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fele. A. T. STaWART, tete millionaire merchant
of �1 ew York.
Wednesday, June Milt 1889
THE JESUIT ACTS.
EFFORTS TO TFIEIR CON-
STITUTIONALITY.
THE PROPER 000RSE.
Ottawa, June 10. -Considerable
excitement was occasional tu•dav by
the arrival here of Mr. Hugh
Graham, of Montreal, accompanied
by Messrs. D. Macnraster, Q. C., R,
•D. McGibbon, Q. C., and A. Wal -
water, Q. C. The , ovennents of
the party were mystericee, but it
has been learned late this evening
that the gentlemen named called at
the Department of State and filed a
petition asking for a reference of
the Jesuit Aots to the Supreme
Court of Canada, under a seotiou of
the law constit,tine the court. The
petition was accotepaaie,l by a cer-
tified cheque on the Bank of Mon-
treal hate for $5,000. The petition
was immediately laid before the
Privy Council which was in session
this aftemoon. The gentlemen had
also an interview with Sir John
Macdonald. •
The following is the full text of
the petition :-
"To His Excellency lire
General of Cculstsla
tel :
"Tile humble petition of lIugh
Graham, of the city of Moutreal,
joti.rnalist, respectfully r presents:-
"lst-That grave doubts have
been expressed and exist regarding
the legality and constitutionality of
the Acts of the Legislature ;p>% the
Province of Quebec entitled respect-
ively 'an Act to incorporate the
Society of .Jesus' (50 Vic. 13), and
'an Act respecting the settlement
of the Jesuits' Estates' (51-52 Vic.,
cap. 1.2).
"2nd -That it is desirable that au
opinion should be pronounced upon
these Acts by the highest ,judicial
tribunal in the Dominion.
"311 -That your petitioner, who
is a citizen of the Dominion of Can-
ada and a taxpayer of the Province
of Quebec, acting on his own behalf
and on behalf of others is desirous
that the powers conferred upon
• your Excolleuey in Council by Sec
tier) 73 of the `Supremo and Ex
chequer Court Act' (Revised Stat-
utes of Canada; Chapter 135), which
reads as follows :-' I'he Governor -
in -Council may refer to the Supreme
Court for hearing or consideration
any matter which he thinks lit to
xefer, and the court shell thereupon
hear or consider tate °:true and certify
`£heir spit iutl thereon to the Guver-
uor-in-Cutiucil,' should he exercised
in order that counsel may be heard
by the said court upuu the said
questions. •
"4th -That in order to avoid any
question with respect to provision
being made by Your Excellency in
council for the expense incidental
to such reference, your petitioner
declares the willingness of himself
• and those associated with him to
bear the necessary costs of the
Government, and as an evidence of
such willingness your petitioner
herewith deposits his certified
cheque on the I3ank of Montreal,
Ottawa, payable to the order of J.
M. Courtney, Esquire, Deputy
Minister of Finance, for the sum of
five thousand dollars ($5,000,) ane
your petitioner, as in duty bound,
will ever pray."
It is not known what action was
takeu by the Government, but it is
freely stated here to-uight that a
lengthy and stormy session of the
Cabinet was hold.
GO HOW
Conn
Sorel, and 44.60 per one thousand
in Woodstock are most extraordin-
ary facts, for the population of
Woodstock is a permanent one,
prosperous and well-to-do, while in
Soret there is a considerable float-
ing population. It is probable that
in Woodstock the police force is an
efficient one, and a large proportion
of the convictions are for violations
of the civic by-laws. Even allow-
ing that these causes account for a
larger proportion of convictions in
Ontario thau in Quebec, the differ-
ecce between the relative number
is surprising. The highest ratio in
Quebec is that of Montreal, 28.27
per thousand ; the highest in Ontar-
io is that of Hamilton, 55.17 per
thousaud. The lowest ratio in
Quebec is that of St. Hyacinthe,
3.14; in O.utario, St. Thomas, whose
ratio is 17.55, has that honor. 'Tor-
onto, " the good," • has a ratio of
39.17, while wicked Quebeo has a
ratio of ouly 26.69. -Witness.
THE FLOODS CAME AND
8WEPT TI-IEM AWAY.
To find anything at all compar-
able in magnitude of destruction to
the Pennsylvanian inundation the
mind has to revert to the lava
deluge of Herculaneum and Pompeii
to the earthquake of Lisbon, to the
bursting of the Holland dikes.
We doubt if any other event of
which profane history gives authen-
tic moonlit resulted in such dire
calamity. 'There have been two or
three battles in which a greater
number of lives were sacrificed, but
not ono in which the percentage of
death was so great. The most ex-
aggerated estimated of the loss of
lite iu the three day's fighting i❑
the 'Wilderness assigns but 17,000'
dead---to--the• tjuion army, and by
this estimate 130,000 men took
part in the engagements. Johns-
town and its adjacent villages
eounted but 40,000 souls, and of
these at least 17,000 are supposed
to have perished. No fire, plague,
pestilence, or famine ever has
wrought so much woe in so brief a
spaee of time among so small a pop-
ulation. Not even the terrific
march of the Angel who slew every
one of the firstborn of Egypt appro-
ximated the ,lrowor of the Johns-
town flood. The Augel took but
oue from each house. The flood
took well nigh half of all the souls
that wore in the lino of its cruel
current.
'The earthquake of Lisbon., the
great fire of Loudon, tho great fire
of Chicago left the survivors of
those famous disasters well equip-
ped for new struggles iu comparison
with the survivors of -the recent
cataclysm. (•)f the houses and stores,
the banks and marts, of the deluged
region, all that cale bo said is "the
tlautls acme and swept them away,"
The very foundations aro obliter-
etad. The cities are as though they
ReY t' ltad lle,'ll: Thc•re is less left.
of Johnstown than of Tadnor. •Its
ruins are less reconstructible than
aro those of Tyre or of Sidon. The
devastation is complete and irre-
deemable. None of those benefi
cent agencies of modern civilization,
the insurance companies, can be
called upon to aid laagely in the
relief of the survivors. Men insure
homes against the perils of flame;
the perils of .flood is not contem-
plated in the insurance of houses.
When fire breaks out it is rarely
that some necessaries of life -
clothing or bedding, or at least the
the money contained in the build-
ing -are not saved. Nothing was
saved from the flood. He who
preserved a life preserved that alone:
The husbandless mother has neither
food nor shelter nor change of
clothing for herself and the sucking
babe that is left alone to her of a
lately numerous family. There is
no charitable neighbor to give or`
well-disposed trader to trust her for
provisions. There are no neighbors
or traders in the desolate valley.
The husband who has saved himself
and wife, or may bo himelf and a
now motherless child, can go to no
foundry or mill for work and wages.
Industry has no more existence in
Johnstown than in the depths of
the Red Sea. The awful truth is
that the city has ceased to exist. It
was and is not. There is neither
insurance, nor charitable organiza-
tion, onor municipal authority, nor
private enterprise, nor public zeal
to help, the sick or to employ the
healthy, to aid in restoration or to
prevent further destruction. There
is nothing to restore; there is
nothing to destroy. The devasta
tion'of all things is absolute. "The
floods came and swept them away."
iS ONTARIO VERY WICKED?
Under our judicial system all, or
nearly all, petty offences against
good morals and good order are dis-
posed of by summary process, and
altogether the ratio between the
number of the inhabitants of any
Cauadian city and the number of
summary couvictious taking place
within it annually may not furnish
a very trustworthy basis by which
to gauge its morality as a community,
yet it should measure, not without
some accuracy, either the standard
of order of the community or the
effieioncy of its police force. The
volume of criminal statistics for
1887, recently published, shows
that the number of summary con-
victions to every one thousand' of
the population of the following,
cities and towns was : In St. Hyacin-
the, 3.14 ; Hull, Que., 7.20 ; Three
Rivers, 7.70 ; Sorel, 8.71 ; Sher
brooko, 15.75 ; Halifax, 17.07;
Guelph, 17.55 ; Chatham, 20.97 ;
Quebec, 26.69; St. Thomas, 27.16;
Ottawa, 27.90 ; Montreal, 28.27 ;
St. John, N. B., 28.63; Belleville,
29.49; Charlottetown, 29.70; Kings -
t on, 29.94 ; Fredericton, 30.42 ;
London, 34.42 ; Peterboro, 35.43 ;
Windsor, 37.98 ; Brantfordi 38.74 ;.
Toronto, 39.17 ; Winnipeg, 39.23 ;
Victoria, 41.16 ; Woodstock, 44.60 ;
Hamilton, 55.17. That there should
be but 8.71 summary convictions
per one thousand inhabitants in
TROUBLE IN THE HAIREM.
Glasgow Herald : There is a
screw 100se in Turkey. Some plot
or other has been diauovered, and
the consequences are being seeu in
a uutnber of mysterious arrests, and
in wholesale measuree of punish-
ment against the press. The Times
has been throe times confxseated
within a mouth, and the Daily
Chronicle has been iutordleted alto-
gether. The feet appears to be that
a serious palace couspiracy for de-
posing the Sultau was detected in
the very nick of time. Tho S titan
was so unnerved by the discovery
that he seut for Sir William White
and asked for his advice. Sir Wil-
liam answered that the Sultan
could ouly live iu safety if he put
down his harem, not as a question
of morals but as a natter of policy,
seeing that it was iwpossib!e to
exercise supervision over au es-
tablishment of 300 ladies. The
Sultan, who is practically a monog-
amist,
ouobamist, would be glad enough to get
rid of his 299 brevet spouses, but
the customs of his dynasty forbid
'him to du this. Ou his birthday
and on twenty other days in the
yoar he invariably receives from his
mother the present of a beautiful
slave, and this young lady has
forthwith to be transferred to his
establishment iu the capacity of a
harem dame; with a household of
her ut►tt, euusisting of at least four
eunuchs and six telltale servants -
to say nothing of horses, carriages,
and grooms. A1ultiply the uuurber
of these hueseholds by 300, and it
ceases to be astonishing that the ex•
peuditure of the Sultan's Civil List
should amount to £4,000,000 a
year. A large item of this sum
represents the dowers which the
Sultan pays to his slaves when he
marries them. Tu favorite officials,
about 100 aro married from the
palace yearly, sill each- of them is
entitled to receive .1:10,000. (In-
fottuuately, the bridegroom who
takes a wife from the Sultan's hauls
roust, at his earliest convenience,
make a present of a slave to keep
the staff of {t -fro" Imperial Seraglio
up to its proper figure. The Sultan
loathes the whole thing, but what
is he to do 1 There are too many
vested interests engaged in keeping
the Imperial harem supplied with
wives, and if the Sultan were to
cashier his entire female establish-
ment he •would certainly be deposed
or murdered. Sir William White
is said to have advised his Majesty
to reduce his establishment by not
filling up the vacancies, but this is
not easy, seeing that every Cabinet
Minister and.Pacha of note looks to
passing his slaughter through the
Sultan's harem as a simple gleans
of securing her a marriage portion,
with 'the title of Valido, which may
be construed as princess.
ORANGE INCORPORATION.
-Charles Orchard, 16 years old,
and Bessie Ranee, a girl of 14 years,
living at Lima, Ohio, eloped Wed-
nesday night.
-Last week a person not far from
Dundalk indulged in a smoke after
retiring to bed, then placing the
pipe in the pocket of his coat, which
was hanging fit a chair near the bed,
was soon locked in the arms of
Morpheus. Sometime in the night
a neighbor was paeeing the house
and saw a fire in the room. He at
once aroused the inmates, who were
totally unconscious of the blaze.
The fire from the pipe had set the
coat on fire, and even the chair had
caught. A watch in one of the
pockets was totally destroyed by the
heat.
FRENCH PREDOMINATES.
It will be remembered that dur-
ing the recent session of the Ontario
Assembly the Opposition charged
Mr. Mowat's Government with pan-
dering to French and romish
influence by allowing French and
rotnislt text -books to bo used in
the public schools of Ontario, and
permit:iug the i;noriog of the
authorized Euglish text books. Hon.
Goo. Washington Ross, Minister of
Education, denied that any euch a
state of things prevailed.
A Mail commissioner reports the
followiug concerning the county of
Prescott :
THE FRENCH TEXT -BOOKS.
Taking lidlle. lit -lore's school as
a fair speeiuren of the lot, it will be
seen that French occupies over five -
sixths of the school time. The
French text -books are to a groat ex-
tent books of religious instruction.
They are also designed to foster in
the child a love of Frouch Canada,
the rust of the Dominion being
treated as if it were a foreign laud.
'Phis only shows how completely
the race cleavage has sundered the
two communities. Religion is in-
troduced in the A B (2 book iu the
form of easy discourses on the
doctrines of the church. In the A
B C, as in the little and large
catechiser, the dogma that there is
nu salvation out of the Noonan
Catholic church has to prominent
place. The 13ollandist Lives of the
Saints, and the works of I3ussuet,
henelnn, Silvio Pellico, and other
Catholic writers are freely drawn
upon. In addition, the leaders
contain a number of legends each
with a moral fur the child. Thus
in the Fifth lt-ader there is an ex-
tract from au unknown author uu
the respect due to the clergy.
Priest's are described as " the
Meditators, between God and mart,
empowered to give remission of
sins, to offer the sacrifice of the now
law, to announce the divine word
to all teen without distinction of
rank or power;" and the child is
warned that to insult a priest or
ascribe foolish or ridiculous things
to him is to insult .Jesus Christ.
TILE "HISTORY OF CANADA."
The Canadian history in use in
many of the schools is that by Prof.
Toussaint., of the Laval normal
school. It is not a history of Canada,
but of French Canada, written from
the clerical point of view. here
arts a few extracts :
Writing of the conquest-: "'The
forts with their cannons had been
Captured, and the port of Quebec
with its shipping. Canada was lost
to France, but she was not lost to
herself.' T•here•remained to her the
clergy,• the religious communities,
and a population intensely Christ-
ian. 'Therein lay her salvation.
* * V es,. • Canada was saved in
the Very lot, of being lost ; saved by
the secure faith of her population,
by her inviolable attachment to
Cntbolieism. Tnat faith has been
fixed in the hearts of the people
and preserved front generation to
geueratiou by a clergy composed of
secular priests and religious mis-
sionaries and apostles, by these
comniudities, exhaling the perfume
of their virtues and giving to the
child that knowledge of the faith
which is the aliment of great souls
and the only solid foundationsof
power among Christian nations.
France has lost a valuable, colony ;
but Canada herself has lost nothing
-she remains as proud and as
Christian as she was in the seven-
teenth century."
1838-3.9 -" Eighty yea's have
passed since the conquest of the
country -yeas of persecution, reli-
gious intolerance, and despotism.
England has pursued with respect
to Canada the policy she • had fol-
lowed in Ireland -seeking to Angli-
cize and Protestantize the people
and impose upon them her own
laws."
1841.-" The act of utr on was
evidently designed for the purpose
of placing the Canadians under the
domination of the English."
The Orange order in Outerio and
in Canada is without incorporation
to -day partly by reason of I{.ofortn
trickery, partly by reason of hostile
Reform votes.
An ' act of iueorporation once
passed the Outeri° legislature ; but
Mr. Mowat took upon himself the
responsibility of not advising the
lieutenant -governor to sign • and it
fell dead, If the order is without
a charter in this province it is solely
because Mr. Mowat refused to per-
mit the act to become operative,
Acts of incorporation were intro-
duced into the Dominion parlia-
ment in 1883 and 1884. In the
first year Mr. White. of Hastings,
introduced the bill. It is not to be
wondered at. that Roman Catholics,
and even Protestants representing
constituencies which were largely
Rotnan Catholic, should vote against
the bill ; but in this cease the extra-
ordinary step was taken of moving
the six months' hoist immediately
on the introduction of the measure,
and when only its title had been
road; Mr. John Charlton, now .so
active iu reference to the Jesuits'
bill, voted for the six mouths'1toist.
The 'motion was lost Laud the bill
had its first leading. At a later
stage Mr. Curran again moved the
six months' hoist, which was car•
rind by 106 to 70. For the motion
(that is, for refusing incorporation
to the order) these voted among
others, Measrs. Blake, Charlton,
Mackenzie, Paterson, of Brant, Foss
(now in Mr. Mowat's cabinet), Bain,
Springer and Somerville, of Brant.
Against the motion (that is in, favor
of incorporation) were Messrs.
Bowel!, Carling, Foster, Haggart,
Macdonald (Sir John), McLelan,
Tilley 'Tupper, White, hilvert and
Robedsou. Sir Richard Cartwright
was not in the house.
In 1884 another bill was intro-
duced, which was thrown out hie
vote of 68 for incorporation to 105
against it. For the hill were Messrs.
Bowell, Carling, Foster. Haggart,
McLelan, Macdonald (Sir John),
Tilley, Tapper (Pictou), and White
(Cardwell). Against it were Messrs.
Blake, Cartwright (Sir Richard),
Charlton, Mills and Paterson.
When Mr. Charlton is,••acldress-
ing Orangemen on the Jesuits' act
will not somebody ask him why he
three times voted against the incor-
poration of the Orange order in
Canada?
am arras ^ .erase s: attertorstsessa
siding overall worts of benevolence FOR OW? STORY-READER1'.
and charity -.-such are the principal
titles of the Canadian clergy to the
'admiration and gratitude of all
Catholics in this country."
A atranger reading the work
would scarcely know that there was
such a place as Ontario, tate mari-
time provinces, or Manitoba. '
THE JESUITS.
The French readers show very
clearly'lhe drift of religious opiniou
in the province of Quebec. The
older books aro Galilean or rather
Sulpician in their doctrinal ten-
dency, whilst the new ones bear the
impress of the Jesuit. A good in-
stance of the latter element is fur-
nished in the Fifth Reader in an
article on Jesuit rule iu Paraguay.
It is uut uecesaary to rewind the
reader what Independent modern
history thinks of that regime, 13ut
the writer in the Fifth Reader
makes out that Jesuit deneirllua•
tion iu Paraguay produced " grand
and most faithful results." The
savages who constituted the popula-
tion of the country were converted
to the true faith, agreed to dwell in
fixed habitations, and betook them-
selves to agriculture, so that " in a
short time the Jesuits created a
superb state, of which they were
the masters, free from all control."
They ruled the land from 1556 to
1767 " when the wickedness of
their enemies caused them to be ex-
pelled from all the Spanish posses-
sions." to the infinite grief of the
natives. I wits told by an intelli-
gent French Canadian on the Que-
bec side of the river that the Galli -
can complexion of the school books
would very soon be changed. My
informant, who is a Bleu in politics
and apparently a Gallican in reli-
gion, said : " The priests are nearly
all U Itrauwntane now, all but the
older ones.' The Sulpiciau iuflu-
once is rapidly crumbling before
Ultramoutane pressure. When the
.Jesuits get fairly to work they will
rip up our school system, cast out
the Gallican spirit, and introduce
their own doctrines. The transfor-
mation Inas already begun, and I
predict evil consequences to Can-
ada. Ask any of the older clergy ;
they will tell you that everything is
changing for the worse. I fear
there are bad times ahead."
" NATIONAL " sU13,EOTS.
Putting religion aside for the
present, it is important to note the
anti-British flavour of the secular
matter in the readers. To say that
the matter is anti-British is merely
to affirm that it is wholly I'reuch-
Canadian and nationalist iu senti-
ment. The readers contain numer-
ous sketches of French Canadian
history ; and these are so colored
by the unconscious bias of the
writers as to suggest to the mind of
the child that the British on the
whole were a bad lot, that their
ultimate triumph was .largely acci-
dental, and that the cause of New
Franco is not yet lost.
-
GONE TOWI PU[ E.11CIIASI•; A
J. H. Eckhardt and S. B.
Donchaiu, of Hartford, Con-
necticut,• sailed for Europe this
week from New York on a tnost
reniarkable matrimonial pilgrimage:
The parents of Mr. Donchain were
Armenians, but he was raised in
the public schools here. Early in
life he started iu the jewelry and
ornament trade, and after obtaining
a competency he was most anxious
to secure a helpmate. He was too
exacting, and of all the beauties the
State offered none met his view.
One day he learned from an English
paper that there waa in Constanti-
nople a female seminary, from
which selections of a wife may be
made upon the recommendation of
the officers in charge of the institu-
tion. If acceptable, the applicant
deposits a suitable sum, in propor-
tion to the bride's beauty and
attainments, as compensation to her
parents for the loss of their
daughter's society and services,
upon which the happy bride is
handed over to her purchaser, with
whom she usually agrees by means
1867.-" Catholics and Protest- of -true Oriental persuasion.
ants live together in the utmost This system of wife purchase
peace in this land blest of Provi- seemed to please Mr. Donchaiu,
dunce. This happy state of things and to his friend, Mr. J. II. Eck -
is due iu great part to the religious hardt, he confided his intention to
communities of nuns, iu which our try his luck there. The latter
young girls are trained side by side thought the plan a good one and it
with the young girls from the most was determined to start at once.
distinguished Protestant families in The pair made arrangements to
the country. In these houses the be absent some time, and sailed in.
Protestant and Catholic•girls learn the early part of the week. En
to know each other, to love each route to Turkey they will take in
other, and to forrn attachments the Paris Exposition and visit
which last through life." Vienna, Florence, Rome and
"Tire cannon of his most Chriat- Naples, reaching their destination
ian majesty' (of France) ceased to in July. The bride will be pur-
thunder, the fleur-de-lis no longer chased as soon as possible, and
waved our towns ani fortresses, but after a suitable leave taking of the
the daughters of Ste. Ursula, of old folks, if they can be found this
Marguerite Bourgeois -the sisters side of Circassia, the happy pair
of charity and a crowd of other ser- will enjoy their honeymoon upon
vents of God still remained in New the Black and Mediterranean Seas,
France to continue the providential after which the return to America
work of God in the country. The will be begun. They will be baok
material forces of New France had by September, and the friends of
to succumb in the end, but the pro- the groom promise the "pair a
viidential forces still do their work rousing reception, which will he•
in the colony, which is probably added to by the intense curiosity
destined to play on this continent here to see the Turkish beauty.
the part which Old France has
played on the continent, of Europe. Twelve thousand packages of
The Catholic clergy of Canada is flannel sold in New York last week
pious, fervent. and learned. Preach- brought over $2,000,000. The
-The damage by frost in the ing the gospel to the people, setting prices were from 5 to 7 per cent.
Niagara district is not so serious as them an example of zeal and piety , above those obtained at last year -'i
at first reported. regulating primary instruction, pre- i sale.
THE CH CSTN UT' '1'IIEE.
"Like a duni.••,d here sit Tin the sky,
Aud Riau la,i loos' et&lets heedfully
Lut ts's LAtiou's bust:•
It is a tlel lurable custom width
{peudthritts, when their purees are
empty, 4-0- teplenich them at the
cost of the dryads, often cuttiug;
(Jowls the very trot•, that Lave
sheltered the newt veuurahle of
their auceatoie, at; well its the timber
e hich wants untuy years ut its pro-
sper growth; according to the pres-
sure of their ‘t ;tuts. Many foolish,
persoue, again, under talkie 1t'ttUu-
ces of taste. trill tout up the :bolter
ing woods :,ud copses, it at made
cuutiult,tble turves ,.guilt'L the iu-
eleuteut 1' in,l, thus Irltir;g iu the
uninitig,ttel tempest to rage r,g,instr.
their bleak narked ntnu:.iuue ; kW! II
par;irs being equally mi elti,•rons
iu th+'ir teas. Theta ;ill, ether per -
sou•>. however, wilt) nut duan ihrir
naive, u„d cho t i ft's, tut nitheli better
reasuTs• ft' you shall pies -idly brut,.
A certain Hidalgo was walking in
a luuely plain. in the neigbhui hood
of Granada, %th, n he Was. snddruiy
attacked by a ;snail, wild 51•anirli
bull. The spiteful co auto., with
red, sparkling eyes, and a hudy as
black Its any c,l, tua+tr, a run t,1 tbe-
geutlemeu so uiutbly 11151 kin hail
barely time lo save himself by
climbing ftp a large chestnut tree ;•
whereupon the w'irked beast h,•gni.'
to toss about the lousa earth tvitlt
great fury, instead of 1ttn l+utnan.
clay be had intended to trifle tt•itl,'.
Thele is no such creature, in the
world as Loa hllil fur a revengeful
tnrmory, fur be will cherish allruiits
or dislikes for a considerable while s
and besides, be takes great. pleasure
iu nus premeditated ntischiut, which
ho avjll hair ue witlt n• vast, deal ot•
patience. Thus, whenever the hid-
algo set his foot upon the ground,
the wily animal, who had kept at a
couveuieut distance, immediately
ran at him again, so that he • was
forced to betake himself to the tree
with the utmost alacrity. 'Then the
bull would stray farther oil', still
keeping a tv:ay eye towards the
tree; but feeding in the rueantiuie
so quietly, that every thought of
nntiice seemed to have quite gone
)ut of his round, longish tread ;
whereas he was tends at a twinkling
for a fresh career, his perseverance
excelling that of grimalkin, when
she Sita watching at 't mouse's street -
door.
'rhe• impatient Hidalgo, weary at
heart of this game, where all --his
rooves tended to no purpose, at last
gave up the point, and removed
higher up in the tree, in order to
amuse himself with the surrounding
prospect which was now enlivened
by the oblique rays of the declining
sun. I will wait, said he, till night
makes a diversion in my f avor, and
like the mata.dol+,-,1 hangs her cloak
on this wild de'vil's horns so turn-
ing himself about, from side to side,
he began to contemplate the various
objects in the distance.
Whilst he was thus occupied,
with his eyes turned towards the
east, there came two risen on foot
from tite opposite quarter, who,:
passing beyond the tree, approached
the browsing bull' Without any kind
of mistrust. The dissembling crea-
ture allowed them to come pretty
near without any suspicion ; and
then suddenly charging at the two
men they were obliged to run to the
tree as the only stetter, and with -
great difficulty clambered out of
roach of his mischievous horns. The•
animal being thus foiled. for the
second time, revenged himself on
the hat of one of the travellers,
which had been dropped in the,
race, and then begun to feed again•
at the usual dlistence.
Tho two 'peddlers, fur au they
seemed, made several attempts, like.
the Hidalgo, to get away, but the•
bull still intercepted them in the
same manner; so that at last they
were fain to dispose themselves as.
comfortably as they could on a lower
branch, and await the pleasure of
the animal to proceed ou their way.
The Hidalgo being a shy, reserved.
man by nature, as well as very
haughty on account of his nation.
and hie birth, did not choose to
make • any advances towards his
fellow -lodgers in the tree, who 'by
their dress were people of the com--
0loU sort. The two Hien, on their
part, knew nothing of a third per-
son being perched above their,
heads; wherefore, to pass away the
time, they began to talk over their
affair together, with us much confi-
dence as if they had been silting in,
the middle of the great Arabian-
Desert.
At first the Hidalgo, being much
occupied by his own reflections,did.
not listen very attentively to their
discourse ; besides, he had a great
contempt for the conversation of
such vulgar persons, which would.
have prevailed over any common
curiosity ; however, as some senten-
ces reached him against his will, he
happened to overhear a name pass--
ing between them that made hint
prick up hieears.
"I am afraid, Gines Spinello,"
said one of the,voices, "that this-
cursed creature will spoil our sport
for to -night."
Now it wan no wonder that the.