The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-08-24 00:00:00

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We knelt down together, and preyed God to deliver The strange tpidery•looking vehiels was descending
ns. Theo we began to try tient steps in the rock with rapidly towards them. A. 80011 as Johnny caught tight
our pocket knive.. but that was hepekut Then emits of. it, he reisei the donkey's bridle, and dragging it

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AN ADVENTURE IN THE TONER. Louis of terra' .1 __
.9 ar. stable, he erie I out— .
, It woo radlit now; I thought, soon will °Ma the 11" Hello! what's this ? ... ... ... Weigh, Jerry I ..
(From Regraria. ) plaiting pangs of stuvatiou, tne maddening agonies of ... ... Come eswt ells' gate I ... ... ... Get at th'
As were riding kkrtmgk the rank given fieWg deep dr. We should die mad with Odra. Who knew back o'7oo stoop, Dennis! By th' moo, won let that
that ',Mad round the tont statute of Memnon. • , what insane end horrible impulses might not come upon . greys. rgo by, as heave I What the bedlam can it be ?"
Itishtened-looking wilier of entiquitiea from the tomb. il• in tent struggle for a few more hours of life! I Johnny drew his donkey up to the side of the road,
of the lilies met ea, and spoke in Arabic to 51,00141114 f amid have run on toe cannon or the bayonets, I could and then he and Dennis crept behind a stone post under
and the Psi i
have leaped among idiom's of sharks, to save a friend, or the shade of the trees. front the side of which they
" Whet'. up, Sheehan.' ?" said Matter, , "the fellow lin parsuit of tuy. , uty ; but death here, unpithd and stared, in silent aistooishment, as the vehicle went
looks n• if he'd been bitten by a mai dog." alone, was too bor. MI,. We shouted, we el ..,,eil each whirling by. When it hail run • little distort. past,
Shoolsmi i. wi 0 Min of no religion, and believed in °tip es bends ag in, and prayed—preyed with Aleut they CAW, out into the middle of the road NO., and
noti,ing. atusel through his one eye, and pail-- teara. Our li2lit lowl long since gone IRO, r. 11 ift.nr it..
6. Th.Lre was • ghoul seen last week in lb.. tomb. of " Hark," said Musters suddenly. •• What was *Ur - lii Irle cowl!" said Dennis, "that, • guars variety,
the kings; rio guide will go there now." The fellow no aittweg to hie hirt, , any way !"
sneered so he told us this. "Perhaps lit :vita, eh ? There was indeed • sound uof • footstep ; then arose i " lea • crumpet, is yon !" repliei Johnny. "1 can
what say? English gentlemen afraid? Tura back— , from the ilarkuess of the staircase beneath a Yens of an I mak* nostber top nor tail on it! By tle moo, hour it
sh r English hymn. sung in • deep hollow voice. wobbles I What the—hit, thinks•or
You be hanged r said Nader' furiously. "If von Graeious God I what could it be! A light same , "Faith," J.aid Dennis. "I don't know what the diedl
ten ba,k. 11l hove yen heti., the wwwet ; remember , twinkling out of the dot-knee.; then, slowly, • pale it is. It looks lik- a loin tloin' pittance on a earvin-
that. I should like t,t have a fair shot at. gl ~ ill I—new ' mournful Inc., bound round with white, like • corp.°, I knife,. be w. so two "eds."
Hen, alt. Butler ? Conte, isueh on. Shoolaniet, or let , Mlle down • long avenue of tombs. mining towards us. I "There', in chap among it." replied Johnny; "1
111... I anT, Buelay, isn tit lucky we brought our 1 A long figure, wrapped in white, and with ahrooded see-1 hit, ! iii.'s in a bonny pickle,. is that led ! I
white umbrellas ! lea screeching hot ;my brains are I feu, like • lasgarus emerging from the sepulchre, come wouldn't be in his shoon for a kens/price I He's getten
being reenlist', scollop ti up in the shell." 1 nearer and nearer, bolding a candle in one hand. We fast i th' wheel.! Didn'to see him 'ilia' to poo his leg
Presi ittl• we reached the burning Velley of the I could hardly breathe from wonder and fear. eawt. ... ... ... Ilv th' icon. you's • toe-biter for
Tombs, with its cavernous rocks, and its wild &testate ' "I come, it Neil, pointing to the rows of hieroglyphic whossing /velem' ! I don't know whether be's rennin'
scenery, bare, lonely, parched, and torrid. No weed figures on the nearest wall, "to preach to you, fallen away wi' it, or it's runnie away wi' him ; but they're
grew there, nor any green thing ; the quick brown spirits, childri nof Hades. When the angel spoke to off, by th' mass—they're off ! An off they man goo,
',averts, glancing over the heaps of sand and broken me in the desert, and sent me thither, did I not seine for me, with si' my heart, an' th' pert o' m 7 shirt!"
white pl •ere the only lining crease.. that we at ones to bid you repent—ye who have not fallen, like "By the mortial," said Dennis, "I don t kaow what
raw. PICOPi one., when a scared jackal darted sere. a Battu. for ever? Dead father, whom I knew while I to make o' that !"
dietant hill. anal ran into a tomb where some Pharos& . was in sin. trouble me not, for I have no part or lot "Nor me noather," replied Johnny. "It favors a
hart once rested. with you. Leave me, while Igo and pronounce the slice off th' ueiler-eut of • coach, or a • thunner•bowe (a
We halted at a square dark doorway numbered Oft, prophecies of mercy and of doom to the great crowned dragonifly) st,''a getten fast in a eddyicrop's neest (a
It was one, we observed, not noticed in "if urrty." genii in the upper chamber. Osiris, repent! Isis, seek spider's neat). ... ... ... Well, thank God, it's earn
Mast r's got out his red guide-hook, and fkw into •in p , and thou shalt obtain morel. Fallen o' sect! I wonder what I nom live to seal. Come,
rage, dominion , great principalities of hell, ponder these Dennis, let's get whosin, cawt o'th' gate."
" Shonlatnel." maid he. we went No. 17—Belzoni's thing.; abarielon this howling darkness, this black- They were setting out quietly upon their journey
tomb. This is no u.. Come, we will do as we like ; nut of despair, and follow me to the green paradise, once more, when Johnny suddenly clutched his donlecy'a
you take WI to No. 17 right off." to the river of life, to the unfading happiness. It will bridle again, and cried out—
Shoolomei grew obiwouions and argurnentative. ,be centuries, cycles of centuries, ere God again wads " Holed ! get a.back ai'th' stoop! There's another
" Not beet gent," he raid; "no good. Belzoni tomb you another warning prophet." Commn' I"
spoil. Better see tlffereat sorts first—this ogre large, . We were at first astonished as by a supernatural "Holy waiver,"i cried Dennis, se he darted after
eeriest.. for first. Englishmen
foolish." had reeognised those words as English. Before • whole l pede. as it went by ; "Holy waiver! the world's at an
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. bad been uttered we had' lined the , ' tad !"

"They're for whnlin` things up, I believe," said
Johnny, wiping hit forehead. "I wur nobhut jut i' •
time ter that I it would ha' bin a.top on us in •
minute I"
" Yeith. I got • good look at that fellow, any way r
sold Dennis.
"So did I too," said Johnny ; "an' be farm a
nice lad o' somebody.! He's • cut aboon porriteb, bi
his doom But, ill Limn tell tho what I
think, Dennis, they're folk at's done summit wrang,
roinewheer ; and they're feree't to go through wi' yon
job, for punishment ! It looks like a mat if • runnin'
treydmill."
" Hi Me Wiwi, I think the divas are staylin' wheels!"
replied D.-unis.
" They're happen wheels 'at they'n bin makin' for
somebory, an' they're takin"em wroun."
" Herded, I think it'. the wheels are takin' thim !"
" Well, they may take 'ern for inn ! But
just thee keep a good look eawt i'th front them' If
there's ony more 'o that mat comes,Cll run my country.
bi' th' moo !"
"The road's alert, neaw," replied Dennis. "Come
an, till we get to the toll-bar ; maybe ould Dan 'il be
able to tell us romethin' abeawt the divels !"
"A,, by th mue, I dar say he will I 'replied Johnny.
Come, let's be off But keep thi era oppen this
time! Dermot let's be Ultimo o' th' blynt side again I"
And when they had re-lighted their pipe', they net
off mice more, keeping their eyes on the alert, till
they came to the toll-bar, kept by old " Dan o'
Ddly's."
Dan was leaning against him doorway, smoking, whin
they came up to the ear.
" Weigh I" said Johnny pulliog up hi, donkey.
"Dan," enntinued he, " did to see you wituzzie
machine go by ?"
" What mad of a think woe It r replied Dan.
"Well," said Johnny, "I couldn't make it newt
gradely ; but it looked like two wheel., an' a chap
among 'ern. That wur o"at I could see. But it dii
goo, at some bat r
" Oh, ay," replied Dan, "there war two on 'em."
" Ay, their wur," sold Johnny, "an' bonny devils
they are! Has to ray skill on 'ern they cappeu my
trash !"
" Oh, ay," replies Dan, "ita this new Dandy
Helve' set's owned up. An' very nice things they are
for young folk to tide on—when they getter' gradely
use't to 'em
"Ride on ;" cried Johnny; I see nought there is to
ride on, noebut hutoniant like • bit o' elewkin' bent,
between two wheels ! What are they for
" Well, I connut ju.tly roll," replied Dan. "But
they're for—for runnin' up an' drawn wi', I gees.'
"Oh, I see r said Johnny, looking as if he didn't
see ail.
Thee knows," continued Dan, a lad could go • bit
of an *nand faster ape' one o' yon nor he weld walk
it. 11. sides, it's • good thing for larnin"ern the uu u'
th ir limbs. There'. &good duel o' fancy wart abrawt
!urinal' Jun tusk o' things."
" I guess there is," replied Johnny, looking vaguely
around, am if he was reeking for • clearer explanation
of the thing from something in the sir.
" continued he, "an dune they goo o' their.
sels ?"
"Oh, nawe," replied Dan, "they ban to prows. 'em
their feet."
"Oh,, ay ?" said Johnny; "An' theyr'e coed (called)
randy Horseai are they ?"
"Well, I 00.6111 SO," replied Dan, "but they ban
oother name o' some sort."
Well," said Johnny, "o' that I can say is that
they're genre make o' horses that they ban to prose
forrui wi their feet. I would like to try one! I've
ridden o' maks o' things, except unicorn. By V.' mon'
I cull Ike a bit of a do en' this ' Dandy Horse
Wheor dun they come fro ?" •
"Why," replied Iran, " thit cum fro Manchester.
If thae's • mind to have • try- young Geri* o'th
farmer's here would let tho have s go, In a minute.
" an him," said Johnny ; " I will. I'll co' th'
first thing jib morninl Good fleet I
Come up, Jerry!"
" reet," replied Dan. "Cool neat, owd lad !"
And away went Denhi. and Johnny homeward, die-
coming the merit, of the" Dandy Hone all the way.

so it is," said I. retiring tn Murray ; the
high-peirst's tomb. IN VsntlielaP (King 'form), eighteenth
slynasty. Deuce of a long time ago. Three-hundred.
anidterenty feet straight off to first deriaiion ;
eight.hoodred-and-sixty-two feet alt.:weber from en.
franc" ; ores, twenty-threnthouirand-eieht-hundred-
aminine feet ; occupies an sere and • hit."
"The dense it does!" said Muter. ; "like the cheek
of them lilt, priests. What • pluralist he must have I
been
edi bhoolamei. " this priest too big. large, !
vets, large, moutons room-much hieroglyph-men
en icing-men rowing--everything. Better than
Bela rid tomb-much fuss, Iklani tomb-not so goof
-no."
"Well, I 'newt.e we must see It." said Mailers.
"Give us the eandle. Shoolamei, and mind and bring
the rope, in We we want to go down anywhere. or the
steps ale lied. Suppose, Busby, we were SO and a row
of mummy kings, or • chest of Papyri, with the lost
hooks of Livy-eh ? OS a 001400iS Bening, or some find
of that kind; that would be rather jolly, eh r
There was a good deal of whispering between Shoot-
star i and the Reis. This Reis was afraid of the ghoul.
so Shierlamei said, bet at last he consented to go • ith
on. lie did so sullenly and almost savagely. The
dragoman had some bold ov, r that man that we
never co thl understand, for the Reis did as he wished,
althouth often after A struggle.
Down we went slowly out of the light, down • broad,
broken steiresse into the darkness, our path strewn
with brisk, n plot r, and encumbered with thick soft
tend, detritus, and powdered victim. The walls were
covered wilts &Goleta's and hieroglyphics, brilliant in
rich red.. blues, and yellows ; kings merited with their
fan been re, priests mihisters, and soldier* Trains of
slaves and bearer. Of tribute deAled along the passage.
and seemed almost tome,. as we palmed them will our
fliakering lights. Passages, doorways, more staireaaes,
then oblong chambers, mysterious pits' pulsed halls,
And intricate nests of small room., filled with utulptures
repreeenting all the phases of Reyptiau life • thous n 4
year. ago; glus•blowers, saddlers. currier*, carp •nters,
chariot-taken, fowler., hushandmen. but•huiliers.
Myriads of brown hoed had been bent ova this work.
myriads of brown hands had toiled in thole gloomy
eludobers, miles, a. it seemed, away from the buraiug
sunshine of the outer valley.
Sculptured room after room. soulptured pastas, after
passage, sculptured ceiling after ceiling, cell after cell,
centuries of oarmfol records of the hop • smbitions,
and vault es of geeerations if age. ideal passed to dust.
Silil neheedesi, the silent ligores performed in, ir
mimic!, of life, and reoorded the names and deeds of
men immortalised, but only within this tomb. Ti',
darkness pre-seil upon on ; it moved before us s'owly
a. nor call,, advanced in solid lessees, like hop-doors
of black maible slid back from the mouth of • sepulchre.
An our lights moved on, fresh troops of quaint red
figures and hieroglyphics appeared, approached, and
faded again into the darkness. It au • gigantic but
usilese effort of men's ambition thus to intim his body;
a etunendou. effort of ;wealth, and of that almost suer-
natural teems-By of purpose that enabled the Egyptians
to rival the Titsns and to raise the Pyramid..
"Glad we came here." said Minters, with a great
effort to keep his eyeglas steady. "Good fellow, that
flhio' mei. This in • regular find. We'll write to
te Tinned about this. I propose, Barclay, we do it
tbornuehly."
"We'll go to the very end, if it takes all day," maid
I ; tbourli the air is very clue. I believe there's never
enough foul air di be dangerons in those tombs.
All at once the darkness seemed to widen round us,
the ceiling to lift, and we found ourselves in • large
ball. supported by six giant eolums of barbaric shape.
"lii. very fine-this good," said Shoolaitiei. nintts r-
ing in Arabic to the Reis, as be soddenly scrambled up
a heap of dry palm.twigs, and net them on liro with his
candle.
" How stunning !" said Mutat,. "By George, look
old man. this is something like!"
It wu indeed an extraordinary scene ; the blue of
flame it up the huze hall, discolouring the colossal
bzures of winged genii that adorned its four wall.. On
the ceiling a giant Iris and 0-ins guarded the broken
gran to sarcophagus that still stood in the centre, on
the vides of a great dark shoot, down which descended
two broken ataircues. Athor. Flores, and Aran&
Inokeil down on us from the vaulting, as the flame had
brouzlit them to life, but in rim succeeding darkness
they again melted away.
We all stood ou the edge of the staircase, and looked
down 4* into the entrance of Hades, dark, inscrutable- '
-nit not glioul.tonab-that next tomb. Papyri
there," sail Shoolamei. poiiiting down : perh•o•
treaaure. I Oink king mummy there ; nerhapa Sof-
Try, perhaps find. h ? What ride k ?
En•
glishmen never here before. I hold rope ito rmuti
pillar ; take trinity candle. Have lunch fir.t.."
As we 1nn,12.41, Shoolantel and the Rex sat talking
.aierr earnestly, and with side looks cast at us.
"lit go in For it." cried Muters, pouring out some
wine. " !lere's to the two future kirizonis I"
" Belzonis-ha! ha! Very good. What think r
said shoolatnel,laughing in hiasour dry way. "Reis here
say you more sense than Belzoni; not afraid to go to
end, and find king mummy. If you find, you give poor
bhoolainei on• games, eh ?"
"Give you! yes, and my blaming too, you duffer,"
paid 11 istere, AS we finished our Inuchoon. "I'll stick
toy cavils. in the brim of My wid.awake ; you do the
same, Beiclay. COMO alone* I'll go glows first; the
wails Are gilliS 'SUMP. and I can work down wilt my
f. et safe enough to the first landing, wherever that may
be
rbe two Arabs secured the rope safely at ea* end,
then let the other fall into the darkness.
Masters went down laughing; at about fourteen feet
be stopped, and shouted up lustily. The two Arabs
loathed together, and I laughed.
" All riAt, Barclay; Dome along! There's another
staireue here to the right, sad we shall have • greet
Sod yet Now, man, come. Th. hieroglypts here are
wondetful -as bright as if they wen. painted yesterday.
Here are crocodiles and poreupice-r, and all sorts of ram
fish. Come along, old man; it's quite easy getting
down."
I di-mended, too, with my candle in my hat; several
more candles were to be lowered by Shoolamei after-
wards, in nose of accident. I thought once I heard
• green, end Raiders laughed wheu I said it IVY the
• I
strs by his side in a minute or two mere. We left
our revolet rs above.
blasters shouted up:
"Take care of tbe rope, you ilutTers there; we shan't
be long:" •
Still up glided the rope. Already it was beyond our
reach.
" Leave the rope alone, you fools there !" shouted
Heaters. "Leave it, I tell you, just as it is."
l'e etill-quick-went the rope; it was now far
beyond our re•ch. We could see Bhoolsmei trio and
the Reis show his great yellow boric teetb, as he crake'
the repe up slowly.
"Now then, English gentlemen," cried Shoolamei,
kneeling on the edge of the chasm, and looking down
toweringly, "good-bye to you. No more call Arab filo-
Arab, RS4 Arab; him very good now if he give rope,
eh! By-and-bye cold, hungry-then go to sleep Good%
table. Large bed there-plenty of room with king.
Shooliimei take ear* if your money.. Reis wish you
good•night. Any message to C•iro . You fool, gentile
men 11..11-English--eh, what think?
" All irwcsu,e dark for • moment, then the light re-
appeared, and the two hiih-ous mocking faces, illumi-
neted with the light, were thrust over the edge of the

sentence _-... °erns uttered we L.-. recogni---- -at speaker
as our friend Er.kine. In such a plus, and at such •
crisis, it geemed a direct aureole could alone have sent
him there. Were we dreaming? Mestere looked et
two. and lat Masters. Then we crouched closer into
the derknoss, lest the spectre should see us before we
had formed our own conclusions as to his purpose, his
humanity. and his destination.
A frantic joy now seized me, and took the place of a
ghastly despair. I felt inchned to shoat and donee and
sing, but that • vivid sense of the imminent danger
still pressed upon me. If our reason had not alresaly
gone, there was Erskine. Why he had come' we could
not gut..,oi
nor cl we imagine how be bad found an
entrance to that abyss. Perhaps be, too, bad been de-
coy° I there and deserted ; and in that case we should
but share his death. Perhaps he had gone mad, and
had voluntarily descended • place from which there was
no rescue. These and similar thoughts rushed in a mo-
ment through my fevered brain, over whose turbulent
sea hope once again cast his deceitful sun gleam. I
roused Masters from the torpor into which he had
sunk.
As we stood there, Erskine—for it wee indeed that
mad enthusiast—sat down twenty feet off, it the en-
trance to a dark pious we bad not before notised, and
began to sing that beautiful old hyMll, 'The Lord my
pasture shall prepare." Hie fine voice ran through that
great chambered tomb.
There was hope for us now Erskine had found his
way there—pc, haps lied taken up his abode there, in
some fit of temporary Insanity. Perhaps he would be
sble to find his way out. We debeted whether we
should at once leap out on him, and loran him to be our
guide. But our only candle was burned out. and our
matches were expended In our searches. If, in the
struggle. Erskine's candle should also become estin.
j guieehtel, a fresh frenzy might come on, and he might
j either ref ase to allow our escape, or lose his way in the
darkness.
I muttered in • low voice some Arabic words. Erskine
turned, and began to descend a staircase.
"Follow him," said Muter* ; "let'i follow him. He
Is mad—stark mad, you wee ' • but still he may have
some mese' of getting out; he fancies he has been sent
to convert the souls in Hades. He is living here among
the tombs: he must have got some secret way out. He
could not sing like that if lie was starving—l defy him.
' Look he do's not see us yet."
"There is hope, Masters ;1 feel there is," said I.
" See, he turns into that hell to the left ; ye., be must
I have Pt way of 'petting out."
" Yes. God in his goo-inaes be thanked! Ida must
bee" been the ghoul, then, the people saw,"
We followed. takihg off our shoes to treed softly, loot
' he might mistake us for some of his spirit-congregation,
aod turn and fly, leaving us to • fate too horrible to be
thouebt of.
We followed him down passages that seemed endless,
• all fee lower than the !cr." of the tomb, from which we
had deuended. Had he, too, been left there to perish?
Suddenly he turned • corner, and his candle deur,-
peered. To our infinite horror, when we turned the
turner too, in our hut bat silent pursuit, we pooh' not
tee the light of Er.kine's candle, our hear his voice or
his footsteps.
; We n•ov gave ourselves tip for lost. Erskine must
have seen as. and eluded a. ; or he bad fainted, and was
Icing in • fit. Suddenly my hand moving aloog the
wall, detected an opening broken through, and a passage
beyond.
" Hurrah, Masters! cheer up, old boy !" I said.
" I'm on the right track now—he certainly must have
slipped through here."
In • moment we were throurh. We turned • corner;
the light of day fell on us—blessed, glorious light of
hope end life I There was a broken staircase leading
Into the valley. Erskine was seconding. When he
saw us, he screamed insanely, awl fell on his knees,
with bra bands rained to heaven.
"el know you," he said; "you are sent by the prince
of the power of the air to tempt me beak to earth ; but ,
I will not some. My mission is to preach to the dead
in Hades. No, no."
We leapt on the madman, and secured him as he was
about to fly from Us into a neighbouring tomb.
Suddenly, at a turn of the valley, at the mouth of
the lemons Belzoni tomb, in the shadow of the entrance,
we game upon an Engli h party lunching, near a fire at
which some Arabs were making coffee. They rose when
we approaehed, cud greeted us warmly.
" Rut my boys, what in the wide world are ye doing,
dragging about poor Erskin? 0, I see, there's some-
thing wrong about him. Why, the wound told us you'd
gone off to Maniac. Here, let me see to Er.kine."
Yes, it was that raging lion DOOOdall, and a friend,
and the enchanting Shepherds. Donovan had started,
on e sudden impulse, crocodile shooting with a yoaug
Dublin University MID.
" Well, we ere churned with everything," said Mrs.
Shepherd, as fussy as ever; "and so delighted to meet
you and Mr. Masters. And where is that dear, clever,
affectionate i'regosnan oi yours?"
I briefly related my adventure, and explained how
Shoolamei end the worthy Reis had tempted us into a
trap, then decamped, leaving us to what they considered
certain death.
The ladies were horrified at our story, and enraptured
at our escape. Poor Erskine grew gradually calmer in
their society, and we gave him into the dare of the
consul, who was half a doctor.
Donovan was furious at the treaehery of Shoolamel
and the Role; that very night he iusisted on starting off
In pursuit
" I'll track them," he said, ache wished us all good-
, by, "to Al. xendrea •' and if I miss the •palpeene there-
: I'll follow them to Syria, or Greece, or Abyssinia, or
any bloomed part of the world; and when I find them.
I'll beat them to a je.ly, then drag them back and get
them imprisoned for life. I know the Pasha will do
that for me, and they can't afford to bribe themselves
off. I say, but you two feUows had a narrow Nitwits
for It. 0, yen didn't keep tight hand enough over the
dogs. I shell be sure to nab 'sm. I was in the police
once."
Donovan fulfilled hie promise, sure enough. He
caught the two rogues at Malta. and returned with
them, and with our money, not much of it spent. Tee
crew owned the plot, and cause forward al witnesses.
As for leoc.r Erskine, after a brain (over of long dura-
tion, he slowly recovered, and is now, I believe, an
active missionary in Lapland. It was a fortunate dap
fir Masters and myself. I've often thought, when his
wades.' took the form of a wish to dwell among the
toanbc-4rlicle : "A NajAt wilA King PAaratA.

Dand.,

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" 111 tell the what, Dennis," said Johnny, " they're
• gnare took o' horns at'a noather yed, nor tail nor
bode, nor acinght—nobbut two wheels for legs r
" Faith, I'd like to wm • trotting match between •
pair.' them," s•id Dennis.
"Or • steeple.chase," continued Johnny.
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" I wonder could they lop a hedge r inquired Dennis.
" There's no tenni' what you can do.' maid Johnny.
"They're mist oils common line o' naDir ologether.
They'n no inside 'at I ran i-ee
" Boded," replied Dennis, " That'll save a deal of
supine., in mate, any way. A pann'orth oinnspoil
would keep one o' ttini 'butes • whole month 11l
engage."
"Well," said Johnny, " I see no wheer that they
ban to put onv mak o' gradaly proven—tusin,' whozain,'
whirligigs as they are! By th' mon. I believe I could
mate one o' you eawt of • lot o' fire-irons an' an owd
slack I Bat I'll see what they're like i'th mornin'.
I'm Doan beim° to be o'erfac't wi' a ' Dandy Horse,
as heaw th' cat juoßs.. 80, go thi ways
. . .

ta be& Dennis, owd lad, an' get thi limbs ready to meet
pm little brode•backei mower again, Vitt mornin ."
" Oh, bsdad," replied Dennis, "I'll sleep without
reekin' this night I"

TII' TWO.WHERLED DRAGON.
• LASCABHIgg VILOCIPIIDI /TORY.
There are wheels within ishoels.•-014
Johnny o' Wobbler's and his donkey were returning
from the fair one line summer evoulag, with empty
people.. for Johciny had sold all his pots, at bettor
prices than usual. Ills heart was an light as a feather,
as be sauntered along by the side of his slowpaeing com-
panion, flirting bi.,i whip and crooning the burden of an
old ditty, in • drowsy way, like • honey-laden bee
humming on it. homeward flight through the golden sir.
Johnny had now reached the open green country, sod
lie din of the town had died away in the dletanee be-
hind him. The spires and tall chimneys of thst swarm-
ing hive of indu-try w: re fading upon the night; and
the last gent el driblets of the gardened suburbs had
deindled away in the rearward. The sun was near its
met tog; and the shadows of the., hard by, lay in long
I lines aslant the glowing road. It warn • lovely Welts of
peaceful rural beauty. The eyeli is of day were sinking
softly down, and all around was still, except that dreamy
hugs of invisible life which crowds the air of summer
twilight with slumbroua melody. The waning day was
on its knees, murmuring an evening prayer, like a
sleepy child with half-shut eyes.
Johnny was beginning to awed • long slope of the
road, shaded by tall trees on each side, when, • little
way ahead, he .pied an I rith labourer, who wits teeny.
ing homeward from one of the farms clime by, with los
cost an his arm, and • short pipe stuck in his moeth.
Johnny and Dennis worn old friends, and neighbours in
the little village two utiles beyoniL
"Uello, Dennis, owd lad cried Johnny, " arto lii
whoam?"
"Iloilo, Johnny, my bowld hays° !" replied Donnies
turnips round, "is that youtself
"Its nought else," said Johnny,
by till morale', owd lad?"
"Oh, faith," replied Dennis, " be glad to lay my
bones beside blolshy this might. Oh, indeed, I hid a
murderin' hard day at odd Jemmy's this day. There
was a little broad backed fellow led the gang; an' bridled
, I never s•en the like a' that boy for morn. ! &gams
it bests Ihmagher ! Faith, he kept the fat boilin' out
o' me this blessed day, sine. arrly mornin.' Oh, troth,
lii like • lout rest 'afore I flute that little divel again,
any way !"
" I knoe him." said Johnny. pulling his pipe out,
, " know him. that any bocce r
" hubiu. I' replied Dennis, banding his box to Jona
I "Take it out o' that, au' welcome 1"
"Come," said Jane, "let'. pipe up."
The two friende then lit their pipes, and then began
to plod onward again, in quiet talk together, when •
man mule hie appearanee suddenly noon the brow of
the alose, descending toward• them, at full speed, upon
• bicy Dennis, who waa the first tii see made
(ell atop in the middle of the road, and swing
nnoga,
he cried cut—
" Thundur an' ages what's this comin's beyant

PiL . .
" All rait, gentlemen?' said Shoolamoi. "All very
eund'tablo dose there? No one come here to distorb
you ;no traveller, no Engliehmen ever some here W
go back ; take bat. Say to consul' leftyou 0111. d
below Karnali, get safe to Barlak, se II boat there, Znieke
train te Aleaandrie, go riff and vend money. 0. you
fool Englishmen ! how you like dragoman% trick now
eh !—how you like it! nood.bye. Call Shoolaruei,
when you wont anythive, ia, thief. Dragoman you tried
to drown sure to come.'
There was • bellow uf cruel mocking laughter—the
light neaaed away. We were left alone there for ever—
Zively to die in that t...nib hopeless. Our death
would be lingering, but it was certain. We heard a
distant laugh recede: then came a deeper and more
terrible
0, the ineffable horrors of that moment, es the sense
of the certainty of a dreadful death fell upon us lhe a
thunderbolt, and struck us into agonising despair I I
tri .1 to epeok ; but Mr tongue clove to the reef of my
moot, and ,fused to utter the haldery, half.prayer,
to which I was wishing to give utteranee. Then rose to
my brain a rage and regret almost amounting to made
tiers at having been the dupes of snob rascals and
murderers, whom with ordinary precaution we could so
easily have foiled and overthrown. But was there no
None; no glimmer of light game to us in our
utter misery. This tomb was never visited. Esmerty
and Erskine were by thin time probably up at the First
Cataract ; and the shepherds, however soon they arrived
were not the sort of travellers who deviate much from
the usual track. ?(o; we eh mid die of starvation ;
unlea iii lonic frantic moment if despair we should be
t..topt.d to kill irne another, Not • moment now passed

"1 guess tbse's

hut eused lihe hours.
I clo.peil Al osiers'. hand. We were •ilent for some
minutes—than ho said solemnly : " Here's a pretty go !
say, we are in for it."
" Villain, blackguard. tr. ocherous villain !" I shouted
IS S "'W..' of rage, that, however, soon subsided into
desp.dr

there- i"
Many, gazing up flu elope.

Next morning Old Dan was allowed by the farmer's
son to try the velocipede. With a little • ooaching" he
managed it fairly, and after • few more trials of the
machine, Johnny became a proficient upon the veloci-
pede. At last be became so fowl of the thing that he
sold his donkey, and bought a second-hand veloolpede,
for he said be could make "moor braes in • week by
runnin' armed/ ups' th two-wheeled dragon than be
could make in a mouth by sellin• pots."

Pr is announced that the Bishop of Winchester will
reiggn his see iw a few weeks under the prc visions of ths
new Act.
Dit. BUNNY, the coroner for the borough of Newbury,
has held an inquest on the body of Julia Heath,
daushter of • French polisher in that town, who died
on Monday from the effects of drinking some strong pale

A VILLAIN DISTUOTIID UT • HURRICANE —general)
• smell town about six miles east of Abiline, on the
Kansas Pacific road, a storm burst upon that village.
The thunder and lightning were terrific, and the storm
swept past, • perfect hurriune. Every Ileum in the
village, with one exception, was entirely destroyed.
Furniture, bed and bedding were scattered over the
prairie, and lott and destroyed. Fortunately no one
received any serinue injury, although • number were
slightly injured. People were compelled to stand out on
the prairie after the buildings were blown away, and
endure the terrors of tbe hurricane and the pitiless
pelting of rain and haiL Only two bundle. bad secured
anything hire • shelter from the storm, and one of these
did so by taking refuge in a taller after the building bad
been demoliebed. Those in tante fared better than
those in bouse• Although the tents blew down, yet
they fell upon the occupants, and thus saved them from
a ats, ee pelting. In ninny phscut the oorn his been
completely riddled by the haii, and wheat that bad been
harvested and shocked in the field was scattered in every
direction. Tel' graph poles were blown down, and the
wires lying on the ground. The hurricane struck the
fated village from the north-went. and the -work of des.
traction was quick snd terrible. It in, indeed, a miracle
that no here were lost, or more serious results followed
stub a storm.
THE Cierianali Commercial eves a frightful secount
of riots which took place at ilarrodeburg, Kentucky, on
the 27th July. at the instigation of the "Regulators :"
"On Saturday evening, ten days ago, the town won
alarmed by fearful cries from • wretched man, who
wen mined on the streets, taken outside the corpoeste
welts, and swung to the limb of a tree, until pitying
bands next day removed the fettering oorpse. This
man prayed and pleaded that he might be allowed trial
before the Courts of the country for any crime charged
to him. In the stillness of the night his anxious plead-
ings 'mold be heard for half • mile; others - some
ministers—endeavoured to reach the ears of the peal.
who were binding the struggling victim. They could
not give the countersign, and were promptly repulsed,
while the man (ton of • former representative of the
county in our Legislature) was gegged and hurried to his
daant. We bear to-day that a nem," was hung last
&sari., night In an Memoirs part of the county. On
the same evening (24th inst.) the bowie of a respectable
widow in the town was invaded by an armed and
(winked band. Vsrar,dall, ones sheriff of the county,
was demanded lie was seised, ordered to pay within
eve days • contested claim of some thousand dollers, or
that 'wits judgement would be visited upon him. These
dneda of violence, unrestrainei and unopposed, are
romlatad itiPlYng with terrible rapidty. The trees are
out along any of the roads leading from this
plate where one and sometimes two wretched sufferers
bevel:teen strangled from the same limb. Some of thus
have, undoubtedly, been vicious crtminals, well deserv-
their fate, if adminielered legally. The community are
still ignorant of the hewn why others were hung and
whipped. Our Governor is a ware of these trunacttons, but
as yet has taken no steps to vindicate the law." Is is
stated that within the last two years more than twenty.
five persons have been bung at the instance of these self-
oonstttuted authoritim. besides many severely lashed
and otherwise maltreated.