THE BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH
Apropos of the passing of an Act for the protection of birds, our attention has been called to · Longfellow's beautiful poon, The Birds of Killingworth," exquisite in its tenderness, charming in its sympathy with nature, and gentle even in its satire, --- Queenslander,
His hand,
Is was the season, when through all the land
The marie and zavie balid, and building sleg Those lovely-lyrics, written by
lichn SATon Cadmen call the Blithe-heart
boy in King
When on the boughs the purple bude expand, The banners of the vanguard of the Spring, And rivulets, rejoining, rush and long, And ware their Battering signals from the steep, The robin, and the blue-bird, piping land,
Filled all the bioreaming orchards with their The sparrows chirped-se if they still were proud Thale ace in Holy Writ should mentioned be; And hungry move assembled in a exowd,
Glamoured their piteous prayer incessantly, Knowing who hears the rays ry, and said; "Giys us, O Lord, this day our daily brend 1a Among the Sound the birds of passage sailed,
Speaking some unknown language strange and Of tropio lale remote, and passing hailed
The village with the cheere of all their fleet; Or qasiralling together, laughed and railed Laks foreign sailors, landed in the street
Dit seaport town, and with outlandish noise Of oaths and gibberish frightening girls and
boys.
This came the jouand Spring in Killingworth, In fabolous days, some hundred years ago; And thrifty farmers, as they filled the earth,
-Heard with nisan the eswing of the crow," That mingled with the universal mirth, -Casandra-like, pugnosticating woo;
They shook their heads, and doomed with dread-
gena oda ful-words-al
To swift destruction the whole race of birds.
And a town-meeting was convened straightway
To set a pelos upon the guilty beads Of these marandars, who, in lieu of pay,
Lavied black-mail upon the garden beds And wornfields, and beheld without dismay
The awful scarecrow, with his fattarlag
shredsz
The skateton that waited at their feast, Whereby thelṛ sinful pleasure was increased.
Then from his house, a temple painted white,
With fluted columns, and a roof of red, The squire came forth, august and splendid
night!
Blowly descending, with majestic tread, Three flights of steps, nor looking left or right, Down the long street he walked, se one who A town that bonate inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society !"
The Parson, appeared, a man abstere,
The instinct of whose nature was to kill; The wrath of God he preached from year to rear, -And rand, with fervour, Edwards on the Wi His Favorite pastime was to slay the dear vla Bummer on some Adirondao hill ;
B
now while walking down the rural lazie,
He lopped the wayalde flies with his care,
Trom the Academy, whose ballry crowned
The bill of Science with its vane of brass, Came the Preceptor, gazing idly round,
|
What winld you rather see
Of innoots in the winrows of the bay, And hear the locust and the
grasshopper Is this more pleasant to you than the whire Their melancholy irardy-gudies play 2
Ot meadowlark, and its sweet roundalky, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your sooning in the shade of buah and brake 7
You call them thieves and pillagars; but know They are, the winged wardens of your farmIN, Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foo,
And from your harveste keeps hundred ham, Evon the blackest of them all, the crow,
Crushing the beatlo in his coat of mail,
Renders goed wervion as your man-at-arms, And crying hayoo on the slog and email,
"How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy to the weak, and revorenGé For Lite, which, in its weakness or: GILESS,. Oz Death, which, seeming darkness, is no legs
Is still a glosm of God's soranipotence,
The selfsamo light, although averted benes, When by your laws, your actions, and your
speechi, You contradict the very things I tanah With this he closed; and through the audience
want
shows,
Who had no voice ner voto in making laws, But in the papers road his littlo speech,
And crowned his modest temples with
planine;
They made him conscions, each one more than
.
And so the dreadful massaare began;
O'er fields and orchards, and o'er woodland
The consolese fasilladio of terror ran.
acesta,
Dead fell the birde, with blood-stains on their
breasts,
Öz wounded crept away from sight of man,
While the young died of famine in their nests: A slaughter to be told in groana, not words, The very St. Bartholomew of Birds!
The summer camo, and all the birds were dead:
Was burned to sabes; in the orchards fed
Myriads of caterpillars, and around The cultivated fields and garden beds
Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found No fos to check their march, fill they had made The land a desert without leaf or shade.
Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town,
Because, like Herod, it had ruthlessly Slaughtered the Innocents. From the trees
span down
The canker-worms upon the passers-by, | Upon each woman's bonnet, shawl, and gown,
"Who shook them off with just a little cry: They were the terror of each favorite walk, The endless theme of all the village talk, The farmers grew impatient, but a few
Confessed their error, and would not complain, For after all, the best thing one can do When it is raining, is to let it rain, Then tho reported the law, although they know
It would not call the dead to life again;
As school-boys, finding their mistake too late, Draw a wet sponge auzoar the accusing slate.
Now at the clouds, and now at the green gra, That year in Killingworth the autumn cazie
And all absorbed in reveries profound
Of fair Almira in the upper class,
Who was, as in a sonnet he had said,
• pure as water, and as good as bread.
Without the light of his majestie look, The wonder of the falling tongues of flame,
The illumined pages of his Doomsday-Book. A few lost Todves blushed crimson with their
shame,
treasure
TÉE CHINA MAIL.
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68.—Tailoring, Woollen Drapery, Uniforme,
Liveries, Riding Habits,
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36-Trunks, Cases, and Travelling Equipage,
of every description, 87-Prints, Calioous, Plain Mustine, Gon-
eral Drapery. 83-Silks, Satins, Velveta, Dress Materials, and Skirts of every description. General Mourning, Funeral Furnishing, Menu monta, Tombs, Ro. Counting Home Shipping, Banking, Money Exchange, Auctionsering, House Agency, Insurance, Coals, Lost Property, General Information Office and Talegraph Office, 41-Ladies' and Children's Hosiery, Gloves, Haberdashery Trimmings, Ribbone, Flowers, Berlin Woods, Dyeing and Cleaning. 48-Lace, Millinery, Ladies' and Children's batfitting, Baby Linen, Umbrellas, Sun. shades, Furs, &o.
Trousseaux, Layettes, Indian Outste. 46-Sbawis, Mantles, and Mantlecloths,
Court and General Dressmaking. 47-Jowellery, Pinto, Watches and Clocks,
English and Foreign Fancy Articles, Bron zas, Articles of Verta, Draga, Patent Modi cines, Perfumery, Printing, Lithographing, Stamping, Bookbinding, Books and Sta
No. 4528-JANUARY 5, 1873.
labyrinth of stores and factories he had kindly conducted me through
Miscellaneous.
REPORT saya that Lord Drummond, som of the Earl of Perth, who is just twenty years of age, is residing in a wooden shanty at Brookhaven, near New York, with his wife, a girl who was formerly a housemaid in a family mauslon at which this very origi- nat nobleman visited to England. He and his wife want to America about three year his lordship was a farm laborer, while her ago, arrived without money, and soon after ladyship obtained employment as a dome estic. His lordship was afterwards porter
earn a living by his skill as a sportsman. to a New York tobacconist, but he now.
It is curious to remember that some day this affectionate couple will be the Earl and Countess of Perth.
Two royal personages have fallen out with each other, tho Queen of England and the king of planista. It must be admitted that the king has the best at it. Herr Rubinstein was invited to play at Windsor recently, and after performing very brilliantly, he was hospitably asked to refresh himself with some sherry and cold chicken in the house- Boots, Shoes, Hats, India-rubber and offered him ten guiness--the sovereigns and Waterproof Goods of
every description.
shillings neatly put up together, as for a Toys and Games, Sticks, Whips, Teats, physician's fee. Marguere, &o. Refreshments, Cock, Conretection and the cash, and has since said a Ho dealined both the fectionery and Rent Furnishing, 51.-Family and household Linen, Blankets, number of unpleasant things in London
Muslin, Lace, and Leno Curtains.
about the whole affair. Her Majesty's 58-Damaske, Reps, Cratonces, Chintzes, was mera courteous and more considerate
uncle of unrighteous memory, George IV. Table Covers, and General Upholstery when he dealt with artists, as the elder Carpets, Oilclotha, Mats, Bags, Tron Mathews, among others, has testified. The mongery, Tinware, Brushes, Turuary, Glasa, China.
English journals which chuckle, rather observe that Herr Rubinstein can well afford disloyally, over the story, ungraciously to assert the dignity of the divine art, inasmuch as he is understood to have made 48000 sterling by his English tour with. Carl Boss. But Beethoven assorted it with no such goldon-basking long ago, and against a loftier personage than the Queen of Great Britain. Leslie & Journal, a fa
No. 48, 51, 65Costume Show Roozas. Hair
Dressing Baloons. No. 1dMeat, Poultry, Game, Grocery, Hotter, Cheese, Fralt and General Provision Warehouse.
QUEEN'S RO¿Ð
No. 147-Household Faruitars and Bedding, No. 149, 151 & 187-Building, Repairs, De corating, Painting, plambing peperhang lag, dro
Thus it will be seen that most of the wants of life, from infancy to old age, can be supplied without troubling anybody outside this unique commercial centre. The crowds of people that daily throng Mr. Whiteley's counters give the beat answer to the question, Is the experiment successful?,
A PATHETIC story has been published with regard to the manner in which Wachtel, the great tenor, first became known and famous, He was originally a poor cab-driver at Dresden, and one wintry night, as he was singing to himself upon his box, the audience of the Grand Opera began to disperse. The entranced multitude gathered round the unconscious cabby, who finished his solo It will be readily conceived that the man amid a storm of applause, and the very next who controls the machinery by which this day a large parse was subscribed to send great business is carried on, is not in a posi. him to the Conservatory at Paris, My tion to eat much time to waste. I there. Sobengler, who lives in San Francisco, fore took it as the greater favour that Mr. according to the News Letter, was mach Whiteley permitted himself to be interview. affected by the story, and, as he too had a ed, and devoted something like a couple voice, he determined to be sent to Paris at of hours of his invaluable time to cozduotonne. So, he waited until the California ing me through the many departments of Theatre began let out, and, mounting the his business, and kindly answering the questions I pat to him from time to time.
I will invite my readers to take this tour of inspection with me.
box of a book in the front of it, he lifted up his voice, and eang. The tumultuous crowd was instantly hushed, and stopped transfixed, as, with closed eyes, the absorbed singer sat his whole inspired soul floating out in glad, triumphal notes. The selection chosen by Mr Schengler was, Tommy, make room for your uncle," one of the best of its kind; but, We regret to say that, at the end of the third verse, a brickbat struck Mr Sobengler im- mediately behind the right ear, knocking him over the dashboard, following which, he was walked over, and his neck stepped upon by the thoughtless throng. Mr Sobenglar in convinced there is a frand about this Wachtel story somewhere.
insessant stir Where the track, after the mountains bad I Maurice O'Connell a few days ago, for the baen crowned and the descent nearly accom- old unel's vaunted brother-in-arma waS plished, debonohen on the plain on which I Lieutenant Maurles O'Connell who was at expected to find the Carlist army encamped, the time on De Lacy Evan's staff, and who
■ tremendous and tortuous ravine confined was wounded in the knee the same day that the path for the last few miles, not in the Colonel Antarragos had two fingers of his bed, but on a narrow ledge on the shoulder left hand carried away by a musket ball. ahead, and the twists of the road had hid- So many men had been lost in feeling for of the ravine, Two of the guides were The end of my captivity was this way. den them from night, when suddenly we the main body that it became diffent to heard shots, and the bold contrabandiatas keep strong pickets out without overtasking who were leading the mulas bolted like the men, and one morning as I was obatting hares back along the track. At this point with the colonel and wishing I had some- it was a more ledge, scarcely wide enough thing to eat, there came a rattle of shots, for a mula to find footing, and a dismal gulf and almost instantly one of the plakete No. yawned sheer away from its edge into the same clattering through the village looking. ravins two hundred feet below, in which over his shoulder and riding like the mis- ran a mountain stream with numerous black chief. Before the old colonel could get the deep pools. Before I could exactly grasp bugler beside him to sound boot-and-saddle the situation, of the advance guides a strong body of Carlist cavalry galloped turned an angle of the path, running at top into the village. The old man showed grit, speed and aliouting that his comrade was I admit, for he drew his sabre and ran like shot and the month of the pass occupied by an idioto old tiger straight at the nearest avidelte of enemy's cavalry. He bolted trooper and began slashing at him like a past after his mates, nearly jostling me off madman, although he was one man on foot the ledge in his hurry to get clear. My to forty mounted men, and his own lads No. situation was a sufficiently unpleasant one. were either crying quarter, or belting for Ammar, like the rustle of dead lexven; I had a string of loaded males carrying a tho rooks on every hand. The poor old The farmers laughed and nodded, and some bent treasure my employer could not replace in fellow was pilled with a pistol shot in half a Their yellow heads together like their sheaves; a hurry, the path was so narrow that to minute-bis soldierly figure and gray hairs, en hara no faith in fine-span sentiment tara the beasts was utterly impossible, dabbled with blood, lay on the roadside till The birds were doomed; and, as the record enemy, proceeding from where I had been awkward too, for the officer commanding
Who put their trast in bullocks and in beeves, }:while every moment I expected some of the the soldiers buried him. My turn looked / No. 49.-Ladies, Gentleman's and Children's keeper's room, where a fumofionary further
told to expect friends, to turn the corner the Carlista had soon me in their campa A bounty offered for the heads of crows.
of the path and make an end of me. A without knowing who I was, and the papers There was another audience out of reach,
moment sufficed to fix my resolution. The which had served with the Alphonists were spoila abould not fall into the enemy's not at all calculated to dispose my Carlist hands. Squeezing close to the inner side friends to think welt of me. My coptor, ap-of the path, and between it and this foremost in fact, made up his mind that I was a spy mule, I gave a sudden push, and the poor and interloper, and made very short work loaded brute, with a shelek almost human, of coming to a decision. I went a little toppled over the edge and with a nullen wild when I saw bis intention, and raved He still was victor, vanquished in their cause.plash, fell into a deep pool in the stream some foolishness about a jury of my peora Sweetest of all the applauso be won from thee,
or rivalet two bandred feet sheer below. and the star-spangled banner, but that was O fair Almira at the Academy!
With enormous exertion I succeeded in a all I could get out. He spoke no English few moments in hurling every one of the or French (the language in which the old loaded mules, with a single exception which onionel and 1 conversed) and I know little managed by some miracle to turn and Spanish. But I was at no loss to compre bolt back towards the mountains, into the head the meaning of betog marched apart depths of the revaine below, where the by a party of twelve men, and shoved ag banging bushes and the deep pools effecta against a cottage wall while they loaded ally bid their remains from sight, for I with ball cartridge and formed line facing peered over the margin and could res me. I had given up everything as a bad nothing of them, Scarcely was this ao-job, when a fresh arrival took place, and s complished when the sound of a bugle from body of officers trotted into the village. It the mouth of the ravine warned me that was a supreme moment Don Carlos-for The days were like hot conls: the very ground any moment I might be surprised, and the it was the King and his staff clattered up traces of the male's feat would inevitably the road. They would pass within ton lead to questioning and discovery of the yards of my firing party, The King turned ̧n | his cold impassable face, and locked at the Therefore, with considerable misgivings, arrangements. Would he know met My Ihastened towards the outlet, and when brain was at the most fearful tension. He about a quarter of a mile had been got over made no sign. Not a musole of his onlm, Ligot a chance to leave the path, which was selfish features moved. The situation was no longer the edge of precipice, Just quite an ordinary occurrence from his point. however, as I plunged into the wooded of view. He passed. 1 could hold on ne slope below, the whis of a ball, followed by longer. The executioners were at the several more, and the sound of a volley" prosent !" I yelled aloud a desperate ory, from carbines drew my attention to a lot of Juliano soy." The sound reached Dot Alphonsist dismounted dragoons making Carlos; he turned in his saddle and looked; after me hot foot. In five minutes I was he reined up for a moment and looked prisoner, but the business of the treasure harder. Then, with a word to a young aide was unsuspected. My poor guide in advance de camp beside him, he resumed his course, bad caid nothing, and for a good season. while the young offloor galloped up to my As I was marched down to the village in party, gave a brief order which lowered The proprietor, Mr. Whiteley, is, I be the plain at the foot of the gorge, I passed those infernal muzzles, and asked me what flieve, by birth, a native of the premier his body at a turn of the path. He had wanted, and who I was. It was no time county of England, and in that respect is been shot dead by the piquet as soon as he to mince matters. I distrusted the King, only one of a host of men whose keen caught sight of them, and turned to exospe. and I distrusted his officer, Tell his Yorkshire wit and superabundant energy It was well for me that I had been pre- Majesty, I aald in French, that I am have enabled them to become the architects pared for all contingencies As my poor Juliano, and claim safety, by this token of their own fortunes in every part of the snugglor could neither road nor write (few and dropping my volos to a whisper, 1 world. Mr. Whiteley's manner is frank of these Biscayans oan) no inconvenient spoke one word in the young soldier's ear. and kindly, and when you look at his fes papers were found on him, and my pocket-The latter looking a little mystified, directed tures you cannot fail to be impressed with book on investigation showed only that the firing party to saepond operations till their expression of high sagacity and an- was an American citizen, and war oor- his return, but to shoot if I attempted to conquerable revolution. respondent for the and further that esuspe, and then astered after his master. warrant of the mind that has reared in a They fitly give I had just one sovereign in my possession. An agonising uncertainty of five minutes short space of size such a structure. Mr. ed containing a return prepared by Mr T. A PARLIAMENTARY paper has been publish. Perhaps the reader wonders why 1 did not followed, when from the direction in which Whiteley is styled the Universal Pro- Woolley "of all experiments made by the secure a handful of the gold coin before the alde-de-camp had gone a single horas-vidor," a title, I admit the truth and fitness Admiralty on coal and patent fuel since the disposing of all the mules. Let me explain man made his appearance at a furious of as I follow him through shop after shop date of the last return, March 9, 1878," that I wasn't quite such a fool as to have gallop. The soldiers, with astonishment, crammed with merchandise of every desorin The chief engineer of HM8. Challenger any French gold, treably minted, found orted "Il Re The King! It was Don tion. Every where is evidence of order reports that Patagonian coal cannot with about me. That would have told a story Carlos. Pulling up his magnificent charger and good management; everything looks advantage be used alone, 14 owt. of this coal which would have had a swift sequel for with a sudden jerk at my side, his Majesty thoroughly business-like. On the ground was required to produce the same result as As it was the old Alphonsist colonel-hla face all aflame-leaped from his steed, floors of the shops are sold goods of all 10 owf. of Walsh steam coal. Australian Boldlerly grizzled old fellow, who had and opening bia arms, clasped me to his kinda-sach kind separate and distinct coal is even still more unfavourably spoken fought for Leabella during the first Carlist bosom, crying It is, then, my Preserver which are sither in the piece or ready-made of by Admiral Ryder. He says "it is very war-was not quite clear what he had best and Friend!" Then, turning to the soldiers, On the first-floor are showrooms, on the unsuitable for certain of the vessels out here do with me. A newspaper correspondent he haughtily waved his hand and cried, second, tailors, shirt-makers, boot-makers, (the China station), and diminishes their was a new sort of article, and he evidentlyBloodhounds, away!"
milliners, dressmakers, and a host of other officiency to a very considerable extent.". I was saved was bothered whether to believe or doubt
busy and skilful constructors; above them Nevertheless, this coal seems to be largely ay yarn of having crossed the hills in order to get to King Alphonso's: brave and
are the rooms in which all the cutting and used by the Chinese. Japanese coal appears AN IMMENSE BUSINESS. conquering troops owing to a professional I recently had the opportunity of visiting fitting together all sewing are done. The to do very well. Chilian soul is about as preference for describing victorien. Leone of the most remarkable commercial et extent of the basements is filled with bad as it could be; Capt. Fellard, of H.M.S. questioned me fully as to the movements establishments in Groat Britain, and I stock of all kinds in greater quantities than Tendos, writes, at a price of $5 per ton it is of Don Carlos forces, and I hope he was think I may safely say, in the world. It of course generalissimo; under him are ships than good Welsh coal at $12 the even the shop's present. Mr. Whiteley is a good deal more expensive goal to H.M. satiafied with the replies he got. I am not is known by every dweller in the fashion- alar (no matter who was the authority for able quarters of London as "Whiteley's" aidecamps, generals of division, captains, ton. Nova Scotian coat is poorly spoken the Telah! I'll betray myself), and this I can only compare it to Stawart's, on the directs Between two and three thousand Keyhaven, and the report is that not more sergeanta, privaton. What an army he of. Anthracite coal has been tried with was the only occasion in my life that I ever Broadway, in New York, in respect to persons are engaged on the premises, and than one-third anthracite to two-thirds invented romances or mingled flotion with magnitude, in other respects a comparison thousands of out-door employes earn their bituminous should be used. Varions steam fact, I certainly did staff the old colonel would not hold good. The vast emporium livelihood in connection with bis buainess, coals were tried on board the colonial some, and after deliberation he decided to of the dry goods trade, built by the New The commissariat department is commens steamer Victoria. The Cardiff was found to leave me unshot for the present, and, per- York merchant prince and millionaire, are, surate with the host whose wants it is design be the most economical, but taking all ceiving me to be a perfect gentleman, he as all Americans and many old-world peo-ed to supply. The kitchens have roasting and qualities into consideration, free steaming, took my parole not to quit the village, and ple know, devoted to what is called in the holling apparatus on the most magnificent freedom of ash, &o., the Scotch carried off at me loose very much like a goose with capital of the tow world, the dy ons scale, and the dining rooms, when filled the palm. The coat found in our new South owed my dilemms to an unexpected advanos square erections in Broadway, drapara' and demonstrations in forse on the part of shops-shops on a gigantic seale, indeed, to be forgotten. The principles of Mr. is Transvaal iron ore. But no coal seams to hurried retreat by a flank movement of the one wholesale for supplying other shop modern notions of political economy. He One great advantage it possesses is that it the Alphonsists, which had ocassioned the palaces of fashion, but still drapers' shops simple and sound quite abreast with our in the Mediterranean and Channel Squadrons. Whiteley's business economy are at once equal the patent fuel which has been used
considerable distance into Castile from their army corps which I was charged to reson, keepers with their goods, the other resa desires to distribute to the conanwer—the can be stowed in a smaller space. It also base in the Pyrenees, and acting on very and the colonel's command he was really for catering for the tastes and providing public-merchandise of every kind charged deteriorated less on the voyage. It is used special and confidential Instructions, I had only in charge of a troop was a detach for the wants of all the New York ladies with one az at most two profits the manu- to a large extant in the Franch Navy a large amount in French gold packed ment thrown out to watch the various on miles, with orders to push over the outlets from the mountans Now, as the Westbourne Grove, presents an altogether acturers and the distributor's. In his Tax Atenir Militaire does not view with mountains by a secret and difficult path villagers had been intolerably barried by different aspect inside and out to the capacity of "Universal Provider" he de- any favour the waterproof sheets which were both sides in turu, they had very little famous stores with which I have in some signs to supply all the wants of his patrons tried during the last autumn mancouvres of only known to the Fyrmuan peasants who left to eat, and as the colonel, on being respects compared it. This vast enterprise likewise upon this principle to their great the French army. Such a shrest, the French You alor them all! and wherefore f for the gain i debouch on the flank of the advanced army thing for me except shout me if I showed the i trades, in separate shops, for the most part:/ with the great Civil Service Co-operative can be induced to carry it, and not throw it acted as guides and zinle drivers, and to splied to for rations, declined to do sap. includes the carrying on of a variety of advantage. Hie prices, compare favourably military journal remarks, may, if the soldiers corps. The money was to pay the troops, slightest sign of intending to break my adjoining one another. No partners' names stores; but over them Mr. Whiteley has sway during a bot march as the American who were in arrears and showing the firsi signs of the discontent which ultimately lost parole, I had to husband my single precious appear on larolees or over the shop doors; this great advantage, he supplies anATIA to soldiers did those supplied to them during Don Carlos his chance of the crown of sovereige, and it was then that I experi0" Co. is appended to the William is customers the carriage of their parcels the Civil War, protect a man from dangmess Spain, That I had no military export was exced the difficulty of living on a shilling Whiteley" affixed to the concern which has their own houses, and he affords them rising from the ground; but it will not tine to the fact that I had to smoggle the per day, and that the value of that coin, or sprung in 14 or 16 years, from the genius, prompt attention and civility. Things that shelter him from rain when bivouacing in oost little, perhaps, but are sadly wanting wet weather, Consequently, the soldiers aver think what wondrous belogu | Spanishï side, and the French Corps of Oh and stomach, agus gngaRADA
gold across the French frontler into the ita equivalent, was impressed upon my mind energy and enterprise of one of the most the Tarions Civil Service stores. Mr. will be sure to do again what their pres noteworthy traders the latter half of the Whiteley buys in the cheapest markets, decessors did in Algeria. Formerly, troops I have been betrayed into a rather longer mineteenth century has produced.
We are becoming secustomed to all the e, from the manufacturers direct, for cash taking the field in Africa were supplied with Do you hafer, think who made them, and the any military detachment of Carlists to meet digression than I Intended, but I think
taught
contraband of war, and so discovered where | I may as well now say bow the adventure Wonderful developments of luxury and con benefit of a cheep purchase, and will never | straw at night, and then introdused their" only invariably gives the customers the a canvas bag. This they partly filled with This dialect they speak, where melodies
Alons are the interpreters of thought?
to Interrupt the supplies, Therefore, no terminated. For three mortal weeks I was Veblence which the introduction of steam donvoy met me, and I planged with my hungry all day long, for, of course, famine and the invention of the electric telegraph, allow himself to be underwold. He always bodies through the opening at the top of the party into the recesses of the mountains prices ruled. The colonel was cross and have given me, but we could hardly have seeks what may be useful and advantageous sack into the rudimentary pailases shtin after outwitting the somewhat int guard troubled, for his communications had get best prepared for a time when, in the to his patrons wherever it is to be got, and formed. Soon, however, the idea corred kopt by the French, and made for my place interrupted, and when he sent out videttes metropolis of the world, where labour was pleased to see in his noble furniture to the men of using the sake as tenta, by for delivering my precious freight. I hear and small squade to feel for his supports tends to be more and more diriaca, where stores many articles of American mann unsewing one side and the bottom of the bag, joining two or three of the plesss of Caconslanders sometimes talks of bad roads and the main body of Alphonsists, they all our wants tend to be satisfed by the facture both cheap and good
A visit to the extensive stabled consluded canvas thus obtained together and supporting and sipep pindhen. They should base nover came back. Besides, he hadn't hands of separate and distinst traders and seen my laden mules glimbing the fearful enough to eat himself. He became a little operatives we should find one man able my tour of inspection of this most interest them on their guns. By this means a kind ing and really unrivalled commerical mart.of low tent was improvised, which sheltered precipitous ledges and shelves which my chatty latterly, and used to tell me atories successfully to carry on a number of large I need hardly say that hir. Whiteley buys the men from the sun, from rain; and from puides indidsted so the pathi: Jolly reak- ] of the old Okelias war in which he took businesses, widely differing from one his own horses. I was struck as we passed the hearg daws to which they were exposodi. 656 follows they were, Amugglers by pro part, and preclose wonderful stories they another, with profit to himself, and with fession sincs boyhood. Constant habit of were Now, there is nothing I so cordially something more than this to the great from shop to shop with the number of Such was the origin of the lents d'aire, ptiraning dearms and abrupt mountain tracks dotest as exaggeration or romancing in the Mr Whiteley's fabulously grown mart ladies and gentlemen who were making equipment of French troops in Africa since recognitions Mr. Whiteley received from which has formed part of the regulation advantage of the public, had given them sinews of steel and langs allehtest degree au It bapponed that I extends over seventeen houses in West purchases. I should here expected that 1654, Uut which it has been now decided to unk of your woods and orchards wilkönt. along, singing an eternal ditty, beginning, trayal of impatient credulity. I have quite boarne Grove and Queen's Road, Bayers, but this is far from being the case, issued they will; the Avenir afflitaire in
of gum. They trudged and sirambled offended the old warrior by an unlucky be-
he was personally unknown to his custom abolish I waterproof sheets are again
Yo qui soy contrabandistä I revollect
recently reason to belleve that I did Antar water, main thoroughfares in the west-end ragos come injustice, lor among his favorite ar fashionable part of London. In these and there is much to explain his great fully convinced, be again converted into ofessional chaat in praise of their themes were the dashing exploits he had shops are carried on with a high degree of succeer in the quietly forelble remark, I tents, and these latter will have the addic
performed in company with a young Irish Bitccess the following trades, professions
and businesses officer of the Betani Legion, whom I always
WESTBOURNE GROVE 4. An Americanasi, meaning, we ballero, ku. Tegarded as sort of military member oe, Gentless's Hozlary, Giarse, Skirts
the Mrs Harria" (amily," "sidef með Sir
and samplois Antetiden.
And neat the Deacon issued from his door,
In his voluminous neck cloth, white as snow; A suit of sable bombozine he wore;
His form was ponderous, and his step was
Blow:
There never was no wise a man before's
He seemed the incarnate "Well, I told you
And to perpetuste his great renown There was a street named after him in town.
· These came together in the new town-hali,
With aundry farmers from the region round. The Squire presided, dignifiod and tall,
Hair impressive and his reasoning sound, All fared it with the birds, both great and email; Hardly a friend in all that crowd they found, But enemies enough, who every one Charged
them with all the crimes beneath the
sum.
When they had ended, from his placa apart, Ross the Preceptor, to redross the wrong, And, trembling like a steed before the start,
Looked round bewildered on the expectant
throng;
Then thought of fair Ahniru, and took heart
To speak out what was in him, clear and
strong,
Aliks regardless of their maile or frown, And quite determined not to be langhed down.
"Plato, anticipating the Reviewers,
From his Republic banished without pity The Poets; in this little town of yours,
You pat to desih, by means of a Committee, The ballad-singers and the Troubadours,
The street-musicians of the heavenly city, The birds; who make awont music for us all In our dark hours, as David did for Baul
"The thrush that carols at the dawn of day
From the green steeples of the piny wood; The orible in the el; the noisy jay,
Jargoning like a foreigner at his food
The bine-hird balanced on some topmost spray,'
with melody the neighborhood;
Flooding
That
and meadowlark, and all the throng
ile
dwell in nesis, and have the gift of song.
bat
Of cant handful more or less of wheat,
De rys, or barley, or some other grain,
Scratched up at random, by industrious fent,
Searching for worm or wesril after raiz !
Or a few cherries, that are not so awest
As are the songs these uninvited guests
at their feast with comfortable breasts.
these
Whose konsehold words are songs in stany keys, Sweeter than instrutsent et ma e'er eatight
Whose habitatiozs in the tres-tops ered Ars half way houses on the zesd jokesyenl
Think, every morning when the sun perpe
tirungh
The dim, leaf-Inttised windows of the grav How jubilant the happy birds renew ter Their old, melodiona madrigals of love!
And when you think of this, remember lov
Tis always morning sotnewhere, and abura The awakening continents, from shore to shote, Somewhere the birds are singing evezincte.
Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beste.
As fa un idiot's brain remembered worde
Bang myty mld the cobwebs of his dream Will hisat of locks or bellowing of harde
Maks
op for the lost manis, when your tesis ng kome the silogy harvest, and no more She feathered gleaners follow to your door?
And drowned themselves despairing in the
brook,
Lamenting the dead children of the air! While the wild wind went moaning everywhero,
But the next spring a aizauger sight was seen,
A sight that never get by bard was mng,
As great a wonder as it would havo beon
If some dumb animal had found a tongue! A waggon overarched with
evergreen, Upon whose boughs were wicker cages hung, All full of singing birda, came down the street, Filling the air with musle wild and sweet,
From all the country and these birds were
brought,
By order of the town, with anxious quest, And, loosened from their wicker prisons, sought In woods and fields the places they loves best, Singing load canticles, which many thought Wore satires to the authorities addressed, While others, batening in green lazes, svared Bach lovely music never had been heard!
But blither still and louder carolled they
Upon the morrow, for they seemed to know It was the fair Almira's wedding-day,
And everywhere, around, above, below, When the Preceptor bore his bride.
away Their songs burst forth in joyous averflow, And a new heaven bent over a new earth Amid the sunny farms of Killingworth.
L
A TALE OF THE CARLIST WAR,
in
me.
a
Written expresely for the Queenslander
by a Distinguished Visitor, whose title clog tied to its log I discovered that I trade-in England we should call both the with long files of assistants, are a sight not African possession is well spolton of, and so
is suppressed at present for business Towards the close of the late Carlist war,
KEYBALBOTES, AND
the Carlist troops had pushed forward à
servation used to watch the movements of
RYDsations.
Mr. Whiteley's establishment, in the
respect my customers and my customers tional disadvantage of being impervious to respect me." "It was with feeling of air, and therefore even more unhealthy and almost personal regard" for him and his | prejudicial to the health of men sleeping. enterprise that 7 bide edlen to the Uni- beneath them then aren, the cond mes versal Provider" and the rest and intricate | denvas fonts d'abri,
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