Year: 1860

With the bag on his back, the one eyed
old gentleman crept into hollow, after
rolling aside a stone that stopped the en-
trance, and found himself in dark. dismal
place, in which there was all manner OF
disorderly whistling and singing, while
sundry hands sought to make capture of
the bag When the old mans eye grew a
little more accustomed to the situation, he
could perceive by the light that issued from
The other end of the room that the snatchers
and whistlers were all feshiess skeletons;
hut as this was matter of trifling moment,
he walked up towards the light, and found
a tent, within which a fire was burning,
while an old crone, whose large eyes were
placed vertically in her head, sat on the
hearth with two unweildly monsters for
companions.


"Here's some firewood for ye," srowled
The one.eyed old man, pitching his bag al
the old woman.


"Thank ye! We were sadly out Of it,"
replied the crone, and threw the bones on
the fire which speedily converted them into
ashes. On these the old woman slept for
three whole days, at the end of which they
produced human form, namely, that of our
friend, the Wanderer, who could not make
out where he was, and felt particularly
awed by the aspect of the Two monsters.
These, the old lady informed him, had
been very estimabIe persons in their time.
but were now converted TO stone; and she
gave him 10 understand that if he did not
take her for a wife he would be
petrified likewise. Honestly avowing that
he was married already, the Wsnderer com
piled with her request, and the old dame,
not TO be behindhand in generosity, pro-
missed TO drive him home. So after short
honeymoon ofthree days, the reindeer were
put TO the lady's sledge, and bride and
bridegroom rode meriy towards the mouth
of the hollow, pursued all the way by the
mob Of skeletons, who tried 10 wound the
stranger with their spears, but were rem
dered powerless by the counter charm OF
the reindeer The stone at the mouth OF
the hollow was so weighiy that the Wan
derer could not restore it 10 ITS place, but
this operation was gracefully performed by
the old woman with a kick and little
more journeying brought the loving couple
TO tent, where they found the first wife
and both her parents. These jumped into
the sledse, which now proceeded with all
speed 10 the Wanderers first home-,he
old place with the seven hundred tents, in
which everybody had been murdered when
he was little sleepy boy.


There were the dear old tents all erect
again. not one of the seven hundred miss
ing there were the people: and their deer,
and their dogs, just as il nothing had hap
pened, and the Wanderer had a right to ex-
act little repose after his toisome vicissi-
tudes. There, too, was that good creature,
the little old man with one eye, and. sad
to say, behind the old man was The hateful
villain who had so many times caused our
hero's death. OF course, two such invete
rate foes could not meet without fighting,
and though the Wanderer soon despatched
his adversary, his victory was Immediately
followed by insanity, and he killed his one.
, eyed banefactor into the bargain. OFF like
a Whit of smoke wen, The beautiful vision
of domestic felicity. The existence of the
people in the tents was manifestly contin-
| gent on the life of the old man, for when
the Wanderer approached his boyhood's
home, he found all dead, and his Two wives
instantly died likewise, leaving him in a
state of solcitude. Thus the story leaves
off, as il began, with heap OF corpses, and,
what is the strangest part of the matter,
mos, of the people who die at the end are
those who die at the beginning


| Seven brothers, who are heartless in the
most literal sense of the word, figure in a
tale that is distinguished from the others
| by something OF poeticai tone. These
seven brothers have murdered an old
Samoyede lady and carried off her daughter,
a systematically gifted beauty for his wife,
and hopes, with her aid, TO repair the mis-
chief that has been done. The great point
is TO get The hearts of the brothers, which
they are in the habit of taking out of their
| bosoms every night before they retire TO
rest, and which they very imPrudenily en-
trust to the care of the captive girl.


When the Samoyede and his wife enter
the tent belonging to The brothers, the lady
is invisible, but the husband accosts his
sister. whom he finds alone. The brothers,
she informs him, are from home at present,
but will return liz the evening, and she
gives him ample instructions how he is to
proceed in his pious work. What these
instructions were will be shown by the
manner in which they were carried out,
we must promise that the hero sinks off TO
his own residence, and his wife undertakes
| the achievement Of the adventure.


When The brothers come home, they eai