HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-12-23, Page 1..)ECEMBER 16 187‘.
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)0D NEWS
FOR TiIE
)Ie of Seaforth
AKERY &ICINFECTIailERY
yr
CA V A N AG ti*
( Late of StratiOrol)
ie found intim old place, one door
Mr. F. Vezd'a Grocery Stare.
Nr,65----
avanagh wishee to return to his
fris.-_nde and cuetomers, his sin -
ides for their liberal patronage in
• and hopes that they win can-
t" sameU the future.
31STMAS.--- Mr- Cavanagh
a great pre pal ations for the coma
Stems, and win. he abla to tee_
.customers with everything in his
as Bland. Confectionery, Can-
., Fancy cakes. Wedding cakee„
all kinds, and all descriptions of
Hot Mutton Pies and ail kinds
'linients, also good accommoda-
;friends fieen the town and coun-
leo Jt. DD BROS. Vegetable
!'east. Try it, it never fails, and
:ERS -J. S. FARREN 4 M's,
re, the best ' in the market al-
,'s;TERS AND SARDINES.
Alatays on hand.
I'VE ME A TRIAL.
J. CA VA NAGH.
, Nev. 23, 1874& 1_34-tf,
Orders for WEDDING CAKES
plies
for TEA PARTIES prompted to.
_ TOLLS TO LET.
Toi.L GATES ON the County
uou Gra A el Roads, will te let
ion, for the year 1871, in the
Efall, Clinton, at noon, on
• (by.- r:Tecenz6er Tero.
to be paid monthly in advance.
see to deposit one month's rent
1,y of sale, and furnish two• sal-
eldere as Surety, whose names-
aquired to the Lease immediate-
ates are let.
A. BAY,
Surveyor.
Y-1LAW*
187-0.
7poee certcan\ates of Toll, to be
‘it the several toil gates within, the
Iluro 72.
r.EAS1 it in exredient to collect cer-
es of ton at the several toll gates
g to the County of Huron, on the
itoade within the said County, -
'e the expense of making anal re -
e same.
e it therefore enacted, That the
iticeaed rates of toll shall be pay-
ach and every tolt-gate upon the
roads within. the County of Hu -
the respectia-e gate -keepers are
uthorized to ask for and receiye
at each time of passing each
n the said roads, subject to all
meptions, and the exemption, of
Wing deeeribed parties, viz.. -
!a of the Goepel (when, engaged
ministerial duties) who produce
:ate from the Reeve at the math -
where they reside, that they are
ministers ef the Gospel ; all In-
Fartiea with their teams engaged
ffforman.ce of statute labor, and
,anying and returning from cat. -
Lk to cheese factories. And pro -
ways that the same team., horse
animal or animals shall be al -
;i return and pass through the
le free, at airy time before twelve
M. of the night of the follow-
*ry vebiele, loaded or otherwiee.
.1r one horse or other beaet, eight
ery additional horse, or ether
ming such vehicle, four cents.
ery horse, four cents.
ery.single sheep or swine, one
atly additional launcher, one
eaela
ve.ry• head of neat cattle, two
it.
Mat the several gate -keepers
'ee said County are hereby autho-
i required to ask for, and recover
eh and E very person passing
be eeveva ton -gates within the
kfcsresaid, with vehicles, horses,
Je, or other animals subject to
above mentioned rates, axial to
ewfal means for the recovery of
Ind be it further enacted that
Law- coeuninto force and effect
after the thirtyairst day of De-
lext, and that By -Law No 12,
be and is hereby repealed
▪ thirty-tirst day of December
E at Goderich the 25th day of
Dr, 1870.
- ROBERT 01RBOS-lS,,
Warden. -
: A.D.A
t'ounty Cierk. 157-2-
FARIVII FOR SALE CHEAP
-
jN DERSIGNEI) offers for sale,
r, Lot NO. 30, Con, 15, tavenship
e'o, of Huron; about 70 acres of
are timbered with hardwood,
of which are chopped, the bale
Mbered with cedar and pine of
quality. There is sufficient of
T timber to pay- for the whole
lot will be sold CHEAP FOR
r On time. Title indieputable_
ier particulars apply (if by let -
td) to Adam Gray, Planing Mill,
:or to the undersigned proprie-
ERICK GRAY„
Tbareesford, P. O.
rd, Nast. 9, 1870:
MON EY
.000 TO LEND.
E the above aura on hand for
mut on good Farm Security, at
• cent., -Private Funds..
JOHN S. PORTER,
July 25, 1S70. 139. --
ST RAY SHEEP.
into the premises of the sub-
ier, en Lot No. 1, Con. 1, Hay,
id lamb. The owner is request-
ve property, pay charges, and
:same away.
WM. SMALE,
Exeter P.
11
gr.,.
•ta..
xpto5it
MACLEAN BROTHERS,'
"Freedom in Trade—Liberty in Religion—Equality in Civ
VOL 4, NQ j3,
1 Rights".
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1870.
EDITORS & PUBLISHERS.
WHOLE NO. 15%
BUSINESS CARDS.
MEDICAL,
TRA.CY, M. D., Ceroner for the
„ County of Huron. Office and Re-
sidence -One door East of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868, \_53 ly
D 'C. MOORE, M. D., C. M. (Graduate
ne, of McGill Univereity, Montreal,)
Physician, Surgeon,&c. Office and realdence Zurich, Ont.
• Zurich, Sept. 7th, 1870. = 144
INES STEWART, M. D., C. M.,
J. -Graduate of ..McGill University,
Montreal. Physician, Surgeon; &c. Of-
fice and residence :-At MR. Coox's. •
Varna.
TIE. W. R. SMITH, Physician, Sur -
jay geon, etc. Office, -Opposite Scott
• Robertson's Residence -.Main-street,
North.
Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1863. 5311y
AIM L. VERCOE, M. D. CI- M., Physi-
cian, Surgeon, etc. Office and Re-
sidence, corner of Market and High
Street, inamediately in rear of Kidd's
Store. °
Seaforth, Feb. 4th. 1870.53 ly
lrAR. CAMPBELL, Coroner for the
I ()thee and residence, over
Corby's, corner store, Main street, Sea -
forth. Office deli, Saturday. 159
LEGAL.
111.1 F. WALKER. Atterney-at-Lair
• and Solicitor -in -Chancery, Con-
veyancer, Notary Public, &c. Office of
the Clerk of the "?eace, Court House,
Goderich, Ont.
N.B.-Money to lend at 8 per cent on
Farm Lands.
Goderich, • jan'y. 28. 1870.
• if se AUGHEY & If OLMSTEAD,
in Barristers, Attorneys at Law, Sol-
icitors in Chancery an* .Insolvency, No-
taries Public and Conv4ancers. Solici-
• tors for the R� Bank, Seaforth, Agents
for the Canada Life Assurance Co.
N. B.-830,000 to lencl *at 8 per cent.
Farms, Houses and Lots for sale.
Seaforth, Dec. Ilth, 1868. 53-tlf.
TIONSON & MEYER, Barristers and
Attorneya,t Law, Solicitors in Chan-
• -cery and insolvency, Conytyancers, No-
• aries Pablic; etc. Offices,-Seaforth and
Wroxeter. Agentsfor the Trust and
Loan Co. of Tipper Canada, and the Col-
onial Securities Co. of London. England.
Money at 8 per cent; no commsision,
-charged.
TAS. R. nE(SO, R. W. C. REYER.
Seaforth, Dec. 10th 1868. 53-ly
DENTAL.
G. W. HARRIS, L. D. S.
Arti ficial Dentures inserted.
with all the latest inaprove-
• -me.nts. The greatest tare taken fortne
pseservation of decayed and tender teeth.
Teeth extraeted . withost pain. Rooms
•,over McDougall's Store.
• Seaforth. Dec. 14, 1868. ly.
HOTELS.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Ainleyville,
kei James Laird, proprietor, affords
first-class accommodation for the travel-
• ling pubde. The larder and bar are al-
ways supplied with the best the rnarke
ts afford. • Excellent stabling in connec-
tion. •
A inleyville, April 23, 1869.
ONX'S HOTEL (LATE SHARP'S)
11. The undersigned begs to thank the
public for the liberal patronage awarded
to higi in times past in the hotel business,
and. also to inform them that he has again
, resumed business in the above stand,
where he will be happy 'to have e call
from old friends, and many new ones.
THOMAS KNOX.
Seaforth, May 5, 1870. 126-tf.
lop RITI SII EX CHAN GE HOTEL, G od-
erich, Oer_.1 J. CALLAwAY, PRoPRI-
. x.roIt - J. S. WILLIAMS, (late of Ameri-
can Hotel, Warsaw, N. Y.) Manager.
• This hotel has recently been newly fur-
nished, and refitted throughout, and is
• now one of th,e most comfortable and ceni-
modious in he Province. Good Sample
Rooms for Commercial T•ravellers. -
Terms liberal. ••
Goderich, April 14, 1870. 123-tf..
MISCELLANEOUS.
filint
Anktiu,R6T, ensedzkuumon-
, eer for the County of Huron. God-
• erick, Ont- Particular attention paid to
the sale of Bankrupt Stock: Farm
Stock Sales attended en Liberal Terms.
Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclesed,
Landlord's Warrant Fs Executed. Also,
Bailiff First Division Court for Huron.
Goderich, June 901..1869 76. tf
G"W. McPHILLIPS, Provineial
Land. Surveyors, Civil Enbineers„
etc. All manner of Conveyancing done
with neatness and dispatch. G. McPlaile"
lips, Commissioner in B. IL Office -
Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Sea -
forth.
Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53 - ly
MAILL & CROOKE, Architects, etc.
0• Plans and Specifications drawn cor-
rectly. Carpenter's, Plasterer's. and Ma
son's work, measured and valued Office
Over J. C. Detlor & Co.'s store, Court -
House Square, Goderich.
• Goderich, Ape;1 2:1, 1869. 79-ly
[
1 BEFORE SEDAN.
1 '
"The deed hand clasped a letter." W
ii ' Correspondence.
.t:
e in thui leafy place,
-.quiet I‘ Les, : -
Co d, with his sightless eyes.
Turned:to the skiee •
but another dead :
you an Bay is said.
I . .
rrylhi - dy hence, ----
Kings must have slaves;
gs e1ub to eminence - :„
Over, m 's graves ;
this man's eye are dim ;--
Throve the ea h over him.
What totakthat White you touched,
There at' his Ride!
Parr his hand had clutched
Tight ere he Iied. :-
Meesageox.„.Wish 9iay be ;-
Sneoothen it and see.
I ar
Hardly the avo,at of us °
;
Here could have smiled 1 ----
Only the te melons
' Words of aichild ;
Prattle, that has f1or stops
Just a few ruddy 1rops.
, 1 ,
Load -she is sad to miss,
.
Morning aud night,
Hisl-her dear 'lather's kiss;
l Tries to be bright,
Good to mamma. and, sweet ;
That is nil;. " Marguerite."
,
the Iead •
ed th pain !
hat bled -
slain !
But no ;
e it so.
Ki
So
• *
Ali," if! besid
Siumb
. ,
Al4 if the hearts
•• Slept with th
If the grief died !
.
Death will not ha
-
1100CHING IT 1—THE BUSH, -
4
LI -11E IN SANADA
! BY. MRS 11, OODIE.
ur
CHAP
ourney
e Country.
" Ali,. for a plece h re I might greet
" it.trecn Id relievethe eursing 4eight a
y hea t. But with sae many strang
eyes glo. ering upon m , I tak' shanie t
ysel' tgreet.' Il
" Ah, Jeanie, my p ir woman," saa
tie hue) and,- guts in her 'hand, "y
aun bear up ; 'fig Go 's will ; and sin
f 1 crea urea like us ia Ina rep* Bu
h, ma am," tit' i o me, "we hav
s ir hearts the day !
At Brockville we t ok in a party o
,
ladies, which somewhat relieved the mo-
otorty of the ea in, 'a d I was amuse
y listening to t eijr 1ively prattle, an
t e little gossip itli which they strov
te while away th t di m of thevoyage.
he day was too L.teeiam to go upondecia
thunder and ih tlij no-, accorrypanie
• 'th torrents of ain. Amid the confus
I
1 n of elements, !tried to get a peep a
tie Lake of the linisa d Isles ; but th
• riving storm b ended all objects int
ore, and I ratur ed w t and disappoint
-e to m berth, We aseed Kingston a
idnight, and lot all oLir lady passeng
e s but woe - T e ga1 continued unti
aybrea ' and ms nd con -fusion pre
ailed a lnight, w el was greatly in
c eased by the ¶1piOri us conduct of
•.1c1 Irish migrant,ew io thought fit t
ake ,his bed upon t ie mat before th
c bin dolor. He .Bang, e shouted, he ha
1,
✓ nguadihis country e en the politica
state of the Emerald is- e, in a style whic
was loud but not los uent. Sleep wa,
1 possible, whilst his stentorian lung
c 'AMU ed to pour forth nmeaning soun, s
Our 'Dutch steliVa de s was highly en
raged. His conduct, the said, . " wa
isrfectly ondacent." She opened th
door,. e4d bestoWi g pon him severe
'As, bade him get a ay "out of that,"
o she wi!iuld compl 'n o the captain.
In - answer to I th s emonstrance, h
eaught ter by the foot and pulled he
clown. trr h en wav g the tattered re-
mains of his straw h t i the air he shout
,
ed with an Air of tri h, ' ' Git out with
, 7
you, you: ould witch ! Shure the ladies,
t e purty clarlints, ever sent you wid
t at ' glylmessage to Pat,' who loves
them so entirely th t he manes to kape
Watch ower them hr ugh the blessed
night." I Then ma .'in a ludicrous bow,
the continued, " Lad es, I'm at your sar-
'.tviiocne f:rIo only wish I o ld et a dispense -
the Pope, an 'I cl marry yeas
all." he stewardess bolted the door,
alul the Mad fellow kept up such a racket
that we all wished him at the bottom of
the Onta-rio. 1
olThe following 4y y a wet and gloomy.
he storm had pr tr ct d -the length. of
i r voy e for several hours, and it was
idnigh when 1 nd. d at Cobourg.
-
CAA TER IV.
I
Tom Wiltso 'n E Igration-
l ,
"Of ail odd fella s, ethis fellow was
h in sit s, bu•n vcr mewh his
.
the, oddestt dayt it
I have seen many strange
fis
equal." 1 ,
, P
About a month previous to our emigra-
tion to Canada, ink Husband said to me,
"you need not ex I e4t nie home to din-
ner to -clay ; I al, going with my friend
Wilson t� Y to hear Mr. 0-- -- -
lect*re 011 emigr tion to Canada. He
has just turned. rom the North Ameri-
tceandiepabrov nces, a, d his lectures, are at
n -
vast nu ers -of persons who
are anxious to obt in information on the
sublect I got a n )te from your friend
1
B— this mo s sg,begging me to
come over and lis'en to his palaver ; and
as Wilson thinks o emigration in the
Spring, he will be II y alking companion.
" Tom1Wilscin goii g to Canada !" said
I. as the door closed on my better -half.
"What a backwood r-iian he will make?
What a less to the s ngle ladies of S---' !
el
What will they do
balls and picnics ?"
One of my sister , who was writing at
a table near me, was highly amnsed at
this unexpected announcemeut. She fell
back id her chair and indulged in la long
and hearty laugh. I --aIII certain that
most of my readers would have joined in
her laugh had they known the I object
which provoked her mirth. "Poor Tom
is such a dreamer,' said my .sister, ." it
would be an act of harity in Moodie . to
persuade him fro undertaking Such a
wild-goose chase -; nly that I limey my
good brother is -possessed with the same
without him at their
mania."
"Nay, God forbi said I. hope
this Mr. th the unp nnunce-
able name, will d egust them with his
eloquence ; for writes uaetword,
in his droll way, that he is a c eerie vul-
gar fellow, and laCks the- it' of a
bear. Oh ! I am Certain the will re-
turn quite sickened with the anadian
project." Thus I laid the flat ring unc-
tion to my soul, little dream nglthat I
and mine Ahould share in the st ange ad-
• ventures of this oddest of all dd creetues
it might be made a subject oT c rious er.•
quiry to those who delight • man ab-
surdities, if ever there Wa a haracter
drawn in works of fiction so xt aval gent-
ly ridiculous as some which ai y experi-
ence presents to our view. V have en-
countered people -in the bro&¼d through -
fares of life more eccentric tha ever we
read of in books; people wh4, a all their
foolish sayings and doings vier duly re-
corded, would vie with the d • Hest cre-
ations of Hood, or George Cole u an, and
put to shame the flights of Ba on Mun-
ohausen. Not that TOM Wi on was a
romancer ; oh, no ! He was he very
prose of prose, a man in a i4ist, who
seemed afreid of moving about or fear of
knocking his head against a ree, and
finding a halter suspended on it branch-
es --a, man as helpless and as in Went as
a baby.
Mr. Thomas, or Tom Wilson, as he
was familiarly called by all h's friends
and acquaintances, :was the son of a gen-
tleman who once possessed a la ge land-
ed property- in the neighbourh od ; but
an extravagant and profligate expendi-
ture of the income which he der ved from
a,fine estate which had descen ed from
father to son through many ge erations,
had greatly reduced' the circumlitances of
the elder Wilson: Still, his family held
a certain rank and standing in !their na-
tive county, of which his evil courses,
bad as they. were, could not Wholly de-
prive them. The young peppe-and a
very largo family they made of one and
daughters, hrelve in number were ob-
jects of interest and commissera ion to all
who knew' them, while the worthless
father was justly held in cent Mpt and
detestation. Our hero was tits: young-
est of the six sons; and from .is child-
hood he was famous for his h. hing-td-
doishness. He was too indol • et to en-
gage heart and soul in the man y sports
of his comrades ; and he neve thought
it necessary to commence lea ning his
lessons until the school had ben in an
hour. • As he grew up to mans estate,
he might be seen dawdling as out in a
black frock -coat, • jean trails rs, and
white kid gloves, making laay bows to
the pretty girls of his acquaint nee ; or
dressed in a green shooting-jet, with
a gun across his shoulder, sauntering
down the wooded lanes,. with a brown
spaniel dodging at his heels,. an looking
as sleepy and indolent as his in ter.
• The slowness of all Tom's m vements
was strangely contrasted with hs slight,
elegant, and symmetrical figu e; that
looked as if it only awaited th will of
the owner to be the most -active piece of
human machinery that ever res onded to
the impulses of youth and heal b. But
then, his face! What pencil could de-
lineate features at once so 4owiical and
lugubrious -features that o e moment
expressed the most solemn seriousness,
and the next, the most grotesque and ab-
surd abandonment to mirth ? In him,
all extremes appeared to meet ; the min
was a _contradiction to himse f. Tom
was a person of few w-ords, a d 80 in-
tensely lazy' that it required a s song ef-
fort of will to enable him to an wet- the
questions of inquiring friends; d when
at length aroused to eiercise is collo-
quial powers, he performed the ank in so
original' a manner that it never felled to
upset the gravity of the inte rogater.
When he mks& his large, pr rament,
leaden -coloured eyes from th,e ground,
and. looked the inquirer steadi y in the
face, the effect was irresisti le ; the
laugh would eorrie, -do your b st to re-
sist it. •
Poor Torn took this. mistim d merri-
ment in very good part, generally'. answer-
ing with a ghastly contortion which he
meant for a smile, or, if he di trofble
himself to find words, with, "W 11,
that's funny! What makes yet laugh .1 -
At me I suppose ? I don't onder at
it; I often laugh at myself."
Tom would hang been a trees re to an
undertaker, He would have been rebrat-
ed as a mute ; he looked as if he ad been
born in a shroud, androcked in a coffin.
The gravity with whiee he could answer
a ridiculous or impertinent 'question
completely disarmed and turned the
shafts of malice back upon his opponent.
If Tom was himself an object of ridicule
to many, he had a way of quietly ridicul-
ing others that bade defiance 1) all com-
petition. He could quiz with ja smile,
and put down insolence with an incredu-a.
bus stare. A grave wink fron those
dreamy eyes would destroy the lveraeity
of a travelled dandy forever.
Tom was not without use i4 his day
and geneiation ; queer and. aw ward as
he was, he was the soul of tr th and
honour. You might suspect hs sanity
-a matter always deubtful but his
honesty ef heart and purpose never.
When you met TQM in the st eets, he
was dressed with such neatness ind care
(tc be sure it took him half a day to make
his toilet), that it led many persons to
imagine thal this very uglyyoting man
considerell himshlf an ' Adonis • and I
must confess that I rather incined to
this opinion. He always psced the pub-
lic streets with a slow, deliberate tread,
and with his eyes fixed intently on the
.Fround—like a man who iad lost his
ideas, and was diligently employed in
searching for them. I eha ced to meet
him one day in this dreamy mood. •
"How do you do, Mr. Wilson?" Ho
stared at me for several minutes, as if
doubtful of my presence or identity.
• "What was that you said ?"
I repeated the question; and he an-
swered with one of his incredulous
smiles,
" Was it to me you szok Oh, lam
quite ell, or I ghoul ncilt be walking
queery the way, did you ee my dog ?"
"Th y say he resembles e. He's a
og, too; but I nev r could find
out the likeness, Good nig t ?"
• This was at noonday; b4 Tom had- a
habit o taking light for d &nem, and
darkne s for light, in all hel did or said'.
He m st have had -different eyes and
ears, a d a different way of seeing, hear-
ing an comprehending, then is possess-
ed by t e generality of his tpecies ; and
to such a length did he carry this ab-
stracti n of soul &Lid sense, that he would
often leave you abruptly in the middle of
a sente lee ; and if he chanced to meet
e weeks after, he would resume
versation with the very word at
e had cut short the thread of
emirs- . , A lady one told him in
her, a lad of
his donkey
at singer of
answer, but
tree months
ter him on
ccols.ted her
ion
him so
the co
which
your di
jest th
twelve
Braha
that n
started
after s
the . sa
with 0'1
"Yo
Miss
Braha
Braha
Wonder
e
t hex oungest bro
ears old, had callet
, in honor of the gr
me. Tem made n
abruptly away. T
e happened to"encou
e spot,1 when he -
any previous salute
were telling me ab ut a donkey,
, a1onkey of ',jut brother's
, I think -you calle 1 him -yes,
; a strange name fo an' ass! I
what the great fr. Braham
avoul(l ay to that. Ha, ha, ha !" •
r memory must bee cellent, Mr.
Wilson; to enable you to re ember such
a triflin circumstance all th a time."
" ing, do you call i ? Why, I
have th ught of nothing els ever gime."
• From traits such a th.es my readers
• will be tempted to imagine him brother
to the niirial who had dtrel • so long in
his thou hts ; but there wer times when
lie suri ounted this strang absence of
mind, a d could talk and ab as sensibly
as othe folks.
On t e death of his father he emigrat-
ed to N w South Wales, w
trived. t doze away seven
valuele s existence, sufferin
servant to rob him of eve
finally o burn his dwelling,
to his n tive village, dresse
11
11
ere he con -
ears of his
his convict
thing, and
He returned
as an Ital-
ian men licant, .with a mo ey perched
upon hi , shoulder, and pia g airs of his
own eo • position upon a Mir y-gurdy. In
this di guise he sought thndwelling of
an oldachelor uncle, and solicited his
charity But who that:h. d ever seen
our frie d Tom could ever forget him?
Nature ad no counterpart o one who in
mind m d form was alike or &al. The
good-na ured old soldier, t a glance,
discas-e ed. his hopeful nepli w, received
him int hie house with la dness, and
had afto ded him an asylu u ever since.
this period
of mischief
Travelling
in a stage-
nvented in
ntered into
ent farmer
•uth Wales,
One litt e anecdote of him a
strate the quiet lov
ich he was imbued.
to London
ailways were not
'n those days), he
tion with an intell'
next him ; New S
esidence in the colo y. forming
g topic. A dissen ting minister
pene4 to be his v -s-a-vis, and
annoyed him by making several
ent remarks, sud enly asked
h a sneer, = hew ma4y years he
there.
n," returned Tom, lin a solemn
thout deigning a glance at his
n.
ught so," responde • the other,
him hands into • is breeches
"And- pray, sir, what were
there for ?"
ling pigs," returne the incor-
orn, with the gravis eta judge.
rde were scarcely pronounced
questioner called 0 e coachman
referring to ride et tside in the
seat within with a hief. Tom
njoyed the hoax, w ich he used
ith the merriest f all grave
Besides -being a dev ted admirer
ir sex, and alveay imagining
n love with some • nattainable
he had a passion e craze for
music, nd played upon th violin and
flute wi h considerable test and execu-
tion. TIue sound of a favou 'te meloely
operated upon the breathing -automaton
like ma lc, his frozen faculti s experienc-
ed a-sual en thaw, and the s rearn of life
leaped a 4 gambolled for a while with
uncontr liable vivacity. e laughed,
danced, ang, andmade love in a breath,
committ ng a thousand madj vagaries to
make ye acquainted with hs existence.
My h sband had a remarkjably sweet -
toned fhite, and this flute Tom regarded
with a species of idolatry. I
"1 break the Tenth Conamandnaent,
Moodie, whenever I hear you play upon
. that flute. Take care of your black wife,"
(a name he had bestowed up n the covet-
ed treasure,) "or I shall cert inly run off
with her:"
"1 am half afraid of you, om. I am
sure if I were to die, and le ve you my
ould be too
black wife as a legacy, you
much everjoyed to lament m death."
ess
Such was the strange, hellwhim-
apated an
sequel will
sical being who now con nf
'emigratian to Canada. Ho he succeed -
will ill
with w
from
coach (
vented
con.vers
who sa
and his
the lead
who ha
wile ha
rnPe
i
him, wi
had bee
"Sev
tone, w
couipa
‘5 I th
thrustin
pockets.
you sen
"Ste
rigible
The w
when th
to stop,
rain to
greatly
to tell
faces.
of the f
himself
beauty,
•
•
ed in t e speculation the
show. •
It was late in the levenin
husband and his friend Tom
turned f om I had
hot supp r and a cup of coffe
long wal . and they did am
el
before my
Wilson re -
provided a
after their
e justice to
my care. Tom was in unur flatly - high
spi Is, and appeared' wholly bent upon
his 4sinadian expedition. , s_
"Mr. C— must have been very ele-
que. t, Mr. Wilson," said 1, " to engage
you attention for so many hours."
1111erhaps he was," returned Tom, after
a p4iae of some mrnutos, -during which
, he sem�d to be groping f r words in the
salteieller, having deli. rately turno oti
• out its.contents upon th table -cloth.-
" We were hungry after our long walk,
manTed,nrwth.e,ha, gatvielis Ia.? Ie-xcellent dinner."
paid to it during the discussion. But,
substance of his lecture."
seenied to think so, by the attention they
come, Wilson, give my wife someaccount
Moodie, laughing ; "an'd his audience
of the intellectual part of the entertain-.
" It was the substance after all," said
"But that had nothing to do with the
I give an account
of the lecture? Why, my dear fellow, I
• never listened to one word of it !"
"I thought you went to Y ---ton pur-
pose to obtain information, on the subject
of emigration to Canada ?"
"Well, and so 1 did; but when the
fellow pulled out his pamphlet, and said
that it Contained the substance of his lec-
ture, and would only cost a shilling, I
thonght that it was better to secure the
• subntance .than endeavour to catch the
shadow -so I bought the book, and spar-
• ed myself the pain of listening to the
oratory of the writer. Mrs. -Moodie, he
had a shocking delivery, a drawlina, vul-
gar voice; and he spoke witla such a nasal
twang that I could not bear to look at hint,
or listen to him. He made such gram-
matical blunders, that my sides ached
• with laughing at hint. Oh, I wish you
could have seen the wretch ! But here is
the document, written in the mune style
in whichit was spoken. Read it: you
have a rich treat in etere."
I took the pamphlet, not a little amus-
ed at his desoription of Mr. 0—, for
whom I felt an uncharitable dislike.
"And how did you contrive to enter -
t tin yourself, Mr. Wilson, during his
long address ?"
"By thinking how many fools were
collected together, to listen to one greater
than than the rest. By the way, Moodie.
did you notice farmer Flitch ?"
" No; where did he sit ?"
" ,At the foot of the table. You must
have seen him, he was too big to he over-
looked. What a delightful squint he had!
What a rediculous likeness there was be-
tween him and the roast pig he was car-
ving! I was wondering all dinner -time
how that man contrived te cut up that
pig; for one eye was fixed upon the ceil-
ing, and the other kering very affection-
ately at me. It was very droll, was it
not?"
"And what do you intend doing with
yourself when you arrive in Canada ?"
said L'
" Find out some large hollow,ti•ee, anrt
live, like Bruin in the winter, by sucking
my paws. In the summer there will be
plenty of mast and acorns to satisfy the
wants of an abstemious fellow."
"But, joking apart, my dear fellow,'
said my husband, anxious to induce him
to abandon a scheme so hopeless, "do you
think that -you are at all qualified for. a
life of toil and hardship ?"
Are yott ?" returned Tom, raising his
large, bushy, black eyebrows to the top
of kits forehead, and fixing his leaden eyes
steadfastly upon his interrogator, with
an air of such absurd gravity that we
burst into a hearty laugh.
4' Now what do you laugh for ?" I am
sure T"asked you a very serious question."
"But your method of putting it is so un-
usual that you mast excuse as for laugh-
" I don't want to weep," said Tom ;
" but as to our qualifications, Moodie,
I think them pretty equal. I know you
think otherwise, but I will explain.. Let
the see ; what was 1 going to say ?-ah,
I have it, You go with the intention of
clearing land, and working for yourself,
and doing a great deal. I have tried that
• before in New South Wales, and I know
that it won't answer. Gentlemen can't
-Work like labourers, and if they could,
they woa't-it is not in them, and that
you will find out. You expect by going
to Canada, to make your fortune, or at
least secure a comfortable independence.
1 anticipate no such results; yet I mean'
to go, partlyliout of a whim, partly to sat-
isfy my curiosity waether it is a better
country than .New South Wales; and
lastly, in the hope of bettering my con-
dition in a small way, which at present
• is so bad that it can searcely be worse.
I mean to purchase a feria with the three
hundred pounds I received last week froni
the sale of -my father's property; and if
the Canadian soil yields only half what
Mr. C— says it does, I need not starve.
But the refined habits in which you have
been brought up, and your unfortunate
literary propensities -(I say unfortunate,
hecause you will sesdona meet people in a
colony who can or will sympathize with
you in these pursuits) -they will make
you an object of mistrust and envy. to
those who cannot appreciate them, and
will be a source of constant mortification
and disappointment to yourself. Thank
God ! I have no literary propensities;
but in spite of thelatter advantage, in all
probability lishall ina,ke no exertion at
alt; so that your energy, damped by
disgust and disappointment, and my lazi-
ness, will end in the same thing, and we
shall both return like bad pennies to our
native shores. But, as I have neither
wife nor child to intolve in my failure,
I think, without much self -flattery, that
my prospects are better than yours."
This was the longest speech I ever
heard Torn utter; and, evidently aston-
ished at himself, he sprang abruptly from
the table, overset a cup of coffee into my
lap, and wishing us good -day (it was
eleven o'clock at night), he ran out of the
house.
(To ea CoNTINTI ED. )
VARIETIES.
An Ottawa man troubled. Ilith a 436211, -
chepped his toe off.'
It is far better to =suffer than to lees
the power of suffering.
"But why, Pat did you enlist into the
34th Regiment ?" -" Och sure to be near
my .brother who's in the 33rd."
You have only put downisix pieces' in
your programme, said a printer to =a con-
cert manager, " Bat is enough, "replied
the Manager, shrugging his shoulders
"for in dis city they are nevairesatisfieti.
without dey encore two, three, several
i mes
'Would Ye plaee, mem," said Bridget,
the other evening, "an' Pd like ye to
'hid me the loan of your white dress to -
wear to a party. I do hate te be askin'
ye fur borrowed clothes niver fit me like
•my own."
"What are you about'" inquired a
lunatic of a cook, who was industriously
stripping the feathers from a fowl. -
"Dressing a chicken," answered the cook.
-T should call this undressing," said the
erazy fellow, in reply•. The cook looked
reflective. e
"I say, boy, stop that ox l"
havn't got no stopper." "Well. head
him them" " He's already headed, sir."
"confound your impertinence, turn him !"
e's right side out already, sir.' "Speak
• to laim you rascal, you "Good morn -
in dr. Ox."
French marquis was riding out one
daly, when he met an old priest trotting
al ng contentedly on a quiet donkey.
Id a !aka !" exclaimed. the marquis, "how
go s the ass, good. father ?" "On horse -
ba k, my son -on horseback," re•plied
th priest.
Bachelors," says Josh Billings, "are
alWays abraggin' of their freedom ! Free-
dom to darn their own stockings and
poidtiss their own shins' I had rather
be a widower once in two years, regular,
than to be a grunting, old, hair -dyed
bachelor for 'only ninety days."
A pedlar was offering a Yankee clobk,
finely varnished and coloured, to =a lady
not remarkable for her personal beauty,
"why, it is beautiful," said the vender,
"Beautiful, indeed! A look at it abniast
frightens me,". said the lady " Then
m rm," replied' Jonathan, "I guess you'd
be ter take one that ain't got no Iiooking
s.ss
servant girl in the town of A—,
whose beauty formed matter of general
adttairation and discussion, in passing a
group of officers in the street heard one
of ' them exclaim. to his fellows, " By
heaven, she's painted." Turning round,
she very quietly replied, "Yep sir; and
by heaven only 1" The officer acknedw-
le ged the force of the rebuke, and apolo-
gis d.
citizen 'of Arkansas, while on board
of steamer on the Mississippi, was Mk -
ed by a gentleman, "whether the raising
of stock in Arkansas was attended by
m ch difficulty or expense'" "0, yes,
str nger-sthey suffer much from insectis."
-` tweets! Why, what kind of inseets,
pr ?" "Why, bears, catamounts, wolves,
an such like insects."-' .1
faternal Solicitude -An old Highlabd
wo an, whose son-in-law was much .4d -
clic ed to intemperance,lecturing hiniAne
da on his misconduct concluded with
th following grave advice :7 -`Man, Rin-
gt. I would like that you would behave
wy 00 rsael' buy an ad new gathersui t a so, blackmitch oisai lel,se,iis
i. aoa dr
1 ould like to hear tell o' your being
de leunniat aitngmEtyxfurnaeorrdali.nary._
,
"I have
h
so ething to do with collecting accounts
11: - kie, and if your rates are as difficult
to all in as mine are, you must have bat-
tle enough in your profession." "�h,
mob, you're no' up to your - bUsiness..-
You're but a green ban'; we could learn
you. No' get your •account ; I Ca'cl in
accounts when there was na,etking awn
•
•
t°
An lady was recently brought ee a,
witness before a bench of magistrates,
and when asked to take off her bonnet,
obstinately refused to do so, saying:
" There's no law compelling a vvoinan -to
take off her boarmet." 'Oh' imprudently
repte,d. one Of 'the Magistrates, "y
know the, law, do you' Perhaps you
would like to come up and sit here and
teach us ?" "No I thank you sirsiin,
the woman, tartly, "there are old wonelen
notl.d," him to go grease
i
ethneou
waggongIIthere
and said, "All the grace is gone, bad
luck to it." "Why, Pat, I give you
enough to grease five or six- waggons?
"If you plase, sir, I only got half -over
the top of the waggon when the gra.ce
run oat." Why, you blundering fool, I
meant that you should grease thewheels,
not the waggon." "Sure. you tould me
to grace the waggon, sir.
"Good mornin,g, Mr. Smith, on the
sick list to day" "Yes sir, ; got the
Do you ever shake !" "Yes,
"
shake like thunder" "When do you
shake aanin ? "Can't say when -shake
every day. Why do you ask?" "0.
nothing in particular --only I thought if
you shook so bad, I'd like to stand. by
and see if you avould't shake the fifteeia
dollards out 4 your pocket which yon
Pat's masteree He returned after a while
r.
Ilaveo.Fa
wed:hel'ate
0hlo:ogiirs.?
lilre of a speech in
the g iHn go uoaam
na the e .. monsw
influence, exercised
hease
ewby tl in;
Government over the members, observed
that it was generally understood that
there was a member employed by the
nloinisteorsg. asliermnae thereawas
manager IfouEe of
cmmn
it general 'eq,
of "Name him, name_ him !
said Mr. Fox, "I don't choose te name
him, though I might do it as easily as to
say Jack Robinson." John Robinson was
really the member's name.
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