The Brussels Post, 1891-4-17, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST, APRIL 17, 1891
LYNDON OF HIGH CLIFFE,
AN OLD SOLDIER'S LOPE STOB,Y,
0. Deseoen, Author of " When the Tide Wes Hials," "The Arlastand the M411,"
" Into a Luger Room," Etc.„ If.to,
CHAPTER I.
COLONxi. 1.vetime AND HisFRIENDS,
"Dla W110 IS Colonel Lyndon,
Colonel Lyndon is one of tbe most re.
namekable men in London at the present ince
meat."
" ili what way ? Cannot you particularise
:a little?"
" Hot there are so many waye," said Ltely
rherte Wiustanly, with a stnile, "To login
v4th, he to remarkabledookine, a fine men,
well.built, muscular, would pass muster
1ateywhere. nest—but I am sore you will
tosgh--"
promise to be serious."
" He is an simple an a little child.'
" in your opinion' Flom."
"There, William, I knew you would
aoy that."
Well, never mind. Go on. What
"1 don't think I eltall toll you anything
Norm Yon will soon are 11101 for yourself.'
" Theo he has accepted your invitatioo
"Yce he will arove, I hope, the day
afeer to-mom:v."
" And ells . dorrieon and eNfilly?"
"1 wrote et the colonel about them
yosterday. Most likely they will travel
together. "
The scene of the above little dialogae was
the terrace in front of Castle Ettriek, and
thespeakere were Mr. Winstanloy, one of the
esti landed proprietors in a picturesque
.1:Zorthern cower, and his wife, Lady Flora
arVinstanley. The time was the forenocn of
lovely day in July.
"Thea is nothing but fishing now,"
ransacked Me. Winstanley meditatively,
or driving. Does be know the country—
the colonel,- T Incite ?"
"Ob, yea He used to stay at the
atackenzies' years ago They aro almost
nidlculotts about him. The old general says
it in a thousand pities be has lett the army,
send that there is not such another soldier in
t'nglated. But don't trouble yourself,
William, Colonol Lyndon is not one of
tamee 11 Sell who require amusing. Leave
him to 'germ Ms Mu gait,' as
seer neighbours here Ismael say, and
he will be perfectly happy. By. the -by, I
stelppose yeti know that a visitor is expected
at Deep Deane? '
"Know 1" cried Mr. Winstanley. "I
tshould think there is not a single sots" within
falty miler' of this that doesn't know. The
whole neighbourhood is on the tip -toe of
expeetetion. If I have been asked one
question on the subject, I have certainly
lead to newer a hundred. And the business
never as w any tit um like it, Houses are
being tleoerated. old games furbished up,
em -tennis and croquet grounds set in
ordor ; estat:Me matrous of every degree
are drowitee their inanities about them.
Nod, this, emote is change of 141,11 ; and Dick,
the other, poor lad ! hasn't had a holiday
ior tome untold, and—"
"Don't be so cynical, William," inter.
Tooted Lody Flom. " Of course we are
ail reedy to welcome a stratiger, especially
eine who comes from so peat a distance ; and
Id we wish to make things pleasant for her,
ele that any subject for ridicule? For my
own part, I ant sorry diet our house is not
oz little brighter just now. Percy being
ttsvay makes such a difference."
"Every ditrarenee,"said Mr. Winstanley,
with 0 laugh. " Well, she has not arrived.
yet. By the way, she will 1.e travelling
about the seine time as our people. it
would be curious if they met."
"How should they meet ?" re turned Lady
riora. Laughing at her linsbauti for his at-
eard suggestion, she went °Elbe her morm
og ocoupations, one of which was to choose
et room with a comfortable aspect for Colo.
ate! Lyndon, and to give orders for the due
and proper amount of cleaning, airing, and
dainty decoration, to make the room worthy
:of
so welcome a guest,
Lady Flora ea, instanley, who was one of
the many daughters of a Scotch earl, who
tad married wisely when elto was a girl,
en,1 who had lived long enough to see her
oldest daughter a wife and mother, and her
enty son a military officer in the service of
Her alajeety, was a shrewd and capable
woman of the world.
She was not without kindness, fur she
had done many 0 generous deed in her time;
hat the otrotimsteucee of her life, helped by
e certain pcudence of oliarecter fnheritecl
f eons a long lisle of prudent ancestors, had
eattde her practical rather than sentimental,
keen of scent and eye where the interests of
berfamily were concerned, and hard towards
those who ventured to oppose them, or who
undeeignedly stood in their way.
That she would have spoken of herself na
selfish or worldly is improbable. She had a
certain position to hoop up and not too
enuch "eller" to keep it up on, and there-
fore ohe wasbound t, becarefol. No' orer she,
nor her husband, nor her son, when he was
at home, could live.—at least so she
supposed.--withoet entertaining or being
entertained, or pursuing some of the
costly and laborious amusement whioh make
rich 01011 and women old before their time;
and since the property was not nearly so
productive as it had been, it was smote:my
for her to look well to the ways of her
household, and especially to those of her
two unmarried children, Percy and Mildred.
To plan tor the future, and provide, so her
as in her lay, for the continued prosperity
and dignity of her family—what was it,
after all, but a right and proper fulfihnent of
the Scriptural injunction to care for those
of her own household.
At the time when Lady Flora and her
husband were talking over their expected
visitor, they had but recently ['advert at
their Scotch home on the moors, They had
towelled northwards a littlo earlier than
usual, being anxious to economise after the
expenses of the London season, whieh had
boon unusually brilliant, Lady Flora
was fond of the country, and she
thought the complete rest would do
her good, while Mr, Winstanley who
did not " do the easort ' eo fdithaully aS
dubs wife, ego always glad of a quiet
tWelfth of August, which happy day would
Whig the usual batch of shooting men, with
them wives wives and daughters, to make tho old
house gay, that she thought: of her friend
"ColonerLyndon, of High Cliffe, anti to him
she wrote, begging, in her graceful way,
that he would take pity on the loneliness of
so pair of solitary old people, and WIND 1;11001
she pleasure of his company at Oaetle Et -
Wok.
Tho invitation arrivedate happy momone,
end was immediately end gratefully erupt
id. Trite colonel fixed a near clay for his
Visit, and set hitroself at once to make not
tangementa for his tourney.
Colonel Lyndon and Lady Flora Winstan-
ley wore friends of old atauding, lie was
her junior, though not by many years; they
Iliad smolt some months of their youth as
'emir neighbors and tho tints had beenee.e.choserit he might have been at two or
he was then a mere boy, and she a benotiful
woman, just beginning to feel her own p ewer
—when he bad thought of her with a very
tender regard, Ho MSS too young, Mo poor,
and too simple to have been in any eense, a
competitor for the hand of the lovely Lady
Flora, out had he knotyn how numb alto liked
him, he might have made SD effort to win her,
.As lb fell out, the exigencies of life eeparat-
ed them. He, bemg the second son in o
family that held to the traditions of the old
landed gentry, without having the money
to maintain them, went away into the
Indian army, toed spent years upon year
exile. Ho was not wanted at home.
eldesb brother ruled in their lether's p1
in the old family mansion of High Olt
His mother, who had still her home th
was wrapped up in her elder son,
scarcely are much as bhougnt of the young
He became accustomed, after a time, to
life of camps and foreign stations, and
farmff home in England wits like a shadowy
dream to him.
As for Lady Flora, she set aside pt.:adeptly
her faucy that might have grotyn into a
hopeless love for the beautiful and chival-
rous youth, who had been the companion
and devoted friend of her early womanhood,
and married, after a short, uneventful
eourtship, the gentleman chosen for her by
her father.
None the lege did she continue—ea women
will—to follow with interest tho career of
the man whotn, if things had fallen out dif-
ferently, she might have loved.
It eves during that brilliant season in Lon-
don that she heard of Colonel Lyntlou's re.
turn to England. Ho had returned for good
and all, having to few months before, to
obedience to his mother's wish, retired from
the army, No one knew what it cost the
gallant soldier to give up his profession and
go back into private life, He loved the
movement and bustle of etempa ; in the full
command which had devolved upon him sot
long before, he took the keenesteatisfaction
and delight ; he was aware, too, an turned
out to be the MUM; the civil leo me
life at Iso
with no occupation of an absorbing kind te'
keep it going would. very soon peel upoin!
him. As for :High 011tre—whiell, his brotl
sr having died, was now his—it might he
grand place in his mother's eyee, but to him,
three gay assemblages every night. London
life, stoweve„ palled spot as life
in the oountry bad done. Thee° people
Were very kind and agreeable, Re wits
gratetil to them for the notion they took of
him, which did indeed sometimes am:pries
him
a little, Hut ill the midse of gayer:mole
he was solitary, He mimed his mon Ito
missed the,pultutilious order of his ooldier-
life ; he mussed the yetine °Mem who led
been his friends) as well at; his suberclinetes,
and whom it had been his pride, as Ile would
have exPeeeeed it, "bo keep stpaigbe" He
was molted there, so at hest loudly
egbt,nd; and there was some profit end stable.
faction In his Ilk Here—both In ths depths
of the country and in the gay whirl of Lon-
don lite Ito felt the 811010-110 one really
wonted him. To have said that there was
no eutislaetioe his life would have bee
impious to the religious wee of the old
soldier. He could net, as yet, feel Om
there Wail any profit in it.
When lie net Lady Flora Winstanloy—it
8,,•11 WAS by whet tsgenerelly celled. an atendent
"-'0 —at the house ot to mutual friend, the
'..10,esh colonel, though few would have reoognised
the fact, WAS beginning to fall a prey to a
ens settled melancholy. Tho unexpected and
am' most pleasant revival of an early friendship
(sheeted Min not a, little, lie told Lady
Flora some of his perplexities, and was ad-
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vise,' by her to have patience," There is a
nook bit the world for every ono," said the
wise lady. " You will find your nuok bit
time."
By way of helping him to find title nook,
she introduced him, to her son Percy. "Give
hhn some good advice," site said. " He is so
dear boy, but Ismail too easily led."
The colonel was sparing of his advice ;
but he made Lady Flora's sou Ids friend,
and was able, in the course 0h the summer,
to stove time uhatening, but somewhat flighty,
young soldier from tumbllug into two or
three dangerous pit -falls. Looking after
Percy, in fact, become almost au oecumetiou
to
Percy was leaving the attractive neighbour-
hood of the metropolis, and the oolonel woe
wondering what he should do with himself
for the next few weeks, when Lady Iflorahs
invitation to Castle E'ttricile arrived.
CHAPTER II.
TR RISE LETTERS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES,
On tho day before Colonel Lyndon's pro-
jected departure from London, lie found n
less than three letters ce Ids study Wee.
The first whielt he opened was in 1 110 firm,
somewhat masculine, band of bus friend
Lady Elora tninatauley. 1:11.11 as
lows
" Deem Cuieneet. Lytteox,-1 hope I
• This Wail jest it little perplexing. Three
laeliets to escort: to the North that night,
Surely le was herd upon the colonel.
HO bitd h04/11 Of MISS V00011 104 1300W110;
WII 0, in 001110Q001100 of her large weelth
lively manner, and curiously interestingstsry, story, had boort one of the sensations of the
season, and he believed, front what ho hoard,
that ehe was exceedingly well able to take
care of horeelf, But Alexander Stnith Ives
an old friend. If Ile chose to go through
the formality of an lathed/lotion at the stab -
Gore the colonel felt fleet he was bound to
elt
me himself agreeable, if not usefal.
The Rebel letter was in the eandwriting
of hie charming, tlitebby young friend, Percy
Winstanley ; and as tho colonel believed
him to have been on his way to Afritta by
this timo, ho looked at it with some sur-
prise, It detect from Ptymouth—then lie
had not shorted, This was strange,
The colonel opened the letter hastily,
"Ibsen Ommense " (wrote the young fel.
law), "I gather hem your hot that you are
off to the Highlands, and duet you propose
to start on the very day when, if the post is
tom to time, this letter will reach you,
Will you be surprised if I tell you that 1,
l'eroy Winstam
itley, om to travel north in
the sameOven1 It is a long story, which
can tell on when tve meet, Thunderstorms
or ten end s heti ; negligence somewhere
—Samarrand broke down, pat in at Ply-
mouth ; won't bo able to travel for at
least a fortnight. in these fourteen
blessed days, which aro given to me
by my indulgent eountry for my own pur-
poses, I moon to rush up to En:crick, and have
ono more look at the dear old place and the
deer old people Move I go. Whab fun it
will be u .1:shall do the melodramatic—buret
upon them Lilco a meteor, take every one by
surprise. 13at as I know you, my dear men.
tor, would certainly spot me during the
journey, I take you into my confidence, I
ant writing, in the evening, I shall dine and
sleep here, soul early in the 11101311.11g, start
for London. Look for mo some time m the
afternoon of the they you receive this. We
can cline together at Ruston, and thea hooray
for the Nasals 1"
" Yours, hi haste and affection,
" Ponce IVierseaeutey."
There was a pleasant ligh bin the colonel's
eyes as lie read this effusive letter. " Ex-
travagant young beggar l" he murmured,
J ust like him, Wen, he's not a son of
mine 1" and then be began to feel glad that
ho would have a young friend with him to
talc(' part III the onerous etnties of the jour-
ney, and to think, with a satisfaction which
,
eradiated his sunburnt lase, or the rapture
his little teem" adilly would experience,
viten she would see in the crowded :station
ere
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ere et:tot-se:tee .!' ; tee te.
accustomed as he was to the vast distances
and palatial splendours of the East, it seem-
ed poor and small.
And yob he obeyed. His mother had lost
her elder son. Sine wrote plaintively that
she had none other than him. He wits
Lyndon of High Cliffe now. He must come
home, marry, mud take up his position in
the crittay, It would break her heart to
think of the place, that had belonged for to
many generations to the family, being soso
or passing into the hands of strangers. 0a
personal grounds, also, she besought him to
yield to her. She was old, she wrote, and
the last stroke had been too heavy for her.
She felt that the end of her sorrows was at
hand. She would die more happily if her
son was near her.
She did not, indeed, long 'survive bit,
coming. He travelled poslehaste to Lon.
don, and went down into Devonshire, where
High Cliffe was situated, and foe the rest of
hie mother's life he reinvested there,
It was when ho had kid her in the -grave,
when the early days of mourning were over,
and he began to look forward to tho life
which was left to Min'that Colonel Lyndon
first realised the full importance of the step
he heel taken in leaving the army.
He had fav relatives and no near Mende
in England. He ems 'to:materna(' to have
many people about hint ; but of society as it
is understood either in London or his; own
county, he knew notes' g. The pursuits of
his neighbours wore not his pursuits. Ho
was expected to be art courant with all tho
chiaohat of tho county, and ho scarcely so
nmeh as knew the names of his mother's and
brother's oldest friends,
Then High Olin was so well managed that
it gave him nothing tt: do. He had a certain
talent for organisation, and, if he had found
thingwrong on his estate, it might have
interested him to set them riglsb. Bub the
gamer(' was so trustworthy ; the peovinciel
lawyers, who had looked after the property
for many verse were so able and devoted;
bhe land, even to the garden which had
boon his mother's pride, was in such admir-
able order, that he felt it would bo not only
unwise but ungrateful to interfere with any
of the arrangements. After thanking every
ono, and confirming every ono in the posts
they had hold under his mother, bbs colonel
found his life so insufferably dreary, theb
he Wandered up to London, where Ile had
several Mende
It was then early in the brilliant/ stetson
which had been so exhausting taLatly Flora
Winstenley's finances, The oolostel had nob
many friends, but thoso ho did pewees wore
persons of good standing. They MIA:edema
him to others. His soldierly bearing tend his
fine chivalrous manners made Mtn a favour.
Re; especeally omong ladies, and, had he
°roue xo HAVE 1(4.35110 woo YOU WERE.”
shall not bo presuming too iter upon year
good -nature if I ask you to give who t as-
sistance you can geve to a pair of e ming
travellers who are going your way this
evening. One is well kuown to you—
I mean iny little daughter, Milly. 1 1101w
she net you frequently at her brother's
ahambers tide seasen. Her companion is
our new governess, Miss Hou-rbsnn, a gond
and charming girl, but thnid end Mexperi-
epoch They stayed behind mo for educe.
Ronal reasous, and they have been ander the
guardianship of our London housekeeper,
whom I would have asked to come an with
them to Scotland, heel Snot remembered that:
youwerecomingnortleby the very same train,
do not know whether I shall be flattering
yon or nob when I any that, in all the circle
of my acquaintanceship, you are the only
gentleman of whom I would venture to seek
such a londnees.
"Looking forward to meet yon soon,
remain " Most sincerely yours,
"FLORA WIEST:110AM"
A kind and amiable letter, When the
Colonel bad reed it he put it down swilling.
ly. `: Thank you, Lady Flora," Ito said half
aloud, "It is clear enough that you do
not share the opinion of some of my friontls.
Well 1 I think I have Insole it to be under.
stood thiel1 titit itit old hitoholor, I have
been imliirerent to it surprising amount; of
beauty and wit tide SORSOIL Now, let me
see what cones
He took op the next letter. " Alexander
Smith ; whet eau he want with me?"
The question wee soon answered.
Smith, like Lady Flora, wanted help for
inexperienced travellers.
"MY DEAR LYNDON" (110 wrote), "I
think we aro friends of sufficiently old
standing for sue to venture to ask you to do
me a faVOUP,
"My niece and ward, Veronica Brown*
(you will know whom I mean—there has
just been a lawsuit about hot property),
is travelling to Scotlend by to-night:es limit
ed mad. 1. should have wished to accotn.
pany her ab least as far as' Edinburgh, but
fin d 1 ORD only do so at the sceorifioo of
business, trly niece is nob nettle least
but she knows very little about travelling in
England, an d. h et meld, Whoie one of theatimis
dest of women, would be capable of fainting
at a critical moment, or Inmsting into tears
if she was "molted at. Unhappily the is
treasure, old a trouser° with a bisbory, so
my Mao will not pert with her, 1 was ot
my wits' end about than, when Iromenther.
od, that yen wore travelling by tho same
brain. 'Will you give OM oye to my niece
during the Mummy, and rouder her what as.
etstance yon eari ? 1 wilt meet you at tho
station and introduce yon' 10 her.
"Believe sne, my (tear Lyndon,
"Very sincerely ;yours,
ALEXANDER 81`AITIL
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the beloved brother over whose abseece she
had been shoaling so niany bitter team.
As thee° moments] of kindly feeling give
all additional grace to 8V011 010 bed-ft/VOW ed
of inortela, wo will seize the present opium -
tensity lot- giving 'o slight sketch of our. col-
onel's appearance and meneere. Of his
precise age we cannot speak definitely. And,
indeed,there was a diversity of opinion on
this point. An old.fashiened young man,
or to young-fashioued old man—either of
these deserrptione might have applied to hint.
lie was 1100 certainly in the least like the
young matt or the oluorly man who is ordin-
arily to be meb with in Loudon drawing.
rooms in tut season. It was due probably
to his long absence from England
that he had not caught up with
the manner of the time. He spoke quiet'
and finished 1119 sentences properly.
When ho addressed ladies it was with a
oeurtliness of manner which, while it moused
them on a first introduotion—their cousins,
brothers, and uncles having accustomed
them to so different a style of behaviour—
proved, after a time, partioulaaly fasoinab-
mg to them. The colonel, moreover, heti not
learned the code of sigmas which do duty
for witty talk amongst it certain elan m
society, He could not converse its jerks and
• bursts, and not a few of else expressions OM
were convent coin in fashionable circles seens•
ed to him positively ill-mitunereci. Many
of his acquaintancee called him fortnee ; but
to most of them them was something refresh.
ing about his formality. "I love to balk to
Colonel Lyndon," said one woll-ltnown lady,
who ruled society by her beeuty and wit eb
this tirrto—" he le nob afraid of being origin-
al. Others said that the colonel was sym-
pathobie, Oafs he seemed to know by instinct
whet would be interesting to his companion
of the moment),
There were some who pub down his popu-
larity—far, bit spite of his old.woeld men.
ners, hs was popular—to his appearance,
TI n as lames any wit
woman would have been proud to own as talc
near relative, Tall tend broad, but spare '
in figure, like one who has accustomed hint. lad
soll to lewd exercise, his fano finely tutored you
and deeply bronzed by hie long yous in au fe
Indism climete, abetted with a long rodenris
moustache, which foil oven end partly con- per
coaled oho of the gentlest mouths that over er ?
were seen ; clear blue ors, very direct fit
their glence, end as full of fun, upon coca- doe
sions, as any schoolboy's; a frenk eddross, you
and a floe oroot, soltlierly bearing—such was app
Colonel Lyndon, of High Olifro, when ho you
retired hum the army. An each Ito had, a h
unconsciously to himself, for he did not sup '1
dcrstiend how to flirt fascinated more ladies pod
then olio that some. Het however, con- ho
lettuce' howt.froo, Sines tho clays whoa ho hoe
had peered out pages of ow:Italia verso about: he et
the lovely Lady Flora, told rushed away
to tho ends of the earth rather than
see her attother's man's , bride, Ito had
novo: fallen in love with any one te
hoot on which, in these clays, he wad wont
to congratulate himself. Letilee in generel,
ho would say, were so worthy of homege,
that it seemed invitileua to pielc out any one
amongst them for pal:Reeler devotioo.
While we have been talking about elle
oolonel, we most imagioe that the morning
and afternoon of the day when we mot him
Peet: his letters have 'slipped away, It hi
nearly five o'clock. Everything is reedy for
a etas.t, and the colonel, with his watch in
his hand, 'sheaths ab the window of his little
eitting-room, which looks out on busy Pic-
cadilly, watohing for the arrival of his young
friend,
Al laat—it is ten minutes past five, and
he had to bo fidgety—a hansom uomes tear-
ing clown the street It threads fes way nkil.
fully thecmgh otnnibuees, cerriagee, cabs,
and oats, Its occupant impatient, and
is urging the driver on, ' 'Whey will got into
trouble ; they will certain y go into trou-
ble 1" says the watcher toe the window
" What a scatterbrain tho boy is 1 All 1
quietly, quietly 1" Of course they did not
hear him, for his window eves three stories
high ; but Ise could not repress ,the exclama-
tion. The suddenness with which that
unhappy home was pulled up would have
been alarming to any onenot welt aoaustone-
ed to tho ways of London hansom drivera.
(To BB CIONTINUan,
Notes for the Kitchen.
To Coolt OLD HEN.—W11011 so eminent
a scientist as Prof. W. Mathieu Williams
thought it worth his Needle to experiment
with this somewhat tough subject for gne-
tronomio oontemplation, it may not bo amble
to profit by the resale of his experiment.
He took it hen six years old but otherwise
in good condition and cooked it slowly in
water for four liont•s, then let it stand in
the water until the next day, when it WAS
roasted for about ten hour, basting frequent.
ly with some of the broth in which it was
simmered. It was then pronounced as
tender and fine &waved as a yang chicken
roosted in tho ammo way, notwithstanding
the good broth obtained by.stewing. .
Oneteceet Weees.—A nico dish can be
made from the wings of fowls by stewing
slowly until extremely tender, then make a
puree of peas by boiling a quantity of peas,
either fresh or panned, in water until tender,
draining ani mashing through a sieve and
seasoning with salt, pepper and butter.
Just before mashing through the sieve thick-
en with it teblespoouful of fiour to every
quart of peas. Wet the flour with cold
water and wok for two minutes. Servo on
a steak dish with:the wings piled on top.
Hon C.oce.--'Phis is the real Southern hoe
cake, The recipe was given by a Tennesree
lady who makes it to perfection. The meal
of tho teeth saki not to be OS sweet
that of the South, butif yon wel send sive
corn and tiela corn half and half to the nt
and have it ground I think you will n
complain of Oho meal. Mix a quantity
the meal teeth water until it is too thin
be called a dough, and too thick to be moll
a better. urease the griddle and Reread t
hue cake open it rathe; thicker than a be
ter eeke. Brown on one side and then tu
over let hot with butter, and break
the pieces ; don't cut it.
Benese oe 11 serrox.--The French Itim
low to make not only a palatable, hut
delicious dish of this piece of mutton whi
Americans generally uso only for soup. 1'
secret lies in Meg anti slain:cooking. P
over tho fire in suflieient hot water to coy
it, and seumee until the hones slip out easily,
seasoning with sett end pepper when half
done. Take nut, tend remove the bones
press the moat between two plates and 1
ile i [II
.. seem. Im. erns and cold. Tho
seers the inettoti, and sproad wi
a mixture of ',hopped parsley and sive
herbs, With ODIOUS; rubbed through spoo
ful of butter and seasoned with melt and re
popper ; apri» It I e thickly with bread crumb
dot with bits of butter and bake a 'lab
brown. Dish on a hot plettor, garnish wit
little mounds of boiled or steatnecl rico, all
serve with a brown sauce. Rub through tl
gravy in the p two tablespoonfuls
browned flour, a large cupful of tho trot
in which the mutton was cooked, end finis
ing the seasoning with a teaspoonful of Wo
estershire sauce. This is a very economic'
°dinner, as tho broth in whith the meat wit
boiled will furnish a good soup wit
tomatoes, and other vegetables.
Not So Cute as Ile Thought lie was.
One day a tin peddler, with en assorianon
of knMk-knecks arrived at a certain villa's
n Connecticut and called tit one of tho house
in sell his wares. 'After disposing of a fe
articles to the lady of the house, WhO WL
surrounded by a regular swarm of children
she declared her inability to purchase mor
for the want of inanely,
" But maenan," said the peddler, "ain'
you of any rags?"
"None to sell," was the reply.
" Weil," returned the peddler, " you seem
to have plenty of children. Will you eel
Inc one for tinware?"
" What will you give, sir?
"Ten dollars, ma'am."
"In good tinware ?"
"Sartirt, ma'am, the best,"
" VVell, sir, it's a bargain," said the lady,
" and you may take your pick of tbe lot "
The peddler, sensitised that his offer was
accepted, yet confident that to inother would
not part with her ehildt selected a bright
A Revision,
Frew the Ohriettan at Work
How troth In my mind aro the scones of my
girlhood.
AS koon reeollootIon presents them to view --
The Meson, the it:exit:lied, Ana knote of groon
tiro wool.
And all the herd work had Won to go
through ;
The breed 1 must knead out, ancl doughnuts Lo
fry brown,
The Igoe for the 'brothers:, and bus folks', BO
1310011.
TDO 0101,1104 r mot rue out sylth the pounder
"and washtub,
The leaky Ma washtub remembered so welt;
The -washtub, the wasetub, the Iron-eoune
washtub,
The haelebt 'taking washtub that sat on tho
The sows must milk ere tho breakfast WM
ready,
The beds 1 must make ore the dinner begun,
The dishes to wash when the men folks wore
resting—
flre 111 lunl work oft coasoth, but womane
no'or
Tho floors 1 tit ust re rub herd, and bags 1 must
patch up,
'rho stockings to darn; all the tasks none could
toll.
flow oft 1/1 my el MOMS 101,1 doing big washing
With a leaky ole washtub, remembered so
evoil :
The washtub, the washtub, the ironbound
washtub,
'rho baok-broaking washtub that sat on the
well.
'rha onl wormout vessel, / now thiok itt
pleasure,
Ham gone Whore It never will trouble me
mere ;
I view in its stead now with exquisite pleasure
Maehinos whioh prevent the old backaches
of yore
Although long removed from that bard sites -
lean,
Pow tears of regret do intrusively swell
'When fanny reverts to soy father s old fent-
house,
With softsoamstroaked washtub way out on
the Willi,
The the WaShtllb, the iron -hound
washtub,
The baolabreaking washtub that felt an tho
well.
Travellers in Egypt and:en the Nile.
Just at the time when hotel proprietors in
the South of France ancl the Riviera are be-
moaning the fact that moth of their hotels
are comparatively empty and their district
deserted, the hotel proprietors of Cairo and
Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son are having to
exercise all their ingenuity to find room to
accommodate the great intim. of visitors to
Egypt. The result ie that at the present
time all the Cairo hotels are crowded, end
the manager of oath has had to take private
rooms for a considerable number of guests,
and Messrs Thomas Cook & Son have had to
throw open their large steamerRameses, the
mail stoemer Amenteetas, and the Oonus as
floating hotels to relieve the hotel proprie.
tors for a few days during the pressure on
them, which was considerably augmen tea by
the large number of travellers from the Aug-
usta Victovia, who went to Cairo and visit.
ed Sakkara, the Pyramids, &c., and have
es now e t to visit Palestine. It may be men-
ee tioned that between the 7th ismb lOth of
111 leoburery no fewer than 250 first class pas-
ot sengers loft Caro, under tho arrangements
of , of MOSS1:S. TI10 Cook & Son, for Upper
to Egypt, including 32 by tho regular until
ed service from Assiont, and lia by the now
he mail service leaving Cairo. At the proems',
t. tone Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son calculate
• tha they Iowa on the river and in the hotels
on. at Lueue et least 100 travellers. This ie the
greatest number of tourists that has ever
se boon recorded on the river at any o»e date,
e and there is no doubt that the largo amount
ch of money circulated in Upper Egypt will 110
hoe, cf:talzlyezpreciated by the natives allii Will be
nt of great benefit to the country.—Clegyptain
Biblical Discoveries of Great Inte rtsr.
et A lecture of the greatesteinterest, not only
n to Orientalists, but likewise to all interested
Os in Biblical research, has just been delivered
et at the Vemiu Niederwaid of Vienna by that
n- most distinguished Orientalist end linguistic
d scholer, the Rev. William Heehlor, chaplain
s, to the British Embassy.
I: Ever since his student days he has been
li hooking for the key to harmonize the dates
d of the kings of Judah and Ierael, given in.
se the Bible, and the dates of the kings of
of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, and Persia. As
h he observed in the coulee of his. lectuze :
1- " Whoever has carefully iseudiecl the histor-
r- ies of the ancient empires m maths struck with
tl the wonderfully truth -like roppearance of the
s chronological and synolitomstie data. No
iu historian haseveriventured to givessuch alarge
number of dates as the Bible, which aro
made to synehronize with the clams of kings
and other nations, thereby onablitig accurate
• cotetrol. Thus the kings of Judah are made
" to synchronize with the kings of Israel, and
° many of Babylou, Assyria, Egypt, and For-
s sia."
' At the last: Orientalists' Congress' in VI.-
' onna, the learned gentleman presented the
first part of his researches, extending over
° twenty years. No doubt: his charts, when
publithed, will startle many a professor -of
theology all over the world—at loath, such
as have taught their pupils that it was im-
poseible to pub in order and harmonize those
, confused dates.
` Mr, Healer proves that they do linemen -
ole, and that in a most wonderful manner,
but the key led to be sought mod found. He
does not profees to have untied the:Gordian
knot and to have disposed of every difficulty.
but the remarkably clear and ingenious way
inwbich he puts an anti:to %bleat discre-
pancies is convineieg and conclusive, The
cheats are so simple and comprehensible that
a ohild may read them.
looking boy, planed him in the cart and sup.
plied the lady with tins ante' the sum of $10
was made up.
Then the peddler, certain that the mother
would Imsten to retieetn the child as soon
as she sew Min actually starting off, mount -
ea the Seat beside the little iollaw, who,
pleased with the Wee of having Ls, ride, was
crowing Inatily, and rode off a slow pace,
expecting each moment to hoar the lady
calling to Min to bring bask the child. Bat
no such eall did he hear. After proceeding
a short distance the peddler began to see
that he had made a bad bargain me turned
his home's head again towel:de the lady's
11°T°811°E; lady had just finished ornamenting
hoe sholvoe with the tin when the peddler
entered
" Well," seed he, " don't think the boy
I do after all, I think you had hotter
o Mtn back end let ine have my waro."
N'n, sir ; the bargain was fair," said the
y, " end you shall atiolc to it whether
wish to or hot."
urprised ab this' the peddler declitimed
Why, ma'am, how can you thick of
ting with your boy to an later strang-
e
Moss your soul, mister, havts no °Mb
n," returned the lady. " Tho children
see hero era pauper children, and Rayon
one to be a good men I will gladly sell
severed more of them if yon wish at $10
°ittli(eVissoy was dropped at the door, tho
dlor limped aboard. his cart end the way
made bis om terse gob away from that
se was caution, ib is safe to say tiled;
over forgot his pauper speculation,
WITH REB, CHILD'S DRESS,
A toslatt4ed win. Moats Herself to a Hook
in tko Wall—round Dead by her
41. Husband.
Fredericten, N. B., despatch says '—
Tide morning Patrick Murphy, a laborer,
having had :some worth with his wife left tho
/mum Returning shortly alto: 8 fie chewy-
ored his wife had -twisted a email piece of
her ohild's dress around her neck tendfastons
sling ie to a hook in the wall had pushed
aside the box on which her feet rested. The
husband immediately out her down, but life
had departed. it is said Murphy frequetitly
struck his wife and that the deceased made
three previous attempts on her life in eolith"
gnome. Sha was 21 years of age and leaves
one ohild.
Tell -Tale Reeerds,
Scone—'1'ho Jones' parlor ; time, Sunday
evening. Miss Jones discovered removing
the Bible by Cleranoe Nudlo.
trudfo—" You might love the book, doev
u
X should like to look at it.
Little etobeny—" She will not lob you.
She always keeps the:Bible otit of the parlor
when any young man ealls. She doosn'b
Want anybody to look,..tots the family pylori
Mrs. Burldenriah—" What awful nice
stemma them 0)0 1" Dealer—" Yee, madam ;
bhey aro our 1 )test designs," Mee. —"Aro
they fo eat fruit with ?" Dettler—Thoy aro
anwettie spoons', madam, " Mrs.
" Glenne a dome». Out' new Dienteh cook
makes elegant emeenenirs."
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