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I 1 •,' . i . ' ; , , ... . . •,.. ' . . i . .1. 6clarqed gast, Ptiblirsttr, ,Stiert Vottrg. EITTIKE/ NELLIE. • . . W hen the droi.ph"%lg blue bell lingei•ed rY , On the moviy 'griss-grown. hill I Arid the little ignowy starfloret. - -Bent above the flowing run; When the lovely babe - lir_ setptiter . , Wooed the'bref , iesw:thderitt by, Then ohi little angel-Nellie • ' • Folded her sort n g s• to Tivilight had the curtains gathered, vinnkl - them gently wits a star, And the fragyant summer zephyrs floated swo,tly . freni afar ; Softly kissed the marble forelte::d ,• OF our little atilleleAs. one:, I t ightly . waved goldi.n ,ringlet* Tinted by the s e tting min,. Teen the snowy lid was lilted , From above the Vi,olet . eye, And a voice of san,,ie'sily'ry • hiveted s a ...e.et Tearful eyes xy,ere bendia:g o7er her, .•Lent "love g s lor;cs" toiler ,own,. Gentle quires i'ad and Mournful Answered low her trembling. tone. , Bat the irlol 'fair' wfis shattered, • • • • Sweetly l;:td the cliirit fled ; 1:1111n , 41 wifre ‘eings fu [ lICaFe7I And the blue-eyed one was-tlepd. .* Then with elre - the shining ringlets Twined s they from her marble brow,. .`.ntyped . th hatohi:ana whispered, Nellie is La angel. nor." :Pressed the 184 , kiss: on bcr,fnrebend, !Iteund her wrnpped the robe of white, :114....-11tuis twined indd,ber-tresses— bre:Abel the Is-ft grind-night; Ileaven retnineth nos viler trenitvs, .I;:irth the..levely easke . i keep% And the sunbeatUs tine to linger •• Where our little Nelliesl'eep's: • istrilantons. - 4 -- •i: -- OT:- THE LAN DE-0111r.4 Si OM'. By eIIARLF-i DICKENS. Tatiebball is my el4r brother by fitteen . N;earg.. lam Sit-it i , rother aothis. gate. at, his snag retreat of Trataiiinglon`o‘tge, Peek.: inint; near London, eractly' at alliarter to t -his usual Irour--whea`the oinnibus from the city set likm down at the end 'of - the:lane. It was I teeeraber, Sat The Weather was fine an, frosty, and as it Was withitCa few days of' t`loistarts, his children--rfouria number:— tWoHboys, j , tst.potue home Troia school, and tWo. girls who cam,: Vinne. front seitool every iii:}—were all on the alert .to receive. tuna It -a world of schemes for ,the;deleetation cfltliti coming holiklai , ,time. lv brother .0 rich was an e4pecial family Ile made hita, , cir the companion and • Cit•lllW •Of hi* -children on all .ok.:casion,i' th:tliis - -dlykiiion to his bliiin2si•in - thr3 . erty. wcul,l admit ot. hea:ty, - chOty *vice w+la.aril as he entered the hail an.l WhilZi lie was bu , .y off kiis and lwiging up his hat: Y `•. • r Well, my boys! well, George :Well, Miss there. What are . ou all ;-,- about ! I.l.j i w ' 's world usel roa r since Oil m otn -4)4 matrqua 3 The tea kettle boiling, eh ?" • . • • The running fire of hilarity that alWays an irilt.e,) iiim Seemed to - throw sunshine and• a riorlife int 9 the hOuse, when ,lie Caine' in. eltil , irvn•this evensvg ruched out into the halt, aakbermuled round him with sitelt . a. rannber • of "1 Fay; Do, yOu kienw, jri ?" arid don't tell him now, MriryH Ilet him • g uess." "-Oh, - you'll never gueis i I.g 1, i .1 . that be . :, could only hurry them all 'into thel ting-roori, before him, like a little ficrek of slieei, saying, "iWeli, seed, you 'yogne4, well, well, let ',tie litle semOtea,.and then all about it." the file blazed 'betinily it wair,:Atont, in. 11•10:11.4i4lit g r ate , and that and the -candles . • Ililae the teen; With light and•wannth, - the 'Nei , 'paradise ofCbmfOrt . : Tat tenliall, )0110 iome wornaii . orfire-iuid-shirty ,. or so= Ae l imialit be more, but shO•did not like it—, 7atsl l girt • in the act of. porgiiig the...water fr 1.41 :a very brighf •liitiO kettle, -- into the silrer-teepOt;'andirith a situ tiy,liosy, youthful, ..and _yet miltrupV., faee, .turned bmilinglvat his advance, and said.:; dear; it -.stet a . :very cold ni4t "Not in this rootii, certainly, my:dear, raid.i ' my brother trial], 4 and with !such a. , sou.t ,,, err before ene, who zurei. fur" the .eold. l ' 7 .entude 1" ° . \ ' liA. Tattenhall , , gave him a brighter smile Hll.l l and the netttjlarriet coming in with theoapt, the whole feta) , groupwere speed o/ iiy ated around the tee-table, audthe 'oleic ;110 , of anticipated pleaseres and . plan 4 of PlelfounZer populationdet luoia, , and cord!. l alivleutered into; and widened and imprOved , •, It.v:my brot h er Li rieh. Ile promised them 'an .. • , learli night at the very lit pantomime, and they' were to2,read all about'all the''.'pant), amazes iu thelnowvaPerN' and ,find oirt l'ills:4 lwas itue oft§t. -Lie,nteautto take them •tolwe all forts of 41rtS 4 , and' right off-hand on dirlitinas live he was Voing to set • Ups qiri6tnas-tm, and have ehriorl l odPbet4rind ' f d ' far ---- tind g' - 11, 1 its o gifts tin er it every y: e j '` Sot it all ready dons by a Gertnan who , ' . Milll 1 11 1 . . .. i . ..cameoften to his warehouse , -and it was 1 the open plain—how it spreads and hangs in s somewi*rt, - not Icieff, just now" : ! , • • . • i grand altitude its unobstructed boughs and f "Thank you, - papa l—thank -pin a thou-1 foliage ; a'ordly objec t; Just So thk i Loa- - . I - - 1 sand times ! 'O4 wind heaps of ! fun !" ex- - 1 don. his a vast, a glorious; -a most impos claimed all the children, together.:. ,• - - i ing London, butitlionsands of its individuals 1• , ' . - - ,- ;. "Why, really. my dear," said '.*:llrs: T:it lin it are prey .el and circumscribed to a few I tenball, asdeliglited`as the Children, a what,...! square _yards ; and no . taore. .'Give me the I • I 1 as come to' you I ~il'.ot, • are:, quite inagnifi.l open plaia—the new country, MO then see if 1 - cent nryOur. projects.. .- -•': .. "'robe sure," 1314 a trialt, -taking hold 'of i dren,too:" . . . . . . ..,. 1 the hands of little Lnev, and dancing round I - Mrs. Tattenhall, now she felt. that her Ims -1 the room: with her. "To be asnre.;-. we may i band was in earnest, sat Motionless :and con , just as Well be •tneric as sad ; it Will be all fiunded.. The shock had come too 'suddenly the samen hundredJyears hence." . • - upeit.ber. Her hush:mil; it, is trim, hall often i . Presently the, ten:.tahle - - tins e l el i re d, an d,. : told her that things - Aid not mote ns he wish !as they.drew roundthe.fire, tar brother Uri- e• 1; Ilfel - J l .ey •••;:ecint',4 liN' ell, and, steleolYrdi i .I alt pulled out a hook, and said, ! and - stagnant ; but when crre merchants sat -1 - " George,there's a nie.e book, begin ,and . i‘lied -t . S.lte . liad never entertained an idea read loud ; it will be a • re rY . pleasant . book but they should go on to the end oft he chap ; for these winter evenings, before ill the dis- I ter as they luid been .ioing on ever since she sipation begins::. 'lt is ' Pringle's r aAventines was 'married. She was bound up heart and in South , Africa; and is almost it - goo d as soul whit . her own country.; she had her 'R . : obison ertioe. I. knew .Pringle well , a HinlitY. frien'is and relatioe', with whom .she time, little inan,,that y;ei never would dreatk: liy.4.d on the most eordial tettns; all her Doubt sit on a" horse m uc h lest rifle aft. t 4 - Ii:• t:ts . o.es, feelings and . ideas welt ':Ettglish and ons and elephants in that.style." •; , . - ; metropolitan. At the very idea :• of quitting 1 " Lionft'dn4l elephants !". ._ :. . ... . ' .Etigland, and for so new awl distant a coun ‘ ' ' 'All were silent; and Geormest.adnn. lie try, she teas seized with indescribablo con .) ' rend till eight 0'4:104, their bed-time, and - stematjua.. : ..• - ~• . .. .. I. i group._ tie whole roup— d children.- parents, an • ." My .dear Maria," said ! her litislemd ; e. 1 - . : " mind, I don't ask you to go artirst. You were - equally delighted With ' t. '" As they dosed thej)ook : the .f • , . ' and the children eau remain here till I have "'Now," said -- '. ' : father, " would it notIN•! . . been : V lid . :31...Vti .IVilitt. the- place and prospects are like. -My etrotrter Sam- will look-to 'the '',...grand fun Ito live out there and iide after the lions and deislinittli r . -, basiness- 7 1te will soon bc at home in it-awl " Ah, grand fun ' " said the toys; but : the it a:I is pleasant, why ; lou will come'llien, if 1 mother and girls shuddered at the lions. • - -; not I - won't ask you. I'll %yolk 'out a - good ". Wt-a, youe coukufqay in_ the htaise,you " 101 4 1 v•ta MYsell; if Po-4 1 e. or open up comiectioi litnt M ill mewl matters tnow,"Said - Rob. 'i '. • . . , .." Hight, my fine fellow," said 'the. father , so he l ro ne - Witsit-cart. I say mote I" '-,, ' • • chipping him on thei.l r onMer,. “ ii, - ., 'now oil' • - " Nothing, dear Urialt, nothing. But those 1 to bed, .and, do.ain about it.". -.-,, ' -- poser children—" •.. . Wl.en the elitlthek titre gone, my brother ' . " Tlio. , e. v.: o r children !".said Criah. "Why : .. i Udell stret‘4l4.4l out his ft..et on the fender and my dear 'ltitizi,. it ycii wete, to-. i:sic them , t -,..11 ili t i, a ' il„ lice Wh en . 1111 . • brother's ii i,: , whether they would . like a voyage to Attstra lence.bad lasted s'entie thne,.his wife said ; - lea, to go and see. the evergteen Woods,. ittlui " Are . yott sleepy in v dear 1" ~. : ' gollop about all amongst gay parrots, and i: `o:.s.;', ; never. was more wakeful;" said I. grem. kaitgarts) i 4, they would, jump' oil* their . t ah; "really,*my dear, I• *ever -w as : l e ss in..• :se - Sts with joy. The spii ifs of Alm young are i.clined to bee sprightly; but - 'it wont-do to evi - ron the wing for adventere-.and new . dash thespirits'of the children, : L e t, .alien : eoptitries. It is the prompting of that Gi * eat . enjoy the Christmas as' midi as they can, ; 11 'Or " lticli;leis conAtructed* all this mar i'llier will neVerhe ' oting but once," !! , . veleus utterer-.e, and bade mankind 'multiply -;, " What to amiss ?"asked Mrs, Tattenhall, and teplenisli the earth. Don't you - trouble witli r a quick appieltensive leek. - "is there Yourself about them., - Yoh. 'saw ;how they • something :Mass ? Geoll'ioateioils - ; voulfright- ' , dm:pined the Ndvent.tims at the Cape, and :•:,..- 1 you'll see. they will kindle up its a 'wonderful en Ind?" -•- - '- -. -= .i • ! -.,, ~ Why, noiithere is nothing exactly antisq, etttliesinsin at the Prianise .of a Jvoyage to there is nothing -new-; tut - the fact is Iltai?e ;7A:ll4r:dia. What are inntomines to Oat r . just •taken stock, and; to-day Finished-4.4kirer f'-, '•• " Poor!thing4," said_tf.rs.: Tattenliall, 'thew p '.141.1 up arill.iirnek the .balance" ' I I knoti nothing about the,reality ; :ill is fairr " And is it bad ? Is it less. than yen ea_ land telheni." ••• • , . petted r . 4,koa.Mr--L Tattenhall, • fixini her . "The reality :'the reality, Maria,' 014 - he all . , eyes. seriously on her husband's face. ~- :.fairyland ;411.1 poetry to them." . ';' -:. • c" li/a4l! ~No, not yet bad, nor goo 4., lit .:. .11r-.. 'rave:dial! shook her heat), and re , .._ tell you What it is! . You've he:lrd of 4 toad t tired that night—not to -sleep, but with a in a maul' wall ! We/I. that's- me, TWelity . very sad heart, to . ruminate -O,er , this uttex -;-vears tyro, . Gw ent -into -business with exactly.. peek,' le%'elation' My brether's word; were, -. :_-. - • - .three thuustind pounds, and here I have la-en• -- realized at the very first mention of the pro .-trialing, mid fagging, and gettilig, and le; ing jets to the childreii, After the Ilk spick of ,\-business extending, and 'surprise and doubt whetter' ; it Was really an d k.. ss ___..,i na kin g Large - sates, and Mtn; mealit; they became and oandediv 'delighted. ..breaking directly 'after, and,.SO the upsliot.i:.; Toe end iii it WO, that by the Middle . of kit:b twenty stag' and the:balance the saioe,' - tO a . : ruary;iny brother Uriali, having hail a hand-. - , pound, as flint I - . began with. Three thou-' some oiler for his 'business and ,tack, bad sand pouted-t'; I started ,witli;, and three fit;e:- wound - up all his affair' and Mrs:Tattettluill :;p.oundr‘is . prec isely my capital -at this , tnes itavit-4 vents tact], like a good wife surd moth .; rut. - ' ! ' -.: . . . . cr, to go with the whole family, they bade -', '''ls that all r • said Mr.. -Tatteulinil,• we're- farewell-to England, Mrs. Tattenhall with 1 • 41e.tfolly 'relieved. "Be thankful; my Ale...ti: many tears,- Udall serious, thoughtful, I. 'realm, tht.S aou have three- thous and i Kw ! pi & , t h e c hild r i en f i ll. o f d e li g h t a. t a ii .,o er i it . .You have your bealthwondelfully ;we 4.1'0 ~ evervillieg in the ship. :•• .! • - ; ; all our licalt'; we lute .1 c hildren, atld : pron4-" . They had a very fins voyage,thOugh, with 'rig. children as anybc y is blest . Witl . and i n 5) . very. few passengers, for the, , ,. CaPtaiti said happy home,, and rye; a s . well . . andctnfort there was a temporary damp on the Austra able.as any : One need to d o , or - a i r withi ; - Ilan coloniez. The order of the GoVermient . stn. sure. • What do we want mere s t" . :! at home to ra'ise the upset price of r,ind to "What.dOptve want more:" said Urinli, : :on e isrmild per.nete, had checked eniigration, drawing up ids legs suddenly, and - Chipping and- as . there had been a good deal : of specu: his_ liands:in?a positive tiny •on - his keees. lation at Melbourne' in town allot:twins,— " Why, I, fortoue, want a great deal more.--4 things jolt, now . .looked glOcitliy. 1 'But it We've 'children, Yon say, and a home, and - iii 'e th'i. bist 44-eg;"said the captain.; " that sill} , that. lU'lve n -to lltneked: so we lir 3 / 4 !'t ! taut:: order of nii;ing.the price of land is ' ' so ,paipa . I want our children to have a home after us bly alstird ;: while America is.selling hind so Three thousaUd pounds divided amongst four,; much nearerai' a - rig:lde! of the price, - that it leaves about 'teven hundred and fifty encli r, -- -1 : insi , .‘,be repeated.; Mal then all Will .be right, 1 • 1 Is it Worth 'while to. - tag a Whole life, and ij ap i e ..”.. : I : '• ' - . . . leave them siteli a property asset a like 1 4. ' 18 1 .'. h was in the middle 'of Mil) , When our. pe n t ?, -.. No,r :.outitiuet)Utiali,- in a consider- ] partY arrived .at llobsoir's; Bat... It V1114.-ery ing manner, and shaking bis,bead. " N0.,.11 "rainy, gleci i nty weatharHthe eery opposite of wantsinttething more; for myself; more for' all that 11:0 been - representtArin- the aecohats their', more; room;: mUre scope, -t wider 1 seut home -butthen it was . the commenew horizoniand it More proportionate result of a..meta of winter, the. NOrember.,..Of our season. whole' beinati esistiine.e.', Atid..do you know, . I,Urial, trot a boat anifsailed up the' winding - . . Vadat what I have corn; teas the best 'O l l i - Tivertettie town. The snit " . iiysi through ‘i 'elusion 1, Togo out to : Australia." -. ' • . t ilat tract of land 'den*ily . overgrow n , ,with.. a . ia To ego' out to Australia r said, Mrs. Tat- iii nn i i .. of close . , da r rk bush rs,sotne ten feet high, tenhall, in astonishment: a- My - dear Udall, - t,.l42noiliat.resemblino• 'our-sloe - tree, the tea yo.B4l:e,J9k)lll- 1-4 - 1 u mean.-no such. tiring'' :!.! iici of 'that c• certify, On reaching • the .foot "But ,thet,lir jolt --.lrhat• I :tre'an," - *aid riOf the toviti, , Which" - stood` on a range of I.Triab f takinthiti wife's 'hand afttioitateitill . l e w hilh., trial' and his.ciiiqp s nions stepped'. I liai.e'thought,pf it, ' !Ong, awl :the to:All .. ' : 'f out into . a. most, appalling f . , slough of blitelt, the-wall - halittiCe- - . haS.detertnineff.lllo. - 44 , I,ll)44:through'. Witicli• they - traded • till, they now, What' I 's'lE- of, you is, -tO • _loth 1 4 -- itl . .reache4 ilit'town, Welt i'atl of no great :vx t . calmly-and tartlet*. YOokaow the Stßilligy 1 ; -•terit , ''4eattert4.l:oves• a Considerabi space; heat: the 'O --, rowtri f and . - the Itohinsons- 'hare 'gone l'ever , for . die - untidier of, houses, and with out. !They ietiOrt - .theunittte 41eli i ciana, and i.'gren' tinteitralsof woodlatWand pieces where 'het iroooerHi ere'Alows;l: 'Sue* . country,if ! ';the trees 'had' been ' felled ,- andf:•Where the It te-11.goetVitinfitry,"....iik'' the place" `iii grow 6 , ti t i t4o, 4 "i t yard high, .retintit;Cd in tin Sightly . mind itrive ia,'Witheiti:slool4...',l;.ook '. .it.. •the :InaL4;dn ee -.- , . -. : --. , trewil eiWurdi:!. They: • - sip;:and Took tial trill d in through s *we, which . r"! 17. one -In .the!uoase..: The -frOodi,y,:po .sayiii:. 'ilognAcar;,iniceePitig• "tilli 'the - weather, fell very Lne wood:Onit when':y' (MIMI!! looked ',moll. - laic='- - 4 its': ---- There`-Wits . .tiething .. , y ; 013 PI i .. at the individnal - tret*, - •il4lir:e.': , Cjii itd ... o: - and lii ent Vg• or iiir.siiiii:lfOuSea . .iit rarletta : ',,,degre!,.Hs tiiAtidled uji;:titev'eitivia-iiiii out a :eitidle ',4 Prosrm stood as fite j r -Were.: - . There were - Ow.g l Y--4:141$ certain 444 1 4 0 *; . if they 14 , - piles of lb ber - lift, - phi* lee posts, find' _., , -,. n ,- , e f , . tr . .. . _ leteptAt, thetrl.joiesentiq- t.wige i aire-iiitler.raili;,-.eitipty. wagons anti CAft.o 4 -,.bittno..people. - - 1 . -beet again , 14 , thek 4044: neighbors , s ilt' , -ilhoe - t;.' the tin . , ' -- ilki.:eteksi- s hen& lie sa ws-lots ratiid;:thit'irif all . jitiv*ling :tor .light' and marked out foileiChiebi bdildiiii elioe,h*e. *Eacalik• lb** Look; then, it the tray o* , there they all itetiotterp A WEEKLY SOUBNAL--DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITEMTUAE, AGRICULTURE, SCIENCE, AND IDEALITY. A, IlttlisC l ...S-1.511110Z111111: C,01111t11;:VeRlea; AUF'Sball' rorit-ini,: : : - Oit liOrt ll,' 1850..1., . . "Is it Sunday U riah nod No, it was Tuesday. Why tbiti was - all this stagnation ; this solitude!. In a • lane f or rather deep track of nd and ruts, since' known as Flinders' I..ane, but then without a' name, and only just wide enough between the trees fora „Cart to . pass, .Criah - wading . , , plunging along, the ram. meantime •pouring, streaming, and,: drumming .down - upon Isis umbrella, he came face to Taco with a large, active man in a mackintosh and ; :an oilskin hood oterhis head. : Neither of them found it very convenieOt to step out of the middle mud track.. becouse on each 'side of it rose a perfecOank of sludgeraised by the wheels of dray - and stopping to haVe n look at each other, iher strange man suddenly put out a huge •redibond warm and wet, and claimed : F - . • H • " What! T:tttenhaill You, here -1 , ‘re In the name of all winders brought Jou : . he at thig. moment r. • • • ." What, ! is •that you I 7 cried Uriab. Is tlfs your climate? Ws - your paradise . " Clim ate—paradise, be - hanged r said Robinson. They are well enough. If every , . thing else wog as well-there would lii3-nought to complain of.. But tell me, Uri:6 'fatten; hail, With that comfortable Trumt iugton Cot.' tage:at Peckham, with that well 7 .tode war-- house in the Old Jewry, what' eauld poss&ts you to come here r " \Vhat shotild I 'ome for, but to settle; ?"" asked Uria Soinewhat eh:ldried at this sat,, utation. . . "To settle I lin, ha burst out, Robinson. " Well, as for, that, you could not come to - a beitei place. a regular settleti here.l— and everybody are settled he l re out and, *out.• This' is a settlemeuV and I sm mistake .; but it is like many other settle ments, the figures are all on the -wrong side of the ledger." - Good gracious :w said . " Say, it is neither good nor graciotts:" re- plied I►obin4on: Look round. NVl.at do "you see lain; desertion, dirt anti ',the dev- " Why, how is that I asked• 1 thought you,.and Joneg, an4.Brown,'anil tall of .you had made your fortunes." • " So we had, or were just -oc the 'point of doing. Wells& purchased lots of hind for,. building, and bad sold it out.again ~ .nt fi ve hundrol i per gent., when 'chop : coitus: down tittle Lord Jtilin with his pound an ne?e, and high prestdlCo4yttfing"gnitstopsyturvy.-. '0 urpurchasers are either inthe...bankruutcy court, or have vanished. By jingo 4lio w - you such lots, fine loti tor honks . . and gardens, fur shops and warehouses ;•1 ay, ani.l shops and win:bouss tipou them, too, as woultLastonish you." - . . " Well and what then r listed •Ulialt. What then, why man dont you ; !coitipre bend I Emigration is stopped, broken off as short as a pipe shank, not a soul is - corning out. to and live in these houses, not a son! except an odd, excuse me, Tattenhall,- I was to say. elfuept you and another fool or two. But whe.j4 do you hang out I f ook ! there is my ,bouse,""pointing to a Wooded erection near. " - come And see Von as soon 113 know - where you fix yourself" - . " But mind one" thing;" cried Urialt, sei:. • ..zing him by the am as be passed. 'For • [ I:riven's sake, don't talk in this- manner to my wife.. It would kill her... [ "Oh no, the . word There's no tie frightening the women, said' Robinson. No, confound- it, f won't" croak any. And after all, bad as.things are, •wliy -they can't remain so ft,rever. Nothing ever does; :hats one- comfort. They'll mend sometime. " When I" said Minh.' [ " Well," said Robinson, pausing. a little, " not:before you and I meet again, AO I may leave tharan:wer to another 'opportunity -;" and with a nod and a very knowing Itiok stalked on. F. , • "old fellowr.said. my hicAber He ceiyjocose for a 'ruined tnan. [ What. 1;5 one to thinkwit.6.l on. After makin4 a considerable circuit, :and nettudly lositto. f bitnielf in'tho wood s ot about e, where the Reverend Mr. idoriison'is dispel now stands in Collins'. street, lie again. - . came across Robinson, Who `stood at the door, of a ► considerable erection of wattle-anddab, that I is a it, buillin; of boughs wattle:a 'on Stakes; and dsbbed over with mud; then not Lincoln- . tnen , in IdelbiAlrne, And still common enough in the btish.. It stood on the bill side With * swift.; Muddy torrent produced by the rains rushing doirti the Vulley below it t iows . rdsJhe river, as : it has often done sineeit boto ~tire name of Swanston Street. • " Here, Tattenhall ! here is a pretty ge !" shoitted Robinson ; " a fellow has cut, with bag tend baggage trnight who owes flit' four ;thousand pounds, and has left me a . lot , more housesand That's the way every day. Uut look, hero le a-ho vac ready for yott. You eau't have - a - better, and you can tiny .tne any trifle you please,sometbing is better than autli. ing," • • • . Ire led U r beb 111. The bow 'was thor °uglily and comfortably furnished ; tbeugh, of course, very simply; with beds and "every. thing!. Utialt, in leas lbliow week,* safe ly and had tune' to nimble about' with liis.boye, and kaki; f atly the c,Oilditiett of the:colony. "If: was violate, eboly beyond aiteriptlert. #ll4 l ticltiet.e speculation brought to a sttdd i ep eltnae bythe cessation of immigration, bad gone like a burricaniotter the place, and bad left: noth ing but ruin and paralysis behind it. No ' . binsnef had .used, or that any 1 ye,.. ould overpaint the - real con tra ion' ' and ' of misery. • Two cig ity-insolvencies in . a popula ioui, ud, told the tale of earful ah as overwhelmed with - eon:. the, step he . had - taken. Oh 1 seemed that Trumfiagion Cot 'm, ind that com fortable - ware- MI JesirY, as he viewed them i ipodes in the 'midst of rain and woras that man could dition of p hundred an tion of ten t reality. Uri etenuttion n haw pleasan tar, Peckh house is the froth the An era ivlet my biother as se 4 Robinson stall: in the next What, bp tonishment day, his tall figuro . having to stoop at every Idoor, and in his bursque,.noisy way, go up to and shaking hei band as you would shakelthe handle of a pump,. Congrat-: ulato her on her arriYal in . the colony._ • " A lucky hit * Madnni, n most lucky, Feien: tific hit?Al! tenet Tattenhall `far knowing *hat he is about." .. Mrs. Tattenball'stOOd with a sinOlar w •.l ex pression of onder and bewilderment on . her countenance, for''the condition of the place, and the condolings of several fentale.'neigh hors who had dropped in in trialt's absence, bad induced bei. to believe . that theyrhad .made a fatal lmolve of it. ' • .• • : .: . . . “ " Why, sir,l , said• she, what can von menu for, as I hear; the place is utterly .ruined - , and • 1 - certainly it i4okso-' like it li, , - • • - ".11aiiiieil ! lio by sure it is, at-least the pe ple are, inore ! s the pity for me, mid . the like fine Who.lie lost everything,; - lint for Tat.: tenhall Who tasereOthinerto gain, and. mm- . a ey to win it t itli;. Why is the golden opportu nity, the ver , thing ! [Cho, had, watched at all the Tour hundred yea; into such make me bell ing him knurl ' ; ing. with a ed to come. f' a Why, ; Id drawing a cl front edge.; . 1 six months a . ing except 'otl land, houses, ten tinms the dog cheap: have themfo into a-dozen quantity br three thou4n buy all the p .ortiers of- the world, And .ftir a rs - ..enuld not:. have dropped lhani.e. • trust ..Tatienlitill; ieve he did not, plan it." TliAnit-. Ides into 111 d ttnder-clap of a laugh that seetn tottilunii of leather.. kk 1 - here now,"' lie contkine4, iidr; anti seating himself on its look here now, if you had come You •coald kite bought noth tt c f the fire: Town aliottnents, bread, ineat,-sugar, eyerytl naturat . ptice;: and now .cheap f yt n inlet- . • r asking for; tiny, I could go de4erted shops,' and , take any tioyhing. And propertY why Lcl" i)outds citik would aleno.it ice-7all the colony." 1 . • he tise,7 asked _Mrs. Mato:khan,. ruined colony r. ' colony!' said . K.lbinson, edging ' tore. for rard in. hiir " - chair, and„ a:ly tot pit, upon nothing,. his - I(.llarre r ruddy fac:: : alipearing a • . . i"The ' lolony, madam, is not i•was ruined , never can be Tll-, 2 ple are ruined, -a good hit of "What is ► 'of buying a ':1-ruined himself still seenvingt, -net huge figure still. larger. ruined ; neve ined. The, - • • .• - them ; but the colony is a good and-grand colony. God made the .colony, and leti me tell you, maditm,'looking very.serieus q.: 1 1-43%:•• 'Weave is,no: . ipecnlatOr i up to-day, - down to- - morroW. What .Ile does. Well the people haie ruined. themselves ; but it. is out of their . wer. tOr i M. the colony; no,uor the twin. 'The town ,and the colony are sound as a bell, -never were sounder, never had more stair in theM;never had so much. There the land Stilt,not A yard uf it is gone ; no great fellow, has - nut that on his back at d gone off + - with I it. land is there, and the houses, and the merchmadise, and . the. flocks, and herds, :1141' ItorseSi; and-Lwltat concerns you—" H • Ile sate. and likoked at Mrs. Tattenhall,wlo stood -tl ere intently; -listening; . anif liriah stood just beh l iud her 'listening,. too, and all the children' With 'their mouths open l 6 , g;tzing. •'— • • un (he strange mau. . " Well, what--;:wliat- _concerns ,us:" said . Mrs. 'fattenhall. • • "To get a tinge; almighty heap 'of 'ru tioe-., c thing for -no,thing," said ' the- large man, stretching out hiS arms iu w i eircultir shape, as if he would enclose' a whole globe, and in low, slow, deeP calCutated to sink deep into the..itnaginatiois of the listeners. •' if we•did.bnt know when thlngS niend,"Snid my tirotler erinly'forthe first titnai - enturing to 'flutin • When I." saidAtolnnson, -"Starting up so'; suddenly, that bitibead struck against abeam in the low, one-itorik4 house.. • Contmnd thew l o w places; said h; 'turning:fiery rah., and rubbing his crown, " there will be better, anon. W beto say ye ! nark, ye this Ony is—how, old . f Eight yea:, Lnud in eight years what a town What wealth : what bu il - I tiiugs! what- tt power of *beep andoattle , The, place is knocked down, won't it get itp again i. Ay, and quickly - I ; Here are a 'pis of sturdy legi," he, saitl,_turning . to who tie4 m i l up in surprve, but,Ars: Tettenballi You'did not:teach hint to walk trithoatn few tumbles t eh But he got-up aglin,.and how 'he stands now: what,a sturdy young'rogue it is,: And What,' made •him get Jilt ngitittl beeause he was you% and atrongf madam. Eight years old whist *ball I giro yott fee a three thousand . pottuds purebase made now, three years behea I .Mist think 'of saki -the tall mn, just turn that over tt time or two," nodding solemnly Wiley brOther, then to my and then tnutiimiiii glatteing at the inenancing with a leit'dtteltiillting'ont of the botise. 4 Wlint "siniug4 reltivir I" said trriab.' , But how tt;tteriaid , tint. Tattehltall' „ trueltri What tnieli - ;askad -astonished. ' • ,• Why; said, Mrs: Tutienhall, " What the Isly& It is truth. • Minh ;we must. biiy as much ns we can:, • • . . . 'Bat,' said Uriah,:only the .9ther flay lie said theclean' contrary, idd • . • was rained.' . . And he any . sso still, added 'Mk Tat:en . hAll, enthusi:ektieally,- ' but not the eolonY.-- . - 1 innlt:buy bin' We:niust" buy 'lino, ifair..4—, lOne day .Wo.shull . leap a grand harrest.' • "•Ah so you letsour*lf,iny dear Maria, be . that, TiL.4ily persuaded, ileenne 1. Robinson. wants to sell, and. thinks we hare i money r ,' 'ls it not common sewn, howevet Is it not the plainekt se) he V ; a-ked -Mrs. 'Fatten- Do you tliink tlsis colony ins tlevor to Irecoreer • - , '• Never is n long while; said [Trial'. "Nit 1 !still—' - . I - -le will : think it over, and See hew tLe town lie; ' • stud where Ale Chief poitys of it will be,.probably, hereafter; and if thislir. I Robiuntin has any lend' in. , •.such .pinees, I would buy of hint,. . because.' has given us first idea,of . They thought aid :coked, and t.he end of. it war, that. very soon ;they had . bought up 'land and houses, chiefly front Rubinson, to i the amount . Of. : two thousand pound'.) Rub inson fain would not have. sold, .but - hare ( mortgaged ; and that riot was the 'MOstccon et. [vineing proof that be was sincere in his ex- Oeciations of a ievival; - - Time went on.±- things were more and mote hope' ';•15,7-• 'all, who had nothing elSe to do; set on and cultivated a garden. lie had plenty of gar-.. 'Ann ground; and his bogs helped Win, arid en- . joyel it vastly. Ai • the summer went on and melons - grew ripe., and there we::,3 plenty Of green peas and vegetables, by the addition of meat, which wila now only: one penny a • Ipound, they could live! almost fur nothing; 'and I.; dab thei could 'wait . itnin themselves for year,, , , •if necessary. So 'from time lot ifue,snie-_•Mlo4- - riktg•elit , - taring [distress or another lured. him on take fresh . l ' :bargain till he saw lainse:f almost , - less. Thinors stEl tecnained as del& as, the Very stone:-or .ti.e stumPs.areund them. , .• _ • biotbdi Utialt began to:feel very melancholy; • and Mrs. Tattenhali; who had ,o strongly a,!- Vised the wholeiae purchase .of .proierty, looked very ~..erions.. ..1...7rja1t Often thoUght Ali l - slie •itrOit/d do•i: h e rl : Will never say' so, fir zhe did it f. r.the best." Bat 'his boys and:girls. Weie growing - rip& tt tied made him think. 'Bless me! , 'ln a few ea'r2s _IMO men and *omen motif !,peenlation sliuuld turn lout ntl moonsliim : if 0:e 0....ee er revive P. • ',-..lfe.sate*One day on - the stump • f,:t:tree on .r a high g!•octal, itioting.' over rise bay.. His mind was in the most'glooiny,- thjectett con dition:. Eve . rytitinz looked. dark anil..hope-* . - • !um. No e‘idenee of returning life around; *no spring in dui commercial and his .1 • .'good money gone; as he sat 7 th*tts,his eyes fixed - on the distance, his mind sunk in flan 1 1 6wering present, a man cmile up, and asked. - hien to take hisiland ea" his hands ; to --take iG for 11e:trees isake, and save lais,starving• • .; - ' • . . . Man!' saitt riah, with a .fied aatLa vuieu 4u mirage, that it ,made the suppliatil.:start, even in. Lis tit'.,ery, •1; have Dk 'inum%y ~1 *ant no land ! ;I havetuo much !amt. yol,- 4hall haves it all!fur as. Much a 4 will carry me back to England, and set me -duivn a beggar fliers . . • . .The man shunk his head. "If I had it singinerUira,.[::weultl not Ask you.; butiny .wifetis down: of the fever, and . my children nare i dying of '.disentery.• -What • sisall I del'ars,d my lot .are the, very. bi.%t, in theplace.7 . • ,•. .•- . , ' I tell you l'-saaid my . bretber Criah, whit IS 'fieree growl,4ind an angry flash. of the .eye, have no Atisney;.and lioSv can I.bay : ?'. lle glanced at the .man in fury- but a face. so full of patient Suffdring Audi of.wiaknessr- Siekness efilte heart, Of, ! the soul,, and; as it were, - of fainine, met' Isii-gaze, - . that hestop- . Ped ort, felt Apa n"g remssise - for- Isis' a if! ger,:and poithipg ii number of grazingln the valley belbsi,'lle .. saisr, - in tehed•tone, • • ••'• • • • • • 'LoOk there! . The other aa.,,y,"A in in Me sueh-a tale of li.'srror-:—A a jail stating him in the gayehint - tnYlrst money—my':carefully _boardel Man.' ey ; • and of what use areitlsO;se. - Catle: toSiuKit Suite what e ver: YOu' may insALI them for • . your land, it you like: :1 have timhing,e!se.' ;'I will .have saiil the On:a distant 'station I know. where I e*utd-gell - them .41-eOlild -only. leave °'mf&mil Out : the, !lure uo: fillik wit lug but muatitileUti. merit. hOlaVe‘ tilent M tO O: ! I said U risi h , kiting the' warm blood' mind =the Spirit or humanity 'beginning toeireolute 'nt Isis bosont-'at . tense of what wusionily:StitTering tirOundlim: I LtioveAhem to ine: -'eitre tor ibetu. Vont . Wite andehildrenlhUll IMve • at'doutor; I: s wift 'find 1 on'some provisions j our. tur . yourj imp - swill(' ever - your land - is worth nitithing, you 'shall , have it ngaie.:':Pds state of things ;Mikes monsters it Atittoi-eni idood into gall. our hearts-into. `resist it or we mu ruined; -4,p471 • iglu,' said the Ilion ; ovon't impose- up- - on you. - Take 'that- piece. of land in --i!te vid.* terthee; be Thittfield 4"fr 6 (l4e*A`th44 -4 , 1- whi,lhat is a tamer !?.' I shall!not huitycno:theorr *"ettliht, the first Years • wen Ili:4'mA *IC ed on, but as it *Oro biliiiikiioisir4aiishitd.' iloinint 13, lijumbtr '5. ow of death. It Wis.: a saeleacholtiad di... piriting Iliad!. The Imq - sari of iltriOtilrrns gone. . That jovial,„,stitiny, ebullieritspiri ~ with'which he itted.to come Itrimeli in•th( .7 city, in .England, had fled t _ as - a ',lTatii - 2_::.#,P'... had never been. - Ile ,•maintairxrilifarit - chiefly out of his gardea. Ilif%-efiliii*wer.' sprieging np into , long, lanky lids:and ruse .• Be-educated them himself, -as , s ..wel I .:1 - ttit; Ise : could ;And as fOr chithesl Not a tiavy.. not a toazgaria the streets - of • Leutloa, but - could have steed it cOmparisou with..thetn.. to their infinitif 'di Sparttgemenj: - Al'. t thof2l , good three thousand pounds I . ' ilow will this :- balance stand in my Btrither-I..Triali's book* ; at the end of the next twenty yeitti; - . - But anon there meats a slight Motion itt trit atmosphere of life. It was a nieWilati , ter , in, the air, th ied out again.. 'rhea It g:tirt it revived 1., strengthenecto-,it • blew like a bmath ochre over the, whole fatidscaix.. _ I.7rialt. looked , around him ' from the verY.plaeit where he had sat on the stump in despair:— - It was' bright_and a nny. Ile lreard - atoittil of an axe and a Itmomer. He' leaked, - arvi. saw a holm, that hid-stood a mere skeleton. once more in progrev. _ there Were peoph• passing to and, fro with a more active. air.-- What is that I A cart of goods 1 2,- A' ditty, of building materials: There was lifi - -and. nrotiqn again t The - di icovety of-cOdveiting- - ' .beep and ':oxen into tallow, had 'raised th,... 'value of stock. The shops :tad the merchant . were once more lit action.: The man to . whoa! he bad sold the oxen came Op smiling--; ' Things mend, sir. We shallsoon be ill' right:- Ait,l that. Peed of land In the swamp ' that, you tvem,o Merry over,' will you . sel,l ii' It lies near the wharves, and to wanted - fur warvltettPet: -.-, • , ..._ , . ' Biiitvo r cried Uriah, end they descend the hill together. Part of the land itan sold: it of poop substantial warehoti nati ve; sec of the tie; ~1 , . . I trtpstone, were tisink upon it. et 'ttiiitleti'olti came - ever 1 attachmn to . a merehant's., lif e, c ame . him. With the purchase-money be:lmilt n I worellowe too.. Labor-. was e%treniely .. lov , ; and he built a large and commodiou4 Out'. 1 Another year. or-too, and behold Urialt ,busy in his *II relloufe; - Itistwobe3s Cieriting . w it gravely in the'counting-honse,Thingigie . rapidly bet•er. ;" Uriah and:hisfami,ty -were . once' more. handsomely elath-handsoMeN housed, and Uriah,s jolly hunicii!: -- Was ._ , ngairl -- in the ascendant. Evdry nowitml dien Itob . in=en came hurrying.in, a very hasy limn in , deed he was now, in; :the 'Jon*counek: and . moreover, Mayor ; tind . iiiYing . -- . ' .... ' Weil, Mrs. Tattenhall, dicin't I ita) , ,, it elal I&-not this boy.o(a eoloni,,onit file sturdt pair of legs!igain i Not down I!. Not deadi Well, well, Taienhail did me it letictiovkdieti —bv sentiv omla for iffy faud—t dxitetAiriol'i how I'm to make him amends, titesit,coTine _ . and dine with lam some day.' .4:Tx he a, off again. Another year or two,atwl that - wonderfor crisis, the gidil discovery, Came. Seen, whai.' a sensation—what aittir-•rlint - n vevalutice f what running and buying autt . bidding pl.: : land, for prime business sitnations—what tolling in 'of people, capitrl i . good .' Heaved and earth 1 .. what a seene, What a plade,what" a people.. ~.. Ten year; to a day fmart,trinfast balance 'al the old Jewery, I..tiiah Tattenhall - bafanieil raisin, and his three thoticand ponnds - *wit" grown-to Pciienty thousand ixumi:l4,..and - 'wai , st:11 rolling up and on like a snow ball. There were, George and' Bob. groin, really tall and handsome , •felle*sc-- Georg_ :vas the able met - Chant, Bob had got a -Mit tion out it the Duudennit4dlls- and told wonderful stories of ridinni atter kangaioo. and wild bulls, : and- shooting splendsl lyre- • birds-411 of which came cf -iiinring-- Prir . glets - Life in. South Africa. :114fre Were ifer:e- and Luey, was handioinegirlat twany_intlaV..' colony, and wonderfully attractive to'll YOVni . Bensonand a younger itobilmiti. Worider,-, were the next Year =to bring forth, and anion g.l them Was-to be a grand ple-nio ak.BoVaste . ::: , ~ tioti, at thq 4 Dongdeiong, in Whiet_i,thej(We,re . 7-- to liviont in real tent s :l4,.. _the Tofest . ,lan4;. , , cook, ‘ and bake, and 'brew,'nfiti, thik leflie4- ; - were to join in a , bull bunt, and ehoot.."wittr:, revolver!~, and -nobailly. was to - behuit, '`-e'L': - thrown, Or anything-td•inPleo, but .1 1 1.1 kW ' of ineiriment and wihiiworld Oft*.ii - ---- '..... . Anal really; my brotheilvill ' tt eitthit liar? rt.ltiye i is CVtyio if4 ---4 ,- *-iii . an ItalieWiilla; I,ttiltLet 'tittatbis` .it •''' with lorgei airy Y.onros,' - 's pitii.ti 'iteTkoak. - , and all in the purest tttste. ~ it itan4:On. a.,: lith bank *bolt, -the viiii4,,lu,_.::‘*iik,-, triv- ",.. Yorra- winds,' taking - a' sweePitcre; itieouria-:' marked fly a flew* body triesir'4u'li' the spring ther.e -tOeiiitiva - , of a - .iiiPlendittt .','- g 41,1„ loading tliersirwith their - .PtirtliPitort•-'\: , .t Now theriterirtthick aftd dark. t4-their ii).7.jz,„ lia casting - their slide 01F:the ili***11'•:::" ‘` ~.__ tf: a die "'bunks. From thir hoiti -- ; ,- lite- 4 view .004enteil this tr4fei!,,tittl-7.01!W. curving track:of thich.ttinl _beyond illei:4iFitied - hP. ° :to little thint% - with - ,: their::thilii:fly*iiiiteadttlir - - `uptki the' f, ;hew !:.!rittlif ..h.44--:-.., , iiiiube fo ti, s „,. tenants making their'foltuntis'on'totna'thirtf i.l . -- - •- - ~,..-. i.....-i - -, . ~..-. -, .:, -..-. --,.,.', .I,r or ferty irrox-rion ! P 7.,,J 11 1 1 4 Mt, irgclq , 1 .%;, ton, eedPeteiet4 and -Oitit*#,*(4--4111iciei?, a 'Pollnii,nO 4 tolt tithq; prcodici-iii-1 1 00 14 -,1 Lion.;.' , , .., . - :-- • . 1 .- . : -' =- , Ciir tins sfjoile s - .''. 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