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intestines the common i.firmity of the sedentary, the belief that it is gratifying the taste of the muland of those who have been accustomed to oatmeal titude. The true impressiveness of the guilty diet in their youth." man's terror consists in his seeing what the on

Of unfermented bread we know nothing besides lookers see not. "The table is full," but to him what is stated in its favor in this pamphlet, except-only-not to the wondering guests, or to his own ing that an intelligent friend assures us of his hav-iron-nerved wife. Yet at this moment, in the ing experienced much benefit to his health from the usual performance of the piece, some big stout use of it for the last twelvemonth. It is certainly, man, dressed in tartans, with his throat painted to however, very desirable, for another reason, that represent its being cut, stalks in and seats himself unfermented should be, as far as possible, substi- right in front of the audience, who should see the tuted for fermented bread. At present, owing to ghost of Banquo only reflected in the horror that the process of fermenting this aliment, the life of distorts the countenance of Macbeth. the operative baker is one of the most slavish known To return to our immediate subject. Sir Walter in our country. It is distressing to think of the Scott having discovered, in the criminal records of misery and hardship incurred by a portion of our Scotland, a trial for murder, in which some inforfellow-creatures in producing the bread laid upon mation received from the ghost of the murdered our tables every day. We used to associate sugar man was a part of the evidence, thought the record with the blood and tears of the negroes: we might, of sufficient interest to be printed for the Bannawith equal justice, connect hot rolls and snowy tyne Club, with the title, "Trial of Duncan Terig loaves with the sleepless, harassed lives of a por- alias Clerk, and Alexander Bayne Macdonald, for tion of our own population. Could we agree to the murder of Arthur Davies, Sergeant in General use unfermented bread, the slavish life of the baker Guise's regiment of foot, June, 1754." The serwould be at an end, for bread could then be made geant was commander of a small party, employed in two hours, where eight are now necessary. in the obnoxious duty of enforcing the act against It is hardly necessary to point out that unfer- the Highlanders carrying arms and wearing their mented bread, being produced at less expense of native costume. He was stationed at Braemar, labor, would in that measure be cheaper to the pub- where the quantity of game on the surrounding lic. A reduction of price would arise from another hills tempted him to make solitary sporting excurcause. By the use of the chemicals, there would sions. The spot where he met his death was on be a saving of ten per cent. in the flour. "In the the hill of Christie, one of the range of mountains common process," says the pamphlet, " much of which extend from the Dee in Aberdeenshire the saccharine part of the flour is lost by being con- towards the Spital of Glenshee, in the Braes of verted into carbonic acid and spirit; and this waste Angus. It is at this day a savage and solitary disis incurred solely for the purpose of getting car-trict, where human habitations or cultivated lands bonic acid to raise the dough. By the new are hardly to be met with, and a body might lie in method, the waste is avoided, and the gas ob- the deep heather till the flesh fell from the bones tained in a manner equally beautiful and effica-ere the usual course of chance might bring a visitor cious-another striking instance of the successful application of chemical philosophy to the arts of life."

From Chambers' Journal.

SPECTRE WITNESSES.

MUCH as the disembodied spirits of the dead have associated themselves with men's actions, it is a rarity to find the intercourse between the world of life and that of spirits forming an item in official and practical business, and holding a place in the record of its transactions. The conflict of intellects in the practical business of life is a great exorciser of evil spirits; and while the strong-minded, the educated, and the learned, in the solitude of cloisters, in old graveyards, in caverns, or on "blasted heaths," have every now and then professed to be visited by apparitions, twelve of the most superstitious men in the world, empannelled as a jury, would hardly be found to attest a ghost story by a verdict returned in open court. Defoe, it is true, presents to us the history of a murderer who, in giving false evidence against an innocent man, is confronted by the ghost of the victim, with which he carries on a dialogue in open court, ultimately fatal to his conspiracy. But the ingenious writer leaves it undetermined whether the spectre was supposed to be present, or the diseased imagination of the perjured murderer, working upon his organs of sight, had called up the impression, and made the suggestions of his evil conscience, like those of Macbeth, appear to be embodied before his eyes. And here, by the way, let us just note how preposterously the stage, in representing this awful instance of the force of conscience, outwits itself in

to the spot. We may have some idea of the sergeant's character from the testimony of his widow. He seems to have been a fearless, frank, goodnatured man, fond of field-sports, and well to do in the world. The wealth he carried about his person would not now be often found with one of his standing; but from Fielding's novels, and other sources, it is pretty clear that a sergeant in the army occupied a much higher social position in that age than in the present.

The most important portion of the widow's tes timony was thus given :-" Her husband was a keen sportsman, and used to go out a shooting or fishing generally every day. When he went along with the party on patrol, he sent the men home, and followed his sport. On other occasions, he went out a shooting by himself alone. He was a sober man, a good manager, and had saved money to the value of about fifteen guineas and a half, which he had in gold, and kept in a green silk purse, which he enclosed within a leathern purse, along with any silver he had. Besides this gold, he generally wore a silver watch in his pocket, and two gold rings upon one of his fingers, one of which was of pale yellow gold, and had a little lump of gold raised upon it, in the form of a seal. The other was a plain gold ring, which the depo nent had got from David Holland, her first hus band, with the letter D. H. on the inside, and had this posy on it-"When this you see, remember me.' Sergeant Davies commonly wore a pair of large silver buckles in his shoes, marked also with the letters D. H. in the inside, which likewise had belonged to her said former husband; as also he wore silver knee-buckles, and had two dozen silver buttons upon a double-breasted vest, made of striped

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she had lived together in as great amity and love as any couple could do that ever were married, and he never was in use to stay away a night from her; and it was not possible he could be under any temptation to desert, as he was much esteemed and beloved by all his officers, and had good reason to believe he would have been promoted to the rank of sergeant-major upon the first vacancy." The body had lain for nearly a year before it was discovered. Of the state in which it was found, and the alleged appearance of the sergeant's ghost to the witness, Alexander Macpherson alias Macgillas, the following is an account in that person's own words, as his evidence was taken down in court :

lutestring. He frequently had about him a folding penknife, that had a brown tortoise shell handle, and a plate upon the end of it, on which was cut a naked boy, or some such device, with which he often sealed his letters. One day, when he was dressing some hooks, while the deponent was by, she observed he was cutting his hat with his penknife, and she went towards him and asked what he meant by cutting his hat? To which he answered that he was cutting his name upon it. To which the deponent replied, she could not see what he could mean by putting his name upon a thing of no value, and pulled it out of his hand in a jocular way; but he followed her, and took the hat from her, and she observed that the A. was then cut out in the hat; and after he got it, she saw him cut. "In the summer of 1750, he found, lying in a out the letter D., which he did in a hurry, and moss-bank in the hill of Christie, a human body; which the deponent believed was occasioned by the at least the bones of a human body, of which the toying that was between them concerning this flesh was mostly consumed, and he believed it to matter; for when she observed it, she said to him, be the body of Sergeant Davies, because it was reyou have made a pretty sort of work of it by hav- ported in the country that he had been murdered in ing misplaced the letters. To which he answered that hill the year before. When he first found that it was her fault, having caused him to do it in this body there was a bit of blue cloth upon it, a hurry. The hat now upon the table, and which pretty entire, which he took to be what is called is lying in the clerk's hands, and referred to in the English cloth; he also found the hair of the deindictment, to the best of her judgment and belief ceased, which was of a dark mouse color, and tied is the hat above-mentioned. She never has seen about with a black ribbon; he also observed some neither the said sergeant, the green silk purse or pieces of a striped stuff; and found also lying there leathern purse before-mentioned, nor the buckles a pair of brogues, which had been made with latchfor his shoes or knees, watch, or penknife, since es for buckles, which had been cut away by a he marched from his quarters with the party at the knife. By the help of his staff, he brought out the time at which he is supposed to have been mur- body, and laid it upon plain ground; in doing dered. On Thursday, being the day immediately whereof, some of the bones were separated one preceding Michaelmas, being the 28th of Septem- from another. For some days he was in a doubt ber, 1749, her husband went out very early in the what to do; but meeting with John Growar in the morning from Dubrach, and four men of the party moss, he told John what he had found, and John under his command soon after followed him, in bade him tell nothing of it, otherwise he would order to meet the patrol from Glenshee; and in the complain of the deponent to John Shaw of Dalafternoon, before four o'clock, the four men re-downie; upon which the deponent resolved to preturned to Dubrach, and acquainted the deponent vent Growar's complaint, and go and tell Daldownie that they had seen and heard him fire a shot, as of it himself; and which having accordingly done, they believed, at Tarmatans, but that he did not join company with them. At the place appointed they met with a corporal and a party from Glenshee, and then retired home. Her husband never returned. She has never met with anybody who saw him after the party returned from the foresaid place, excepting the corporal who that day commanded the party from Glenshee, who told her that, after the forementioned party from Dubrach had gone away from the foresaid appointed place, Sergeant Davies came up to him all alone, upon which the corporal told him he thought it was very unreasonable in him to venture upon the hill by himself, as for his part he was not without fear, even when he had his party of four men along with him; to which Sergeant Davies answered, that when he had his arms and ammunition about him, he did not fear anybody he could meet. Her husband made no secret of his having the gold before-mentioned; and upon the many different occasions he had to pay and receive money, he used to take out his purse and show the gold; and even when he was playing with children, he would frequently take out his purse and rattle it for their diversion, from which it was generally known in the neighborhood that the sergeant was worth money, and carried it about him. From the second day after the sergeant and party went from Dubrach as aforesaid, when the deponent found he did not return, she did believe, and does believe at this day, that he was murdered; for that he and

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Daldownie desired him to conceal the matter, and go and bury the body privately, as it would not be carried to a kirk unkent, and that the same might hurt the country, being under suspicion of being a rebel country. Some few days thereafter he acquainted Donald Farquharson of his having seen the body of a dead man in the hill, which he took to be the body of Sergeant Davies. Farquharson at first doubted the truth of his information, till the deponent told him that, a few nights before, when he was in bed, vision appeared to him as of a man clad in blue, who told the deponent, I am Sergeant Davies;' but before he told him so, deponent had taken the said vision, at first appearance, to be a real living man, a brother of Donald Farquharson's. The deponent rose from his bed, and followed him to the door, and then it was, as has been told, that he said he was Sergeant Davies, who had been murdered in the hill of Christie near a year before, and desired the deponent to go to the place he had pointed at, where he would find his bones, and that he might go to Donald Farquharson and take his assistance to the burying of of him. Upon giving Donald Farquharson this information, Donald went along with him, and found the bones as he had informed Donald, and then buried them with the help of a spade, which he (the deponent) had alongst with him: and for putting what is above deponed on out of doubt, depones that the above vision was the occasion of his going by himself to see the dead body, and which he did before

he either spoke to John Dowar, Laldownie, or any other body. While he was in bed another night, after he had first seen the body by himself, but had not buried it, the vision again appeared, naked, and minded him to bury the body; and after that he spoke to the other folks above-mentioned, and at last complied, and buried the bones above-mentioned. Upon the vision's first appearance to the deponent in his bed, and after going out of the door, and being told by it he was Sergeant Davies, the deponent asked him who it was that had murdered him, to which it made this answer, that if the deponent had not asked, he might have told him, but as he had asked him, he said he either could not, or would not; but which of the two expressions the deponent cannot say. But at the second time the vision made its appearance to him, the deponent renewed the same question; and then the vision answered that it was the two men now in the panel [at the bar] that had murdered him. And being further interrogated in what manner the vision disappeared from him first and last, depones that, after the short interviews above-mentioned, the vision at both times disappeared and vanished out of his sight in the twinkling of an eye; and that, in describing the panels by the vision beforementioned as his murderers, his words were, Duncan Clerk and Alexander Macdonald :' depones that the conversation betwixt the deponent and the vision was in the Irish language."

The idea of an English sergeant, even in the exalted form of a spirit, being able to speak Gaelic, startled the judge and jury, although, as Sir Walter Scott remarks, there is no greater stretch of imagination in supposing a ghost to speak a language which the living person did not understand, than in supposing it to speak at all. The other evidence against the prisoners was very strong; but this consideration as to Macpherson's deposition seems to have thrown a discredit over the whole case, and a verdict of acquittal was the consequence. A German would now suggest that phenomena of this kind are not wholly objective or external to the beholder, but partly subjective, and taking a character from himself, so that the English sergeant might really appear to the seer to speak as good Gaelic as ever was heard in Lochaber." But such considerations were not likely to occur to a Scotch criminal court in the middle of the eighteenth century.

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A book, privately printed under the title of "Notices relative to the Bannatyne Club," as appropriate to Sir Walter Scott's volume, gives an account of a case in Queen Anne's county, Maryland, where the appearance of a spectre was attested in an action as to a will.

of the fence, looked over the fence into the field where Thomas Harris was buried, towards the graveyard, and neighed very loud. Witness then saw Thomas Harris coming towards him in the same apparel as he had last seen him in his lifetime; he had on a sky-blue coat. Just before he came to the fence, he varied to the right, and vanished. His horse took the road."

We give some other instances of delusions or impostures having some resemblance to our Highland ghost story, in Sir Walter Scott's words :

"In the French Causes Celèbres et Intéressantes, is one in which a countryman prosecutes a tradesman, named Anguier, for about twenty thousand francs, said to have been lent to the tradesman. It was pretended that the loan was to account of the proceeds of a treasure which Mirabel the peasant had discovered by means of a ghost or spirit, and had transferred to the said Anguier, that he might convert it into cash for him. The defendant urged the impossibility of the original discovery of the treasure by the spirit to the prosecutor; but the defence was repelled by the influence of the principal judge; and on a charge so ridiculous, Anguier narrowly escaped the torture. At length, though with hesitation, the prosecutor was nonsuited, upon the ground that if his own story was true, the treasure, by the ancient laws of France, belonged to the crown. So that the ghost-seer, though he had nearly occasioned the defendant to be put to the torture, profited in the end nothing by his motion.

"This is something like a decision of the great Frederick of Prussia. One of his soldiers, a Catholic, pretended peculiar sanctity, and an especial devotion to a particular image of the Virgin Mary, which, richly decorated with ornaments by the zeal of her worshippers, was placed in a chapel in one of the churches of the city where her votary was quartered. The soldier acquired such familiarity with the object of his devotion, and was so much confided in by the priests, that he watched for, and found, an opportunity of possessing himself of a valuable diamond necklace belonging to the Madonna. Although the defendant was taken in the manner, he had the impudence, knowing the case was to be heard by the king, to say that the Madonna herself had voluntarily presented him with her necklace, observing that, as her good and faithful votary, he had better apply it to his necessities than that it should remain useless in her custody.

"The king, happy of the opportunity of tormenting the priests, demanded of them whether there was a possibility that the soldier's defence might be true. Their faith obliged them to grant that the story was possible, while they exhausted "William Briggs said that Thomas Harris died themselves on the improbabilities that attended it. in September, 1790. In the March following heNevertheless,' said the king, since it is possible, was riding near the place where Thomas Harris was buried, on a horse formerly belonging to Thomas Harris. After crossing a small brook, his horse began to walk on very fast; it was between the hours of eight and nine o'clock in the morning; he was alone; it was a clear day; he entered a lane adjoining to the field where Thomas Harris was buried; his horse suddenly wheeled in a panel

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we must, in absence of proof, receive it as true in the first instance. All I can do to check an imprudent generosity of the saints in future, is to publish an edict, or public order, that all soldiers in my service who shall accept any gift from the Virgin, or any saint whatever, shall, eo ipso, incur the penalty of death.''

From Punch.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MISS ROBIN-

SON CRUSOE.

CHAPTER VI.

SINCE that beautiful looking-glass was gone forever-for never having learned to dive, it was impossible that I could hope to recover it-I still had hope. I remembered the number of lady passengers we had brought out, and felt comforted. There must be, I thought, twenty more lookingglasses in the wreck; though not such a love as the mirror I had lost.

marriage.) I was not troubled with the shoes; for, by some strange fatality, even in England I never could get a shoe small enough for me; and the lady whose shoes I was doomed to wear had a foot like-but no; never while I live will I speak Let me correct myself. One lock always could, ill of the dead. I said my hair would not curl. particularly well. might-always would show itself just under my bonnet. And so it happened now. And this lock-do what I

I also found a very handsome shot-silk parasol, fresh from the shop, wrapt in its virgin paper. Now, I never thought too much of my beauty-no plexion, people had called me, from a child, Little woman can. But, from the loveliness of my comDresden China. Therefore, my emotions on discovering the parasol, the sun being at the timeperhaps two hundred in the shade, may, in the words of a great public writer," be more easily conceived than described."

not stop to name, for they will find names in the Among the many little elegances—which I will bosom of every lady-discovered in the box, I Having pushed my raft as far near the land as I felt that even among tigers-if there were tigers found some court plaister. This was a blessing. possible, I fastened it with a string to a large stone, I should not be deprived of my daily beauty-spot. believing that, as the tide went down, the raft would be left upon the shore. I had not calculated falsely. So it happened. My next work, however, was to look about me. what corner of the earth? It could not be Peru, Where was I? In for I saw not a morsel of gold upon the beach; it was not one of the Spice Islands, for not a single nutmeg was to be seen upon any of the trees. Was it the Canaries?-flights of birds flew past me; but they flew so high, it was impossible for me to discern if there were any canaries among them. And here I must confess it-I felt some anger towards stances would permit, I felt that I might venture Being as well dressed as my dreadful circumthe respected principals of my Blackheath boarding-out. As, however, the country might be inhabited school. I have said that I was nominally taught (my heart beat thicker at the thought)—I felt it the use of the globes; my learning was down in necessary to be prepared for the worst. For what the bill, and paid for every quarter. I had been I knew, it might be an island not far from Constantaught to talk about California and Behring's tinople, and-the pure blood of a free-born English Straits, and the Euxine, and Patagonia, as if they maiden burned in my veins-I would prefer death were all so many old acquaintance; and yet I to the captivity of the Harem, or (according to the knew not if at that moment I might not be upon last editions) Hareem. some of them. And then I sighed, and felt that it membered that I had been suckled at the same is n't for a young lady to know anything of the breast with the British lion, and knew the proper At the thought, I reworld, because she sits with the globe in her hand moment when-to die! two hours a day. And I felt too that if I ever should have a daughter-and how my eyes did sadly wander about that uninhabited tract-I should not conclude that she knew anything of geography, because I had paid for it.

for them alone-cannot therefore but applaud my My sister readers-and these pages are written resolution when I inform them that I took with me (placing them like sleeping vipers in my bosom) carried my parasol) one of the captain's pistols. If my pair of scissors, and in my right hand (my left the country was not inhabited by Hottentots or Hindoos-I always had a horror of a black skin, whereas there is something romantic in the true olive-there might be lions and tigers, leopards and crocodiles.

However, I was resolved to look about me, and explore the country. Whereupon, I waded into the water, and removed one of the light trunks, and one of the bonnet-boxes. Of course, I could not go out without first dressing myself. My mortification was very great, though very foolish-for what could I have expected?-to find the box locked. Fortunately, it was a hasp lock; I there- turning round, though now and then-how deceitI therefore began my morning walk, never once fore sat down upon the beach, and with a large ful is fancy!-1 thought I heard footsteps following stone hammered away until I had broken it. With me. They might be men: but even then the lessome natural anxiety, I lifted the lid. The first sons of my dear mother were not forgotten-I never thing that burst upon my view was a very pretty looked behind me: I tripped a little quicker, unmuslin-worked with a green sprig-a nice morn-consciously lowering my parasol. I began to asing thing. I remembered the lady to whom the cend a hill, I should say quite as high as Highgate. box belonged, and felt that the gown could Arrived at the top, I turned round and round, and not fit me-it must be at least half-a-quarter wherever I turned saw nothing but the sea heaving too wide in the waist. But I felt half-comfort- about me. ed, and much distressed with the thought that learned something of geography. I knew I was Then I felt that I had, after all, nobody would see me. toilette; and, considering my many difficulties, felt I therefore began my upon an island. for though I had no glass, we feel when we look well-I felt myself interesting. I contrived to pin in the gown, hiding it where most wanted with a primrose-colored China crape shawl. Dressing my hair in bands-for, though from childhood it always curled naturally, it could not be expected to curl so soon after so much salt water-I put on a beautiful chip bonnet, (I am certain the unfortunate soul had brought it out with her ready trimmed for a hasty

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double opera-glass in the box I had opened. Why
Was it inhabited? There was
had I not brought it with me? If inhabited, I
a beautiful
might have beheld the smoke of chimneys; the
dancing, perhaps what indecorous, what different
dancing to the aerial movements of her majesty's
theatre of the benighted savages. No: it was
plain I was alone. Alone! My eye rested upon
my sprigged muslin-my feelings flew back to my
white chip-and I wept.

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I descended the hill; and at the bottom, that Having, with the aid of my tweezers, picked my was skirted with some thick bushes, I heard a noise. turkey, I had a confused suspicion that the bird In a moment, and with a courage that at any other should be drawn, and stuffed, and served with time I should have thought it impossible for me to gravy. I turned it over and over, looked at it possess, I turned my head aside, and presenting my again and again; and felt humbled by my ignopistol, fired. Something, with a heavy bump, fell rance. Then I thought of cooking it as it was, a few yards from me. Before I ventured to look, just helping myself to little bits of the breast. I asked myself—“ Is it a tiger ?—is it an eagle ?" Again I thought, fortune will not send a turkey I turned round, and saw it was neither one nor the every day; therefore no part of it should be other. It was a bird of an enormous size, with wasted. In my perplexity, I at length resolved to large fleshy knobs about his head and neck. Had hang it to a tree until the next day, that I might I seen such a bird before? I had been to Mr. reconsider the difficulty. I did so; but I could Wombwell's; he had nothing like it. And then I not silence the self-reproach that said: "Here recollected that I had seen something like the bird you are, Miss Robinson, a finished young lady. in London, at Christmas. In a word, after much You can play the Battle of Prague-can read very deep thought and patient examination, I discovered easy French-can work chain-stitch-can paint the bird to be a turkey—a wild turkey. At least, tulips on velvet-can dance any country-dance as I thought, here is a dinner. But how to get it though you came into the world with the figure home? "Home!" so sweet is the word, it fol- in your head but you cannot cook a turkey." lows us everywhere. My "home" was where Oh, my dear sisters, may you never feel the pang my boxes were. "How to get it home!" of that reproach !

"If anybody," I thought, forgetting my desola- Assuaging my hunger with some biscuit and the tion," was to see me carrying a turkey, could I captain's potted anchovies, I set to work to barriever look the world in the face again?" Instinct-cade myself against savages or wild beasts. With ively I looked round and round that nobody might behold me, and at length lifted up the turkey by the neck. I do not profess to be a correct judge of weights and measures-I never could learn 'em at school, but I am very much mistaken if the turkey did not weigh at least seventy pounds. It was most oppressive to carry; but I thought how nice it would be when cooked.

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infinite labor I piled trunk upon trunk and bandbox upon bandbox in a complete circle. Never being accustomed to sleep in the dark, you may imagine how I missed my rushlight. A woman always feels protection in a candle; and the lion itself, as I had heard, was to be awed by a lighted long-six. However, worn out by fatigue, I soon sank to sleep; and awoke about the time-so far as I Cooked! Who was to cook it? I, who never could judge from the sun-that hot rolls are served even made a custard-because I thought it low-in the morning. I made a hearty breakfast of how was I to cook such a tremendous animal as a shell-fish and biscuit-but somehow, I felt a turkey! However, I walked on-wearily enough strange vacuity, an aching void," as Doctor -until I came back to my boxes. The tide had Dodd somewhere says, that I could not account left my raft upon dry land; I would therefore, I for. I wanted something; an essential something. thought, prepare my dinner. I knew that the tur- It was the Morning Post. It was always such key must be picked. But how? There was a blessed food-such support and gladness for the dressing-case in one of the boxes. I had secured day-to read the "Court Circular;" to be susthat. I therefore searched for it; and taking from tained by a knowledge of the royal ridings and it a pair of tweezers, sat me down upon the beach, walkings; and though I knew I should never be and began to pick my turkey. invited to such junketings, still it imparted a mysterious pleasure to know that "The Marchioness of Mayfair had a party, at which all the élite," &c. WHILST picking the turkey-which, in my It was, somehow to see the jewels reflected in the heart, I wished a golden pheasant, not so much type-somehow to catch the odor of high society for its flesh as for its feathers for a tippet-my even from the printers' ink. And this, the balm thoughts continued fixed upon my home. I then of life, was denied me. I was so haunted by the felt the bitter fruits of my obstinacy. I had neg- thought that, with playful bitterness, I sometimes lected all the truly useful arts of life for its vain wrote with a stick "Morning Post" upon the accomplishments. I could work a peacock in sand; and then wanly smiled and moralized, as worsted; but, I felt it, I could not draw a turkey. Again and again had my dear mother tried to impress upon my giddy brain Mrs. Glasse's golden rules to choose poultry, game, &c. ;" and as often I had turned a careless ear from the dear soul, saying, that all such learning would, of course, be known to my housekeeper; that I I made continual trips to the wreck, and every would never marry a man who would expect me time returned with new treasures of food and goods to know the age of poultry; and other imperti- and raiment. What a wardrobe I had-if anynence of the like kind. I ought to have known body could but have seen it! Sometimes, when that "a turkeycock, if young, has a smooth black aboard the ship, I felt a concern for my stores on leg, with a short spur.' But when I should have land, lest they should be ravaged by men or beasts. laid this wisdom to my heart, it was beating for but on my return from the ship I found all as I had spurs not to be found upon turkeys. Then for left it. Once only I saw two little creatures run telling the age of geese-I despised such homely from among the boxes. They were, I thought, knowledge. Enough for me, if I could tell the either ermine or rabbits. If real ermine the age of certain beautiful officers, with white notion would rise-what a muff and tippet I might feathers not to be thought of with poultry. How promise myself!

I bewailed the time I had given to the parks, bestowing no thought upon the kitchen!

the rising tide would wash that morning print away! After a season I devoted the time formerly given to the Post to my parrot; and found in the eloquent intelligence of the bird much more than a recompense for my loss. But let me not anticipate.

Whilst loading my raft, an accident occurred that mightily discomposed me. The wedding

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