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WHY DID MAJOR MUFFIN KELP HA PARROT? and a #17% (From " Bentley's fiscellany, " | The saying hatit it, Never speak before she was examined on, but withstanding wise example set by their fathers and mother, will speak the truth, Parzote, he children, are of an imitative and truth loving Estura and in large letters we write

caution

apor this page the following Never speak before parrota !

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Miss Crab,al home 7, was asked, and in a gentleman's voice. Penélope shut the book and threw Dr Waita upon the sofa. Dabo rah climbed upstairs, and looked as if the clouds were coming down, inquired her

Who's

1. mistress..

ned like an oyster Deborah's mouth opened - as she said, Major Muffin (

Major Mutin There was a pause of than a minute each stood open-eyed

its Major Müfici--why did he kuup a parrot and open-mouches. A length Penalope's

He

lived next door to Misi Penelope Crab

was a man of metal! She was a woman

THE CHINA MAIL.

-

Ада Remember

her dislike ; and Deborah beckoned myste- į the major-zour pon trombles as we recoxi LITTLE FOOLS AND GREAT ONES, riously to Molly with her finger. Now, the fact ravished a kiss | Penelope wea}}, By Charles Mackup. Molly was still swelling with her forenoon's no doubt thinking of something else, or she. When at the social board,

you sit, indignation but a Deborah had made the would have snatched it away but her

Polich abuse is vile,

the wine, amenda honorable, the swallowed her pride mind dwelt on the spoon, which more d bergabe had often done other things, and mystic circles over the teaboard, and THAI Bo may lo divine

wasted, "jug in hand, to hear Deborah's danbtless drowned the note of the kiss, That havon in kindness gave the grape

To chaor both great and anall communication;

Deborah looked like a though Molly affirms to this day that she

heard it outside the deursienne

That little fools will drink too much, phetem as she added, who'd a thought it skilfal

hes with a hawk's Bat great ones not at all. I genstal watchies genolly prepared herself for the intelli- eye for a fortunate: chatice The Major by a long draught of boor. The ought to have been promoted to held mar shut, as she added, Show the Major up.'

other and lips only for her secret, as she shil for never did a nian (take better ad- Тев,

of the weak mvention of the the staird

chance, missus this morning? Molly looked, as cuemy.

fortunate There was a creaking of boots along thoshe really

Was ignotaut left

signals, to him fortune

to him fortune itself. With o the door for a chair, where she sat as though whispered in her ear, Major Muffin L

roving

tão round her waist, he pressed Rud Mastorland

| whisper- Molly, who was naturally yielding damsel to his broant, and Major

Would she would she 1 oh I would yard shorter. The Major made his best

Would I what ?' and Ponelupo looked bow, and Deborah listened at the key hole,

Bashfol

also of metallic influence, only of a differenta am, and Deborah went slowly asid, Who do you think has been to gee vantage And as for

Írta

[No. 143|--January 4, 1868.

Tax Norfolk Day Book (US) tells us of a negro in that eity whoan body is white, and his face as black as lamp black of a woman whose face is piebald, and of another who has commenced to turn, beginning with a white spot behind the car; of an other who has been turning ever since be was a boy, whose face, hands, and arina are white,

aud whose body is black. Some the

Republican papers i in

with great exultatiou, and appear to qon- sidor them as the natural consequences emancipation, while the Democratic organs asaribe them to miscegeration. But the fact is that there is a

cutaneous

disease

And when in youth's too fleeting hours couraented upon these (supposed) facts And bave nut sought some loving heart

Xot rom the earth alone,

That you may make your own; Remember woman's priceless worth, And think, when pleasures pall, one sia gentlyThat little fools will love too much,

Bat great ones not at all. And if a friend doceived rou ouce,

Absolve poor human kind, Nor rail against your fellow man

quality 'he Major, mounted with brass, --lope gulbed-faced, had golden pockets

was once more or

Tuled, alas with copper; while Pene passage, a hem or two, and Penelope toboral, after subdry telegraphic signale, with her wreath of red meeB} WAS

Pockets which, in the eyes of Muffin, she hadn't moved. The dour opened of a quiet position, stood so with asto- 60 801 perauasions in her willingear,

WIBA

the only daughter of fish walesman, W W . full

and

And what do you think I said the other; he asked her to go to tea!?

4 Misa Crab coming to tea, P. Molly gazed *And hor going as well. sue

parrot's

and Deborah bobbed

who Muffit." "dyling a widower of a good old age left har "25 å she

the mistress of herself and his fortune, She was now able to buy anything she funciod; I am sorry ma'am, if I have inhuded Jund of a husband:

and Muffin waited us those who say they with unboliof. Sara Major

had scan service, and was are sorry if they have intriided, always du.

Baid Being a military man, he swore, of Penelope, on the contrary, was devout minded, and being lady, wird auf

when the condamned the souls of the ' which she did at least a dosen

what it will end

she 7

*Idara not ask,

askovica the major

liko A hero of romance. But, if her white dress crushed like tissue paper as he drew hers

her side, if I might venture to pré-

www.hiving upon bis honor-and half-pay. Pet mention it, Major Muhn. Pray her bead with a most meaning bob, pose Penelope bed the spoon quite

a

oday Having now performed the

ukige of polite somety, and introduced to our readers Major Multio and Mias Fene Jope Crab, we

bequeath them to mør ciet

take a

A chair?

Mufin fult hafal to a degree. This way perhaps and singular, so the major was in the ariny ; but summoning his cour

he

began by hoping Miss Crab was in good health. Her ansvor delighted him by informing hin she was quits well, thank you.' And after travelling through the

There'll be a Mrs Major Muffin before long, I'm thinking. You should have soon how they looked at us another, and how

missus blushed

the

quiet, while Mullin looked as much like a omnes as any math of forty is a blue sur tout and brass button cold as he adu

added, I venture dare I Penelope poked in his face as much as to The night, dropped her eyes upón

and remained silent.

Blushed! How could you see? asked inquiring Molly How did see T and Deborah felt sur-the

while wo amuse dureves by cost many intricacies of & Botroduction, and is of both kitchens, after having noc,

The

that any servant should ask such a Silence we all know gives consent. Muf- why through the koy-holefin evilently thought so; and upon sus

be nuits Sny yea

That taster of your sweave enough to her of the great respect he had alwaye baan mung several times, became at length.psinuated in his softest toner, Oh'

with their servantho

frighten

house down P. Bucks was the confidential communication conveyed by Deborah for: Penelope's maid had a holy

the

WAS

rails to Molly, the Mufin hein', or rate overtheless. The cloor was striking five, when Mies parrot, in a long loud chuckle, shouted out And for his parrot rarat was tight,

siloud chookling voice told her to he expressed bewhat wishes to be and

they

I his 201

With malice in your mind

But in your daily intercourse, Remember, lest you fall, That little fools confide too much, But great ones not at all. ****

In weal or wo be trustful still

And in the deepest care

Be bold and resolute, and shun

The coward fool Depar Lst work and hope go haud in hand

And know, whate'er befail, That little fools may have too much,

But grent ages not at all

In work or pleasure, love or drink,

Year rule be still the same, Your work not toil, your pleasure pura,

Your love a steady lane, Your drink not maddening, but to cheer,

So sbell your joy not pall For little fools enjoy too nivou,

But great ones not at all.

CHIME FOR THE TIMES."

and abouting from the like ride rang the bell. Deboral, his perch, and seemed canséious he was us, good Lora Thore is a faith care cannot touch,

ate's neck I should like to wring that brute's i

getio twirl: The parrot returned the favor tby calling her what she said she wasn't

tra thick no too brit tho major'u parrot hways of calling ladies in the street mame they couldn't help thinking personal sad sometimes so facutely, they thought It must be somebody who knew them. ,;

Look at

mises

of a Foll, and singe olike a Christian j

but that Bob of yours felt as she hadn't felt for year out was the unpretending

name of the here she was fatod to be Mra Major. måfor's parrot.—"sweats as bad as his mus Muffle

The convoreation now proceeded more gibly the gentleman ceased to stammer, and the lady gave over blushing as a bad job, whilst Mufin began to think her a

much nicer woman this he had ever be

the dayé of cried Deboralieved it in her nature to be, Penelope bad-like e

stel

Be just and kind towards your fellow, Remembering whate'er you un,

which destroys the colouring. matter in the

the Leg

skin of

A CURIOUS story is told concerning the evacuation of the fortress of the Luxemburg. by the Prussians The Prassian engineers,

during their fifty years occupation of the fortress; have constructed great works on-

derground, every part being sapped and mined. Under the citadel is a crypt cííndal, a subterranonu citadel which is a veritable labyrinth, composed of az infinite number of galleries, passages, chambers, posterns, and concealed doors. Now, in giving up the Luremburg, and handing over the fortress to the new. garrison

of Luxembur the Prussians say that they have no gians, plan of these works to give to the governor of the new her bus bundle of keys of the garrison. They have simply handed

different doors and galleries, without any other guida. As there are 526 kors of the Inundle the confusion of the nufortunate governor

may be imagined..

since at Shirlaud Colliery, near Alfreton, in A STRANGE affair liappened a night or two While the men were as usual Derbyshire. working down the pit one of them, asserted that be bad seen & glost. The

apparition was described, as in shape like a man. Instantly the news

news spread throughout the pit, and the colliera trooped together, with horror-stricken countenances, demanding to be taken to bank. When those who were below had thus left work, and had come to the enrface, they. The story

the preparing to descend, was told, and as the news spread,

abift"

mouth to mouth a similar horror to that which had prevailed below seized the new comers. The day men refused to go down, and all the colliers thereupon returned to their home in aid omale le gha

In this

Way

200 nearly and the ghost readmably holds põsecesion Et che pit collier was scoldentally killed in one of the workinge a few day previously. THE GROWN AND THE Har in the year 1782, when the crown of England; was worn by George I

that to a lady, the major * begged to assure entertained for Miss Penelope Crab Le violently conimbricative, and the jeevaut only yer had had condeained that virtuous lady to the maide ran down their aren steps, big with

The Wea ouly wanting to Satanic domains a hundred times, and the fate; tot of Cata, but of their

*Master happy word

na Penelope His and

missus.

to embrace him, when the major's but

that, neighbours Penelope Creb kucked at the door of her evidently in iuntation of bis misster's voice, were bot better do next-door neighbour Deborah stood on I wish that dainn'd old woman next done pared for at the same time to a dog. De mainted and if Miss Crib here Blüthn the wipele gith the Dago in her hand. wan (lund whieh Mies Ondo Jeremiah or Bo ye notijealous over me MS. Hersh looked up and there saw Major Milfinado o doad stop, and Penelope, soarlet The parrot, like a good bird, sat meekly on conded by

thee to hoat But hope, and time will make you better: mounted on

on the outside of With

maid as she was, moved on going to pay a visit. The door was upened, Penelope started up de if cut out of wood. Which leaves the soul without a felter, tiptoe from the key-bols, and, creping and the lady was shown up-stairs. Mutin. Her own parrot, the axinted Jeremiah, to Oh it is but a sorry creed down the first fight of stairs, walked himself met them at the top, th

handed her a Bellotan, as she gave her mop an ener- hoavily up agatu into the room, a though chair, and gat, Molly, profiting by their had often heard, he to wish her not only With a smile of misbelieving!

like a gentleman sixould, or wish! And the major's To look for nothing but deceiving,

jerrot, who had no doubt repeated what he To most a kindness in your need she had just come from the kitchen.

*close by her side." She was told to hand Major Muffin aozatuple, placed Jeremiah in his cage, side dead, but the other thing and just as he The tide of ill is not a strong glass of wine,

by sido with Bob, shut the door, and proved had popped the

the question, and she was Man byes not always wrath and wrong. herself a much better servant than Deborah going to say yes Woud he was had supposed her to be, for she listened stone !

0 W It cannot be that every heart

Is steded so much agains its neighbour most attentively on the outside.

The end of this tale amy sily be con- Let each with reason play his part, ooived. The parrots once started, vied

And fruit will spring from out the labor: with each other which could speak the fast. Progressing still life's journey through, est-Bub made over the old-we omit the word next door, not only to death but to the domialons of a gentlemans who shall be useless, with a companiment of all oaths that are pronounceable. While Pe slope's Jeremiah, her sweet Follow his the other, only in a different style} were orthodox condemnations And thus volley of sercats and chuckling abuse was kept up outre, and shouted as if take olapped their wings, and if ing part with their master auid mistress

Penelope not to

be outdone by her missus'a Polle- the compliment, and comienced onlarging with a froight of thousands, the inan of Stowe upo Major Mutin the Kingdórás may quake, aud thrones may fall country abroad; and they were also forbid.

Foll- bestowed

"reisish by name was one! And coupon bie merite, and Minibu was made seu war hoped to sail in her company upon the him or other epithets which Oh join not then the strifes of men,

fruits of her displeasure; e add after calling

brutal and sundry dee bar cloak to church, where, strange tu rus, for he said, prayers like a Christian rose Jee dreamt not of why did Major, famales pronounce the house with a bang, That ye have reached the moment when

with a bounce, and leaving the

and disappointment. *Bbly who was quietly cleaning his nails was a bird of character; he whistled Halle- wished-as every reasonable woman wishes The fea things flew about the room; and the ought to have his head twisted offlijah like an organ, and could say theta bo marmed, and if the gontleman his old favourite Foll, the innocent cause, Molly on the contrary, contended that Bab Lord's Prayer as well as an arahbishop! should propose, Penelope felt she must say of so much mischist, had a surrów escape was a good natured Poll,

and tame as a The parrot, evidently aware he was the yes.

the yes. Of oue thing she was i certain that for the poker simed with deadly nim,

he in " Panalope did the who to this day repeats the daily Izzaonis

sandry wires of the cage, but not of Foll

The mix'd

Get ex the-and Deborah coughed; there The wise in society, if they wish to in-persivasagolden fleece for that Pepe:

good graces of pe

Lin't many pins to between them.

choose And bang her mat against the area

Went rail and out fewn cloud of dust, which anveloped a lawyer's clerk, who was past fing, ULC's blankets are soon as this feat Was Rdcomplished, Deborah vanted & fresh of abuse upon Hob, and

fresh tehapter of praise was lavialed upon the virtues of her missug's Poll. If ever

he parrble, se parrots always do, looked suspiciousty at one another with their and like eyes, but remained quiet on their Muffin, although no Jacon, saw in was no question the gratiate themselves the

had fully satisfied himself of that fast, and the other, always begin by extolling the

veponra of his dislike melted as before those of her chubby bratthe females rising sun, that looked upon his poverty, heart opens as to a magic key at every and turned it into wealth. Gold, that true fresh shower of sweet litle creature and philosopher's stous, which 31, seok for, how like its mother 'The major, as 8 that fault all hope to gather, made hun husn of the world began by praising, tot turn hia sped upen Penelope Crab, who, Miss Crab, little Crab-that was a pleasure Howerless, might have lived nost door for to come but her parrot Penelope felt

unsought Forages, and

Muffin but laden

12

of

AUTOU was a saint her

Wordier, for Penelope always took him un-sible that the parrot was, a very good par sea of Matrimony-But thero were hidden

Bay, he never want to sleep, not even dur he was, and was as full of good sentences Muflis keep a párrot? ing the serinon Bust Lhat meaty awearing as a piecestion is of plus, in the advent of

Ponelope herself could not be called sky

a

awore at

villain !" "monster"

so gliby, left the rooni,

Brute of a birdand she shook her fist sta little stranger. In fact Ponelope's Polfapon the question. She was bity; cad aloud of wonder hou his know in a

That duty spreads the smoothest pillow;

Aud ne'er the hand of friendship pace But trust, and man will trust in turn Some men there be who drem it good

In trade to overreach a brother; penise a hand to help another And one who would not, though they could, They deem not, though convulsione wido May show the earth by danger shaken, still of hearts unjust through pride A dark and run account is taken: But God is looking over alt

That

But hourly ehow, by waxing kinder,

Renson no more is growing blinder! And though yo aspe that time should yield

A slange for each henighted nation,

Sask not at first so wile a field

To fling the souls of reformation: Bub suw them first in hearts at home,

but that she said, was the fault of bis there, and fixed his black eye like a gunblete should not day 22 And Major Muffin, whirled soroas the room to the damage of Then trust in God and fruit will come. :

delighted, Penelope by honours Pho

Hucken She confessed to the swearing;ubject of conversation, soothed his brought in plentifully get by his bachelor mastor, aid chuckles

rougltage up.' But then he never hit upon Major Muffin, who, taking a chair anybody whi war muito a spiteful, and would bite his king Pol

WAS

ing the mubiests were

f hats, and the

at home were alarmed. So a statute was nade by Parliament (5th Gourge IT), cap was daily increasing in the Amerima 32), which recited that the manufacture

colonies and plantations,

prohibited

and

the importation of Colonial hats. The colo niets might wear hats of their own making, but must not compete with the mothers

den to

employ Degrees as hattera í ARD 20 legislation of England went on, until

the

populaca of Boston tossed the ten cheats into the harbour, and the War of Indepen-. denco began

ILLUSTRIOUS ADOPTED ONES.-Swift

Steele,

were

Goldsmith, and, Sheridon

ant it was a Scoteliman;

was an Asiatic, for he was born in Calcutta, J. Singleton Copley, the artist, was born in Boston, U.S., so was his son, the late Lord Lyndhurst. The aat ominent of all the Pre- London inmin West and it don Royal Academy were

MISCELLANEOUS. TEE sovereign of Lippe Dermold yields to mana, vízy

of the

best friend to the bone. And as for miss was current What it was o'clock Poll shovelied from the way; and the major out, I wish that dold womanoxt Prussian bayonets, but he defies them Leslie. In that liue, too, we may place

and hour

powers

was

on

He was self like a gentleman, the major, teach their parrats to swear. Telf as well?

morally. It appears that when, in necor- Wilkie, a Scot, Holhain and Fasoli were danos with the treaty, the Prussian battaiters; Vandyke and Sir Peter Lely, lion that is honouforth to take care of Life Badalona derman, and in canly tried quintiry had arrived before the gates ofte Herschel, the great astronomer, was also

was a German, bis capital, an officer was sent to the palace to

of the

an Irishman.

as a gun-dial, and then, whis- was sensible of the delicate attention when door was teul 1".

Miss Penelope Crab, with tfrenty thot Fier, though a parrot, there never was a thing, a hymn, convinced Muffin of his Ponclépe disdained the toast, and fastened

ike him; for he did more harm in the Bold would in a day. He

muilius,

He looked upon it as a wind pozida, tied as the bad lived, I Penelope looked at good onem; and hoped ere long to Somo people, and Penelope

to he him virgin. I buttered Ten was poured out

Why · did Major Mudiu keep a parrot She never trusted her Poll ovon into the and milked by her own batted to his liking

ask his Highness whether the troops might his fellow countryman. while she returned the compliment by sugar- Ma W. Forsyth, being in Paris recently have the honour of marching before him. MAN One standing in

ing in a desert pick

picked thould be, cousted. Joze, people, the ring here, which haved for she tooked and we desirous of stating horseful, wie in. But le garenity saeut word in reply that he jewel and threw it away, saying

to be believed, for she loo

vited with M. Chailln and another friend was going a hunting, and could riot soe kishte

is only a diamond, I were not so partienlar

if was a grain of corn,”? :) disap While the major, like vetotinary surgeons to the Garde de Paris. pointed in being deprived of the honour,

#

SPURGEON sometimes comes out with a and with

The maida, so they could not agree,→ balcony, for fear, as she jaid, his morals and servit moids do not always got pegat": other malam, and to the end descended

ir area tepa irs.a buf

zerine to her heads, and call each had beard,' and she emphasised the world pud. Jooked and blushed, and to dine with Decroix, one of the chior guests that day. The soldiers, much

The Major'a cravat was again incon- Aa Maju Mafia had no other than his veniently tight. Feeling himself alightly pulled, Muffin turned his head, and saw,

siniled kilful weakest

esta que enemy in the be could not very well bo callekin horror, the partes quietly amusing leys of monts Battery and directly began," he says, "with consomme de oborul chemselves at homo i their now barracks: God had referred the ack to as

ell-directed vol- dish consisted of horseflesh. We marolied in notwithstanding, and made good thing "Brethren," said he, f

soup, and

might be what a bountiful by biting sunity holes in the tail her heart Whilst she--what woman could, nucisson, a kind of ragout; and a roli all of them as informet,

Cicli man Ho was forty, and a bacliefor. Pentekig was wealthy, and a

Spuster

ence

e pleased, for Buffa did not care. strange to say,

the Major bad taken,

the

Hay next door, – albeit he had only secu

har once or twice, and that the perspective

of Ibu window but bill he disliked her

Christian nur sounded of a tea yours

Heavenly sign, seetied lo going backwards. But then her rooney

L

demnation against the major's soul, us

of with his wings out-spread, he futtered

pro

which

the

itar

dabit while ber minaine, Cranwar the perch, and screamed up

a mother. The thought of a little vast number of hora, perfectly free from Angus Been te woestinus their eyage in Fasco in Ge will the VR THE

daughter

for

chge,

did

Ah, you naughty bidunelope

| the

5:

on a Crab, made

kucker's yard, nught dark the glass is soon full of eruall flames elbourne, a boon appointed Houorary

the Leeds

committee on at a very goud and then had bouill, since the inhabitants were afraid to offer Naval Affairs, my opinion, it would not self b

luve

have been built yet to bis aout new on the day Penalupe do otherwise she looked as if she must ran frou beginning to ond. The only A PERY started up as if she had

been shot ou bear give in, for the major pressed his attacks dish that was not exclusively zo was ons of will be now to most of ur readers, is de couple waited on a clergyman to be know not why, a mortal dislike tong the major dao gori a bird, as he with so much vigour, and the tea was so nommes-de-torre, but theso bad horse id neat number of "Cosmos," inaried, for whose sorvices the bridegrootn

tried to extricate bis cont. But Poll fas nice, slat Penelope, ioy vieglu as slo

I over them, 80

so that every thing was

was A large bed-glass full of air is placed over wave him a counterfeit bill and then stide tened on it with his claws and heak, and began to melt before the warmth of the en suite. The result was that we water, and a slow stream of mixed hydrogen the

gentleman's umbrella as he passed, ont fed upon it as if making a meal. A sudden gentleman'a affection. The longest winter nonnend the repast excellent

I began and atmosphoric air is sent so that the end will doubtless gat, along in the ball. They have made a good jork freed the coat, while Poll in a passion though wrapped in storms, and frowne, with's decided feeling of prejudice and ru bubbles of gas ad

as they cecape from shouted several sentences of scriptural con- smiles at length at the young-leafed susipugnation, but it was impossible to resist water pass between the points of a small this world.

er and

Crah, who

who had so Ponelope

•herarif in maloyhood, felt over tot that the food was pálatable and Rhpkorn-coil Each bubble is thue

#long

Hon. And Rev. Baptist Noal is to Lo him

good as anyone wish

Lot Coult totiro from his ministry after Midentamer is sold in Paris at About Al per lb. eg in silden explosion the lighted in the ensuing year. Bir Noel assign as trumpeted the thousands she down

the sides of his cage was worth into his ex, and, after some buried,

nabne of Venturing upon teatriniony, major eyed bim with a link of douth, and hand bund like at Cek op at the her disease, which are now sold as the price if (the bell-glass, describing a series of curves on his sovintieth year.

whou fited to lay close acge.

sicge to his talked of wringing necke, us ho inserted her what we assure but readers she

the experiment is made.

E.. SANDFORD, Esq., of Kast Kilda, Teju in the severald Mr Forsyth says, to buteliurs for the dainage doud to his cont, But Muffin was-topsytarry

iamsan food. Thers are now seventeen which dort about and cross each other in all Secretary of the National Association for grab sat in her drawing was under an evil ata, for as his band Penelope

The parrots for parrota are wise birds eighteen butelier's shops in Paris where directions, looking as though the bell-glass Freedour of Worship for New South Wales He Mousil'ull stond meekly in his incautionely strayed near the wires of the seeing what was going on at the other end it can be procured. It is also becoming an was full of fire flies...**

"Murtud on

A TELEGRAM from Copenhagen states an if and blinking his eyes, looking as the parrot dart -ity act,

between the faster and the article of food in Denmark, Austria, Prus- A SUNDAY SUNBOZ ADDRESS. A akotels that the Danish island of St. Thomas and of the riom seizing if of up. Ponelope laid down hero of lite Angers in his book, inade the mistrose, began moving vad long si Saxony, Wurtemberg, and other counwriter in the Cultifarisian delivers is Sunday St. Jean, have boon arid to the United Watter

"and leant back in enda mest at the bune, Muffin shouted uyer their cagon, every now and tries

school address of which the following pan-

Stats for 14,000,000 Danish thalers thinghis of

thousand deaths, and dragged the age then miltered indistinct chatteringa, as if Major ten

PORT CLOSE" writes That?" He was

certainly *not bad-half-across the room, for, pralky Poil holl dofrime of litle more familiarity, but Mercury Last week & minst malicious bu kini to

sage is au sxample:- You (boys. ought, to We are assured, says the Liberte, that the

little. sisters i

Napoleon á military man, by his flesh lita a vice before he could got neither liking to begin linlike the major, and take lihet upperred in the urham bad boy.

has just been being a Bonita elope so

appointed struck

once know peror of Austria t his little sister a bli by the

to be colonel of mafor, nota.

a she. preezer Penelope with all the elo Chronicle, saying that Ear Itussell bad over the eye. Alliough she didn't fade of Austrian regiment. The Car and the Slie

liad ofton

ho was misión of, to take another paased gur slutim, and sending his valet und die in the early summer time, when non-German princes who enjoy this disting between the major and has wrath, quence

värsiga of

of France are now the only two bird's lated upon the blessing of lining tarried fear Jeremiah would have not

other not,

ten

for one of my books, I refused to

to all

the June were

roxes

blowing, yel klrange to may, she had never been death. His neck, however, remained un

thank Jón, Major

saying hat I would see him first words of forgivenu On ker.pallid she kad This undoubtedly argued want twisted, and Muftin's finger was bound

#p

Muffin.

AOORBESTUNDENT of the Pall Mall of taste in the gentlemen. Gould it be in o of

in a piece

The contraction having continued som

Gazete Bays that “for somo oups, and vowed, he couldn't drink any book (Lord Russell being locked up in his day-school for more than a month, on that they thought her too lean, too old, or

some time past for their bastily hopes For Peshort time further, Major Muffin roso to more. holy for their

clonk as

been going on in he had parring, and wrapped elope was pions, and her sanctity was deep dopart, sasuring Miss Crah, as he did so, Another bit of muffin and the major the cholera morbas, and puse permitted to lut on

count of not being able to put his best the United well In fact, Penclope was a walk-and in he said, from the bottom of his handed the plate.

talk to him, and on his refusing, locked A DUBLIN Contemporary describes a new lately soudakzest scopal church were ing Evangelical Magazine; and, as she sat heurt,' that she had made him feel n This was an offer she knew not how to tu my brick, and went bone. I was true machine, which is now in use by a t

* chair, would have unde a “ splendid happy man. You will be sure and come, resist; she couldn't find it in her heart to that the valet, when informed that I was man in that town for Blestratily to that most excellent work ; continued the major and perhaps you refuse maff. Leering in bis face, le recly Pust ? Inse (of which some are doubt bend is said to be very. agreeable, aut perienced the caprice of fortune nearly da 76k bör duck, dall, umeaning countenande

ed by its revolutions round- he looked what she spoke, that she couldn't ful until I talk to them), set the guard parrot with

with you food as an mlded with the fellow the will be a companion for my

evangelical portrút lwaye looked no if he could have data ft. Proterefnise Major Malfin little nearer, and efter mb, but I refused to turn back says the rapidity with which it cuts the bair in much as her son. The fellowing lacónie He drew his chair a and ing, I was not the slave of my lord, and one of its recommendations to notice. The letters passed between themDear Sam, Cera 13 Major Munity was

was her next door. Bob

hinted something about tank her band, Punele employed the having been ones refused it was my turn to machine is so constructed as to enable the I am in prison. AnswerDear motlier, evil

floating has Mudin main other with a spoon. The major, heaving 64 also. I care as little for lords as operator by turning a screw to adjust the he should

no objection

and must confess that had I had butting blade so as to take off just the Te United Service Garet'e miderstands Come hirs Major Muma But then theyclared Bob to be the best-natured creature unfortunate man and he shook his vers utter strangers to each other. And under the aunt, a

and never bit anything but head, Panelope also sighed, and unden mind pretty fracy about his conduct to the are guided by auspending rollera, like those Vestivation af matters connected with a fin en égale Fenelope felt uneasy when elie his

elie his food Here the major eyed his finger. voured to inacy herself wins we no sure poor old King of Ronny when Lord need with the bans brushing machine.ancial crisis which has recently occurred, in Mapibered Deborah voweit hat Mata Penelope, after the

LAUR

Tuasoll Yes, oried the major, Taur an unforthe honour (bor one) of being Fuel oist the United Kingdom was 35,101, being may bon statement in the Gazette, but there good morninge

was in power in 1866, and I had In 1860, the number of vagrants through a certain only regimant now stationed at had mene troops

Przett, opened thio

Aldershoté ke shuddered, and taking up the drawing room door; Deborah stood ready tanate wrstol for I have trified with my Laurente to

Una of the immediate results Sauer Kit 1.500 more than in 1880, and ani bád. at the street one

·and

after effections until they have left mo o cinnamon the Sire

incresse that the thoughts of Mull slit sying he would expect her a 60, made without a heart, Peaclope felt she and mag tarte coffins, Brulig

may of 10,000 on the average number of the are revelations which, if made Curige, and high in the glende of his bow and his will, and, as he went down not wrian hort. The input continued Tax Parts coiffeurs, Gruling that the sip three preceding years. Will the Bertistical throw a light on cavalry liter on his long

or Guneral,! Society, or

the Registrar tell been wanting. Penelope, Ean a man without a sities is becoming exhaustat, Inve begun the reason why

THE Entaste Enya"The famous Aigo Now, Deborah and Molly bad thiod in other was actively dagged with the benow buying up the black tresses of the time to her teams explaining to them that initted suicide. hst week at Blin, in gre Miss BURDWIT COUTTS has issued a no-rican clown Agreat, called the Manfy, coll Her eyes, and looked again and suite of the rival pannata tint no thay, otior squeeze, this haud is to me as good. This inventory of the late President a plats on the sexister of Parliamentary Inchis inonth at the moment he was hanging

while discursing the relative вроок This band,

and ho gave it an ami Spatiian inhabitants of South merithey are now occupiers entitled by a law to tenco of 2,000 spectators, by firing a pistol boked saw "marriage" in „vapítala, y

writ merite ards 1 It certainly was very were fetching the best for dinner, it's as gold and Mutin luked as tonight he Lincoln's estate at Singfield, Illiuole, voture that she, as owner, is abarged with by his feet to the ceiling of the theatre And if Major Mufia- lappered they each arrived at their area had spoken s truth. Yes, Penclaps, family to 851000 dollars. This does not the ability for the rates, and that they are loud knock at the door hurried her gates at the same moment. When a wature peace and present lay are witten in Julyde the congressional appropriations legally germitted to deduct them from the has been concluded between France and A TREATY of Commeros and Navigation scross the room to listen at the door. I wan has a nocrat totally she forgeta prep the lines of this little palun anying which for Mrs Lincolngs Dra

the Papal States.

laven

will

bring your

Penelope hat alreally despatched for malicious and false liel was never rose up and hit him over the head on, which is purely honorary.

invested, as I asked the valet to buy a rolling pin, so that he couldn't go to SUD-4 Ritualist States," and that the com

no

Bousation

has

grugation of au

by a smell of incense, which some entbusiest and. a trades-

and surreptitiously air. The conveyed into the store."

MES FOUTE, mother of dristophanes, er

1

50 am

Dund the civil trot help betained the report to be unfounded and de-nigh like a pavior, declared himself of

Lord Russell, had told him my quantity of unir desired. Its movements that a court of inquiry is engaged in

• swore liken cómmna

uumber of she s was not an unfortunate woman

ustation, yes strange to say the the steps; fall artistled that he had made, and he squeezed her band. This to import heir from a now fell: They ar

{"jumping: about, pelt nothing but Major Moin.

spite of an impression upon his next door neigblog.

1

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No 1431 JANUARY

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January 11, 1666

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WITH Reference to the above

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