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On at raw, bleak day during the month of August. in the year 1642, a solitary traveler ' might have been seen slowly wending his ' way at a rapid pacein company with a band of brigands, across a sandy, sterile plain.— As far as the eye could reach nu sign of vegetation could be seen, alt around and above appeared completely parched, and desolation reigned so; reme. Nut a blade of grass, not a shrub err flower was there to relieve tit.: weary sight. Tine sun was pouring down his fiercest rays upon the de voted heads of this noble crew, compelling them to wrap the ample fd•ls of their ro quelaires still closer about them ; and as the hurricane swept onward beating tho hail and sleet into their bronzed and furrowed faces, they called a sudden halt, taking shelter amid the umbrageous foliage of at luxuriant grove that was close at hand,— They threw ti nor wearied limbs upon the velvet. greensward, and gazed with whaira• hut not unmixed with atw•e upon D .11 Splitr kius„ their brave but sanguinary chief. 11, had cast his emaciate t form 'tiro' a nin-s -e,+vetvd S 04111! CES;iI.IICe off, and, as he up. , 11 ilk lad right hand, tits in •Itly ch,•.,,t he•.ved th a si t ch. whoNelllll,,lealealtattOO'''erel'leritieti througll out all the adjacent valleys. and made the Mrdkitl ring! ilk raven rittglet:st,sul erect upon his marble brow, and. as he turned his swarthy countenance towards his et•mrades, the sunlight dallied with his :minim locks, causing a halo of glory to •scintillate around his majestic form; and as he sweetly r•lnm bored, he muttered 'ttvixt Ids teeth curses not loud but deep, and ever and anon the name of the Lady Dolma Araminta Blister. would he Mingle! with his murmuring', when suddenly and slow he ope'd his eagle eye and saw; oh, horrnr l De Skeesioks, his deadliest, most mortal foe, gazing fiercely upon hint. Instinctively he grasped his trusty rapier, and with unerring and fatal precisi•n prepared to strike—an attitude. MA Worth mires the mt.', ihn want of it follow.—Por That .the reader may more clearly under stand tl.e position of 511,3 varlous Dramatis Arsenal hereinafter previously introduced I efire, it will be necessary to go back a lit le. say f ur hundred years, during the reign .f . that bloodthirsty monarch, Skinerincturn the Seam I, of Spain. It was the ridicu lous custom of the country to allow peasants as well as peers to betroth themselves one to another, and to give and be given in mar t iage. By this absurd custom it so harpen ed that the ancestors of Romulus De Skee skits had intermarried with the noble and princely family of. the Don Splurkins, and by tracing the genealogical tree downward ti the date of this our veritable history, it will he seen at a single glance why it is that the defendant, Don Splurkins, stands in the way of the romantic Romulus as a rival for the hand of the lovely Donna An/minus.— Having diegressed thus far for the purpose of explanation, we will return to the heroes whom we left engaged in mortal combat. "Dahl what motterest thou, Don Splur- What fiendish act is now on foot ? C ,ward? our-r-derer-r 1 wouldst invent in thy hellish brain some new torture fur the adorable Araminta—s a-a-y? E'en now, whilst sleeping, if such as thou cast court the drowsy god, I stood o'er thy prostrate firm, and heard thy cursed and snake-like terve profane her name by giving it utter. ante. Canst answer, perfidious wretch;-- or does that coward tongue now refuse to do its office? Now, by nil the gods on 1ii,411 Olympus ! I do despise thee, tr r-r-aitor-r that thou ar-r.t l" And overcome by es- InSSIVC rage, Dc Skeesicks swooned away ; hut, by the all of a strong, eonstitution and a modicum of aqua maravalis, he speedily recovered, and Dun Splurkins thus ud dressed hint : "Bewar-r r-e! r-r-r-ash R-r-r. omulus! Mad youth, provoke not my spleen Agitate not my anger! Stir-r r net up my bile; fir, by the pipers that played before Moses, if once ' fully aroused, no power nn earth can swerve me from tic purpose! Even the stern man date of the mighty Allison, clothed in all the panoply of law, shall not affright me ! Therefore I say again, r-r-rash boy be war-r-e!" And, with the bound of a wound ed tiger, he sprang ii;:ion the noble De Skee sicks; but Romulus anticipating this at tack, with the rapidity of greased lightning drew from his hell a richly-embroidered re• yelling handkerchief and blew his—nose. FLIAS ItAUR & CO. Oppo•iic court liou.e. While the bloody scene we have so faith fully described was being enacted, the lovely Aramirita sat disconsolate in her bower (the right bower,) unconscious of the imminent danger that beset the path of her • beloved Romulus; she was musing on the past. Now and again a pleasing reminiscence would steal o'er her imagination, and a smile of radiant beauty would EnoMont:lloY play up on her ruby lips; bat, frightened by the sacrilegious intrusion, would By away. only gretettigts. BF KaRtoi..INUS KOSEW, CITATTER. 13ECUND, CH APTSIt THIRD. "'Were oweet, my P y,•hr. to the Imo. Thy lemares s4ll serrne to .ce.--BTISOIt "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR - ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 14,15 G to leave her more sad than ever, Alas! poor, frngile flower, she little knew the agony in store for her—having been reared with all the tenderness of an oyster plant— the darling of a doting father; that father: too, being her dear dead mother's husband and also brother to a cherished but defunct aunt ! llow closely, then, were they bound by tics of consanguinity I—that noble father, Don Bustnmente Blistero, the last of his proud race, whose great ancestors had per formed such prodigies of valor upon land and on sea, whose domai"s extended far and wide, and whose retinue stood next on ly to the king's. Ile loved his daughter far, far beyond all these, and yet did wish her to bestow that hand where her heart was not. This was the only cloud that marred their happiness, and with its murky dark-} ness stood between them and sunshine. Totally unacquainted with the world, avoiding--nay, even shunning—society, nev er even having witnessed the balls of the ! Bongo Hose Company, she was a perfect 1 nevi e. It cannot be wondered, therefore, that she felt isolated from all the world and the ret.t of mankind, and that all her hopes and fears were conceit , rated in the noble De Skee.deks. And as site thus sat musing,l how her very soul ton:etr tu once again be hold his manly form, to ,gaze earnestly into that dear face, or listen to his dulcet voice as he poured. the sweet music of love into her ever-willing car. Suddenly the can:tient opened, and her father :trod lteforo her. Hi. Alvery hair r,m, , g on either side of his henevolent 01,3%0P113111CC aaq gently undulated by the balmy zephyrs. Calmly taking her hand I within hi:, own he drew her toward him, Ituld imprinted upon that fair brow a chaste salute, saying to her, in a tremulous voice, "Oh, Amain:re, daughter of thy dear and sainted mother ! niece of thy defunct and cherished aunt!. Dost love thy pa f Carlin, sacrifice some little whim to make him hap ny ? Or wouldst rather bring these gray hairs down in sorrow in the what-do-you calldt ? Would:4 rather I :should:4 sink int.: an untimely grace? Or wilt crown my hap piness and thine own by accepting the hand of Don Splurkins?" At mention of his hideous name sho ut tered a wild, unearthly shriek, and sank fainting. to the floor I The Baron, almost crazed at what he'd done, raised her uncon vciov form and. held her in his arms until she finally recovered. But alas! what a change had come o'er that sweet face in so short a space of time 1 A settled melan choly had taken entire possession of She gazed mournfully upon her pa, and fled precipitately to her chamber; stealthily locking the door, she procured a rope and hung—her harp upon the willows. CHAPTER FOLTRTU Where there's a will. flies fa a way:—hill Groh After the terrific conflict was over be tween our hero and Don Splurkins, messen gers arrived informing them of the catastro phe that had happened at the castle. The cavaliers immediately ordered their richly caparisoned steeds and rode swiftly away. On their arrival they were met at the port cullis by the Baron, who escorted them into thecourt-yard, where, much to their amaze ment and chagrin, they beheld posted on the battlements, •'This Tale to be continued in the Now York Dodger of next week." The Beardless Drummer Boy In the year 1812,, in the ninth regiment of the line (which formed part of the grand army that Napoleon. lost in Russia) there was a little drummer-boy named Ri Of course that was not the name his god fathers and godmothers bad given him in baptism, but it was the one by which he was known thrtughom the regiment. The soldiers, and especially the grown-up drum mers, and above all the terrible drum-major, were in the habit of teasing little Bilbuquet, as bny never had been teased before. The drum major used men to beat him across the shoulders with the heavy cane which these military beadles are in the habit of awingitio• and twisting at the head of the regiment. At first little Etilboquet used to cry, but then his onsurados only laughed at him, and the terrible drum-major beat him all the :mire. Tet little Billboquet never did anything wrong-...rat in one sense, that' is to say ; for in another, he never did any thing right. lie was neither lazy, nor un tidy, nor greedy, nor mean, nor rovengefttl, though he certainly did ov.-e n grudge to the drum-major, which be a-as resolved one day n' other to pay; but he always had his drum slung a little too much on one side., or got out of step in marching., or stood in the wrong place whon the company was drawn up in line, or committed some mis take, which was natural enough on the part'. an boy who had left his top and his mar bles to join the greatest General of the age . but which wits looked upon by the drum major and other rigid disciplinarians as quite unpardonable. The ninth of the line, with Bilboquet at its head—the drummers always march in front—was on the banks of the Dwina, and on the high road to Moscow, when the Gen eral commanding the brigade of which this regiment formed pirt, was ordered by the Emperor to occupy a position ou the other side of as enormous ravine. The. ravine eras defended by a battery of six guns. ' These guns were of large calibre, and were well served by the Finegan.. "Are those anything like the pop•guna you need to play with at school, young Bilboquet?" asked the magnificent but slightly brutal drum-major, as he twisted his tong moustache between his finger and thumb. The little drummer bit his lips, for ho felt that the tall oppressor doubted his courage ; but he did not utter a word. "Do you hear bow the ground shakes?" continued the giant. "Ah ! it's lucky your head is not so high as mine, and it's luckier still that the Cossacks have a very excellent habit of firing into the air." But the Cossacks (the French call all Russian soldiers Cossacks) lowered the muzzles of their pieces, and then the drum major and his little pupil, saw whole files of soldiers knocked down like skittles—with this difference, that it would be impossible ever to make them stand up again. An aid-de-camp now galloped up to the Colonel of the ninth, who was in front of the regiment, close to where Bilboquet and the drum major were standing. "Take the battery with two hundred meal" were the concise orders. "Yes! it's easy enough to Bay 'take the battery with two hundred men,'" muttered an old sergeant, "but I should like to see twenty of them get there." "The Emperor is waiting, added the aid de-camp, observing that the soldiers were not over-pleased with, the work they bad before them. The Captain of Bilboquet's company was to lead the assault with two hundred volti- BIM "If the :Emperor is looking at us we must be quick,' said the old sergeant, as he fixed his bayonet to his fire-lock. The Captain noticed considerable hesita tion in tho ranks. Twice he had ordered the drum-major to take a couple of drum mers, go to the front and beat the charge. The drum major was evidently in no hurry. He was leaning on his long cane and shook his head from side to side as he examined the drummers, without the slightest appear ance of enthusiasm. In the meanwhile, Bilboquet sat astride on his little drum, whistling a martial air between his teeth, and beating a tattoo with hts fingers on the parchment. At length the Captain lowered his brow, and in a voice of thunder roared out the order for the third time. The gigantic drum-major nevertheless seemed inclined to spend a few minutes mere-in the selection llf his drummers, when suddenly young liilboq.ust sprang up, fattened his drum to his side, seized his drum-sticks convulsively; and passing close to his tyrant, looked at him from head to foot, and exclaimed with an air of triumph— "Now, who's afraid of the pop-guns?" The drumpaajor was about to strike him, but Bilboquet was at the head of the two Companies, beating the charge in furious style. The soldiers advanced, Bilboquet hurried on, and the men rushed after him towards the terrible battery. - The commander of the fort had seen the aid-de-camp gallop up to tho ainth regiment, and had understood that his battery was to be silenced by an assaulting column. But as the old sergeant had remarked, it was necessary first of all to reach it. Thefts's :dans determined to reserve their fire; and when the French hail marched over about half the ground that separated them from the guns, they were received with a general disclaarge, which seemed to blow the attack ing party to pieces. Still, young Bilboquet ran ahead, hammering away at his drum, as if in mockery of the Russiaa "With wonderful rapidity the gunners re loaded, and again ploughed up the.ranks of the advancing voltigeurs. Bilboquet was not touched, but on looking round, he saw that scarcely a quarter of the two companies were following him. The rest were lying deader wounded on the plains. Bilboquet's dra s sounded like twenty. If his drum had been the enemy, he could not have at tacked it with greater violence. The critical moment had now been passed. It WOUld be impossible for the Russians to fire on their assailants; a third time, for in half a minute tl.ey would be in the battery, engaged in hand-to-hand fight with the artillerymen.— Another rush and after receiving a volley of musketry, which scarcely took effect, the voltigeurs, with Bilboquet still at their head, leaped into the battery, and in a few seconds had dispersed their opponents and captured the terrible guns. During the attack, the Emperor stood on A hillock watching its progress. He shud dered as each volley of artillery swept dowp his men ; and when at length he saw less than half* company enter the battery, he lowered his glass, exclaiming—•'srave fel lows!" The ten thousand men of the Imperial Guard, who were stationed behind him, began to clap their hands and to shout "Bravo, Voltigeurs:" And these were good °skies ; they knew what they were applauding. Immediately afterwards, Napoleon gave some orders to an aid-de-oat:up, who there upon set off at a gallop towards the battery, and instantly returned at the same pace. "How many got in ?" inquired the Em. peror. •tForty.one, Sire," replied the aid-de. camp. - "Forty-one crosses to-morrow morningl" said the Emperor. turning towards the General of the brigade to which the ninth belonged. The next day the regiment was formed in a circle around the remains of the two companies that had been entrusted with the capture of the battery. As the name of each was called out, the soldiers answering to it stepped forward to the General and re ceived the Cross of the Legion of Honor. The ceremony was over, the forty-one had received their crosses, and the men were about to be marched back to their encamp. ments, when a voice from the ranks cried out— "And I, then—am r to have nothing?" It was Bilboquet, the little drummer-buy, who had been quite ferfotten. The General looked round and saw the young hero standing before him, his face red with extitement, and two big tears start ing from his eyes. "You?—what do you want?" asked the Gen end. "Why, General, wasn't I one of them?" inquired young Bilbequet, almost is a pas. sion. "Didn't I bent the charge in front of them nil, and wasn't I the first who got into the battery ?" "It's true, General, ho did!" er.clr.imed forty-one Noices. "Silence in the ranks !' shoutei the General ; then turning again to Bilboquet, he said: "What am I to do, my poor boy ^ It's very hard, but they have forgotten you! Besides, you are very young," he continued. "Wait till you have hair on your chin, and then you'll get the cross, too. In the mean while you must try to console yourself with this." And with these words the General held out a forty franc piece to the unfortunate Bilbeguet, who looked at it fora few seconds without evincing the slightest intention of taking it. All were silent. Every one was looking at the poor little drummer•boy. and wondering what he would do. lids eyes were full of tears, and those whn had been the first to tease him now pitied him from the bottom of their hearts. The whole reg iment seemed inclined to take up his case, and probably the result would have been a petition to the Emperor, had not the young drummer sullenly changed his attitude. He raised his head, looked the General full in the face, and said : "Well, give it to me; I must wait for another time." And without any further ceremony he put the coin in his pocket, anti went bock to the -ranks-humming an air. From this moment no one thought of ill treating young Bitboquet. But he NVIIEi nut very communicative to his comrades, and seemed to have to have some strange pro ject in his head, about which he was con stantly meditating. It was expected that he would spend his forty francs in a trent, and several hints to this effect were thrown out Ity his fellow soldiers. But no. Bit boquet 'kept his money and Ills counsel to himself. Some time afterwards the French army entered Smolensk. Rilboquet had assisted at the capture, and the day after walked all over the town examining, every face with re markable curiosity. Ile seemed pleased with most of the physiognomies he saw, fur he was perpetually smiling, especially when he met a man who had a tong heard—and he met several thousands of them in the course of the day. • flowerer, the berd.s of Smolensk are, for the most part, carroty. This seems not to hare yet met with 1311boquet's approbation; but he probably reflected that if the Rus sians, the Poles, and other Sclavonians had red beards, that was not their fault, and that they had not chosen that color them selves for the purpose of annoying a French drummer boy. However that may have been, he continued to laugh whenever he met a man with o red beard, until at lost he found himself in the Jewish quarter of the city, where all the beards are black. Itilboquet did riot like Jews, but he liked their black beards, and, indeed, was so de lighted that he resolved to have one of them, and that without delay. Behind the counter, in a dirty little shop. which WaS one of a long lino, stood n He brew, with a magnificent beard, as black as ebony. "What do- you want, my little man ?" said the Jew, patronisingly. "I want your heard !" nnsworci Bilbo quet, in a decided tone. "My beard? You're joking, my little man!" suggested its proprietor, with nn un easy expression of countenance. "I want your beard, I tell you 1" repeated Bilboquet, as he put his hand to his, sabre "and what's more, I mean to base it! But don't think I want to rob pun of it," he ad ded ; "here is a forty franc piece, and you can keep the change." The poor Jew tried to convince Bilboquet that his beard would be of no use to him ; that it wee not worth forty francs, or forty sous, or forty centimes, teeny one ; that he, Bilboquet, would do much better to invest his money in horse Bair if be really wanted anything of the kind , that he, the Jew, would gladly undertake such is commission, and so on. But it was all in vain. Bilboquet was de termined to bare his forty franca' worth of black beard. .50038 Fraseh soldiers bad been attracted to the Jew's shop by the high words that bad passed between the latter and--Bilbequet; and having ascertained what the quarrel was about, come to the conclu sion thatthe drummer-boy's notion was bath humorous and origioal, and called uron the Ifehrew to surrender his chin at discretion. $1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE Fortunately for the Jew, one of the sol diers who were present happened to be the barber of the regiment—we say fortunately, because in the absence of a razor there can be no doubt whatever but that lie would have been hhaved with a sabre. however, the beard was taken off, more or less. ac cording to art, and given to Billopier, who folded it up carefully in a piece of paper, and stowed it away in his pockets. When Bilboquet regained his quarters, lie got the regimental tailor to sew the Jews beard—or Bilbognet's beard, as it had now become—to a strip of parchment cut from an old drum, and then, without giving any explanation of his design, put it at the very bottom of his knapsack. His comrades bothered him about the matter for n few days but then the regimei.t started east ward; and after the battle of Borodino and the talc ng of Moscow, such incidents as Bilbociuet's adventures with the jew of Smo lensk naturally escaped recollection. Then came the horrors of the retreat— cold, Cossacks end famine. Napoleon's ar my was decimated in the worst sense—that is to say, erery tenth man was spare 3. while the nine others fell victims to the Cossack lances, hunger, or to the Russian snow.— The ninth regiment formed part cf the rear guard, which faught so magnificently under the leadership and auspices of Ney. Citric Bilboquet was among the most fortunate, for he was neither wounded nor frost-bitten. A few days after the terrible passage cf the 13eresina., thetroops had to arose a small river, over which the Engineers had already thrown a bridge. Bilboquet'sbr!gacie, which formed the extreme rear, had passed over in safety, and the great point now was to pre vent the Russians following. The General ordered the sappers to blow np the bridge, but the explosion was attended with only partial success. Ono half of the bridge was still connected with the other by means of a single beam. If this beam could be cut in two, the whole structure would fall into the water, otherwise the enemy would hare no difficulty in repairing the bridge, and their pursuit would not be delayed more than an hour at most. Some sappers were directed to get on a raft, and endeavored to thistroy the bridge altogether, but the Russians ar rived on the opposite bank of the river be fore the order could be obeyed, and opened a murderous fire which seemed to render its execution quite impossible. The French re turned the fire, and the army was about to move on, when suddenly a soldier with a hatchet nn his shoulder plunged into the river, (Breit and came up half a minute af terwards at a short distance from the beam which it.was desired to serer. By his long beard it was easy to see that this was a sap. per, that was so nobly sacrificing himself for the sake of his comrades. The brave man swain vigorously towards the impor tant point, and continued his course through a shower of bailey!, which canoed the water to boil around him. until at last he reached the centre rile, and, climbing up to it, got on to the bridge. The, beam was not so large as it appeared from the shore, and it was already half divided. With one blow the soldier cut in two, when the bridge, and himself with it, fell into the water with a tiernenduous crash. • The Russians. in their astonishment, ceased firing fora moment, bat the French men soon rose to the surface, and was then again saluted with a storm of shot. Now a hundred poles were ea - totaled to the dar. ing sapper, and the General himself was among the most enthusiastic applauders of his gallant exploit. Suddenly the general gave a start. "IPhat is that?" he exel•timed. Fie :night well be astonished, for the sup posed sapper who had tlntroyed the bridge wee no other than young Bilboquet, the drummer. with his celebrated black heard tied under his chin. ''What in the name of heaven does this mean?" inquired the General, ecrecly cred iting, his eyes. "It's only me," said Iliihriquet, "the drummer-boy that you said you'd give the cross to when he had hair o his chin.— I've a beard now, General, and a capital nno, too—l gave your forty francs for it, ani• I think it ougla to be plod." The General was fairly stupefied by the youngster's courage, and scarcely lesq :so by his originality and humor. 111 took Billy , . gust by the hand, and without a moment's delay gave him the cross Le had been IVO3 r ing on his own breast. From this moment even the veterans of the regiment treated Bilboquot with respect, and the drum-major never struck him any more with his lung cane. The Derby Day—Making up. Books The Darby Day—the Vorhy Day—the great holiday of hard-working England!— We have not as many saints' days as they have in continental countries; but we do our best to cram all the fun of the yoar into eight een hours, and we generallysucceed. From the premier down to the poor oabby, we all own the influence of the time. °area, anxie ties and worries for the space or one day are consigned to the vast deep. Cron that day all blue devils commit suicide. Credi tors are not. Dills of exchange and promis aory notes cease toren. Work is forgruten. Honorable members run away from Parlia mentary duties, and gentlemen who have an Parliamentary duties, leave their private affairs to take care of themselves. The two tall sentries at the Horne Guards feel a mad desire to give their two huge black hr-ores n [WHOLE NUMBER 1,560. breather up Whitehall in honorable rivalry. The nurses with the perambulators would like to run their vehicles against each other Ifor the two-year-old stakes! The baker's boy who delivers the rolls at the door has a !small bct with Jenny upon the favorite, intimating by a wink that he is not without retentions to that character. If the great 1 heart of England during those twenty-four hours were (Tenet!, upon it would be fonna engraven in sanguine characters a list of the trunntog horses, with the names, weights, and colors of the riders I But it must net be thought that the as:: stands out as an isolated fact. For 'weeks and weeks beforehand, if grave middle aged gentlemen meet each other in the street, they retire into archways and exchange con fidences as to how they are going to the Derby. Younger gentlemen at the clubs put their names down for sweep-stakes at LI a head. Poor fellows ! to how many of them the "haul"—that is the nautical ex pression they snake use of—the "haul," I say of ..C5O or £OO would be a matter of serious concernment ; bet with what sound English pluck they lough it of I, !Tow in variably it happens that the poor men draw names of horses which do not appear in the ranning, and how the coveted prise drifts • down intc the pocket cf some civic Dives, !of some lord of bread acres, to whom it signifies as much as the possession of an ex : tilt pcstage-stamp I It is always something. I however, to hare indulged in a vision "of the potentiality of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice." Let it go, my friends, we will hold on by hook and by crook until next Derby day, and better luck neat timel How respectable patres-farnilinrum to whom, I am sure, the event cannot signify one batten, are at infinite pains to master I the very latest state of the odds, and how any one of that noble band, to whom n horsy sort of friend has communicated a valuable secret from "the Corner," not to be mentioned for worlds, but to be used by I pater fatnilias for his own private guidance in making up his book—keeps faith like a Trojan—(l wonder if -they always spoke the truth at Troy—that might account for its fall) and only smiles with bland anperi mity as he sees his friends backing up the brother to Pottinger in a reckless manner. when, as he well knows, Caere:lmam is the horse. Harr young men combine impossible re sults, and make up books with infinite soli citude and great arithmetical ingenuity, up on which, in any case, they must lose x-- and for more probably will lose x 2 pounds —and how Brown and Jones , tritertain mean ideas of Robinson's sporting capacities— nnd Brown and Rubinson come to the same conclusion about Jones ; and Jones and Robinson arrive at the same Conclusion about Brown ; and how all these in their very heat of hearts envy the thin tall cap tain with the bushy whiskers, and the hook nose. who just about Derby time •confines himself to a pint of Leorille per diem look ing upon that military personage as high authority upon all matters connected with the Turf. How certain it is that the sport ing lenders of men in questibn - will put his foot in it deeper than any of the poor foolish boys who look up io him . with such rever ence. The Captairi will; in niFprolusbility, disappear from the ncirnirsitiosi:of the metro polls for a season after the Bert,* Day is decided—and there will be a report abroad that he is occn ied in breaking the banks n. Hamburg an Baden, whilst be is in reality engaged i., combing nut his admira ble beard and whiskers. and wondering in whoteptorter he can raise the wind to the extent of fiftypounds upon his own personal security. What a thrill roan through the spectators wiwn the favorite is le I out—a fete minutes wiit nner decide if he 14 t, wear the riblx.tt, :rnd make good the expectations of big hat7l:- cr.. Ralf a million depends en the Speed of the animal this dad-. And now the clearing of the course begins --and with singular facility the multitude are persuaded to take their_ places behind the ropes. A bay - mare, with a jockey in green and black, comes cantering down the course—then another with colors blue and pink—and when the course is well cleared and every one k in momentary expectation of the appearance of the favorite, the inevi table dog rung his frantic muck down the <tours° amid the cheers of the crowd. The horses are now all out—and the men who Imre stake I so heavily on their perorm ances are chatting with the ladies, as though nothing particular was astir. They are get decently intn line—the signal given.— "They're of!" There they go—all together. The correct thing is now to say that you could throw a table cloth over them. One horse begins to draw ahead—now another—now three lead —one follows, antl - then the rush. ft must be one of the three. Iforrxtt for Green azd Black ! Hurrah for Orange and White ! No, by George, Pink and Bina does it. Tbe one behind is the foverito—thres ahead of him—they turn the corner—berees bound. and hearts bent—there is a rush —tt Sash of lightning—the favorite's ii by a head. Presently the, jockeys return. and th. winner it; bending roveariiy farws.rd and holding his side. What it most be to sit that series of tremendous jumps! From the moment the 'Derby is. "rot.. reielry is the order of thesday, and I ftar that the drag of T. and B. offered no suers• tion to the general rule. flow . Ur. Balt hurtled everybody out, and Renting hictser
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