vent ko natikere,
HAROUN AL-RASCHID. One day, Haroun Al Rasolid reka A book wherein the port hid "Where are the linge, and where the rest Of men who onos the world possessed
dandoned juston MOON "They're gone with all their pomp and show, They're gone the way that then shalt go. "O thou who choosept for thy share The world, and what the world calls fair, "Take all that it can give or lead, Ent know that death is at the end!"
Haroun Al-Rashid bowed his head; Tears fell upon the page he read.
DAVID GRAY'S ESTATE. Over his forge bent David Gray, And thought of the rich man across the way "Hammer and anvil for me," he said, "And weary toil for the phildren's bread;
For him, soft carpets and pictured walls, A life of esso in his spacious halls,"
The clang of bells on his dreaming broke A flicker of flame, a whirl of smoko.
Ox in travis; forge grown white-hot, Coat and hat were alike forgot, As up the highway the blacksmith ran,
In face and men like a crazy man.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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not a spook of white about him. Trimmed in the asunt lion fashion, he carried himself with dignity, and there was affability in the greeting he gave me, for he wagged his tail and let him pull him about as mich us would h
Happy dogs I observed, laughing, which caused her to titter and say that the got on well enough with her dog, though there were others in the house she couldn't abide and may be I was right in guess these
No. 4476 NOVEMBER 8, 1877.
week
in
considerable manufacturing foy Carriages drawn by the gleekest of hars drove up in gulos suocession, and fool lammed the doors with an extra. perbers with the feeling,
All Friends noise while we may
Sabool-house afire!" Men's hearts stood still the attacking force, and this is what we pointed out with glee that the umbrella of aracter in his eyes if I showed myself im- surveying me amicably though steadfastly wives, were inexorably torn saunder
And women prayed, as women will, w While o'er the tumult the wailing ory Of frightened children reee shrill and high. Night in ita ahadows
hid ..
1 sun and earth;
The rich man sat by his costly hearth, Lord of wide acres and untold gold, But wifeless, childless, forlorn, and old. He thought of the family 'cross the way: #I would, he sighed, "I were David Gray," The blacksmith knelt at his children's bed To look ones more at each smiling head. "My darlings all safe Oh God," he cried, **My sin in Thy boundless meroy hide;. Only to-day have I learned how great Hath been Thy bounty and my estate," -Burkington Hawkeys.
WHO IS THY FRIEND?
Who is thy friend? The man that shares thy
"pleasures
In banquet hall or beauty's witching bowers i He that will dance with thee to folly's measures
And make no reckoning of the squandered
hours
To whom the revel and the game is all ? These are the friends that help men to their fall, Who is thy, friends. The man that shares thy
pridey
Thine hour of glory, or thy day of gain; Who stande in evezy triumph by thy kids,
And never finds that triumph false or vain, But shapes his doctrine as thy humour goen? These are the friends misfortune tarms to foes. Who is thy friend? The man that for his winning To power or place hath head of thine or thee; Who will not fear thy risk, or blame thy sinning,
strength distant 850 yards we were obliged is the great esso with which these enormous for such was their exact number-follow
FRIENDS, MEETING-HOUSE. to bere flying in consequence of the appear pieces are worked. I was predm the offered as scurrying into the room, and jumped
Bid Mana(Spectator, y pasausk ando of several weasels directly in the manga day when a 10-inch ga of 18 tons was run each into a chair, whereon three footmen, in Not to lose time, another part of the pro up and traversed by two officers while I laid livery began tying napkins round their
This not necessary to mention the namin. gramme was carried out. This was the it with great ease, Then the recoil in so necks if they were little boys, They
or situation of the meeting house, but you musi kudy a little about lią, ż practice at wooden dummies by the easily checked by the hydraulic buffer, did this with the utmost gravity, and from pounder field gun and the Gatling gun. which consists of a piston, whose plate works first to last the dogs were waited upon as To my surprise, however, the good-look- saw at a glance that it was a somewhat more The 9-pounder gua was in a gunpit, and in a piston box filled with all The piston human beings. They sit upon either side of ing chambermaid, who stood by watching carnal structure than the usual Friend" fired ten founda of case with a charge of 1 plate has holes in it and the friction of the the table, forming a queer company of me with ferginine souteness asked in a low Meading House, That a Agu lbs. oz., each case having 108 bullets, bil passing through these acts as a check to smooth and abaggy heads bulls, poodles, voice whether I was in the habit of striking dingy, belok building, belgi weight 163 to the pound. The range was the recoil. With the 38-ton gun, the copper matin, terriers and pags, all of them fat, dogs, for if so, I must mind and not do so order of architecture, on-rounded from 300 to 400 yards. Each " drama of gas-check, screwed to the base of the pro-wheezy, and so far as I could judge, well in this house: "I you just gives one of em by high, blind wall, shutting out the the gatling contained 240 rounds. It was footile, is used. The only objection to this stricken in years. This fact was explained the merest ouff on the side of the 'ead he of the outer world, and standing in a ama very interesting to see the Gatling worked, gas-check is that it seems to strip occasion to me when "Old Doggie observed that he howls that awful that all the other dorgs in trim courtyard, You may expect to see a though there seemed a stiffares and den slly, and a heavy copper dish firing about admitted to his table none but dogs who had the place howl too. My lord has taught few Bags in front of the door the
ional check in sexse part of the mechanism in alose proximity to the spectators or gun- distinguished themselves by ten years of 'em to do it for atual protection, as he kere. Exchange,” an ite
gregate to The sound of the working of this death organ detachment is anything but a cheerful faithful service in his household and he in- says,"
elling motor to the Friends, allar meeting. gobertised no sporting dogs, for they did not care
the and the tune it played as the bullets ètreamed phenomenon.
Thank you for telling mo but I never talk over the most innocent goss
Vain was not through the air were not reassuring to timid The practice was very good and each gun about the honour. You must not force a do beat dogs," was my answer, people, nor did the music soothe one's feel-fired five rounds.The targets were hit five dog's will," he said; "they are more sensi "I thought it well to warn you, kir," said these peaceful meeting places ings. The rows of dummales were riddled times out of the twenty, while the remaining bio than men and will not accept dignities the chambermaid, in whom, us in the other people, there was about its through and through and showed very fifteen ahots were in close proximity to the contrary to their natures.******
servants, there was noticeable a bottled-up the bustle and shie that plainly what the result would be of exposing all marks, and would have been destruc I had never seen Lord I before this feahng of effervescing enmity against all songregation was gelh hoops in the open, even in skirmishing five to vessels of war As I have said, the day, and found that he looked very much dogs in general, though that feeling durst order, to Gatling or artillery firing adde, main feature was the ease with which the like a dog himself. He was about sixty, not be uncorked because of Old Doggio, daily paper, whose reporter was, I fear, not great guns were handled by detachments of tall and thick and had a shaggy grey head,We each has a dog in our bedroom to asked to lunch, was very severe on this part ten and twelve inen. For some time I stood a cross between a akye terrier's and a mas guard us," added she. of the practice and ridiculed the idea of its on the expense magazine in rear, but alose tiff's. His jaw was under-hung, his upper teaching anything at all. Is it to be sap to the guns and watched the loading, firing, lip long, his nose short but his eye was posed, he asked, that these infantry soldiers and effect of the alotai daresay I may be brown, moist, and mild, as a hound's with would stand there in the open without firing Ptempted at some future time to ley increas-out a gleam of anything like humour, Certainly not. But then on the side of the ing deafness at the door, or the muzzle, of The things he said about dogs, he uttered defence we must presume an array of shelter these big guns, but in the present, and in simply as if they were admitted facts; being that the incorruptible Cato was one of trenobles Imed with infantry pouring out reality, the noise was not as great as one never onto apologised for the company in fire, in addition to the guns or Gatlings. expected. The explosions were certainly which he was compelling me to dine; and I Many positions afford little or no cover to destructive to umbrellas, for I had only just was not slow to see that I should lose cha look for in the strongest defensive positions distinguished officer in front of me had gone pressed by the conical aspect of the scene,
Old Doggie sat at one end of the table, I These cannot be carried by men always by the board, when en revanche mine own crawling on their bellies, and the practice of especial and cherished? friend was put hore opposite him; and the dinner served us was Monday showed what might happen to the de combat, an effect, I suppose, due to the good. That which the dogs ate consisted of bravest troops led against a prepared position mudden concussion and rain of air.
platefuls of fish carefully boned, of roast defended by British artillery and infantry The last thing on the very correct card meat out up beforehand, and of jam pastry without having frit erushed and demoralized was the firing of the 80-ton gun. I had cold, and their drink was weter, which them by overwhelming fire. Whether this seen this in the factory at Woolwich and they lapped out of out-glass sauvers. effort of crashing would be successful against was anxious to see it fired. It is of simple When a dog wanted a second helping of a staunch troops well protected is also a matter construction, according to Fraser's system, dish to his liking he looked round at the for speculation. At all events the practice is polygrooved, has a calibre of 16.6 inches, servants and growled and Lord X-tre- was most interesting to me as I had not long and fires a Palliser shell weighing about quently interrupted his conversation with before been present at some important 1,000lbs, the charge of the gun boing 316iba, me to say "John, Wigsby is asking for manoovyes to illustrate the last new form of of powder. We walked along the shady more beef," "William, attend to Judy, attack. Now, at the school of exercise for path, with its trees and grass down to the please." All the dogs ats without putting the British army I had seen lines of skir water's edge, in Front of the barracks and their paws on the table; the smaller ones, mishers led notoas very open ground to quarters until we reached the big gun lying who could not have reached to the level of within 300 and even 200 yards of a strong on the baton, looking like a sea-monster the board being perched upon bassocks. position whers the defenders guns and in- which had brept out of the sea to bask in the There was no wrangling among them, but I fantry thoroughly under cover were pouring an. 16 or she was on an immense low am sorry to say that one having eaten too out are on the advancing troops. It was carriage on all Fan up from the water's much, forgot himself and had to be carried very pretty as a foreign officer once said edge. A soon smaller pair of rails was out. Lord remarked: "That dog has looking down at a fold-day in our first laid from the bank above down to the not disgraced himself in this manner before, autores; but it was, as he also müzzle, and the great cartridge and projeo but he inust be taught good manners. added very funny. It was more than tile were run down on a miniature traur and John, you will keep Cheeks in the yard for this, however, for such very abam fights are hoisted up. About this time I observed thres days." not pictures, with even the faintest colouring dandone spectators putting their fingers to I presume my respectful demeanour to of real war and are moreover misleading their ears, a not unnatural precaution.wards the dogs satisifed my host, for after and dangerous. Therefore, Monday's ex- Fight degrees of elevation was given and at dinner, when we adjourned to the smoking periment if exaggerated on the other side, the words "dome to fire a terrifio roar look room, he began in a friendly tone to instruct was abfloat time, and the more those who place, and we all seemed enveloped in flanisms es to my new duties. All the quad conduct the leading of troops know of the What became of the shell of 1,660lbs., rupeds, excepting the disgraced "Cheeks," affects of fire such as we saw, the less likely deponent skyeth "not, but for aught I know squatted or sprawled around us, and the will they be to fall fats grievous error. As it may be travelling yet. At all events, as fatteet pug of the corapany took up a com- Von Moltke says, every general wants the we drove of to catch our special train at fortable position at my feet, where he coon four G's to aid him, "Gold, geduld, genie Southend, there appeared to be a very made his presence felt in a way that led my and gitisk" but a capable man van at all general bonolitaion that it was about time to thoughts to the flea-powder. events educate hitself during peace by such retire from the survive, and enter the Church, lessons as may be learnt from careful ex- We had stood out bravely against the 800- periments such as we saw, so that when the puders, but were not demoralized. A ime comes he may not fall into glaring fast fifty minute or thereabouts brought us tactical pitfalls.
to Fenaharali Street after a day among big guns which will last most of us for some
time
as well as carriage-folkeret inge and shook hands. One chy being struck by the large size of the ing for the number of attendants, mitten rooms, anterooms, and lave As soon as the chambermaid was gone, explained this peculiarity. On Banjo settled himself on the hearth-rug, hold, sales and females, kinab through his shiny black eyes, and thumping ladies opterud a retiring room, where his tail on the floor, whenever I addressed were relieved of theis olcake by an attendan him a word whilst undressing. Everything Friend, who was kindly, and ungramzza went on well till I had wrapped myself in a feally greeted by all, rich and poor, dressing gown, and sat down to read and the remark. How are theo, Raheog smoke a cigarette. But the instant I had Jones The gentlemen went to the righ struck the match Banjo bristled up on all into a sutaroom, where a few minute fours, his tail stiff as a poker, his ears were spent in mild seoular talk, and whance prioked up, and his jaws emitting a bark they emerged, in pairs. The body of sue fall of wrath. Now, what's the matter building consisted of a large, plain room, course no Bibles, hypn with you?" said I, not divining that it was cool and airg. my cigarette that exaited his frenzy; but he beckor prayer hooks were to be seen, for soon showed me what it was, for on my the Quakers maxim, as one of them as, continuing to puff the noxious weed, he pressed it, in, 11 do not carry my prayers flew at me, snapped it deftly out of my in my pocket and the only thing to rea hand, and carried it to the grate, which feature a Churchman, that he had to do with bla common. Obristianity way the night of being performed he wagged his tail anew.
I had not been told that smoking in the abundance of hassocks.,. As a mere publican.. bed-rooms was prohibited, and thought this was at a loss to know what to do plik onstrued proceeding of Banjo's a strong measure. my hat, taking off which might
valent tay However, there is nothing like conforming into an set of indecorum, ugd to rules, so I went to bed; but I was scarce treating the meeting a mere stoople ly on the pillow before Banjo and I collided house. But most I observed, were RES a second time; for I have a habit of reading covered, and, so I was goon at my ea myself to sleep, and this the poodle showed The ladies all of them comely, and my me was also a breach of rules. He simply rough more sat on one sider whlia, the made a hand on to the counterpane, grabe gentlemen, with rigorous, and thoughtful bed at my mas with his teeth, and scam.fages, sat on another, in grave and parallel pered off with it in triumph to the farthest lines. In front of them was ** the gallery, 20 corner of the room, where he pushed it under two rows of seats raised a trifle, above the the chest of drawers with his fore-paws, level of the floor in the back row, at the approved ministars, male and female,:1' tha obviously meaning to hide it out of sight..
The blood of indignation mounted to my weighty, seasoned, and substantia. Frien brow, and I felt that it would be long before in the front, sat the elders and overgners, a Banjo and I became firm friends. However, male and female too. One or two female the dog looked so innocent of the intention elders were shut up in true Friends' bons of doing aught but what he had been trained nets those, bonnets, placed in s prominent The duties which Old Doggie marked out to do, that I limited my protest to a mar position, were so much, I could see, relics were to be no aineoure, for they involved the mured blessing, and, haying extinguished of the pest as the helmets, hung on, s
baronial wall. In the garbs ibero. ww. conducting of an extensive correspondenes the candle, turned away to sleep. with societies who protected dogs, dealers last my troubles were by no means at nothing to suggest faithfulness to the query, who sold them, private persons who had an end, for it seems that I occasionally touching "plainness of speech, behaviour, The day was very hot, and we had all
aalled his lordship's attention to traits of snorente although Banjo could have had and appare. Perhaps, if anything UCK genius or fidelity in their dogs and other por no orders to stop this (in a bachelor) har-me as regards the dress of those around me, breakfasted very early, so that the move
sozis who wore supplying statistics with leas, though ill-sounding practice, he took it was a certain costly simplicity, an futrisale. towards luncheon was hailed on all sides.
reference to projected dog-bills, among the liberty of objecting to it on his own solidity about the silks, an nhostenta- with great joy. A few minutes walk across
which a bill for repealing the dog-tax held private account. He awoke ma by drag-tious soundness of texture and richness the pleasant tarf of the marah brought us close to the shore. Here we found the New
the foremost place in my host's preoccupa- ging the bed-clothes off my sleeping fabric.
The service began,—or, rather, it did not Pier, and a battery partly easemated and At the time when, having just left the. In addition to this I was to keep a figure and barking persistently till I had partly open containing big guns for our de- University I was on the look-out for a sided upon the estate. Lord X told me able to tell me why he had done these general allence. And what a silence! sal general look-out over the 350 dogs who re- relit the candle: unfortunately, not being begin all that was done was to sink into lactation. But a big marques close at hand social position, the indimenge of friends ob- he had a private veterinary to attend to things, he only succeeded in exciting my have heard of the stillness of the coutral. was for the present far more attractive, and tained me what they described as a charm their ailments, and several grooms to main just angor. I felt excusable in trying to seas or the allence of the grave, or the it was an interesting study to watch how ing burth in the shape of a secretaryship to tain their spacious yards and kennels in a put him out of the mom, but he refused to voles of hashed-up life," I have sat be artillerists and scientists dropped off from Lord X His Lordship was powerfully state of scrupulous cleanliness; but a super go and took refuge under the bed, where he side voiceless tarns in solitary places an examination of the marvellous guns richy the patron of many livings, and a fre rising eye was required to see that no doganarled at every effort to coax or rout him among the hill I know something of the and centred round the coming lunch. At quant speaker in the House of Lords. Out- was aggrieved; and to take care, moreover, out.
enging to an awful stillness brooding over mountain- last the signal was given, and we all side that august chamber he was better that those of the dogs who had allotted "Well then, don't begin afresh,” cried I tops, and I vividly remember the dumb sit down with more regard for our ap-known as the Dog's Friend, owing to his functions dnly performed them as much for in fury, as I at length gave up the attempt, sepest of things when I ones crawled on petites than for official precedence. This having sought to pass a number of private was a War Offles lunch, and very good Bills for the protection of dogs and also in their own exercise as for the benefit of the and I went to bed again, laying a bootjeok hands and feet far from the daylight through pas too. But the idea of Innoking at the consequence of the unsparing prosecutions
on the night-table to serve as a missile in the old workings and up the gloomy As he came to this part of my instructions esse there were any further infringement galleries of a deserted- mins. But silence. expense of the War Offee, of all depart he instituted against all who came under his old Doggie took a fow silent puffs at his upon my rights. I had not the remotest has ita tuner and outer chambers, Ita deytha ments in the world, was irresistibly comic, cognisance as having ill-treated a dog. Atigar and then observed that he had every idea at the time that it was my snoring and lower depths, and we seemed as we sat (From a Military Correspondent of Pioneer.) and us we strolled along by the rippling sea, the Clubs he was generally alluded to as faith in the hotesty of a dog but none in which the dog objected to, and thought he to be borne to its nethermont caverum Ins
watching the ships and batteries of Sheer- Old Doggie," I was present the other day at a greatness and the peaceful roofs of Southend I arrived at Old Doggie's country-seat, guarded at night by six bloodhounds, who to nt up and play with him all night or lie and the abuffling of foot. settling into that of a man. Thus his preserves were simply cherished the delusion that I ought the first five minutes, the rustle of silks. gun trial at Shoeburyness, and saw practice gradually emerge from the shimmer haze, which I may term Kennel Hall, ono August did their business much better and cheaper on the hearth-rug in his company-delusions position had died away. Another two from every kind of rifled gua in the British one felt contemplative, aided by Saint Ni- evening, just in time for the dressing-bell, than twice that number of night-keepers which I was resolved to nip in the bud. minutes more, and the short, devout cough service. Provided with a War Ofion red cotina, and began to speculate dreamily as a couple of handsome Danish mastiffs had would have done, so that posiching was un- ticket, which told me on the reverse side to what both our lunch was included under sported the dogout which drave me from known on his grounds. The plate-closet, had I floated comfortably into dreamland ceased. Another minute more, and the fall
Banjo let me go to sleep, but no sooner which is the exordium of all services had - that a special train would start from Forend whether the Treasury would be asked the station in tho outrance vestibule of the wine-callar, orchards, poultry-yards, and than he awoke me anew, and this time his of a pin would have sounted as a profane July, that practice would begin at 10-30 Champagne Cup church Street at 9.a.m. on Monday, the 30th for a supplementary grant on sedount of the Hall crouched a pair of superb bloodhounds, sables were all similarly watched by dogs, barking had something of indignant aston Bat. Henceforth 1 lost count of time if I who eyed me with unfriendly stolidity, but and those in the stables had bean trained to ishment in its inflexions as though he were was conscious at all, it was of the outwardly am., and, most important of all, that luns aheon would be at 1 p.m., I found myself But all things have an end, even a sigar, it growling's the butler who showed allow no smoking there-nor did they. A surprised at my bad manners in making so strange fact that while human beings uanal. on the Fenchurch Street platform in a crowd and the saunter, Along the pleasant beach haired starrick, whb gambolled upstairs in the responsible and delicate duty of seeing my part, was only surprised at my previous their homes and travelled far in order to ne to my mom was attended by a wiry to the house-degs, there was one who had light of his previous warnings. But I for ly meet to talk, these good people had left of military, naval, and inventing dignitaries, So we all turn to the New Pier battlefront of us; and the yelps and barks of that none of the male-servants intruded into longanimity Lighting the candle pace be silent together and enjoy gregarious aff bound on the same philanthropic errand, here we find four of the heavy rifed muzzle various other dogs in diferent parts of the the pango where the maid-servante lodged: mora, I caught up the bootjack and, threw quiet, to see how far we had progressed in the art loading guns, the 12.6-inch gun of 30 ton premises reached me through the open win- from his incorruptibility he was called Cate; ing it with a swift, sure aim sent it straight of blowing our fellow creatures into infinite and the 11-inch of 28 tons, the 10-inch of downe I was putting on my dress coat. I and he is no favourite with the females, on to Banje's hind-quarters. The howl he was broken. One of the audience, If the At last, much to my regret, the allence space. We were all tolerably cheerful, not 18 tops and the 12-inch of 25 tons. The withstanding, and even the absence of any 12,6-mph gan of 38 tons was in the casemate that I was not going to see too many of
am very fond of dogs, but began to hope added his lordship, drily,
forthwith uttered would bave shaken the very elaborate breakfast did not make us mounted on a wrought iron carriage and them. All the coloured prints on the walls ed I paid an attentive ear, not sure that I
term may be used, of long standing in the To all these things that Old Doggie atter vanit of a cathedral. mournful as we rattled down through the platform which traversed, easily. The gun
But not one howl only was it that the Truth knelt, and "appeared in supplies. squalid suburbs, the slimy wastes, and then was loaded by apparatus worked by a small were descriptive of dogs; and on the toilet should sequit myself of my tasks so honour-plaguey brute gave forth for, faithful to tona prayer was in no way striking, through the fertile Essex fields to Southend 10-H-R portable engine in rear. I conflows flanked by a packet labelled "Flea minded to try, nevertheless. When eleven between Lord I's dogs, he yelped and of a hireling ministry. When it wen table I perceived a diminutive pair of bel-ably as the quadrupeds did of theirs, but the pact of mutual protection established got more fervid and living than the prayers on our way to the School of Gunnery, Shoe the loading puzzled me, for I saw nothing Powder. The chatabermaid, who came ino'slook struok he said he would not detain raved till every dog in the place, from attig ended, another period of rapt illence fol-
but chains where I looked for sponge-and- rammer. Of course, the hoisting up of the water, told me is the most natural me lenger, and asked whether I had au ob to basement, and yard to orchard, fained in lowed; then another gentleman rose to Way possible, that if I found the fleas "in-jestion to a dog sleeping in my rodza; "If the chorus Stop him, bless you! There spesic On the sermon there was mush in the bellows with the powder and blow it abou be your companion while you are here, cording to order, and you might as soon which Friends, to their credit, faithfully use. ponvenient, I had only to Alla receptacle not I have a beautiful black poodle who was no stopping him he was horling so to say in praise. It was homely, and to powders in light puts over sheets or and whom you shall take away as a gift have stopped fogwhistle as this dog by The morally inculcated was macical as of personal attire, as the case might when you go
palting him with boots, shoes, toothbrushes,
The dindar ball
So it but speed his fortune's growing tree; Whose grains is large, whose promise larger yet? These are the friends that fail us and forget. Who is thy friend? The man of truth and trust
In gladnicks near, in sorrow nearer still. To thy fanità genereus, to thy merits just, Thy help to every good from every ill, Whore love for the world's hate might make
amands?
Alas for it this life hath such few friends,
Who is thy friend? The heat, the least regarded,
In faith infailing, and in love anchanged Through all the changeful years, though ill
rewarded, Give Him thy heart, so long and far estranged
And from the broken reads of earth ascend, To seek in heaven thine everlasting Triand, •
Frances Browne, the "Blind Poetess of
Donegal"
A DAY AT SHOEBURY.
CLUB ROOM TALES A BAD START IN LEE
household.
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sxpressed in those simple Saxon termas
buryness. Our trials vero now to begin Emerging from the station, we were sur rounded by a host of vociferous flymon, who huge cartridge, an enormone bolster of 130 were determined to take us to Shoebury and 15s. of pebble powder, carried to the muzzle buck for anything over the double of their in a laccuse, and ther of the projectile, a usual fare. We put ourselves up to auction; Palliser shell weighing 300 lbs were simple and were finally knocked down to an matters. However, it was so explained energetic individual in racing, costume, that the ohain, which I saw unwound, and pealement eang; I descended, and in my
"I have not the least objection to a dog and lumps of coal, as I successively did there were no declamatory outbursta, no who was the sporting proprietor of a pony wound up by steam and entering the muzzle, carriage and pony Four of us trusted on was in effect the loading rod or rammar. It was shown into the drawing room whine bom if he is clean and quiet," re- In an incredibly short time the house shook false sentiment, or straining at offset i and guessing that it would annoy my host with the cacophony of rageful noises. I considering that the discourse was impro selves to the basket, and did the four or five was a chain only one way, and has what is Lord X stood with his back to the man- if I gave any other answer,
heard steps down the stairs and along the Plaed it was strangely coherent. It ma miles in the shortest time on record. It turned a ruls-joint so that was it la Lolahelt and his post-tails under his arms, "He is the best bred dog going," answer pasenger, and soon Lord walked into manifestly the sincers, unpremeditated was pleasant drive, only tempered by pushed it becomes rigid and stiff enough for surrounded by some twenty dogs of every sized Lord X gravely gentleman's dog the room, attended by a growling Newfound pression of the working of an earnest necasional, but close views of deep ditches, rammer. The prsation was at two pairs and race. The instant I had crossed the he is, and one who will soon win your cons land tell as a donkey pharet
mendumnya maine.But one peculiarity was very pro- and enlivened by enjoyable escapes from of floating targets, eft. by eft placed at threshold these animals gave tongue-one fdence. You must not let yourself be pres "Order 1 order!" said his lordship there.nounced a mixture of Biblical and mer collisions with the numerous vehicles of all distances of 1,200 and 1,500 yards Most and all Some jumped on to the furniture, judiced because that reseal Cheeks miscon by summarily staving the music of the two canule phraseology. The speaker's thoughts sorts and sizes conveying all the slantine of us sat down on the pier, a few yards to and marled at my intrusion with seeming dusted himself at dinner men quadrupeds and then he turned upon me, were always spiritual, but his words were. talent of the age. It was a lovely day, hot the right of the battery, and many of us nothing : others ran up and aniffed my trousers: Irejoined that Cheeks' offence was clean hugging himself in his gray dreaming-gown, at times Httle earthy. He argued a lice and splendid, with no vestige of alond, and little expectent of either belig damaged. I am bound to add that "hen I had patted blotted ont of mind so far as I was cover and looking both gaunt and menacing too much that sla was a worthipan lavest the shady trees and pleasant isnes looked by a "ges-check". or deafened by the sens - the heads of one or two, the majority wig- | ed, and that dogs, like men, must be judged "Why have you ill-tued that poor dog,ment, and that sacrifice meant lending ou too attractive. It was a day on which to plosion. As the preparatory words aregivan ged their tails and became placable. Land on their individual merits.
Mr Smith ?" said her
| very ca ́é" security. From some saying in sport with Amaryllis in the shade, rather conversation geses, and everything is lost. A→→→→ did nothing to extrioste me from the "Quite so," said Lord X---, nodding; Why he has awoken my twice, and the Old Testament he drew a moral which Co would have been better understood in the than to toy with an 80-ton gun in the open, in the roar, but we are well flear of the embarrassing demonstrations of his fourfoot, “and after all, poor Checke tu possibly not only tried to allassa him with a bootjack, But we have arrived and must to business. smoke, and can watch the 800-pounder, filled friends. He eyed in an attentive to blame perhaps the pastry disagreed with declared en urrounding manufacturing town than in
We were now officially at the "head of it passes clean through the ball's-eye at way as if to ses how I bore the ordeal) and hima. I am not sure that we have a right to **Probably you unored. I forgot to warn the_marah," ourselves in the midst of a 1,800 yards. The 11-inch of 28% tyna with it was only when I hut some but of It, with punish a dog for having his stomach out of you that Banjo objects to snoring.""" uudð hla pretty little bit of quiet English woodland a charge of 80 lbs fired, a Fulliver gheli propitiatory emilsa, that he raised a fores order-ah pl
Lordship However, no man who strikes a scenery, and everything looking sa if the wedging 689 be the 10-inch of 18 ford Alnger and sald quietly arOrder, order 1 na Nu, hardly and perhaps you will allow dog in suger can remain under my roof; Mr guis, and gunnars, and distinguished off with a charge of 10 The Ered & alallar pro- injunction which the dog obey much hete me to beg that Cheeks may be pardoned Smithy fo Get inventors and foreigners, had been festile weighing about 400 lbs. j and the 12 ter this members of the force of Commons Well well, for this once, ue yo akoy book as my best friend if he gratitude for the great benefit Thaila "As you please,” said I. I would have feel it a duty I owe to you to express my sudhaily planted in some obscure nook of inch of 20 tone with's charged of 50 lbs. the. when thui addressed by Mr Speakerja It," anawered Old Doggie, whose features country where guns were unknown; except of 600 lbs, weight. There were one of the After the dogg had been quieted my new relaxed into a half amis; and he rang the had pulled the bed-clothes off mesene nived by taking "Norton's Camomile Pilla...
that these were not considered first-class
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BERKELEY, Sept. 1860-Gentlemen, 1
I applied to your agent Mr Bell, Berkeleys in the hands of the squire or the traditional maston mele loading rifle guns with employer gave me his hand, and tamarked bell for a servant. You will take up Your best friend could have thrown the for the above named Pills, for wind in the poacher and his opponent, the gamekeeper which Adel, Bombay and Calcutta as that he was glad to see then a proper Banjo to Mr Smith's room" ordered the bootjack hack this poor dog cannot," res stomach, from which I suffered exqueles But, looking towards the Thames and the armeds: A very good authority Informed,
for quadrapads. He went on to when the footman game, end-ch-stop, plied his lordship, severely, but ting pain for a length of time, having tribd sea, there were strange-looking objects to
ords "brute," at qur," and so you will remove Cheeks from the punish be seen: armour-plated targets in a state of us, having been domstrusted to the for
And this was the only parley he would nearly every remedy prescribed, but with, measure which he never ment lists and let him appesz at breakfast hold with ins we parted next morning on out deriving any benefit at all. After smash mader the softening influence of till they are powerful for coast batteries.
CONSTATA PRIPADE) LA respect as usual to-morrow. Mir Braith Has Inter terms Below Zero, and he has frowned di me taking two bottles of your valuable Fille, I Palliser projectiles; siege batteries, earth compared to the fine rusted old sapoth
who bad their usefulees an oaded for him works in various stager of decomposition, brutis has had so long laid down, and learn
sad whom it was a mark
webde since every time we met Fossibly, if I was quite restored to my ninal state of brick batteries, and casemates looking ses. nii must wish to see them mounted
As dump on one I took this opportunity of wishing say would have somatomed myself to Hanio'r health. Please give this publicity for the ward containing the mighty visors which is praible on efficient derringe.” SOLE
host good night, and retired to my mom,; Attle ways, Lord I would Kays afforded beneat of those who may thus be külleted, We were to buy and which ware to try, BSBL) I think, mounted at Adan and Bombay
Cable A few minutes after I was thate, good me a good stars in life, for he was often to -1 am, Ely, yours truly, HENRY ALLO ANG looking chambermaid entered, bringing any kind to his friends as to his dogrum Pantly To The Proprision of HoaroT'S CANOE
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