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"No," said he, "but I have called, and my wife has answered that she cannot come out yet; but in half an hour she hopes to come, and I am waiting for her. Poor woman!" says he, "she is brought sadly down; she has had a swelling, and it is broke, and I hope she will recover, but I fear the child will die; but it is the Lord!" Here he stopped, and wept very much.

At length, after some further talk, the poor woman opened the door, and called "Robert, Robert;" he answered, and bid her stay a few moments and he would come; so he ran down the common stairs to his boat, and fetched up a sack, in which were the provisions he had brought from the ships; and when he returned, he hallooed again; then he went to the great stone which he showed me, and emptied the sack, and laid all out, everything by themselves, and then retired; and his wife came with a little boy to fetch them away; and he called, and said, such a captain had sent such a thing, and such a captain such a thing; and at the end adds: "God has sent it all; give thanks to him." When the poor woman had taken up all, she was so weak, she could not carry it at once in, though the weight was not much neither; so she left the biscuit, which was in a little bag, and left a little boy to watch it.

"Well, but," says I to him, "did you leave her the four shillings too, which you said was your week's pay?"

"Yes, yes," says he; "you shall hear her own it." So he calls again: "Rachel, Rachel❞—which it seems was her name-" did you take up the money?" "Yes," said she. "How much was it?" said he. "Four shillings and a groat," said she. "Well, well," says he, "the Lord keep you all;" and so he turned to go away.

is I could not refrain from contributing tears to this man's story, so neither could I refrain my charity for his assistance; so I called him. "Hark thee, friend," said I, "come hither, for I believe thou art in health, that I may venture thee;" so I pulled out my hand, which was in my pocket before, "Here," says I, "go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a little more comfort from me; God will never forsake a family that trust in him as thou dost:" so I gave him four other shillings, and bid him go lay them on the stone, and call his wife.

I have not words to express the poor man's thankfulness, neither could he express it himself, but by tears running down his face. He called his wife and told her God had moved the heart of a stranger, upon hearing their condition, to give them all that money; and a great deal more such as that he said to her. The woman, too, made signs of the like thankfulness, as well to Heaven as to me, and joyfully picked it up; and I parted with no money all that year that I thought better bestowed.

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[MR. HENRY S. LEIGH is a well-known contributor of sparkling vers de société to the magazines.]

I LOOKED for lodgings long ago,

Away from London's fogs and fusses; Some rustic Paradise, you know,

Within a walk of trains or busses.
I made my choice, and settled down
In quite a lovely situation,
About a dozen miles from town,
And very near a railway station.

Within this pastoral retreat

No creditor, no care intruded; My happiness was quite complete,

(The "comforts of a home" included.) I found the landlord most polite; His wife-if possible-politer.

Their two accomplished daughters quite Electrified the present writer.

A nicer girl than Fanny Lisle

To sing a die-away duet withSay something in the Verdi styleUpon my life, I never met with. And yet I wavered in my choice,

For I believe I'm right in saying That nothing equalled Fanny's voice, Unless it was Maria's playing.

30-VOL. I.

If music be the food of love,

That was the house for Cupid's diet; For those two gushing girls, by Jove! Were never for one instant quiet.

I own that Fanny's voice was sweet;
I own Maria's touch was pearly;
But music's not at all a treat

For those that get it late and early.

The charms that soothe a savage breast
Have got a vice versa fashion

Of putting folks who have the best
Of tempers in an awful passion.
And when it reached a certain stage,
I must confess I couldn't stand it;

I positively scowled with rage,
And frowned like any Surrey bandit.

I paid my rent on quarter-day;
Packed up my traps in quite a hurry,
And quick as lightning fled away

To other lodgings down in Surrey. I'm warned at last, and not in vain; For one resolve that I have made is Never to trust myself again

With any musical young ladies!

By kind permission of the Author.

ADVENTURES OF GULLIVER IN BROBDINGNAG.

Was

[JONATHAN SWIFT, Dean of St. Patrick's. Born in Dublin, 1667. Educated at Trinity College. Took orlors, 1692. chaplain to Sir W. Temple. Towards the end of a chequered and miserable life his reason gave way. He died 19th Oct., 1745.] SHOULD have lived happy enough one of the chief gardeners, having got by accident in that country, if my littleness into the garden, happened to range near the place had not exposed me to several ridi- where I lay; the dog, following the scent, came culous and troublesome accidents, directly up, and taking me in his mouth ran some of which I shall venture to straight to his master, wagging his tail, and set relate. Glumdalclitch often carried me gently on the ground. By good fortune he had me into the gardens of the court in been so well taught, that I was carried between my smaller box, and would some- his teeth without the least hurt, or even tearing times take me out of it, and hold me my clothes. But the poor gardener, who knew me in her hand, or set me down to walk. well, and had a great kindness for me, was in a I remember, before the dwarf left the terrible fright; he gently took me up in both his queen, he followed us one day into hands, and asked me how I did; but I was so those gardens, and my nurse having set me down, amazed and out of breath, that I could not speak he and I being close together near some dwarf apple a word. In a few minutes I came to myself, and trees, I must need show my wit by a silly allusion he carried me safe to my little nurse, who by this between him and the trees, which happens to hold time had returned to the place where she left me, in their language as it doth in ours. Whereupon and was in cruel agonies when I did not appear, the malicious rogue, watching his opportunity nor answer when she called: she severely repri when I was walking under one of them, shook it manded the gardener on account of his dog. But directly over my head, by which a dozen apples, the thing was hushed up, and never known at cach of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, court; for the girl was afraid of the queen's anger, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit and truly, as to myself, I thought it would not be me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked for my reputation that such a story should go me down flat on my face; but I received no other about. hurt, and the dwarf was pardoned at my desire, because I had given the provocation.

Another day Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grass-plat to divert myself, while she walked at some distance with her governess. In the meantime there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately by the force of it struck to the ground; and when I was down, the hail-stones gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis-balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all-fours, and shelter myself by lying flat on my face, on the leeside of a border of lemon thyme, but so bruised from head to foot that I could not go abroad in ten days. Neither is this at all to be wondered at, because Nature in that country observing the same proportion through all her operations, a hail-stone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe, which I can assert upon experience, having been so curious to weigh and measure them.

But a more dangerous accident happened to me in the same garden, when my little nurse, believing she had but me in a secure place, which I often entreated her to do, that I might enjoy my own thoughts, and having left my box at home to avoid the trouble of carrying it, went to another part of the garden with her governess and some ladies of her acquaintance. While she was absent, and out of hearing, a small white spaniel belonging to

This accident absolutely determined Glumdalclitch never to trust me abroad for the future out of her sight. I had been long afraid of this resolution, and therefore concealed from her some little unlucky adventures that happened in those times when I was left by myself. Once a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.

I cannot tell whether I were more pleased or mortified to observe in those solitary walks that the smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid of me, but would hop about me, within a yard's distance, looking for worms and other food with as much indifference and security as if no creature at all were near them. I remember a thrush had the confidence to snatch out of my hand, with his bill, a piece of cake that Glumdalclitch had just given me for my breakfast. When I attempted to catch any of these birds, they would boldly turn against me, endeavouring to peck my fingers, which I durst not venture within their reach; and then they would hop back unconcerned to hunt for worms or snails, as they did before. But one day I took a thick cudgel, and threw it with all my strength so luckily at a linnet, that I knocked him down, and seizing him by the neck with both my hards, ran with him in triumph to my nurse. However, the bird, who had only been stunned, recovering him.

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