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iwscopy the following story from new work. "The
Arabian Days Entertainments just issued In volume
price 1.25 by Messrs Phillips Sampson Co.. of Boston
Neither the title the of the story give
any intmaon of the pleasant humor which pervades the
whole after the secret is known, oo the excellent moral
to be drawn from it, This but many others which
make up the book and we'll deserve the Entertain
ments.l
Ny Lord Sheik, in the southern part of Ger
many lies the little city of Grunwiesel, where
was born and bred. 1t is small, as all cities are
in that country. In the centre is little mar
ket-place with fountain an old guildhall on one
side, and round the market the houses of the JUS
tice of peace and the more influential merchants );
and couple of narrow streets hold all the rest
of the inhabitants. All know each other every
one knows what happens everywhere else; and
if the priest, the burgomaster, or the DOCTOR has
an additional dish ON his table, by dinner time
it is known to the entire city. In the afternoon
the ladies go to each others houses, paying visits
as they call it, to talk, over strong coffee and
sweet biscuits, about this great event and the
general conclusion arrived at, is that the priest
must have invested in a lottery and won money
snfu1ly, or the burgomaster have taken bride,
or the doctor have received money from tn
apotheeary on the condition of writing expen-
sive prescriptions. You may imagine, my lord
sheik, how disagreeable a circumstance it must
have been for SO well-regulated place as Grun-
wiesel when man arrived there, Of whom no.
body knew whence he came, what he wanted,
or how he lived The burgomaster, to be sure,
had seen his passport, "a paper which every one
is obliged to have among US
Is it SO unsafe in your Streets" interrupted
the sheik, "that you require to have frman
from your sultan to inspire robbers with re-
spect 2"
NO, my lord,-answered the slave these
papers are no protection against thieves, but
are made necessary by the law, which requires
that 1t must be known everywhere who is who.
Now, the burgomaster had examined the pass
port and had declared at coffee party at the
Doctors that it was certainly correctly vised
from Berlin to Grunwiesel but he feared there
was something behind, for the man had very
cucPICIOuo IOOh HILL Inc DurOOmaStEr
had great authority in the city, SO it is no mat
ter Of surprise that in consequence the stranger
came to be regarded as very doubtful char
acter. His mode of life did not tend to disabuse
my countrymen of this opinion. He hired
house for his exclusive use, put into it cart
load OF strange looking furniture, such as fur
naces sand-baths crucibles and the like. and
lived henceforward entirely alone. Nav. he
even did his own cooking, and his house was
entered by no human being, except one old man
of Grunwiesel, whose duty it. was to huv his
bread, meat, and vegetables. Even this nerson
was only admitted to the lower floor. where tho
stranger met him to receive his purchases.
/ was a boy of ten years of age when the
stranger took uphs residence in our city and
I can call to mind, as plainly as if it had hap
pened but yesterday, the excitement the man
occasioned in fireplace He never came of an
afternoon, like other people, to the bowling
green: never of an evening to the tavern, to
tslk Of the times over his pipe and tobaeco! III