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S L. la 11 : 111 %, ' ling gaily. as she wandered about, of a con- . not contend with such it destiny. And let At fI 50 per arnam. r,sm.. in alvan..v, and 'con, they' had attended the evening before the live on with you, dear father, single and F. 2 tio if art rail alt.! ;:.r r::.. :hr year. No ! nt .1,, to( country town. nnwedded, tviih no thought but to contri paper di , cont,nue.i: a 1 : ,!, ~, ~,,; 3. ,! , .s are paid ! .if halo concerts," said the pretty little buto to your comfort, and to cheer and exeept at the 0r,, , n ot ;be ri-,,Fici,,r. I flirt ; "to sit bolt upright on a hard bench brighten your declining years. Ihi not let , A nvimyisrst r - . rs. making 11,1 more than one for four hours. between the same four peo- your too groat fondness for me stand in the square, will be inserted three times for one.dollar ple, without. the possibility of moving, or way of their happiness! Make me trot so and for every subsequent in :el tion t a•eloytive ,sTeakin , to anybody, or anybody's getting odious to them and to mysilf, dear father ! rents. Larger advertisements eharg.l in the, !to u;,:.--,( /11! how tiresome it is !" Let out live always with you—always your same prninirlion. Those not expeeiling ten liars "I saw Sir Edmund trying to slide own Agnes !" And: blushing at_ the ear wilt he charged sevenwstive rents. and tlw : ,g thrOWL.tile crowd-to-reach you," said Ag.- ,_ ess_w_w e-d -nestnithhioh-shhrispolcen7shel . =i MD tIfF.I wC! be malt , to tht,,,c barricade %vas too complete ; he was forced who advert:sr • to retreat, wi th out accomplishing his ob year. t. 1.:-19lliee itt linn " 7l°ll ' CI— one ' lv " East 4'.c. " - Ver„ I assure you he thought it very of the German lirfi».mr , l ( batch, nearlq' . Ito some, he told OH! so when we were com opposite the "PriedenNhothe Opirr." ing out. And then that music," pursued Jessev, "the noise they called music ! Sir Edward says that he likes no music except any guitar, or a - flute on time water, and I like none except your playing on .the or gan and Sinallig Handel on a Sunday even ing. or Charles Woodford's reading Milton and hits of Hamlet." " Do you call that music ?" asked Agnes, lamdming. "And yet," continued she, "it is most truly so. with his rich, Pasta-like voiro. and his line sense of sound ; and to von, who do not greatly love for its sake, it is doubtless a pleasure, much resembling in kind that of the most thrilling melodies on the noblest of instruments. I myself have such a gratification in hearing that voice rt cite ti, verses of i inner or Sophoeb s in the orioinah (...:teek—Charics Woodford's reading it; music." E)epartincilt. From the Pictorial Drawimi Room Companion - Wantidill Npira 'Who Can Dm! Who can descend into the hrart, And read the sorrows gathered there ? Who the, strange dad; mystery impart, Or lay the hidden secrets bare? • 1), who van Iract , the Itlaclotnetl path, O'vr %ditch gricl'a turning lava 11,w, , The power to .c - arch a 110 one bath, Where blighted bores, find death's. terst 'What balm of healing ihat will cease. %Vhen triendship's hand bath struck the blow Il'here Jha I I the wounded heat: find rare, When those we love no feeling show? The heart in its own &pill, most hind lIS aedituir, pan;, , ,s, its ,o vret •omz. ; dove that may lot its 1,.:1 fiod, roidi O ' er Wit! , Its dr, ping o, id; on Iv ‘t I. c 1;11. sv (i•tly %%hit iitti.r it it cat: The aw::.1•1) 4.1 that ki c11.,' ;1101, Niruck by tip - band r too ‘t I I Bat ! there 1: a li,:nc f te,t, I:re is an at.; td ; 'That ;irk, a dear I & deem, I's drea , r, 'l'll,ll hur.n, that blessed home, is }leaven ! .~lli.~fcLlaii•cOuc Icftiolt'_~. 7'llll 0 S 'A N. loe oldie he,:t ies xv.• have latoly read is entitled---1 lie Cou-;:•,, a cotioiry 'l'ale." It is from the clot,,te pen of Al iss Milford, an Eiog'isli awhoress ot considera ble reputation. The whole is to low; for one raper. and it is a story which will riot spoil !o divide. 'Fire III'S( half the story. like the portion of Scot's novels, is 'nerdy introductory to what follows. So we will tirri up the preparatory part in n words, tiritl then give tine demitiviaria in Nliss Nli:ford's PoNi.j Lawyer Molesworth was 'a rich landlord in Cantley, the native town of NI iss Milford. Ile had two daughters. to whom his pl e a s . nnt house Owed its attraction. Agnes was a beautiful woman, Jessev was a pret ty girl. The fond father intended that Jes se), should marry a pour relation, one Charles Woodford. Charles had been brought up by his uncle's ki n d n e ss , and had recently returned into the family from a great office in London. 'Charles was to be the immediate partner and the eventual ; F.llC.CarzSar to the 11 mrishing business of his benefactor, whose regard Sl'olllll 1 . 1111 &It'd by the excellent conduct and remark• able talents of the orphan nephew. Agnes, who secretly entertained an affection fur Charles, was destined by her father for a young baronet, who had lately been much at the house. But in rdlairs of love, as in all otlwrs.. , ,a vs Miss Milford. man is born to disappoint "L'homme propos/ , rl Dieu (lis po.ye," is never truer than in the great that tens of matrimony. So found poor Alr. Molesworth, who—Jesse having arrived at the aae of eighteen, and Charles at that of two and twenty—offe red his pretty daugh ter and the lucrative partnership to his pen niless relation, and was petrified %%ith as tonishment and indignation to find the con- nection vet y respectfully declined. The young man was very much distressed and.: agitated ; he had the highest respect far Miss• Jessey, but could gat marry her—he loved another ! And then he poured forth a confidence as unexpected as it was untie :,ired by his incensed patron, who left him in undiminished' wrath and increased per plexity. ; This Interview had taken place immedi ately after breakfast, and when. the confer ence ended, the provoked father sought his daughters, who, happily unconcious of 'till that had occurred. were amusing, them selves in their splendid observatory—a scene always us becoming as it is agreeable to youth and beauty. Jessey was flit'ting about like a butterfly among the fragrant orange trees and bright , g,emniums; Agnes was standing, under it superb fitsehitla that finrj. ever a Ihrge nimble basin--her form 12c mstatiens li r i,u nes, aletle archly, "his presence would, pt , rhaps, have mitigated the evil. But the "1? i; inn it tV R u 111 i:11,•r. of you arc 111.cly to h”ar again." into tropti.d adtar.citiff suildctify tw,vatd: , i tlictit ; for I,:kA Lrau un t tatrlul, anil 1. 1 6,1% I nn." S stood it I‘.'tlift. d. Cugrati:- oh, I,ii ,' • I:•cl hint to lx ( ,11 v ( 1 . l';1p:t • •• aul beery, ;I: \l;lys (rood on h" t. can he h art , - Illy l' it., , sat( Ile . . 1 il:Qry pan 111 : "ofirs-d to he my p ar t nor and z-on-iii-l.m. any! Ellen ie love With al:- other holy !•' \\*hat have you to eay to i hint null' !" , "Why, I , apa." replied ••I' m much mor e ol,!Hed to hint for rekse ing my hand, than to you for offl•rinr, 1 Charles well fora c o, in, but [ should not such a hus!mrit ;it all; so if this re fusal be tie wor,i has happened, there's no groat harm dime." And oil' the gypsy ran—declaring that she most put on her habit, her she had promised to ride with Sir Edmund and his sister, and expected them every minute. The lather mid the favorite daughter re mained in the conservatory. ✓fhe heart is tummelied, however," said Mr. Alnlesworth, looking after her with a "I.7ntonclied, by Charles Woodford, un diuitedly," replied Aeales ; "but has he re all y refused my sister !" nrnilatibtedly." "And does he love another'" "Ile says he dues, and I b e li e ve him." is he loved again !" "That he dul nut say." .)id lie tell the name of the lady !" "Yes." Do vol! her." "1"es" Nhe worthy of him !" -Most worthy." '.Has he any hope of vaining her affec tions ? ()h ! lie intiSt ! lie must ! ;vo w:to could refuse him ?" "I It is determined not to try. The lady who he loves is above hiin in every way ; and as much he has counteracted my wish es, it is an honorable part of Charles Wood ((till's conduct, that he intends to leave his alrections unsuspected by thist object." lieno ensued a short pause in the dinG logue, during which Agnes appeared try ing to occupy herself with. collecting the blossoms of a cape jessamine, and watering a favorite geranium, but it would not do; the subject was at her heart, and she could not force her mind to indifferent occupa tions. She returned to her father, who had been anxiously watching her countenance, and resumed the conversation. "nailer ! perhaps it is hardly maidenly to avow as inuch, but although you never have in Set . words told me your intentions, I have yet seen and know, I cannot : tell how, all that your kind partiality towards us has designed fur your children. You have mis taken me ; dearest father, doubly mistaken me fit.to lilt a splendid place in society; next, in imagining that I desired such spicy dor. You meant to give Jessey and the lu crative partnership to Charles Woodford, and designed ma and your large possession to your •Nt althy and . titled neighbor. And with little change of person these arrange ments niny yet hold go&f. Sir Edinuud . may still be your son-in-law and• heir, for he lbees Jessey and , Jessey loves b al ks IVuedlord may still be your ran- ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA.,'JULY 81, 1851. Lunt her head over the marble basin, whose waters reflected her fair image, as if she had really been the ( ‘rt ciaa statute to which while he listened her fond father's fancy had compared her. "Let me live single with you, and marry Charles to tl:c 11'01111111 he loves." "flave you beard the name of the lade in question ? Have yip funn e d any guess whom she may be ?" "Not the slightest. I imagined from what you said that site was a stranger to me. Ilave f ever seen her ?" "You may see her—at least you may see her reflection in the water, at this very moment; for he has had the infinite pre sumption, the admirable - good taste, to fall in love with his cousin Agnes I" "Father !" "And now, mine own sweetest ! do you Mill wkh to live single with we t" "1111, father ! fatlit 7 r Or do you dez.tru duo. I should marry to the woman of his heart ?” 4%lliter, dear huller !•" "Choose, my Agnes! It a:: von comm a nd, ;- . ,iienk freely. Do not cfun,..e ariaind tae. liut spunk." ""hr toy nr father ! Cannot we all live Ur ether ? I Cannot leave you. reit hone Charles—fsurt ly, father, we may all live g Thor ! And so it was settled. And a very few 11101111): , proved that love had contrived bet ter for Air. :Nittlesworth than he had done for himself - . .lessey, with her prettiness, and her title, and lopperit•rt, was the very thing to he vain of—the very thing to visit for a day. Ilia Agnes, and the cousin Ix hose nobie character and splendid talents so well dos, i rt. d her, made the pride and happines cf his home. MEM Old Mai4N, or a Mistake in Mari age. \Viten I was a little girl, I ‘t. as a Mt, in,r ry, jolly dumpling, as happy as the day was Imp:. Every body pinched my red checks, and I waddled about with my dull in my pump arms, finding fun in every Ching. and fully believing that iny doll vk tts as sensible as myself ; and perhaps she was, almost. But, tboug't I had a natural anti pathy to a spelling-book, and no fondness for spending a long summer's afternoon in poking a net tile iu and out Of a bit of cali co, though I considered patchwork all fool ishness, and nests as utter supet Unities, though I was called a simpleton flit ash lug Illy mother why she cut cloth• up and then sewed it together again, still, I was fo n d of picking up ideas alter my own fashion.— hen the wklt people around MC suppos ed I was thinking; of nothing but my play, my two little eats were open to every word spoken in my hearing. And many was the word impressed on my memory which the speaker forgot next innownt. The talk around mit was my real education, us it is of all children, send them to what school you may. When I was ten years old. I had one sit:- N - a h I teen, ;mil another :awen teen ; and a. mmal with girls of that age, they had :a set or cronies, some very like and s ome /pike unlike tliMn. in character. Otte afternoon, as I was tending my dull Ophelia.tvlio Was sick in bed, I heard a bri,d; discussion among these girls, which, I may almost say. decided my late for life. The first words that caught my attention came from an !militated, tomantic girl of six teen, scohl Mg because the it c roine of a nov el she had just read was left unmarried at this catastrophe !—w hat indignatioti ! One of my sisters did not seem to sent- pathise with this burst of disapprobation, and then cline the pithy tine:Atom "What! would you be willing to die an old m a id f" Mary said very quietly, -Yes ;" and sister Ellen added, "So would 1 !" Then such looks of amazement and la . credulty, "You can't menu what you say," cried one. .111 did not know you too well to think you a hypocrite.—" said another. "Why, it is meant that all women should lie married !" exclaimed a third. 'Then why are they not all married !" a:lied Mary, with her usual simplicity. Eager anrf hot grew the controversy. and I lost not a word, while Ophelia lay flat Oil her back, her still kid arms sticking nut, and her croup quite forgotten. Then first did L take notice of that terrible combina tion of monosyllables,—.old Maid." In how many different tones of contempt, dread and deprecation, did b hear it uttered by ! those juvenile voices! What anecdotes' Carne forili about cross old maids,. and getty old maids, and ugly; and dressy, and learned, and piott, and, flirtin!, and lois.' kg MEI chief-making, old maids. Never did abevy of-regular-li fty-yeaold—spinsters u twit — so much scandal in one afternoon as was pour ed forth by these blooming young creatures. Two or three friends of my mother, whom I had always cherished in my inocmit affec tions, because they talked so pleasantly and were so kind to me, now appeared like new personages. "Z. was so ugly. she never could have had an offer ?" "Miss V. dress ed so shabby. and wore green spectacles, to look literary.'' And Miss X. was for ev er talking about Sunday-school and society _meetings," and so - on. - — Y - otrinny - tre - su - re duat - the next - timthese ladies came to our house, I scanned very closely the face of Miss Z., a face that I hail always loved before: but now I saw that it was exceedingly plain. I looked hard at Hiss Y.'s drab-colored bonnet and shawl, perceiving that they were old fash ioned and ordinary, and that her green spec tacles looked pedantic. 'ilcen Miss X.. beside whom I had always squeezed in up on the sofa, encouraged by her kindly smile an d_ delighted with her conversation—htiw uninteresting she had become ! They were all old ;wilds ! It :mist he observed dint My sisters— right good, sensible, domestic girls they were—had no part in this bnvilderment of my young ideas. They were in the mi nority, so I took it for granted they were in the wrong. Besides, what children are ev er as much influenced by what is uttered in the familiar voices of their own family. as _words_of.com pa rati ve-stra Try rs Take care of what you say at a friend's house, with the young folks catching up every random sentiment you Map. Many a jii ihcions mother's morning, exhortation has Loco blown to the moon by ;fotllo. r*ht initik Iroin4t diinn•r glicsi, %Vito did riot, af tor all, moan to rtive his real opinion, or who,o opinion ..t% as not worth having. .kod now, 1 assure you, my education Av (.1) rt idiy. It is perfectly marvel ous, in how many ways. and by what ferent sorts of people, a voting girl is taught that it is a terrible thing to be an old maid. Fouls never show their fully mere than in their hack ne3md jet ts upon this top ic ; but what shall we say of the wise folks who sin almost as often in the sortie way What shall we say of the relinementof hitn who is gentlemmily in thought arid expros siun on all subjects hut this ?—of the hu manity mid eluvally of him who as-1;a Ik e deiclici the justice of him who tax es a clips with the tanks ol individuals, and wounds with that 'meanest of weapon-, a sneer I—or of the Chri:tianity uf him who indirectly censures and ridicules one of the arrangements of I?rovideoce I learned my lesson thoroughly. fir it came to 11(0 ill 501110 ShApe every week.— I read it in every ii . uvel and newspaper, and heard it from every lip, The, very 111011 who spoke truth and sense on the, subject, sometime s neutralised it by an idle jest in some moment of levity, and the jest drove out the truth from my young heart. At eighteen, I lived only l'or the ignoble pur pose-I,cannot bear to say—of getting War ricd : but what could have been the, ruling wish (done who had been taught by socie ty to dread celibacy worst.- than death' I dare say I betrayed it in all the balkruoms, in the street, everywhere. I dare say I was duly laughed at At last quaking on the verge of six and twenty, I had an ofFer ;—a most absurd one. %%":1:i six years older than my lover, had ten tinies as much sense probably except en one point. I knew that he ww: "rather wild," a the gentle:phrase gnus. iu short. I neither loved nor respected him ; but I was t rilli og to unity him, becanse then should be Alrs. Somebody, and should hot be an old maid. • Nly parents said "No" positively. M . cour,e I thought them unreasonable and and made myself very miserable.— Still it Was ,oniething to have had "an of fer". of some hind, and my lips were not hermetically sealed. I had several coati dents, who tool: Care that all my acquain tances should I:110W the comfortable fact that I had refused Mr. S. 1 %vent on %vett increasing uneasiness a few years longer, not seeking how ,to be useful, or trying to find out for vhnt ;find purpose I I‘l3 made. :Neither was I Cook ing for a companion who could sympathise with tuy better aspirations and elevate my whole character, for I hail no right views Of marriage. 1 was simply gazing about in 011 Siolls suspense upon every unmarried man of my aCquaintance, for one who woo hi lead the out of that disthal Valley of Humili ation into which I felt myself descending. [lad Apollyon himself . there with 076 question on his lips,l believe 1 should have said "Yes." At thirty-six 1 wore more pink ribands than ever, was seen everywhere that a re spectable woman could go, wondered why girls went into company so young, found I was growing sharp-faced, and s'imrp.spo ken, and was becoming old maidish in the worst sense of the word, because 1 was an old maid against my will. 1 forgot that vol untary Celibacy never affects the temper. MY sisters, be it' remembered, were oldtit than 1. They, too, were single. Lint they NEUTRAL IN maws. had Jim! more domestic li ....s:_than.- 1 ,---lind-1--"eurttrirrly - lOlTir — riTEed the lady, - tiFird fewer works of fiction, had been culti-taking a mouthful, which she was careful ea their own natures, and seek to make ! not to swallow. everybody around them happy. And ev- I Suspision vanished. and so did the ale,' cry body reverenced them, and loved to look emetic and all, down the throat of the satis non their open, pleasant countenances— fled husband. After spitting out the lady titan everybody worth pleasing—and ; finished hi.r glass, but seemed in no hurry they were' very happy. Ito retire. She fixed a foot-tub - of water be- At last our good parents died, and left fore an easy chair, as if she intended to each of us a little indeperuknce. Within bathe her beautiful little feet. But small as at vent. I was married., were those feet, there MIS nut water enough I was married for my money. That was !in the tub to cover them. The .husband ten vesrs ago, and —they have been ten I began to feel sick, and he wanted to retire, years' or purgatory • • - — yr— — ll bad- nave hail bat as a wifo, fur my husband and I have scarcely one taste in common. lie wishes to live in the coun try, which I hate. I li!,e the thermome ter at 75 dog, which he hates. Ile likes to have the children brought up at home instead of school, which 1 hate. 1 like mu sic, and want to go to concerti, which he hates. There is hut one thing' which we both lik and that is what we cannot both have, though we are always trying for it— Ole 'lasi worcl I have had had luck as a mother, for two such huge, selfish, passionate, unmanagea ble boys never tormented a feeble woman since hays began. 1 wi.311 I had called them both Cain. At this moment they have just quarrelled over their marbles. iklortimer has torn off Orville's collar, and Orville has applied his catlike heel to Morthner's ribs; while the baby, Z.enobia, in my lap, who' never sleeps more than half am hour at a_ lime, and cries all the time she is awake, has been roused by their din to scream in chorus. I have had bad luck as a housekeeper, for I never kept a chambermaid more than three weeks. A n d as to cooks, I look hack bewildered on the long phantasmagoria of faces flitting stormily through my kitchen, at: a marine remembers a rapid succession elihunderg,usts and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. Mc new chambermaid bounced out of the room yesterday, flirting her dust er, and muttering, —Heal old maid, tOter all !" just defeat's,: f :tder.ved her a tal , , on which f could writu i:11 Ely ti.ft7yr i% thy dust. 114!V. r :,1.1! 1:1) . 1,:;V11 ;tut; thou gla: u :e in the mirror at my own cadaverous, btng, d, oiul ci arc, ttitthuot tvishing (It.: maid. Ido it .!VlfFy WI V ofstn' Yt't hall of my sox marry as for love, but (oar !----for fear of dyntg o!ti mai Is. They have their rt•ward. Anil whose ton•_,ltes create this mischievous Ftar, and thus make so much dotnestic misery, have their responsiitility. The Wife's Night Cap. Mr.—,who does not live more than a mile from the Post-Oliiice in this city, wet some "Northern friends %yid] Southern'' principles the Miter evening, and in extend ing to them the hospitalities of the "Cres cent City," visted so many of our princely saloons and "marble halls," imbibing spiritu al consolation as they journeyed, that when he left them at their hotel at inidnight hour, he felt, that lie had a -brick in his hat." Now, he has a wife, an amiable accomplish ed and beautiful lady, who loves him devot edly, and finds but one fault with him.— That is, his too frequent visit to the palace where these "bricks" are obtained. fur leaving his friends, Nlr.—paticed a moment, took his bearings, and having shaped a conrse, on the principle that con tinual angles meet made soil for home.— in flue course of tine he arrived thrre, n od was not much astonished, but rather fright ened ROMA his worthy lady sitting up fur hint. She always does. She smiled tviten he clinic in. That also she alway:, does. "1 low are you, dear E. !" said she, -3 , nu staid out so late, that 1 feared you had lawn laken "I lie—ain't sick, wife ; b-but . dnn't you th-think a lee& t-tight ?" "A very little, perhaps, my dear—but that is nothing—von hare so many friends as you say, you must join them in a glass once in a while You'ro tc") gl""1--th-the trulh d---d drunk." '•01 1 , no, indecul„ my dear—l'm sure that even anotlo glass ‘vouldn't hurt you tithe a glass of Scotch ale with me, just as a night-cap, drat !" "You arc too hind, my d-deat Fry half—l know I'm il-drunk !" t no only a julep ton much, love—that's all !" I'eS—ju!cps—NlcMaster makes such still 'tins !" "Well, take a gins of ale at any rate—it can't hurt you, dear ; 1 want one before I re- The lady hastened to open a bottle, and as she placed two tumblers before her on the sideboard, see put in one a very powerful emetic. Pilling the glasses nit h the foam ing ale, she handed onc to her husband. Suspision came cloudily upon his See never before had been so kind when he was drunk. El e looked at the glass—raised it to his lips—then hesitated: t•Dear, w-won't you just taste mine, to make it sweet—sweeter ?'' said he. NUMBER 42. y-a- uw - minnte.s, dear," said t e lug in,rspouse, "I want to read the news in this afternoon's Delta. I foun d It in my poc ket." A few minutes inure elapsed, and then— ; and then, oh ye gods and Dan o' the lake, what a time. The husband was placed in the chair. Ile began to understand why the tub was there ; he soon learned what ail ed him, Sutlice, it to say, that when he arose from that chair the brick . had left his hat. It hasit't been there. sineti. - llu I says he'll never drink another julep ; ho ' can't bear Scotch ale, but he is death on lemonade. Ile loves his wife better than• ever. Reader, this is a truthful story. Profit by its moral.—N. 0. Data. Two Remarkable Cats. A gttntleman residing in Saratoga county has upon his promises two cats, which afford , - the - dniva remarkable and interesting exhibi tion of rational intellect. About fifteen years ago, his son, a lad five years old, obtained a young kitten, and wad.) a constant plaything or companion of it. The young creature was extremely docile and affectionate, evin cing unusual understanding. It followed its mastef about the neighborhood, as a dog would du. Obtained great size—was of a beautiful black, with a coat of fur al most us heavy as that of a fox—becante very skilful and successful hunter, and was called, from a peculiarity, "Itoug Tail." Pout or live years later, another young iiitten NV:I itrotodu into the hon :ffid :v;thout motleir to Good arrd it:- IN piace ‘vas soon 1.• , ( ,, ..; Tail. Hi! exhihiir I a;[ the and uttachwent fo the yo,ltig 1 -.:ranger, alwr, a few days. I If! ;:'r,/1,1 lily With it, lick and fondle it with the cu! ..rest cure, doing a!I the duties of a :nether except supplying it with milk, which mile he could not renveni ently do. .Every day. Long Tail would bring his little charge a mouse, and lay it before it, with the utmost seeming self-satis• faction. When the young one, which was afterwards named Striped, from the colour of his coat, had obtained a size sufficient to man age larger prey, he was daily supplied by his foster-parent with a squirrel. From one to three squirrels a day did Long Tail bring in. but was never seen to ern one him-y Self. III! always brought them alive; and calling his little one into the middle of the yard, where the squirrel could not easily es cape, lay it before, him. This operation was evidently for the purpose of instryct ing and practising on the prey. Striped' would play sometimes an hour with the squirrel before devouring it—tossing it about suffering it to creep oil to quite a distance,- pretending not to sec it, and then display his skill in overhauling it. A squirrel,• when thus played with will feign great' weakness and wounds, by limping, falling down, and using all sorts of schemes to reach a great distance, from its captor, in or der to escape, by sudden effort, before it can be overtaken. Pining these spoils and lessens, Long Tad always sat by, an observer at a little distance ofT, feigning titter indifference and unconsciousness of what was going on ; but lie still kept a most vigilent watch over ev ery movement ; and when the squirrel had deceived Striped into allowing it too great liberty, and was about to escape, the watch ful instructor, with the fleetness of lightning would spring upon arid bring it backs. If the squirrel was unusally sagacious and ac tive, he would bite it a little, to make it more secure within young •Striped's charge; oth erwise he never hurt his prey at all before delivering it up to be practised uPcin. This process occurred daily, until Striped obtained growth arid strength sufficient to enable him to hunt fur himself; and — then Long Tail would take him out, and they would hunt:together. At length aid and instruction' were no longer needftil, and' each was left to pursue and devour its own game Striped reached an enormous size, hut. obtained all the beauty of proportion for strength and activity that distinguishes the panther and tiger races, the latter of which he strongly resembles. His coat is very long and flue, with rings of black, grey, brown and mouse color beautifully blended, running round the whole length of his body and tail, and with longitudinal stripes on the head and legs. The old cat Long Tail is now about fif teen years of age. Two years ago he showed evident marks of old age, lost his activity and sprightliness and also, to a considerable extent, his hearing and became unable to hunt. The cats had always be trayed the greatest attachment kr each oth-.
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