, 1864-04-30
FROM WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS.
A vagary Of Fortune.

life, incidents much more singular than any
that the most fertile imagination ever sup
piled to the pages Of romance. We, how
ever, claim still more credit, and We sus-
pect the reader will think with trife more
reason, for the following illustration of the
truth'O this observation. $3.50
On the west side Of the bay Of Machri-
more, on the south side Of Cantyre, there
stands small farm house, at the distance
Of about quarter Of mile from the
beach.
In the year IVA, this house, and farm
adjoining, was tenanted by man of the
uame Of Duncan M'Allister and his wife.
Duncan was poor but decent and indus
trious man, much respected in the country
for his integrity, and for his quiet and civil
demeanor.
Puncan, however, had severe struggle
with the world. His farm was very small
and very wretched one; while his rent was
neither the one nor the other. 1t was, in
short, with great difficulty that Duncan
could make living Of it, even with all the
assistance he could obtain from = wife not
less industrious than himself. But Dun
can looked confidently forward to better
days, and not without reason. Four years
previous to the period at which our story
commences, his son, an only child-a young
man of steady habits and excellent disposi-
tion-had gone out to the East Indies, in
the humble capacity Of a gentleman's SER
want, and there fallen into some little way
of business, in which he was doing so well
that he had been enabled to remit to his
parents twenty pounds per annum, for the
last three years of the period above-named.
1t was, then, to this source-to the du-
teous disposition Of his son-that Duncan
trusted for an improvement of his own
condition, and with each succeeding year
did his trust in this sons prosperity and
ilial affection become more and more con-
iding; for, with each succeeding year,
ccding years remittance, with an assurance
that this latter should always be proper
tioned--in other words, 60 on increasing
with the success Of the donor. And, ac-
eordingly, for several years this was the
case, till the sum, from twenty had risen
to ninety pounds.
With his last remittance, Duncan's son,
" whose name was John, informed his parents
INA. ne was ge.tlng on 80 rapidly ana pros
Perousiy, that ne hoPeu, IN lew years. 70
be able 70 return % his own. country -aiA-in-
dependent man.
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SulaIeu . prcpaIe nls parents iJr .nc iol-
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from Bhurtpore:
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your grief ana amazement 10 learn that /
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smoothest.tononed. most plausible. and most
deeeDtiye rascsls / ever met within charge
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trafiskipr expcdition into the interior. in
onest az enms and IVORY. he took ADVANTAGE Of
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