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he swung them off impntlcntlv. often viii
some grim Jest, and shaking his bent brows,
went upon his way suIlen and thongh'ful.
On the present occasion, the wolf.man,
MS he might himself have said. had on his
Sleeps clothing. and seemed cheerful and
hospi'able. lie desired his ancient help
mate to prepare tea, aud FRY some slices OF
bacon: and with this, and bread ard honey
from Collins hives, they had a meal which
suficed to refresh them.
What can have taken YOU said Col
Inns. TO the old church. at such an hour OF
such mn evening DID you wait I'LL 1t was
pitch dark 10 order to see the view the bet.
ter? p
Darkness answered Wa|singham, { is
sometimes well worth seeing. We how
ever wanted only to view the sunset from
the church and proposed to return by twi.
light and moonlight. Blu, the storm over
took us, and. n, do ubt, also detained Mrs.
Nugent at the farm house. where she had
stopped behind us for n few momen's.-
We were. of course, glad Of the shelter
afforded by the ruin. What We should
have done at last, but for you, | cannot
imagine
oh. the darkness would not have ate
you and night in the old church in such
weather would have been n ~forelast Of n
kind of dim and bleak ghostland, much
Ike, | suppose, 10 that which we shall all
one day visit. As it IL, no doubt the ring.
ing of the bell will be attributed 10 an
evil spirit by half the county. myself
was rather in hopes of finding some huge
skeleton, or demon hard at work, pulling
the rope, and was rather disappointed at
seeing only yon.'
'Ay, SAID Walsingham, 1T would make
no bad tale. Suppose we spread the m
mor:-A namelcss fend amused hlmso'
with ringing the bell till his burning hand.
set the rope on fire, which communicated
with the wood work and when Mr.. Col
Inns and a crowd Of country people came
TO see what was the matter, be burst ont
at the top Of the spire in an eruption %
flame and smoke, gave q laughing yell as
he vanished. and at the same moment the
building tell ia. and all the inhabitants o
the old church yard were heard to groan II
obliged. bv the smell Of sulphur to use hel
smelling bottle. But Mr.. Collins. ! doub'
whether any apparirion you might have
found and invited home with you woult
have enjoyed your supper ns much as we.
No: suppose not. And in fact. my
surprise and DISAPPOINTMENT were as fool
tn as that Of a farmer. some miles from
this. who received an Anonymous letter
telling h,m that in the middle of a certain
wood, on such a day. he would fld some
thing far more strange and precious thar
thc crown jewels u specimen, ,nieed. Z"
the most wonderful thing on earth. lie
went, expecting a bn,hel Of diamonds, nj
For'una,ns's purse, or something equal !
unlike turnlps and clover, and was mncf
aston,>h. d and puzzled at seeing only q
poor little chubby baby. Yet the letter
writer SAID true enough. | do not know
tina, even I have much right to complain
on the present OCCASION
Then ] am sure we have not said Ma
ria; but | am afraid YOU are very we." ant
she glanced at his hat which lay on the
floor beside him.
%. my old hat is soaked a little. Sc
many queer mis's and vapors rise Up in /,
from ones brains, especially when one has
happened to look into n newspaper or lash
ionabIe novel, that it need not shrink f'on
a few aerial clouds descending on il. 1t Is
a sort of Temporary armament between
The storms and clatler Of ones head below
and the other capriclous meteorology nT
above. And so metaphysics are only the
almanac Of our brain weather. Many {
system, indeed, 10 the almanac Of a pas
year is fa'slfied by the event, aad reprinted
with a fresh date, as if it would be vale
for the next twelve month
He laughed a short sardonic laugh, nnt
then fixed his eyes upon the fire ms 1t he
had uttered his oracle and was content.
Walsingham smiled, and said-'it woul(
be amusing TO have a complete history o
coverings for the head written on that ptlo
ciple. Their picturesque varieties anG
diverse uses have often been notice. by
travellers. artists, and so follh. But the
relation Of the head garment to the tho't;
woold give a new point of view
well, SAID Collins with a tone between
defiance and testing, there are many ode
; facts to be noted on that matter. As the
land shells of Madeira are altogether differ
, ont from those of the ne%ighbonng island o
Porto Santo, so the Portuguese population
, of the one place were a small funnel sha'
; ped. or unicorn cap, and the same race II
J the other, adorn themselves with a fla
> bonnet
| All = said Walsingbam. remarks Of tina
; depth and originality recall the famous Py
t'an verses OF Nathaniel Lee, the Tropho
man prophet -
'Melhinks | see a hieroglyphic bat
Skim Ger The zenith in a slip. sIod hat
Both Collins and Maria now lauche,
7 loud and merrlly; and the Recluse said
well, no one can deny that the Who'll. O
|, man is included between his hat and shoes
In these mysterious iGteguments are con
concealed the extreme boundaries of hi
j being, which, though certainly finite, PHI,
losophers aver to be all but Infinite
7 OR said Walsingham, 'as we may ex