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Stunning fellow was Peyton Jones. 'Cho-
roughly good fellow,
It would take a good deal to kill Jones.”

enzi killed Jones?

Select MHiterature.

A LONG SWIM,

“Bless my soul! Jones is dead,”
“ What! your cousin the parson?”
No, no!”

“Not Jones of 99th?”

“No, Jones of the Saragossa.”
“You don't say so, Which of them?”
**Poyton Jones,”
** Dear me! Tin very sorry to hear it.

se:

th
What did he die of ?

- Influenza.” ¢ the shark that will falPinto so fine a pro-
‘No! You don,t mean to say thatinflu- perty, and may the glass bottle cut th

Gad! fancy a min
ney’ vellow fever three times, dying of
Whew, Gmesartan sizos Os is
influenza!” e084 Sunes

‘Ay, und who Rad been chewed for half
an hour by a tiger in ajungle.”

* Yes, and who awoke one morning with
a boa-constrictor around his neck.”

** Just so, and who took that tremendous
swim at Antigua.”

“Ah! what was that?”

‘Did you never hear of that? Why, it
was one of the pluckiest things that’ w
ever done, I am surprised you neyer
heard of that. Surely 1 must have told
you that myself, Goodness knows, J am
never likely to forget it; but for Peyton
Jones, I might not be here now to tell it.
Jones was in the Briureus when the affair
occurred, and the ship was lying in the
harbor of Antagua. I wa’ out there at
the same time, and saw a good deal of the
naval men, and a better set of fellows 1]
wouldn't wish to know. You never were
in the West Indies, I think; so Limust ex-
plain, that outside the regular barber
of Antigua there isa sort of second harbor
—a large bay, the shore of which, on one
side, ster taking a wide sweep, runs out
into the sea for a great distance. Well.
one fine day it was wrranged that we should
have a picnic ; so four or five of the oflicers,
among whom was Peyton Jones, with an
Irish doetor and myself for guests, took
the ship’s pinnace and three men, sailed
out of the harbor and aeross the bay to our
heart's content, ‘The doctor we n in-
valuable min at festivities of this kind.
Ilis tales used to follow one another like a
string of sausages; the head of one joined
to the tale of Ihe other by a+ Faith and thet
reminds me’—particularly funny to listen
to, from the absence of anything in the first
story that could by any possibilty have
suggested the second, :

**On the occasion Tam speaking of, he

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kept usin avoar of lvughtcr all day; tel-
linge stories and singing songsi itly,

UIP it was time to think about returning.
So, after one more tale, whieh, being of
an exceedingly comic character, reminded
the doctor of a very distressing case at that
time in hospital, we finished the other hot-
tle, and in a short time were ailoat. No
sooner were we under way than Dr. O'-
Grady gotup an argument with Jones.
Who Was at the heim, upon the subject of
steering, and in a short time reqested i
the ground that illustration was necessary
to render his views clear, to be allowed to
give a practical cxample of his powers as
vstecrsinan, ‘This Jones at first objected
to; but public feeling raoning strongly in
fiyor of the doctor's being allowed to. try
his hand, and the dector gi. ing his fecling
voice with 4 foree and elognence peculiar
to himselt, h@oud of the phitter was, that
he s soon seated comlortilly at the
inging the ‘Groves of Bhiney?
“Vor a short time the voyage went on
ry smoothly; but just as O'Grady was in
jddle of an amazingly ‘tunny com-
pari8on between lines, and the negro
thought so. I] flatly refused to consent
to the arrangement, and not without hav-
ing some reason on his side either, And
yet, What was Joues to do? He pust give
Arion, Whose singing attracted the dol-
phins, and himscll, whose voice appeared
to possess eertain charm for sharks,
sudden gust of wind took us and daid) us
on our beam-ends,
*: Port yourheln
ing up and making for the tiller.
O'Grady, port!”
“The same “t you, and plenty of it? re-
plied the doctor, still fieetions, though a
thought flared. Port itis!”
“But unfortunately, port itwasn't. By
a litde error of the doctor's it ~vas. star-
board instead; and the result was that in
another minute we w Ul struggling in
the water, and the pinnuce was keel up-
permost. As several of the party could
not swim, the first thing to do was to look
after them, and help them to seramgle up

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ov tothe keal, Deyiou Jones, who was a

magnificent sy

a hand boys,

ning over

here it is
down here,”

left undrunk was in the
the hamper was, the sharks knew better

coat of his stomach into ribbons.
ly,” said Joncs,

or ten of us, wet to hOS4DE.
keel of a capsized boat, two tell mucSpear
shore, with no possibllity of making way
either forward or backwards, ( ,
to all this, jhe bay swarmed with s

vom their masters? Guble.

Well, Jones and Knapton stripped then-
selves to the skin—ihe less lugyage you
bett

fimey with whi

with the Waves, and the spl.si
hy their feet.

as pe

they could 1
with the darkness, and to be lost as well,
[tis a terribly painful thing to remain in-
active while others are incurring great
danger; to feel that you cannot raise a
finger to them, however desperate thei
position,

mmer, and all of us who
ld swim at all, worked zealously at

this, splashing ag much as possible the
while, in order to keep the sharks away;
and ina very shof@ime, a long row of
moist, uncomfortable bodies ornamented

bottom of the capsized boat,

** Ave we all here now?” cried Jones,
who was at the end of the line,

* One,

», three—Good Heavens! where's the

ore
‘Help! shricked a man who was at the

erend ofthe boat. —* help, help! Iere’s

asharkatiny leg He's got my foot in

mouth,”

** Faith, and if it is a shark,” said the
voice ot thé doctor from the water, 4 yell
never be troubied with corns on that foot

ming along in the midst of perils which |
they had no power to avoid, there came |
into my recollection a seene from an old

book which I had not read since T was aja
child, in which a man had to pass in’ the
dead of night through a valley set every-
where with snares and pitfalls, which in
the darkness he could not see, but still
was forced to go walking blindly en, con-
scious that atany moment he jmight step
into absolute dest: uction,

But Jones and the midshipman were
swimming steadily all the whic, for some
time almost side by side; their faces set
for the shore, and their thoughts dwelling
as lite as possible upon what might at
any moment happen down below, Some
men—I among them—have a horror of

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** A shirt and trousers!” said Jones to

himself as if such a combination bad never

ame benenth his notice before—ta shirt
nd trousers! He shall keep whichever

the likes, but one of them I must have.—

Tere, you!”
«And Jones walked solomnly up to the

black, and stated that, situated as the ne-
gro could sce that he was, he we

uffder
he necessity of requesting the negro to
csign the moicty of his wearing apparel,
Te added that he was an offiecr on board
1. M.S. Briavens, aud would trouble the
oto look sharp. The negre not mn-
Hy declined to part with cither shirt
It certainly was rather hard

eg
ate

r trousers,

lines for him, when you come to think of
it—when you put himself into his position

Thata gentleman, of how-

tin, Bat this is no fish, butan Ireland- ; ri es ‘i f and garments
sn, thing anything unde and Tam cay 4 : ¢ :
fortunately for you Thompson, Lend nate Thad been either of those [ever high a standing in Her Majesty's

It's nyself, snd no mistake

n that way for, alter I bee
so carefully, and all?”

ering ye

‘By Jove, I thought we'd picked all
Pd forgotten you O-

»” siid ‘Toes,
aaudy.”

**Upon my conscience,” said the doctor,
frankly, *tand you were justified in’ that
same, for, faith? I forgot myself when |

dertock to steer, But who could have

expected that a boat which was going on
so mighty pleasant, would have turned so
suddenly over on its stomach, in that un-
grateiul fashion 2”

“Tdid not know you could swim doc-
tor,” some one said.

“Tim not, perhaps, whe
gethera fine swimmer,” O'Grady returned ;
‘but ifits diving ye want, im the bhoy.
Bedad, it was that that detained me jusi
now.
down I went again; and if my attention
had not been caught by Thompson's foot,
faith! Tean’t exactly say to the minute
when I should have stopped.”

ye’d call alto

No sooner did TI come up, thar

“Well, we're all here now, at any rate,

said Jones; ‘but what's to be done next!
Has any one of you got any suggestion to

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ssion of a brand

. All the brand
Tmper, and wher

‘No gentleman v

an we,
“Bad luck to the hamper!” said th

doctor; ‘and bad luck to the fellow who
put the brandy into itg and worse luck to

“Stop fooling, O'G
the business is yery se

rious.”

hres 2 Tove, it was. Tere wasnine
«And, by Jo. 2 “kin, sitting on the

and the night—which comes on with a
rush out there, you know—was just falling,
so that there was no chance of being sven
and picked up. If we were foreed to re-
main in this desperately uncomfortable
situation all night, there was every proba-
bility that some one, overcome by sleep,
would be sleeping off his unpleasant perch
into the sea; and it was quite certain that
the sharks, attracted by such a promising
feast, would be cruising about on all sid 1S
ting like dogs, for the crumbs’ that
Hut what w
obe done? The only remedy 0

a

that made me shudder to think of—that
some one should undertake to swim two
miles, in defiance of the sharks and the
darkness, and carry the iutellig
misfortune to the ship.
pedition you can scarcely imagine, and it

genee ofo
A more risky

Imost took my breath when I hea

Jone’s voice from the cnd of the row s
“Somebody must
and as Din the best swimmer of you ull

on
5)

oO and get
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il go.

“By gad! think of the rks, old

low,” said the man next to hin,

Just what LT shan't do,” said Jones; ¢

shall think of them as little as possible,
Phere’s no help tur it, you kuow; some
one must go.”

“Tt was so thoroughly one man taki

the danger of ten ond his shoaid vs, that
vach Ol us, from very slave, endeavored
to dissuade him; but asjall we could say
made no impression upon lim, a midship-
prin named Kuapton, who was a very
sood swilnmer, declared he'd accompany

im.”
“It's better for two of us to go,” sa

Knapton; ' fomil one only went, and he
Were to come to grief on the
know, these feliows would be little better

way, ve
than they are now.”

* People talk a good deal al
onal degeneracy vow-n-da.
0K like anational deyenery

yout our n
it doest
» Limagi:

when, out of ten men—sonmn of whom, as

ot bed Dle to swim at all, anust be Ik
ut of the aeecount—two could be found
oin for such a very forlorm hope as th

the
nd youn
we on tl
iliug lig
rd fal

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tke on such a journey as thi
and dashed into the
tt anxious
oat watched, as long
ould lotus, their beads risin

* Kick well,” shouted Jo

sto Knapto

whe knew what cowards sharks are, aud
yhut at small thing sometimes will frighten
wm—* Kick well; make as much splash

te; its your ouly chance, if the
eta sight of you.”

And there we sat in silence—oven the
doctor was dumb for the time-
ter the two heroes; for heroes [they were,
if there are such things at all; first’ their
hewdls we
white foam made by their fect; and know.
ing as we did, the Gaugers that they
were likely to encounter from the sharks,

staring a

ve lost in the darkness; then tl

ht of th:
h the shore s

hen we lost

1 don't know that ever I
I dic

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more wretched time than

ght. As] sat shivering on that dism

beat, thinking of those two fellows smim-

3

And is it suggestion you mane?” said
O'Grady; ‘then it’s myself that has, and
ifany gentleman is in the pos-
y-tlask, let him pass it

Amen.

Wye cess

In addition

fellows, the very knowledge that
kick I gave might send my foot again
shark, who would snap off my leg
twinkle, would have acted like the touch
of the electrical cel upon me, and deprived
my muscles of all power of motion, — It did
not appear so with them, however, ‘The

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could not sce them of course, but, as you
may imagine, we had every single incident
ated to us aiterwards—they proceeded
swiltly and evenly. But after they had
accomplished that, distance, Knapton be-
gan to drop gradually behind, He had
either overrated his powers, or exhuusted
himselt with kicking too vigorously; at
auy rate, from whatever cause, when they
had gone about a inile, he cried out to

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references however
ke his appear:

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mexceptionable,

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iould n

ance in a Sfate of nature, walk up to you

er, and cooly demand
t part of your clothing,
vag rather hard the alarm, and must
ive some clothes to do itin, There was
mut one course before him; ** to doa great

n a lofty r

apprehension of danger only made them [2 HW y t
Ste iB trying to escape from it, right,” he must ‘do alithe wrong.” It
and tor about three quarters of a mile—we | Was exactly one of th eases in which,
} there being a show of right on both sides

nothing but might can settle it, Tt is not
‘very man, who, atter swimming tor two
niles, would feel himsell ina condition
anita large negro, Lut Peyton Jones

a)

was one in a thousand.

“Look here, you raseal,” said Jones,
*T must have your trousers.”

“Yah, yah, yah!” Jaughed the man, ns
fhe were beginning to see the joke,

«Tl pay you for them, you black seoun-

Jones: ** Tecan go no farther, — Tniust shat Aaa y \
he You os : Never mind me—go drel,” said the gentleman in buff.
4 Soe ‘ ; ee ‘ a ; : :
Ton.) Jones, however, was the last man], * Yah, yah {Let TARGA BUY him hand
in the world to de afriend in. diMicul-|in bim pocket, den, yah, yah,” said tho

ties; he turned, and swam back to-him at
onee.

“Ave you done up, old fellow
said to him,

Yes,” said the midshipman; ‘*T can't
go on any further, Butyou goon; you'd
better leave me.”

“Not I,” said Jones; ‘* we sct out to-
wether, and we'll finish tog: ther, or met at
ul, Now, look here.. Don’t you grasp
at me, and cling tome; you are too good
a swimmer not to know that’s raving mad-
ness. Rest your hands upon my hips; let
your body float quietly out; and Vil sce
what T can do.” :

* Knapton did exactly as he was bidden ;
Jones stretched himself out before him;
and with more than ever resting upon him
now, in every sense of the term, struck
out again forthe land as resolutely as be-
fore. Who was that rusty old here?
Mneas, wasn't it? pious Aneas?—that
they make so much fuss, beeanse he car-
ried his father on his shoulders out. of
burning ‘Troy, all the while in’ mortal
dread that Greeks would pop out upon

de yner? Well, he whs nota
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bit more of a hero than Peyton’ Jones. n
fact, give me Jones for choice; for, reck-
oning the clements as about equally nasty,

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who would not sooner have to deal with
a Greek than a shark Tn the first ease,
you might drop the Governor aud go it at
the Greek, without fearing to find the old
gentleman a cinder when you turned
round to pick him up again. But with
Jones it was quite different. Tt he left
Knapton, the poor fellow must ye
drowned; and as far as the sharks were
concerned, he lad nothing for it but swim

assistance

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Jones and Knapton had got beyond our

on, and if the enemy choase to bite his
legs off, why, they must. . Besides, there

mother thing to be saidfor Jones's case
—itis perfectly trae; whereas, a3 regards
the feat of F vy /Bneas it is—to put it in
the mildest way—open to question,

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“'Thatis, however, a rather trifling way
4) of speaking of what was no trifle of Jones.
x1 As he w swimming on, toiling along

with Kuapton,morealead than alive, hane-
ing to him, he suddenly became sware that
one of them was atter him. The denon
hadfound them outat last. It was asick-
ening moment that; yet, determined
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1) his dust, and kieking and splashing with
ail his might, Jones pushed his) way
I through thatawful sea, ‘The shark kept

close to them; now on. this side, now on
that, now diving beneath them, and,—
‘and T give you my honor, sir’ Jones sud
tome himsell, * that once I distinetly felt
the Lerear’s infernal nose touch my thigh,
and the horror of that nearly finished me.
fleaven knows how he reached the shore
awhole may, but he did reach it at Jast,
tnd brought Knapton with him too, faint-
ing eevtaioly, but without a limb short,

Well, he had got tu the land, and that
was a capital thing 9 Alter: strogelii
through two miles o: bea, dragging a hall-
dead man along with you, atid doc 7
sharks, any lind wouldseem a pra
bat still itis not exactly the thing for a
gentleman in these days to make his ap-
pearance on ferra girma in the very sume
costume asthatin which Adam made his

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In his joy at reaching land, and) brit
Mithis tricnd sately with him, doues had tov.
to} gotten. his state of undress; but when he
s. {aad carried Knapton in his arms up the

Seach, and had Jaid him out, as if to dry,
well above high-water mark, then, as he
Was starting off ata ron inthe cireccon of
the harbor, the full conviction of his abso.
lute: clotheslessness came over him with
crushing force, Elow on earth was he to
make his way to the harbor, and to appear
on the deck of TH, M.S, Briaveus without
a single thing to cover him except his own
confusion. It was a dreadiul dilemma,
and fora moment Jones almost reg. ected
that the sharks had not delivered him trom
the difficulty; but a moment's thought and
the recollection of thu misery in’ whieh
his friends on the capsized pi eu were,
trom which nobody but himselt could save
them, restorcd his resolutions. Muttering
to himsell that he'd by odds sooner repeat
the first part o. his undertaking than carry
out the lust, he set off running towards the
harbor, But he was to be spared the
horrors of having to give such 4 bare re-
citalof the ealamity as_ thi Ilis Good
Fortune came to his aid—Fortu.e, beiae
lind, could do ol course, withon!
shocking herscnse of deceney—and helped
him at his need. Ile had not to run far
before he saw a big negro coming to-
wards him, ‘The big negro had on a shirt
and trousers, Nowa shirt and a pair of
trousers ave not generally considered a
lavish superfluity of elothing; Lut in
Jone's naked coudition they seemed no-
thing less than a monstrous picce of ex-
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“Tfyou don't give them to me
ake them!” said Jones.

‘Yah, yah, yah, ya laughed tho
negro as ifthe joke had been a good one
all along but here was the cream of it.

“Some men can appreciate no argue
ment but force, thought Jones; so he
knocked the negro down. Negroes ara
as everybody knows, hard-headed indivi-
dials, but one blow from Jones was
more than enengh for him; with two he

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would have slaina bullot Bashan, ‘The
negro offered no more resistance, Jones

took off his trousers, put them on himself,
and showing, to my mind, great modera-
tion in not taking the shirt as well while
he was about it, left the sans culotte on the
ground, ran off for the harbor, reached his
ship. and gave the alarm. ‘The hundred
hands of IT. M.S. Briareus were turned
up instantly; boats were sent out; and
abont ten o'clock that night, when we had
given up vl hope of being rescued froin
our di sing position till next day, and
had it down as certain that both Jones »
Knapton had become tood for shir!

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9) Wercrm.onnbled ta. tree Ge

of our own deliverance, but oft
of at least one of them, shone th
darkness; and in afew minutes we w
all taken off that confounded keel,
litted into the boat. Tt was a near thru,
though, The boats had been here and
there for a conple of hours without finding
any trace of us; the lieutenant had given
the order to return; and it was only
through the boatswain neglecting the
order, and making one cast more, happily
a successful one, that led to our being
rescued, Ilowever, ‘just in time,’ is bet:
ter than *too late; relief reached us at
st: and in spite of sharks and shipwreck,
there was not aman of us lost, thanks to
Peyton Jone’s hereie conduct in taking
that perilous swim in the dark.— he's dead poor fellow.”
“Possibly; but of influenza?
never believe it.”

No, I'll

Tor.—JIn all indlammations, whether ine
ternal or external, the application of ice
diminishes rapidly the size of the bloods
vessels, and thus relieves the pain which
they cause by pressing against the nerves
located hy thein, Swallowing ico Lroken
into Tumps will reduee and cure inflame
mation of the stomach. Every family
should have access to ice at all times. 7

A WI:
daring, 1

Man.—Said a wise (2) man to
innever willing to attempt

anything which has not been tried.” Thug
it was with him, poor, selesh soul; he
would wait to see if his neighbor got hurt,
laughing all the while at the “absurdity

of the thing,” and break into a roar if his
udighbor tailed. But it his neighbor
‘“onade a hit.” and succeeded, then his
* conservatism” came quickly into use; he
would smile and say. My neighbor doth
sow; Ais netghbor doth reap,”

Stereino in Cuurci.—tIn an Episcopal
church in the North of Scotland, a porter
employed daring the week at the railway
station does duty on Sunday by blowing
the beliows of the organ. The other Sane
day, wearied by the long continued hours
of railway attendance, Combined, it may
4e, with the soporifle efects of a dall sere
mon, he tellasicep during the service, and
so remmafaed When the pesling of the organ
was requited. Jie was suddenly and
rather rudely awakened by another official,
when, apparently dreaning of an ape.
proachisg train, be started to his (eet, and
ronved out, with all the force and ehiills
nesa of &tentorinn lungs and habit,
“Change here for Elgin, Lossiemouth and
Burghead.” ‘The effeer upon the congres
gation, sitting in expectation of a concord
of swect souids, may be imagined,

Americ has 90,000 iniles of telegraph.
E arope $0,099 less,

There has never heen so many houses
put up as last your—at auction,

The Prussian government bes patented
tl cireular saw and ordered it tor
ise,

A Prenchinan has compounded a deadly
poison to pat on the ends of harpoous. It
is death to whales,

Mr. Bell, who made torpedocs for the
Paraguayans, is dead of a explosion—hoist
with his own petard,

A (n) ice match is on the tapis between
Carriv Moore of New York, and Nellie
Dean, of Pittsburg, the two * skatorial !”
queens.

Roy. J. Dougherty, of Chicago, walked
in his sleep out of a third story window, «
day or two since, He never lived to wake
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