a stump ana planned rortse h.tieth time tiba t RE LOKEIJ5ST DEPTH. fl THE SUBSET DOOB. "V, A comfort, until I might expect assistance And tar up in the soft air of sunset improvement he wanted to make. There was a correct one. My hand struck an Ve\ (jwa^ollne smiled and kfesed her from without. 5 the bells were still ringing the evening was to be a pig in t&e against the under surface of the weight, "Am Inn stvtder than yon, my slater? chickens running about the yard. It, was In my assaults upon the door I had hymn. at an elevation of less than three inches Pcsibi** lo*s means possible eain. strange he never thought of making a place I was a beautiful and still evening already discovered that the place in The suddenness, the unexpectedness Thos3 whofrtilldread are not quite forsaken from my face! At lastafter an eternity for a wife. There was no female ngxae in toward the end of summer, when in Butnor to fe^r because ail is taken which I was enclosed was of very small of what had happened, had formed no t\(- of unutterable suspenseat last allhia imagination but that wrinkled and the course of my wanderings about Id the lowliest depth of human pain." demensions. It was, in fact, little small part of its effect upon my m'ind. bent old womanhs mother. it touched me. 1 Adelaide A. Procter. more than a recess or deep niche in The supply team would come from town Yet up to this time my adventure, the ancient city I entered the quiet It touched me. At first lightly i on Tuesday, and Barney was to leave work the masonry, not exceeding three feet though not such as one would have BARNEY'S MOTHJEB. then with a perceptible pressure and solitary close of the gray at noon. Half an hour before dinner a sad square. It would neither enable me chosen to undergo, had nothing in it then with a pressure which grew distressing. group of lumbermen came slowly in from to lie at full length nor to obtain any cathedral. The rooks were gathering portentously alarming. It was disagreeable BT HEF.BEBT W COIiTSGWOOD. In vain I sought relief in the woods, bearing a crushed and bloody other relief for tired limbs than by tfhe [Copyrighted, 18S6, t* S. S McCluxe.1 masa It was poor Barney. A falling tree enough, undoubtedly, to be vain I sought to writhe my body into in the oli elms which stood around. Far up in Nv/ithern Michigan, where twe change of one cramped and uneasy had crashed him into the ground. But a forced against one's will to put up the narrower compass. Slowly, steadily, A ruddy light wrapped the great gray roads meet in a desert of sand, stands a moment before he had been telling the boys posture for another. The floor was of with such a lodging for the night. But the mass descended, crushing me how he meant to work for his mother. Now tall pine trea It lifts its proud head solid pavement. The roof, as I stood towers which rose far up into the what was the discomfort of my situation, against the floor. they brought him back with the Me crushed giandly, and looks down in disdain ovei erect, just touched my head. The evening air. The sounds from without had that been the worst it had out of him. Gently they carried him into The last minute of my life seemed the {rreat area of blackened stumps and walls, like the floor, were of solid the little cabin he had built so oaref ully. in store for me, compared with the come. I breathed a prayer to hea\ en came faintly and at intervals to scrub oaka stone. Standing close to one of these, He was not quite dead. He tried to speak, horrpr of it now? and resigned myself to die. Still a Alone in Its strength! Last of the grand the ear as I walked slowly across the but his throat was crushed. Death was certain. and casting my eyes upward, I made a For many minutes after making space the weight descended, mv brain army of noble fellows that, years ago, held Would he die before his mother came? discovery which filled me at first with close toward the low, wide steps which this dkco\ ery I remained motionless, the storm at bay. There is no defense possible Late in the afternoon the supply team swam my breathing became difhcnl surprise, and afteward with extreme ascended and were lost in the shadow came slowly toiling into camp Barney's striving vainly to reali/.e the most Singular now No great branches, rugged with I believe that for some bnei perplexity. mother, gray and bent and old, sat on the life and strength, to defy the north wind and yet deadly peril which threatened of the noble porch. seconds I bore upon my fainting forri seat by the driver Between the roof and the wall there tear a groan from his throat No fiiendlj me. I do not know how long it the whole burden of the ponderon* The cook had gone to cut wood. There On reaching the great door of the pines to bend down over the lumbar camp was a space of at least four inches. was before I recovered my faculties so mass. The blood ru lied torie:it was no one to tell her about Barnev The cathedral I found it closed. But in and whisper its secrets to the others. Ths Through this space I became aware of as to become capable of thought. At teamster pointed out the cabin, and the poor to my head I felt that my senses \\ei wmd sweeps savagely over the nlace Ths a faint gleam of light very far above old creature tottered through the little the centre of this there was an" length, rousing by an effort to examine leaving me snow drifts and whnls ovei the stumps and gate, and into the room where the dying my head. With the object of ascertaining whether any way of escape lay other smaller door, which still stood Very suddenly the pressure ceased man lay. She did not screamno one heard legs. The victory of the storm is complete. the length of this aperture 1 open to me, I turned my attention to I was conscious of a welcome leheL a sound from the cabin. openand here a party of visitors, to moved along the wall, keeping my eye Ihe old lumber camp has fallen, and is now the interspace between the weight and When the cook came back he found the drew in a deep breath, freely. I o\ whom I was a stranger, wereendeavoringto upon the crevice. The light did not only a great heap of logs and rotten timber. teamster in the shintv the wall out it was far, very far too my limb's, and found their liberty nc woman9" he asked hurriecllv A dense mass of briers summer, and a vanish. I turned the angle of the wall, persuade the ancient verger that "Where's the old narrow to admit of the passage of my dream. The weight was gone! snow drift in winter, alone mark the build and still the light remained visible. I body. Thento such extremities the hour was not yet too late to permit I raised my hand, and it encoun ing placea *"Up yunder," said the teamster, pointing traversed in succession the four walls may desperation drive its victimsI teied space. I staq^eied, gasping, to them to inspect the interior. It over his shoulder in the direction of Barney's The sturdy old pine stands on guard II of the cell, no obstacle obscured the thought of attempting to arrest the my feet. The weight was a/heady cabin has grewn thick and twisted in its struggle eo happened that just as I came up feeble gleam. The roof did not touch great weight by supporting it with my Why. man, didn't you know Barney is above my head, and rising rapidly up The top is heavy. The trunk has bent a little the wall at a single point of the circuit. they succeeded in overcoming his hesitation, dead' The poor old critter is up there with stick as ic descended. I might as well ward into the darkness of the shaft under the srreat weight it has carried so that thing and he turned to lead the way have attempted to support a falling A sound of mo\ in^ mechanism reached bravely It shakes itself like a grim old The two men hurried away from the shanty At this unaccountable discovery I avalanche. hghter at every signal of danger. The me from abo\ e. I thought Iheai the into the building. to Barney's cabin With a strange tenderness was so astounded that tor some time woodman'sjax has never touched it The Then an idea occurred to my mind they took off their hats and pushed murmur ot -voices, men were moving The party followed him, and I among I refused to credit the evidence of my open the door Barney lay with lute face savage forest fires have left it unblackened. which brought with it a gleam or hope. the tower above me. and staling eyesdead. His mother knelt them. own senses. The roof was, to all appearance, What inspiration has nerrod it for such a I thought- it possible that by applying The pmpose which had brought at his side with her face buried the pillow. conflict? What does it protect, that it fights like Mahomet's coffin, suspended my stlength to the weight itself, I Inside the stillness was profound thi there was evident ti ey were Her cap had fallen from her head, and the with such desperate earnestness? in mid air. I struck it with might be able to impart to it by slow thin gray hair straggled down over the dead winding up the clock. the lightest footfall awoke echoes. The my stick, it sounded heavy, massive, man's lace. The great hands were ughtly degrees a swinging motion, like that'of At the foot of the tree some ax has removed It was not until afterward that 1 evening light fell, laden with the rich substantial as the walls themselves. clasped. a portion of the bark and wood. On a pendulum, and this being continued, learned what really had occuired The cook touched the woman gently and But yet neither to the touch nor by and colored gloom of painted windows, the rough tablet thus formed is cut a rude might at length bring the ponderous The clock should have been wound up tried to rouse her, but he started back with the peculiar ringing sound which IC crops, and underneath, in w.de, straggling mass in contact with the door, and so on the dark carving of the stalls, on the day before, but the men whe-t a Btrangely white face She was cold in emitted when struck did it seem of letters, the word "Barney This is the secret death. Barney's mother had comeand burst it open Raising myself from the duty it was to do the winding had the great tubes of the silent organ, on that the stern o'd monarch guards. One stone. It gave rather the impression gone floor ot the cell, upon which I had o\ erlooked their work, and the ovei tender story nerves it foi the battle the scrolls of the epitaphs, on the They buried them in one grave near the of a block of solid iron. But how again sunk down,I applied my strength Sight was not disco\ ered till late at little ''abm They cut his name on the huge be9 could this An old lumberman told me the story one marble images of warriors, priests and to the weight, and by exerting ail my night. Afraid that the clock would pine that Barney had left to shade his house. stormy night in camp He spoke between Totally unable to account for this kings. The silence of the antique eneizy in a succession of rythmical When the trees had all been cut awav, the run down, and that they bhould be the whiffs from his pipe The lantern just discovery, I now placed myself on the camp was deserted. At last the buildings all impulses I gradually succeeded in impai blamed, they had come to the cathe nave, the colored gloom of the lighted the lower part of his face, leaving fell in, and the bushes and briers hid all the floor of the cell, my back supported ting to it an almost imperceptible dral earlier than usual to rectify the the upper portion the shadow Now and improvements that Barney had attempted. painted panes, the sense of antiquity against one of the walls and my feet movement. Gradually this increased, error. Had it not been for their nog then, as the wind blew a louder blast, he His grave has disappeared in a dense mass in all the air, impressed against the opposite, and was relieved and but for an unseen circumstance of ugly briers. Only the savage pine knows lect of duty, the weight would not paused to listen, while we drew closer about to find that the posture was more where Barney's mother has found the home "their influence upon the mind with the scheme might have been successful. the stova have descended nearly so far as rt did that he made for her tolerable than I expected. I began to But I presently found toward the bottom of the shaft, while even more than customary power. I Years and years before th wild tract had be not without hope that I might in that the weight did not hang had their visit been delayed but a been covered with pine. The lumber camp had had no other motive in entering time be able to fall asleep, and so pass Heber Newton on Spiritualism. exactly in the centre of the shaft. The that now lies in lums was new little longer, they would assuredly the cathedral tnan to indulge the ordinary a portion of the weary hours before consequence ot this was that it struck From the Boston Traveler. have found the clock already stopped "Barney" came wandering into camp one me in unconsciousness. Little did I curiosity of a strangervery the wall opposite the door before it night, cairying his entire fortune in a canvas stopped by a cause which now Rev. R. Heber Newton, the distinguished know what was to rouse ime. storSleep' reached the door itself. The extent bag, a little, freckled-faced Irishman, as certainly I anticipated no more than lee that was to shudder to think oE. Thenat that Episcopal divine and radical & It was not green as the pine needles. No one knew of its swing being thus checked, my moment of reliefI thought of nothing the ordinary incidents of such a visit. thinker of New York, has written an me. where he came fromno one cared He wa8 utmost efforts failed to bring it into clearly. Giddy, bewildered, reeling Uo mortal could have been less prepared open letter on spiritualism which is Btout, and hands were needed That was contact with the door. The attempt Presently a loud and startling with a wild sense of deilverance, the nough He was as awkward as an ox. The reproduced in the Index for this week, for an adventure. How could had therefore to be abandoned, and sound, seeming to issue from the roof prolonged oppression of my soul found ax would slip out of his hands, and no one and is very entertaining reading. Mr. hope again died within me. I dream that a strange, a wildly above my head, burst suddenly upon vent in a loud, long and ringing cry. could tell where his blows would fall It Newton instances as a paradox that Hope died within me. And now my the silence. It was the great clock of I remember little more, and that strange, experience was to befall me la a wonder that he did not kill himself. His sensations were those of extreme horror the more the phenomenon of spiritualism the cathedral striking the hour. The confusedly. I have some dim memory bright good nature kept him in camp. It before I should stand again without and dismay. I for the first time notes fell slowly from a deep, solemn is investigated the more fraud of an interval of silence, broken by did no good to threaten him. He always those gray and ancient walls? felt the certainty of my fate. A deadly and sonorous "bell. But instead of looked up with a smile, and said with his voices outside my prison, of the sud and humbuggery is stumbled upon w^^^uv sickness seized, me. In a paroxysm And yet, so it was. reac%ng my prison, as might have twisted tongue. den opening of the door of a blinding yet he adds "I have satisfied myself "Its meself that's a little out of the work, of despair I flung myself upon the floor been expected, in dull, far-off and muffled The truth of this extraordinary stoTy light of a group of several forms with that if there be any validity in human cor. I'll get me hand in yetonly give me of my prison, and lay there without tones, they fell upon my ears with is known to many persons, and my out. I seem to remember also that time"and he did get his "hand in," after a testimony, the phenomena motion. thrilling clearness and distinctness, "veracity may be easily verified. The there were cries of wonder as I stag fashion, at last grouped under the title of spiritualism, as if they were close at hand. It was I will not dwell upon the long hours In those davs it was customary to pass all facts of the case are these: gered from my narrow lodging and fell after all the abounding frauds newcomers through a rough initiation. Bar evident, in fact, that my cell must be that followedthose hours of more The party of visitors to which I had fainting into the arms of my deliverers. ney came in for his share, but he took it all and illusions are discounted, situated directly under the clock tower. than mortal agony of mind. It happened joined myself had completed, under the But these things are to me the good-naturedly It seemed impossible to hold secrets -which it behooves man to This conclusion, however, led me that I had lately been reading guidance of the verger, the customary shadows ot a dreanl. The rushing make him angry or induce him to fight He no further at the moment. resolve, if possibly. These secrets an account of a traveler tour of inspection round the ancient darkness returned upon me., and for took all thebaid jobs uncomplainingly. At no more last, one night, they made him angry, and knewr who had perished in a quicksand. The "fabric, and were now preparing to many hours I seem to me to more than hint the existance I sat for a long time in reflection upon his anger was BO terrible, like the tury of all time of the accident was on a summer leave the building. I had fallen for a in man of powers and potencies the number of hours which must Such is the history of my strange good natured men, that the boys were actually evening, when the sun was sinking, moment behind the rest, in order to elapse before I could expect to be set such a- to make entirely credible, frightened adventure. I greatly doubt whether in and the lonely shore was bathed in examine a fine and deeply-interesting It was noticed that Birnev kept his bag of free. The bell had struck the hour of from a scientific point oE view, the all the chapter of accidents in history clothing caiefully tied up Every night the rosy light. The spot wmere it occurred specimen of antique carving which covered six. The cathedral would probably a stranger can be found. I have already-stated old belief in a life to come. They seem boys saw hiin fumbling about in the bag as was well known to meand after the whole of the wall near which not be open in the morning before 9 that its truth is known it to assure himself that some valuable art to warrant, yet further, the conclusion reading the account I had endeavored, I stood The great door of the cathedral, or 10 o'clock. I had, therefore, some icle was safe within to several persons and that the strict that there ought to be some other interpretation in that unreasoning spirit which sometimes where the rest of the party was Once they caught a glimpse of it Barney fifteen hours at least before me to get accuracy of my account can be veri of many oi these phenomena \ay his bunk with his back to them, but leads the mind to dwell on horrors, aaow standing, was not visible through as best I might. fied by simple inquiry.Argosy. the light revealed some shining object. He than occultism.if, as I have to realize in fancy the sensations from this spot, but I could hear their How slowly the time waned' At Btudied away at it, keeping its form conceded of the victim, as inch by inch and voices plainly round the angle of the already said, human testimony is seemingly long intervals the bells as far as possible by his great hand. An AtMetic Beauty. foe by foot, in full sight of the free wall Aware that I had not much worth anything." The sc entitle proof After a time he put it carefully back and struck the quarters, one, two, three, ocean and the glorious sun, the treacherous tied the bag as beioie Ttime to linger unless I wished to be From the St. Stephen's Gazette. of spiritual 1 lie is doubtless to be tour and then in deeper tones the One mht when Barney went out to work quicksand drew him downward -locked up all night, I cast a last glance Mrs. Langtry owes much of her physical hour itself7 o'clock. And now, when found in the revelation discovered of at the stable. Jack Nutt went to the bunk downwardto his doom. -atthench tracery ot the woodwork charms to her love of physical the ringing sound of the last note had and opened th? bag He shook the content* peychological inquiry but so great is .and prepared reluctantly to turn exercise The public have been told ovei the b'ankets From the scant collection What the sensations attending such died away, the bells of the carillon began the currant fraud and imposture that away. of clothing a little gilt-framed picture by the ubiquitousparagraphers other a death must be I could then but feebly to chime. The notes fell on my to sift the true from the false, the significant fell to the floor Barney's treasure evidently exploits of late as a trainer of horses, Suddenly my eye was caught by a realize. I know them now. ears with the same singular and unaccountable held a gh sentimental value from the insignificant, is an but it is not generally known, I believe, ^.portion of the carving which seemed I know them now. The sensations distinctness which I had Brought to the light, the picture proved Herculean task. that the Lily is one of the best lady to stand out slightly from the to be an old-fashioned tin-tp of an old of those who have stood face to observed in the striking of the hour. woman Her fa? was wimkled out of all pedestrians of the day. In England Test. I put my hand upon face with death for long hours, They chimed the evening hymn. beauty The ares-, wis course and ill-fitting it was thought that Mrs. Langtry's the carved head of the apostle Peter watching with starting eyes his Very suddenly a strange thought all "buncht'8 and wrinkles Two great chief object while touring through .and pulled it outward. To my amazeimeut slow approach, are to me no mystery. struck me, causing me to raise my bands, woik-worn into detorimty, were Five Genera lions Around the America apart from her professional a door opened in the carving, But the mind of man has mercifully clasped fiont eo that they drew the attention eyes toward the ceiling of my cell. In Table. duties, was posing to receive A ivhice cap with a ribDon of some showing beyond it a dark passage. ~I been so ordered that agony prolonged my present position I could just perceive Tight color, with gray knots of hair straggling There was gathered around the dinner the homage of her numerous admirers. Btooped forward and looked in. As I beyond a certain point ends in benumbing the faint gleam of light discernible beneath it, coveied the head, which How far this was from the truth may table in Zanesville, 0., a few days did so the door, which was hung slantingly the power of feeling. Thus far up through the interspace waB bent, foi ward as if some heavy hand had be gathered from a simple narration upon its hinges in such a manner it is that criminals condemned to execution pushed the neck out of its regular curve. ago, at the residence of Mr. H. T. between the roof and the wall of a fact concerning her walking experiences Jack held the picture up with a laugh. as to close with its own weight, swung often sleep soundly and eat but the roof itself was buried Peiry, in the eighth ward, as remarkable 'How's that fer a eal, eh, boys? Don't in Dayton, O., at which place heavily back from the position into with appetite a fact which seems in darkness. I rose slowly that beat all the old hags? Look at them an assemblage as is known in 1 happened to be staying when the winch I had pushed it, and coming unexpectedlv amazing to those who consider how to my feet, and the scarcely-formed yev hands, will history. It was not remarkable in much-heralded beauty arrived there upon me as I stooped for- comparatively slight a degree of mental Betorc he could say anv more the door conjecture of my mind was instantly She reached the city on Sunday morn point of intellectuality, particularly, opened, and Barney walked in. He started '-ward, projected me into, the opening distress has power to rob the night confirmed. As I had expected, I could in surpr.ee at the di'sorder in his bunk, and ing in her special palace car, and instead -.and shut behind me.- ^H* of rest and to turn the daintiest food although there were bright minds in no longer stand erect my head now his e\eb wandered back to Jaok. As he of remaining strict privacy, to poison. They do not reflect that The suddenness of the^inciYent and struck the roof. The whole truth the gathering it was not noted for caught sight of the little picture, he sprang as celebrated actresses are wont to mental agony in its extremity ceases the total darkness in hich I found like a tiger, caught Jack and threw him tb flashed at once across my mind. I wealth, although all are reasonably do when not performing, she took her the floor. The picture fell trom Jack's hand. to be felt. But thus it isand thus it myself entombed startled and confused nowt saw clearly the explanation of well "fixed it was not noted for any ha had before astounded and per Barney thrust it into hi6 pocket and caught manager out for a walk. They visited was with me. wr me. But at first I felt no positive Jack's throat in a temble grip. all the points of interest in the city, special achievements in the field of alarm. I attempted at once to push I believe also that the air of the plexed me. I saw why the roof did The boys pulled him aw ay He put the until, as the manager declared, he was science or on the field of battle. It open the door, but co my surprise it 3haft must have acted upon me not touch the walls of the enclosure, clothe" back into the bag, and alter a short comp!etely worn out, while she was study, got out his needle and thread, and did not yield. I pushed harderharder with some stupefying or bewildering why it was formed of massive iron. It w^as simply a meeting of five generations proceeded to sew a great pocket on the inside as fresh as at the start. After strolling :yetI exerted all my strength, but the influence, like that of the vapor which was descending. of females, a direct line. ot his vest The boys watched him in 'about ten miles in this way he door remained immovable. often gathers at the bottom of old Yes, descending! During the hour I silence, while Jack crawied into a bunk, Mrs. Sarah Moore, of Mansfield, O., succumbed, while the famous beauty At last, finding all my efforts useless, wells. The agitation of my mind where he lay bathing his throat with kerosene had remained seated, the roof had aged 84, sat at the head of the table. laughingly set out alone on an oil, the gieat cure-all of the camp. I endeavored to attract the attention gradually gave place to a strange feeling sunk through a space fully of four Her daughter Mrs. Mary Owmgs, excursion into the country. She Barnev's anger passed away as easny as it of those outside. I raised my of indifference. The peril under inches. But this discovery, when now aged 56, sat next to her. came He looked up from his work at last first made her way to the voice and called loudly for assistance, which I lay ceased to trouble me, and I made it, so far from causing me with a bright smile "It's me mother, b'ys" Then came Mrs. Belle Perry, aged Soldier's Home, that is a distance at the same time beating a vigorous at last no longer occupied my perplexity, at once revealed to me the he said, as he held the xucture up to the 36, daughter of Mrs. 0 wings. of four miles, up hill and down, walked tatoo with my stick against the door. light thoughts. whole mystery of my prison. Then came Mrs. Nellie Logan, aged about the grounds there and returned. Ke went on to tell about the old lady She 1 then paused and listened, in the ex3ectatio I began instead to be curiously disturbed The distinctness of sound with 19, daughter of Mrs. Perry. was very o'd and childish, he said. She had Subsequently she proceeded of being immediately releasied. by another circumstance, very which the chiming of the bells worked all hr lite and now she was waiting Then Edna Logan, daughter of Mrs. out into the country on a hilly road, But to my surprise and alarm trivial in itself by a sound, which reached my ears had already down in pome little town in OLio for him to Logan, aged 18 months. without guide or direction, and finally the minutes passed and there was no make a home for her. "It's meseit that reached my senses from somewhere in told me that the belfry must be I doubt very much it another circumstance^five reached the village of Little York, thinks 111 bring her up here," said Barney at response. the stillness a sound low, muffled, situated directly above my head. I generations of females last "Land is veiy chape here, an' there's nine miles distant, on a rough, rural throbbing and mysterious, like the With a vague terror at heart I renewed now perceived that what I had taken the very bist of soc ety in a direct line of descentever occured by-road. Then she walked back tc beating of my own blood. Had my my endeavors. I raised a clamor for a solid, heavy roof was, in fact, the This little compliment made matters all in this country. the city, arriving there in time to par mind been clear I could not have failed riffht J.gam Even Jack muttered some sort that awoke the echoes of the building. massive and enormous weight of the take of a hearty supper. The nexl of lude apology. Barney put the picture in to recognize it for what it was. But still no voice replied from great clock. I was imprisoned in the his new pocket where it might be safe. morning she was up early and, aftei The sound seemed in my ears but this outside my prison, no hand released bottom of the shaft into which the Draining Off The Fish. At the first s.gn ot spring Barney made a rehearsal, she made a tour of the city, was merely owing to my "position in the fastening of the door. Gradually weight descended. The ponderous most surprising bargain He bought five Some extensive alterations having walking a considerable distance. In the shaft. In reality it was the ticking 'the conviction forced itself upon my acres of stump land near the camp Barney block of solid metal was falling at the the evening she appeared in "Pygma been undertaken at Clumber Park, the paid twice the value ot the land, but of the great clock, far above my mind that I had delayed too long. rate of about four inches an hour, or lion and Galatea," and made a most that did not trouble him at alL As soon as magnificent country seat of the Duke head. "While I had been frying to force rather more. In less time than it the patches of bare ground began to show favorable impression. The total dis of Newcastle, it was resolved to drain open the door by my efforts the party takes to trace these words the consequence For hours I sat there, through the snow he began his household tance covered by the accomplishec the great lake in the grounds, and for -of visitors had left the cathedral, pieparution?. of this flashed through my listening mechanically, half unconsciously lady during one day's pedestnanism Ine boys laucrhed at first, but at last they either without observing my absence, this purpose the fish were all taken or mind. In fifteen hours the weight to this monotonous was over thirty-six miles, and mostly bpgan to help him, and one Sunday they all Ojjjyp|haps supposing that I had would descend through a space of five sound, broken at intervals by driven into the adjoining dams that turned out and gave him the whole day. over country roads. Pew of her rival left,J$|fe$bem. The verger had feet. Long before I could expect release the notes of the deep-toned bell. At usually regulate the water supply. The 2hat was a gieat day for Barney. At night beauties of the English fashionable iO0fcH||yfctie building and departed. the enormous mass would be length, probably owing in great measure he found a good log-and-stump fence lake was deepened, and the fish have world could perform a pedestrian feat around h*s lot, and the little cabin all ready. ras no one within hearing to upon me, and would crush me helplessly to the heavy effect of the air upon now been carefully restored to their of this description, it is to be feared Just before the supper horn blew Barney got .assist me. against the pavement ot my me, I must have passed into a sort of old quarters. About 12,000 pike were up on a stump and made a speech. How much better it would be for them My consternation at this discovery prison. stupor, which lasted very long. "I'm much obliged to ve. b'vs. When the put back and several thousand carp if they could! --may be conceived. The idea that I When I came to myself I was conscious ould lady comes up here, we'll ask ye an in My sensations upon making this and eels. Many of the pike were very an' trateyeweU." "*as fated to pass the night in this of a very singular sensation. discovery I will not attempt to describe. large, some of them weighing 40 The supper-horn took away his audience, dark and narrowprison was one which The pitchy darkness was about me, Often, very often,in the course BO Barney could not 6ay all that he wished pounds. There were a shoal of tench ^I refused to entertain. Again, again, and of course I could seenothing. But, of my life, have I had occasion to re Eggs and Green Peas.Boil one gill to and perch and the caiD were also of .and yet again I hurled myself against in some unaccountable manner, of He kept at work day by day. When the mark the truth of the saying: of green peas beat eight eggs just frost came out of the ground, he planted a immmse size. Clumber lake had not the wooden barrier, with rage, with which I fear it is impossible for me to "The avenues that lead to death are enough to mix the yolks and whites, small gaiden. How tenderly he watched over fury, with despair. Not until I had been disturbed foi 200 years, so it is convey a notion, 1 was aware that numerous and strange." Little did I season them with a little grated nut the tew sickly potato plants that pushed up 'exhausted every effort in my power, during my trance the weight had descended probable that many of the pike and think how nearly I was myself to afford thiougb the forest soil. meg, salt and pepper add a table '.not until every gleam of hope had vanished a great way, and was now At last the preparations were completed, carp have attained a patriarchal age. an example of its truth. Yet spoonful of warm water, put them in from my mind, did I give up the and Barney wrote tor his mother to come. close above my body. I could feel, surely no mortal was ever before the The biggest fish were carried by the a stewpan, and set it on a slow tire The trees were green and full of life, and attempt to force the door as hopeless, though nothing touched, me, the huge victim of an accident so wildly singular keepers their arms, and those under and stir until they begin to thicken, the flowers were pushing up through the .and turned away from it tof examine and threatening mass brooding over and so full of horror! There the pine needles. The answer arrived at last, 30 pounds ware conveyed in tanks. more narrowly the place my im then add four ounces of butter (two me in the darkness. With a mighty and Barney knew that his mother would great weight'was above me. Slowly, Some magnificent specimens were presented ounces will answer if so much buttei prisonment. Nothing now seemed coma effortfor like a person in a nightmare surely, it was creeping dowirw^rd in by the duke to the principal is not liked), stir for five minutes and By Sunday night everything was ready. left to me but to ^ascertain how I I seemed to have lost power of motion the darkness and the silM$k of the aquariums of the United Kingdom, He went out to the little cabin for one last add the sill of green peas simmer fiv anight pass the hours with least dis- I raised my hand* M$expectation night. W & look about the place., Ha,leaned up against minutes longer and serve.