. Suddenly I felt some one (his" left arm in the Italian campaign, "ANOTHER VICTIM OP IXTEMPERAXCE. first place, I can not tell you his name Among many well-planned robberies, to adopt the modified constitution Yesterday afternoon, on the Boulevard de nudge my elbow. I turned around put who had still his right hand, the the other's, I mean, because Grenelle, a man named Mallet, commonly with the skillful execution of 1812. Soon after this other and saw Thirsty loading his rifle and he is still alive. I shall have ["cunning hand" of a quartermaster, called Thirsty, a sergeant in the Zouaves ol of which he distinguished himself, agitations arose, and in the autumn looking at me with a sort of daredevil the Imperial Guaid, who had been drinking to call him by the nickname we gave (with which he executed all sorts of chiefly conspicuous was the of 1840 Marie Christina resigned and smile lurking in the corners of deeply in all the public houses of the him in the regiment. Thirsty, we feat he accomplished of "sticking up" left Spain with a number of conservative hi3 mouth. wonders in the calligraphic line, round neighborhood, with two of his companions, called him, and he deserved the name, not far from Dunedin, and relieving leaders, leaving the government in was suddenly seized with an attack of delirium hand, flourishes, Gothic letters, and "You see the captain?" said he, too, for he was one of those fellows tremens, while he was looking at them of their valuables. The process the hands of the progressive ihe could draw a little bird in the final jerking his head toward that officer, who are never out of the canteen, and some old uniforms hanging in the window partj^ The Cortes appointed of "sticking up" is charmingly eimple. who Avas standing at a distance of would toss off his twelve glasses of of a second-hand clothes shop. He ran flourish of his signature, with a single Espartero regent during the minority The operator bounces out Irom his down the btreet, blandishing his sword and about twenty feet from us. brandy, one for each stroke, when the of the Queen, and under his administration stroke of his pen. ambush upon an unsuspecting party "Ye5? what of it?" I answered, looking spreading terror before him. The two clock struck twelve. He was sergeant great advances were made in of travelers, and,with loaded revolver soldiers* who accompanied him had the He was an upright man, was Vidal, in the same company whore I was in the same direction. the internal economy of Spain, until greatest difficulty in mastering the madman, raised, he cries out "Bail up!" whereuponeverybody quartermaster, and we walked side by "What of it? He ought not to have a, true type of a pure hearted and who kept shouting with fury "I am an attempt was made to seize upon knowing what is side in the ranks. A good soldiera spoken to me as he did last night." not a murderer! I took a flag from the honorable soldier. Though he was church property provoked general insurrection, meantall the men instantly throw capital soldier. A drunkard, quarrelsome, Aubtrians at Melegnano'" We are informed Then with a rapid, well calculated and in 1843 Espartero in their hands in the air. Any one making scarcely forty then, and there was that Mallet really was decorated for the and a brawler, he had all the movement he leveled his piece and his turn embarked for England. The an effort to get at his sidearms is gallant act, and that nothing but his inveterate but a sprinkling of gray hairs in his faults ot an African army. But he fired. I saw the captain, with a sudden, queen was in this year declared of age, drunkenness has prevented his shot. It requires a certain amount of was as brave as an African lion. He convulsive spasm, throw back fair Zouave beard, in the office we all a moderate ministry was formed, being promoted to the rank of an officer. courage to do this simple tiickwell. was not an easy one to manageyou his head and beat the air with his Mallet was taken to the military hospital, called him "Pere Vidal," less out of Christina was recalled, and soon after Mr. Garrett, as usual, single-handed, could see that with the first look at hands, then drop his sword, and fall the Gros-Caillou, whence he will shortly be the constitution of 1845 was adopted. familiarity than out of respect for we managed his seventeen men himself. his sun-burnt face, with its red beard romoved to Charenton, as it is doubtful if heavily backward to the ground. The ups and downs of the reign of In a sboit time he had them all tied all knew his honorable, self-denying the unfortunate man will ever recover his and cold, steel-blue eyes. When I "Murderer!" I cried, seizing the sergeant's Isabella II, have nothing to do with reason." to tiees. and then, at his own convenience, joined the regiment Thirsty had just life down there in his cheap lodgings arm. the present subject. There v\ ere several ho emptied their pockets. With finished his time he ie-enli&ted. received As I gave back the newspaper to .at the bottom of Grenelle, where But he sent me rolling two or three Carlist outbreaks during this the kindliness of heart which was so the bounty, and went in for a Vidal, he looked earnestly at me and feet from him, with a blow in the chest he had taken in his sister,a widow with period in favor of Don Carlos, Count pleasing a characteristic ot our amiable three-days' regular carouse, in the added: from the butt-end of his rifle. de Montemolin, known as Charles VI., a tribe of children, and where he supported bushranger, he made a good fire, lowest parts of Algiers. With four or "Captain Gentile was a Corsican. "Fool' How will vou prove I killed the son of the brother of Ferdinand boiled a billy of water and gave them the old family on the slender five boon companions like himself, He has taken his revenge!"Translated him?" VII., already spoken of as Charles V. all tea. Moreover, knowing the solace they drove about all packed in an income he derived from his pension, trom the French for the Argonaut. I sprang to my feet, furious: but all On his death, in 1861, his right devolved of tobacco, he filledfrom their own open carriage, and flourishing a tricolored the rest rose at the same time. For Ins cross, and his salary. Three on his brother, Don Juan, who, pouchesthe pipes of such of the party with the motto, "This can't there was our colonel, bareheaded, on thousand francs for five people' And in October, 1868, abdicated in favor who smoked and lighted them. last forever!" on it. He was brought his smoking horse, pointing with his of his son,, the present Don Carlos, His Wife's Queer Little a Pere VidaFs coatswith the left sleeve, Then wishing them a kindly "Goodnight, back to the barracks with his head sword to the Austrian battery, and the titular Charles VII. This was immediately good-night!" Mr. Garrett vamosed. cut open by a sword wound, that he the empty sleeve, fastened to the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. shouting with all his might. alter the success of the insurrection had got in some Moorish den, where A Lewiston business man's wife had third buttonwere always brushed "Forward, zouaves! Charge with in 1868 and the flight of he had a fight with the Arabs. Some the bayonet!" been away on a visit to the old home Pompey and the 'Possum. as if he were going to a review, Isabella from Spain. Don Carlos did woman there got a kick in the What could I do but charge with the not make his entry into Spain in assertion in another city. He had lived, during and the good man was so careful of Washington letter to The Philadelphia Record. scramble,and died. Thirsty got well rest? And it was a fine thing, too, of his claimto the throne until her absence, ostensibly at home, but he was sent to prison fqr a fortnight, his red ribbon, which he kept always that charge of the Zouaves at Melegnano! 1873, the country having in the meanwhile Of course, you have heard the classic and had his stripes taken from him. really has been living on porterhouse .bright, that he used to take it out of Have you ever seen a heavy been passing through a period 'possum story which is always told It was the second time he had been sea beating against a rocb? Yes? steaks at the hotel, and had just his button-hole when he carried a of storm and stress with various when 'possum is mentioned? No? Well, put back into the ranks. If it hadn't Well, that is just what it is like. One experimental governments. After been elected president of a new whist parcel in the street, an old darkey once caught a 'possum been for his bad conduct, Thirsty after the other, three companies rushed the failure of the attempt to club in which he had a young redcheeked one cold Thanksgiving Day. and taking would have been an officer long ago, As I lived in the suburbs toward up there like a wave over a rock. establish Amadeus, son of the King it home to his cabin, built up the fire for he belonged to a very respectable girl for a partner, and while Three times the battery was covered the south of Paris at that time, I of Itaiy, upon the throne, Marshal and put it in the pot. Then he lay family and had been well educated. of course he deeply regretted the enforced with the blue coats and red breeches, often walked home with Pere Vidal, Serrano, whose death is just announced, down, tired out, with his feet to the Well, he lost his stripes after the affair and three times we saw the embankment absence of his own dear wife, and who was elected President of .and I used to take pleasure in getting fire, darkey fashion, and want to sleep. with the Moorish woman, but he got bristling with its caunons' the Republic, became the virtual ruler, he was managing to get along without Saim to give an account of his campaigns, As he lay there snoring while the 'possum them back again eighteen months later, mouths reappear like the rock when and devoted himself to the suppression simmered in the pot his son, a at the same time that I myself rose to as we walked past the Military pining away very rapidly. The other the wave has spent itself. of the Carlists. In this he succeeded, limber, bright-eyed youth, glided into be sergeant-quartermaster, thanks to School, meeting at every stepit was night he and his roseate partner bad But the fourth company, that was but seeing a Republic to be impracticably the cabin. He took in the situation the kindness of the captain, who had qin the latter years of the empirethe ours, carried the place. For myself, just swept the board. They had had he made no opposition to the restoration in a moment. The 'possum was ready great patience with Thirsty. He was ihandsome uniforms of the Imperial in twenty strides Ireached the redoubt of the other branch of the a thirteen-trick hand and the rest of to be eat* and its strong aroma filled an old soldier himself, and had seen and helping myself with the butt-end "Guards, the pioneers in green, the lancers royal family in the person ot Alfonso. the room. Stepping softly to the fire him under fire in Kabylie the table was nowhere. of my rifle, I clambered up in white, the artillery officers in In 1876 after a long and gallant struggle, the graceless youth took the 'possum But just at that time our old captain The Lewiston man went home at the embankment I had just the Carlists received a final defeat their magnificent sombre" uniforms, out of the pot and rapidly devoured was promoted and left the regiment, time to see a blue cap, a pair 10:30. Things looked just the same. and Don Carlos withdrew from Spain. -black and gold. It was worth while its gamey flesh, chuckling softly to and they sent us out a young of fair mustaches, and the muzzle of a He composed himself to write his In a manifesto issued from Pans he himself as he did so. When he had to get killed in such a costume as fellow only twenty-eight to take his gun that was almost touching me said: "Being desirous of putting a customary letter, beginning, "It is now eaten all there was to eat he gathered that. place. He was a Corsican named Gentile, and then I felt such a blow on my left step to bloodshed, I forbear continuing half-past 8 o'clock. I have just come the bones in a little pile beside the fireplace, Sometimes in the warm summer a cold, ambitious man, just out shoulder that I thought my arm h.id a glorious but at present fruitless and then smearing a little of the in from my work on the books. I am -evenings I used to treat my companion of the schoola very good officer, they been torn off and I turned ciddy, struggle. I will never sign a convenio. 'possum grease on the mouth and nose awfully tired, dear, and miss you so to an absinthea pleasui*e that said, but fearfully hard on the men. dropped my rifle, rolled over on my My flag remains furled until the momjnt of the sleeping man he stole softly out much. I don't want to hurry you gpoor Vidal denied himself out of economyand He would give you eight days under side by a wheel of one of the gun-carriages, when God shall fix as the supreme By and by old Pompey awoke. The home, and I want you to stay as long we used to sit for half an arrest, for a spot of rust on your rifle and fainted away. hour of ledemption. air was redolent of boiled 'possum Siour in front of the officers' cafe in as you feel like it, this time, for I shall or a button missing off your gaiters When I opened my eyes again there It will be seen that the situation today the old man's mouth watered. Rising tthe Avenue de la Motte-Piquet. On he had never served in Algeria, and he not want to let you leave me again," was only a laint sound of musketry is almost identical with that when 1 slowly to his feet he took of the lid of these days the old quarter master, who had no notion of any insubordination in the distance. The Zouaves were &c. the grandfather of the present Don the pot and looked in. "Jerusha had become a sober family man, and or disorder. From the very first moment there, standing in a sort of disorderly Carlos asserted his claim to the throne. He finished the letter and stamped mightyr he exclaimed, "it's done was cut of the habit of taking "ap- he and Thirsty were at daggers half-circle, shouting, "Long live the The proclaimed heir is a girl baby of and directed it, and then took a look gone.' ^Then glancing down at the petizers," used to rise from the table drawn. That they were sure to be. emperor!" and waving their rifles at three or four years old, just as Isabella at the stailit evening, and thinking he nreplace, he saw'the whitened bones, with his brain stimulated to heroic The first time the sergeant was absent arm's length in the air. was, with her mother as regent, the would finish his cigar (henever used to and passing his hand over his mouth jfchoughts, and I was sure to have some at roll-call he put him undei* arrest An old general with his aid-de-camp Queen mothers have even the same smoke in the house), walked out to he felt and smelled the'possum grease. jStirring tale of the wars as we walked for a week the first time he got drunk, came galloping up he stopped his name. The difference is that Charles the corner. When he got back he A broad smile spread over his puzzled Jhonie. for a fortnight. When the captain horse, took off .his gold-striped cap, V. contended against an innovation heard a rustle in the dining room and One eveningI believe, God forgive face: "Good Lawd!" he exclaimed, 1 a little dark man, as stiff as a and waved it joyfully, shouting: upon recognized tradition, and the looked in. The light had been moved. "I done forgot 1 ate him!" "me, that Pere Vidal had drunk two poker, with bristling mustachesordered "Well done, Zouaves! You are the claim of Isabella, had to be asserted There was a head bending over the glasses of absintheas we went along him under arrest, adding, in a finest soldiers in the world!" by force of arms. She became a de light. His wife's smiling face looked that horrid'Boulevard de Grenelle, he stern tone: "I know my friend, and More Lawyers' Than Does. I sat up, leaning against the wheel facto queen her son has been a de u\ out of the radiance beneath th* lit- stopped suddenly before the window I mean to master you!'' Thirsty never of the gun-carriage, holding my broken facto king, recognized as such by the shade and greeted him. She was read I fell across an amusing story the of a second-hand clothes shopthere answered a word, but walked quietlv paw, dismally, in my right hand, laws of the land and the representatives ing the letter. His heart dropped other day in Mme. Adam's interesting 5 -are a good many in that quarter. It away toward the guard-room still, I and I began to remembtr Thirsty's of the nation. Charles VII. thus down his trousers' leg. He felt like book, "La Patrie Hongroise." says was a dirty, sordid shop, with rusty fancy the captain would have lowered horrible crimeshooting his captain has the force all against him, and the death. "I'm reading a charming letter K. London Life. Hungary, says Mme. .pistols, bowls full of buttons, and. his tone a bit, all the same if he had from dehind, on the battle-field. sentiment of legitimacy has not the from you," said she. "So kind of Adam, swarms with barristers. It is Garnished Epaulettes in the window, seen the sergeant's face reddened with power now that it had half a century you! It sounds like those ycu used All at once he left the ranks and the ambition of the Hungarian peasant and hanging before the door, among anger, and now his terrible blue eyes ago. If Don Carlos were a little less of to write before we were married." came forward toward the general. to make one of his sons an advocate dirty rags, there was here and there flashed as he turned away. a Bourbon he might very probably The iady read il, through and then The very man himself, Thirsty, the as it is the ambition of the Breton some old officer's coat rotte i by the become tne center of conservative read it aloud. castain's murderer! He had lost his and the Irish peasant to make one son crain and fretted by the sun, with a Meanwhile the emperor declared policy but the course of this country is fez in the fray, and his close shaven "If she'd only a got mad I'd been a priest. The son of a small farmer in ort of vague human resemblance in war on Austria, and we were all not toward a Bourbon restoration head was bare, with a wound across all right," said the Lewiston man, the neighborhood of Pesth was sent' its tight waist and broad shoulders. shipped off to Italy. I pass over the even in Spain. it, from which a narrow stream of Tuesday "but she didn't she laughed. by his father to the law school of the Vidal seize/1 my arm with his one incidents of the campaign and come blood trickled over his forehead and Every one of my yarns twisted her up town, but, either from wants of parts hand, and pointed with his stump to to the point at once. The evening before down his cheek. He was leaning on and she laughed until it made me sick. or application, was plucked in the one of these cast off garmentsit was A marriage was lately broken off in the battle of Melegnanowhere I his gun with one hand, and in the other I never got such a roast, and the qualifying examination. Not darin-* the tunic of an African officer, with its lost my arm, you knowour battalion France in a singular manner. An artist he held an Austrian flag, all torn worst of itis I've lost all my reputation to return home empty-handed, after many-plaited skirt, and its triple gold was encamped in a small village, and ml* and a young lady were engaged. and blood-stained, a flag he had taken for veracity. If I say I'm going all the money that had been spent on band twisted into a figure of eight on before we broke ranks the captain The bridegroom had a strong dislike from the enemy. to the lodge she lets out one of them hiseducation,iieforged alegal diploma. the sleeve as the hussars wear it. made us a little speechhe was quite for the appendage to ladies' dresses laughs and I stay at home. If I say I The general looked at him with the Ihe father, however, was not so ignorant "Look here," said he "this is the right, was the captainreminding us commonly known as the bustle. In have been making up a trial balance greatest admiration. as to be unaware that such di uniform of my old corpsa captain's that we were in a friendly country, speaking to his bride of her weddiug at the office and it kept me late, she "Just look at that, Bricourt said plomas are always written on parchment tunic." and that for the honor of the army draws that laugh on me and I wilt. gown he happened to mention the wish he, turning to one of hisaids-de*camp. Kutya-ber"dogskin" in Hungarian. we should be on our good behavior, And he went nearer to examine it It's terrible. I ieel meaner every that this addition should be dispensed "There's a man for you! He'll have hy is your" certificate uo, and he added that any one who caused Jmore closely, and read the number engraved day. If it keeps on I'll have to fix it with* She refused, saying she the cross." And repeating, "Fine fellow! made out on Kutya-ber?" asked th* the slightest annoyance to any of the on the bnttons, he added, enthusiastically: with a sealskin cloak. It's my last fine fellow!" he turned to his aiddecamp would be married wearing a bustle or old man. "The fact is. father, answered inhabitants would be punished most resort, but if thi3 thinz keeps on and again and said something I not at all. The artist thereupon announced they out h, "that there are more severely. While he was making this "My own regiment! The First Zou- worse comes to worse I'll have to stop did not understandyou know I am the engagement off, and the t- barristers than dogs in Hungary, and speech, Thirsty, who was standing Hi aves." fj, taking'\ degrees and ante on the seal- only an ignorant.manbut that Iremember two separated, to meet thereafter as so there is not enough Kutya-ber to near me, leaning unsteadily on his bay- skin., But all at once Pere Vidal's hand, all the same. strangers. make diplomas for us all.*'