...... ~ .„.....,.:,..y„,..........:2. „ .,., „ . ..:...„.... _,...... h _ z . ter tu_ • . jigiisva ) QSCA!iDAI LANE. FIDDErt .t is not on the signboard, Sir; Go search both far and wide ; it in the town directory, The map or railroad.g,ulde; f you punip your neighbors, Sir, You pump, alas! in rain, or no one e'er acknowledged yet Ile lived in Seandal Lane I • iF; a fearful neighborhood, So secret and so sly; A..l:hough the tenants oftentimes )nchme the rich and high. I'm told they're evert cannibals, And 1.77,a(‘.0 they dine or sup, By ,e-ay of change they'll turn about, And eali each other -up! The? ...anal, prefer the youthful, Sir, I T 1 eautift:l and rare; They Bind r.p character and all, Ana call it wholesome faro! And stioalcl the helpless victim wince, They heed not cries of pain ; 'These very bloody cannibals, That live in Scandal Lane! if you should.chance to dine with them, Pray,never be deceived, When they seem Most like bosom friends, They're liast to be believed. • Their claws are sheathed in velvet, Sir, Their teeth aro hid by smiles, And woe betide the innocent , Who falls beneath their wiles,- When they have singled out their prey, They mate a cat-like spring; Or hag them like a serpent, ere They plant the fatal sting! And then they wash their guilty hands, But don't efface the stain, These very greatly cannibals, That live in Scandal Laue! TREE BIDDEN HAND. DY 3fltS. SOVISWORTII .. • Author of ~"The Bride of au Ereuing,"."The De sorted Wife," Ae., =&C„, &c. • CHAPTER I. . TIM 'FORCED MABBLIGE. Colonel Gabrielle Le Noir, a Virginia nre hob, in order that he might inherit the pa ternal estates,, hired an outlaw, named Black Donald, to murder his