sir," said she, "The first day Billy came home || jingling half the evening. Heaven rest her soul, and her voice, and her piano-heaven rest all three!-She has herself gone to rest an hour ago

Lured by the splendor of the proposed reward, the doctor proceeded immediately to business, and so purged, blistered, and blooded the young man, that he left him neither strength nor Ha! what is this I see upon my pillow?-Surespirits to rant; so thinking himself deprived of ly, it moves-there is another, and another, and the most valuable accomplishments in acting, heyet another-a living colony of wisely gave up his hopes of succeeding in the cannot speak the name 'tis sickening to me. dramatic line, and became perfectly composed. Oh, ye powers of corrosive sublimate!-Oh, BetThe doctor claimed his cheese, and is, by the ty! thou faithless chamber-maid-Oh, scalding credit of this cure, still spoken of in the neigh-hot water and all ye other means of destruction, bourhood, as wonderfully skilled in all cases of how have ye proved traitors to your charge!. insanity.

goose.' Cato laid down his hoe; got over the fence, and shovelled off on his broad pedestals to get a goose. The first house that Cato came to was that of Sam Soap, the tailor commonly called Soft Soap. Into the shop went the yankeefied negro, and making a leg to Mr. Soap, who sat like a Hindoo idol, busily employed in patching an old blue coat, with still older brown rags, and humming most mournfully the air of 'Ye banks and braes of Bonny Doon' -giving it a nassal twang that came direct from Jedediah Soap, who was a member of the Long Parliament-Soap,' says Cato, 'you ha'nt got no goose nor nothing ba'nt ye, for Aunt Nabby?'

'when'ill that are goose be done? cause I'm
everlasting busy settling that hay mow case,
and I'd like to know.'-Ready now, squire,'
answered the parson, opening the kitchen
door, 'and I guess its an uncommon fine
goose, too, so walk in and let's have a lit-
tle chat.' The Squire entered, and he and
the.minister had considerable spell of con-
versation about that hay mow case; the
case is this-Abijah Beggs got leave to
carry his hay 'cross widow Stokes' field to
the road; well, this hay mow dropped off
the polls, and widdow Stokes claimed it as
a waif and stray. Now,' said the squire,
I conceit the chief pint in the case is this
here has widow Stokes a right to the
hay? Now this ill depend ye see, 'pon
'other pint, to wit, videlicit,- does the hay
belong to 'Bijah! Now the widow says,
says she, every man in this country's free,
and therefore every man in this country's
a king jist as fur as his farm goes; now the
king, all allowed, has a right to waifs and
strays,- and so says widow Stokes, that
are hay's mine. But, says 'Bijah-and by
jinks, its a cute argument; but says he,
though every man in this land of liberty's
a free man, yet that doesent prove that
every woman is; and per contra, we know
that woman don't vote and of course a'nt
free; so, said he, the hay an'thern. But's
a puzzling case, an't it? Well, now,' an-
swered the minister, 'it strikes me that hay
a'nt a'stray.' 'Wull,' said the squire, 'that's
a pint I never thinked of.'

Soap was a literal (not literary) man, and so he called to his daughter Propriety, who having but one eye, was likewise called Justice,--that is by some that were classical-Priety,' says he, 'gin Cato my goose." Priety, like a good girl, took the broad flat iron off the shelf, and telling Cato to be as careful as everlastin not to get it wet,' she wrapped it in a paper, and away went the web-footed mortal to deliver his charge to Susannah. My gracious!' said Susannah, "if that nigger ha'nt got me an iron goose to stew! But nevertheless as her business was to stew the goose and ask no questions, at it she went, and pretty soon the tailor's treasure was simmering among the onions and carrots, and cabbages, and turnips, and spices, all as nice as need to be. After breakfast Aunt Nabby had gone abroad to ask in the neighbors, and when she came Just then in came Deacon, and after him home she went of course directly to the the sexton, and so on, till pretty much all kitchen to see how the goose came on. 'Is the aristocratic democracy of the village it tender, Susannah?' said she; Susannah had assembled. And then in bustled aunt smiled so sweetly, that the old house clock Nabby; awfully fine I tell you; and their in the corner next the cupboard, stopped Susannah and Cato began to bring in dinand held up its hands; 'Oh, ma'am' repli- ner, and while they were doing that, the ed Susannah, 'it is so tender that I guess company all took a stiff glass of grog by t'wont be more tender after being biled.'- way of appetite, and then stroked down My aunt's mouth watered so that she was their faces and looked at the table; and forced to look at Susannah, to correct the there was a pig roast stuffed, and a line of agreeable impression. veal, and two old hens, and an everlasting sight of all kinds of sarce,' and pies and puddings, and dough-nuts, and cider, and current wine-and above all at the head of the table, the dish in which lay the hero of the day, 'that are goose,' smothered in onions, and utterly hid beneath the carrots and cabbages. The seat next the goose was assigned to the minister; and all sat down. The squire, flourished his fork and pounced upon the pig; the Deacon, he tackled to at the veal, while the sexton was seriously to work to exhume a piece

Well, noon came, and the neighbors began to drop in. First came the parson, who being a man of vast punctuality, took out his watch as soon as he came in, and for the purpose of seeing how it 'chimed,' as he said with the old clock, walked into the kitchen, bade Miss Susan a 'good day,' hoped she continued well in body, and snuffed up the sweet savors of the preparing sacrifice with expanded nostrials. Next came the squire; he opened the front door and seeing no one but me, 'Polijah,' he said,"

form a noble contrast to the garden below, through whose openings the wind often comes, sweeping with the violence of a tornado, and threatening destruction to ships that lie in the bay. This valley is a level space of eleven or more acres, covered with rich looking grass, that denotes a fertile soil; while fruit trees are so thick as to form a beautiful shade, through which vines and rose bushes of various kinds, and flowers of all colors, seem to strive which shall inherit the largest share of the bow

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of baked pork from amid an avalanche of beans. The minister with a spoon gently stirred away a few carrots and onions in hopes of thus coming at the goose. It smells remarkably fine;' said he to Aunt Nabby. It's particuler fat and tender,' she replied, I picked it myself from a hole heap. And still the minister poked, till at last his spoon grated upon a hard surface. A skewer, I guess,' he said, and plunged his fork into the onion mass; he struggled to raise the iron handle with which he had joined issue. Bless me, cried aunt Nab-ers formed by their own weaving, among by, what's that are?' 'I should judge,' 'that that are was an old goose.' Gracious me!' exclaimed the Deacon. Still the minister struggled-and still the goose resisted. Aunt Nabby grew nervous, and the more the minister struggled the more the goose would'nt come. I saw my aunt's eye dilating, and her hand moved ugly, and then-pounce, just when the minister thought he had conquered the enemy, my aunts claw drove through the onions and dragging forth the tailor's goose held it at arms length before the company; the squire had just raised the pig upon his fork when seeing my aunt's discovery, he dropped it, and the dish was knocked all to smashthe sexton had his beans to the edge of the table-another pull as he saw the goose, and over it went. My aunt dropped the cause of this evil, and there went another plate. The company dined elsewhere, and next Sunday the minister declined preaching, on account of a domestic misfortune. My aunt Nabby died soon after, and the sexton buried her, observing as he did so, that 'she departed the poor crittur, in consequence of an iron goose and broken crock-|| American and six Spaniards were inhabiery.'

JUAN FERNANDEZ.

This Island was the first land we made after leaving Boston, and I can truly say, that no land ever appeared to me so pleasant before. It must have been owing to the great length of time I had been, for the first time in my life, on the boisterous ocean, as the general appearance of the island is sterile and mountainous, with the exception of a valley, the same in which Alexander Selkirk lived, on whose adventure the popular story of Robinson Crusoe was founded. It appears more like the garden of Eden, than any place I ever saw or heard of. The valley is surrounded by high, steep and craggy mountains, which

the peach, cherry, and fig-trees. These
are also thronged with singing birds, whose
musical notes nearly transport the observ-
er to the upper regions, while beneath all
these beauties of nature a soft murmuring
rivulet is heard, gently rippling by.
one who had been tossed about by the
winds and waves for many months, as I
had, to be at once placed in the midst of
this most delightful spot of nature, to be
surrounded by all that can please the eye
or engage the ear-to sce before you na-
ture's loveliest fruits-to hear the secret
melody of ten thousand birds that are con-
tinually warbling here, he would scarcely
believe it real; and he would fancy some
fairy wand had touched his imagination.
Yet it is not more than I have read of. I
have seen described in poetry, exactly such
places as I had the pleasure here to ob-
serve, and which I have very imperfectly
described.

The climate is beautiful, and the prospect imposing. I was nearly tempted to run away from our brig, and reside at this place. When we were there, only one

tants--but I have since learned that a company have gone out to make a settlement on this island.

LAW. A wealthy farmer in the state of New York, having been sued by Mr. Havens, wrote the following classical epistle to his attorney.

Esq. Sur if the suite of Heaven's goes agin me i want you to kerry it up to a higher corte for God knows I dont owe him one cent.'

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HOGS. A man on his way to market with a load of dead hogs observing a girl curtesey to him, asked her 'Why she did curtesey to dead hogs? I do not,' said she, but pay my respects to the live one.'

We lay before our readers an engraved view of Lullworth Castle, the residence of the dethroned Charles.

eighty feet, with a round tower at each corner, thirty feet in diameter, and rising sixteen feet above the walls, which, as The "sweet uses of adversaty" invest the well as the towers, are embattled. The above engraving with peculiar interest. walls are six feet thick; the offices are The asylum of fallen royalty has some at- under ground, arched with stone. The traction, however lowly the divinity,' house has three stories, but the towers which 'doth hedge a king,' may be rated. four; in each front are three rows of four The Castle itself is, moreover, a place of windows; in the towers are four rows, of note, and is what topographers call a no-three each, exclusive of the offices. The ble pile.' It occupies an eminence in the south-east corner of an extensive park, and commands a fine view of the sea from an opening between the hills, as well as inland prospects. The coast, too, is of great natural beauty; for every tourist must remember the Cove, or beautiful basin of Lullworth, and the arched rocks in its vicinity. The present Castle of Lullworth is not of any great antiquity, but is supposed to be on or near the scite of a castle mentioned as far back as the year 1146. The materials for building it were brought principally from the ruins of Bindon Abbey, not very distant. The foundation was laid in the year 1588; and the structure, except its internal decorations, finished in 1609: the latter were not completed till after the year 1641, when the ancestor of the present owner, James Weld, esq. purchased the estate. Perhaps we cannot do better than quote the general description of the Castle from Hutchins's History of Dorset:"Lullworth Castle is an exact cube of

hall and dining room are large; and the rooms are in general eighteen feet high. In the apartments are some family portraits, executed by the celebrated Šir Peter Lely. The principal front is on the east, and faced with Chilmark stone; before it was a large court, now laid into a lawn leading to the landing-place, which is guarded by a balustrade of stone, called the Cloisters, because paved with the stones from the cloisters of Bindon Alley. Over the doors are statues of two ancient Romans, in their gowns. On each side of the door, which is supported by four pillars of the Ionic order, is a large niche, and over them two shields, on which are the arms of Weld, properly blazoned. In the niche are the statues of Music and Painting."

RECONCILIATION.

"Faster, faster! your horses creep like snails! drive for your life!" cried the impatient Morley, as the noble animals he so slandered dashed along the pebbly turn

Morley leaned his face nearer to hers, "To your father!" exclaimed Morley, and, by the moon-beams, saw that her fea-almost unconscious of what he said. tures were fixed, her open eyes were gazing on vacancy, while the tears which had recently streamed from them, seemed congealed upon her bloodless cheeks.