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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-
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