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9. The judge, who had been highly bribed, in order to conceal it by a show of candor, said, "Well, sir, as you claim your privilege in one instance, I will grant it. Whom would you wish to have in the place of that man excepted?" After a short time the plaintiff said, "My lord, I wish to have another man chosen;" and, looking round the court -"my lord, there is that miller in the court; we will have him, if you please." Accordingly, the miller was chosen in.

10. As soon as the clerk of the court had given them all their oaths, a dexterous little fellow came into the apartment, and slipped ten gold coins into the hands of each of eleven jurymen, and gave the miller but five. He observed that they were all bribed, and said to his next neighbor, in a soft whisper, "How much have you got?" "Ten pieces," said he. But he concealed what he had got himself. The cause was opened by the plaintiff's counsel; and all the scraps of evidence they could pick up were adduced in his favor.

11. The younger brother was provided with a great number of witnesses and pleaders, all plentifully bribed, as well as the judge. The witnesses deposed, that they were in the self-same country when the brother died, and saw him buried. The counselors pleaded upon this accumulated evidence; and every thing went with a full tide in favor of the younger brother. The judge summed up the evidence with great gravity and deliberation; "and now, gentlemen of the jury," said he, "lay your heads together, and bring in your verdict as you shall deem just."

12. They waited but for a few minutes, and then determined in favor of the younger brother. The judge said, "Gentlemen, are you agreed? and who shall speak for you?" "We are all agreed, my lord," replied one, "and our foreman shall speak for us." "Hold, my lord," replied the miller; "we are not all agreed." "Why?" said the judge, in a very surly manner, "what's the matter with you? What reasons have you for disagreeing?"

13. "I have several reasons, my lord," replied the miller: "the first is, they have given to all these gentlemen of the jury ten broad pieces of gold, and to me but five; which, you know, is not fair. Besides, I have many objections to make to the false reasonings of the pleaders, and the contradictory evidence of the witnesses." Upon this, the miller began a discourse, which discovered such a vast penetration of judgment, such extensive knowledge of law, and was expressed with such manly and energetic eloquence, that it astonished the judge and the whole court.

14. As he was going on with his powerful demonstrations, the judge, unable to contain himself, stopped him. "Where did you come from, and who are you?" "I came from Westminster Hall," replied the miller; "my name is Matthew Hale; I am Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. I have observed the iniquity of your proceedings this day; therefore, come down from that tribunal which you have so disgraced. You are one of the corrupt parties in this iniquitous business. I will come up this moment and try the cause all over again."

15. Accordingly, Sir Matthew went up, in his miller's dress, began the trial from its very commencement, and searched every circumstance of truth and falsehood. He proved the elder brother's title to the estate; unraveled all the sophistry to the very bottom, and gained a complete victory in favor of truth and justice.

Anonymous.

CXV.-NORWAY.

jag'-ged, indented; gezackt.

in-un'-date, to overflow; überschwemmen.

sub-lime', grand; erhaben.

strag'-gle, to keep no certain direction; unregelmäßig verlaufen.

prom'-on-to-ry, a headland; Vorgebirge.

char, a species of salmon; Schar.

cleave, to open; sich bahnen.

browse, to nibble off; weiden.
ey'-rie, the nest of a bird of prey; Horst.
din, loud noise; Getöse.

vi'-brate, to quiver; zittern.

myr-i-ad, an immense number; Myriade.
saw'-yer, one who saws timber; Sägemüller.

in de-fi'-ance of, in opposition to; trok.

1. Every one who has looked at the map of Norway must have been struck with the singular character of its coast. On the map it looks so jagged, such a strange mixture of land and sea, that it appears as if there must be a perpetual struggle between the two-the sea striving to inundate the land, and the land pushing itself out into the sea, till it ends in their dividing the region between them. On the spot, however, this coast is very sublime.

2. The long, straggling promontories are mountainous, towering ridges of rock, springing up in precipices from the water; while the bays between them, instead of being rounded with shelving sandy shores, on which the sea tumbles its waves, are, in fact, long, narrow valleys, filled with The high rocky banks shelter these deep bays (called fiords) from almost every wind; so that their waters are usually as still as those of a lake.

sea.

3. For days and weeks together, they reflect each separate treetop of the pine-forests which clothe the mountain sides, the mirror being broken only by the leap of some sportive fish, or the oars of the boatman as he goes to inspect the sea-fowl from islet to islet of the fiord, or carries out his nets or his rod to catch the sea-trout, or char, or cod, or herrings, which abound, in their seasons, on the coast of Norway.

4. It is difficult to say whether these fiords are the most beautiful in summer or in winter. In summer, they glitter with golden sunshine; and purple and green shadows from the mountain and forest lie on them; and these may be

more lovely than the faint light of the winter noons of those latitudes, and the snowy pictures of frozen peaks which then show themselves on the surface; but before the day is half over, out come the stars-the glorious stars which shine like nothing that we have ever seen.

5. There, the planets cast a faint shadow, as the young moon does with us; and these planets and the constellations of the sky, as they silently glide over from peak to peak of these rocky passes, are imaged on the waters so clearly that the fisherman, as he unmoors his boat for his evening task, feels as if he were about to shoot forth his vessel into another heaven, and to cleave his way among the stars.

6. Still as everything is to the eye, sometimes for a hundred miles together along these deep sea-valleys there is rarely silence. The ear is kept awake by a thousand voices. In the summer there are cataracts, leaping from ledge to ledge of the rocks; and there is the bleating of the kids that browse there, and the flap of the great eagle's wings, as it dashes abroad from its eyrie, and the cries of whole clouds of sea-birds which inhabit the islets; and all these sounds are mingled and multiplied by the strong echoes, till they become a din as loud as that of a city.

7. Even at night, when the flocks are in the fold, and the birds at roost, and the echoes themselves seem to be asleep, there is occasionally a sweet music heard, too soft for even the listening ear to catch by day. Every breath of summer wind that steals through the pine-forests wakes this music as it goes. The stiff piny leaves of the fir and pine vibrate with the breeze like the strings of a musical instrument, so that every breath of the night-wind, in a Norwegian forest, wakens a myriad of tiny harps; and this gentle and mournful music may be heard in gushes the whole night through.

8. This music, of course, ceases when each tree becomes laden with snow; but yet there is sound, in the midst of

the longest winter night. There is the rumble of some avalanche, as, after a drifting storm, a mass of snow too heavy to keep its place slides and tumbles from the mountain peak. There is, also, now and then, a loud crack of the ice in the nearest glacier; and, as many declare, there is a crackling to be heard by those who listen when the northern lights are shooting and blazing across the sky.

9. Nor is this all. Wherever there is a nook between the rocks on the shore where a man may build a house, and clear a field or two-wherever there is a platform beside the cataract where the sawyer may plant his mill, and make a path from it to join some great road, there is a human habitation and the sounds that belong to it. Thence, in winter nights, come music and laughter, and the tread of dancers, and the hum of many voices. The Norwegians are a social and hospitable people; and they hold their gay meetings, in defiance of their arctic climate, through every season of the year.

Harriet Martineau.

CXVI. THE MOOSE, OR ELK.

di-men'-sion, extent; size; Ausdehnung; Größe.

pal'-ma-ted, resembling a hand with the fingers spread; hand

förmig.

u-nique', without an equal; einzigartig.

suc-cumb', to submit; unterliegen.

an-tag-o-nist, a foe; Gegner.

floun'-der, to fling the limbs; zappeln.

vent, a passage; Ausweg.

sus-cep'-ti-ble, capable of impression; empfänglich; fähig.
fu-til'-i-ty, uselessness; Nuglosigkeit.

1. The Moose, or Elk, is the largest of all the deer tribe, attaining the extraordinary height of seven feet at the shoulders, thus equalling many an ordinary elephant in dimensions. The horns of this animal are very large, and widely palmated at their extremities, their united weight