appear like toys said you must have been in then b � at i m thinking said john ah by the by you are i remember you come from where they sing � e e� do you know now interrupted with a forced smile that went off into something very like a sob that s just what i can t stand i can t you said john with surprise and at the same time a passenger at the other end of the deck who had caught the fragment of the air john was humming took it up on a strange is not it said his eyes filling so fast that he was quite ashamed of himself strange that a bi of a tune like that should make me see my mother at her cottage door looking toward the cow pastures and my sister who has long been dead coming across the meadow in the evening sun � � he could it no longer as says in king but fairly laid his head down the on his arms and wept as if his heart would break poor fellow poor fellow said john i ve heard something before of this strange disease you are subject t y � de pay j not quite so bad as that said wiping his eyes and then out again tis that i say and nothing short of it said john positively malady de pay � short for malady i ve heard my lord speak of it you ll have to go back to your own country my poor fellow nothing else will cure you oh yes it s passing oflf said drying his eyes do you know said john i was about to ask you some questions about that country of yours because it s a land i much desire to see and very likely see next summer but as you re so tender upon it i won t allude to it any more � ask me what questions you mil replied i i the nothing will do me so much good as i talking of it and for the next two hours the two men were in earnest and almost continuous conversation on only pausing now and then to bestow a passing and pre occupied attention on the ever changing beauties of the river banks john had so many questions to put wholly and some of them enough to that the dialogue for some time took the form of a but at length it gave place to almost continuous narrative went over his own history then went back to the early history and of the not the glorious return of all which to hear did john seriously incline they sat a little way apart from every one but an sick or sleepy wrapped in his cloak with his cap pulled over hi eyes lay on a bench a little way off and who after a few muttered and at having his own meditations or disturbed by so much talking at length applied i the himself quietly to listen to every word that was said and found himself not paid amiss for his trouble once or twice an irrepressible smile at john s remarks only escaped observation under shelter of his cloak collar once or twice as related the fortitude and of his people or spoke of the various exercises his own constancy had been exposed to the became intently interested once or twice even a tear strange i found its way into his eye at length john suddenly finding himself very hungry and observing other people going to dinner said he must go and make friends with some one going below and bade accompany with a smile shook his head and produced a roll ha i cried john tis that low diet that ruins your constitution and makes the least thing upset you come along with me declined and when john had left him resumed his book a couple rather tired of themselves and of each other amused themselves at a distance from him by � the r what his book was likely to be at length to settle the they approached i you seem interested in your reading my i fellow said the gentleman very pray what may your book be the bible sir said do you wish to buy it no e said the other very hastily add retreating with his companion he observed to her in english sharp practice that i never knew a cooler thing in my life i the lady the gentleman was going to make some additional remark when he was checked by s stepping up to him why did you say sharp practice sir said he respectfully in english you asked me of your own accord the name of my book it was the last i had on hand of many that i have been selling about the country and as in many instances they have been purchased with as containing the pearl of great price i thought it possible you might desire to have one that was all the and he to his old place as gently as he came hang the fellow said the gentleman laughing rather foolishly who would have thought of his knowing english john came up at this moment see what i ve got for you here said he producing sundry apples and nuts these are the things you ll like i know you spare with low spirits and weak are always fond of these and i like them too they don t with me nothing does but the german water so now wo u go nature has given us good nut i ve been thinking of you while i was away and the sum of my thoughts is that if you would have plenty of boiled beef and roast beef and horse boiled mutton and three times a day you d have no more of this by the time they approached these 