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103 fancies of the builder or intending occupant, the only rule observed being that the back of each loondthal faces the windward. In this matter, though, they merely display the same instinctive promptings which are to be seen every day amongst the lower orders of creation, as even a sheep will select the lea side of a bush to make its lair in severe weather. All aboriginal loondthals are constructed after one fashion, which three sides of a bee hive, with the fourth lacking, very aptly illustrates.

In cold, rough weather the huts are made of bark, placed over a light framework of poles, all the top ends thereof resting together in a forked pole, which latter divides the front or open space of the habitation into two equal parts. Should bark be difficult to procure, the framework is covered with boughs or coarse grass, so as to be impervious to any moderate rain, but in boisterous, bitter weather these offer but a sorry protection against the elements.

During the warm and mild weather each family merely puts a few boughs in a semicircular form round the fire, and this is done more with the view of preventing the fire from being blown about by the wind than for any shelter which they are supposed to afford.

The building of the loondthals fall entirely upon the shoulders of the women—that is to say, any men having women folks in their families would disdain to aid in the erection of their dwellings. With the enforced bachelors, and such youths as club together, the matter is very different. They, of course, have to build their own huts, as well as do every other domestic duty for themselves.


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104 When a man has two wives many quarrels arise between them on those hut building occasions. We remember seeing a dispute between two ladies of one lord over the erection of a loondthal, which all the husband's marital authority failed to accommodate. It therefore culminated in a fair stand-up fight, yamsticks being the weapons used, and their method of using them is no child's play either, as they lay on with all their might; so in this instance broken and gory heads were soon visible. After a very fierce encounter one gave in beaten, and the construction of the loondthal went on to completion, after which, however, a wordy phase of the disagreement supervened, until their long tongues and vituperative expletives fairly roused the angry passions of their lord and master (who was seated between the dark-skinned combatants) till his savage nature could no longer bear the infliction; therefore he jumped up and caught hold of the centre pole, to which he gave a sudden jerk, and thus let the whole fabric down on the heads of his rival dearies, thereby putting a climax to their clatter. Satisfied with the result so suddenly achieved, he walked off to a neighbouring loondthal, where he passed the time in pleasant aboriginal gossip until his termagant helpmates had re-erected his dwelling and got rid of their bad blood, by means of the healthy and arduous occupation which their husband had so unceremoniously thrust upon them.

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105 would most undoubtedly be the case did gradations of rank obtain amongst them, nor do they possess any traditions tending to show that there ever existed a better, or indeed any other, order of architecture than the very primitive style which is now, and, as far as can be ascertained, always has been followed by the whole of the aboriginal tribes of the Australian Continent. They are a people who seem to have come to a standstill in some remote age, and who remain in the same fixed groove, even to the present day, thus positively nullifying the old and accepted axiom, "That which is not moving forwards must necessarily be retrograding."

In the history of the colony so far nothing in the shape of remains have been discovered denoting the former existence of a higher order of men than is seen in the present low type, notwithstanding the wide area of country which has been turned over whilst searching for auriferous deposits. Properly considering this important fact, it is but fair to suppose that these people are descended from a primitive race, and that that race was either a separate creation or a family who, in the long-forgotten past, had been driven away by adverse winds from the coasts of their own country, off which they might have been engaged fishing, when the wind arose which carried them to Australia.

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106  ages. Of course we do not mean to imply that the people from whom these aborigines have descended were driven half way round the globe by adverse winds and currents, until the Australian Continent stayed their further progress. But this we do say, the only arts these Australian aborigines possess, whereby they are enabled to fashion their weapons and other implements, seem to have prevailed in Europe when pre-historic man preyed upon the cave lion, the cave bear, and the woolly rhinoceros; for side by side, with the bones of these primeval artificers, the stone axes, the arrow barbs, and the kitchen middens, have been discovered, thus displaying, if not a decided affinity, a marked similarity, in the long-extinct pre-historic races of Europe, to the existing aboriginal races of Australia; but whether the Australians are actually remnants of the same creation to which the extinct races of Europe belonged, or not, is scarcely in our province to say in any definite manner. We merely place these few analagous points in juxta position, because of the remarkable coincidence thereof.

CHAPTER XIII.

OF THE HONESTY OF THE ABORIGINES, THEIR FREEDOM FROM HABITS OF PILFERING, &C. OF MURDER, AND ITS PUNISHMENT.

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4 which is really opposed to the true interests of mankind, render it the more necessary for those who think differently, to speak what they believe to be the truth, and speak it without palliation or reserve.

If, in the performance of this somewhat stern duty, I may at times have appeared unjust or unsisterly to the class of readers whose attention I have been anxious to engage, they will surely have been able to perceive that it was from no want of sympathy with the weakness, the trials, and the temptations to which woman is peculiarly liable, but rather, since we can least bear a fault, in that which we most admire, from an extreme solicitude that woman should fill, with advantage to others and enjoyment to herself, that high place in the creation for which I believe her character to have been designed.

It was originally my intention to have added to the present work, a chapter of hints for step-mothers, and another on the consolations of old maids, which I am far from believing to be few; but the subject more immediately under consideration grew, from its importance, to the usual extent of a book, almost before I was aware of it; and it grew also upon my own mind, as the duties and responsibilities of a mother were gradually unfolded, to an aspect of such solemn, profound, and unanswerable interest, that I feel the more forcibly bow inadequate are my feeble representations to do justice to the claims of society upon the self-devoted, conscientious, and persevering exertions of the Mothers of England.

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Works

 * On the Latter Days of Jewish Church and Nation, as revealed in Apocalypse (Dublin, 1841)
 * The Times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse (Dublin, 1852; reissued in 1857)
 * Sermons in Stones (London, 1856)
 * Shinar (London, 1867)
 * Adam and the Adamite (1868)
 * The Builders of Babel (London, 1871)

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dinner time the father announced to us the exciting fact that Leslie had asked if a few of his guests might picnic that afternoon in the Strelley hayfields. The closes were so beautiful, with the brook under all its sheltering trees, running into the pond that was set with two green islets. Moreover, the squire’s lady had written a book filling these meadows and the mill precincts with pot-pourri romance. The wedding guests at Highclose were anxious to picnic in so choice a spot.

The father, who delighted in a gay throng, beamed at us from over the table. George asked who were coming.

“Oh, not many—about half a dozen—mostly ladies down for the wedding.”

George at first swore warmly; then he began to appreciate the affair as a joke.

Mrs. Saxton hoped they wouldn’t want her to provide them pots, for she hadn’t two cups that matched, nor had any of her spoons the least pretence to silver. The children were hugely excited, and wanted a holiday from school, which Emily at once vetoed firmly, thereby causing family dissension.

As we went round the field in the afternoon turning the hay, we were thinking apart, and did not talk.


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Rh Every now and then—and at every corner—we stopped to look down towards the wood, to see if they were coming.

“Here they are!” George exclaimed suddenly, having spied the movement of white in the dark wood. We stood still and watched. Two girls, heliotrope and white, a man with two girls, pale green and white, and a man with a girl last.

“Can you tell who they are?” I asked.

“That’s Marie Tempest, that first girl in white, and that’s him and Lettie at the back, I don’t know any more.”

He stood perfectly still until they had gone out of sight behind the banks down by the brooks, then he stuck his fork in the ground, saying:

“You can easily finish—if you like. I’ll go and mow out that bottom corner.”

He glanced at me to see what I was thinking of him. I was thinking that he was afraid to meet her, and I was smiling to myself. Perhaps he felt ashamed, for he went silently away to the machine, where he belted his riding breeches tightly round his waist, and slung the scythe strap on his hip. I heard the clanging slur of the scythe stone as he whetted the blade. Then he strode off to mow the far bottom corner, where the ground was marshy, and the machine might not go, to bring down the lush green grass, and the tall meadow sweet.

I went to the pond to meet the newcomers. I bowed to Louie Denys, a tall, graceful girl of the drooping type, elaborately gowned in heliotrope linen; I bowed to Agnes D’Arcy, an erect, intelligent girl with magnificent auburn hair—she wore no hat, and


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346 carried a sunshade; I bowed to Hilda Seconde, a svelte, petite girl, exquisitely and delicately pretty; I bowed to Maria and to Lettie, and I shook hands with Leslie and with his friend, Freddy Cresswell. The latter was to be best man, a broad shouldered, pale-faced fellow, with beautiful soft hair like red wheat, and laughing eyes, and a whimsical, drawling manner of speech, like a man who has suffered enough to bring him to manhood and maturity, but who in spite of all remains a boy, irresponsible, lovable—a trifle pathetic. As the day was very hot, both men were in flannels, and wore flannel collars, yet it was evident that they had dressed with scrupulous care. Instinctively I tried to pull my trousers into shape within my belt, and I felt the inferiority cast upon the father, big and fine as he was in his way, for his shoulders were rounded with work, and his trousers were much distorted.

“What can we do?” said Marie; “you know we don’t want to hinder, we want to help you. It was so good of you to let us come.”

The father laughed his fine indulgence, saying to them—they loved him for the mellow, laughing modulation of his voice:

“Come on, then—I see there’s a bit of turning-over to do, as Cyril’s left. Come and pick your forks.”

From among a sheaf of hayforks he chose the lightest for them, and they began anywhere, just tipping at the swaths. He showed them carefully—Marie and the chaming little Hilda—just how to do it, but they found the right way the hardest way, so they worked in their own fashion, and laughed heartily with him when he made playful jokes at


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attempt a description of the feelings of a mother on that important event which ushered into the world an immortal being, destined to be her peculiar charge, in its preparation both for this world and the next, would be to lift the natural veil, beyond which are shrouded those inner workings of the elements of happiness and misery, with which it may be truly said, that a stranger intermeddleth not. Still there are—there must be—thoughts common to all mothers who reflect seriously; and it is with these, chiefly, that the writer on maternal influence has to do.

It is no disparagement to that strongest of all principles in the female sex—a mother's love—to call it a mere instinct; for such it must be, when shared in common with the animal creation. Yet surely an instinct of such power as this can not be acted upon by a rational and responsible being, without anxious inquiry as to the direct nature of that responsibility; and why, in the ordinations of Divine Providence, an instinct so powerful should have been implanted in the mother's breast.

A mother's love, then, could never have been intended merely to be trifled with in the nursery, or expended in infantine indulgence. That which is strong enough to overcome the universal impulse of self-preservation—that which brings the timid bird to stoop her wing to the destroyer, in order to lure him from her nestlings—that which softens into tenderness the nature of the eagle and the lion—that which has power to render the feeblest and most delicate

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 McDermott, Frederick, a student of the Middle Temple 6 Nov., 1876, called to the bar 25 June, 1879 (youngest son of Edward McDermott, of Grove Park, Camberwell, Surrey); born,.
 * Grove Park, Camberwell.

MacDermott, Hugh Francis, B.A. Trin. Coll., Dublin, a member of the Oxford circuit, a student of King's Inns, Dublin, 186-, a student of the Inner Temple 10 June, 1867 (then aged 22), exhibition May, 1871, called to the bar 17 Nov., 1871 (eldest son of Hugh MacDermott, of Carrick-on-Shannon, co. Leitrim, solicitor); born, 1845.
 * 1, Temple Gardens, E.C.

Robertson Macdonald, David Macdonald, M.A., St. John's Coll., Oxon, 1882, from Merchant Taylors' School, a student of the Inner Temple 14 Jan., 1879 (then aged 21), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1881 (only son of Vice-Admiral David Robertson-Macdonald); born 30 May, 1857; unmarried.
 * 41, Lansdowne Road, W.; 9, Old Square, W.C.

Macdonald, Henry Lumley, equity draftsman and conveyancer, assumed the surname of Macdonald in lieu of Matthews, a student of the Middle Temple 27 Oct., 1870, called to the bar 10 May, 1876 (2nd son of Henry Matthews, Esq., of London); born,.
 * 3, Elm Court, Temple, E.C.

McDonald, John, M.A. St. John's Coll., Oxon, lieut. East Lothian yeomanry, a member of the Midland circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 21 Nov., 1874 (then aged 23), called to the bar 7 May, 1879 (eldest son of late John McDonald, of Belmore, Gairloch, co. Dumbarton, merchant); born 31 Dec., 1851; married 28 Oct., 1882, Georgiana Rose, 4th dau. of Gustavus William Lambart, Esq., of Beau Parc, co. Meath (see Foster's Peerage, ).
 * Belmore, Gareloch, co. Dumbarton; 12, Cavendish Place, W.

Macdonald, Thomas, matric. London Univ. 1875, a student of the Middle Temple 19 April, 1875, scholarship in equity 1878 and in international law 1879, called to the bar 25 June, 1879 (3rd son of James Macdonald, Esq., of London); born 20 Oct., 1855.
 * 17, Russell Square, W.C.; 5, Essex Court, Temple, E.C.; Conservative and Scottish Clubs.

Macdonell, George Paul, M.A. King's Coll., Univ. of Aberdeen, a student of Lincoln's Inn 3 Nov., 1879 (then aged 24), called to the bar 21 June, 1882 (5th son of James Macdonell, of Tomintoul, Banffshire, N.B.); born, 1858.
 * 14, Brunswick Gardens, W.; 19, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.

Macdonell, John, M.A. Aberdeen Univ., matric. Edinburgh Univ., a member of the South-eastern circuit, author of Law of Master and Servant, a student of the Middle Temple 14 Jan., 1870, called to the bar 27 Jan., 1873 (2nd son of James Macdonell, late of Aberdeen, N.B., dec.); born,.
 * 25, Stanley Gardens, Belsize Park, N.W.; 4, Elm Court, Temple, E.C.

Cheevers-McDonnell, Christopher B.A., Trin. Coll., Dublin, 1853, a member of the South-eastern circuit, assumed the additional surname of McDonnell, a student of Lincoln's Inn 4 May, 1852 (then aged 23), called to the bar 30 April, 1856 (2nd son of John Cheevers, Esq., of Killian Ahascragh, co. Galway); born, 1829.

MacDonnell, Hercules Henry Graves, a student of Lincoln's Inn 2 Nov., 1839 (then aged 20), called to the bar 9 June, 1846 (2nd son of Dr. Richard Macdonnell, of Dublin); born, 1819.

McDonnell, John Randall, B.A. London Univ. 1845, undergrad. Magdalen Coll., Camb., a student of the Inner Temple 12 Jan., 1847 (then aged 19), called to the bar 30 Jan., 1852 (only son of John MacDonnell, Esq., of London); born, 1828.

McDonnell, Morgan Augustin, attorney-general Victoria 1870-1, a student of Gray's Inn 14 May, 1851, called to the bar 26 Jan., 1855 (eldest son of Michael Cypryan McDonnell, of Douay, France); born,.
 * Melbourne, Victoria.

MacDonnell, Randall, a student of the Middle Temple 22 Dec., 1845, called to the bar 30 Jan., 1846 (only son of Thomas MacDonnell, Esq., of Dublin); born,.
 * St. Michael's, Azores.

McDougal, Thomas Duncan, practises before the supreme court of Victoria, a student of the Inner Temple 21 Oct., 1865 (then aged 33), called to the bar 6 June, 1868 (eldest son of Thomas St. Clair McDougal, of London); born, 1832.
 * Melbourne, Victoria.

McDougall, Alexander William, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1859, a student of Lincoln's Inn 25 Jan., 1860 (then aged 22), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1871 (eldest son of William Church McDougall, Esq., of Cheltenham); born, 1838.
 * Battlefields, Bath.

McEwen, John Forrester, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1880, a student of the Inner Temple 5 May, 1879, called to the bar 26 Jan., 1882 (eldest son of Alexander McEwen, of Mottingham, Kent); born,.
 * 11, New Court, Temple, E.C.

MacEwen, Robert Sutherland Taylor, a writer to the signet Scotland 1856-61, a member of the Indian judicial service, magistrate and judge small cause court Calcutta 1862-76, educated at Edinburgh Univ., a student of Lincoln's Inn 9 May, 1876 (then aged 36), called to the bar 18 Nov., 1878 (eldest son of Alexander MacEwen, late of Evelex, Sutherland, N.B., doctor of medicine, dec.); born, 1840.
 * Calcutta; Sefton House, Penmaenmawr, North Wales.

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 * 81, St. George's Square, S.W.; Naval and Military Club.

Macauley, James, abandoned his patronymic Hyndman, a student of Gray's Inn 5 Feb., 1825, called to the bar 16 June, 1835 (4th son of Robert Hyndman, of Dublin); born,.

McCall, Robert Alfred, M.A. Queen's Univ., Ireland, a member of the Northern circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 7 Nov., 1867, called to the bar 6 June, 1871 (2nd son of Hugh McCall, of Lisburn, co. Antrim); born,.
 * 1, Temple Gardens, E.C.

McCalmont, Hugh Barklie Blundell, B.A., Trin. Hall, Camb., 1860, matric. London Univ. 1854, a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of Lincoln's Inn 5 June, 1858 (then aged 21), called to the bar 18 Nov., 1861 (eldest son of Rev. Thomas McCalmont, of Southampton); born, 1837.
 * 9, Grosvenor Place, S.W.; United University Club.

McCarthy, James Abram, a student of the Inner Temple 8 Jan., 1876 (then aged 21), pupil scholarship 1878, called to the bar 27 Jan., 1879 (eldest son of James Benjamin McCarthy, of Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, merchant); born, 1855.
 * Freetown, Sierra Leone.

McCaul, Samuel, M.A., B.C.L. St. John's Coll., Oxon, univ. Hebrew scholar 1856, a student of the Inner Temple 25 Nov., 1870 (then aged 34), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1880 (youngest son of late Rev. Alexander McCaul, D.D., of St. Magnus the Martyr, London); born, 1836.
 * War Office, Pall Mall.

MacClymont, Colin Ritchie, B.A. Balliol Coll., Oxon, a member of the North-eastern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 27 Jan., 1870 (then aged 25), called to the bar 7 June, 1873 (3rd son of Alexander MacClymont, of Stranraer, co. Wigtown, merchant); born, 1845; married 25 Nov., 1873, Charlotte Cumming, dau. of late William Kerr, Esq.
 * 55, St. James' Square, W.; 2, Mitre Court Buildings, Temple, E.C.

McCoan, James Carlile, M.P. co. Wicklow since 1880, a member of the South-eastern circuit, formerly practised in the supreme consular court of the Levant at Constantinople, founder and editor of the Levant Herald, author of Consular Jurisdiction in the Levant, Our New Protectorate, Egypt as it is, etc., matric. London Univ. 1848, a student of the Middle Temple 15 Nov., 1851, called to the bar 17 Nov., 1856 (only son of Clement McCoan, of Charlemont, co. Armagh, dec.); born 14 July, 1829; married 2 June, 1857, Augusta Janet, youngest dau. of late William Jenkyns, of Elgin, N.B.
 * 42, Notting Hill Square, W.; Reform Club.

Maccoll, Norman, M.A. (late fellow), Downing Coll., Camb., 1869, editor of the Athenæum since 187-, a student of Lincoln's Inn 21 Jan., 1872 (then aged 28), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1875 (only son of Alexander Stewart Maccoll, Esq., of Corstorphine, Edinburgh); born, 1844.
 * 4, Notting Hill Square, W.

MacConkey, William Dixon, B.A. (scholar), Trin. Coll., Camb., 1876, practises in the Lancaster chancery court, a member of the Northern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 8 Nov., 1873 (then aged 21), common law scholarship 1877, called to the bar 26 Jan., 1878 (eldest son of late Rev. Andrew McConkey); born 17 Feb., 1855.
 * 15, Lord Street, Liverpool.

McConnell, James Alexander Boyle, matric. Queen's Coll., Belfast, a student of Gray's Inn 14 April, 1875, lecture prize for jurisprudence, Roman and international law, Dec., 1879, called to the bar 11 May, 1881 (eldest son of Hugh McConnell, Esq, of Fulnagardy, co. Down); born ,.
 * 5, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.

McConnell, John Wanklyn, M.A., Gonville and Caius Coll., Camb., 1881, a student of Lincoln's Inn 13 May, 1879 (then aged 24), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1882 (eldest son of William McConnell, Esq., of Manchester); born, 1855.
 * Prestwich, Manchester; Knochdohan, Girvan, N.B.

McConnell, William Robert, B.A. London Univ., member of Bar Committee since Dec., 1883, J.P. co. Down 1883, revising barrister for Liverpool 1868, junior counsel to the Board of Trade 1879, junior counsel to the customs 1879, a member of the Northern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 30 May, 1859, called to the bar 30 April, 1862 (only son of David McConnell, of Charleville, near Belfast, co. Down); born 2 July, 1837; unmarried.
 * The Warren, Donaghadee, co. Down; 12, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.

McCullagh, James Samuel Gordon, B.A. Trin. Coll., Dublin, sometime a member of the Western circuit, called to the bar at King's Inns, Dublin, Hilary, 1875, entered at the Middle Temple 18 Jan., 1877, where he was called to the bar 3 July, 1878 (youngest son of late James McCullagh, of Kilgobbin, co. Dublin); born,.
 * 18, Kildare Street, Dublin; University Club, Dublin; 4, Essex Court, Temple E.C.

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Rh them. He was a great lover of girls, and they blossomed from timidity under his hearty influence.

“Ain’ it flippin ’ot?” drawled Cresswell, who had just taken his M. A. degree in classics: “This bloomin’ stuff’s dry enough—come an’ flop on it.”

He gathered a cushion of hay, which Louie Denys carefully appropriated, arranging first her beautiful dress, that fitted close to her shape, without any belt or interruption, and then laying her arms, that were netted to the shoulder in open lace, gracefully at rest. Lettie, who was also in a closefitting white dress which showed her shape down to the hips, sat where Leslie had prepared for her, and Miss D’Arcy reluctantly accepted my pile.

Cresswell twisted his clean-cut mouth in a little smile, saying:

“Lord, a giddy little pastoral—fit for old Theocritus, ain’t it. Miss Denys?”

Why do you talk to me about those classic people—I daren’t even say their names. What would he say about us?”

He laughed, winking his blue eyes:

“He’d make old Daphnis there,”—pointing to Leslie—“sing a match with me, Damoetas—contesting the merits of our various sheperdesses—begin Daphnis, sing up for Amaryllis, I mean Nais, damn ’em, they were for ever getting mixed up with their nymphs.”

“I say, Mr. Cresswell, your language! Consider whom you’re damning,” said Miss Denys, leaning over and tapping his head with her silk glove.

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 * Care of Messrs. Buchanan and Co., 1, Lime Street Square, E.C.

Maasdorp, Christian George, a student of the Inner Temple 9 Nov., 1868 (then aged 20), called to the bar 6 June, 1871 (3rd son of Gysbert Henry Maasdorp, of Graaff-Reinet, Cape of Good Hope, M.D.); born, 1848.
 * Claremont, Cape of Good Hope.

Maberly, Alexander Cahill, M.A. Queen's Coll., Oxon, practises before the Lancaster chancery court, a member of the Northern circuit, a student of Lincoln's Inn 12 Nov., 1868 (then aged 25), called to the bar 6 June, 1871 (youngest son of Rev. Charles Maberly, incumbent of Owlesbury, Hunts); born, 1843; married 9 Feb., 1876, Jessie Bremner, dau. of late Peter Ewart, Esq.
 * 7, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.; 1, St. James' Square, Manchester.

Mabson, John, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1865, a student of Lincoln's Inn 29 Jan., 1861 (then aged 22), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1863 (only son of William Mabson, of Hyning, Westmorland); born 24 Nov., 1838; married 13 June, 1866, Ida, eldest dau. of Henry Ximenes, Esq., of Bear Place, Berks.
 * United University Club, S.W.

MacAlpin, Daniel Rankin, matric. Edinburgh Univ., author of The Law relating to Money Lenders and Borrowers, etc., a member of Faculty of Advocates Edinburgh 1873, a student of the Middle Temple 28 Oct., 1872, called to the bar there 10 May, 1876 (2nd son of Duncan MacAlpin, of Greenock, N.B., shipbuilder); born,.
 * Seabank House, Greenock.

Macan, George, B.A., Trin. Hall, Camb., 1875, a reporter for Law Times in chancery division, a student of the Inner Temple 11 June, 1873 (then aged 19), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1877 (2nd son of Richard Macan, Esq., of Drumcashel, co. Louth); born 9 Sept., 1853.
 * 22, Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, W.; 4, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.

Macartney, Carlile Henry Hayes, B A., Clare Coll., Camb., 1864, a student of the Inner Temple 9 Nov., 1866 (then aged 24), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1870 (2nd son of Maxwell Macartney, Esq., of Hurstleigh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent); born, 1842.
 * 76, Bedford Gardens, Kensington, W.

Ellison-Macartney, John William, M.P. co. Tyrone since 1874, J.P., D.L. co. Tyrone, J.P. co. Fermanagh, high sheriff co. Armagh 1869, J.P., assumed the surname and arms of Macartney by royal licence 4 April, 1859, educated at Bonn and Munich Univs., a student of the Middle Temple 5 Nov., 1839, called to the bar 12 June, 1846, called to the bar also at King's Inns, Dublin, 1848 (only son of Rev. Thomas Ellison, of Kilkenny, dec.); born 2 May, 1818; married 27 May, 1851, Elizabeth Phoebe, eldest surviving dau. of Rev. John Grey Porter, of Kilskery, co. Tyrone, and Belleisle, co. Fermanagh, and has issue.
 * Clogher Park, Clogher, co. Tyrone; 74, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W.; Carlton, National, and St. Stephen's Clubs; Ulster and Kildare Street Clubs, Dublin.

Ellison-Macartney, William Grey, B.A., Exeter Coll., Oxon, 1875, a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 3 Nov., 1874 (then aged 22), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1878 (eldest son of John William Ellison-Macartney, Esq., of Clogher Park and Mountjoy, co. Tyrone, M.P., bar.-at-law); born 7 June, 1852.
 * 3, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.; St. Stephen's and Eton & Harrow Clubs, S.W.

Macaskie, Stuart Cunningham, a member of the North-eastern circuit, author of Law of Executors, Law of Bills of Sale, joint author of The Law of Corrupt Practices at Elections, a student of Gray's Inn 2 June, 1875, 1st class studentship 1876, exhibition 1877, certificate of honour and Barstow law scholarship 1878, Bacon scholar 1876, called to the bar 3 July, 1878 (eldest son of George Macaskie, of Berwick-upon-Tweed); born,.
 * 1, Cloisters, Temple, E.C.

Macaulay, Charles Zachary (brother of Lord Macaulay), lecturer on medical jurisprudence St. George's Hospital 1838-41, private secretary to his brother when secretary at war 1839-41, Mauritius C. S. 1841-8, secretary to Board of Health 1850-4, and to Board of Audit 1854-66, commissioner of Audit 1866-7, member of council London Univ. 1868-72, a student of the Middle Temple 17 Jan., 1837, called to the bar 31 Jan., 1840 (4th son of Zachary Macaulay, of London, gent.); born 15 Oct., 1813; married 7 Oct., 1841, Mary, eldest dau. of late Richard Potter, Esq., M.P., Wigan, Southsea.

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 ADVERTISEMENTS. numerous, but Mr. Joseph Foster shows good cause to the contrary. He has approached his subject from the point of view of the scientific genealogist and student of heraldry — a circumstance which at once places his work in another category from any of the ordinary Peerages." — The Scotsman. ^ " The pedigrees have been considerably amplified, and contain more biographical information than is usually to be found in other Peerages ; and this applies not only to the lineal, but also to the collateral descents, more especially those of the Baronets. Much of the detail connected therewith l<5 now published for the first time, and has been collected from private sources. Of the various Orders of Knighthood and the shields of the English Sovereigns, both have ■ been well cared for ; and the ^ood engraving of the one and the accurate treatment of the other leave nothing more to be desired." — Spectator. "This is quite a notable book. The coats of arms are bravely and handsomely drawn. The work is a laborious and conscientious compilation, a valuable record, and a fine handsome volume." — Vanity Fair. " This is the first issue of a new Peerage, which surpasses all others in the splendour of its get-up, and which joins issue with Lodge, Uebrett, and Burke in a way which is likely to excite something more than mere curiosity, for everything which the Editor considers 'sham,' either title, arms, or pedigree, he unhesitatingly sets down as such. Each page of the work has evidently been made a study. The heraldic illustrations are all new in design, quaint, effective, and well executed, and iNIr. Foster has followed a mode of printing the pedigrees by which their perplexing details can be easily understood and traced with less trouble, as it appears to us, than in any existing publi- cations of a similar kind. . . . Ijut the most important part of the work, genea- logically, is the Baronetage, which has a special department named ' Chaos.' We will merely remark on this head that the Editor is evidently a courageous man, as well as an honest one, and we hope that his labour of five years may be rewarded by all the success it merits. . The volume is altogether one of the most attractive we have ever seen, and on account of its many special features is certain to become a popular one." — Dublin Daily Express. " Mr. Foster's method of separating the Peerages which have descended through heiresses or which have been revived in favour of co-heirs from the paternal descent of the present holders of them is a great and manifest improvement. Mr. Foster's is an ampler record of the Knights and their immediate families than is to be met with anywhere else ; and he adds a full and useful catalogue of the Companions of all the various Knightly Orders of the Empire." — Pall Mall Gazette. "A handsome volume of ambitious design. iIr. Foster has devoted the last five years to the production of a trust- worthy book of reference. . The whole work has been prepared with great care and taste, and gives promise of taking its place in the foremost rank of such publications." — The Globe. "The amount of work expended in the collection of the details contained in this book is something appalling to the ordinary mind. These facts require study before they can be estimated or criticised, but there is one feature -of the book which will be apparent to the most casual turner-over of the leaves. We all know the trim arms usual in Peerages where all the coats are at first sight as much alike as two peas. But here all is different. The supporters look as if they were supporting something, and many of the shields would evidently fall into space without their assistance. All is life and action, so that these woodcuts, which are all drawn from authentic sources, give a liveliness to the volume which it would not otherwise possess." — Temple Bar. " Sir. Foster, as the result of most arduous labours, has succeeded in compiling a woxV containing in all its several parts a vast amount of ut-eful and much novel information, and has done this in a manner that deserves high praise." — Lami and Water. "Mr. Joseph Foster, than whom no man is better qualified for the task, has, in the sumptuous, the regal volume before us, produced, assuredly", the finest, the most masterly, the most carefully arranged and best thought-out Peerage and Baronetage of the age. Those who know (and what genealogist does woV.) his important volumes of county pedigrees, which have been favourably noticed in these pages, must have been struck with the admirable manner in which they were prepared, and have felt how thoroughly competent the compiler was for the task. The present work, gigantic in its proportions, is a fitting con- tinuation of his labours, and will remain a lasting monument to his judgment and skill. Considerable pains appears to have been taken to weed out 'doubtfjls' among the Baronets, and these, with many spurious claims, are thrown by Mr. Foster Into 'chaos,' from which, we opine, it will be almost a hopeless task even for the Heralds' Col- lege itself to extricate them. His avowed object has been 'to pro- duce a useful and trustworthy book of reference, such a hookas will supply, in a condensed form, the genealogical as well as biographical history of the principal personages of the present day, including the near blood relations of every Peer and Baronet' ; and to this end he has certainly, and with admirable results, ' worked up, to an in- finitely greater extent than has hitherto been attempted, the very numerous, and for the most part uncollected, accounts of collateral descents' especially relating to the Baronets; and thus a vastly augmented value is given to his work over others. We are not, after a careful examination of Mr. Foster's volume, going to affirm that it is faultless, for it would be utterly impossible to produce a work of its kind that should in every case be free from error ; but this we will say; that it seems to us to be far more accurate even in the smallest details than others, and bears evidence of scrupulous care in the verifying of dates, and in other particulars. The engravings, several hundred in number, are deserving of all praise. Drawn in the true spirit of the early heralds, and executed with strict fidelity to heraldic details, they form a feature of Mr. Foster's work that is eminently attractive, and give it a tone of originality and of pure artistic feeling that is quite refreshing." — The Reliquary. NICHOLS & SONS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET, WESTMINSTER.

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107, that law is an institution perfectly unknown to them, and never by any chance required; consequently, they do not possess any courts of justice, nor have they any laws by which they are kept honest. Of course, the appropriating of goods belonging to tribes with which they are at variance is deemed laudable in the extreme; therefore, opportunities for such acts of abstraction are never allowed to pass unutilised. There are, 'tis true, odd evasions, when the strong pilfers from the weak, even amongst themselves, and laugh at their dupes, too, should they feel aggrieved enough at the unlicensed appropriation to offer any demur. Such cases, however, are of very rare occurrence, and are limited to thefts of the pettiest description, such as a coveted piece of wood for the making of a weapon, or a portion of cooked fish, which the owner had carefully put aside for further consumption. These, and similar cases to these, the reader can readily see are but mild forms of stealing, and can scarcely be classed under the generic term of dishonesty.

The aborigines not having any courts of justice, as a natural consequence the lawyer element does not obtain amongst them, nor have they any judges or patriarchs to whom disputed points can be referred; but, for all this, they manage to exist in (for savages), a fairish manner.

They do not consider any offence criminal, unless it be that of murder; and when such has been perpetrated, the whole tribe sits in judgment upon the culprit. One of the old men generally prosecutes in these cases. However, the legal acumen required under the circumstances is of the smallest, because as a rule the culprit acknowledges his crime, and the tribe merely assemble to hear any


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348 it, looking up at her as she leaned over him. “Strike up, Daphnis, something about honey or white cheese—or else the early apples that’ll be ripe in a week’s time.”

“I’m sure the apples you showed me are ever so little and green,” interrupted Miss Denys; “they will never be ripe in a week—ugh, sour!”

He smiled up at her in his whimsical way:

“Hear that, Tempest—‘Ugh, sour!’—not much! Oh, love us, haven’t you got a start yet?—isn’t there aught to sing about, you blunt-faced kid?”

“I’ll hear you first—I’m no judge of honey and cheese.”

“An’ darn little apples—takes a woman to judge them; don’t it, Miss Denys?”

“I don’t know,” she said, stroking his soft hair from his forehead, with her hand whereon rings were sparkling.

“ ‘My love is not white, my hair is not yellow, like honey dropping through the sunlight—my love is brown, and sweet, and ready for the lips of love.’ Go on. Tempest—strike up, old cowherd. Who’s that tuning his pipe?—oh, that fellow sharpening his scythe! It’s enough to make your backache to look at him working—go an’ stop him, somebody.”

“Yes, let us go and fetch him,” said Miss D’Arcy. “I’m sure he doesn’t know what a happy pastoral state he’s in—let us go and fetch him.”

“They don’t like hindering at their work, Agnes—besides, where ignorance is bliss——,” said Lettie, afraid lest she might bring him. The other hesitated, then with her eyes she invited me to go with her.


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108 plea which he may have to offer. Should the prisoner's plea be of no avail, and his crime be adjudged worthy of punishment, he is straightway condemned to stand up as a target, within easy spearing distance, and there to remain, perfectly nude, with only a simple shield for protection, for a space of about twenty minutes, whilst the young men of the tribe essay their marksmanship. The dexterity, however, usually displayed by such criminals in turning aside the spears of their assailants by the simple aid of the shield is truly marvellous, and in most instances brings their persons through the trying ordeal in safety, with perhaps the exception of a few flesh wounds, which are nearly always in the right arm, between the elbow and the point of the shoulder. It is only when the ordeal is too long drawn out, and the dexter arm becomes fatigued in consequence, and therefore unable to wield the shield with the necessary activity and precision, that a fatal result ever ensues. The running of this gauntlet is of frequent occurrence, as the reader may easily surmise, when we tell him that about every fifth man has, some time or other of his life, killed a fellowman.

After a culprit has passed through one of these trying ordeals scatheless, he is received again by his fellows as though he were as free from guilt as a new-born infant; in fact, we are inclined to believe that he is held in higher estimation than ever by reason of the dexterity which brought him so safely through the supreme trial.

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6 of women unflinching, heroical, and bold,—can never have been given by the Author of our existence for any mean or trifling purpose. In the animal creation we see that this wonder-working principle answers the end of its creation, simply by instructing the mother how to prepare for her offspring, and by enabling her to protect and provide for them during the limited period of their helplessness and incapacity for providing for themselves.

Thus far the human mother proceeds in the same manner; but as there is an existence beyond this, for which she has to prepare, so the love of the human mother, by its continuance to the end of life, is beautifully adapted to those higher responsibilities which devolve upon her as the parent of an immortal being, whose lot, it is her privilege to hope, will be cast among the happy, the holy, and the pure, for ever.

There is, then, a deep moral connected with the joyful tidings that a child is born into the world. And "joyful" let us call these tidings, notwithstanding all which a morbid and miserable philosophy would teach, about another human creature being sent into this world to sin and suffer like the rest. Yes, "joyful" let us call it; for the beneficent Creator himself has designed that there should be joy, and nature attests that there is joy, connected with this event, while the fond heart of the mother acknowledges, in the smiles of her infant, an "overpayment of delight" for all her solicitudes, her anxieties, and her fears.

And why should not the mother rejoice? Has she not become the possessor of a new nature, to whose support she can devote all the vast resources of her self-love, without its selfishness? She has now an object peculiarly her own, for which to think and to feel, and, not less, for which to suffer. It is with joy, then, that a new being is ushered into the world, to share its portion among the many, in the mingled lot of human weal and wo—to enter upon a career in which it is but reasonable to indulge the hope of filling an honored place on the great theatre of life, of contributing its share to the sum of human happiness, and of en joying in its turn the full exercise of all those faculties of mind and body with which so much happiness is connected.

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109 ethics, there is not any crime sufficiently heinous to warrant confinement, unless it be that of murder, and in that case the trial takes place immediately upon the discovery of the crime. In most cases of the kind, too, the murderer voluntarily gives himself up to be judged.

During our long experience amongst the aboriginal tribes, only one instance has come under our notice of a murderer endeavouring to evade the penalty of his crime by flight; and his endeavour, most wonderful to relate, was in every way successful, for he contrived to ingratiate himself into the favorable notice of a tribe at enmity with his own, by whom he was much thought of and admired. His adoption as a member of the tribe took place ere he had been many days amongst them, after which, as a matter of course, he was safe enough as far as any fear of his being given up to aboriginal justice was concerned.

This red-handed vagabond in after years became the leader of every kind of mischief that was perpetrated on the stock, or persons of those who took up country on the hunting grounds of his adopted tribe in the earlier days of the colony.

His vagabond career, however, was fitly and very abruptly terminated at last by the aboriginal police. These police in charge of a European commandant had been sent by the Government of the day out to the border districts with the view of keeping the wild blacks in some kind of check, making their head-quarters in the vicinity of Swan Hill, on the Murray River, from whence they patrolled the country in all directions. The natives, in their semi-civilised character, used to come to the camp of the police


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Rh Why should the mother not rejoice? Have we so learned the doctrine of our Lord and Savior, that we can not trust to him the keeping of our earthly treasure? Surely there is infidelity of the most ungrateful kind, in that spirit which believes, and yet knows not how to trust. But there is both hope and trust in the mother's heart at that glad moment when she folds her infant to her bosom; for though she may herself have failed in judgment and in will ten thousand times, and fallen short in acts of duty almost beyond the hope of pardon, she looks into the guileless countenance of her child, and while the tears of true repentance fall upon its brow, she dedicates its young life, with all its growing energies, to a holier and more faithful service than she, with her weakness and waywardness, has been able to pursue.

Granting then that there is joy in the event of a child being ushered into life, and that such joy is founded chiefly upon a kind of indefinite hope, which fills the mother's breast; granting, also, as one of our first poets has beautifully said, that

the most natural inquiry—nay, that which must necessarily follow in the mind of a rational woman, is—For what shall I prepare my child?

Pending the solution of this most important question, it is more than probable that the mother's thoughts will go back to her own childhood. By the many retrospective glances she has at different times thrown back upon the course of her own life, she will no doubt have been able to perceive many defects in the management and training by which she was herself conducted from infancy to youth, and now, if ever, she looks seriously upon this picture, with a fervent desire to ascertain the truth; to make out, as in a faithful chart, the rocks and shoals upon which her own bark may at different times have nearly suffered shipwreck; as well as the safer channels through which she has at other times been enabled to pass unharmed.

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110 upon occasion, until they and the police became somewhat friendly, so much so indeed that the latter frequently joined in the fishing parties of the natives without in any way clashing. One day, however, when the police camp had been left in the charge of only one policeman, two or three of the blacks came about, one of whom was the renegade vagabond in question; after staying about the camp for a little time, they induced the policeman caretaker to go fishing with them, which he readily agreed to, starting off with them in all good faith. The pseudo fishing party, after getting about half-a-mile from the police camp, and whilst in the middle of a dense bed of reeds, caught hold of the too-unsuspecting aboriginal trooper, threw him to the ground, where he was firmly held by two of the party until the renegade had excised the poor fellow's kidney fat. After the performance of this ruthless cruelty they started off in haste, leaving their poor mutilated victim to die unattended mid the reeds. Fortunately, however, the butchered trooper had sufficient vitality left to enable him to crawl (although in the acutest agony) to the camp, where, before he died, he gave an account of the murderous assault, together with a clear description of the perpetrators.

But a short space of time elapsed after the recital of this diabolical outrage ere most of the native troopers had started in a body on the trail of the murderers. They soon discovered where the villains had crossed the river, and made but very small bones of crossing after them—horses, accoutrements, and all— taking all sorts of care during the passage not to allow their ammunition to get wet.

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8 which this peculiar kind of retrospection might be, and no doubt often is, carried on with lasting benefit to herself and her family. Yet, on the other hand, it is deeply to be regretted, that the frivolous or low conversation of an ignorant nurse, should so often be permitted to rob these golden hours of their real value, by the introduction of idle jests and vulgar gossip, gathered up from other families and households, where the nurse has been in some measure a confidential, though temporary servant; and where she must necessarily have formed but a very imperfect idea of the general state of things within the domestic circle. How many a private history, whether true or false, has been thus detailed—how many a character has been robbed of its good name — how many an injurious suspicion has been excited which time could never afterward obliterate, those women best can tell, who have found the first weeks of a mother's life hang heavily upon their hands, because shut out from their accustomed occupations and amusements; and who have consequently resorted to this means, in the hope of obtaining relief from the burden of their own dull thoughts.

I have no voluntary condemnation to pass upon the class of necessary assistants to which these expressions refer. So far from it, I have often thought that their unremitting exertions, their cheerful devotedness to the comfort of a family in which they can feel no particular interest; and, above all, their care and solicitude for the preservation of a young life which can never be anything to them—entitles these nurses, especially, to gratitude and respect. That they are not a more enlightened class of women, is certainly no fault of theirs; and if they do sometimes make family histories fill up the long hours of their attendance in a sick-room, the blame of their doing so attaches far more to those who listen, than to those who tell.

But what is the young mother to do under these circumstances, who has never cultivated the habit of serious thought, and still less that of self-examination? By such there is but one thing to be done—to begin to cultivate these habits now. Hitherto she may have believed that she was acting only for herself, and therefore she may have been willing, to a certain extent, to reap the

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111 villainous blacks came in sight, and just as they were about to enter it, one of the troopers discried the renegade creeping away from the camp through the tall saltbushes, like some great emu. Pursuit was soon given by the troop, which, when the renegade perceived, he stood up from his bounding position and ran, as only an aboriginal can run, when dear life is the guerdon; but his running, swift as it was on this occasion, availed him but little, as the foremost trooper, even though going at full gallop, took aim across his bridle arm, and sent a bullet crashing through the skull of the dastardly savage. As he reeled to the earth a victorious shout from the troop echoed again amongst the trees as they rushed up pell mell to their prostrate foe; they threw themselves in a crowd from their horses, and with flashing sabres smote the carcase of the villainous renegade until it was reduced to pieces not larger than a hand's breadth, deeming that proceeding, butchery though it was, but a fitting caution to all coveters of other people's kidney fat.

When a trial for murder has resulted in the condemnation of the criminal, the capital ordeal follows immediately upon the passing of the sentence, in the presence of all the assembled tribe, including sexes as well as children. In short, it takes the form of a high holiday spectacle, wherein much delight is experienced; much criticism, laudatory and the contrary, obtains as a well or ill-thrown cast is made. Remarks also on the dexterous use of the shield by the culprit are freely interjected, culminating in a spontaneous shout, when a well-aimed spear is caught and smashed on the shield.


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Rh “Oh, dear,” she laughed, with a little mowe, “Freddy is such an ass, and Louie Denys is like a wasp at treacle. I wanted to laugh, yet I felt just a tiny hit cross. Don’t you feel great when you go mowing like that? Father Timey sort of feeling? Shall we go and look! We’ll say we want those foxgloves he’ll be cutting down directly—and those bell flowers. I suppose you needn’t go on with your labours——”

He did not know we were approaching till I called him, then he started slightly as he saw the tall, proud girl.

“Mr. Saxton—Miss D’Arcy,” I said, and he shook hands with her. Immediately his manner became ironic, for he had seen his hand big and coarse and inflamed with the snaith clasping the lady’s hand.

“We thought you looked so fine,” she said to him, “and men are so embarrassing when they make love to somebody else—aren’t they? Save us those foxgloves, will you—they are splendid—like savage soldiers drawn up against the hedge—don’t cut them down—and those campanulas—bell-flowers, ah, yes! They are spinning idylls up there. I don’t care for idylls, do you? Oh, you don’t know what a classical pastoral person you are—but there, I don’t suppose you suffer from idyllic love——” she laughed, “—one doesn’t see the silly little god fluttering about in our hayfields, does one? Do you find much time to sport with Amaryllis in the shade?—I’m sure it’s a shame they banished Phyllis from the fields——”

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350 impression. She put out her hand with a dramatic gesture, and looked at me, when the scythe crunched through the meadow-sweet.

“Crunch!—isn’t it fine!” she exclaimed, “a kind of inevitable fate—I think it’s fine!”

We wandered about picking flowers and talking until teatime. A man-servant came with the tea-basket, and the girls spread the cloth under a great willow tree. Lettie took the little silver kettle, and went to fill it at the small spring which trickled into a stone trough all pretty with cranesbill and stellaria hanging over, while long blades of grass waved in the water. George, who had finished his work, and wanted to go home to tea, walked across to the spring where Lettie sat playing with the water, getting little cupfuls to put into the kettle, watching the quick skating of the water beetles, and the large faint spots of their shadows darting on the silted mud at the bottom of the trough.

She glanced round on hearing him coming, and smiled nervously: they were mutually afraid of meeting each other again.

“It is about teatime,” he said.

“Yes—it will be ready in a moment—this is not to make the tea with—it’s only to keep a little supply of hot water.”

“Oh,” he said, “I’ll go on home—I’d rather.”

“No,” she replied, “you can’t, because we are all having tea together: I had some fruits put up, because I know you don’t trifle with tea—and your father’s coming.”

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Rh He held out his inflamed, barbaric hands.

She winced and said:

“It won’t matter—you’ll give the realistic touch.”

He laughed ironically.

“No—you must come,” she insisted.

“I’ll have a drink then, if you’ll let me,” he said, yielding.

She got up quickly, blushing, offering him the tiny, pretty cup.

“I’m awfully sorry,” she said.

“Never mind,” he muttered, and turning from the proffered cup he lay down flat, put his mouth to the water, and drank deeply. She stood and watched the motion of his drinking, and of his heavy breathing afterwards. He got up, wiping his mouth, not looking at her. Then he washed his hands in the water, and stirred up the mud. He put his hand to the bottom of the trough, bringing out a handful of silt, with the grey shrimps twisting in it. He flung the mud on the floor where the poor grey creatures writhed.

“It wants cleaning out,” he said.

“Yes,” she replied, shuddering. “You won’t be long,” she added, taking up the silver kettle.

In a few moments he got up and followed her reluctantly down. He was nervous and irritable.

The girls were seated on tufts of hay, with the men leaning in attendance on them, and the man-servant waiting on all. George was placed between Lettie and Hilda. The former handed him his little egg-shell of tea, which, as he was not very thirsty, he put down on the ground beside him. Then she passed him the bread and butter, cut for five-o’clock


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352 tea, and fruits, grapes and peaches, and strawberries, in a beautifully carved oak tray. She watched for a moment his thick, half-washed fingers fumbling over the fruits, then she turned her head away. All the gay teatime, when the talk bubbled and frothed over all the cups, she avoided him with her eyes. Yet again and again, as someone said: “I’m sorry, Mr. Saxton—will you have some cake?”—or “See, Mr. Saxton—try this peach, I’m sure it will be mellow right to the stone,”—speaking very naturally, but making the distinction between him and the other men by their indulgence towards him, Lettie was forced to glance at him as he sat eating, answering in monosyllables, laughing with constraint and awkwardness, and her irritation flickered between her brows. Although she kept up the gay frivolity of the conversation, still the discord was felt by everybody, and we did not linger as we should have done over the cups. “George,” they said afterwards, “was a wet blanket on the party.” Lettie was intensely annoyed with him. His presence was unbearable to her. She wished him a thousand miles away. He sat listening to Cresswell’s whimsical affectation of vulgarity which flickered with fantasy, and he laughed in a strained fashion.

He was the first to rise, saying he must get the cows up for milking.

“Oh, let us go—let us go. May we come and see the cows milked?” said Hilda, her delicate, exquisite features flushing, for she was very shy.

“No,” drawled Freddy, “the stink o’ live beef ain’t salubrious. You be warned, and stop here.”

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Rh highland cattle, all woolly, in pictures,” said Louie Denys, smiling archly, with a little irony.

“No,” laughed Agnes D’Arcy, “they—they’re smelly,”—and she pursed up her mouth, and ended in a little trill of deprecatory laughter, as she often did. Hilda looked from one to the other, blushing.

“Come, Lettie,” said Leslie good-naturedly, “I know you have a farm-yard fondness—come on,” and they followed George down.

As they passed along the pond bank a swan and her tawny, fluffy brood sailed with them the length of the water, “tipping on their little toes, the darlings—pitter-patter through the water, tiny little things,” as Marie said.

We heard George below calling “Bully—Bully—Bully—Bully!”— and then, a moment or two after, in the bottom garden: “Come out, you little fool—are you coming out of it?” in manifestly angry tones.

“Has it run away?” laughed Hilda, delighted and we hastened out of the lower garden to see.

There in the green shade, between the tall gooseberry bushes, the heavy crimson peonies stood gorgeously along the path. The full red globes, poised and leaning voluptuously, sank their crimson weight on to the seeding grass of the path, borne down by secret rain, and by their own splendour. The path was poured over with red rich silk of strewn petals. The great flowers swung their crimson grandly about the walk, like crowds of cardinals in pomp among the green bushes. We burst into the new world of delight. As Lettie stooped, taking between both hands the gorgeous silken fulness of one blossom that 23