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Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, March 19, 1868.

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Siummerside Markets,
March 12,
Oata per pile e = «= -2 2254 es =

3s Glan

Harley per bush ----

Potatoes per bush --- --- Isdda
Turnips per bush - - --- 10d wt Is
wec- 10d ats

Butter per lb by Lub -
Lard per lb ---
‘Tallow jer Ib. -
Eggs per doz -
Beef perlb -- -
Mutton per Ib -
Pork per Lb by car
Geese each -- --
Flour per bbl - - -
Oatmeal per ewt.
Hay per Ton - - -
Straw per cwt. - + -
Pine Boards - - -
Spruce Boards

- Od a 10d
- Od a Lod
- J0d a Is
- Sda 4d
- 2d add
- 84a od
- Is Gda es
- 60s a bods
- 18s a 205
- 70s a 80s
- ds Od

10s
4s a ds

Charlottetown Markct
March 12, 1868.

Beef (small) - - - : Ad Gd
Do. by quarter . * - ddadd
Mutton : - : 4a Gi
Lamb per tb. - - - Byda dd
Butter . : : - da lid
Do. by (nb - - - Is a Lisi
Chcese , © ms * -« dad aaa
Pillow ** - - - Od a 10d
Piha Seer - - - a gd
Klour lb, - - - Aad
Oatmeal 100 1b, - - 2s
Liggs - -- - - lida léd
Potatoes. os - 25 a Ys Bd
‘Turnips - - - - Wd
Barley - > . - 8s a 9s
Oats . . - . vs Od
Boards (Hemlock) - - - 4s
Spruce ba . - - 4s 15s
Vine : . « - Ts ads
Shingles : - - 12s a Lis
Wool - - - - Is n 1s Gd
Hay - - - - 70s a 80s
Straw cwt. « * : Is Ga 2s
Tfomespun - - - 5s Vid abs
Sheepskins - - 2803s
Calfskin Ib, : - - - 5d add
Ilides 1b, - - : - = 4h

Business Gards,

BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Corner of Queen § Water Sts., Charlottetown
President—Hon. Daniee Br N.
Cashier—Wintram Cunpatn, Esquire.
Piscount Days—Mondays & ‘Thursdays.

Hours of Business—lom 10.a.m. to Lp.m.
from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.

UNION BANK.

below h. |

Business Gards,
THOMAS KELLY, _
Barrister - at - Law
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC, &c.
SUMMERSIDE, - - - -P. lb. ISLAND.
aug. 9, 1866

FRANCIS LONGWORTH,

BARRISTER AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
ba Office—PAVILION HOTEL.

(mext door to the Ifon. Joseph Hensley’s.)

CHARLOTTETOWN - - - VE. Island.
Jan. 17, 1867. ly

WILLIAM M. OWL,

Attorney-at-Law and Notary
Public

ov. EneANor's..

DT

Isnann
Co-Partnership Notice.
MAMIE Subscribers have this day entered into

CO-PARTNERSHIY as BARRISTERS
and ATTORNIES-AT-LAW, under the
name, style and firm of

ALLEY © DAVIE
OFFICE,—O'HALLORAN’S BUILDING,
Grear Gonos Srrere.
GEORGE ALLEY,
LOUIS Il, DAVIES.
Charlottetown, Oct .18, 1867. oct 24,

_ ISIPSON CASEY, MD,,
Physician, Surgeon & Accoucheur

formerly Assistant Surgeon in the U. S.
Navy, offers his protessional services to the
people of Summerside and vicinity. He can
consulted at his office, over the Store of

Green & Schurman, in Summerside.
June 13, 1867. tf

Physician & Surgeon,
Ovvicr—aAt the Sumuersips Drug Srore,
next door to Bank, Central Street
SUMMERSID Ly, P.E. ISLAND.
October 12, 186

~ ‘WILLIAM DODD,

Commission Merchant,
And Auctioneer,

SQUARE,
-- P. BE, ISLAND

QUEEN
CHARLOTTETOWN

WILLIAM BHAIRSTO,
Commission Merchant,

Auctioneer & General Agent,
WATE

Summerside,

1) 3H, ALLEN,
Commission Merchant,
And Dealer in iroyisions, &¢,
MARK DT Soh Yb,

St. John, N. B.

b@™ Gives personal attention to the Sale
and Purchase of every description of Goods.
May 9, 1867

James Greenough,

FLOUR
Commission Merchant.

No 47 Commercial Street
Corner ot Clinton Succi 55 BOSTON.
HANPORD BROTIERS,

Successors to Thomas Ianford,

ois Lege erya!
Commission Msrchants
And General Agents,
IL WORTH MAUI i
61. JOHN, N. B.,
Chas, U. Hanford .......... Fred.$.Wanford,
Jan, , 18s.

P. . Island

CARVELL BROTHER
AUCTIONEERS,
Commission Merchants,
And General Agents,

BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREDT.
Charlottetow: P, li, Island

~PHOMAS FRIZANL,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
WATER STRER,

opposile Green & Schurmaws Slore,

Boots and Shoes of a superior quility con-
stantly on hand, and for sale cheap,
Summerside, June 6, 1867. ly

JABEZ HUDSON,
Authorized Auctioneer,
GENERAL AGENT, «e.,
TRYON, © + « Poni i

June 27, 1867.
CO. L. RICHARDS,

Importer and Wholesale Dealer in

Grofion St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown
President—Cuarins Parmer. Esquire.
Cashier—J 2s ANpERSON, [Nsquire.

Viscount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays.

Hours of Business—From 10 a.m to Lp m.,
from 2 p.m to 4pm.

British & SHorcignGroceries.
4, [Lead North Wharf,
ST. JOIIN, NEW BRUNSWICK,
Dee. 6, 1866. ly

Important to Shipbuilders
Blocks! Blocks! Blocks!

IF YOU WANT TO RAST THE
Price of Vessels
in England, order a set of those SPLENDID
BLOCKS, which everybody is praising, from

YOUNG'S.
Terms Liberal,

Water-st., Summerside, Sept. 26, 1867,

SUMMERSIDE BANK.
Central Street, Summerside, P. E. Island.
YPresident—HIfon, Jonn R. Garpiner.

Cashier—. L. Lypranrn, Esquire
Discount Days—Tuesdays and Pri
Notes for Discount must be in
o'clock on Discount days.

a ‘
Hours of Business—10 a. m., tol p.m.,
from 2 p. m., to 4 p.in,

DAVID BERTRAM, ‘
Saddle and Harness Maker,

Water Street . . . . . Summerside.
ctober 12, 1865,

Business Gards,
ROCKLIN HOUSE,

Kent Street, Charlotictown,
SIMON D, FRASER, PROPRIETOR,

Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders will
find the above House to give satisfaction,
Ch’town, June 13, 1867.

? ne lore eee
Hountain Bouse Hotel,
King Square, (North Side,)
ST. JOHN, N. B.

The Subsgviber having leased the above
Hotel, and refitted the same, is now prepared
to accommodate ‘Transient and Permanent
Boarders, and trusts by attention to meet a
share of public patronage. \

Having also leased the commodious Stable
attached, and secured the services of a careful
Hostler, who will be in attendance at all
hours, travellers will be sure to get satisfac-
tion at lowest rates.

JAMES W. THOMSON,
- Proprietor.

St. John, N. B., July 4, 1867.—ly

ORAWFORD’S HOTEL,
No- 9. King Square, St.John, N-P,

Permanent and transient Boarders accom-
modated on reasonable terms.

In connection with the above the subscribers
haye opened a

First Class Grocery Store

where they will keep constantly on band,
Flour, Corn Meal, Provisions, ‘Tea, Sugar,
Molasses, and all articles usually kept ina
Grocery Store,

J. CRAWFORD & SON.
May 80, 1867.—ly

Commercial Hotel,
NEW ARRANGEMENT!
GOACH FARE PAID!

N FUTURE the Coacu Fane of all travel-
lers from the Railway Station and Steam-
boat Landings in this City to the COMMER-
CIAL HOTEL, King Street, who meke their
stay one day or upward, WILL BE PAtp by the
Proprietor.
FARE AT THE HOTEL:
TRANSIENT.
One Day, ---
One Week, --------
PERMA
Per Week, $325 to gt 50
The HOTEL is situated onthe best business
street in the city, and nearly opposite tie
aypniy. Itis handsomely fitted up and
wleulated to accommodate sume fifty persons
very comfortably,
D. P. HOWE, Proprietor.
St. John, N. B., Nov. 7, 1867 ly

al
SAWS,
SAWS ! SAWS!!

A AWS of the best quality, and at the follow-
WD ing Cash prices, alw on hand at the
inanutacture of the subse: 13 3—
CIRCULARS,

Diameren,
18 each

Diameter.
in. $20 each
Seach

each

Mill Saws 54 fect, $5 each; Buck Saws 25
$7 per dozen, set and sharped.
A. RICHARDSON & Co.

ig Along Your Eorses.

1 my Ale \yN
SMITILS PORGH.
ae subseriber having engaged the services of
agood HORSE SHOERR, nud CARRIAGI
wd SLEIGH OUNTER, he is now prepared to
) teallsuch work, as wellasall other work
ia line of business, at his Pore (Sutherland's
old stand) on Water Street, opposite the store of

Colin el. ennan, eq.
NEWTON LEE,
Su

Srimmieratde, Noy 21, 18

North British and Mercantile

INSURANCI) COMPANY.
TIRE AND LIFE,

Established 1809.

TWO MILLIONS, Sterling.
HEAD OFFICES:
EDINBUUGIL & LONDON,
G. W. DrBLOIS,
Agent at C lottetown.
ition can be had by apply-
stinam, Journal Office, Sum-

CAPITAL:

Forins of Ay
ing to J

Meret
C

ly

Cash, Cash,

*till pays the HIGH-
ish for OATS,
—3n

ash,

T. WOLMA2

R.
Wholesale Customers

Will find it to their adyantage to call and see

samples of

The Assorted Crates of

GROCKERYWARE

still remaining for sale, at a sui..il advance
on cost.

le, Dee 12,1

ALSO;
CONFECTIONARY,
KEROSEND OLL, =
PITCH, TAR, OAKUM,
ANCIIORS, IRON,
TOBACCO, PIPES,
CHALNS, NALLS,

SULPHUR, ROPE,
SALTS,SALTPETRE,
DY UFFS,
ARCH,

COPYERAS, MATCITES,CANDLES, BAK-
ING SODA,
WASHING SODA,
PLOUGIL MOUNTING,
SHERT IRON,
MOUSE COAL.

R. FT. HOLMAN,

PORTRY.

[ ADDRESS TO A MUMMY.

ITH,

BY THORAC

Anp thou hast walked abeut (how strange a
story !) 3
In Thebe’s streets three thousand years ago,
When the Memnonium was in all its glory,
And time had not begun to overthrow
These temples, palaces, and piles stupendous,
Of which the very ruins are tremendous.

Dummy.
Thou hast a tongue—come—let us hear its
, tune;
‘Thow'rt standing on thy legs, above-ground,
Mummy!

Revisiting the glimpses of the moon,
Not like the thin ghosts or disembodied crea-
tures,
But with thy bones and flesh, and limbs and
features,

Tell us—for doubtless thou canst recollect,
To whom should we assign the Sphinx's
fame ?
Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect
Of either pyramid that bears his nanie ?
Is Pompey’s Villar really a misnomer?
Had ‘Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by
Homer?

Perhaps thou wert a Mason, and forbidden
By oath to tell the secrets of thy trade—
Then say what secret melody was hidden
In Memnon’s statue which atsunrise played ?
Perhaps thou wert a Priest—if so, my strug-
gles
Are vain, for priesteraft never owns its
juggles,

Perchance that very hand, now pinioned flat,

Has hob-a nobed with Pharaoh, glass to
glass;

Or dropped a halfpenny in Homer's hat,

Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass ;

Or held, by Solomon’s own invitation,

A torch at the great Temple’s dedication,

I need not ask thee if that hand, when armed,

Has any Roman soldier mauled and
knuckled,

For thou wert dead, and buried, and em-
baled,

Ere Romulus and Remus had been suckled :
Antiquity appears to have begun
Long after thy primeval race was run.

Thou couldst develop, if that withered tongue
Might tellus what those sightless orbs have
seen,
ITow the world looked when it was fresh and
young,
And the great Deluge still had left it green—
Or was it ten so old that History's pages
Contained no record of its carly ages?

Sul silent! incommunicative elf;
Art sworn to secrecy? then keep thy vows ;
But prythee tell us something of thyself—
Reveal the secrets of thy prison-house:
Since in the world of spirits thou hast slum-
bered, r
What hast thou secn, what strange adventures
numbered,

Since first thy form was in this box extended,
We have, above-ground, seen some strange
inutations,
The Roman empire has begun and ended,
New woilds have risen—we hare lost old
nations,
And countle:s Kings have into dust been
humbled,
While not a fragment of thy flesh has
cruinbled.

Didst thon not hear the pother o’er thy head,
When the great Versian cenqueror, Cam-
byses,
Marched armies o'er thy,tomb with thunder-
ing tread,
O’erthvew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis,
And shook the Pyramids with fear and
wonder,
When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder?

If the tomb’s secrets may not be confessed,
The nature of thy private life untold:
A heart has throbbed beneath that leathern
breast,
And tears adown that dusty cheek have
roiled:
Have children climbed those knees and kissed
that face ?
What was thy name and station, age andrace ?

Statue of flesh—Immortal of the dead!
Inperishable type of evanescence!
Posthumous man, who quitt’st thy narrow bed,
And standest undecayed within our pre-
sence,
Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment
morning,
When the great Trump shall thrill thee with
its warning.

Why should this worthless tegument endure,
[tits undying guest be lost forever?

Oh! let us keep the soul embalmed and pure
In living virtue, that when both mustsever,

Although corruption may our frame consume,

The inmortal spirit inthe skies might bloom!

The Wild Duck Shooter.

BY JEAN INGELOW.

é Fas
Tre charity of the rich is much to be
commended, but how beautiful is the
charity of the poor!

Jall to mind the coldest day you ever
experienced. ‘Think ot the bitter wind
and driving snow; think how you shook
and shivered—how the sharp, white par.
ticles were driven against your tface—how,
within doors, the carpets were lifted like
billows along the floors, the wind howled
and moaned in the chimnies,
creaked, doors rattled, and every now and
then heavy lumps of snow came thnnder-

Speak! for theu long cnough hast acted

windows

ing out her thread, crooning an old north-
e-n-country song, to hear a sudden knock
at the door,

Tt was loud and impatient, not like the
knock of her neighbors in the other cot-
tages; but the door was bolted, and. the
oll woman rose, and shuflling to the win-
dow, looked out, and saw a shivering
liguve, apparently that of a youth,

*Trampers !” said the old woman, sen-
tentously, “tramping folks be not wanted
here;” so saying. she went back to the
fire, without deigning to answer the door,

and called to her to beg admittance. She
heard him rap the snow from his shoes,
against her lintel, and agin knock, as if
he thought she was deaf, and he should
surely gain adinittanee if he could only
make her hear.

The old woman, surprised at his au-
dacity, went to the casement, and, with
all the pride of possession, opened it, and
inquired his business.

* Good woman,” the stranger began, ‘1
only want a seat at your fire.”

« Nay,” said the old woman, giving ef-
fect to her words, by her uncouth dialogue,
‘thou'lt get no shelter here; I’ve naught
to give to beggars—a dirty, wet critter,”
she continued, wrathfully slamming to the

was theretore surprised, us sho sat draw-|

_
But even as she st
| forget her imagination, for othe woman
[a waisteont into her trails, sic tateen
never passed thum beiwe; a gold pbad
| cuse dropped trom the pocket, and on tlie
jfloor, among a heap of mud that covered

jthe outer gurments, lay «a white shirt»

sleeve, so white, indeed, and fine, that
she thought it could hardly be worn but
| by a squire.

She glanced from the clothes to tha
owner, IIo had thrown down his cap,and
ihis fair, curly hair, znd broad forehead,
jconvinced hev that he Was of gentle birth;

» The youth, upon this, tried the door, hut while she hesitated to sit down, he st

a chair for her, and said,
frankness ;

“Tsay, what a lonely place this is; if
yeu had not let me in, the water would

ave all frozen on me before L reached
home, Catch me a duck-shooting again
by myselt!” &

“1s very cold sport that, sir,” replied
the woman.

_The young, getleman assented most rea-
dily, and asked if he might stir the fire.

* And welcome, sir,” said the woman.
She felt 2 curiosity to know who he was
Ie partly satisfied her by remarking that
he was staying at Deen Hall, a house
about five miles off, adding that, in the

with « boyish

window, ‘it’s a wonder where he found
any water, too, seeing it freezes so hard,
a body can get none for the kettle, siving' |
what's broken up by the hatchet.”

On this the beggar turned hastily away |

And at this point in his narrative, the!
person who told it to me stopped, and)
said, Do you think the old woman was}
very mnch to blame ?”

“She might have acted kindly,” I re-,
plied, ** but why do you ask ?” |
** Because,” said he, ‘1 have heard her

conduct so much reflected on by some who |
would have thought nothing of it, if ithad |
not been for the consequences.” |
“She might have turned him away less

roughly,” L observed, aad
“That is true,” he continued, “ but in

any case, I think, though we might give
them food for money, we should hardly
invite beg@ars in to sit by the tire.”

“ Certainly not,” [ replied; ‘and thi
woman could not tell that the beggar y
honest.”

“No,” said he, ‘ but T must go on with

my narrative. ‘The stranger tured yery

hastily from her door, and waded through |
the deep snow toward the other cottage,

‘The bitter wind helped to drive him to-

ward it.—It looked no less poor than the.
first; and, when he tried the door, found

it bolted, and knocked twice, without at |
tracting attention, his heart sank within)
him. His hand was so numb with cold, |
that he had made scarcely any noise; he!
tried again, |
Arush candle was burning within, and
a matrouly-looking woman sat betore the |
fire. She held an infant in her arms, and |
had dropped asleep; but his third knock

roused her,and wrapping her apron around |
her child, she opened the door a very little |
way, dnd demanded what he wanted.

‘Good woman,” the youth began, ‘I
have had the misfortune to fall in the wa- |
ter this bitter night, and Iam so numbed
that I can scarcely walk.”

The woman gave him a sudden, earnest
look, and then sighed,

‘Come in,” she said; ‘* thowart so nigh
the size of my Jem, [ thought at first it
was him come home from sea,”

The youth stepped across the threshold,

wonder, lor his clothes were completely

ped from them at every step he took on
the sanded floor,

“Thou art ina sorry plight,” said the
woman, ** and it be two miles to the nigh-
est houses; come and kneel down betore

Cal
She looked at him more attentively, and
saw that he was a mere boy, not more
than sixteen years of age. Her motherly
heart was touched for him.

‘and drank the w

trembling with cold and wet; and Hel

ineased in wet mud, aud the water dvip- |
| What she should do with them,

the fire; thy teeth chatter so pitifully, 1}
cely bear to hear them.” jhaye come to her door, and she should

morning, he had broken a holo in the ice
very near the decoy, but it had iced over
so fast, that, in the dusk, he had missed it,
and fallen in, fer it would not bear him,
Le had made some landmarks, and taken
erery precaution, but he supposed that the
sport had excited him s¢ much that,in the
moonlight, he had pase:d them by.

Me then told hev of his attempt to get
shelter in the other cottage, e

‘ Sir,” said the woman, “tf you bad
said you were a gentleman—”

The boy laughed. ‘I don't think L
knew it myself, good woman,” ho replied,
my senses were so benumbed; for I was
seme time struggling at the water's ede:
among the broken ice, and then [ buligve
f was nearly an hour creeping up to your
cottage door, LE remember it all rather
distinctly, but as soon ay Lhad felt the fire,
rbeor. Twas a diifer-

ent creature.”

Vile they still talked, the husband eama

He P
in, aid whlie he was cating his supper,

they agreed that he should walk to Deen

Ihul, and Jet its inmates know of the gen-
tleman’s safety; and when he was gone,

they made up the fire with all the coal
that reoained in that poor household, nnd
the wouitn crept upto the bed, and lete
her guest to lie down and rest’ before it.

Tn the grey dawn, the laborer returned,
with & servant Jeading the horse, and
bringing a fresh suit of clethes.

Vie young gentleman took his leave,
with many thanks, slipping three halt

jerowns into the woman's hand, probably

all the money he had about him. And T
must not forget to mention that he kissed
the baby, for when she tells the Story, the
mother always adverts to that cireum-
stance with pride, adding that. her child
being as ‘clean a3 wax, was quite fit to
be kissed by anybody !”

|, ** Missis,” said her husband, as he stood

in the doorway, looking after their guest,
‘who dost thou think that be 2”

“I don’t know,” answered the Missis,
Then, Lil tell thee, that be young
Lord W.; sothou may bea proud woman,
thou sits and talks with lovds, and asks
them in to supper,—ha, ha!” So saying.
her master shouldered his spade, and went
his way, leaving her clinking the three
; half crowns in her hand, and considering
Her
neighbor, trom the other cottage, presently
see in, and when she heard the tale,
and saw the money, her heart was ready
to break with envy and jealousy.

“Oh! to think that good luck should

haye been so foolish as to turn it away.
Seven shillings and a sixpence for a
morsel of food anda night’s shelter; why
it was nearly a week's wages !”

* Art hungry 2” she asked, turning to

* Shooting wild ducks,” said the boy.
“Oh!” said his hostes4, ‘thon art one
of the keepers boys, then, I reckon?”

Ile followed the direction of her eyes,
and siuw two portions of bread sat upon
the table, with a small piece of bacon on
each,

‘My master be very late,” she observed,

her husband; **but thou art weleome to
my bit and sup, for L was waiting for him ;
may be it will puts little warmth in you
to eat and drink ;” so saying she took up a
mugs of beer trom the earth, and pushed
it toward him, with her share of the sup-
er,

“Thank you.” said the boy, ‘ but Tam
so wet, Lam making quite a pool betore
your fire, with the dtippings trom my
clothes.”

‘Ay, thow art wet indeed,” said the
woman, and rising again, she went to an
old box, in which she began to search,and
presently returned to the fire with a per
tectly clean shirt in her hand, and a toler-
ably yood suit of clothes”

* There,” said she, showing them with
no small pride, ‘these be my master’s
Sunday clothes, aud if thou wilt be very
careful of them, Pil let thee wear them till
thine be dry.” She explained that she
was going lo put her “ bairn’ to bed, and
proceeded up a ladder into the room aboye,
leaving the boy to array
respectable and desirable garments,

for charity did not make her use elegant!
language, and by her master she meant!

y himself in those |

When she came down, her guest had}

”

ing down, with a dull weight, from the
roof,

Now, hear my story.

In one of the broad, open plains. of
Lincolushire, there is along, reedy sheet
of water, n favorite resort of wild ducks,
At its northern extremity stand two mud
coltages, old and out of repair.

One bitter, bitter night, when the snow
lay three teet on the ground, and nenutting
east wind was driving it about, and whist-
ling in the dry, frozen weeds, by the wa-
ter’s edge, and swinging the bare willow
trees, till their branches swept the ice, an
old woman sat, spinning, in one of these
cottages, before a moder, tely cheerful fire
Her kettle was singing on the coals; she
had a reed eandle, or home-made rush-
light on her table, but the full moon shone
in, and was the brighter light of the two.
These two cottages were far from the road,

dressed himself in the labore!

8 clothing;

lilt them up, she said:

been sorely frightened, ifshe could have
seen thee a while ago.”

Yes,” said the boy, and, in imagina-
tion, the cottage dame saw this said) mo-
ther wv care wort, hard-working creature,
like herself, while the youthfal guest saw,
in imagination, & beautiful and courtly
lady ; aud both saw the same love, the
ame anxiety, the same terror at sight ol
a lonely boy straggling in the moonlight,
through breaking ice, with no one to help
him, snatching at the frozen reeds, and
thon creeping up,shivering and benumbed,

Summerside, Dee 12 ,1867—3mn

or any other habitation; the old womau 'to a cottage door.

he had time to warm himself, and he was |
eating and drinking with hungry relisu.; you what L thenght the best of the anec-
He had thrown his muddy clothes in’ a! dote.
heap on the floor, and as she proceeded to! we

So there, as they both supposed, the

the table; ‘thou wat wet to the skin, | matter ended, and the next week the frost
What hast thou been doing 2” was sharper than ever.

\ Sheep were frozen

in the fenny fields, and poultry on their
| perches; but the good woman had walked
| to the nearest town and bought a blanket.
jlt was a welcome addition to their bed
‘eovering; and it was many a Jong year
since they had been so comtortable,

But it chanced one day at noon, that,
looking out at her casement, she spied
three young gentlemen, skiting along the
ice toward her cottage, They sprang on
to the bank, took off their skates and mado
forthe door. ‘The young nobleman in-
formed her that he had such a severe evid
he could not como to see her before.

‘Tle spoke as tree and pleasantly,” sho
observed, in telling the story, ‘¢asit Lhad
been a lady, and no less! and then he
brought a parcel out of his pocket, ¢ and
[ve been over io B.," he says, and bonght
you a book for a keepsake, and I hope you
will accept it’ Aud then they all talked
jas pretty as could be, for a matter of ten
minutes, and went away. I waited till
my master came home, and he opened the
yureel, and there was a fine Dible inside,
jallover gold and red moroceo. and my
hame was written inside; and, bless hin!
aten pound note doubled down oyer tha
names, I’m sure, when I thought he was
a poor, forlorn creature, he was kindly
welcome, S) my master laid out part of
|the money in tools, and we rented a gare
iden, andhe goes over on market days to
isell what we grow; so new, thank God,
Wwe want nothing.”

This is generly how she concludes tho .

little history, never failing to add that the
lord kissed her baby.
« But,” said iny tiend. ' T bave not told

When t poor Christian wouan
ag asked what had induced berto takw
eet steanger, and trast hin with

lin a perl

“Ah! lad, lad, [doubt thy head has /the best clothivg that her home aflurded,
been under water; thy mother would have | she answered, slip) y.

« Well, [saw him shivering and shak-
line. so I thought thou shalt come in here,
/for the sake of Ilim that had not » hure te
Hay His head.” ,
‘The old woman in the other cottage may,
‘open her door every night of her tuture’
lite, to some forlorn beggar, but it is all

but certain that she will never open it to
a nobleman in disguise!

| Let usdo go.d, not to receive more

‘good in return, but as an evidence of gra.
titude for whathas been already bestowed.
‘Tn a few words, lot it be * all fer the love,
aud nothing for the reward.”