pi 5 ^'J3^^^^?JgR3B^^ I ing joke among them yet how da^ A FJfiMININE SOLILOQUY,, leg and began to taste my blood, he THE HUMOR O THE NEGRO. handing him a cheroot (for the niters from Moonje have come to ask sahib white man got hu't tryin' fer ter jumpf like you to be civil), 'be sure and drive to come and shoot a white tigera would turn and devour me. ondekyahs/' The joko they thorough-V Why is the world so fair to-day? everything that is in the jungle sou'westerly, maneaterwhich has already killed HIJ Practical Jolce* and their Result* "I was sufficiently cool, even in this ly enjoy must be seasoned with distress Why do I feel so blithe and gay, for if I am far away from an old woman, six children and ten horrible emergency, to cast my eyes How, When, Where and Why he and mortification to others. As through the throng I pick my way? Ramchunder and the guns, when they bullocks.' around to see if I was woun led. I Langhs. In the shifting panorama of the I've got a new spring suit! break covert, there'll be a blank space found no wound but discovered that "Out I went, ju^t as I was, in my Enetis (Fla.) Corr. New York Son. same town another scene eomes to left for me at the mess-rable to-mor- the tiger had in seizing me torn off See how the other women stare slippers, and sure enough at the gate The genuine southern negro is deficient view. A little Irish school teacher is As I go by with jaunty air, row.' When I said this, Dostee Pooloo and probably devoured the tenth and of the compound, if you'll believe me, in wit, but opulent in humor. vaguely trying to find his way somewhere. -Just hear them whisper: "I declare, showed all his box of teeth, and I eleventh pockets of my shooting jacket. there were aoout 100 natives, salaaming, His thick skull will turn the edge erf a He has an undue quantity of She's got a new spring suit!" I listened for the beaters, but saw that he was game to do just what tom-tomming, and playing the rapier, but is susceptible to the crush this world's goods aboard and has could hear no voice or sound. They I wished, so long as he hadn't to fight Mahadeo to soften the sahib's tieart See how the men, as they pass by, of the bludgeon. The humor must be some trouble in navigating. He iscontinually had either gone so far off that they and induce him to listen to them and the tiger himself. Look at me with admiring eye. of the broadest kind for him to thor^ meeting head winds and is were out of hearing, or what was more come and kill the white tiger. I promised To-day all rivals I defy, "Havingplanted. my old khansamah oughly enjoy it. Practical jokes are obliged to tack. It has been raimng likely, they had been alarmed by the to do what I could, if they would In my brand-new spring suit. with Ramchunder and the cold fowls. his profound delight. They are not heavily, and in the centre of thecrossino tiger and had fled. For they're poor supply beaters, an 1 would be ready champagne, and thedoubled-barrelled elusive, and are easily understood. glum? is a puddle of water nearly a foot 'Why in my husband's face so creatures, the niggers, in any real danger. at the jungle next day with their usual rifles near an old palm tree, with strict Sambo not only laughs himself, but is I'll tell you hybut keep it mum deep. Upon this is- a frau board. *l heathenish and unsportsmanlike injunctions not to move, I stole off He'3 thinking that next week will come a source of laughter in others. In Our pedagogue steps upon it. It gives paraphernalia of native drums, bells, The bill for my new spring suit. down the nuliah whish-wbish, as the "I now, therefore, gave myself up as this he is a public benefactor. He awav and down he goes into the muddy horns and metal pans with stones in natives saywhich means very gently. lost the tiger was still gnawing my gilds maay an hour that otherwise water. He rolls over and over, Well, I must go. Good-by' Oh, say, them. Off they went, throwing somersaults cork knee and had one paw lying as would be very gloomy. His grotesque unable to get up. Ott the corner arehalf If you see Mollie West to-day, and shouting like children, "I suppose I had not gone more heavy as lead on my otner leg. when looks when under excitement, his profound Just tell her in a quiet way, a dozen stalwart negroes, but calling me every blessed name they than 300 yards from where I left the suddenly, if you'll believe me the beast interest in abstruse questions I've got a new spring suit. they make no move to assist him. could lay their tongues on, and promising khansamah, before a path to the yawned twice, nodded his head and and the curious fatality with which he Instead, they are laughing and clappin^ Somerville Journal. to muster in force at the place right, trodden down as if by wild boars fell fast asleep. I saw it all in a moment. mixes information obtained from higher their hands in a perfect ecstacy appointed, thouch they were half of Major Monsoon's Tiger Story. through a tract of tall, dry, dusty jungle He had swallowed, in my No. walks of life make him a bas-relief of enjoyment. He is finally rescued them tiger worshippers at Moonje and giass, burnt by the sun to a pale 10 pocket, a large bottle of morphine, on the walls of time. Surely we are by the good white Samantian who would not have let me kill the animal straw color, attracted my attention. the bimeconate of morphine, an blessed beyond our deserts. In return was passing by on the other side. if he hadn't turned a 'man-eater.' "Thank you, I think I will take another The beaters seemed to rouse nothing, American preparation of great for his freedom and the inestimable The negro is cruel by nature, and and I began to think the ory of the cheroot, old fellowthey're a strengththat I always carried with privilege of selling his vote he makes "Back I went to Twentyman, who this- cruelty is enhanced by his white tiger all a humbug and a sham. me when I went tiger hunting, in case us laugh. He laughs, too, and laughs first rate brand, but not quite the was sitting up in bed, more cheerful, thoughtlessness. One of the most "The path led on past a little tope of an attack of neuralgia, to which I best. There may be an element of eating some fruit. sort I keep for my own smokingand amusing things I ever knew of a negro's of cocoanut palm, strung with fruit. was subject after I had two-thirds of languor in our laughter, but his is "What's the row, Jack?" said he, doing was the offspring of the genius pass the brandy thank you your Curiosity and a natural love of adventure my teeth carried away by a matchlock hearty, rollicking and uncontrolled. quite in his old voice. of a negro gambler, who had some local brandy's good brandy, my dear boy, cai'rying me on, I followed it bullet at Bundelcore. Now was "I told him that the people of reputation as a doctor. To him for some hundred yards till I saw the my oppoi tunity. There lay the great but not very good brands. One can't Moonje wanted me to go and kill a came a compatriot suffering from a As the oiiginator of a sense ot humor patch a few yards before me open out striped beast fast asleep. I stole my 'maneater,' but I didn't like leaving expect it at the seaside." disordered stomach and a sick headache. in others, the negro is a success. into a sort of natural amphitheatre, hand gently toward my rifle. I him. Take a seidlitz powder," said The Major took another cheroot One of them gravely regarding the efforts beyond which lay the dry bed of a grasped it. I cocked it. I looked at -Then you go, old boy,' said he 'for the gambler, and out of thegenerosity of his employer to open a burglar-proof from the frail but odorous dark cedar small water-course, the surface of the clean copper cap, held the muz/le Dr. Johnson came in just as you left, of his heart he handed the sick man safe, broke the silence with A\hich, if you'll believe me, sir, watione close to the brute's ear and fired. box, bound with red he also condescendingly and says I'm twice the man I was one, winking at the bystanders as he "Boss, you done los' de composition, vast tangle of enormous jungle flowersgreat With a yella groanthe beast fell. yesterday I'll get along well enough filled himoelf a particularly did so. haint you?" crimson fellows, big as teacups, I leaped up at the same moment to with a book and a cheroot or two." stiff third tumbler of brandy and water. "How shall I take it?" was-the query. The same ne^ro was the butt of the and smelling of musk and patchouli avoid his fatal claws, and gave hiin "And may I take your double barrelled I say brandy and water, but the little town he honored '.nth his society. ropes of creeping plants bidding the second barrel behind the right breech-loader?" Very fond of "red eye," he was tree to tree, and strung with scented "Mix one in this glass," was the reply, paw, close to the heart. He groaned, expression is scarcely correct, for, as Of course anything I have, continually in trouble with the law. yellow blossoms and trails of things "and drink it down quick. Then stretched out his legs, tore the earth Monsoon. Johnson says Moonje has he told me, ever since a fit of hydro It uas his boast that he had built all like tulips, only as large as my hat, mix the other one in the same glass in long scratches you might lay your been full of tigers ever since the last phobia at Kollywallah, up at the foot the sidewalk from the hotel to a certain and with purple-bell flowers every and drink it down quick, too." The hands in, and fell dead. I took out Rajah took to preserving them, and cross street two blocks away. of the hill country, he had acquired a half inch down the stalk. negro did as directed. Of course, when my repeater. It was exactly three made it death to kill one but for (fln a small open space surrounded The fines collected from him had been the powders met in his stomach there minutes past 2 p. M. I had started strong dislike to water, and a grateful God's sake, Monsoon, take care of applied to that purpose. Arrested for was a commotion. The gas nearly by deep Moonje grass, and only visible from the bungalow at Kollywallah at yourself. Thost man-eaters are no recollection of the brandy which being drunk and disorderlv, he was strangled the poor fellow, and poured from the higher clump of ground 7 A. M. Then a giddiness came over joke, and if I were you I would ride to had preserved his valuable life. bailed, the trial being put off until the out of his nose, eyes and ears. This where they sunned themselves, strutted me, and I fainted again. Pocnahjar and get Simpson and Dever The Major was a full habited, middie next morning. Some of the young caused so much laughter that a crowd half a dozen peacocks. I had just "I was awoke by something soft to go too.' white men of the place told him that gathered around, wondering what was knelt down and covered the biggest of touching my face. I looked up. Kind sized, middle aged man, with a 'No,' said I, 'Twentyman. This if he would plead justifiable homicide up. One old, gray-haired negro didn't^ them with my riflea splendid fellow, heaven' It was Ramchunder, with is an affair of danger, and I'll stalk bruised, flattish, red face, rather staring the mayor would let him off without recover his equilibrium for over an^ with a great fan-tail, all green and the beast of a khansamah dead drunk humthe beast alone. There shall be no blue eyes, and a noisy, good fine or imprisonment. On the morning hour. purplewhen, lo and behold! what in the howdah, and with one of my Englishman but myself to share the of the trial the court-room was ored, impudent manner that nothing The negroes love a laugh raised at should come skipping from tree to silver topped champagne bottles in his glory.' crowded. The mayor, a venerable another negro's expense. They are tree but a whole tribe of monkeys, hand. I instantly called out, 'Pukrao!' could daunt. He wore a straw bat '"You area plucky fellow.Monsoon,' old gentleman of somewhat inflammatory very sensitive to a joke played upon chattering, chasing each other, holding which is Hindostanee for 'take hold,' said Twentyman. 'As you like, but -with a blue band, an immense gilt temperament, sat enthroned themselves, but delight in seeing fun each other's tails, and cutting such and, if you'll believe me, sir, the sagacious for my own part, I'd rather have one double eyeglass, tied with a broad in awful dignity. The prisoner at the made of their brother. Said a noted capers that it was all I could do to animal, whom I had trained Englishman than a thousand of those bar looked a little bit shaky at first, 'black ribbon, a loose light suit of a politician, then a candidate for the keep from laughing out and spoiling to this, lifted me up with his proboscis noisy devils, with their infernal drums but seeing so many of his white friends state senate, to one of a crowd of negroes: the whole game. into the howdah for how could I -pale nankeen color, very small dancjtng and horns. They'd spoil an angel's present he regained his confidence and "You say you dbn't steal. "I had scarcely readjusted my aim, move, you know, with my cork leg all shooting.' shoes, and carried a large silvermounted assumed the attitude of one who Why, blast your half-made soul, you'd which these monkeys had thrown out, eaten away? Penang "lawyer." I scarce- "The rest of that day I spent in preparing 1 knows his rights, and knowing dares steal the mother out of a barrel of before, from out of the jungle close to "The first thing I did waswhat do for the tiger campaign at Moonje. ly lenowhow Ipickedup the gallant ofi maintain them. Said the mayor"Henry, vinegar or the fat out of a biscuit!" me, ran three little spotted deer and a you think?" I put on my red-brown shooting you are charged with being The other negroes were delighted at wild hog, and began racing about as if I could not guess. fieer, but on the eighth day of my stay in coat, made of stuff of that peculiar drunk and disorderly. What have this sally, and although the candidate that spot was their regular playground, "The first thing I did. sir, was to !Uamsgate I had got so tired of dry leaf color usually worn by Indian you got to say?" lost one vote, he gained ten others. and yet with a sort of fascinated punch that beast of a khansamah's 'shrimps, raffles, bathing, using a telescope, tiger hunters, and which I was the stare and alarm that made me "Boss," was the reply, "I pleads head, to be sure, and then go in search HAMILTON JAY. and slopping around on weedy first to introduce into the presidency. suspect mischief. I determined, however, 'stifiable homeyside," and he beamed of Dostee Pooloo and those cowardly rocks, that I had begun to look out The plan of this coat was my own invention coute qui coute, to see the thing benignantly on his honor. nigger beaters. for a companion on the Esplanade it had lourteen pockets, each A.fter Many Years* out, so I drew the brandy flask from There was an uproarous shout of "If you'll believe me, sir, we found .seats. But he whom I looked for in designed for a special purpose,and never Lewiaton Journal. my No. 13 pocket, and took a sup to laughter, in which the mayor was them the nearest village, two miles vain there met me unsought, in the used for any other. It held caps, steady my hand. Before I had put it forced to join. Henry escaped that "Do you see that lady looking into off, cooking rice at a fire, and telling SbLUiard rooms on the cliff. At that gun picker,tigers' fat for greasing locks, back, sure enough, out between two time. Sent to the drug store after a shop window just across the street?" the people how the sahib had been genteel establishment I found the spare nipples, gun-screws a small boot champa trees came a tremendous some tincture of cantharides, the nearest killed, by the man-eater. So what did said a Lisbon street merchant to the (major laughing, talking, telling stories, jack (the use of which I will tell you beast of a boa constrictor, as large he could come to it was, "distinkshun I do but ride in among them on Ramchunder presently),a knife with sixteen blades, executing unparalleled carroms, betting Journal scribe. The scribe looked in round as a bolstei, and 70 feet long, peradies." A day or two afterward and give the fellows such a greased patches, iron bullets.cart ridged, condescendingly with very juvenile the direction referred to, and saw a if he was an inchhis scales wet and he was after some "ob dis vere welting with the whip of my buggy, a pocket revoh er, hook, a dried boating men, and drinking brandy well-dressed lady of rather distinguised shining with the dew, and he writhing peculiar intment." Mercurial was the which I always carried for that purpose, tongue, fusees, a sketch book, a cigar rpawnee, at some young amateur comunodore's appearance, of perhaps forty-five and undulating like an enormous caterpillar. word that had thrown him. that they fell on their knees and case, a powder horn, a small key bugle, expense, with a manner as years, admiring one of the show win As a practical joker the negro has cried for mercy. a camp stool, and a few other totally free from pride as it was radient dows in a dry goods store. no superior, and if the joke is one that "If you'll believe me, sir, surprised "Juhlde joa, Dostee Pooloo,' I items, useful to a man of several resources. with the urbanity of the officer and will cause distress he is so much the "The history of that woman's life is as I was, I had still presence of mind cried,'and bring home the tiger on a 4 the traveler. more satisfied. At Lake City, some stranger than fiction," said the merchant. enough to aim firm and steady at his stretcher of champa boughs. You'll "As this white tiger I was to fight years ago, some of them caught a "She lives in Portland. When nearest eye, thinking what a triumph find him in such a place.' The major was one of those indesciibable had escaped the native pitfalls, poison, hawk and dipped it in kerosene oil. a young girl she fell desperately in love it would be to take him home to poor "Go they did, and. three hours after, men who can be seen any spring guns, and other strategems of Then touching a lighted match to the with a poor fellow, who returned her Twentyman. When what I should see just at sunset we entered Kollywallah day between four and dark, looking the crafty natives of the jungle village, neck feathers, they tossed the bird into affections, but didn't have money about twenty feet beyond this beast in procession, firing guns, letting off into-the oigar shops in Regent street, I felt that at last I had met a foeman the air. It made a brilliant spectacle enough to pay the parson foe marrying but some strange object waving in the rockets, the niggers shouting songs lounging a/bout the doors of billiard worthy of my arm, and I prepared for for a moment, and then, with an them. After a deal of consideration grass! I covered it with my rifle, and about the sahib and the tiger. Twentyman rooms in Leicester square, dozing on a gigantic effort. I filled Ramchunder's agonizing squawk, cametotheground. by both of them, it was decided was just going to press the trigger with was delighted to see me, for he seats in St. James' Park, or reading hovvdah with tulwahs (keen native The negroes were delighted beyond that he should start for China, ttt| my forefinger, when I heard "a rush, had given me up for lost, as one of the the American news with a severe air swords), double-barrelled guns, rocket's measure, and rolled over each other seek his fortune, and that she should^' and an enormous tiger,clearing the boa beaters had run to the bungalow and in Wild's reading room an indefinite and boar spears so that, keeping in.paroxysms of laughter. remain behind and wait for his return. constrictor, leaped a space of nearly told him I was killed." -man of indefinite occupations. An that sagacious animal near me fastened She made a vow that she should not 40 feet (as I afterwards measured), Sitting or standing around a camp idler tired of himself could not, however, to a tree, I could return to him at marry for three years, and if, at the before I could readjust my piece. fire along the track of one of our railroads The next morning, when I called at have discovered a more talkative, any time for fresh weapons and for expiration of that time, he had not were several section hands, "It was the white tigerthe-man- the major's lodgings, I found, to my cheery, rattling, good-natured lunch for, even in my enthusiasm for returned, .she would be at perfect liberty talking over different good meals they eaterI felt sure of it at the first astonishment, he had left by the 6 a. the chase, I did not forget some cold sorapanion than the major. He had, to act at her own pleasure about had enjoyed. Sitting cross-legged on a glance a splendid fellow, full 13 feet m. train desiring the landlady to send fowls and two or three bottles of 'iike myself, apparently found Ramsgate matrimony. horse was a young negro listening long, of a pale tawny cream color in his bill to his brother at" No 25. champagne, etc. my knansamah, or dull, for he lost no opportunity eagerly to the description of savory striped with dark brown his chest almost Accordingly the lover boarded the His brother! But I felt bound in honor butler, was to sit in the howdah and in cultivating my acquaintance, and, viands. At la3t one touched upon white. first ship he could find that was bound to pay it. attend to the commissariat and general as he lodged only three doors from me the coon, and the others, recognizing "It you'll believe me, sir. as he held for that port, and the lovers parted. On dosely considering the story of stores. in Seaside Terrace, there was seldom a superior soul, became silent. me and shook me in his mouth, I felt Six months passed and the girl heard Major Monsoon's remarkable escape "The day came. Ifelt a strange glow an evening when the major did not "Take er nice fat coon," said the no pain and no terror, but a sort of not a wovd from her lover. A year from the tiger, I found several alarming of pleasure, mingled with a strange frfaop in to take his coffee and smoke sable orator, "pa'bile 'im, roas' 'im, almost pleasant benumbed drowsiness went by and no letter. The girl grew diserepancies that led to doubt in presentiment of danger which I could "his cigar in my balcony. sarb 'im up ^id plenty graby an' sweet and a strange curiosity as to how the almost distracted, for she came to my mind as to its entire veracity. not shake off, do what I might. However, It was on the fourth evening of our taters." brute would eat me. I could hear the the conclusion that he hadeither gone, Breech loaders were not, I think, invented I said nothing to Twentyman, acquaintance that the major, having Here the negro on the horse could deer, monkeys and snake scuttle off as back on her or was- dead. A secon* 20 years ago, and. now I think who wished me every success, and off 'lighted his fourth cheroot and mixed, stand it no longer. He had followed he shook me, as a cat does a mouse year went by and nothing was hearc? of it, I regret I did not pinch his leg I went on Ramchunder, who seemed is I have said, his third glass of braniy every movement of the speaker, his or a terrier a rat. Then I tried to trom him. At this time another gentleman hardto make sure it really was cork. proud to share in the adventure which and water, sank down luxuriously nostrils flapping widely as if he would get a pistol from pocket No. 13, and began paying his attentions to P. S The other day, too, at the was more than the cowardly knansamah in a rocking chair, tucked his legs by catch the scent of the coon, his lips tainted. the lady and finally asktd for her Oriental Club, I was telling the story was, for his teeth shook like castanets, a violent exertion (for I should menvt'wm working convulsively. Now he broke hand in marriage. The girl thought to Colonel Curry, when he made the "Before I came to, full half an hour and he dropped a bottle of that he was a little lame) on a in with "Hush you mouf, you fool of her vow and said no, not until Xjm following remark' must have elapsed. There I lay in a bitter beer in sheer nervousness -i?3on chair, and, with an air of al- niggah, er I'll fall right often dishoss." three years is past. The second man "My dear Foozle, the fellow was nest of dry Moonje grass. I felt that packing. At last we were ready. VHtost sultanic enjoyment, commenced The nearest approach to wit on the urged her with all his.power to marry humbugging you, take my word for it. the monster was still over me. I felt 'Juhlde jaol' ('go quick') cried I the following story of one of his most part ot the negro was that of the old him. He offered her wealth and Monsoon is a traditional name in his pestilential breathing on my face to the mahout and off trotted old remarkable achievements in the hunting preacher at a revival. Heaving some every luxury that money could buy, Indian, and is often tagged on to native even in my swoon. Yes, there he was Ramchunder to the side of the Moonje field: incoherent noise in the tear of the but she was true to.her vow, and said stores. Th^re was a Colonel his enormous length reclining beside jungle, where all the beaters had assembled. "Twenty years ago," said the major, room that disturbed the pious proceedings, that she woulduiot marry till the expiration Monsoon, I believe, about Lake's me, his striped tail sweeping across my 'I commanded a detachment of my he exclaimed angrily "What of the three years. Long before time, on whom the Hindoos wrotethis feet at every vibrationhis head turned "If you'll believe me, even at the /native regiment, 'The Fighting HalfHundred' fool niggah is dat prayin' down by, de this she had supposed her lover dispatch from me. If you'll believe me, sir, taking of Mooltan there wasn't such a (as we were called, from our do?" dead. he had actually munched and chewed Ghora per howdah, hutti pur jeen, gol mol (I am again talking Hindo- Ihehavior in the Burmese war) at a Came the reply: "It's brudder John- The end of the third year was drawing the whole of my left leg from the toeto Juklee bahar jata Colonel Monsv'en, staneeI mean, pure English, 'row') 'little village called Kollywallah, in son." to a close, and she had promised the knee he had eaten about three which means in English: as when about 200 of the native tellows the northeast corner of the Jabbalpore "Well, let some niggah pray what's the ardent suitor, who had been paying feet of it, sir (pardon the awkwardness began to break into the jungle of Saddles on elephants, hovdahs orii horses. district of the Bengal presidency. better 'quainted wid de Lord." her every honor- im his power for a of the expression), during my praus trees and korinda shrubs, firing Monsoon ran away with the whole of hjuforces. It was near a jungle full of tigers and Johnson being a notorious chicken year and a half, that when the time swoon." matchlocks, yelling like fiends broke as we soon put down the paltry tax thief, the parson didn't have faith iu was up she would marry him cm the "Chewed Major Monsoon?" I cried loose, rattling metal pans, ringing bells "And, dej on it, that's what the triots that had brought us to Kollywallah, bis prayers. following day.,,if her former lover did in an angry, expostulatory voice. and blowing horns while half a dozen dog borrower u-s name from. Here, and time began to hang heavy Preachers figure largely in the humor not return. The day came, and the "Why, there areyour two legs as sound of the boldest and most active of the waiter, another bottle of sherry." on our hands, I and Twentyman, the or the race. Probably this is owing to man didn refearn from China. as mine!" beaters were sent on to climb trees only other officer, naturally took to their prominence as leaders of their On that very day the wedding "Pooh! pooh! my dear sir," said he* and give notice if the man-eater stole tiger hunting, which exciting amusement Mrs. Stanford's Benefaction... people. One of them, at that time bells wer3 rung, and thsy were without a smile and quite unruffled, away in their direction. It was arranged soon became a passion with us. conducting a revival in Suwanee county, united in, marriage. Hardljyhad tljfcmarriage- Washington Letter. holding out his left leg to me to pinch, that I was Co lie in wait, with In six months there was not a ryot at was making a most uproarious-, ceremony been performed, "the leg he munched was cork then, as Mrs. Stanford, wife of Senator Stamford, Ramchunder, opposite to one of the JKollywallah Shikarree,not who did knotw me as prayer. He was shouting like the when a ship came into the-bay from it is now, and as it has been ever-since. most tigerish places a crossing over a 'the Great and i was all has purchased in Albany, X. Y.* 4 roaring bull of Bashan, and was as incoherent China, and oaa board was her lover, A cannon ball took of its fleshy predecessor dry nullah, or ravine, where three native the old house hich her family occupied \I could do to prevent the people from as the-boss lunatic at Bloona-ingdale. who had. left her three years ago to. at the siege of Mooltan. One postmen had been carried' off on prior to her marriage and also- a worshiping me and my hunting elephant, He attempted to wind up his gain a.fortune-for them bcxthreturned. happy result of it being cork, as you consecutive days by the same tiger. youher as harsgrief, hi bride^nd-when large piece of property adjoining it. 'Ramchunder.' prayer by invoking a blessing on thfls Imagine,, afl can, may imagine, was that it took the "And now again the presentiment tQcai On this ground it is her intention to "One morning, when Twentyman present. He-did it in this manner and sawh she mm,. He came back, abund- tLZ beast some time to get through, and weighed upon me as soon as I found build a comfortable fire-proof building rwns down with jungle fever, and I was destroyed t'ae equanimity of the YAhite a that the beast didn't hurt me much. myself alone with that miserable funky tilting by his side reading 'Charles which will afford a home- during lookers on: "God A'eighty blesa all she had three days befo?e married anotaer. "I opened my eyes quietly when I old khansamah, who did nothing but O'Malley' in the balcony of our bunga'ow, dese yere naggahs here-fco-night." the working hours &i the day to the The blow neaHycrushed them found what he was at, for he kept mutter prayers from the Koran and which 'gave' on the cantonment, both. But six years wore away, and children of widows and dependent temales To see a. white man.left by the*train growling and snarling over the rather look at his amulet of tigers' claws. I uJ Jbeard a great noise as of a crowd of ui the meantime the sean married a W is a source- of unfail'aag delight to the who are compelled to labor for indigestible meal, and I began to look tell you, sir, all sorts of disagreeable natives trying to force their way in went out west to live-. In a few yedts negroes who hang around the-depots. a living-. It may be that enough homeless round me to see where my rifle was. anecdotes came fermenting up in my I" past my native servants. Poor his wife died. He &ad not heard, one At Live-Oak one ay a welt dressed If you'll believe me, sir, there it lay, women will be cared for in the institution mind. I thought of how Major Bunsen, Twentyman, who was fretful with word from his oM love for many stranger jumped Srom the train and full cocked, not three inches from my to attend to the wants of in the Forty-third, had died in want of sleep, beginning to groan and years, and one day merely from curiosity ranover to the bar-roc in to take a right hand. four hours of lockjaw from a scratch the children. On a visit to, New York complain at the noise, I ran out with he addressed a letter to her nibbfe at the worm that never dietfa. "My first thought was to steal my he received from a tiger's claws and not long ago Mrs. Stanford was impressed ntv big hunting whip, and licking the brother, inquiring if she was aliv*,and The tram pulled out just as he was hand along and get hold of my rifle, of how Captain Charters, of the with the good results accomplished ttggers all round, asked them what ifso, where she resided. He received coming from tha- saloon. He made a but the instant I moved even a limb, Fourth Light Infantry, was found by an institution of this kind, vihey meant by making such a cursed letter shortly after that she had b*- dash for the re*r platform of the last the beast of a 'man-eater' began to dead in the junele from a tiger bite. and being anxious to do some sort of \\o\ae. a widow for several yews, aad coach missed* it, and went down on growl, and evinced a dangerous disposition "I had been particularly careful with charity for the poor people of her early "Choop ruho ekdum' ('be silent immediately') hying near Portland. The gentlemen iws knees o the ties. His flask was to leave my cork leg and settle Dostee Pooloo, the captain of the I shouted. home, she determined to carry out lblt for Portland cw* the next train, broken atid his clothes torn. The on the more valuable one of flesh* bearers, as to tigers, for these rascals "The kitmutgar, an old gray-headed and in less than a week's time they train stopped for hint a few yards this project in Albany. The buildings I therefore, for the moment, abandoned generally frequent the same spot, and .fellow who had been butler to my were married, aivi to-day they are *1 away a he limped on board, foi- and grounds will the attempt, and resigned myself I had every reason to suppose that I cost about $25V father, the General, came salaaming living happily tQ^th.e_r i 0 th.% suburbs, to death tar it seemed certain that should soon have my hands full. 000, and the charity will be maintain-1 lowed by the derisive yells and laugh- f~,torard when he saw tne, and said: of Portland. when the Beast had finished the cork Iff ed solely at Mra. Stanford's expwsa, ter oi the colored: men. It is a stand.- "'DosteePooloo, my boy/ said I, 'Sahib, sahib, the country people 'aw* mm-*^