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The Memory of Monboddo AN EXCELI.ENT NEW SONG AIII —T lie Landing GI., is 'Ts. mange how men and th:tig , revive, Though laid beneath the sod, 0: tI sometimes think I see alive Our good old friend Moithothlo: ills views when forth at filst they came, A ppen red a little odd, 'But row we've 11011011 a much the same; We're bark to old Monhoddo. The rise amen he loved to trace Up to the very pod, 0! And in baboons our parent rare Was found by old Moulooddo. 'Their A RC he made Mein sreilk. Thirst learn their qui t quer quad, 0: Till Hebrew, Latin, Wekm and Greek They knew an well's Mottbuddy. 'The thought that meat had otter had tails Citu.ed many u grin fall Math!, 0: And why Tii u, that feature Wits u.krd of old Alonboddo. Ile showed that stating out the ream, While at our walk we plod, (): %Vould wear tit' appendage to the stump As elate us in Monbotkla. Ala d. Ole good lord little knew. As this straar„e ground he trod, 0! Tina others would In- path par-ue, And never name Molitor, 1(1/11 :•uele folks should have their tails restored, And thereon feel the rod, 0! For Itkving thu. the flits. ignored I'hut'o due to 0:t1 Munhoddo. Though Darwio may proclaim the law, And , prend tt at abroad. 0! The mini who fil.4 the secret saw, Vt'as hmie•t old Nlonhoddo. The Architect precedence talcs Of lino that bears ihe hod. 0; o up and at them, Land of C.atte.,l vindicate Mualiodan. The Scoteltnnn uho would gru Ise 111. prake, duel Lea .en-el,'" clod, O: A torolumeat then lel us ru-e, T. honor old MouboJdo Let Noel Paton null, the Wee. While ,g ~ give. the and 0: A monkey eloolgiog to a 111.11/ 111 memory of Moulmdao. NOTE,-101111.011 11111% JP," e. :PPP. I.nnl to Mr. Thrale: SI :,..01 . 111 Wt., I el. I writtaa a -tr.inge haul. ul/nut hier oncul eel Lee pp t e•pe,,,, , Pill VP hick he II ice. the• 111•PPIe , IP tie I/1 , 11. in I - • that 11l -cane causal - ht.; the 111,11114 ,„,,. like 0111er IPI•II.P4S. LI.I. •e Lire n) .7ePh son P: tt 73, note. LGlack trothi / .1/ee:4et,lPle v'llte reverend “getter up" or the lA - a:tact , \h um anent, etc., etc. Fallen. Leaves %Crory. the cloud droop,qh do vn born th0...4y, Droary, 'he le.sfliezh lost; All thongs come to the earl 13-..out.'y Out of which all thing-grow. Let the wild wind shriek and viinstle Down nkles of ledlle-s wood, Lt our garden let the thi-ile :than where the l'om• lice stood; Let the rotting 11 - 11, 4 full remelt With rain drop. (tot. the 1..,tet , , Let +he dead Past lie forgotten In his grove v tilt the yellow Ir a. e Weary the cloud droopctlo down trout the Dreary. the kilt heti! lots; All Mingo most come to the ear.1111,..and.1.), Out of which all things grow. And again the hawthorn pa'e Shull bloesom SWeel Jo the irtiti3; A rid again the niglinviole Iti the lilac eiel; And seas oldie mud ry .11 e In the light of tee golden grain; But the love that L.. gone. to the gr.tv Shall never return again. Weary, the cloud dronreCt down rrain 11 , e 4y, Dreary, the leaf firth low, All things ,nu•t come In the mirth I.y-aud.b), Out of which all things grow. grtertions. The Tete Noire, at Manconseil It happened that nt one period of my life the path of my destiny lay along the high ways and byways of France, and that I had occasion to make frequent stoprages nt com mon French roadside ctbarets—that kind of tavern which has a very bad name in French books and French plays. I had engaged myself in an undertaking vrhrell rendered finch journeys necessary. A very old friend of mine had recently established himself at Paris in a wholesale commercial enterprise, into the nature of which it is not necessary for our present purpo‘e to enter. lle had proposed to me a certain sluts,: in the under taking, and one of the dirties of my post was to involve occasional journeys :among the smaller towns and villages of France. with the view of establishing agencies and opening connections. My fiierol had up plied to me to undertake this function, rather than tom. native, feeling that he could trust me better than a stranger. lie knew also that, in consequence of my having been half my life at school in France, my know ledge of the langua2e would be sufficient for every purpose that could be required. I accepted my friend's proposal, nod en tered with such energy as I could command upon my new mode of life. auuctimes my journeyings from place to place were accom plished brmeans of the railroad, or other public conveyance: hut there were other occasions, and these 1 liked the best, when it was necessary I should go to uut-of-the way places, and by such cross roads as ren dered it more convenient for me to travel with a horse and carriage of my own, My carriage was a k.nd of phaeton without a coach-box, with a leather hood that would put up and down; and there was plenty of room at the back 1; tr such specimens or samples of goods as it was necessary that I should carry with me. For my here—it was absolutely indespensahle that it should be an animal of some value, as no 1101..,e. but a xery good one would be capable of performing the long eout ses, day after day, which my mode of traveling rendered 'feces- ! nary. lie cost me two thousand francs, and was any thing but dear at that price. Many were the journe that we performed together over the hrtGol acres of beautiful France. Many were the hotels, many the auberges, mail the had dinners, many the damp beds, and many tie fleas which I en co:nured en route. Many were the dull old fortified towns over whose drawbridges I rolled; many the still more dull old towns without fortifications and without draw bridges, at which my at ucations made it necessary for me to halt. Ott the morning when I was to start front the town of Doulaise, with the intention of sleeping :at Franey is Grand, I was an hour later in commencing, my journey than I ought to have been. It was because un that morning, to use a popular expression, everything went wrong. So it wits an hour later than it ought to have been, when I drew up the sheap-skin lining of my carriage apron over my legs, and establi•hed toy little dog comfortably on the sea: besble me, set off on my journey. In all my expeditions I was accompanied by a favorite terrier of mine, which I had brought with me from Eugland. I never traveled nithout her, and found her a companion. MO EMEI It was a miserable day in the month of October. A perfectly gray sky, with white gleams about the horizon, gave unmistakable evidence that the small drizzle which was falling would continue for four and twenty hours at least. It was cold :LIM cheerless weather, and un the de , erted road I was pursuing there tins scarcely a human being (unless it was an occasional cantonnier, 4 or road tnenderjto ln•c.ak. the solitude. A. de serted way indeed, with 1 oplars on each side of it, which had turned yellow in the autumn, and had shed their leaves in abun dance all across the road, so that my mare's M u tstep had quite a Maier/ solltiti a she trampled them under her hoofs. Widely extending fiats spread out on either side till the view was lost in an Mon-weir:o4 mel ancholy scene, and the road itself was so perfectly strait that you could see something like tell miles it (141611i:01111g it, IL point in front of you, while a similar view was ii s ible through the little window at the back of the carriage. In the hurry of the morning'," departure l had, omitted to enquire, e 1 generally did in traveliog an unknown roe I, at %%hie]. village it ‘Nould lie hie.t for in to stop., tout noon, to bait, and whet %vas the ilalttlt lithe ino•t re‘pootable h ,use of puldte entertain- Inelit ill my we'; so that xt lien 1 :tttited, Letweeli t w eke at a elo Win ploee where four roadc loot, a lid w hen at one 4.f the e.4riteri formed by tOuir union l ^all: tt glut with th.• rn of the Tete N“lie ,11 . Ilig;:14 111 ,tout, had nothing for it but to pot thew. with out knowing anythinA of thin character ul the Louse. The look of the nl.tee did not please me it uas it groat, bale, uninhabited fi•dring house, which seemed tiger than no ce,..ary, and presented a lilac:, dirty ap pearance, considering the distance from any town it seas dittiuult Co account for. All the doors awl all the wiii.lows wore shot; there was no sign .Prally litiog erea tit se about the place; .111,1 niche 1 into the wail ab principle entrance wee a grin] and looking life size figure of it Stint. For a moment I hesitated whether I should turn into the open gates of the shtlde-yard. or go further in seitteli of some more attractive halting-place. Bat toy mare was tired, was more than halli-way on my road. and this would be the bestdivision of the journey. There were no more signs of life in the interior of the yard than were presented by the external aspect of the house as it fronted the road. Everything seems shut up. All the stables and outhouses were characterized by closed doors, without so much as a straw clinging to their thresholds to indicate that these buildings were sometimes put to a practical use. I saw no manure strewed thout the place, and no living creature; no oig., no ducks, no fouls. It was perfectly still and quiet, and as it was one of thosti days when a fine small rain descends quite straight, without a breath , if air to drive it one way or the other, the silence Wits com plete and distressing. 1 gave a loud shout, and began undoino. the 1111/es while my summons was taking effect. The first person whom the sound of my voice appeared to have reached was it Mali II but precocious boy, who opened a door in the h a ck of the house, and descending the flight of steps which led to it, approached to aid me in the task. 1 was just undoing the final buckle on my side of the harness, when, happening to turn round, I discovered. stand tog elty+e behind me, a personage who had approached sin quietly that it would have been a confusing thing to find him so near, even ifthere had been nothing iu his appear ance which was calculated to startle one.— Ile was the most ill-looking man that it was ever my fortune to behold. Nearer fifty than any other age I could give him, his dry, spare nature. had kept him as light and active as a restless boy. Art absence of flesh, however, was nut the only want I felt to exist in the personal appearance of the landlord of the Tete Noire. There was a much more serious defect in him than this—a want of any hint of mercy. or con science, or any accessible appraclt to the hotter sidetif there was a Letter side) of the man's nature. When first I looked at his eyes, as ho stood behind me in the open court, and as they rapidly glanced osier the comely points of my horse, and thence to the packages inside :ay carriage, and the portmanteau strapped oft in front of it—at that time the color of his eyes appeared to be of an almost orange tinge; but when, a minute afterward, we stood together in the dark stable. I noted that a kind of blue phos ph.ore-etynce gleamed upon their surface, sealing their real hue, and imparting to them a tigerish lustre. The moment when I remarked this, by the-by, was"when the organs I have been de•erihing were fixed on the very large gold ring which I had not ceased to wear when I adopted may adveatu [-V! Oa I*,rtr notita -NO E.NTERTAINMENTIS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, DEMMER 14, 1861. rouse life, and which you may see on my linger now. There were two other things al ut this man that struck me. These were, a bald red projecting lump of flesh at the buck of hi. head, and a deep scar, which a scrap of fruuzy whiskers on his cheek wholly declined to conceal. "A nasty day for a journey of pleasure," said the landlord, looking at toe with a. SZL- tirieal smile "Perhaps it is not a journey of pleasure," I answered, dryly. '•We 'lace few such travelers on the road now," said the e% it faced man. '•The rail roads wake the country a desert, and the roads are as wild as they were three hundred yea a "They are well enough," I answered intre lcs:sly, "fur tho,,e who ,ire obliged to travel by them. Nobody else, 1 should think would he likely to make use of them." ••Will you taitno into the house?" the landlord, abruptly, luuktug me full in tlw lure. newer felt a stronger repugnance flux. I entertained towards the idea of entering ties man's doors. Yet what other course was open to me? M mare was already half through the first instalment of her ea's, so there was tie more excuse for reinaieing, in the stable. Ti take a walk in the drench ing rain was out the question, and to remain in toy caleclie wield have been a wrong ih dication of suspicion and mislrust. Besides, I had nothing since the morning's cone, and I wanted something to eat and drink.— There was nothing to be dune, but to ac cept my ill-looking friend's offer•, Ile led the way up the flight of steps which gave access to the interior of the building. The turn in which 1 nand tny.relf on passing through the dour at the top of these steps, was one of those rooms which an ex cess of light not only falls to enliven, but, seems even to inve-t with an additional de gree of gloom. There is am/ie./in/es this character about light, ,tail I hare seen be fore now a work home ward, 811.1 11 barren school-roc:11),n hich base ...wed a good share of their 1110111110101 y to an immoderate amount of cold gray daylight. This room, then, into which I was shown, was one of those which, inn a wet day, seemed several degrees Helder than the open air. Of course it could not be really lighter than the thing that lit it, but it scorned so. It also appeared larger than the whole out-door world: and this, certainly, could nut be ei ther, but seemed so. Vt,t as it was, there uppe:u'e•i through two gl.tss 1.11/01'2 in 0110 of the walls another apartment of similar di• Mensions. It w•as nut a square room. our art oblong room, but was smaller at one end than at the other—a phenomenon which, as you have very likely observed, has always an unpleasant effect. The billiard table, which stood in the middle of the apartment, though really of the usual size, looked quite a trilling niece of furniture; and as to the other tables, which wet e planted sparingly here and there fur purpmes of refreshment, they were quite lost in the bamemity ot -pave about them. .i t•upboard, a rack of , billiard cue-, a mat kiing board, and a print 1 If the u uu •Jer of the Archlti-bop if I',u•is in black frolt.e, alone brake the maul:tiny I et stall TM , coiling, as f u • as one, could judge of anything at that altitude, type:tied to be tratter,e•l by all emonntlis ! w arn mll l ups fat.at:lol 11110 it adapt..i for suicidal purpme.t, :tad splashed with the white-wash %.ith which the cetling ir•,elf and the walls jii,t been tice.n•xted. Ls•o: WV little wham I had been oblige.: to take tip in my arms nit account 01 the dtspositt• u t -he had saanife-ted t t tiv at the -.him of our dote-lad landlor 1, looked rottutl with a gaze ~t horror as I .01 111'1' d o n 11. MI! trembled .1101 shivered as if she WOllll came out 1.1 . het• skill. "And su you don't like him, \ell3? and your little beads of eyes, that look up at me under that hair? , Dent-loose, a ith noth ing but love in them..iie all ablaze with fury when turned upon hi, sinister face? Aiid how :lid he get that sear, Nelly? Ihd he get it when lie slaughtei iii hi. last tra%- &el! And what du you thick of hi, eye., Nelly? And what do you think of the back of his head, my d.ig? What do you think tie's about now, eh/ What mischief do you think he's hate:nog? 11 nit you wi , h you were sitting be u 3 side in the ealeelie, and that we were out :/II the tree road again?" To all these questions and lemaxli, my little companion replied %ery intelligibly by faint thuanpings of the ground witn her tau, :and by certain fluttering,: of her e. 1 1 ,, Whieh, from long habits of ham course, I under stood very well to mean that whatever my opinion might be she coincided in it. I had ordtired an omelet and some mine when I Hist entered the house, and as I now sat waiting fur it, I observed thu• or land lord would every now and then lea%e what he was abuta le the other rotor—where I concluded that he was engaged preparing toy meal--and would peer at me furtively through the glass doors which connected the room 1 %%as in with that in which he was Once, too, I heard him go out. and felt sure that he had retired to the stables, to exam ine more minutely the value of my bony.: and carriage. I took it into my head that my landlord was a desperate rogue; that his business was n it sufficient to support him; that he had re marked that I was iu possession of a very valuable horse, a carria 4 e whioh would fetch something, and a quantity of luggage to which there were probably articles of price. I hid other things of worth about my person., including; a coin of money, with out which I could not be traveling about, as he saw me, from place to place. While my mind was amusing itself with these cheerful reflections a little girl, of abaci twelve years old, entered the room through the glass doors, and, after honoring me with a long stare, went to the cupboard at the other end of the apartment, and. ..pen big. it with a bunch of keys which she Brought with her in her hand, t. ok•out small v.hite paper packet, about four inches square, and retired with it by the way by which she haul entered; still staring at me so diligently that, from want of proper at tention to where she was going. she got (1 :tux happy to state) is severe bump against the door as she passed through it. She was a li.wrid little girl this. with eyes that in shirking the necessity of looking straight at any body ur any thing. had got at last to look only at her no-e.--ffilding it, probably, a s b a .l a no-e us e ntll be met with, rtii therefwe a congenial companion. She had, m weover, frizzly and Huey hair, was exits,- Nicely dirty, f...n.1 had a slow, crab like way of going along without looking at what she was about, which was very noisome and de testable. It was not long before this young lady re appeared. bearing in her hand a plate con taining the omelet, which she placed upon the table without going through the previous form of laying a cloth. She next cut an immense piece of bread from a loaf shaped like a ring, and having clapped this also down upon the dirtiest part of the table, and having further favore:: me with a wiped knife and lurk, disappeared once more. She disppeared to fetch the wine. When this had been brought, and some water, the pre parations for my feast were considered com plete, and 1 was left to enjoy it alone. I must not omit to mention that the hor rid waiting maid appeared t, excite as strong an antipathy in the breast of my lit tle dog as that which my landlord himself had stirred um and, I am hippy to say, that a- the ehild left. the room I was obliged to int,' tern to prevent Nully front hdrar3sing her re tt eating calves. An eNpiu lanced traveler 90011 Icutrns that Vat to ;OA ppol t nature; closing hi 4 eyes, and ears to all suggestion. 1 ' set t 01 k. then, at the omelet with energy, uni at the tough, soar bread with good will, and Levi swallowed hair a tumbler of wine and %cater, when a th , mght suddenly oc curred to me which can-ed me to set the glans down upon the noble. 1 had no sooner done this than raised it again to my took a fresh sin, rolled the liquid about in nay innutla two or throe times, and spat it out upon the tlolr. But 1 uttered, as 1 did so, in an audible total., the moLosyllable "Pooh!" Nolly," I said, looking dawn at my 'lag, who at watching we intensely. w i t h h er h ea d o n ate ::14,1e—"po.11! Nulty," I repeated, — what frantic and inconceivable now,ens.e!" And what was it that I thus siiginatited? What was it that had given inn pause in the middle of my draught? What thought was it that c tused me to set down my glass with hall its contents remaining in it? It was a suspicion, driven straight and swift as :tit arrow into the hindmost leec.ae: of my soul, that the trine I had just been drinking. and which, contrary to my custom, I had mingled with water, was drugged! There are state thimghts which, like um:- ions insects, come buzzing; back into one's mind as often as we repulse them. We confute them in argument, prove them illog ical, leak them not a leg to stand upon. and yet there they are the next moment:is brisk as bee:, and stronger en their pins than ever. It was just bitch a thought :Is this with which I bad now to deal. It was well to say ••Poold" it was well to remind lay „elf that this was the nineteenth century, that I was not acting a part in a French inel.lraina, tint smolt things as I W:O4 ing of were only known in romances; it was well to argue that to set a resrectahle man down as a murderer, because he hail pecu liar colored eyes :Ind a scar upon ois cheek, were ridiculous things to do. There seemed to he two tif.parate parties within me: one possessed of great powers of argument and a cool judgment: the other, an irrational or opposition party, whose chief force consisted in a system of itct;4oll 11 , ,Ortitill Which all the ur4timents or the ratamal party were in sufficient to put down, It was not long before an additional farce , woe holm] ted to-the tacties of the irrational party, by certain symptoms which bean tO develop ihemsel es in my internal organiza tom. and which :•C'2ll/01 fat oralile to the view of the ease I was co anxious t, refute. In siate of all illy &farts to the contrary, I could not help leeling that stints very re mat 1.011•:Itt , ,O. , Welt; slowly and grad uallv over inc. First of all, I be- gatito find that I was a little at fault my ttystetn of calculating, distanees: so that when Ito up any object arid attempted to replace it on the. table, I either brought it into conrart with the article of furniture with it crash, is emseqtrence of conceit log it to be lower than it WAS; or else, itnagiii iii,•• that the table was set era! inelles nearer to the ceiling than was the cave, I abandoned Whale% or f held iii illy hand sooner than I :Aloud], and found that I was confiding it to <pace. Then. again, lily head—felt !iglu: upon my ehouhlere, there was a slight tin gling in ray hands, and a sense that they. tt, well a , ray feet (which tore tcry eeld) were swelling to a gigai,tie size, and were den surrounded with ntlincrou-. rapidly re volting wheel, of a light struciute. like Catlicanie wheel, item ions tr ig,llllloll. It Ilko appeared to me that when I I, ke. to my dog my voice had :t curious sound, and toy words were very imperfectly artieulated. It would happen, too, that when I lodted toward the gl.t•s doors, any landlord was thine. peering at nut t. , .rough the Inu , lin curia n: or the. horrid little girl would cu ter, with no obvious interitioa, ant Laving loitered for at lade time ab nit the room, would 1e41% , . it again. At length the land lord liitit,elf came in, and coolly w, l l;,.ing to the table at whtrh r Lyle , cafe I, glanced at the hardly ta,ted wit:o Left,re ••It wimld appear that cue Wllll.l of the count' y i , not t your taNte," lie col I. "It ' o• e I enougn," I answme I, as Care -I'4l could; the word, ~t url oo . to in , as if they were uttered inside the cord I. of St. Paul's, avd were conveyed by iruu tubed to the place I occupied. I was in a strange state—perfectly con scious. but imperfectly able t control my thoughts, my words, my actions. I believe ' my landlord stood staring down at me as I sat staring up at hint. and watching the Catherine wheels as they revolved round his eyes, and note and Olio; they Seerllr#l ablo lately to whet, they got Li the scar on ' his check. At this time a noisy party entered the main room of the auberge, which I have described as being a isthlo through the glass doors, and the landlord had to leave me for a time to gin and attend to theta. 1 think must late. fallen into a slight and strongly resisted dote. and that when I started out of it, it was in consequence of the aielef.t barking of my terrier. The landlord was in tLe room; he W. 16 just unlocking the cup board from which the little girl had taken the paper parcel. Ile took out just such another paper parcel, and returned again through the doors. As he dal so, I remem ber stupidly wondering what had bee ins of the little girl. Presently his evil face ap peare I again at the door. ••I an going; to prepare the e.,Teo." said the landlord; ••perhaps Monsieur will like it better tLab the wine." As the moo di.appe.ired I Martel sud denly and tiolently upon my feet. I could deceive rayself no longer. My thoughts were like lightning. • The wine having been taken Nt so small a quant:ty and t , ..) prolu.ely mixed with water, has dune its work (a. this in in e.in see) but itrinerfeetly. The coffee will fini.h that work. Ile is now preparing it. The euptioird, the little par. eel—theta can be uu doubt. 1 will leave this place while I yet can. .N, , w or never; if those rota whose voices I hear in the other room leave the house it will be too late.— With so many witnesses no attempt can be made to prevent me departure. I will not sleep-1 will act-1 will lore.° my muscles to their work, and get away from this place." In compensation for a set of nerves of di— tressing sensitivene,s, I have receiied front nature a remarkable power of controlling my feelings for a time. 1 staggered to the door, clo,ing it after MC wore I tolently than 1 bad iatendel. acid descended—the fresh air making me feel very giddy—into ahe yard. A• I went down the steps I saw the truc ulent little girl of ,vhotn I have already , spoken entering the yard, followed by earrying liaturn . ...r anal other implements of hi, trade. Catcalling sight or toe. the little gad ,poke gnicady the blacksmith, anal io an instant they h atli changed their course, which was directed toward the stable, and entered an midi attic on the acner side of the yard. The thought entered hay heal that this nut ha I been sent far to drite a nail into any her-e's Pant, si that 111 the event of the draig4eal wine failing, I might still lad nimble to proceed. This horrible. idea a I Ic 1 new force to :lay I exertions. I seized the eta arts of any c.ar• range and c animenceal alraggiog, it atot the; yard an to the frost or the huse, , Peeling that ir it aaai'a in :he highway there would he le-s pa..ability or offering ally impediment to any starting. I atin con -11:1VI lig f,aU as twice to the ground in any .truggle, to get the carriage out of die yard. Next, llt i,tened to the eatable. My mare was :till harnessed. with the e,x- I eeption or the head s.all. 1 Inv nage,' to ' 1 I get the bit into her mouth, and dragged her I to the place where I last left the carriage. 1 , After I knots• not li ate ahoy elf' arts to place ' the docile beast in the , haft,—for I teas as incapable or calculating distance as a(I lik ell 111:1TI —I recollect, but how I know not. seenring the 11.eilStalleti or the hay I hail seen. I Wit': making, a final effort to raanela the trace to its little pin, when a voice be hind nee said: you t.;,)in, , away without drinking your eolreer I turned romrl and saw my I.mdhrd standing close beside me. 11e was watebi no. my bung:ing, effirts to seem e the Barnes-, but. he !wok no movement to a- , kt lIIP. I do nor want any co foe," I 1 Ln,were.l "No coffee. and wine: It ‘‘'onl , l ap pear that the gentleman is not a great drink er. You hate not given your horse touch or a rest," he added, presently. ato in haste. What have Ito pay?" "You will take something else," said the landlord; '•a glass of brandy before starting in the u•et?" "Ni, nothing n•ore. What have I to pay?" ••Vott Will at least e)rne in fn• an instant tad «•arm your feet at the stove." ••\o. Tell Inc at ouec haw such lam to Baffled in all hi.; eff'orts to get tne again into rho Itott.c, ray dete.ted landlord had nothing for it hit to answer lay dotgatul. “F,,ttr litres of oats,” he muttered. hall truss or hay, breaklast, wine, e..tr, 2o "_b,-, emphasiLCa the lit two words with II ma lignant grin --neven francs fifty centimes." Uy mara was by ibis time notnehow other buckled int., the shafts, and now I Inel to get out iny purse to pay thin demand. Sly hand, were . e 'ld, my bead wasgi3,lp , my sight,. was thou, and, as I brought out my purse (which x‘ as a parte nt mnaie, openii,g with a hinge). I manage Im. kite paying the bill to turn the purse titer and to drop -mile gold piece.. “(.1 eried the boy wlm had boon I elp iJg ine t t barr.ass the hors,': speaking as ti by an irresistible impulse. The landlord male n sit 1 lea dart at it, but instantly checked Ilim-elI. 'Teeple want plenty Of g he sail, "NCIIVII they tulke a journey of plea•mte." I felt myself getting worse. I c , ,c,1 not pick up the gold pieces as they lay on the grannd. I fell all my knees, iii my It cal bowed forward. I could nut hit the plaen where a coin lay; I could ace it but I could not guide toy fingers to it. Still I did not yield. I got some at the meney up, and the stable-ly•y, wh, was very otlicious in assist jug me, rare me WIC or two pie,•es—to this day I don ' t know It tw in my lie kept. I east u hasty glance around, and seeing no gold on the ...round, raised myself be a des perate ett n't awl scrambled to my place in the carriage. I shook the reins instinctively and the ware began to ni ire. The well-trained beast was beginning to trot away as cleverly as Usil it, when a thought su Mindy 'lashed into my brain, as will a onetime.: happen when we are just g ing to sleep—a thought which woke we up like a pistol shot, tin I c lose I ute to spring Yorward and gather up the reins so iiol.mtly as almost to bring the mare hack upon her haunches. d my dear little Lai left her belthid: To abandon my little favorite wag it thing that never entered toy he.,41, ..Nt. I must return. 1 inu-a g t hark t, the horri ble place I have just ese.,pe•l from. Rolla., soon tow g. 41 I, too, now," i ,aid to niy,elf, as I turned my horse's head with many clumsy efforts; "the men who were drink tog in the nuberge are gone. and what i worse than all, I leel more under the !ado once of the drugs I have i4icallowed." As I approached the auberge once more, Telliktill'oer noticing tit it its walls looked blacker than ever, that the rain was falling more heavily, that the landlord and the stabledny were on the steps of the inn, evi dently un the Idokout fur Oae thing more I noticed—on the read a small speck, as of sonic vehicle nearing the place. "I have come back fur my dog," said I. "I know nothing of your dig." "It is false: I left her shut up in the in ner room." "G., there and find her, thPn," retorted the man throwing off all disguise. I will," was my answer. I knew it was a trap t, get me into the b ruse; 1 knew 1 was lost if I entered it; butt I did not ears. ilesceadel front the Car riage. I eloonberel up the steps with the aid of the balusters, I heard the barking of my little :17elly as 1 passed through the outer room and approaeheil the glass doors, steadying invseil as I +le:it by the articles of furniture in the r. tom. I burst the doors open, and my favorite bounded into my arms. And now I felt that it was ton late. A. I oPpr , aehed the door that opene 1 to the road, I saw my carri.tge tieing, led round t the back of the house, and the form cf the landlord appeared in the doer-way blocking up the passage. I made as effort to push past 1,11,4 hut it was USeiet.. My little Nelly fell out of my arms on the step 4 out side; the landlord slammed the door hcavi- 81,50 PER YEAR :N ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT LY ADVANCE. ly, and I fell, without sense ur knowledge, at his feet It was dark—dark and very cold. The 1 little patch of sky Iwa looking up at had in it a marvelous number of stars, which would hive looked bright but fur a blazing planet which ...celled to eclipse, in the ab-! sence of the moon, all the other luminaries ! ruu:,d ab lit it. To lie thus was, in spite of the cold, quite a luxurious Qensati.m. As I turned we head to ea-,e it a little (for it scenic I to Inte heel* in this posit' NI some time), I felt ,tiff atel weak. At this mo ment, to ~ I Itd t a stirring close beside me. and first a cold no,c touching my hand, and then a hot tongue licking it. As to my oth er sensati,,, I WAN aware of a gentle rum- Iding sound. :tad I could feel that I was being c.n•t ied slooly along, and that every now and then there n.t, a slight jolt, One .if which, perhup , , more marked than the rest, might be the rause of my being awake at all. Presently. other inatter, began to day, n ; upon my tont.l through the medium of my , sense.. 1 could see the regular movement ~f a horse's ears walking to front of me:' ...ltre:y I to,w, too, part of the figure of n man —a p sir of btu ray ,Iluulder, the hood ; of a coat, atel a heal with a wide tiralse hat up tit it. I could hoar the oeca,i mud sound, of enemy-up - anent which seemed to emanate from this figure, and which were addres,ed to the hon,e. I c.ndd hear the tinkling of bells upon the animal's neck.— Sanely, too, I heard a rumbling stand be hind us, an I the tread of a hor , e's feet—just as if there were :mother chicle following elo,t upoa us. \V.v.; ..here anything more?' Ye-;, in sire di , tanco I was able to detect the twinkling of a light or two, as if a town %vote not far off. As I lay rail ele , erved ill these thing, there was ruck a languor I she over Sllch a valise of utter but not unp:ea•aut weakness, that 1 hardly eared to ask my•telf what it all meant, or to inquire where I W , or 11.1 W 1 rune there. A coot letion that all was well with me lay like au auetlyue upon toy heart, and it was ally slowly and gradually that any curiosi ty as to bow I came to lie so developed itself lin toy brain. I dare say we had been jog ; ging along tar a quarter of an hour, during ,‘lnob I ha I been perfcctly cat:scions, before llstruggle 1 lip into a sitting posture, and reeognii....l the Ituadel Irt,.tk of the man at the horse', head. • Duca) The man with the hooded coat, who was lking by the side of the horse, suddenly cried out -tWo:" in a sturdy voice; then ran to the back of the carriage and cried out "1Vo!" again; and then we came to a stand still. In another moment he had mounted on the step of the carriage and hal taken me cordially- by dm h.fhd. "What," he said, "awake at last? Thank Heaven! I had almost begun to despair of you.,, “My dear friend, hat does all this mean? Where am 1? nere did you come from? rib is not my ealeche; that is net my hor.e.” - I.l' oh are sale behind." said Dufay, heartily, "and having told you so much, I will not utter another word till you are safe and warm at the Lion d'Or. There are the lights of the town. Now, not another word." And pulling the horse-cloth under which ly tog snore closely over me, toy friend disoronited float the nte:), started the vehi cle with the customary cry of “Allous done!" awl a erdek of the whip, and we were soon once more in !notion. Castaing I)ufiy was a man into whose company oiretimstances had thrown met cry uffen, mol with whom 1 had hec.inie inti mate Irmil choice. Of the allalerOUS Chl4S bJltiaged, 111,1,3 men who.° sturdy yelicies and sturdier horses are to be ...eon standing in the yards and stables of all the inns in provincial France—the of the cLimmi..voyageurs, or Fieneh com mercial travelers—Castaing Dotay was inure than a favorable specimen. 1 was very fund of him. In the elsarmn Or MU' intimacy 1 had beau fortunate enough to have tire up p n•tuuity or being, ucelul to him in matter, of some importance. I think we like th....e we have ..,ctrl quite tic well as they like us. 'Elie town lights ware, indeed close by, and it n•a+ tr,t long herore we turned into the yard of the Lem d'Or, and uerselve , 111 the ruid.t warmth and bright nes., end rerrouudecl by fdethi Which, alter the clan gors I had iht,zed throu.4!l, :coked perfectly ang elle. I hal no idea, till I attempletl to Inure, heir weak and dazed I wao. I was tun far gone fir dinner. A bed and n fire were the unsy thing, 1 eiveted, and 1 was NOV/1 in of bulb. 1 wag no ,uoner snugly emieuncel, with my head on the pillow, a atchin,„,••• the crack ling, h.g, no the sparkled—my little Nelly lying out•ide the counterpane—than my friend seated hitu , clt beside ine, and culue- Leered to i.hie%e my etiriosty a, tu the eir eum,tanee,ofwyeacape Iron the Tete Noire. It wu, lie Iv my turn to refuse to listen, as it twin ill, before is Ivi ato spouk. ••Nut use ward," I "till you have hull a gild dinner, atter wlzieh yin will eime up and Nit heoide mc, and tell Inc all I am hinging to know. And stav—you trill di one tiiing inure for me, I kwon; whet you conic ud in will bring a plateful of hence t'ur Nelly; she will nut leave Inc ' night, I swear, to sa%e Iter.solf from stars• "She deqerres some dinner," said Daftly, as he left the rout, -fur I think it is through her instrumentality that you are alive at this moment." The bliss iu which I lay after Daftly had left !lie room is kn ewn only a t! ose who have passed through same groat danger, or who, it 1e..-t, are newly relieved front some condition of cs• ere and prut:acteJ suffering. It was a state of perfect repoi,e and happx ness. When my friend came back he hrotv,ilit— not only a pate uf 1..w!-bunes for Nelly, but a of 21,1 up for tile. Wild] l had Lipping it up, and while Neoy still crunching the hones, Puray spoke as ••1 suit, just now, that it was to your lit tle dug yuu OAC the preservation of your life, and :trust tri..w tell y.,u h PA. It was.— Y.al remember that y_m heft 11,Julaise this up,rning'2— •• I: seems 3 week mg.)," I interrupted. -This mumiog," continued. ',army.— "W 4.11, yu, were hardly out Ur the iuu yard ber2t e I drove int.) it, having made a small sta4e before breakfast. I heard where you were gone, and as 1 was going that way too, 1 determined to give my horse a rest of a couple of hours. while I breakfasted and transactetl some business in the town, and then to act off after you. •Mare you any [WHOLE MIBER idea,' I said, as I left the inn at Deo' false, 'whether Monsieur meant to stop en route,, ` and if so, where?' fftegarcon slid not know. •Let me see,' I said, 'the Tete Noire at Mau- • conseil would be a likely place, wouldn't it?' 'Nth' sail the boy; 'the house. dues not enjoy a good clic:my:ter, and no one from here ever stops thele."Wcll, said think ing no more or. lie •I shall Le sure to find lihn. I will inquire after hint: as I go along.' “The afternoon was getting on wh:••-t came within sight of the inn of the 'fete t Noire. As you know, lam a little near i sighted. but I saw, as 1 drew titer the an j barge., that a conveyance of some kind was being taken round to the yrud lit the back of . the house. This circumstance, howeter, I should have paid nu attention to, had nut toy notice been suddenly caught by the tin lent barking of a dog, which seemed to be trying to g•lin admittance at the edited (Low lid the inn. At a second glance I knew tht. ,. ,10g to be yours. Pulliug up my horse, I , got down and ascended the stets of the no , :forge. Otte sniff:a toy shins was enongl, t von% .:•••• elly that a friend ions at hotel, 11 , 1* e t . efilellt 115 1 nrprOnehed Ole ••• „-„ter rots frantic. "Ott my eructing the heirs I did not nt fiat se e you, Lot, al looking Pi the direction toward which your dog had hnstened as soon as the door was opined, I saw a (loci: en staircase which led out of one corner t the apartment 1 %%as standing in. I saw, also, that you, tie friend, were tieing drag ged up the stairs in the arms ofa icry ill looking mon, assists 1 by (if posttifile) a sti:l more Joking little girl, who had charge of your legs. At sight of into the man de posited you op0:1 the stairs, and advanced to meet me. "'Rvhat are, yr t (I,ing with that gentle man?' 1 :ked. -110 it unwell,' replied the ill-looking utan, ant helping him up emirs to bed.' "'Mint qoutlitatan iv a fiend of mine. NV hat is the meaning, of his being in this F11. , t11 , 1 I know?' was the answer; I am not the guardian of the gentletnan'6 health.' 'Well, then, I am.' f• 11111 1, approaching the place were you were lying; •and I pro scribe, to begin with, that he shall leave this nlaee at 011C.0. ' • '1 11111 , t own," eontinacil Dufay, "that you were looking horribly ill, and as I hen r, over and felt your hardly fluttering pul.fe, I felt for a moment doubtful whethe.r it was .cale t i moru you. llaweier, 1 determined to it. "'Will you help me,' I said, 'to move this gootlemon to his carriage?' " replied ruffian, 'he is not fit to travel. Besides, what right have you over him?' • 'The ri4ht of being his friend.' "'llou• do I know that?' "'Because I tell you so. See'. his dog knows me.' "'And suppose I decline to aecept that as evidence, and refuse to let this gentle man leave my house in his present state of health?' "'You dare not de it.' " 'IV 1.% ?' answere 1, slowly, 'T shatal go to the gentlarrnerle, in the tillages, and mention tinder what suspicious circum stances I Could my friend bete. and bceuu•c your house has hot the best of eliaraeters.' “Ther mail was sacra for it moment, its if a little baffled. Ile scented, however, de termined to try (owe more. —Ana soni),,e I t•lu-ie my doors. and de cline ti let either of you go; utter is to pre vent toe?' "•Itt the first plaec,' I anstvere.l„ will effectually pi e‘ent your detaining ate sin. gle-hande r y.ti have assi,tanee near, r am expected to-nr,:,•ht at Franey, and if I (11 not arrive there, 1 shall Noon besought out. It %N.'s Isnown that :left Doulaise this morn ing, and ato.t people are aware that there is tot alllbergt. on the road which does not hear of rip math. to, mid that its name i. La Tate N.iire. ..V.zr, will you help ! replied the E,trame. 'I will Lace nothing to do With the afttir.' I •'lt was not an easy tack to drag you, without itssietance, from ti.e rotee where y ii tt ere lying, out into the open air, down the ,t,p4, and to put you into my convey :lllCO, which was ettutding outside; but I manage lto do it. The next thing I had to accomplish was the feat of &king, two car riages and two horees single-handcd. I could see only one way of managing this. I led my own horse round to the gate of the etable•yard, where I could keep HIV eye upon lihn, while I went in •earth of 3our horn and carriage, which I had to get right with out atsi-trance. It was done. at Ittt. I fast ened your horse's head by it halter to tiro back of my carriage. mid then, leading my own beast by the Bridle, I matt:le . ..A to start the procc- , ion. And on (though only rat t 1 foot-;.see) we termed our barite upon the 'fete Noire. .1 ad now you know every- thlwz." '•1 foci, Caqiiing, as if I should never to nhie to think of this adventure., or tolpeok n,l it again. It weary, ',mellow or other. .11C11 a ghastly aspect, that I sicken at lbEl i , ro memory cf it." — Not a lot of it." said Dainty. ebeetily; "you will live to tell it a n .tirring tole, same winter night, take my word .f,r it." Horse Stealing in Algeria. The Arab oho is projecting a master stroke, and intends selecting the handsomest out of a thousand ,teeds, usually comes in the course of the day to inspect the bivouac, although he is oblige•l to make his prelimi nary oh,ervations from a distance—frum very considerable distance, it may he. The natives, in fact are nllowed to penetrate easily into the middle of an encampment, but they arc almost always people of the neighborhood mho f,,rtit part of the exped tionary colu.nns—such as camel-drivers, herdsmen, and pack-horse dealers, who hay,' been hired for the transport of provis ions. In the latter case, the Arab thief will he mi . -taken f.a. (Inc of the men employed. lie will take g to l care that no one shall see enter. His choice made, the rogae dis appears tic night. In order to return to the tniddle of the bivouac, ho habitually di vests himself or every item of clothing, and retains no other arm than a well-sharpened kni fe in a leather sheath, along with a strap across his body. lie is also provided with a long rope of camel liar, which is twisted. round his head like a turban. As soon as he has passed the first sentries, the thief is met; amorphosed into n serpent; he crawls on con tinually without hurry, without noise, with out any perceptible rustling. With his eye., fired on the living of Whom be wish- KM
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