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 while the ogre and his dog kept drawing always nearer. A few more steps, and he would have been by their side, when Dschemila threw the darning needle behind her. In a moment it became an iron mountain between them and their enemy.

‘We will break it down, my dog and I,’ cried the ogre in a rage, and they dashed at the mountain till they had forced a path through, and came ever nearer and nearer.

‘Cousin!’ said Dschemila suddenly.

‘What is it?’

‘The ogre is coming after us with his dog.’

‘You go on in front then,’ answered he; and they both ran on as fast as they could, while the ogre and the dog drew always nearer and nearer.

‘They are close upon us!’ cried the maiden, glancing behind, ‘you must throw the pin.’

So Dschemil took the pin from his cloak and threw it behind him, and a dense thicket of thorns sprang up round them, which the ogre and his dog could not pass through.

‘I will get through it somehow, if I burrow underground,’ cried he, and very soon he and the dog were on the other side.

‘Cousin,’ said Dschemila, ‘they are close to us now.’

‘Go on in front, and fear nothing,’ replied Dschemil.

So she ran on a little way, and then stopped.

‘He is only a few yards away now,’ she said, and Dschemil flung the hatchet on the ground, and it turned into a lake.

‘I will drink, and my dog shall drink, till it is dry,’ shrieked the ogre, and the dog drank so much that it burst and died. But the ogre did not stop for that, and soon the whole lake was nearly dry. Then he exclaimed, ‘Dschemila, let your head become a donkey’s head, and your hair fur!’

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169 THE ETRUSCAN VASE 169

"How very extraordinary!" said Roquan- tin. " But Themines, what did he do? "

"Oh, what is usual on these occasions: he threw his pistol on the ground remorsefully, with such force that he broke the hammer. It was an English pistol of Manton's. I don't believe there is a gunmaker in Paris who coiild make such another."

• • • • •

The Countess shut herself up in her country house for three whole years without seeing any- one; winter and summer, there she lived, hardly going out of her room. She was waited upon by a mulatto woman who knew of the attach- ment between Saint- Clair and herself. She scarcely spoke a word to her day after day. At the end of three years her cousin Julie returned from a long voyage. She forced her way into the house and found poor Mathilde thin and pale, the very ghost of the beautiful and fascinating woman she had left behind. By degrees she persuaded her to come out of her solitude, and took her to Hyeres. The Countess languished there for three or four months, and then died of consumption brought on by her grief — so said Dr. M, who attended her.

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48 Schedule 1—Supplementary provisions relating to the ICC ::(c) Lord Justice of Appeal, judge of the High Court or county court judge, in Northern Ireland.

(8)An order under this paragraph shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. Rh

Meaning of “criminal proceedings”

1 In this Part of this Schedule “criminal proceedings” means proceedings before a national court—
 * (a) for dealing with an individual accused of an offence,
 * (b) for dealing with an individual convicted of an offence, or
 * (c) on an appeal from any proceedings within paragraph (a) or (b).

Criminal proceedings in England and Wales or Northern Ireland

2 (1) Where—
 * (a) the Secretary of State receives a request from the ICC for the arrest and surrender, or provisional arrest, of a person, and
 * (b) criminal proceedings against that person are pending or in progress before a court in England and Wales or Northern Ireland,

the Secretary of State shall inform the court of the request.

(2) The court shall (if necessary) adjourn the proceedings before it, for such period or periods as it thinks fit, so as to enable proceedings to be taken to determine whether a delivery order should be made.

(3) If a delivery order is made and the criminal proceedings are still pending or in progress, the Secretary of State—
 * (a) shall consult the ICC before giving directions for the execution of the order, and
 * (b) may direct that the criminal proceedings shall be discontinued.

(4) Where the Secretary of State directs that criminal proceedings shall be discontinued, the court before which the proceedings are pending or in progress shall—
 * (a) order their discontinuance, and
 * (b) make any other order necessary to enable the delivery order to be executed (including any necessary order as to the custody of the person concerned).

(5) The discontinuance under this paragraph of criminal proceedings in respect of an offence does not prevent the institution of fresh proceedings in respect of the offence.


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 2—Delivery up of persons subject to criminal proceedings, &c. Part 1—Criminal proceedings Criminal proceedings in Scotland

3 (1) Where—
 * (a) the Secretary of State receives a request from the ICC for the arrest and surrender, or provisional arrest, of a person, and
 * (b) criminal proceedings against that person are pending or in progress before a court in Scotland,

the Secretary of State shall inform the Scottish Ministers of the request and they shall inform the court.

(2) The court shall (if necessary) adjourn the proceedings before it, for such period or periods as it thinks fit, so as to enable proceedings to be taken to determine whether a delivery order should be made.

(3) If a delivery order is made and the criminal proceedings are still pending or in progress, the Secretary of State shall consult the ICC before giving directions for the execution of the order.

Proceedings before service court

4 (1) Where—
 * (a) the Secretary of State receives a request from the ICC for the arrest and surrender, or provisional arrest, of a person, and
 * (b) proceedings against that person are pending or in progress before a service court,

the Secretary of State shall inform the court of the request.

(2) The court shall (if necessary) adjourn the proceedings before it, for such period or periods as it thinks fit, so as to enable proceedings to be taken to determine whether a delivery order should be made.

(3) If a delivery order is made and the proceedings before a service court are still pending or in progress, the Secretary of State—
 * (a) shall consult the ICC before giving directions for the execution of the delivery order, and
 * (b) may direct that the proceedings before the service court shall be discontinued.

(4) Where the Secretary of State directs that proceedings before a service court shall be discontinued, the court shall—
 * (a) order their discontinuance, and
 * (b) make any other order necessary to enable the delivery order to be executed (including any necessary order as to the custody of the person concerned).

(5) The discontinuance under this paragraph of proceedings before a service court in respect of an offence does not prevent the institution of fresh proceedings in respect of the offence.

Effect on custodial sentences

5 (1) Where in pursuance of Part 2 of this Act a person who is a prisoner is delivered up—
 * (a) into the custody of the ICC, or
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 horror, and said, ‘She is really a donkey, and not a woman at all!’

And he left her, and went home.

For two days poor Dschemila wandered about alone, weeping bitterly. When her cousin drew near his native town, he began to think over his conduct, and to feel ashamed of himself.

‘Perhaps by this time she has changed back to her proper shape,’ he said to himself, ‘I will go and see!’

So he made all the haste he could, and at last he saw her seated on a rock, trying to keep off the wolves, who longed to have her for dinner. He drove them off and said, ‘Get up, dear cousin, you have had a narrow escape.’

Dschemila stood up and answered, ‘Bravo, my friend. You persuaded me to fly with you, and then left me helplessly to my fate.’

‘Shall I tell you the truth?’ asked he.

‘Tell it.’

‘I thought you were a witch, and I was afraid of you.’

‘Did you not see me before my transformation? and did you not watch it happen under your very eyes, when the ogre bewitched me?’

‘What shall I do?’ said Dschemil. ‘If I take you into the town, everyone will laugh, and say, “Is that a new kind of toy you have got? It has hands like a woman, feet like a woman, the body of a woman; but its head is the head of an ass, and its hair is fur.

‘Well, what do you mean to do with me?’ asked Dschemila. ‘Better take me home to my mother by night, and tell no one anything about it.’

‘So I will,’ said he.

They waited where they were till it was nearly dark, then Dschemil brought his cousin home.

‘Is that Dschemil?’ asked the mother when he knocked softly.

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50 Schedule 2—Delivery up of persons subject to criminal proceedings, &c. Part 1—Criminal proceedings he shall continue to be liable to complete any term of imprisonment or detention to which he had been sentenced by a national court.

But there shall be counted towards the completion of that term any time during which he is in the custody of the ICC or of another state.

(2) Where in pursuance of Part 2 of this Act a court orders the discharge of a person who is a prisoner, the discharge is without prejudice to the liability of the prisoner to complete any term of imprisonment or detention to which he has been sentenced by a national court.

Accordingly, a prisoner to whom such an order relates and whose sentence has not expired shall be transferred in custody to the place where he is liable to be detained under the sentence to which he is subject.

(3) Where in pursuance of Part 2 of this Act a delivery order is made in respect of a person who is a prisoner, the order may include provision authorising the return of the prisoner into the custody of the Secretary of State—
 * (a) in accordance with arrangements made by the Secretary of State with the ICC, or
 * (b) in the case of a prisoner taken to a place where he is to undergo imprisonment under a sentence of the ICC, in accordance with arrangements made by the Secretary of State with the state where that place is situated,

and for his transfer in custody to the place where he is liable to be detained under the sentence of the national court to which he is subject.

(4) In the application of sub-paragraph (3) where the prisoner is liable to be detained in Scotland—
 * (a) the reference to the custody of the Secretary of State shall be read as a reference to the custody of the Scottish Ministers, and
 * (b) the Secretary of State shall consult the Scottish Ministers before making any such arrangements as are mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

(5) In this paragraph “prisoner” means—
 * (a) a person serving a sentence in a prison or other institution to which the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52), the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 or the Prisons Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 applies, or
 * (b) a person serving a sentence of detention or imprisonment imposed by a service court.

Power to suspend or revoke other orders

6 (1) This paragraph applies where a court makes a delivery order in respect of a person in respect of whom an order (other than a sentence of imprisonment or detention) has been made in criminal proceedings before a national court.

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144 unfortunate man, that he makes an absolute fool of himself in the interview which he has so anxiously desired, and leaves an impression of nothing but awkwardness and ignorance.

But, pursues the letter-writer, supposing that your introduction is successful: supposing that the great man's friends do not set him against you, that the lady of the house does not take a violent dislike to you, that the steward and the housekeeper are graciously pleased to approve of you on the whole,—still, what an ordeal you have to go through at your very first dinner!

"My lord's gentleman, a suave personage, brings you the invitation. You must win his goodwill, to begin with: so, not to seem wanting in good manners, you slip five drachmæ into his hand, at the least. He affects to refuse if. 'From you, sir? Oh dear, no! on no account—I couldn't think of it.' But he is persuaded at last, and smiles with his white teeth as he takes his leave. Well, you put on your best suit, and get yourself up as correctly as you can, and reach the door—very much afraid of arriving before the other guests, which is as awkward as coming last is rude. So you take careful pains to hit the happy medium, are graciously received, and are placed within a few seats of the host,—just below two or three old friends of the house. You stare at everything as if you had been introduced all at once into the palace of Jupiter, and watch every detail anxiously—all is so new and strange; while the whole family have their eyes on you, and are watching what you will do next.


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Rh Indeed the great man has even given orders to some of the attendants to take notice whether you seem to admire his wife and children sufficiently. Even the servants of the other guests who are present notice your evident embarrassment, and laugh at your ignorance of the ways of society, guessing that you have never been to a regular dinner-party before, and that even the napkin laid for you is something quite new to you. No wonder that you are actually in a cold sweat from embarrassment, and neither venture to ask for drink when you want it, for fear they should think yon a hard drinker, or know which to take first and which last of the various dishes which are arranged before you evidently in some kind of recognised sequence and order. So that you are obliged furtively to watch and imitate what your next neighbour does, and so make yourself acquainted with the ceremonial of dinner."

"Such," says the letter-writer, after a little more description of the same kind,—"such is your first dinner in a great man's house: I had rather, for my part, have an onion and some salt, and be allowed to eat it when and how I please." Then come the delicate arrangements about salary. When one reads Lucian's description of this, it is almost difficult to believe that he had not before him one of those modern advertisements for a governess, who is expected to possess all the virtues and all the accomplishments, and to whom "a very small salary is offered, as she will be treated as one of the family." "We are quite plain people here, as you see," says the pompous Roman to the new tutor; "but you will consider yourself


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 ‘Yes, it is.’

‘And have you found her?’

‘Yes, and I have brought her to you.’

‘Oh, where is she? let me see her!’ cried the mother.

‘Here, behind me,’ answered Dschemil.

But when the poor woman caught sight of her daughter, she shrieked, and exclaimed, ‘Are you making fun of me? When did I ever give birth to an ass?’

‘Hush!’ said Dschemil, ‘it is not necessary to let the whole world know! And if you look at her body, you will see two scars on it.’

‘Mother,’ sobbed Dschemila, ‘do you really not know your own daughter?’

‘Yes, of course I know her.’

‘What are her two scars then?’

‘On her thigh is a scar from the bite of a dog, and on her breast is the mark of a burn, where she pulled a lamp over her when she was little.’

‘Then look at me, and see if I am not your daughter,’ said Dschemila, throwing off her clothes and showing her two scars.

And at the sight her mother embraced her, weeping.

‘Dear daughter,’ she cried, ‘what evil fate has befallen you?’

‘It was the ogre who carried me off first, and then bewitched me,’ answered Dschemila.

‘But what is to be done with you?’ asked her mother.

‘Hide me away, and tell no one anything about me. And you, dear cousin, say nothing to the neighbours, and if they should put questions, you can make answer that I have not yet been found.’

‘So I will,’ replied he.

Then he and her mother took her upstairs and hid her in a cupboard, where she stayed for a whole month, only going out to walk when all the world was asleep.

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 were his father and mother, his brothers and neighbours, greeted him joyfully.

‘When did you come back?’ said they, ‘and have you found Dschemila?’

‘No, I searched the whole world after her, and could hear nothing of her.’

‘Did you part company with the man who started with you?’

‘Yes; after three days he got so weak and useless he could not go on. It must be a month by now since he reached home again. I went on and visited every castle, and looked in every house. But there were no signs of her; and so I gave it up.’

And they answered him: ‘We told you before that it was no good. An ogre or an ogress must have snapped her up, and how can you expect to find her?’

‘I loved her too much to be still,’ he said.

But his friends did not understand, and soon they spoke to him again about it.

‘We will seek for a wife for you. There are plenty of girls prettier than Dschemila.’

‘I dare say; but I don’t want them.’

‘But what will you do with all the cushions and carpets, and beautiful things you bought for your house?’

‘They can stay in the chests.’

‘But the moths will eat them! For a few weeks, it is of no consequence, but after a year or two they will be quite useless.’

‘And if they have to lie there ten years I will have Dschemila, and her only, for my wife. For a month, or even two months, I will rest here quietly. Then I will go and seek her afresh.’

‘Oh, you are quite mad! Is she the only maiden in the world? There are plenty of others better worth having than she is.’

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146 quite at home with us, I hope. I know you are a sensible man: I know you have that happy disposition which is its own best reward, and quite understand that you do not enter my house from any mercenary motives, but for other reasons,—because you know the regard I have for you, and the good position it will give you in the eyes of the world. Still, some definite sum should he fixed, perhaps. I leave it to you to name your own terms; remembering, of course, that you will have a good many presents made you in the course of the year: but you scholars, as becomes your profession, are above mere money considerations, I know." At last it is agreed to leave the amount of the tutor's salary to a friend of the family; and the referee, a mere creature and toady himself, after reminding the poor scholar of his extreme good fortune in having made "such a valuable connection," names a sum which is quite ridiculously inadequate.

This is not the worst. The unhappy dependant will soon find his treatment in the house very different from his first introduction. "You must not expect to have the same fare as strangers and others have: that would be considered insufferable presumption. The dish placed before you will not be the same as the others. Their fowl will be plump and well fed: yours will he half a skinny chicken, or a dry tough pigeon; a direct slight and insult. Nay, often, if the bill of fare is scanty, and an additional guest comes in, the servant will actually take the dish from before you and give it to him; whispering familiarly in your ear


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 you make all this fuss? Every man knows his own business best.

‘Why, it is you who are making all the fuss yourself’

But Dschemil turned and went into the house, for he did not want to quarrel.

Three months later a Jew, who was travelling across the desert, came to the castle, and laid himself down under the wall to rest.

In the evening the ogre saw him there and said to him, ‘Jew, what are you doing here? Have you anything to sell?’

‘I have only some clothes,’ answered the Jew, who was in mortal terror of the ogre.

‘Oh, don’t be afraid of me,’ said the ogre, laughing. ‘I shall not eat you. Indeed, I mean to go a bit of the way with you myself.’

‘I am ready, gracious sir,’ replied the Jew, rising to his feet.

‘Well, go straight on till you reach a town, and in that town you will find a maiden called Dschemila and a young man called Dschemil. Take this mirror and this comb with you, and say to Dschemila, “Your father, the ogre, greets you, and begs you to look at your face in this mirror, and it will appear as it was before, and to comb your hair with this comb, and it will be as formerly.” If you do not carry out my orders, I will eat you the next time we meet.’

‘Oh, I will obey you punctually,’ cried the Jew.

After thirty days the Jew entered the gate of the town, and sat down in the first street he came to, hungry, thirsty, and very tired.

Quite by chance, Dschemil happened to pass by, and seeing a man sitting there, full in the glare of the sun, he stopped, and said, ‘Get up at once, Jew; you will have a sunstroke if you sit in such a place.’

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Rh —'you're one of the family, you know.' While they are drinking good old wine, you will be expected to swallow some muddy vapid stuff: and you will do well to drink it out of gold or silver goblets, that it may not be plain to all, from the colour of the liquor, how little respect is paid to you in the household. Even of this poor stuff you will not be allowed your fill; for often, when you call for it, the servant will pretend not to hear."

He warns him, also, that in such a household the preceptor or the poet will be held of less account than the flutist, or the dancing-master, or the Egyptian boy who can sing love-songs. And after all, do what he will, he will hardly please. If he preserves a grave and dignified behaviour, he will be called churlish and morose; if he tries to be gay, and puts on a smiling face, the company will only stare and laugh at him.

If the town life of the unfortunate dependant is full of such mortifications, matters do not mend much when he accompanies his patron into the country. "Amongst other things, if it rains ever so hard, you must come last (that is your recognised place), and wait for a conveyance; and, if there is no room, be


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 ‘Ah, good sir,’ replied the Jew, ‘for a whole month I have been travelling, and I am too tired to move.’

‘Which way did you come?’ asked Dschemil.

‘From out there,’ answered the Jew pointing behind him.

‘And you have been travelling for a month, you say? Well, did you see anything remarkable?’

‘Yes, good sir; I saw a castle, and lay down to rest under its shadow. And an ogre woke me, and told me to come to this town, where I should find a young man called Dschemil, and a girl called Dschemila.’

‘My name is Dschemil. What does the ogre want with me?’

‘He gave me some presents for Dschemila. How can I see her?’

‘Come with me, and you shall give them into her own hands.’

So the two went together to the house of Dschemil’s uncle, and Dschemil led the Jew into his aunt’s room.

‘Aunt!’ he cried, ‘this Jew who is with me has come from the ogre, and has brought with him, as presents, a mirror and a comb which the ogre has sent her.’

‘But it may be only some wicked trick on the part of the ogre,’ said she.

‘Oh, I don’t think so,’ answered the young man, ‘give her the things.’

Then the maiden was called, and she came out of her hiding place, and went up to the Jew, saying, ‘Where have you come from, Jew?’

‘From your father the ogre.’

‘And what errand did he send you on?’

‘He told me I was to give you this mirror and this comb, and to say “Look in this mirror, and comb your hair with this comb, and both will become as they were formerly.

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 and combed her hair with the comb, and she had no longer an ass’s head, but the face of a beautiful maiden.

Great was the joy of both mother and cousin at this wonderful sight, and the news that Dschemila had returned soon spread, and the neighbours came flocking in with greetings.

‘When did you come back?’

‘My cousin brought me.’

‘Why, he told us he could not find you!’

‘Oh, I did that on purpose,’ answered Dschemil. ‘I did not want everyone to know.’

Then he turned to his father and his mother, his brothers and his sisters-in-law, and said, ‘We must set to work at once, for the wedding will be to-day.’

A beautiful litter was prepared to carry the bride to her new home, but she shrank back, saying, ‘I am afraid, lest the ogre should carry me off again.’

‘How can the ogre get at you when we are all here?’ they said. ‘There are two thousand of us all told, and every man has his sword.’

‘He will manage it somehow,’ answered Dschemila, ‘he is a powerful king!’

‘She is right,’ said an old man. ‘Take away the litter, and let her go on foot if she is afraid.’

‘But it is absurd!’ exclaimed the rest; ‘how can the ogre get hold of her?’

‘I will not go,’ said Dschemila again. ‘You do not know that monster; I do.’

And while they were disputing the bridegroom arrived.

‘Let her alone. She shall stay in her father’s house. After all, I can live here, and the wedding feast shall be made ready.’

And so they were married at last, and died without having had a single quarrel.

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 A Woman's Execution.

By.

Written after the fall of the Paris Commune of 1871, when the Communards were being slaughtered by black reaction. The author was an American journalist who lived from 1848 to 1896.

Sweet-breathed and young,

The people's daughter,

No nerves unstrung,

Going to slaughter.

"Good morning, friends,

You'll love us better—

Make us amends:

We've burst your fetter!

"How the sun gleams!

(Women are snarling):

Give me your beams,

Liberty's darling!

"Marie's my name;

Christ's mother bore it.

The badge? No shame:

Glad that I wore it!"

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 (Hair to the waist,

Limbs like a Venus):

Robes are displaced:

"Soldiers, please screen us!

"He at the front?

That is my lover:

Stood all the brunt;—

Now—the fight's over.

"Powder and bread

Gave out together:

Droll to be dead

In this bright weather!

"Jean, boy, we might

Have married in June!

This is the wall? Right!

VIVE LA COMMUNE!"

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 The Legacy.

By

Connolly is known to all Irishmen as the leader of the Irish Citizen Army, the soul of the Easter Rebellion of 1916, in which Connolly lost his life. He was not only a fighter for Irish independence but also for the emancipation of the working class from wage slavery. He was a revolutionary Marxist, editor of the famous journal, "The Workers' Republic." This poem is inscribed to his son.

"Thy father is a poor man," mark well what that may mean,

On the tablets of thy memory that truth write bright and clean,

The father's lot it was to toil from earliest boyhood on,

And know his latent energies for a master's profit drawn.

Or else, ill-starred, to wander round and huckster-like to vend

His precious store of brain and brawn to all whom fate may send

Across his path with gold enough to purchase labor's power,

To turn it into gold again, and fructify the hour

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 Aye, through our veins since earliest days, 'tis poor man's blood has run

Treasure ye in your inmost heart this legacy of hate

For those who on the poor man's back have climbed to high estate,

The lords of land and capital, the slave lords of our age,

Who of this smiling earth of ours have made for us a cage

And howsoe'er you earn your wage, and wheresoe'er you go,

Be it beneath the tropic heat or 'mid the northern snow,

Or closely pent in factory walls, or burrowing in the mine,

Or scorching in the furnace hell of steamers 'cross the brine

The men and women of your class, tell them their wrongs and yours—

Plant in their hearts that hatred deep that suffers and endures,

And treasuring up each deed of wrong, each scornful word and look,

Inscribe it in the memory, as others in a book.

And wait and watch through galling years the ripening of time,

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STORY XVI.] 'ALI'S FORBEARANCE. 57 eternal purpose. The Magian chief, on hearing 'Ali's discourse, was so much affected that he embraced Islam, together with all his family, to the number of fifty souls.

How the Prophet whispered to 'Ali's stirrup-bearer that he would one day assassinate his master (p. 90).

The Prophet whispered in the ear of my servant

That one day he would sever my head from my neck.

The Prophet also warned by inspiration me, his friend,

That the hand of my servant would destroy me.

My servant cried, "O kill me first, That I may not become guilty of so grievous a sin!"

I replied, "Since my death is to come from thee,

How can I balk the fateful decree?"

He fell at my feet and cried, "O gracious lord,

For God's sake cleave now my body in twain,

That such an evil deed may not be wrought by me,

And my soul burn with anguish for its beloved."

I replied, "What God's pen has written, it has written;

In presence of its writings knowledge is confounded;

There is no anger in my soul against thee,

Because I attribute not this deed to thee;

Thou art God's instrument, God's hand is the agent.

How can I chide or fret at God's instrument?"

He said, "If this be so, why is there retaliation ?"[1]

I answered, " "Tis from God, and 'tis God's secret;

If He shows displeasure at His own acts,

From His displeasure He evolves a Paradise;

He feels displeasure at His own acts,

Because He is a God of vengeance as of mercy.

In this city of events He is the Lord,

In this realm He is the King who plans all events.

If He crushes His own instruments, He makes those crushed ones fair in His sight. 1 I.e., why is the rule "an eye for an eye" enjoined in the Koran, ii.

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 Rabbit turned round and nudged Piglet.

“The next time,” he said. “Tell Pooh.”

“The next time,” said Piglet to Pooh.

“The next what?” said Pooh to Piglet.

Tigger appeared suddenly, bounced into Rabbit, and disappeared again. “Now!” said Rabbit. He jumped into a hollow by the side of the path, and Pooh and Piglet jumped after him. They crouched in the bracken, listening. The Forest was very silent when you stopped and listened to it. They could see nothing and hear nothing.

“H’sh!” said Rabbit.

“I am,” said Pooh.

There was a pattering noise then silence again.

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554 corresponds to Colenso's E. tricolor, is not so much branched, the leaves are shorter and broader, on shorter petioles, and the flowers are spicate along the upper part of the branches. It might be distinguished as var. tricolor.

2. E. Monroi, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 220.—Perennial, sometimes woody at the very base; stems erect or decumbent below, 3–8 in. high, leafy abovie, sparingly branched, faintly bifariously pubescent. Leaves rather close-set, spreading, ⅕–⅓ in. long, obovate or obovate-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed to the base but not evidently petiolate, coriaceous, glabrous, furnished with one or two short obtuse teeth on each side, margins thick, recurved. Flowers in short few-flowered leafy spikes towards the ends of the branches, sessile or very shortly peduncled; bracts similar to the leaves. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes short, thick, obtuse or subacute, margins recurved. Corolla ½–⅔ in. long; tube funnel-shaped, exceeding the calyx; upper lip bilobed, lower lip trilobed; lobes refuse. Capsule obovate, retuse, equalling the calyx or slightly longer than it.—''Wettst. Monog. Euphr.'' 248, t. v. f. 375–382, and t. xiv. f. 2.

3. E. revoluta, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 199.—Annual, or sometimes the rootstock perennial. Stems 1–4 in. high, very slender, much or sparingly branched from the base, often creeping and putting up few or many ascending branchlets, more or less glandular-pubescent. Leaves in rather distant pairs, sessile, very variable in size, the lowest usually the smallest, ⅛–½ in. long, obovate-cuneate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed to the base, furnished with 1–3 teeth on each side, glandular-pubescent or glabrous, margins revolute. Mowers few towards the tips of the branches, large, ½–¾ in. diam.; peduncles shorter or longer than the leaves. Calyx shortly 4-lobed; lobes triangular, acute, much shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, exceeding the calyx; limb spreading; upper lip 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes deeply emarginate. Capsule oblong, obtuse; seeds numerous in each cell.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 220; Wettst. Monog. Euphr.'' 266, t. xiv. f. 8.

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 The lord steward Meruitensa made two of his followers to go to the Sekhet Hemat, and bring a list of the household of the Sekhti; and its amount was six persons, beside his oxen and his goats, his wheat and his barley, his asses and his dogs; and moreover he gave all that which belonged unto the Hemti to the Sekhti, even all his property and his officers, and the Sekhti was beloved of the King more than all his overseers, and ate of all the good things of the King, with all his household.

The wise servant said: “Let thy heart be satisfied, O my lord, for that we have come back to the country; after we have long been on board, and rowed much, the prow has at last touched land. All the people rejoice, and embrace us one after another. Moreover, we have come back in good health, and not a man is lacking; although we have been to the ends of Wawat, and gone through the land of Senmut, we have returned in peace, and our land—behold, we have come back to it. Hear me, my lord; I have no other refuge. Wash thee, and turn the water over thy fingers; then go and tell the tale to the Majesty.”

His lord replied: “Thy heart continues still its wandering words! but although the mouth of a man may save him, his words may also cover his face with confusion. Wilt thou do then as thy heart moves thee? This that thou wilt say, tell quietly.”

The sailor then answered: “Now I shall tell that which has happened to me, to my very self. I was going to the mines of Pharaoh, and I went down on the sea on a ship of 150 cubits long and forty cubits wide, with 150 sailors of the best of Egypt, who had seen heaven and earth, and whose hearts were stronger than lions. They had said that the wind would not be contrary, or that there would be none. But as we approached the land the wind arose, and threw up waves eight cubits high. As for me, I seized a piece of wood; but those who were in the vessel perished, without one remaining. A wave threw me on an island, after that I had been three


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Euphrasia.] All exceedingly variable plant, best distinguished from the two following by the different habit, much larger flowers and usually longer peduncles.

4. E. Cockayniana, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi. (1894) 269.—Annual. Stems slender, erect, 2–5 in. high, sparingly branched from the base; branches ascending, more or less clothed with short crisp glandular pubescence. Leaves in remote opposite pairs, ⅕–⅓ in. long, ovate or rhomboid-ovate, subacute, cuneate at the base, furnished with 2–3 rather large teeth on each side, both surfaces more or less glandular-pubescent, margins reflexed. Flowers few towards the tips of the branches, sessile or very shortly peduncled, nearly ½ in. long, bright-yellow. Calyx oblongcampanulate, 4-lobed to the middle, lobes subacute. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx; upper lip 2-lobed, lobes entire; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes emarginate. Capsule broadly oblong, included in the enlarged calyx, glabrous or nearly so.—E. Berggreni, ''Wettst. Monog. Euphr.'' 265, f. 4, 5.

5. E. zealandica, ''Wettst. Monog. Euphr.'' 264, t. vi. f. 430–435, and t. xiv. f. 10.—Annual. Stems slender, erect, 1–4 in. high, much or sparingly branched from the base, or in depauperated specimens simple, more or less bifariously pubescent with short crisp white hairs; branches spreading or ascending, sometimes prostrate. Leaves in distant opposite pairs, sessile, ⅙–⅓ in. long, ovate, obtuse or subacute, cuneate at the base, furnished with 2–4 rather large teeth on each side, both surfaces glandular-pubescent, margins reflexed. Flowers few towards the tips of the branches, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, ¼–⅓ in. long, white; peduncles elongating in fruit. Calyx oblong-campanulate, 4-lobed; lobes usually shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the calyx; upper lip short, arched, 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed; all the lobes entire. Capsule broad, almost orbicular, scarcely exceeding the enlarged calyx; seeds several in each cell.—E. antarctica, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 199; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 220 (not of Benth.)''. E. pygmæa, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi. (1889) 279.

Ruahine Mountains, ''Colenso! Tryon! Olsen! Upper Wairarapa, Buchanan.'' Not uncommon in mountain districts throughout. 2000–6000 ft. December–March.

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556 the smaller flowers, which are never altogether yellow; and from E. Cheesemanii by the almost sessile flowers, shorter and narrower corolla, and especially by the numerous ovules.

6. E. Cheesemanii, ''Wettst. in Osterr. Bot. Zeit. (1900) 381, f.'' 1–5.—A slender annual herb 1½–2½ in. high, much branched from the base; branches spreading or ascending, minutely pubescent. Leaves small, sessile, shorter than the internodes, ⅙–⅓ in. long, ovate or obovate-cuneate, obtuse, more or less clothed with short crisp glandular pubescence, margins with 2–4 obtuse teeth on each side. Flowers axillary towards the tips of the branches, rather remote, large for the size of the plant, ⅓–½ in. long; peduncles long, slender, ⅓–¾ in. long. Calyx campanulate, shortly 4-lobed; lobes obtuse, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Corolla broadly funnelshaped; tube much longer than the calyx; upper lip short, 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed; lobes obtuse. Ovary pubescent, with 2 superposed ovules in each cell. Capsule obovate, compressed, slightly longer than the calyx.

7. E. Dyeri, ''Wettst. Monog. Euphr.'' 267, f. 6, 7.—A minute delicate annual herb ½–1½ in. high, branched from the base; branches weak, spreading, not rooting. Leaves in opposite pairs, $1⁄10$–$1⁄6$ in. long, broadly obovate in outline or broader than long, deeply 5-lobed or more rarely 3-lobed; lobes flat, erect, acute, minutely setulose on the margins. Flowers axillary, solitary, ¼ in. long; peduncles usually short but sometimes equalling the leaves. Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed half-way down; lobes flat, acute, minutely setulose. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, sometimes ⅔ as long again, curved below; limb with the upper lip short, broad, concave, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Anthers cohering. Ovary pubescent; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous. Capsule obovate-oblong, compressed, shorter than the calyx.

8. E. repens, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 200.—A minute very slender creeping and rooting glabrous or puberulous herb; branches prostrate, almost filiform, 1–4 in. long, rooting at the nodes. Leaves minute, in rather remote pairs, sessile, $1⁄12$–$1⁄10$ long, cuneate, deeply 3-lobed; lobes flat, acute, erect. Flowers axillary and solitary, erect, large for the size of the plant, ⅓–½ in.


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Euphrasia.] long; peduncles slender, exceeding the leaves, sometimes ⅓ in. long. Calyx 4-lobed to about ⅓-way down; lobes flat, erect, acute. Corolla-tube slender, curved, more than twice as long as the calyx; upper lip short, broad, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Anthers glabrous or nearly so. Ovary pubescent; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous. Ripe capsules not seen.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 221; Wettst. Monog. Euphr.'' 253.

A small creeping intricately branched herb. Leaves opposite, entire or 3-lobed. Flowers solitary and axillary, erect, shortly peduncled. Calyx oblong-campanulate, 5-lobed to the middle; lobes equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube excessively long and slender, 1–2 in. long, narrow at the base, gradually expanded above; limb short, 2-lipped; upper lip erect, obcordate, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip rather shorter, spreading or deflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers large, almost as long as the lower lip of the corolla, mucronate at the base. Ovary small, broadly ovoid, 2-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous from the top of the cell. Style slender; stigma circinately incurved. Capsule broadly obcuneate, much broader than long, loculicidally dehiscent, compressed. Seeds one in each cell, large, oblong, pendulous.

1. A. dispermum, ''Wettst. in Deutsch. Bot. Ges.'' xiii (1895) 242.—Stems very slender, weak, procumbent and matted, 2–4 in. long, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Leaves in rather remote pairs, sessile or nearly so, ⅙–¼ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to the base, entire or deeply 3-lobed, 3-nerved, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Flowers on short curved peduncles, erect. Corolla about ½–¾ in. long when first expanded, but elongating as the flowering advances and often becoming 2 in. long, very many times longer than the small calyx. Capsule $1⁄10$–$1⁄8$ in. long, very much broader than long.—Euphrasia longiflora, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi. (1879) 440, not of Vahl. E. (Anagosperma) disperma, ''Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1283; Kirk, l.c.'' xii. (1880) 396, t. 14.


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"Leaves opposite. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx carapanulate, deeply 4-toothed, much wrinkled when dry; teeth with narrow acuminate points. Corolla funnel-shaped with an exceedingly slender curved tube 3 in. long, dilated upwards, swollen or slightly spurred about three-fourths of the way up at the commencement of the broadest part; throat campanulate; limb 2-lipped, upper lip of one narrow erect or suberect concave lobe; lower lip of three nearly equal spreading rounded lobes, throat not tumid but having a few scattered hairs. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted on the throat, included, the two lower the longest. Anthers 2-celled, introrse. Style extremely slender, a little longer than the stamens, with a 2-lobed stigma. Ovary superior. Capsule 2celled, loculicidal, included within the calyx. Seeds minute (capsule immature)."

1. S. longiflorum, Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 341.—"A small creeping or trailing herb. Branches clothed with scattered spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, ¼ in. long, entire, linear-lanceolate, rarely ovate, acuminate, obscurely 3-nerved, pubescent or glabrous, shortly petiolate. Flowers solitary, axillary, very shortly peduncled, not bracteate. Corolla pubescent, pale-blue(?) with darker veins."

Herbs, either aquatic or growing in wet soil. Leaves in the terrestrial species radical, few or rosulate, entire; in the aquatic species more or less scattered, capillary and multifid. Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite, either solitary or several on a scapiform peduncle. Calyx inferior, 2-lipped or 4–5-partite. Corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous, irregular, the tube usually produced into a spur or pouch, the limb 2-lipped, upper lip entire or 2-lobed, lower lip 3–5-lobed. Stamens 2, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube; filaments usually broad, arched; anthers 1-celled. Ovary superior, globose, 1-celled; style short and thick; stigma 2-lobed; ovules numerous, on a free central placenta. Fruit a capsule, either bursting irregularly or 2-4-valved. Seeds numerous, small; albumen wanting; embryo either undivided or with very short cotyledons.


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is a repose about Lant Street, in the borough, which sheds a gentle melancholy upon the soul. There are always a good many houses to let in the street: it is a bye-street too, and its dulness is soothing. A house in Lant Street would not come within the denomination of a first-rate residence, in the strict acceptation of the term; but it is a most desirable spot nevertheless. If a man wished to abstract himself from the world—to remove himself from within the reach of temptation—to place himself beyond the possibility of any inducement to look out of the window—he should by all means go to Lant Street.

In this happy retreat are colonised a few clear-starchers, a sprinkling of journeymen bookbinders, one or two prison agents for the Insolvent Court, several small housekeepers who are employed in the Docks, a handful of mantua-makers, and a seasoning of jobbing tailors. The majority of the inhabitants either direct their energies to the letting of furnished apartments, or devote themselves to the healthful and invigorating pursuit of mangling. The chief features in the still life of the street are green shutters, lodging-bills, brass door-plates, and bell-handles; the principal specimens of animated nature, the pot-boy, the muffin youth, and the


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morning of the thirteenth of February, which the readers of this authentic narrative know, as well as we do, to have been the day immediately preceding that which was appointed for the trial of Mrs. Bardell's action, was a busy time for Mr. Samuel Weller, who was perpetually engaged in travelling from the George and Vulture to Mr. Perker's chambers and back again, from and between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and two in the afternoon, both inclusive. Not that there was anything whatever to be done, for the consultation had taken place, and the course of proceeding to be adopted, had been finally determined on; but Mr. Pickwick being in a most extreme state of excitement, persevered in constantly sending small notes to his attorney, merely containing the inquiry, "Dear Perker. Is all going on well?" to which Mr. Perker invariably forwarded the reply, "Dear Pickwick. As well as possible;" the fact being, as we have already hinted, that there was nothing whatever to go on, either well or ill, until the sitting of the court on the following morning.

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what the foreman of the jury, whoever he'll be, has got for breakfast," said Mr. Snodgrass, by way of keeping up a conversation on the eventful morning of the fourteenth of February.

"Ah!" said Perker, "I hope he's got a good one."

"Why so?" inquired Mr. Pickwick.

"Highly important; very important, my dear sir," replied Perker. "A good, contented, well-breakfasted juryman, is a capital thing to get hold of. Discontented or hungry jurymen, my dear sir, always find for the plaintiff."

"Bless my heart," said Mr. Pickwick, looking very blank; "what do they do that for?"

"Why, I don't know," replied the little man, coolly; saves time, I suppose. If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says every body else, except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:—'Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen? I rather think, so far as I am concerned, gentlemen,—I say, I rather think,—but don't let that influence you—I rather think the


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" surely, my dear sir," said little Perker, as he stood in Mr. Pickwick's apartment on the morning after the trial: "Surely you don't really mean—really and seriously now, and irritation apart—that you won't pay these costs and damages?"

"Not one halfpenny," said Mr. Pickwick, firmly; "not one halfpenny."

"Hooroar for the principle, as the money-lender said ven he vouldn't renew the bill," observed Mr. Weller, who was clearing away the breakfast things.

"Sam," said Mr. Pickwick, "have the goodness to step down stairs."

"Cert'nly, sir," replied Mr. Weller; and acting on Mr. Pickwick's gentle hint, Sam retired.

"No, Perker," said Mr. Pickwick, with great seriousness of manner, "my friends here, have endeavoured to dissuade me from this determination, but without avail. I shall employ myself as usual, until the opposite party have the power of issuing a legal process of execution against me; and if they are vile enough to avail themselves of it, and to arrest my person, I shall yield myself up with perfect cheerfulness and content of heart. When can they do this?"

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Mr. Pickwick contemplated a stay of at least two months in Bath, he deemed it advisable to take private lodgings for himself and friends for that period; and as a favourable opportunity offered for their securing, on moderate terms, the upper portion of a house in the Royal Crescent, which was larger than they required, Mr. and Mrs. Dowler offered to relieve them of a bed-room and sitting-room. This proposition was at once accepted, and in three days' time they were all located in their new abode, when Mr. Pickwick began to drink the waters with the utmost assiduity. Mr. Pickwick took them systematically. He drank a quarter of a pint before breakfast, and then walked up a hill; and another quarter of a pint after breakfast, and then walked down a hill; and after every fresh quarter of a pint, Mr. Pickwick declared, in the most solemn and emphatic terms, that he felt a great deal better whereat his friends were very much delighted, though they had not been previously aware that there was anything the matter with him.

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the whole of next day, Sam kept Mr. Winkle steadily in sight, fully determined not to take his eye off him for one instant, until he should receive express instructions from the fountain-head. However disagreeable Sam's very close watch and great vigilance were to Mr. Winkle, he thought it better to bear with them, than, by any act of violent opposition, to hazard being carried away by force, which Mr. Weller more than once strongly hinted was the line of conduct that a strict sense of duty prompted him to pursue. There is little reason to doubt that Sam would very speedily have quieted his scruples, by bearing Mr. Winkle back to Bath, bound hand and foot, had not Mr. Pickwick's prompt attention to the note, which Dowler had undertaken to deliver, forestalled any such proceeding. In short, at eight o'clock in the evening, Mr. Pickwick himself walked into the coffee-room of the Bush tavern, and told Sam with a smile, to his very great relief, that he had done quite right, and it was unnecessary for him to mount guard any longer.

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ill-starred gentleman who had been the unfortunate cause of the unusual noise and disturbance which alarmed the inhabitants of the Royal Crescent in manner and form already described, after passing a night of great confusion and anxiety, left the roof beneath which his friends still slumbered, bound he knew not whither. The excellent and considerate feelings which prompted Mr. Winkle to take this step can never be too highly appreciated or too warmly extolled. "If," reasoned Mr. Winkle with himself, "if this Dowler attempts (as I have no doubt he will) to carry into execution his threat of personal violence against myself, it will be incumbent on me to call him out. He has a wife; that wife is attached to, and dependent on him. Heavens! If I should kill him in the blindness of my wrath, what would be my feelings ever afterwards!" This painful consideration operated so power- fully on the feelings of the humane young man, as to cause his knees to knock together, and his countenance to exhibit alarming manifestations of inward emotion. Impelled by such reflections, he grasped his carpet-bag, and creeping stealthily down stairs, shut the detestable street-door with as little noise as possible, and walked off. Bending his steps towards the Royal Hotel, he found a coach on the point of starting for Bristol, and, thinking Bristol as good a place for


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62 Much finer trees occur on the Continent than those in England; and it is evident that while the tree is healthy and hardy in this country, it requires hotter summers and colder winters to attain its best development and ripen fruit. A fine pair, male and female, stand in the old Botanic Garden of Geneva, where they were planted in 1815. They were measured by Elwes in 1905, when the male tree was 86 feet by 4 feet 10 inches, with a straight upright habit, the female, which bears good seed, was considerably smaller. A famous specimen in the garden adjoining the palace of the Grand Duke of Baden at Carlsruhe measured, in 1884, 84 feet, with a diameter of 25 inches at 3 feet from the ground. Beissner says trees occur in this garden of 25½ and 30 metres high, with stem diameters of 1.90 and 1.80 metres. The finest tree in Europe is probably one mentioned by Beissner,* which stands in the Botanic Garden at Milan, and measures 40 metres high and 1.20 metre in diameter. There is also a noble specimen in the gardens of the Villa Carlotta on Lake Como.


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, the gentleman who had accompanied Mr. Pickwick into the prison, turned sharp round to the right when he got to the bottom of the little flight of steps, and led the way, through an iron gate which stood open, and up another short flight of steps, into a long narrow gallery, dirty and low, paved with stone, and very dimly lighted by a window at each remote end.

"This," said the gentleman, thrusting his hands into his pockets, and looking carelessly over his shoulder to Mr. Pickwick, "This here is the hall flight."

"Oh," replied Mr. Pickwick, looking down a dark and filthy staircase, which appeared to lead to a range of damp and gloomy stone vaults, beneath the ground, "and those, I suppose, are the little cellars where the prisoners keep their small quantities of coals. Unpleasant places to have to go down to; but very convenient, I dare say."

"Yes, I shouldn't wonder if they was convenient," replied the gentleman, "seeing that a few people live there, pretty snug. That's the Fair, that is."

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remainder of the period which Mr. Pickwick had assigned as the duration of the stay at Bath, passed over without the occurrence of anything material. Trinity Term commenced. On the expiration of its first week, Mr. Pickwick and his friends returned to London; and the former gentleman, attended of course by Sam, straightway repaired to his old quarters at the George and Vulture.

On the third morning after their arrival, just as all the clocks in the city were striking nine individually, and somewhere about nine hundred and ninety-nine collectively, Sam was taking the air in George Yard, when a queer sort of fresh painted vehicle drove up, out of which there jumped with great agility, throwing the reins to a stout man who sat beside him, a queer sort of gentleman, who seemed made for the vehicle, and the vehicle for him.

The vehicle was not exactly a gig, neither was it a stanhope. It was not what is currently denominated a dog-cart, neither was a taxed-cart, nor a chaise-cart, nor a guillotined cabriolet; and yet it had something of the character of each and every of these machines. It was painted a bright yellow, with the shafts and wheels picked out in black; and the driver sat, in the orthodox sporting style, on cushions piled about


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The Chinese tulip tree was discovered by Shearer and Maries in the Lushan mountains near Kiukiang, on the Yangtse, and was afterwards found by me growing plentifully in the mountain woods both north and south of Ichang, in Hupeh, at 3000 to 6000 feet altitude. Von Rosthorn found it farther west, at Nan-ch'uan in Szechuan. It does not occur on the lower levels, and is essentially a tree of the mountains bounding the valley of the Yangtse, from 107° to 116° E. longitude, and from 29° to 32° N. latitude. I never saw any large specimens, and it does not attain, so far as is known, the size of the American species. Von Rosthorn records it as about 50 feet in height. Maries notes it as a fine spreading tree occurring at a temple near Kiukiang. It was introduced in 1901 into cultivation from Hupeh by Wilson, who collected for Messrs. Veitch; and young trees may be seen in their nursery at Coombe Wood, and also at Kew. These seedlings in January 1905 were at Kew about 15 inches in height, and have stood without injury the cold of the last few winters; but it is too soon yet to decide whether this species will turn out to be hardy in this climate.

The Chinese tulip tree is almost indistinguishable in foliage from the American tree, but as a rule the leaves are more glaucous on the under surface, and the lobing is deeper and more obtuse. The flowers are greenish in colour and smaller in size than those of Liriodendron tulipifera. Moreover, the narrow petals spread out when fully open, and have not a tulip shape. The carpels are consolidated, so as to appear like a solid column, and are obtuse at the apex when ripe. In the American species the carpels are free from each other at an early stage, and have when ripe acute recurved tips.

In winter there is little to distinguish the two species, except that in Liriodendron chinense the twigs are grey (not shining brown), the buds come off at a very acute angle, and the leaf scars are oboval and not truly circular as they are in the common species.

The Chinese call the tree Wo-ch'ang-ch'iu, i.e. "goose-foot Catalpa," from the shape of the leaves, but the tree is of no economic importance with them. It apparently regenerates readily from the stool, as I found it, where the wood-cutters had been at work, as strong coppice shoots with enormous leaves, more than a foot across.


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Mr. Pickwick opened his eyes next morning, the first object upon which they rested, was Samuel Weller, seated upon a small black portmanteau, intently regarding, apparently in a condition of profound abstraction, the stately figure of the dashing Mr. Smangle: while Mr. Smangle himself, who was already partially dressed, was seated on his bedstead, occupied in the desperately hopeless attempt of staring Mr. Weller out of countenance. We say desperately hopeless, because' Sam, with a comprehensive gaze which took in Mr. Smangle's cap, feet, head, face, legs, and whiskers, all at the same time, continued to look steadily on, with every demonstration of lively satisfaction, but with no more regard to Mr. Smangle's personal sentiments on the subject than he would have displayed had he been inspecting a wooden statue, or a straw-embowelled Guy Faux.

"Well; will you know me again?" said Mr. Smangle, with a frown.

"I'd svear to you anyveres, sir," replied Sam, cheerfully.

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a lofty room, ill-lighted and worse ventilated, situate in Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, there sit nearly the whole year round, one, two, three, or four gentlemen in wigs, as the case may be, with little writing desks before them, constructed after the fashion of those used by the judges of the land, barring the French polish. There is a box of barristers on their right hand ; there is an inclosure of insolvent debtors on their left ; and there is an inclined plane of most especially dirty faces in their front. These gentlemen are the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court, and the place in which they sit, is the Insolvent Court itself.

It is, and has been, time out of mind, the remarkable fate of this Court to be, somehow or other, held and understood, by the general consent of all the destitute shabby-genteel people in London, as their common resort, and place of daily refuge. It is always full. The steams of beer and spirits perpetually ascend to the ceiling, and, being condensed by the heat, roll down the walls like rain ; there are more old suits of clothes in it at one time, than will be offered for sale in all Houndsditch in a twelvemonth; more unwashed skins and grizzly beards than all the pumps and shaving-shops between Tyburn and Whitechapel could render decent, between sunrise and sunset.

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felt a great deal too much touched by the warmth of Sam's attachment, to be able to exhibit any manifestation of anger or displeasure at the precipitate course he had adopted, in voluntarily consigning himself to a debtors 1 prison, for an indefinite period. The only point on which he persevered in demanding any explanation, was, the name of Sam's detaining creditor ; but this Mr. Weller as perseveringly withheld.

"It ain't o' no use, sir," said Sam, again and again. "He's a ma-licious, bad-disposed, vorldly-minded, spiteful, windictive creetur, with a hard heart as there ain't no soft'nin'. As the wirtuous clergyman remarked of the old gen'l'm'n with the dropsy, ven he said, that upon the whole he thought he'd rayther leave his property to his vife than build a chapel vith it."

"But consider, Sam," Mr. Pickwick remonstrated, "the sum is so small that it can very easily be paid ; and having made up my mind that you shall stop with me, you should recollect how much more useful you would be, if you could go outside the walls."


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66 ½ inch in length. Above these on the stem follow the true leaves, the first and second orbicular in outline; the third and fourth showing lobes; all have long slender petioles. The first year's growth terminates in a bud just above the insertion of the fourth leaf. The primary root gives off a good many lateral fibres, which are delicate and brittle. Seedlings which germinated at Colesborne early in June were 3-4½ inches high in August, with roots of about the same length or slightly shorter. According to Elwes there was no marked tendency to form a tap-root in any of the specimens which he examined.

Several forms are in cultivation, which differ from the wild tree in habit, in form and colour of the leaves, and in colour of the flowers.

1. Var. pyramidalis, Lavallée.—Tree with erect branches, forming a narrow pyramid, like the fastigiate oak.

2. Var. integrifolia, Kirch.—Leaves rounded at the base and without lobes. In this form, the shape of the leaves of seedling trees is preserved.

3. Var. obtusiloba, Pursh.—Leaves with only one rounded lobe on each side of the base.

4. Var. heterophylla.—Foliage variable; some leaves being entire, others with lobes, which are acute or obtuse.

5. Var. crispa.—Leaves with undulate margins.

6. Var. variegata. —Forms, with variegated leaves, of which several sub-varieties have received names, as argenteo-variegata, aureo-variegata, medio-picta. That known as aureo-marginata in which the edges of the leaves are yellow is the best.

7. Var. aurea.—Flowers yellow.

In summer, the shape of the leaves is unmistakable, resembling those of no other hardy tree: the variety integrifolia, though without lobes, preserves the truncate, slightly emarginate apex, in the centre of which may be seen the midrib prolonged as a short bristle.

In winter, the twigs and buds are very characteristic. Buds: terminal, larger than the lateral, which are alternate on the twigs, and arise from them at an angle of 45°. They are stalked, glaucous, glabrous, composed of 2 stipules joined together by their edges, forming a closed sac, in which is contained the young shoot; and on opening it a leaf will be seen embracing an interior bud. It is folded on its mid-rib with the stalk bent like a hook, bringing the apex of the leaf to the base of the bud. The twigs are glabrous, shining brown or slightly hoary, and marked by stipular rings just above the leaf-scars, which are circular, placed obliquely on prominent cushions, and dotted like a sieve with cicatrices of the fibrous bundles. The lenticels are few


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mornings after his incarceration, Mr. Samuel Weller, having arranged his master's room with all possible care, and seen him comfortably seated over his books and papers, with drew to employ himself for an hour or two to come, as he best could. It was a fine morning, and it occurred to Sam that a pint of porter in the open air would lighten his next quarter of an hour or so, as well as any little amusement in which he could indulge.

Having arrived at this conclusion, he betook himself to the tap. Having purchased the beer, and obtained, moreover, the day-but-one-before-yesterday's paper, he repaired to the skittle-ground, and seating himself on a bench, proceeded to enjoy himself in a very sedate and methodical manner.

First of all, he took a refreshing draught of the beer, and then he looked up at a window, and bestowed a Platonic wink on a young lady who was peeling potatoes thereat. Then he opened the paper, and folded it so as to get the police reports outwards; and this being a vexatious and difficult thing to do, when there is any wind stirring, he took another draught of the beer when he had accomplished it. Then, he read two lines of the paper, and stopped short, to


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"," said Mrs. Craddock, upon the morning of this very eventful day, "here's a letter for you."

"Wery odd that," said Sam, "I'm afeerd there must be somethin' the matter, for I don't recollect any gen'lm'n in my circle of acquaintance as is capable of writin' one."

"Perhaps something uncommon has taken place," observed Mrs. Craddock.

"It must be somethin' wery uncommon indeed, as could produce a letter out o' any friend o' mine," replied Sam, shaking his head dubiously; "nothin' less than a nat'ral conwulsion, as the young gen'lm'n observed ven he wos took with fits. It can't be from the gov'ner," said Sam, looking at the direction. "He always prints, I know, 'cos he learnt writin' from the large bills in the bookin' offices. It's a wery strange thing now, where this here letter can ha' come from."

As Sam said this, he did what a great many people do when they are uncertain about the writer of a note,—looked at the seal, and then at the front, and then at the back, and then at the sides, and then at the superscription; and, as a last resource, thought perhaps he might as well look at the inside, and try to find out, from that,


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68 teristic sharp angles made by the smaller erect branches with the larger horizontal limbs.

Another photograph sent me by Mr. Ashe shows a group of Liriodendron, in the forests of Transylvania Co., N.C., 120–140 feet high and 45 feet in diameter, associated with Quercus rubra and Betula lutea which are not so tall. This magnificent forest is, like most of those accessible to the lumbermen, rapidly decreasing in area and beauty, owing to the growing demand for timber.

For further details of the distribution in North Carolina refer to Pinchot and Ashe's admirable account, pp. 39–41, and to a paper by Overton Price on "Practical Forestry in the Southern Appalachians."

The largest trees of this species, however, have been recorded by Professor R. Ridgway from Southern Indiana and Illinois, near Mount Carmel, Illinois, which I had the pleasure of visiting under the guidance of Dr. J. Schneck in September 1904. Though the largest trees recorded by him have now been cut, reliable measurements were taken of a tulip tree which reached the astonishing height of 190 feet, exceeding that of any non-coniferous tree recorded in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Another tree cut "8 miles east of Vincennes, was 8 feet across the top of the stump, which was solid to the centre; the last cut was 63 feet from the first, and the trunk made 80,000 shingles." The soil here is an exceedingly rich, deep alluvium, and the climate in summer very hot and moist.

It is stated in Garden and Forest, 1897, p. 458, that at the Nashville Exhibition a log of this tree was shown by the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad Company, which measured 42 feet long, 10 feet 4 inches in diameter at the butt, and 7 feet at the smaller end, containing 1260 cubic feet of timber, and about 600 years old.

The tulip tree was probably introduced, according to Evelyn, by John Tradescant about the middle of the seventeenth century, but this is somewhat uncertain, though it was grown by Bishop Compton at Fulham in 1688.

According to Hunter the tree which first flowered in England was in the gardens of the Earl of Peterborough at Parsons Green, Fulham, and this he describes in 1776 as "an old tree quite destroyed by others which overhang it." At that time there were also some trees of great bulk at Wilton, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke in Wilts.

Though the tree can be propagated by means of layers, and in the case of varieties by grafting, yet as seeds are easily procured from the United States it is much better to raise it from seed. Cobbett, who was a great admirer of the tulip tree, gives a long account of it, and of the best means of raising it, and says that if sown in May, which he thinks the best time, it will germinate in the following May,


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70 Mr. Bullen says that it grows well in heavy clay in the damp and smoky climate of Glasgow, and a tree is mentioned at the Grove, Stanmore, on damp, gravelly clay, which in 1879 was 77 feet high by 9½ in girth.

The tulip tree has been much recommended for planting in towns, and specimens may be seen in London at Victoria Park, Manor House Gardens, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Waterloo Park, Clissold Park, etc.

Mr. Hovey says that in America it is not so much planted for ornament as it deserves to be, presumably because American planters desire a quick effect, and that it does not transplant well after it is 4-6 feet high; but that it grows on gravel, sand, peat, or clay, and is not very particular in that climate as to soil. He has known it grow 30 feet high and more in 20 years.

It is very liable to be attacked by rabbits, which eat the bark even of large trees, and I have seen several which have been killed or much injured in this way.

Though this tree is one of the handsomest when in flower, stateliest in habit, and most beautiful in the autumn tints of its leaves, it is not now planted in England nearly as much as it was a hundred years and more ago, having, like so many other fine hard-wooded trees, been supplanted by conifers and flowering shrubs, which are easier to raise and more profitable to the nurserymen, who now appear to cater rather for the requirements of owners of villas and small gardens than for those of larger places. But though the tulip tree loves a hot summer, it endures the most severe winter frosts of our climate without injury, and in a suitable soil grows in some parts of the southern counties, after it is once established, to a great size.

The largest living specimen I know of in England is at Woolbeding, in Sussex, the seat of Colonel Lascelles, and measures 105 feet by 17. Though not so perfect in shape as some others, it is a very beautiful tree, and seemed, when I saw it in 1903, to be in good health. It grows on a deep, alluvial, sandy soil, which suits plane trees and rhododendrons very well (Plate 25).

There was even a larger one at Stowe near Buckingham, which when I saw it in 1905 was dead, apparently barked at the base by rabbits. It was at least 107 feet high, with a bole of about 30 feet, and a girth of 1 feet at 5 feet, and 21 feet 4 inches at the ground.

Another very fine tree is at Leonardslee, near Horsham, the seat of Sir Edmund Loder, Bart., also in Sussex, and is growing at an elevation of 400-500 feet on soil which, though very favourable to rhododendrons, is too poor to grow either oak, birch, or larch to the same size in the same time. Sir E. Loder tells me that the tree cannot be more than 90 years old, and it is now 97 feet high, with a perfectly clean, straight trunk 25-30 feet high, which towers above all the native trees of the district (Plate 27).

At Horsham Park, the residence of R.H. Hurst, Esq., is a very fine and symmetrical tree which I measured rather hastily, as over 100 feet in height by 15 in girth.


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 thick hazel-bush. He tied a ribband round the neck of his little darling, and having finished the task, he could not refrain from kissing him, and uttering the words, "Poor Thonon! we must part: however, thou wilt always be dearer to me than what thou art to purchase for me."

"These words wounded my heart like a dagger; and my whole situation lay, at once, undisguised before my eyes. I was ready to faint; and could scarcely refrain from rushing forth, and letting him see an Elmira entirely different from that he had known till then. Yet rage and pain fortunately stifled my tears and sighs, and I arrived at my apartment without being seen by him.

"As soon as I had recovered my recollection, I saw plainly how necessary it was not to give up the part I had begun to act. I prevailed upon myself, after a hard struggle, to assume again the semblance of cheerfulness, and an air of tranquil resignation. The dog was presented to me,

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 and received with an imposing pleasure: the donor expected, and demanded, at length, a reward for the sacrifice he had made to me; but being cautioned by what I had overheard, I found it pretty easy to evade his violent caresses and tender menaces.

"Thus some weeks more elapsed, and I could still not find out proper means of effecting my escape. The danger of a longer stay grew every day more pressing. I knew, however, neither the district in which the castle was situated, nor the neighbourhood, and was carefully guarded. At length I attempted, with a very small probability of success, what I, perhaps, under more favourable circumstances, never had dared to risk. At a feast, which was given on my account, and on which all eyes were directed at me, I got suddenly from my throne, on which I was to receive an approaching procession, upon a walnut-tree, and fortunately concealed

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 any one supposed; even his mother did not know how often he pondered on it; the Earl for a long time never suspected that he did so at all. But, being quick to observe, the little boy could not help wondering why it was that his mother and grandfather never seemed to meet. He had noticed that they never did meet. When the Dorin-court carriage stopped at Court Lodge, the Earl never alighted, and on the rare occasions of his lordship's going to church, Fauntleroy was always left to speak to his mother in the porch alone, or perhaps to go home with her. And yet, every day, fruit and flowers were sent to Court Lodge from the hot-houses at the Castle. But the one virtuous action of the Earl's which had set him upon the pinnacle of perfection in Cedric's eyes, was what he had done soon after that first Sunday when Mrs. Errol had walked home from church unattended. About a week later, when Cedric was going one day to visit his mother, he found at the door, instead of the large carriage and prancing pair, a pretty little brougham and a handsome bay horse.

"That is a present from you to your mother," the Earl said abruptly. "She can not go walking about the country. She needs a carriage. The man who drives will take charge of it. It is a present from you."

Fauntleroy's delight could but feebly express itself. He could scarcely contain himself until he reached the lodge. His mother was gathering roses in the garden. He flung himself out of the little brougham and flew to her.

"Dearest!" he cried, "could you believe it? This is yours! He says it is a present from me. It is your own carriage to drive everywhere in!"

He was so happy that she did not know what to say. She could not have borne to spoil his pleasure by refusing to accept the gift even though it came from the man who chose to consider himself her enemy. She was obliged to step into the carriage, roses and all, and let herself be taken to drive, while Fauntleroy told her

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The head is not more native to the heart,

The hand more instrumental to the mouth,

Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.

What wouldst thou have, Laertes?

Laer. Dread my lord,

Your leave and favour to return to France;

From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,

To show my duty in your coronation,

Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,

My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France

And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.

King. Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?

Pol. He hath, my lord, [wrung from me my slow leave

By laboursome petition, and at last

Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:]

I do beseech you, give him leave to go.

King. Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,

And thy best graces spend it at thy will.

But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—

Ham. [Aside]. A little more than kin, and less than kind.

King. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

Ham. Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.

Queen. Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,

And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

Do not for ever with thy vailed lids

Seek for thy noble father in the dust:

 47 native: closely and congenitally connected

48 instrumental: serviceable

50 Dread my lord: my dread lord

51 leave and favour: kind permission

56 leave and pardon: indulgence [to depart]

60 hard: given with difficulty

63 graces: virtues

65 kin kind; cf. n.

67 i' the sun; cf. n.

70 vailed: down-cast

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 "Do you miss your mother very much?" asked the Earl when he had finished reading this.

"Yes," said Fauntleroy, "I miss her all the time."

He went and stood before the Earl and put his hand on his knee, looking up at him.

"You don't miss her, do you?" he said.

"I don't know her," answered his lordship rather crustily.

"I know that," said Fauntleroy, "and that 's what makes me wonder. She told me not to ask you any questions, and—and I wont, but sometimes I can't help thinking, you know, and it makes me all puzzled. But I 'm not going to ask any questions. And when I miss her very much, I go and look out of my window to where I see her light shine for me every night through an open place in the trees. It is a long way off, but she puts it in her window as soon as it is dark, and I can see it twinkle far away, and I know what it says."

"What does it say?" asked my lord.

"It says, 'Good-night, God keep you all the night!'—just what she used to say when we were together. Every night she used to say that to me, and every morning she said, 'God bless you all the day!; So you see I am quite safe all the time "

"Quite, I have no doubt," said his lordship dryly. And he drew down his beetling eyebrows and looked at the little boy so fixedly and so long that Fauntleroy wondered what he could be thinking of.

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The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland

The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland is a work, written between 1906 and 1913 by Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry.

It was privately published in Edinburgh, and consisted of 7 volumes and an index.

Some editions in libraries have separate volumes with plates, for instance in this edition in BHL.

BHL also has a different edition, where volume 1 and the index are missing, and all the plates are incorporated in the text of the other volumes.

 * Volume 1 (1906)
 * Plates to volume 1 (1906) - Plates 01 to 60

 * Volume 2 (1907)  (Plates 061 to 126 included)

 * Volume 3 (1908)  (Plates 127 to 206 included)

 * Volume 4 (1909)
 * Plates to volume 4 (1909) - Plates Frontispice, and 208 to 270
 * Volume 5 (1910)
 * Plates to volume 5 (1910) - Plates 271 to 339
 * Volume 6 (1912); with Plates 340 to 371 included
 * Volume 7 (1913); with Plates 372 to 412 included
 * Index (1913)

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 stories of his grandfather's goodness and amiability. They were such innocent stories that sometimes she could not help laughing a little, and then she would draw her little boy closer to her side and kiss him, feeling glad that he could see only good in the old man, who had so few friends.

The very next day after that, Fauntleroy wrote to Mr. Hobbs. He wrote quite a long letter, and after the first copy was written, he brought it to his grandfather to be inspected.

"Because," he said, "it 's so uncertain about the spelling. And if you 'll tell me the mistakes, I 'll write it out again."

This was what he had written:

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was within a week of the close of the month of July, that a hackney cabriolet, number unrecorded, was seen to proceed at a rapid pace up Goswell Street; three people were squeezed into it besides the driver, who sat in his own particular little dickey at the side; over the apron were hung two shawls, belonging to two small vixenish-looking ladies under the apron; between whom, compressed into a very small compass, was stowed away, a gentleman of heavy and subdued demeanour, who, whenever he ventured to make an observation, was snapped up short by one of the vixenish ladies before-mentioned. Lastly, the two vixenish ladies and the heavy gentleman were giving the driver contradictory directions, all tending to the one point that he should stop at Mrs. Bardell's door; which the heavy gentleman, in direct opposition to, and defiance of, the vixenish ladies, contended was a green door and not a yellow one.

"Stop at the house with the green door, driver," said the heavy gentleman.

"Oh! You perwerse creetur!" exclaimed one of the vixenish ladies. "Drive to the ouse with the yellow door, cabmin."

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, abating nothing of his speed, ran up Holborn; sometimes in the middle of the road, sometimes on the pavement, sometimes in the gutter, as the chances of getting long, varied with the press of men, women, children, and coaches, in each division of the thoroughfare; regardless of all obstacles, he stopped not for an instant until he reached the gate of Gray's Inn. Notwithstanding all the expedition he had used, however, the gate had been closed a good half hour when he reached it, and by the time he had discovered Mr. Perker's laundress, who lived with a married daughter, who had bestowed her hand upon a non-resident waiter, who occupied the one-pair of some number in some street closely adjoining to some brewery somewhere behind Gray's Inn Lane, it was within fifteen minutes of closing the prison for the night. Mr. Lowten had still to be ferreted out from the back parlour of the Magpie and Stump; and Job had scarcely accomplished this object, and communicated Sam Weller's message, when the clock struck ten.

"There," said Lowten, "it's too late now. You can't get in to-night; "you've got the key of the street, my friend."


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and Mr. Bob Sawyer sat together in the little surgery behind the shop, discussing minced veal and future prospects, when the discourse, not unnaturally, turned upon the practice acquired by Bob the aforesaid, and his present chances of deriving a competent independence from the honourable profession to which he had devoted himself.

"—Which, I think," observed Mr. Bob Sawyer, pursuing the thread of the subject, "which, I think, Ben, are rather dubious."

"What's rather dubious?" inquired Mr. Ben Allen, at the same time sharpening his intellects with a draught of beer. "What's dubious?"

"Why, the chances," responded Mr. Bob Sawyer.

"I forgot," said Mr. Ben Allen. "The beer has reminded me that I forgot, Bob—yes; they are dubious."

"It's wonderful how the poor people patronise me," said Mr. Bob Sawyer, reflectively. "They knock me up, at all hours of the night; they take medicine to an extent which I should have conceived impossible; they put on blisters and leeches with a perseverance worthy of a better cause; they make additions to their families, in a manner which is quite


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" uncle, gentlemen," said the bagman, "was one of the merriest, pleasantest, cleverest fellows that ever lived. I wish you had known him, gentlemen. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him, for if you had, you would have been all, by this time, in the ordinary course of nature, if not dead, at all events so near it, as to have taken to stopping at home and giving up company: which would have deprived me of the inestimable pleasure of addressing you at this moment. Gentlemen, I wish your fathers and mothers had known my uncle. They would have been amazingly fond of him, especially your respectable mothers; I know they would. If any two of his numerous virtues predominated over the many that adorned his character, I should say they were his mixed punch and his after supper song. Excuse my dwelling on these melancholy recollections of departed worth; you won't see a man like my uncle every day in the week.

"I have always considered it a great point in my uncle's character, gentlemen, that he was the intimate friend and companion of Tom Smart, of the great house of Bilson and Slum, Cateaton Street, City. My uncle collected for Tiggin and Welps, but for a long time he went pretty near the same journey as Tom; and the very first night they met, my uncle took a fancy for Tom, and Tom took a fancy for my uncle. They made a bet of a new hat before they had known each


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horses were put to, punctually at a quarter before nine next morning, and Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller having each taken his seat, the one inside and the other out, the postillion was duly directed to repair in the first instance to Mr. Bob Sawyer's house, for the purpose of taking up Mr. Benjamin Allen.

It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew up before the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of "Sawyer, late Nockemorf," that Mr. Pickwick saw, on popping his head out of the coach-window, the boy in the grey livery very busily employed in putting up the shutters: the which, being an unusual and an un-business-like proceeding at that hour of the morning, at once suggested to his mind, two inferences; the one, that some good friend and patient of Mr. Bob Sawyer's was dead; the other, that Mr. Bob Sawyer himself was bankrupt.

"What is the matter?" said Mr. Pickwick to the boy.

"Nothing's the matter, sir," replied the boy, expanding his mouth to the whole breadth of his countenance.

"All right, all right!" cried Bob Sawyer suddenly appearing at the door, with a small leathern knapsack, limp and


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 26 nological sequence. If, therefore, we arrange them according to the order which is given in Syuty's Itqán, we shall not fail to mark the gradual development of Muhammad's mind from that of a mere moral teacher and reformer, to that of a prophet and warrior chief. The contrast between the earlier, middle, and later Súrás is very striking. He who at Mecca is the admonisher and persuader, at Medína is the legislator and the warrior, who dictates obedience, and uses other weapons than the pen of the poet and the scribe. When business pressed, as at Medína, poetry makes way for prose; and although touches of the poetical element occasionally break forth, and he has to defend himself up to a very late period against the charge of being merely a poet, yet this is rarely the case in the Medína Súrás, in which we go frequently meet with injunctions to obey God and the Prophet.

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morning which broke upon Mr. Pickwick's sight, at eight o'clock, was not at all calculated to elevate his spirits, or to lessen the depression which the unlooked-for result of his embassy inspired. The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. A game-cock in the stable-yard, deprived of every spark of his accustomed animation, balanced himself dismally on one leg in a corner; a donkey, moping with drooping head under the narrow roof of an outhouse, appeared from his meditative and miserable countenance to be contemplating suicide. In the street, umbrellas were the only things to be seen, and the clicking of pattens and splashing of rain-drops, were the only sounds to be heard.

The breakfast was interrupted by very little conversation; even Mr. Bob Sawyer felt the influence of the weather, and the previous day's excitement. In his own expressive language he was "floored." So was Mr. Ben Allen. So was Mr. Pickwick.


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 Rh hammad's religious system in his own mind, it is absolutely necessary to read the Qurán through, not in the order in which it now stands, but that in which Muslim divines admit that it was revealed. At the same time it must be remembered that all Muhammadan doctors allow that in most of the Súrás there are verses which belong to a different date from that of other portions of the chapter; for example, in the Súra-i-ʾAlaq the first five verses belong to a much earlier date than the others; and in Súra-i-Baqr, verse 234 is acknowledged by all commentators to have been revealed after verse 240, which it abrogates.

The sources whence Muhammad derived the materials for his Qurán, are, over and above the more poetical parts, which are his own creation, the legends of his time and country, Jewish traditions based upon the Talmud, perverted to suit his own purposes, and the floating Christian traditions of Arabia and South Syria. Muhammadanism, however, owes more to Judaism than it does to either


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 * of words, on the, 186.
 * Actor's meditations, 343.
 * Agreeability—a country Christmas, 168.
 * Alaric the Visigoth, the dirge of, 64.
 * Album, the Houndaditch, No. I. 160—No. II. 250—No. III. 452.
 * Aldermen, court of, at Fishmongers' hall, 53.
 * Amalfi, his lines to an hour-glass, 112.
 * Amethyst, sonnet on, 134.
 * Amusements of the studious, 49—not addicted to literary amusements, ib.—dancing recommended, 50—music, 51—the table, 52.
 * Ancients, on the repasts of the, 501.
 * Angerstein, Mr. his gallery of pictures, 71—his Rembrandts, 72—Raising of Lazarus by Piombo, 76—his Claudes, 77.
 * Annus Mirabilis, or a Parthian glance at 1822, 21.
 * Ante and post-nuptial journal, 330.
 * Antiquity and Posterity, 135.
 * April, the first of, 308.
 * Arcachon in the Landes, 66—La Teste, 67—chapel of St. Thomas Iliricus, 68—miraculous vision, 69.
 * Artists, Irish, on, 385—character of establishment for, in Dublin, ib. 386—anecdote or two illustrative of, 387—management and characteristics of the Dublin Society, 386, 387—projected academy, 390.
 * Astronomical Alderman, 119.
 * Avernus, 212.

 * Bachelor, letter from a bashful, 54.
 * Bard's, the, song to his daughter, 139.
 * Barry the painter, 338.
 * Barry Cornwall's new poems, review of, 383.
 * Beautiful in Music, the principles of the, 297. 401. 554.
 * Bembo, sonnet of, 58.
 * Bird's release at the grave, the, 532.
 * Blenheim, gallery of pictures at, 445.
 * Blindman's buff, 46.
 * Bolivar, Simon, sketch of the political career of, 4—his marriage, 5—joins Miranda, ib.—defeats Monteverde, 6—divests himself of his authority, 7—defeats the royalists at Bocachica, 8—is defeated at Araguita, 9—takes Santa Fè de Bogota, 9—drives the enemy from Margarita, 10—Bolivar beats Morillo, 11—is chosen supreme director of Venezuela, ib.—beats La Torre, 12—takes Calobozo, 13—battle of Calobozo, 15—First Columbian congress, ib.
 * Bonaparte, his own memoirs, 79—Las Cases' Journal relative to, 79—remarks on misrepresentations respecting, 80—accounts of Las Cases, 81—Napoleon's situation at Rochefort, 82—miserable aspect of St. Helena, 87—bad accomodations, ib.—family of Napoleon, 89—his early days, 90—takes Toulon, 92—his first campaigns, 93—origin of the charge of poisoning his soldiers, 94—conversations of, 280—remarks on Fox, ib.—his ideas of defending France, 283—his council of state, 284—his literary criticisms, 288—his conduct to a servant who wished to kill the governor, 547—his astonishment at the English poor-rates, 549—the French prisons, 550—the Caliph system of police, 552.
 * Bore's box, 416.
 * Bowl of liberty, Greek song of, 337.
 * British Galleries of Art, No. I. 71—II. 97.—III. 290—IV. 345—V. 445—VI. 568.

 * Cabriolets, the new, 492.
 * Campan, Memoirs of Madame, 457.
 * Campbell, T. lines by, on Admiral Campbell, 32—Spanish patriot's song by, 491—song by, ib.
 * Canova, the studio of, 28.
 * Cid, Songs of the, No. I. 307—No. II. 376—No. III. 378.
 * Classics and Romantics, on the, 522.
 * Colds, coughs, and catarrhal complaints, 359—on mode of treating, ib. 360—clothing, 361—letter to the physician, 363.
 * Comus, Milton's, 222.
 * Constantinople, lines on, 198.
 * Cornwall, Barry, his new poems, 383.
 * Country Christmas, 168.
 * Court of Aldermen at Fishmonger's-hall, 53.

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 * Daintie Pastorals, 561.
 * David, 444.