Southern shield., 1850-05-11
The ShraW.

In a certain town there was a Moor Ol
 great responsibility, who had son. the best
 young man in the world, full of great pro-
 jects, but so poor, that he had the will and
 not the power to execute them. In the
 same place there was another Moor, very
 rich, and he had an only daughter; but she
 was devil, and nobody would marry her.
 The young man came one day to his father,
 and said, "Father, am weary of the poor
 and wretched life lead; wish to marry."
 The father said he should be delighted if his
 son could find party that suited him; upon
 which the young man named his neighbor's daughter; on hearing this the father was
 much surprised; but the son persisted in de- sirng his father to speak to the Moor, who
 was his intimate friend, and ask him for his daughter. The Moor said, when he was applied 10, that he had no objection, but
 that whosoever had his daughter would be
 better dead than alive. The wedding, how ever, was fixed, and the bride was led away
 to her husbands house, and, according to the Moorish custom, supper was prepared, and the table was laid, and the fathers and mothers left the bride and bridegroom to- gether till the next day, not without fear that they should find the bridegroom in the morning dead, or not far from it (muerto, muy nal trecho.) As soon as they were gone, the new married couple sat down at the table, and before she could speak, he, looking about him. saw one of his house dogs, and calling to him with a loud voice, ordered him to bring water to wash his hands, which the dog not doing, he got up in rage, and drew his sword; this the dog seeing, ran away, and he after him, till he caught him, and cut off his head and legs, and lis body in pieces, and dashed the blood over the table and all over the room; then came and seated himself at the table. He looked round again and saw a Maltese bea- gle, Gun banche,) and gave him the same order; but on his not complying, he first threatened to serve him as he had done the mastiff, and then, springing from his chair, he caught him by the legs, and cut him into a hundred pieces; then he returned second time to the table, making horrid faces and furious gestures, and staring wildly around him. The bride, who was an eyewitness of all this, was beside herself with fear, and stupid without being able to utter syllable He then sWore he would serve every living creature in the same manner, not excepting his horse, which was the only one he had remaining to him; then, having killed his horse, he came back to the table with his sword reeking in blood, and seeing no other animal to kill, turned his eye on his wife. and cried with furious tone of voice, ''Get up, and bring me water to wash my hands," She immediately ly rose, and brought him wa ter. Then he said, ''If you had not done it, 1 would have served you as 1 served the dogs and the horse" He then ordered her 10 help him, but with so horrid an accent, that she still expected to have her head cut off, and obeyed with readiness. In this same manner they passed the night together, and she never spoke, but did every thing he bade her: and when they had slept some little while, he said to his wife, "l have not been able to rest for rage tonight. See that mo- body disturb me in the morning, and take care that have a good breakfast"
 Early in the morning the parents of the bride and bridegroom knocked at the door, and, as no one answered, they concluded that the bridegroom was either killed or wounded, and when they saw the bride come 10 the door without her husband, they were confirmed in their suspicious. As soon as she saw them she began to call them traitors, md asked them how they dared come to he door without speaking; make no noise, or you are all dead men. This astonished hem still more, and when they knew how he night had been spent, they thought very highly of the young man for his great skill n governing his wife, and arranging his from that day forward she vas so well managed, that he lived perfectly we'll with her; and the father-in-law took lint from his son, and killed horse to keep lis wife in order.
 DEFINITION OF oFDoGLATIsM.-"Robert, my Iear,' said Jenny, with the deferential air 9f scholar, ''Robert, what did MT. Cara way mean when he said he hated dog dog natism!"
 Topps was puzzled.
 "Robert, my dear," Jenny urged, "what what in the world is dogmatism?'
 Now it was the weakness of Topps never 10 confess the ignorance of anything soever o his wife. "A man should never do it." ropps had been known in a convivial season 10 declare, Git make lem conceited." Where lpon Topps prepared himself, as was his wont, to make solemn satisfying answer. Taking off his hat and smoothing the wrin- zIes of his brow TODps said: