Year: 1867

We were bored to DEATH Ted and ], and it
was at Overcourt. There was circulating
library, to which none subscribed, and which
consequently did.not circulate !; there was
croquet ground with a total absense OF hoops
balls and mallets there was little boats, pos
sible for rowing) with the bottom out; and
there was shop which sold worse cigars
than are to be found even at Boulonge.


Gentlemen, appeal to you. Can | say
more? Still being there for week, and
with no money to take up elsewhere, there it
was necessary to remain. l trust make
this reasonably clear ?


1t was our nightly custom, to walk up and
down the only promenade of the place, (for
whom it was made has not yet been discov-
cred; Ted thinks for visitors,) smoking our
selves sseedy.n Ted who did not care to give
in to adverse circumstances, used to try what
singing would do towards enlivening us.


He composed little song really beautiful
in its simple truth and earnest fervor Here
it is:


And now another day is done:


And wh N we sec to morrow's sun,


Well know another days begun,


Let's hope that too will soon be done.


There was not girl in the place, or we
should have allowed her to make two con-
quests, thereby doing our best to increase her
girlish vanity and render her generally in
supportablc at home Such was the state of
affairs on HE first day ; but towards noon on
the second day we saw rainbow for one ething
and for another two grlish figures on our
walk, dressed both alike in brown marmclite
dresses, and large brown salad bowls for hats
neatly trimmed with brown ribbons,


Anything more hideous it is impossible to
imagine. Whence had the frightful appari-
tions come, and why did they haunt our only
walk? We had wished for girls, like the bad
queens in the fairy tales; but-we appealed
to each othcr-had we wished for such as
these; we both politely replied we had not,
and continued our observations at a safe dis
tance.


sI'l tell you what says Ted after short
pause sI.m blest if II yield up our walk to
them. If they don't like our being there they
can do the other thing, and 60 off. But Over
coat is not like London; and if We give it up
to them we shall have no where to go; besides
even then We should meet at church,


Quite SO. Always considerate, Ted is. l
am not virtuous myself but admire virtue
in others, particularly in Ted, and should
think it wicked to put any difficulty in his
way, when he is ready to sacrifice himself
So down we go to the sea under the delusion
that we are going to astonish them, even as
they had astonshed us, though, we fatter
ourselves, in rather different manner.
Not at all. They looked-not at US, but at
their hateful brown carmelites, very much rs
if they didn't like them, and dexterously gave
the salad bowls, which we're doing service for
hats. a pull which made them, if anything,
uglier than they were before. But they took
no more notice Of us than if we had been
caterpillar.


Very slow We walked along, throwing less
and less expression into our eyes every time
we passed them. They are, or appear to be
utterly unconscious Of our presence.


I began to think Teds most unmeaning
countenance.


So the morning passed, until it seems that
we are fated not to see their faces, they keep
them so religiously turned away. When sud-
denly the wind, which before had been helps
ing these girls, now sides with us. and blows
one Of the salad bowls over the cliff into the
sea.


And there was the damsel all forlorn. Such
q pretty girl, such bright piqusnt little face,
snch charming addition to Overcourt, which
after all, is not SO bad-under certain condi.
tions.


Need Isay that rushed frantically on to the
beach and secured the frightful hat while Ted
stood staring helplessly above like an utter
fool? To those who knew us %feel it must be
quite unnecessary to say SO. But perhaps it
may be as we'll to mention that when return
ed, hat in hand, to the SUBMITS Of the cliff,
found Ted and the pretty girl as fast friends
as it is possible to become in three minutes
and a half; which indeed exceeds the time
was away.


She thanked me in very steady little voice
and in sweet little speech which believe
she had composed during my absence.


Very sensible Of her, too; anything must
be better than listening to Ted's drivellinge.
I never saw such . fellow Intelligent enough
with men, you havo only to hand him over to
. woman, and he undergoes transformation,