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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-01-28, Page 1Jan. 21, iS7O. AFORTH WAREROOMS OBERTSON manufacturer of all kinds of OLD FURNITURE Such as CENTRE TABLES, M A,TTRASgES, EA_KFAST TABLES, I RS, and BEDSTEADS, In Great Vaifty. eat conidence fn offeringihis lc, as they are made a Good r„ and by First -Class Work.. ADE. TO ORDER. e Shorteat Notice.. TURNING .,ess and -Deepatch- arerooms : UTH SHARP'S FIGTEL, Man [Street 2ht, ISI� 514E. SEATTER, kNGE BROKER, 4,nd dealer in Pure :MEDALS- AND DYE STUFFS epartment is under the special ieneed Clemist. J. SEATTER, y. 2Iat, 1S70 59-tf. En E BELL has now on hand the elc in Seaforthof every &scrip - are, from the commonest to the at the lowest prices Quality of yed, and -workmanship guaranteed MWT-.A.TKIMTC31- tments„ attended to in a satisfaet- nner; A Hearse for hire. T. BELL'S LiT SPRING MATTRAS y oubandandfltted to any bed. aticIe is the best and cheapest test to by all who haye used it, satisfaction, r -.the place 1F.P.OSITM ivrtviuuoN'S. L'ys2let, 1870, 87-tf. RY STABLE. S desiries to inform the public opened a New Livery Stable ix his hotel, where parties can be with first elaas hones and ronabIe prices, ry 2Ist, 1870. 97-•tf. \RIO HOUSE tt: WINTER- :.ritocacs.,. • 'pieta, and selling; at greatly ed Prices FLANNELS, [AWLS and ROODS, In great variety. ocertes, nd Crockery. EDWARD CASH. 18-7o. 53-tf. Ty. 2 No. 3 Co, Seaforth, will forth. into Store, their Arms, A order„ r. P. BULL isaPtaibt• • WM. F 111XTON VOL. 31NO. ._ , "Freedom in Trade—Liberty in Religion—Equality. in Civil Rights" SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1870. BUSINESS CARDS'. •• , MEDICAL. . RTRACY, M. D., Coroner for the County of Huron Office and Residence—One door • - . . East of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. - 53-ly • i 1 • .? i -. t c 1 1 t ta II s o t e h C4 Eli a ' , , TT L. VERCOE, M. D. C. M., Physician, Sur - IL -geon, etc:, Egmondville. , Egmondville, 'ea llth, 1868. .53- . , JJTAR. V. R. SMITH, Physician, Surgeon, etc. Office,—Opposite Veal's - Grocery. Resi- dence--Main-street, North. - - Seaforth, Dee: 14, 1863. 53- ly - --f* JCAMPBELL, M. D.. C. M., (Graduate of Mc- ; Gill University, Montreal) Physician, Sur- geon,'ete., Seaforth. Office and Residence—Old Post Office Building, upstairs, where he will be found by night or day -when at home. Seaforth, July 15th, 1869. 84-ly • .. LEGAL.- .. it iI C. CAMERON, Barrister and Attorney -at IVI. Law, Goderich. Out. . December 14th, 1869 53-tf- . JJAys& ELWOOD, Barristers and Attorneys at Law, Soliciiors in Chancery, Notaries Public Conveyancers, etc. Office. -Over Mr. ArChibalel.'s Store, Crabb'a Block, Goderich, 'Ont. Money to Lend. W. TORRANCE HAYS, J. Y. ELWOOD. Seaforth, Dec, 14th, 1868 • 53-1y. , BUSH NEIGHBORS. Captain Daventry was a military settler in Australia, in the old convict times. When Mrs. Daventry, and her son Walter, and her maid Phcebe, went out from England to join the cap- tain on his grant, both mistress and maid thought they were never to know what comfort Was again that they were going, so to speak, to the world's back -yard, in which all kinds of dirty rubbish were shot Walter would have preferred India or Canada; people teased •him .so when they heard that he was goingto "BotanyBay"--asking him when he was sentenced to transportation— how many years he had got--an'd a good many more such silly questions, which thought a great deal wittier than Walter did. Still, any change was acceptable that would take hini away from the dulFlittle Norfolk town that never seemed thoroughly awake, and its dark, long lowpitched asainar-school, in which two masters, in cap ad gown, nodded over their far -apart deska, d pretended to teach Walter and another small boy, and triecl to fancy that they were preparing lanky hobbydehoy for the University. Mas- ers, and hobbydehoy, and small boy, all half- nvied Walter in a drowsy kind. of way when one orning he burst into that gloomy old school oom to say good-bye. An hour afterwards he as rattling out of the dreamy little town .along he Ipswich road, en route for London. The oachman Was making his leaders and the off heel canter, the guard was tootletooing on his torn; the townspeople. stood at their doors and he inn gates, sleepily watching the coach that Lad come from great Norwich and was going to till greater London, and sleepily waving their ands to proud Walter, who had. begged for an utside place instead of being shut up in the uffy inside with mamma and Phcebe, and an Id gentleman who wore a bandana uncler his fur evening cap, and got out for refreshments at Try inn at which the coach stopped to change • orses, nuinching ham -sandwiches and drinking ld brandy and water almost without interins- on when the coach was in motion. Walter had much 'pleasanter companion in the coachman,. Dehind whom he sat, and who told him stories about the gentlemen's Seats they passed, and ga him the biographies of all the horses, and ev let him hold the reins sometime; when Mr. Je got down' at a roadside house to deliver a parc or drink a glass of ale. Walter enjoyed the fir part of the -journey exceedingly, but he was ve tired and Eileeply before it was over. As the cbach swung through Mile turnpik the coachnsen woke Inna up with a back thru of the butt -end of his whip; and said, "Now, theul squire, you can reckon yourse in London." Walter just opened his , eyes, an then, shut them again—not thinking much' of th grearcity, if tint was London. By the tun the coach got te:Ilui inn; lie was so sound aslee a that a 'arOatif had -to cry him -up to be The ' ride froni NOrfolk to London however, w flying on eagles' wings compared 'with the voyag .from London to Sydney.- thosedays the mag nificent steamers and sailing clippers that no , arrive ahnost daily at or from Australia had no been dreamt of. At long intervals clumsy ol tubs of ships and barques sail, ed for the far -o southern land, pottered about for months as sea and at last turned up at the Antipodes, seeming ly more through good luck than good manage ment. The barque in which our party saile was named the Atalanta_ Walter had often reac throagh the proper names it the end of his Lath Dictionary, and was greatly amused by the bar que's flying name when he found how she crawl ed. She had to put in at Plymouth, Bona Vista and the Cape. She was just half a year in get ting.from the .Nore to Packson Heads. • ,Once nisi& the Heads, however even Mrs. Daventry and. Phcebe picked up a little spirit, and Walter Was in ecsta,eies. Both sky and wat- er were so brightly blue, the islands sprinkled on the water looked BO pretty, and though the trees seemed Ahnoat. blhck as link to English eyes, the rocks; wooded -shores, Sweeping down to the little coves and bays, beached with white sand that shone like silver under the glowing sun, had a fairy -land like look. Sydney then had not the fine buildings it boasts of now, but the town•was so much more civilized than Mrs. Daventry and Phcebe expected, and the little . Country houses at even then had begun to dot the south side the harbor were such darling little nests, at both mistress and maid fell in love with dney. Captain Daventry came on board as the alanta let go her anchor in Sydney Cove. He &very brown, and he had a long curly beard. e was dressed more lightly than he would have en at home, but still he was dressed, and like a ntlemans A horrid load was lifted from Mrs. - ventry's mind, since she had half given in to cebe's belief that :Maater would only wear a of 'possum or kangaroo skin about his lions, d that he would carry a spear instead of a lkingstick., AS for Walter he was very ud of the brown, manly -looking Papa whom had not seen since he was almost a 'Oh, Walter," cried Mrs. Dayently to her . . band, when the kissing was neer. ' I hope your farm is close by. I used to ilk that they sent the convicts out here be - se it was a hideously ugly hole, but this is a e of a place.", It's nicer to look at than to live in," the cap - answered. " What with convicts and, einan- st s, you'd soon be sick' of in Sydney. asty s erm of ticket -of -leavers round it, but my Tent is some miles up country. There's ourse,, you'll have nothing to do with them, then! there are some good fellows of our sor. hin reach—some of them married, too. What ti you've ben! I was -down two months looking out for you. It's quite by chance down now. However, there'll be room on dray, for your luggage, if you haven't ght out a ship -load, and we'll start home to ow, if one night will be rest enough for you. been'buying" some horses, and you. and Wal - tan ride tive -of thein; 'and help. me to drive rest. You'll be better off than you were be - you married me, old lady_. YoucAiad only hong then hut I can give you.your pick' out dcizeii twO n'o*. Of course Walter has t to stick on a horse some, though you dn't keep a pony for him. The girl will to learn to ride, too, if she wants to get t up -country. In the meantime she can • go n the dray. The bullock -driver is an assign,- ervant, but he's as true as steel, and that's got.'/thn, I: ea!! say, of the beggars t when the loaded dray was brought to the oor next morning with a *chair on it for be, she had learnt that assigned servaht t convict, and refused at first to take her She wasn't- ring t, have ,her, throet ctit ,• 'DENSON & MEYER, Barristers and Attorney 1111 at La*, Solicitors in Chancery and insolv- ency, Conveyancers, Notaries - Public, etc. Of- fices,—Seaforth and Wroxeter: Agents for the Trust and Loan Co. of Upper 'Canada, and the Coleitial Securities Co ,- of London, England: 'Money at 8 per cent, no conanilasion, charged - JAB. IL BENSON, H. W. C.' MEYER. Seaforth, Dec. 10th 1868! • 53-ly 'GAUGE:EY & HOLMSTEAD, Barristers, Attorneys at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and insolvency, Notaries Public and Conveyanc- ers. Solicitors for the R. C. -Bank Seaforth, Agents for the .Caaiad4':Life `saksintrance; Co. - -if. B.—$30,000 to lend. at 8 per cent. Farms, Houses and Leta for sale, • Seaforth, Dee. 14th, 1868. 53-tf. -1110 F. WALKER. Attorney -at -Law and So- lici-tor-in-Chancery; Conveyancer, Notary • Public, &c. Office jof the Clerk of the Peace, • -Court House, Etodelich, Ont. • NB—Money to lend at 8 per •cent on Farm Lands.' , Goderich, jan'y. 28. 1870. 112 -1y - DENTAL. G. W. HARRIS, L D. S. Arti- ficial Dentures inserted with all the latest imprbvements:'• The greatest care -taken for the preservation of decayed and stender teeth. Teeth extracted without- pain. Rooms over Collier's Store. Seaforth. Dec. 14, 1898. - HOTELS. SHARP'S HOTEL, Livery Stable, and Genera Stage Office, Main -street R.L 'Saunas Prop• . Seaforth Jan. 8th 1869. 53:tf.f - th riOMMERCiAL HOTEL, Ainleyville, ,Janes • of Laird, proprietor, affords tirst-class accom- .th ',iodation for the travelling public. The larder Sy and bar are always supplied with the best the At markets afford. .Excellent stabling in connection wa Ainleyville, April 23, 1860. -70-tf. be Ph bit an wit pro he bab hus thi cau lov .tain . . No, an of c And wit a t ago Pin the brou morr I've 'ter the fore one of a learn coul have abou R. ROSS, Proprietor New' nOininion Hotel, , begs to inform the people of Seaforth and the travelling commuaity generally, that liekeeps first-class accommodation in every thing required by travellers. A good stable and. willing hostler always on hand, Regular Boarders will receive every necessary attention. Seaforth, Feb. 8th, 1869. 63-1y. • ARCHITECTS. SMAILL & CROOKE, Architects, et°. Plans and Specifications drawn correctly. Carpen- ter's, Plasterer's and Mason's work, measured and valued. Office—Over J. C. Detlor & CO.'S store Court -House Square, Goderich. Go:clench, A pril 23, 1869. :•••• 79-1y. T_TENRY WATKINSON, Architect and Build. er. Plans, Specifications ani. Details drawn correctly. Every deacriptien sif Building Works measured and valued. Bills �f quantities pre- pared. OFFICE. ---Next door North of Mr. Hick - son's old store; Seaforth. Seaforth, June 9th, 1869. 79- tf & W. McP.HILLIPS, Provincial Land Sur- veyors, Civil Enbineers, etc. All manner of Conveyancing done with neatness and dispatch. G. McPhillips, Coreglissioner in B. R. Office— N,ext door aotith of Sharp's Hotel, Seaforth. Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53-1y. 110 HAZLET:II/MST, Licensed Auctioneer fo the County of 'Huron: Goderich, Ont Particular attention paid to the ;ale of Bankrupt Stock.. Farm Stock_ Sales attended on, Liberal Terme. Gocids. Apkaised, Mortgagea Foiiclesed, Landlord's - Warrants Eieou Atee,„ BaiJjff Goderich, Rini, 0th, 1869. 76. tf, First Division Court for Huron. up 0 ed s more 103. Bu inn -d Phce mean seat: with her eyes open, she screamed. The b.ollock driver, Long -Steve, was a good-tempred fellow and did his best to cairn her. "Why,'law bless ye, Miss," he said, "I've got an old 'ooman an' half a dozen 'kids. What call have got to do, any harm to a pretty gal like you !" But flat- tery was . thrown away on Phoebe. . She entreat- ed her mistress nat to leave her to the tender mercies of that wicked -looking man, and made Buell a fuss that at last her master was obliged to say. "Well, look here, Phosbe : If you don't go in the dray,i you must either stay in Sydney, or walk or ride one of the horses. Take your choice—which shall it be? Phosbe mounted the dray then, and though. it was night when she reached her journey's . end, she was on quite good terms with Long Steve when he helped- her off the dray. She had been talking' to him for hours, half condescendingly, half Propitiatingly thinking all the time what a. capital adventure it would. be to relate in. her first letter home. In that letter Phcebe made out that Long Steve had committed half -a -dozen murders, whereas the honest fellow had never:committed one. A great many terrible scamps were sent out to Australia in the old convict times, but mixed up with them, there were men who were far better felloWs than many of the people left at home. Late in the afternoon the captain and his party reached his farm. " Oh, what a first rate broad !" Walter, fresh from Norfolk, • exclaimed when the riders had mounted the top of the shorehills add were looking down on the lagoon which the 'farm fringed—a lagoon with thickly - Wooded banks, clearedhereand there, alittle stream running into it at one end, and at the other a sandy bar over which the sea was breaking. Mrs. Daventry was delighted at first with er new home. A pretty flower garden sloped own to the lagoon, and the verandah of the nug one-story house of brick and weather -board as smothered In passion flowers. The captain ad furnished the house comfortably as he ould for his wife, and altogether it seemed a Uch smarter, livelier place than the dark old crime in the dull, grass -grown side -street of the tile Norfolk town where she hadbeen economiz- g whilst her husband was first doing military uty, and afterwards beilding this snug- nest in ew South Wales. There was no need appar- tlyto economise now. Beef and mutton_ were e commonest of things at Daventry Hall. earn, batter eggs, honey, pigs poultry, fish and ame werillall to be got, to almost any extent, pon the premises_ Besides English vegetables, here were pumpkins and sweet potatoes in the tchen garden. There was a nice vineyard, hich Walter mistook at first for a field of cur- nt bushes; and in the orchard there were rasp- rries and strawberries, and mulberries, pears pomdgranates, figs and plums and loquats, anges and lemons, peaches, apricots, and. nec- rines and gigantic rock and water inelons. alter.tho,ught of the scanty-- pennyworths of r apples that he used to get in Norfolk, and a week or two devastated the orchwd and vineyard like a 'possum or a flying fiel. As n as it was known that Mrs. Daventry had ived, the captain's friends and their wives rode r to Daventry Hall; and then there was a nd of dinners at the friend's houses, and then captain gave dinners in return, and both . Daventry and PheThe were delighted with gayety. But when thing settled into every course, and, as often happened, Captain ventry was away from home for hours to - her, they both began to fall back into their dread of Anstralia. Mrs. Daventry had n proud at first of having so 'many servants de and outside the house, but it was not - asant to remember that all except Phcebe were victs. Captain 'Daventry was a strict but a severe master, and so he got on pretty well h his assigned servants, but in all their faces ept Long -Steve's and his wife's—there was hallow time -serving look, however cringingly 1 they might he, that Was not reassuring. alter did not trouble himself about such. gs. He made friends after a fashion with men, and rode about with his father to after the horses, cattle and sheep; the e -paddock and the potato -fields ; the rers, the fencers, and the sawyers. His er soon let him go about by hiinself, and he was a proud and happy boy. He could cely believe that, only a year ago he -Tam bling through the irregular and defective s in that gloomy old -Norfolk school -room. ter could leaplogsnow fir better than he could ugate Pio or Inquam then. Of course, his r or his mother gave lemons every and then, but that was not like regular ol, you know. • Long Steve had taught him ack a stock -whip, and Long Steve's wife had ed him a cabbage -tree hat, (in those days ountry all round the lagoon was studded cabbage -tree palins,) and Walter used to p through the Bush like a wild huntsman own three -parts blood chestnut Dragon - Sometimes he :went out on foot with his gun; andafter&bit he managed' to shoot bies and kangaroo -rats, and quail and snipe, ronzewings, and parrots and cockatoos to pies. of. Sometimes, too, he took his out with him in the boat, ,and shot wild and now and. then a black swan on the n. In the lagoon and the little river, ver, he caught eels and schnappers, and flak: and so-called bream, and mullet and delicious oysters. The captain was proud of the:way in which his little boy to the colony, but Mrs. Daventry. weal anxious because he was out so much a li in ve en N hu en iet1 crth rY g li e, t st ki ifd be e an Or 71P. ta as SOU 43- the W SOO t arr roovue ff the •Mrs the d day 1 Da get old - bee ,• insi ple COB - mit wit exc as civi thin the look maiz clea fath then scar stum verb Wel fcathnje now scho plait olacitr the c with gallo on his fly. little walla • and b make gun '1daugcokc: moreo guard_ trout, very took very alone. One day when the captain and 'Walter rode home ,they found Mrs. Daventry and Placebo almost dead with alarm. A party of blacks had taken possession of the front verandah, on which they :were jabbering and gesticulat- ing—rubbing their sides and poking their fing- ers down their throats. Poor Mrs. Daventry and her servant thought these were signs that the blacks wanted to eat them and therefore even bundled the black fellowa off the veran- were ready to faint from fear. . The captain dah, but he made it a point of policy to be kind to them and 80 he ordered the cook to supply them With tea and damper and mutton chops. They ate and &tank Until even they_could , eat and drink no more, and then remarking, with great self-Satisfactiorethat they had " budgeree Big belly," they drowsily frainped into ithe -bush and 'lay down in the sun to sleep off theirh aur- itia'ek' fellow 's TA:v*3' Ot gra- teful. to the cap- , fain for his kindness. Unfortin.ately, they had kited hisisotatoeS,P'iind-thouglitthein 80 nice that- 4heytWicsreairect hlrn the trouble of' nplaite - crop, and 0.490. '4Yen *ea :hid 'wed potatoes. The ca tern did not want tO'mabe "mums, of the darkiese, hut he was obliged. after • that to give up supplying them with chops and damper, except when they had fairly earned them by working for them. Far worse thieves than the blackfellows, how- ever, persistently preyed on Daventry Hall. All the assigned servants, except Long Steve and his wife, were habitual thieves. They did not get any .wages for their work, and so they. thought themselves free to help themselves to their master's property. So many pounds of silt or fresh meat and flour, so much coarse brown sugar and inferior tea, and a little tobacco, were the rations served out to each man every week; but there was good living in the men's huts for all that. China pigs, ducks, turkeys, etc., mys- teriously disappeared. The men made out that they had wandered into the bush, and been de- voured. by bush beasts and birds, or else starv- ed to death; but if Captain Daventry had gone to the huts -a little more friiluently, instead of trusting as he did, to his overseer, the savory scent that often issued from them would have told him what had -becomeof his poultry, etc. 'Walter noticed the savory steam one evening, but the overseer said that he had shot some wild ducks, and given them to the men. The over- seer was a convict --a smooth -faced, smooth- tongued rascal. He was trusted to weigh out their rations, and the men used to carry a good deal besides their rationactut of the store. The house servants, too, whenever they had a good opportunity, would appropriate unguarded valu- ables. They had no difficulty in disposing of them, since all the assigned servants, except Long Steve and his wife, were in league with the tick- et -of -leave farmers round about. Most of these ticket-ofleavere were a thieving, drunken lot. - Some of them would re -convey their government grentssfor a keg of rum. As for conveyance of another kind—Pistols—they did not rob one an- other, but gentlemen -settlers they consider fair game. Captain Daventry's bullocks found their way into 'the ticket -of -leavers' beef casks. They stole his best horses ; they clapped their hands on his beet colts, fillies, and calves; they pastur- ed their own horses -on- his. grant; through the villainy of his ()veneer and convict shepherds, they robbed- him of his sheep Wholesale. They had even the impudence to steal Dragon -fly. "Why, Daventry," said one of the captain's friends one day, "what made you sell that capi- tal chestnut your little fellow used to ride? He fetched a. good price, though, I believe." , "1 didn't sell him," answered the captain, moodily; "he was stolen. A nice lot of neigh- bours we've got; however, I think I've scared 'em for one while." When Dragon -fly was first missing, the over- seer had comfated Walter by telling him that his horse could only have strayed a little way into the bush, and was sure to turn up soon. Mount- ed on another nag, Walter rode about four days in search of his favorite, but never saw him any niore. - Walter found something else, however: He was riding home very dispiritedly one even- ing, when he noticed Black Poley—as one of his father's shepherds who lived at anout station was nicknamed, from the resemblance his head bore to a hornless bullock's --mounting the rise on the right of the gulley in which Walter was riding. Walter could not understand what Poley was do- ing there at that time of night, and having been made suspicious by the loss of his horse, he press- ed after Poley as quietly as he could. By the time he topped the right ridge it was nearly dark, but he could make out Poley going down the oth- er side of the ridge, and another man coming up to meet him. I'Velter was a brave little fellow. He tied his horse to a trees and slipped down the ridge, got within earshot of the two men; who were sitting, smoking and talking on a fallen tree trunk. . - "Well, Poley, how many can you let me have this time ?" • Poley gave a gruff laugh, and answered with an oath : "------if I don't try it on with three score! The cove is so jolly green, i'ts my belief he'll never miss 'em. 1 began with twos and threes, an' now I've worked it up to a :score, an' I've arays got over the cove somehow. What does sic h as him know about sheep an' farmin' ? I don't try four score—. • • • ewes, too; so you must stand something hang :mile," To -morrow morning then—at the oldplace-- Sal's Pannikin." "All right! I'll work round there -about an •hour after sunrise." Then something was said about the overseer ; but what, Walter could not make out. Not wait- ing to hear any more i he crept back to •hia horse, mounted, and galloped home, and told his father what he had heard. At first the captain was go- ing to consult with the overseer, but one or two 'things recently had rather shaken his confidence in the overseer, and so he sent for Long Steve in- stead. Long Steve knew Sal's Pannikin well. .It -was a lonely hollow in an unoccupied part of the bush, and was called Sal's because on its brink 'a Mrs -Sarah Mullins had once kept- a :most dis- reputable sly drinking -house. Strange goings-on had taken place there. - At last the landlady had been most brutally murdered in her ovni house, - and after that it was allowed to go to ruin, and had the reputation of being haunted. What was the other man like, Master Walt- er?" asked Long Steve. Walter could only say that hetalked very much as if he had a hot po- tato in his mouth. "Oh, that's little Dick Green at the head of the legi'on," cried Long Steve, haif disappointed at not having found a worthier foe - man. "Its hard,•Cip'exil if -you and me can't nab little Dick Green and the Poley." "Would you like to go Walter?" said the cap- tain, "1 think its only fair that yen should see the fun." 6 Of course Walter wanted to go. So it was az.: ranged that Steve should have tea and chops ready, and three horses saddled at his lint (which stOod apart Irani' the dthei• inen's) and'call his master and Walter at half -past two next morning. The. captain thought it advisable to start thus early, in 'case the., alteep-stealers should have changed their minda-4te'e _Walter had left them; and agreed 'to meet at -an early hour lor:Isafety,s sake. • • - k WANT -gtesitly *nye& bis early breakfast by the Wood fire in LOlig Steve's but; and the silent . ride through t49, Ball -Lan three armed,. But When they had -put AP -their horses in'Sal's ruined stables, and were crouching in Sal'is inolleas par- lor the adventure did not seem *trite so jolly to But presently, while it way 'tin quite dark. a e light -mine dancing dOWn thet'other side of the' hollost. Long Steve sallied outlet reconnoitre, When &emu* back, he said1-1:- "Yes, its little Dick, Imre fui- ifsh*g_off 40.4 aoue,,.- .14:1' then .you--*.Aii,lcip'n; '-•vad -_-.141te; creep 4041Y -for thefoldiNt iriuket akik "Mastor Walter can stay lier•e withtheilioinielf, an' 'Tiring EDITOR PUBLISHER, WHOLE NO. 112. 'mil down when we cory. 0, yes, cap'n he'll be Safe enough. Neither Dick nor the Pole3r would set a foot in here if you'd give them a thousand pounds." .. In spite of this assurance, Walter wearied in Ins lonely vigil, At length the eastern sky brightened, the laughin jackasses hooted out their hideously hil- arious morning-. chorus, and tile 'sun canie u . • bronzang the shrub and the tree -tops: Walter. could see little Dick quite plainiy now He was lying on the ground smoking his • Pipe. Then came another weary *etch, but at last up started little Dick ancl went to meet Black Foley, who was coming down to the Pannikin with the etolien sheep. They were all dziven into the fold, ancl the two thieves were quietly talking together, when, as seemed to Walter, from beneath their very feet, the Captain and Long Steve jumped up like Jack-in-the-box. The captain felled Black Poley as if he had been indeed a buliock ; Long Steve laid Little , Dick on his back as if he had been .a child of four years olds By the time Walter had obeyed the cooey and galloped down with the horses. both the yea h :evad their arms strongly bound behind th in with green hide. With sf:aips, of -the setae they were fastened to the captain's and. Long Steve's stirrups, and then driving the ewes before them the three thief - takers set out for home They found the refit of the flocks on the other side of the ridge that sloped down into Sal's Pannikin. The overseer turned as white as a sheet when his master rode up to Daventry Hall with his sheep and his prisoners, but _neither Dick nor the Poley preached. . Black Poley was sentenced to an awful floggmg before he was sent back to Sycleny. and little 'Dick got ten years in a chain -gang,. The captain thought now that his property would be ssfe for a while, but he was utterly mistaken. He ha.d only wedded out two scoundrels, whose places were almost instantly supplied by two at least as bad, he had managed to focus the hatred of the district on himself, and moreover, just then Hook -handed 13i11 and his gang came on eirenit, _ so to speak; to thecountry round. the lagoon. They had made their last habitat rather to hot- to hold them and, with secure hiding places in the range of sliore-hills, they promised thein - selves. somerich raids ou the gentlemen settlers who were dotted here ansi there around the lagoon- • . . . Hook -handed Bill was a bushranger, .without any of the qualitieswhich a °eft= set of itory tellers are so fond of giving to robbers. He was a greedy savage, brute. - Physically he was -A left- handed giant, who owed. his sobriquet to the fact thathe had lost his right hand, and supplied its place with a sharp hook. Horrid tales were told of what that hook had done; " ripping up" was Hook -handed Bill's favouritmode of murder: Burning elive in a bullock's hide, stood next in his estimation. It was saidtoo, that . he was in the habit of 'waylaying bullock -driver- on their Way down to Sydeny witntheir master's 'Wool, of shamming to be on the best terma-with them, and thenanurdering them wholesale in theiraleep, afterwards disposing Of the wool through i the agency of some .cif his ticket -of -leave friends: Such a villain with half -a -dozen followers, only not so bad as himself, were no pleasantilush neighbours Some of the gentlemen settlers sent their wives and children into Sydeny, All rode about armed by day, and at night had their most tvaluable cattle driven into the stockyards, and their favourite horses into the stables -whilst their houses wele turned. into little arts, In spite of all precautions, the bushrangers commit- ted the most .impudent robberies.and though some of the gentlemen settlers :misted the police in hunting the robbers, no capture was; niaide, - .. .. . One -afternoon. when Walter re in a lonely part of his father's grant, a huge, shaggy -bearded and roughly -clad fellow sprang from behind a clump of trees; and seized him by the collar,' The stranger's right arm hail -no•hand, but brandished a sharp hook, and Walter thought that hie last hour had come. He was a.wfullyofrightened,.but he tried not to seem so. "Let me say my pray- . , • era fist," cried Whiter - Hook -handed -Bill gave a grin variliell WaS•ev-ert mon hideous than his habitual frown, as lie answered- "Tune enough, youngster. 1 hain't going to kill you afore .night. „ I want you to _take a messaye to youi- father. He's a deal' too cocky foriny taste, is the*captain flagg- in his men, and lagging his neighboms, aid now he's boasting that he'll -take Me, .deadeor Will he' We'll soon see. who's master. show him how much I care for his blowing. Yon take him Hook-hancled Bill's compliments,' and tell him _I give him fair warning, that I mein. to . pay him a visit to -night, and to half flog the -life out of hiniand his sneak of a bullock -driver, and then to string 'em both up—and you too, you— young spy 1—an' carry off the women folk lie's brought from --,Old England to look down on. their betters. There ! you be off, youngsterl" At first the captain wise inclined to treat the bushranger's threat as mere bravado "How- ever," he added; -`if the reseal does &wife to come, he could not have consulted my conveni- ence better. The police are coming over to -night, Walter, my boy. We meant to have given the bushrangers a hunt to-niorrove morning, but if they like to save ns the trouble, so much the bet- ter. Don't say anything to your mamma, but go and call Long Steve." „ - The bullock -driver was firinly convinced that Hook-ha-aded Bill would keep his word, and -ad- viied his master to commence preparationa at once, in case the bushrangers should- hear „from some of their scouts_ of the intended police and resolve to rush on the house before the arriv- al of the constables. Aecordingly, guns, pistols, ammunition, a sword,- a cutlass, and a bayonet were got in readiness by the captain—not that he really believed that there would be any use for them that night. The kitchen clock struck Seven —eight—nine, bald still the Constables did not come. A little after nine the coniriet house-serv- 1414. went away- their huts, -and long Sfieve carefully bolted , the 'doors after them. 'Mrs, Daventry and Burl* were.persuadO to go tabed. The:garrison of three Sat silence --the captain Expecting every moment to hear the, police ride • up; Long Skye Walter,. en the other band dretentiogpeth.rtye aar4viiialonet,w-theree buteehranordlalierso.pinalb‘u! -1" There they are'!" -dried the Captain. and Wore Liati. Steve could. - st'sais him, be East openeeisthe amr and,r4 dowst to the garden gate. ys what ...time yon'Te.been, Saunders.'!the _captain sliOnted tC!14e Snppese.4 jxilice-sergeant. : "Have ;vie..1‘;' icrawled. tback a gruff "Xf!dee• -"Well, wetil *trY:t°-•Qake 414- • s17.1:s168ts • (Concluciell 44 ate 8.1