fc'VCfl Matutinal Soliloquies ofa TonngMan that's the phrase—which one reads mination to read about, but not visit it The* S a us Thought.* O S E ZITCXDEHTS. name of the dead one, and' was known about hv-*-in Sir Walter and—and other henceforward. Too much fish and Kromi"On.a.Margm" the new novel of Modern as such. Two years later he also died 1 historians. At home they'll be sure to Gaelic to suit me. Three months gone Life. A Few Oddities Developed ~by a Visit to of smallpox, and his death was recorded. SOLILOQUY THE FIKSTSo ask me about Auld B«ekie, St. Bonan's and the ground covered with Autumn "Fariceisl" she almost shrieked. tbe War Department There were really two soldiers, but one this is London, and a Well, Corrie Nan Shian, and Coilan leaves since I've been dangling in her "Something occured in my sight once From the "Washington Star. of whom was mustered in and but one Togle, and what shall I say? It is train and—and I fear I've been making Btnokey, foggy, dismal metropolis it is, that has altered my entire life." As a Star reporter entered i*re office of whom who died according to the ~M clearly my duty to go to Scotland, because—Harry a fool of myself!' Does she care for me to say foe least of it. "There, now. I have no claim upon record." 1 Olden, you are pulling of a War Department official the other at all Well, I'm a sanguine, self-persuasive your confidence," he remonstrated. Eeminds me of young Simpkins, of "Who got the pension?" asked the the wool over your own eyes! You man-rbut putting all that aside, day, he was struck by the appearance "But. my dear friend, I must tell don't care a jot more for ordinary places reporter. %€M* our class, who undertook to write an I think I am gaining ground a little. and voice of a visitor who was just taking somebody. I've never told a human "I don't recall the character of the re-' M^ with extraordinary names than you do Why am I not ecstatically happy apostrophe to the ocean—a la Byron— being, though I've described it to rayself his leave. He was a heavy-set man, for extraordinary places with ordinary port made by the department to the |||f, then I expected to be, and—by Jove, and completed one line: "Oh, thou prodigious a hundred thousand times. Perhaps facQ, with an intelligent dark brown pension authorities, but my impression names! Now acknowledge it's the girl. I will be! I have lived a quarter of I shall be absolved of my long dampness!" Simpkins stuck Well, confound your impertinence, suppose is that neither got it. You see, the hair and heavy mustache, and apparently a century without having seen any penance if I do but confide the secret husband, who died, did not die until it is the girl! W there and couldn't get any farther but woman so beautiful,, so lovable between 45 and 50 years of age. to some one else." 1864, when it was shown he wasn't the t?m I am going to- Scotland. and I know she's far too good for there i3 no such limit to London dampness. The reporter's first impression was that I warn you that I am a wretched man, and the son, who did die in 1864, ^S§i me. What a conceited idiot I am! he was a military officer of some prominence, confessor." never was mustered in, and there you S I dare say it's all my egotism, and SOLILOQUY THE THTJRD but as he bade the official "good By the great ponds of Michigan, the •'You must not interrupt me.'* are. One was mustered in and didn't ?^t|f she really never gives me a second Ah—grrr—krrr—gnooch! By Jove, I promise." '***rf day" there was a very perceptible foreign die, and the other died, but was never air here seems to hold water in solution thought. And yet when I pulled that how I must have been snoring! I never "Very well. I tell you it just as I se3 mustered in." accent in his speech. reckless young scapegrace brother of One runs a risk of being drowned felt so little like getting up in my it with my eyes and hear it with my hers out of Loch Mayle, she put both "Was that an army officer?" asked life, though the sun is pouring in at the in breathing! ears this- moment," Mootla began. "I her cold little hands in mine, and the reporter after the door had closed window, and the whistle of the partridge a a W am a mere child. It is a warm summer I suppose this is what Mr. Guppy whispered some incoherent words, of upon the departing visitor. comes from the hillside like a a day, and I am in a carpenter's shop, called a "London particular," but with which I could only catch. "Forgive me morning matin: "No," replied the official, I never Rural New Yorker. somewhere—for I never knew the name —I know you better now." Pshaw! all due respect, I don't think London is The breezy call of incense-breathing morn. saw him before that I know of, but he of the place—hunting blocks for toyhouses "There is not anything in the house The swallow twittering from the straw-built that was only gratitude. And yet, when has just related to me a very interesting particular, or she wouldn't have such among the shavings. In the but salt pork," I heard the cook say to shed. I held her hands, and tried to tell her story." centre of the room there are two workmen, an atmosphere. Aunt Dorcas. "Oh, that is all right," I'm glad I came to Scotland—glad how gladly I would take far greater I am just in the humor for a story," quite near each other. They are and she gave a jolb/ little laugh, and we left the beaten track of tourists and Fine showing, this, for an April risks for her sake, she did not take said the reporter. intimate friends. One is using a broadax. said, "I've lived too long away from took up our quarters at this Highland them away, but raisod her eyes to my morning! Ho, hum! 1 Really must get "Well, my visitor is a Swede. During He is trimming down a peice of markets and fresh meat not to know hostelry. I don't think I ever enjoved face sp bravely and trustingly that I up and com mcnce my piJgiimsge. the rebellion he left his home in timber, while the other makes mortice how to make a meal, or a dozen, out of rambling through woods, and picking trod on air for days afterward. Sweden, a young man, to come to this holes in the end of the same great log. salt pork. Once on a time I cut it in I can't understand why I should have ferns, or sketching hill-tops, half so She keeps my book, too. I saw the country to fight for liberty. He was a The younger man, who with mallet and thick chunks, and fried it in its own started on this European tour, and condemned much, even on the banks of the oldSusquahana—my leaf on which I wrote that absurd man of meaDs, and was actuated simply chisel, is pale and much exhausted. grease over a hot fire after parboiling myself to wandering about benison on her broad bosom! crotchet thrust into her little silk purse. by heroic motives. Upon arriving here Laying down his tools, he slowly raises but now I cut it as thin as possible, looking at things I don't want to see, She had torn it out and was making a his arms above his head as he drawls he at once enlisted in a New York regiment take off the rind, and steep it first in climbing mountains I don't want to I'm sure theie must be something relic of it. That might be because of and was sent South. His regiment, out, clean, soft water, about milk-warm. I climb, rummaging around tLiough about these Highland braes that nourishes its oddity, and probably means nothing. as I remember it, was rather a requires rather slow cooking, and, when nasty streets where I don't want to 'You handle that ax so well, rhyme, romance and all that sort of There never was a girl so proof to flattery hard one, composed mainly of French done, can be set in the oven to keep rummage, and iuhaing oders that I George.' thing, for a fellow seems to drop into as not to preserve such a spontaneous and Germans, of a pretty rough class, warm." And all this time Aunt Dorcas decidedly object to. What is the use "'Yes?' murmers the ax-man in a poetry as naturally as Mr. Silas Wegg. tribute. She treats me just the with officers not much better. At New was working while she talked, and then now of my "doing" London, and subjecting strangely interrogative tone, as the Laurel—I beg pardon, Miss Laurel— same as ever—is friendly and cordial— Orleans the young Swede's abilities were prepared a gravy of milk and floor and myself to fatigue, odors, and steel cleaves the side of the tough beam. my study in Gray—says she knows I am no more. Uncertainty, then, is all I quickly recognized, and he was given some of the grease from the meat, in a 'ackney coaches, when I accomplish it Now he stops chopping to glare vacantly of a poetic temperament, and 1 am so arrive at —untertainty as to her feelings, clean frying-pan. She toasted some clerical work. In a short time he was all so much more pleasantly with one at the cold gray metal now he resumes foolish as to go hammering up verses to uneasiness as to mine, taken very ill with chronic diarrhea, stale bread, and dipped it in the gravy, -of Dickens' novels at home in a hammock, work more vigorously. prove it! Ah, well! When it is happiness using it as a garnish for the meat, frying Pretty much the same way I felt at and when almost at death's door he was or drifting down the Chesapeake? 'It seems so keen,' the younger says. to be foolish, 'tis foolishness not to Long Branch, three years ago, when I a few eggs to lay between. shipped north on a sixty-days' furlough. I can't understand why I should want 'And sure,' the elder adds. be happy! "In this way a little pork goesa spent a fortnight trying to determine That was in the summer. He did not to see the Tower because the princes 'Life's such a bore, I wish you'd Seems to me I've heard some quotation whether I was in love with Lucy Komer, long way," said she. "Children improve much, and as cold weather approached were murdered there, nor the A.von because split my head'— like that, ©nly briefer. Heigho! and, if so, whether she would be prefer the toast, egg and gravy the doctors advised him to Shakespeare wa3 born there, nor a "Poor fellow, he's taken at his word. Yesterday wa3 a red-letter day in my pleased to hear it at the end of which to the meat." Then she cut up some seek a warmer climate. He was entirely hundred and one other places because "A flash of light and a new crash put existence. To be sole guide, assistance, time she married young Landless, and, apples and fried them as we do Saratoga ignorant of military regulations, and something was done or wasn't done an everlasting period to the dialogue. counselor and protector of the dearest to my surprise, I was pleased to hear potatoes, removing the cores, but beirg desirous only of saving his life there! If a man tells me that his father I see the ax's blade buried in the skull girl in the world for a whole day of it! not peeling the apples. It made altogether he made his way, he says, to Havana. was hanged, I am quite satisfied to of the young apprentice, while its handle rambling through forest and glen, is a palatable dinner, and, as she Suppose this was to result similarly? There he was under the care of a physician still quivers in the elder workman's believe him without rushing off immediately what I call a blessed privilege! We predicted, the children liked the toast I think I'd better go home. And yet who was in some way connected to see the place and bringing grasp. explored Ben Voirlich—all the mountains and gravy with their baked potatoes there will be something lost out of life with the United States Consulate. By away a piece of the gallows or a in this country seem to be afflicted "My God! the look of horror on that better than the meat. when Heave her. I should be wretched, the time he regained his health the war shred of the rope. murderer's face! It fades away, and with Christian name of Benja-o I am afraid but not so wretched as I was over. I think he then went back One day she cooked what she called the man falls in a swoon upon the floor. mm—spoke our little piece over Monan's would be should she refuse me. Perhaps to Sweden at any rate he didn't return Thank heaven, when I'm through I hear the rush of feet. Blanched "furmity" in the place of barley or rice. Bill, and ate our luncheon not so wretched as I might be to this country again until a few days with London my occupation's gone, and It was made by steeping wheat for 24 faces gather round in awful silence. I "Lone Glenarty's hazel shade." I eventually if she accepted me. ago, when he came to New York "to I can go home in peace. Constantinople, am not seen. They do not suspect me hours, then boiling it gently in soft water tnink I must have spouted a whole "Where shall I find the concord of engage in business.'. Imagine his surprise Venice, Rome, Switzerland, Paris for six hours. It is then set away of the terrible crime. Why don't somebody canto of "The Ladv of the Lake" at this discord Apparently, not in this when he learned that his name is —I've done them all, and pretty thoroughly, speak? for future use, and when wanted is covered different times, and how spirited she bed, for it looks like what Mrs. Partington recorded as that of a deserter. His I hope, though my people at with milk upon the stove and allowed "How hideous is silence! was over the defiant stag—how her calls a "corruption of Mount mission here is to clear himself home will be sure to think of some confounded to simmer. Half an hour before "I see only one object in that room. beautiful eyea fill up at the death of "my Vociferous." Hello, Bools! Bring me of that stigma, so that ho can it is wanted, stir in a couple of wellbeaten place that I ought to have seen N ot the bleeding corpse, but the man gallant gray." some hot water! enter business with an unstained repu eggs, a little allspice and sugar but didn't see. Something that I have who had done the murder. I, alone, Well, it's a blessing I know Scott by Mr. Henry Olden, get thee home on tation. He says that he never received to taste. "It's a nice dish," said aunt omitted which they have been dying to have heard their conversation. I, alone, heart! It is precious little else I know the next steamer. a cent from the government when he "and where we grow so much wheat it see for goodness knows how long. know how the young man begged for besides poetry and novels, but she defers was in the army, and did not even get is handy to keep it boiled and ready death. I crawl over to the prostrate Think I'd better coach up on the to me as if I were an emporium of his bounty money. He doesn't care for for use. One can't always be running SOLILOQUY THE FIFTH. guide book, and—that reminds me I chopper of wood. I understand the information. Said she: 0 Lord! O Lord! I feel as if I had that, though, he says all he wants is to to the store for rice, and the children case. I stoop down and kiss his gave mine to the pretty girl whom I "Mr. Olden, yon seem to feel poetrv, just parted with mv immortal soul, not have his name cleared. I don't know alwans liked furmity the best." cold forehead. I forgive him—for rescued in Venice from the gondoliers while other peojsle, just sav it. You to mention everything I have eaten for anything about the truth or falsity of I know that he only obliged a friend. —those fellows are as bad as London "Did you ever steam eggs?" give it a ring of reality that is more affecting the past twenty four hours. Seasickness! his story, but he tells it very straight. They tell me that he also is dead. 'acknev-coachmen—and "who was so asked one morning before breakfast, than finished declamation." The man who called it one of the He will have to bring affidavits and Strong men strive to tear me from him, charmingly gratetul. Said she hoped and she took up a pie plate, buttered I—"It must be because you are my comic diseases was surely never seasick! other proofs to establish it before his but I beg to stay. They deny me this. We might meet a^aiu, and she was ever it, and broke some eggs on it, then auditor then. Generally I regard poetry A myriad of curses on the reeling, rocking case can be acted upon. I only give you I scream 'He is my father.'" and ever so much obliged to me, and it seasoned them with salt and pepper and as a combination of fantastically elevated old tub. 1 could almost wish she'd the story as he related it to me just a little butter. Then she set the plate was so nice to meet a countryman, for "Is this true?" exclaimed Walter, words and ideas—a hyperbolical go to the bottom now. she was American. 1 would have in a steamer, and cooked till set. They terror-stricken at the realism of the expression of ultra-human sentiments in 1 wonder how Miss Gray and her I suppose you have many strange war were done to a turn, and would be a known that if she had stopped alter tale. ultra-human language. With you for mother are standing it! I hope to heaven incidents brought to your attention?" good dish for a delicate appetite. "Eggs "nice"—and a great deal more to the a listener, it seems almost appropriate, "True," answered Mootla, solemnly I shall not see her again until suggested the reporter. and chickens are plentiful out West, same effect, all the sweetest voice and so high a rank do I give you."" "but I swear to you that man acted she recovers, or else I'm done "Oh, yes, lots of them," was the reply. dearie," she said, "and we try and cook with the cordial, confiding way which She (archly)—"I wonder if I have without moral intent. I understand with romance forever! The old "I have in mind now the case of a them with as much variety as possible." belongs alone to our girls. Bless 'em! the psychology of that crime now. It anvthing to do with the feelings which lady would insist on taking this man who was repoited as killed in Shook hands with me, smiled more in -«•».—•—-•» was the correlation, the reciprocity of prompt von to wind up an impassioned steamer, and I think it was a dispensation action, but who turned up a few years her soft gray eyes than with her lips, in it re id poem with some absurd parody or burlesque. like thought simultaneously present in of Providence to cure my malady. ft* ago at a reunion of his regiment like a and left me standing there with my hat two minds. We are told of danger in How can a man worship when his divinity An ingenious compilation has recently ghost among his comrades, who had off, a spectacle for those rascally boatmen! conjunctions of the stars, of human ills I—"Oh, that is done for the purpose is white around the lips, and red been made, from which it appears never heard a word about him since the that track the wake of an eclipse—what of taking the edge off what you might around the eyes, with a drawn, pinched that Presidential elctions are not unfrequently memorable battle when he was shot. It Made a memorandum on a blank leaf are they all, compared to the impulse otherwise consider sentimentality—and look, as if anxiously expecting a catastrophe. decided by two votes out of was at the second battle of Bull Bun, I of my guide- book to this effect: that makes an innocent man a murderer?" partly to convince myself that I am not each 100. For the last sixty years it think. He was a cavalryman, and rode Prettiest picture in Venice. Study growing sentimental'in reality." appears that not less than seven Presidents How could I have been such a simpleton in the front ranks in a charge. He was in gray. Gray eyes, grey robe, name There was a long pause. She—"Is sentiment such a crime in have been elected by a minority as to dwaddle sentimentally shot from his horse at the beginning of Gray. Worth a fortune, but by the your eyes?" "It was all so horrible that I believe of the voters, represented however, by through a whole Summer, and start the charge, and the whole regiment right person to be had for the asking. the average death-rate in the village increased." I—"Not a crime, but a source for ridicule. a majority of the electors. These home during the equinoctial storms? passed over him. There was no doubt N. B.—Would that I dared to as,k. Mootla resumed hearing anew Promise me not to laugh—not io Presidents were: Adams in 1824, Polk A proper termination this for love's about his death, and that his body Then gave the nearest gondolier a her own thoughts. There were two think me absurd—and I'll play at romance in 1844, Taylor in 1848, Buchanan in 1 young dream, and all its attendant follies was not found occasioned no surprise. twenty franc piece to overtake her and like the veriest lover of them all. suicides soon after, and a boy lover 1856, Lincoln in 1860, Hays in 1876, 1 Sweet reveries and murmured As he tells the story, he knew nothing retrieve to Mademoiselle the book she 'I have a mighty leaning to it!' strangled his sweetheart." and Garfield in 1880. In 1824 Adams vows, forsooth! Moonshine all of it, until he regained consciousness, did neglect. And that's all. She—"Some day you'll play at it in had only 20.92 per cent, of the votes, and, as for poetrv—it is a mockery, a two or three months later, out in By Jove, I must get up E in earnest, and be the 'veriest lover of and as no candidate was chosen the grinniDgskeleton! O Lord, I'll never Michigan, being cared for by some them all. or I am no phrophetess." "No, I can't say that I've had a prosperous President was elected bv the House. be a fool again! strangers who had taken him in. He SOLILOQUY THE SECOND. I—''Methinksthe day has come—the season," observed one passenger In 1844 Polk had 49.55 per cent of the I suppose Miss Gray loathes the very was a physical wreck, and when I saw Th*ee weeks in London! Well, hour and the woman! Can you not see to another. "Last spring me and my votes, Clay 48.14 and Birney 2.21. A remembrance of all 'that midsummer London isn't so bad after all, and I am him he looked like a regular Quilp. that since I have known "you—since old woman thought we'd keep summer difference of 2 per cent, determined the madness, and I recall it with the same He was all twisted and torn out of really interested in hunting up queer that happy day in Venice boarders and make some money. We issue. In 1848 Taylor had 47.36 per ^, unbounded satisfaction I derive from shape as if he had been blown up in a places. She (naively)—"When you returned have a big house, able to accommodate cent., Cass 42.5, and Van Buren 10.14 recollecting a meal of cold pork and boiler explosion and patched up afterwards. I'd give a farm just to fina Mrs. my book 1 eighteen people beside our own folks, per cent. Eight years later Buchanan potatoes. Pork! Ugh! I'll never eat He wandered about for several Todgers' lodging-house, and Miss Gray I—"Ah! You did get the book? so we writ to our sons and darters in became President, having received 45.34 again! They say this steamer will years, and finally visited his former is constantly looking for a Curiosity Then it has told you that from the first the city, tellin' 'em what we had decided per cent, of the votes, while Fremont reach New York to-morrow, and I here home. He found that his wife, believing Shop. That I should meet her again, I have set up your picture in my heart, on, an' askin 'em to say a good had 33.09, and Filmore 21.57. Lincoln register a row that I'll go back home him dead, had married again. He and especially this human labyrinth, and fallen down before it word for us to their friends. Well, we in 1860 had 39.91 percent, of the votes, and stay there—be a misanthrope, didn trouble her, but continued traveling is a piece of good fortune little short of She—"'All on a Summer's day!' fixed the old house up in fine shape and Douglas 29.4. Breckenridge 18.08, philosopher, cynic, hermit—anything fatality. Her mothpr and 14-year-old about until finally he gained the Are you not getting dangerously near waited for our boarders. Purty soon Bell 12.61. Hayes had only 47.95 per but a sentimental fool! Amen. friendship of a well-to-do man, and brother constituted the party, and the the brink, Mr. Olden—of the lake, I our darter Mary came down from cent, and Tilden 50.94. Garfield had with him he made his home, finally old lady says she really doesn't know mean You might wet your feet." town with her three children, and said 48.26, Hancock 48.25, and Weaver 3.33. marrying one of his daughter s. After how they would have managed to see SOLILOQUY THE SIXTH. I—"Do you think I say this in a vein she had spoken to all her friends The highest percentage of votes ever Will the day never break Those his appearence at the reunion of his regiment BO much of London but for my valuable which justifies flippant interruptions. about us. In about a week Darter Em received by any successful Presidential swallows outside of my window have he brought his case before the aid. I'm a disinterested party .1 am! Miss Gray came with her four children. She said candidate was in 1828 when Jacksonc^-'"—• department to have his record corrected Hanged if I don't believe I'm getting been chattering for an hour as if it She—"Do you think I treat you in a the same thing, an' though they wasn't had 55.97 per cent. Which ever of the were their wedding day. The 24th of and to secure the pension which too much absorbed in the flesh tints, and way which justifies flippant gallantry, profitable boarders we hoped for a new present existing leading Presidential April—just a year to-day since I landed he claimed on account of his wounds." the perspective, and the foreshortening, Mr. Olden?" kind, and felt much encouraged from candidates shall succeed in securing 2 and the coloring of my study in Gray. in Venice—just a year "since I began "The strangest incident within my I—"You wrong me when you treat as what they told us. The next arrival per cent, in a hundred more than his studying the light and shade of my She has not said a word abouc my recollection," continued the official, "was gallantry the homage of a man was my wife's sister Sal and her two opponent will therefore be elected. guide-book, not even whether she received beautiful picture in Gray, and to-day connected with the death of a colored She—"Is quite as serious as he usually nearly grown-up children. I was a The significance of each individual vote it or not but she seemed glad to I place it in my father's hall! Ah, there soldier. Both his widow and his mother permits himself to be, or as he has good deal discouraged then, but my old can Avell be appreciated by a survey of comes the sun! How the clouds gather see me, and I—pshaw! I'm too old to claimed a pension. The widow swore been during any summer vacation for woman braced me up by savin' some these figures. 4 lie abed and day-dream like a schoolboy! golden fringes! The birds are singing that this man, her husband, died in the past 1 alf a dozen years. Who payin' boarders was comin' and wo I think I'll go home. I've seen as if they knew my happiness! Tne Tennessee in 1862 of the small-pox, but parodies Bosalind and says', 'Come, I'll could 'commodate six more anyway. dew is sparkling on the grass. It is enough yellow fog and black smoke. that his mother was not living at the woe thee, for I'm in a holiday humor, W to in Goin to School. The next arrival was my darter Eunice Mrs. Gray says they are going to Scotland, springtime, and mv wedding day.— time of his death nor even several years and like enough to be ensnared' with her husband and two children. They Sheldon Borden in The Argonaut.' Dr. Jacobi, who has made this a special and the Hebrides, and. all those before. The mother claimed that this I—"You regard me as a trifler, I see." all settled down as if they 'lowed to stay study, concludes that, as a rule, a moist dem'd unpleasant places that man, her son, died in 1S64 of smallpox She (regretfully)— 'And only think all summer, an' I was purty badly broken William Black rejoices in—and, indeed, in Tennessee that she had repeatedly child should not be sent to school be what you might have been! JLet us go up about it. I told my old woman things A a a Wisdom fore he is eight years old. Not till this when on 3 can sit by a warm fire and seen him between 1882 and home." were getting down to a fine point an' not age is ils brain substance sufficiently developed. read about rain and wind, leaden sky 1864, but that her son had never been A young canary bird belonging to Now, what does all this mean? much left oft he garden truck. She en and dewy heather, it isn't bad: but excuse married. Now, that was a nice snarl An infant's brain is soft. I Am I love? And is there our family is in the habit of receiving couraged me by sayin' we still had room contains a large percentage of water. from participating, as the man to untangle, for both women were evidently a chance for me? As to the first, yes for two boarders, an' we'd charge them small pieces of biscuits, cake or such said when he was going to be hanged It is deficient in fat and phosphorus, on telling the truth. There was a enough to run the whole house. Two and the second Well, she scorned like from the tea table. The hardness Yet I can be with her by going. She record of the man in question, according which, to a great extent, intellectual activity days afterward I saw a strange man the manner and not the matter of my of the biscuit has always been a source depends. The convolutions are said her mamma wanted me to go so to which he was enlisted at a certain wooing. There's some comfort that. stop and go in, an' I thought IUCK ned much. I wonder whether she speaks to fewer. The different part3 of the brain of great annoyance to Dickey. One date in that regiment and company, and turned at last, and killed two chickens If you can convince a woman that you do not grow in size and weight alike— me with mamma's lips? Girls do, I died of small-pox in 1864. But there day, however, after an expectant and were a trifier until you succumbed to before I got to the house. When I did the normal proportion of the front, know, particularly when they are afraid was also strong evidence that he died close examination of the tea table, he her, she is prepared to forgive the get there I discovered he was my brother, to let a fellow see that they take any in 1862 of small-pox." back and lateral portions not being first, and to regard the last as very was offered a piece of hard biscuit. Jim, who I hadn't seen for twelve reached before the age of ten. So, too, interest. For example, if her mother "How was it straightened out?" asked natural. years, come to spend the summer with Without making the least attempt to the normal proportion of the chest to •wanted me to go as an escort, and she the reporter. "Only to think what you might have me. That settled me on the summer break it he lifted it from the floor of herself didn,t care a straw whether I the lower portions of the body is not attained "Well, it was learned that the man boarder business, though the old woman been." She said it almost mournfully. until the eighth year, while that went or not, she would have said: I his cage and taking it to his watertrough did die in 1862, as claimed by the widow. Now, I don't think I might have said we still had room for one boarder, •want you to go so much." It's a good part of the back (the lumbar) on which gently dropped it in, following In those times, however, and particularly been anything in particular but I shall and by making the hired man sleep in sign when mother comes to the front. the sitting posture mainly depends ig in those colored regiments, up the action by patiently stirring it the barn we coud take in two, an' that try to be it from this time forth, and even then only moderately developed. Bah! I'm trying to construe nothing the officers made every effort to keep round and round with his beak until it she shall be the judge. How beautiful would clear the house. When I come into something—a practice I thought I About the fifth or sixth years the base their ranks full, and as the colored men was in a condition to be eaten. He in from work the next night my darter she is! I'd give a king's ransom to had abandoned ever since the days of the brain grows rapidly, the frontal seldom went by any other name than Em met me on the porch, and said hear her say then carefully removed it and devoured bones extend forward and upward and when I persuaded myself that a certain Mose or Pompey, or some such wellknown smilingly, 'Father,'says she, 'we've got There's tli6 breakfast bell! it without any trouble. He now puts school-girl returned my youthful passion, the anterior portion grows considerably. darky name, the Sergeants experienced two new boarders. They came this Still the white substance—the gray is because she pormitted me to carry every hard substance which he deems little difficulty in filling the afternoon. Come up stairs and see SOLILOQUY THE FOURTH. the basis of intelligence—and the large her bookstrap to sctiool, a dream that eatible into the water. He endeavored place of some one of the men who died Jangle, jangle, jangle! Confound them.' 'Wait till I dress up a bit,' says was dispelled by her subsequently conferring ganglia preponderate. It is not until or deserted. I is supposed that in this to soften sweets in the same way the church bells! A fellow can never I. So I washed, put on a collar, and, about the eight year that the due proportion that privilege on another young instance no record was made of tne sleep on Sunday mornings with their but finding that the sweets became feeling a good deal encouraged, went of parts is reached, and a certain A gentleman in knicUerbockejs. death of this Mose, or whatever his clamor! graduall^y smalleri andu smaller he hasti- up stairs. There was all the girls and a consolidation, both of the brain and name was, when he died of smallpox in But still I should like to see Scotland my old woman. 'Pap,' says she with Back to Edinburgh from the Hebrides fy abstracted it andTasnever sincTput the organs of the body generally- Before 1862, but the sergeant bunted up "a man and the places s^o "clustered around —back from the land tears in her eyes, 'the house is full at %f anything of that nature into the water, this period memory alone can be» of 8 a who looked enough bike him to take his •with historical associations"—I believe last. Eunice has got twins.' clouds, and romance, with a full Jdeter From Nature.^* V- '*5l«%*** safely trained. place, and the new soldier adopted the M£®$ -*~«t^ «K.»' ., -,.„*„ -i -. a rBwj .in.. SftslJF nuiiwii