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Summerside, Prince Edward. Island, Thursday, June in, 1869.

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Summerside Markets.
June 17, 1869.
Beef per lb bd a Gd
Mutton per lb 4d add
Oats per bush 28 Sda 2s 6
Potatoes per bush Je a Is 3d
Turnips per bush 10d a Is
Butter per Ib by Tub Idd a 1dd
Lard per lb Yd a 10d
‘Tallow per lb. 9d a 10d
Eggs per doz 7d a 8d
Hides per lb ; a
ike! per doz 28 ads
Mackerel pe cents

Codfish per qt

Pork per Ib by carcass
Flour per bbl

Island Flour per cwt

4d a 6d
Sia a 40s
188 to 19s

Oatmeal per cwt. l6sa lis
Hay per ‘Ton 50s a 60s
Pine Boards 108
Spruce Boards 4sa bs
Charlettetown Markets.

Ch. Town, June 17, 1869.

Beef per lb

Mutton per Ib

York per Ib,, by carcass,
Hlam per lb

Geese

Fowels

Ducks each

Flour per 100 Ibs

4da7d

none
Isa is Gd
1s 8d a Is 6d

Oatmeal per 100 188 a 19s
Buckwheat Flour, per lb 2d a 24d
188 a 208

Codfish per quintal

Butter per 1b 18d a 19d

Is Sd a ts 4d

Do. by the tub,

c Weetae 4 8d a 6d
alloy 8d add
ell ar 8d a Od

ges per dozen
Potatoes per bushel

le ct “ 3
rare 26 3 a 28 Ga
Hay per ton 708 a 75s
Hides per Ib ; via ny

Sheepski ach 8 in
Sheepskins e ea

Spruce Boards per 100 ft.

Hemlock bs ie 3s Gd ads

Business Qards,
BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Corner of Great George & King Streets:
Charlottetown,

President—Ilon, Dante Brenan.
Cashier—Wintiam Cunpai, Esquire.
Discount Days—Mondays & Thursdays,
Hours of Business—Fom 10 a.m, tol p.m,
from 2 p.m to 4 p.m,

UNION BANK.

Grafton St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown
President—Cnartes PALMER, Esquire,
Cashier—James Anperson, Esquire.

Discount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays.
Hours of Business—From 10 a.m to Ipm.,
from 2 p.m to 4pm,

SUMMERSIDE BANK.
Central Street, Summerside, I’. E. Island
Prosident—Jasrs L. Houmax, Exe

Oashior—E. L. Lrorarp, Esquire

Discount Days—Tuesdays and hae ht

Notes for Discount must be in before 11
o'clock on Discount days.

flours of Business—10 a, m., to 1 p.m.
from 2 p. m., to 4 p.m.

acticin

CASH FOR EGGS!

TPMIE highest price. in Cash, will be paid
for KUGB, at the BereKa Hover.
c. CG. GARDINER.

Summerside, April 15, 1860,

44d a 8d| FFNHE Proprietor of the above HOTEL

5d a 8d| liberal patronage hitherto receive
7d a 8d] respectfully solicits a continuance of the
s.me,

Business Qards.
ITAN

‘ORD BROTHERS,

Successors to Thomas Hanford,

Gowmission Meryhants,
And General Agents,
Il NORTH MARKET WH AF,

SAINT JOHN, N. B.

Cnas. U. Ianvorp, Prev. S. Wanrorp

ROBERT GORDON,
AUCTIONEER

AND
LAND BROKER,
Alberton, ... >, EL. Island
REFEREES :
Tlon. Judge Young—Charlottetown.

Hon, G. W. Howlan—Alberton,
Mr. Joseph Bertram—Summerside.

Alberton, May 13, 1869. ly

REUBEN TUPLIN,

Commission Merchant,

AUCTIONEER,

And General Agent.
Margate.............P. #. Island.

Rr

Ifon. D. Brennan,
Ch. ‘Town

RENCES ¢
R. T. Holman,
Summerside,
April 22, 9. pat. pro. 6m

J. H. ALLEN,
Commission Merchant,

AND DEALER IN

PROVISIONS, ce.,
MARKET STREET, - ST. JOHN, N. B.

b@™ Gives personal attention to the Sale
and Purchase of every description of Goods.
May 9, 1868.

JAMES GREENOUGH,
FLOUR

Commission Merchant,

No 47 Commercial Street
Corner of Clinton Street --------- BOSTON
Jany. 1, 1869. ly

WILLIAM BEAIRSTO,

‘!Commission Merchant,

Auctioneer & General Agent,

WATER STREET,
--- P. EB. Islan

R.& W. 1. HUNT,
Gommission Merchants,

Genenat AGENTS AND
AUCTIONEERS.
SALESROOM AND OFFICE
Head Queen’s Wharf, Summerside, P. E. I.
(opposite the Store of W. I. Hunt & Co.) "
April 2, 1269

Summerside,

Commissiou Merchants,
AND GENERAL AGENTS.
BANK BUILDING, - - QUEEN STREET,

OHARLOTTETOWN, P. 5. I,

FOUNTAIN HOUSE,

North side King Square, (next to Park Hotel)
Sr. Joun, N. B,
JAMES W. THOMPSON, Proprietor.

takes

this opportunity to return thanks for the
}, and most

This TIOTEL is very pleasantly situated,
and commands a view of King Square, and

208 a 218) other parts of the City.

In connection with the Hotel, is GOOD
STABLING, and a careful Hostler in attend-
ance. Parties coming from Prince Edward
Island with horses will find this establishment
the most comfortable in the City, and a per-

gon always at the Cars on their arrival,

St. John, Sept. 10, 1868, ly

Is Gd a ls a CRAWFORD'S HOTEL,

No, 9, King Square,
ST. JOIIN, N. B.

ITE subscriber having thoroughly rejitted
and enlarged his HOTEL and STORE, is
now prepared to accommodate Permanent and
Transient Boarders on the most reasonable
terms,

ALSO, in connectiona GROCERY STORE,
where every article required for house use

be had.
ee J. CRAWFORD & SON,

r

Point Du Chene House !

FTMIF Subscriber would beg to call the at-
tention of the traveling public to. this
well-known and favorite Hotel, situated at
the head of the Railway Wharf, at Point Du
Chene, N.B. :
Its advantages as a residence for parties in
quest of health cannot be surpassed. ‘The air
is pure, bracing and invigorating, while there
is every facility for deep sea-bathing. |
The trains for St. John leave the door twice
every day. ‘The charges will be found moder-
ate, the table good; and the subscriber hopes
by strict attention to the requirements of his
customers, to ensure general satisfaction,
PETER SCHURMAN, Proprietor.
P, $.—Being himselfa P. E. Islander, the
subscriber would hereby respectfully request
a share of the Island patronage.
Ft. Du Chene, May 13, "69.

~"ROCKLIN HOUSE, ~
KENT STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN,

SIMON D, FRASER, PROPRIETOR.

8m

Permanent and Transient Boarders will
find the above House to give entisiaction,
Chitown, June 13, 1868,

Business Gards,
DR. J. PRICH,
Physician & Surgeon,
Orrice—At the SummMersipe Druc Srore,
next door to Bank, Central Street
SUMMERSIDE, .... P. BE. ISLAND.
October 12, 1868.

DR. J. H. JAMUESON,
PHYSICIAN. SURGEON & ACCOUCHEUR

OFFICE at the residence ofthe Rey. W.W.
Colpitts, Margate,
December 8, 1868.

DR. JARVIS

IIas REMOVED his Residence to SUM-
MERSIDE, next door to the Rey. Mr.
Frame’s, on Central Street.
t@™ Ue can be consulted at his residence
or at Hunt & Co’s Drug Store, at all times.

suman 3, 1869,

REMOVAL!

DOCTOR FULLER
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACOUCHEUR
Rustpence AND OFFICE ON
Central Street,...... Summerside.
(Directly opposite the Summerside Bank)

Summerside, may 13, 1860.

CARD.

R. DOWD may again be consult-
, at his old residence, in MARGATE,
NEW LONDON.

April 15, 1869.—

pro 3m,

kK. Er. PURDYs
NEW

Marble and Freestone
ESTABLISHMENT,
(NEXT DOOR TO BEER AND Sons’)
KING SQUARE,
CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND.

All orders punctually attended to.

Jall and See!
Jan 7, '69 ly

A. W. ANDRES,

Marble Worker,
Point Du Chene, Shediac N. B.

MONUMENTS, TOMBS, GRAVE-
STONES, &c., &c,

AMERICAN AND IvaAntAN Marnie con-
stantly on hand.

Can furnish Gravestones and Monuments ata
less price than any other establishment in

the Provinces, and pay a duty besides.

pa Orpens can be left at Berrram’s Book
Store and at D, EnmAn’s, Iisq., Summerside,

or sent to
A.W. ANDRES,
Point Du Chene, June 11th, 1868.

North British and Mercantile

Insurance Company.
FIRE AND LIFF.

CARVELL BROTHERS, |carrraL: two MILLIONS, Sterling.
AUC"  NEERS, CHIEF OFFICES?

G4 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
61 Threadneedle Street, London.
Risks taken daily, in Town and Conntry, at
the office of the Agent, Reading room
Building, Dorchester street.
G. W. DeBLOIS,

General Agent for P & Island.

Charlottetown, June 20, 1868.—ly*

Mr. W. H. POPE

Bee to inform the public that he has re-
sumed the practice of the Law.
Ovrice—A few doors below the Bank of
Prince Edward Island.
Charlottetown, March 18, 1869,

THOMAS KELLY,

BARRISTER - AT -LAW

AND

NOTARY PUBLIC, &e.
SUMMERSIDE, - - P, E. ISLAND.

KERSHAW & EDWARD'S
IMPROVED PATENT
Non-conducting and Vaporising

Fire and Burgler Proof

SAL BS
e

MANUFACTURERS OF
BANK VAULTS, BURGLAR PROOF
VAULT DOORS, IRON VAULT DOORS,
PATENT COMBINATION BAN K
LOCKS, DEED BOXES, PATENT JAIL
LOCKS & CELL DOORS, &e. &e.
Tuos. Funtcer, | Davip Starr & Sons,
‘Travelling Agent. Agents, Halifax,
Montreal. Dee 15, 68 y

“WILLIAM DODD,
Commission Merchant,
And Auctioneer,

QUEEN SYUAKE,
ONARLOTTETOWN--- P. BE. ISLAND

~~ BOOT & SHOE
ESTABLISHMENT,

If® subscriber begs leave to acquaint the

inhabitants of SUMMERSIDE and the
country generally, that he has commenoed
Ins business of Boot & Shoc Mak-
img, in the Shop next door to O. O'Neill's,
near the Wesleyan Church, He trusts that
by strict attention to businoss and good work
to give general satisfaction and merit a share

of public patronage,
eal WILTTAM CLARK.
Summerside, April 22, 1869.

Flour, = Flour,
UST received at the Eureka House, 9
quantity of the best
Canada Flour.
©. C, GARDINER,
Summ: rside, may 20, 1869,

POETRY.

THE PRINTER AT HOME.

A printer and his wife

Were sitting at their T,
Without domestic strife,

In wedded X TC;
“Dear Em,” the typo saidl—

‘Then paused and turned his T,
Snatched up a ‘‘slice” of bread,

And “cleared away” some ‘pi(e)”’—
“Thou art a guiding *

Setupin [space] for me;

T love you better far
Than I” [eapital black ten].
Then o'er his ‘* battered form,”
She bent her sweet ‘Scotch face,”
And pulled” a proof-kiss warm,
The whilst they ~~ [two embrace].

[From CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL, |

Drawn from ‘the Life.

much to narrate certain experiences of}!
Lite, not indeed personal, but all well aua-

edinas Truth, so ‘Truth, at present, in

as fiction.

1 belonged to it, was called ‘young peo-
ple,” but which would now resent such a]

to question my
ease I shall be

ally occurred, and that within living me-
mory, and will owe to me only its narra-|¢
tive form, ‘The incidents, however, will

their strangeness, but solely by reason of
or humorous, or simply curious; the only
they are True,

THE TOLLBAR.

Upon the road of real life, there was, at
one time, no object so familiar as the turn-
pike, although it is an institution that is
passing away lrom many districts, and in
London (save at the bridges) has alto-
gether disappeared. According (if we re- |;
member aright) to Mr. Samuel Weller, a
rapike-man was, or should have been, a
isanthrope, living in solitude, and taking
delight, on wet and snowy days, in secing
the passengers through his Bar disengage
themselves from their warm wraps, and
fumble in their pockets with numbed hands
tor the ticket or the money, Certainly,
many tollgates were placed in lonely spots
enough, and apparently set as far fiom
other human habitations as possible; and
such a one was Alford Gate, on the Great
North Road, and near the Border. It was
near nothing else: placed in the centre of
a bleal
both sides for miles to the occupant of the

box-seat as the coach came spanking along

with its four bays or grays; or to the post-

boys, as they spurred their horses to the

gallop, for the occupants of the chaise be-

hind them were often in a hurry in that lo-

cality, it being but a stage or two trom

Gretna Green, ean for such swilt-

passing company as these, the turnpike

suw few visitors; and in winter-time, even

on such a highway, the traflic dwindled to

small proportions, and sometimes, when

the suow was deep, even ceased for a day

or two, so far as wheels were concerned,

altogether. But still the horn would be

heard sounding cheerily over the white

waste of snow, and the guard of the mail,

in his scarlet coat, would go riding by with

the letter-bags as quickly as the * balling’

snow would permit him. ‘The coach had

been obliged to stop at the wayside inn at
the othcr side of the moor; or perhaps,

even less fortunate, was, with its three re-
maining horses, stuck fast upon the road,
In suc’ seasons, Alford Gate would be
lonesome indeed; and the two ancient
women who kept it (for there was no man)
found their position anything but agree-
able. They had, it is true, a good store
of provisions always laid up against such
occasions, and plenty of money accrued to
them at the same period, for they could
not go to the countiy-town to lodge it in
the bank. ‘This last circumstance was a
source of well-founded apprehension to
them. Mrs. Alison, the widow ol the late
tollkeeper, and who had, at his disease,
suceeeded to ‘the trust,’ and her sister,
Ellen Bates, were both somewhat ancient
dames, and, of course, could not have de-
tended their little mansion against the at-
tack of a single robber; while their near-
est protector, Jucob Wright, the black-
smith, dwelt atleast two miles away across
the moor. Olten and often, had he and
his wife, over a dish of tea at the tollgate,
sympathised with these good ladies, and
done their best to comfort them alter their
several fustilons: the wife, by acknowledg-
ing the reasonableness of their apprehen-
sions, and dwelling upon its special points
of horror—the murder of both hostesses
(for instance), that would probably pre-
cede the spoliation of their dwelling—the
husband, by treating their fears as chimer-
ja), and oven domunstraung to them how

all risk of loss might be avoided by intrast-
ing what money they took in the house by
day to the guard of the evening-mail for
deposit at Wellborough, the nearest coun-
try-town,

On a certain afternoon in early winter,
when Mr. and Mrs, Wright were thus par-
taking of the hospitality of the sisters, the
conversation had especially ran in’ this
particular groove; the snow, although not
deep, had already fallen in suflicient quan-
tities to keep from travelling all who were
not compelled to do so by necessity; and
the two poor women felt that their lone-
some season had set in, and were depress:
ed in spirits necordingly, Tere was a
good deal of money in the old tin ease,,

the moor had kept both the good ladies
from going to Wellborough, and they now
bewailed this accumulation of wealth—
wealth, however, which was not their own,
of course, bnt that of the Turnpike Trust—
us likely to prove their destruction, Some
ill-looking fellows had slouched by the
gate that very morning, and one of them,
under pretence of wanting a glass of wa-

out to haye a cracl erand a glass of 9 Jirits
with the sisters. Ile was a short but re«
solute-looking fellow, of middle pee,
whose calling in those times exposed him
to more danger than we hay ry idea of
now-it-days; and he carried with him, tor
protection, an enormous mastiff, who re

mained in his carton gu idjwhile he er-
tered the house. He could not fail to

te

had been done.

or safety.’

lecd,? s:

he blae

lives.’

term as an impertinence, may be inclined | head: ‘if we must be murd
statements, and in that |must—orat least / must, for
happy to furnish them with |i8 free to go if she chooses—but 1 will do
names and dates; since, whateyer I shall| my duty by my employers, let what will
here set down, I promise shall have actu- | ceme ot it.’
* You're an honest woman,’ observed the

men with masks

had made his way into their dwelling.
‘Then, send on the money, as I have
advised you fifty times betore,’ quoth
honest Jacob, * by the next coach, and thea
you will be easy in your mind,’
‘Ay, ay,’ said Mrs, Alison in her «
vering voice, * that

‘God w mercy, Mrs. Wright, you make
thenticated, and which only do not deserve | my flesh creep,” shuddered” Killen Bates;
the name of romances, because they hap-| ‘and I do greatly wish—only 1 would
pen to be matters of Fact. The age is}never leave my sister here alone—that 1
sceptical, and whereas at one time Legend, | Was going home with you and your good
in course of years, was wont to be beliey-|husbaud to-night.’
‘Come home with us, both of you, by all
less than a generation, is often regarded | means,’ exclaimed the blacksmith, with a
tis indeed probable that some | good humored laugh, ‘and leave the toll-
of that section of my readers, which, when | bar to take care ot Htselt?
* Nay, that would be a pretty thing in-
id the widow, gravely shaking her
, then we
llen of course

sinith approvingly; ‘and € hope
you'll never suller for sticking to your
be by no means selected on account of duty.’
‘Ah, she’s a martyr to it, as I am al-
their human interest; they may be terrible, | Ways telling her,’ remarked Kllen Bates.
‘The times and times she gets up in the
attribute common to them all will be that} middle of the night to put that gete open,
and let folks pass; and perhaps only to
take a ticket trom the last gate:
alter all, to be robbed by burglars—tor
that’s what'll be the end of it all, L feel
sure.’
‘And I must say I've got a feeling of
the sume sort,’ added Mrs. Alison solumn-
ly: ‘Pm not a superstitious person, but
that idea has struck me of late, so as 1

qua-
all very well, if we
' could persuade wicked people that this
But when robbers ar
disappointed of their booty, they are more
bloodily inclined than at any other time,’
* And, of course,’ observed Ellen Bates,
‘we had much rather lose our money—
and especially the Commissioners’ money
—than ot
* Yes, indeed,’ assented well-meaning
Mrs. Wright, ‘ though it ts not eyen losing
one’s life which may be the worst ol it; for
did you not read in the newspaper only
last winter that some
broke into a lonely tollhouse, just such as
this might be, and put the poor tollkeeper
on the fire, and held him there, because he
Would not tell them where the money was;

Unper this title, perhaps it may be per-|ind they did not believe what was the
mitted to one who has lived long and seen | genuine trath, that it had been sent away

d then,

and treeless moor, and visible on I

which was their strong-box, for tho cold
and searching Winds that had lately swept! and fastened her to the gate, while he got

uive turned icy cold with it a dozen times,’
‘And yet you have been here a many
ye mia,’ said the blacksmith cheeri-
ly—* you and your poor husband as was—

u

of the kettle,’

*Me and my husband has, but not me
and Ellen,’ answered the widow gloomily. |,
—Ah, Mrs. Wright, that’s the great bless- | !
ing of a husband, believe me, and may you]!

vativo against thieves. Oh, the many,
many times as I've roused up my my poor
William, and sent him all about our little
house here at night to look for ’em, which,
thank Heaven, they never did come! But]!

{ilen and me—we can only hold our heads
tinder the blankets, and pray to Ileayen
hat nothing may come ot it
my poor dear William's pistol yonder, 1
it has not been ever since his death,’

* But I see your doors and windows are

‘and betore any villain could make hi
way through so much wood and iron, there
is no knowing what help may not come

along the road,’ i
*Ah, but ivs only our door and lower
windows that are sale, Mr, Wright,’ broke

to take the chicken-ladder from the yard,
and set it ap against our bedroom window,
and he’s in the house in two minutes.’

‘To be sure the villain mighs do that,’
said the blacksmith, in the tone of one con-
vineed against his will.

‘Well, [do pity you both,’ observed Mrs
Wright, in a tone of genuine commiscra-
tion. ‘* But it’s getting near dusk, Jacob,
and high time for you and me to be going.
—Anud thanks, I am sure, to you Mrs, Ali-
son, and to you, Miss Bates, for # most
cheerful and pleasant atternoon,’ For the
two sisters were understood to bear the
expenses of the household, and consequent-
ly of uny occasion of hospitality, in equa
shares,

When the bluf blacksmith and his kindly
wife had taken their leave, the tenants ot
the little tollhouse found themselves (as
well they might) more dispirited and ap-
prehensive than ev ‘Their tears, indeed,
grew to such a pitch as to become the very
presentiments which they had hitherto
perhaps only imagined them to be,
‘Something will surely happen to us
this very night, Mary,’ whispered Ellen,in
melodramatic accents; and *L shouldn't
wonder it it did, Ellen,’ was the widow's
discouraging reply. In short, the two old
ladies, Who had as yet no experience, as
unprotected females, of a tollgate winter,
were fairly panic-stricken,

It was not actually snowing; but the

wind moaned with icy breath across the
sheeted moor, and shuek the fast-closed

door and windows menacingly, as though
it Was going to make a tempestuous night
of it; and each sister was privately think-
ing how, as the night drew on, those gusts
would seem as though human fingers were
trying to uuhinge the shutters, or unbar
the door.

It was quite areliefto them when, about
six o'clock, they heard the ery of * Gate,’
and the sound of wheels, for they did not
fear that robbers would come otherwise
than on foot, and every honest lace was

welcolm to them at such atime. What
was their joy, then, to find in the been
passer-by an old and trusted friend, Mark

Palmer, a travelling pedier, but’ who iu
this season used nv cart to carry

nature,

when danger threatened, as it was depres-
sing to his antagonist. i

very well guarded,’ said the blacksmith, |?
still doing his best to reassure his hostess ; | htrd road had ceased, and they were once

.} more lett without human companionship,
The wind rose higher and hi }

in Ellen Bates; ‘and any wretch has but|! : N
sounding like dredful whisperings of tel-

cert betore attack:

his
wares, which were of a somewhat costly
lle threw arug over his mare,

remark the downeast appearance of the
two women, who were caver enough to
communicate to him th ise.‘ Well,
in my opinion,” obsery he, when he
had heard their woes, * this alarm of yours
MW woonshine. You're tevritying your-
selves about nothing. Why, ther’s the
coach at cleaven; and the house patro} a4
any time in the night; and you've stronge
doors and windows, av your friends the
blacksmith has told you: while, 1 day ay
you have not one-tenth of the money's.
worth in your cash-box that Lhave in my
cart yonder, and yet have never been
robbed yet—and don’t intend to be.”

** We've more than forty pounds there,’
said the widow, pointing to the ecupborudy,
which contained this treasure, as. well as
her little store of ten and marmalade, ‘ for
it was Wellborough murket the day be-
fore yesterday, when seores and seores
ride through the Bar, and we've not been.
able to cross the moor since.”

‘Forty pounds isa good deal of money,”
said the pedler thoughttully ; «and atfords
the greater temptation because it’s all ins

”

* That is so, indeed, Mr, Palmer,” plea-
ded Ehen Bates, clasping her hands; and,
oh, if you would be so kind, just tor. this
one night—for it’s sure to happen to-night
—to stay and protect us; we've gota stall
for the mare; and we could give you w
nice little supper, and make you, ‘quite
comfortable down in the warm kitehens
here,

“It would be a great kindness if you
would,” added the widow impressively ;
‘for, otherwise, [feel certain we shall
come to harm.”

**Pooh, pooh, Mrs Alison, you will
come to nothing of the kind. Jam suy-
prised at you—who are so used to tolkeep-
ing—being so foolishly nervous. Lt is out
of the question that I can stop here. But
[ tell you what Pil do. J have only to get
to Wellborough to-night, and do not up-
prehend any mischiel between here ane
there; so Villeave you my dog ‘Towzer, to.
keep guard. He's as good as any coi-
stable in the world; and to-morrow—
when your unlucky night has passed—I1h
calltor him again. But when I’m gone,
just hitch the tollgate back, anddon't opon
door or window again to-night, or thudog
may run out, and be after me,” ne
The two sisters, overwhelmed their
friends with thanks, ashe strode to tho
door and whistled to his dog, whu at once
sprang into the kitehen, which seemed to
shrink in its proportions at his presence—

he was such a very large dog; half mas~
uff and half St. Bervard;, with, shoulders,

1g broad as those of a prize-fighter, and

without being molested in any way, and banging jus, and terrible teeth; and with
far Jess put upon the fire yonder instead | Srow! that was as assuring to its master,

‘ There he is, ladies,” said’ tite pedler,
ntroducing this formidable animal to their
notice; ‘i dog as has not his equal in the

never come to want it; he’s such a preser-|North of courage, and who, when he lays.
hold ofan enemy, has neyer yet been
known to let go, except at his’ master’s
voice.—tlaye you, ‘Towzer ?”

Shere: LW 9 - “4
_ Whereupon ‘Towzer brought up from
MS Capacious chest some cunanine mons

1ow—why, whenever we hear a noise— | Syllable, that seemed to sound, like * no,’:
and which echoed gloomily through the
the
As for firing | Moor outside,

little house, and died away upou

It was likely erough thatthe mastift

could not do it, even if it was loaded, which | Might be all that his master had’ said of
him, yet his presence tailed to iuspire the
two women with

i ' confidence, when the
rumbling of the friendly wheels upon the

¢ 1 higher, and
Whirled the frozen snow against the panes,
4s though pebbles being thrown at them ;
nd now it shook the doors and shutters,
though it were indeed about to burst in,
nvisible shape, while the lesser gusts

ynious men, Who made their plans in con-
When the night-myil
went by ata hand gallop—a mer
vision of winged steeds and wrapped-up,
figures—matters became still worse, for
the tenants of the little tollhouse felt that
no well-disposed human creature could
now be expected until morning. They

ired to their,bedroom on the upper floor,
taking the dog with them; but they did
not undress—lor it seemed to their unbal+
anced minds a matter of certainty that the.
night would not pass by without some eat-
astrophe. They lay down together on the
bed and listened, while the mastif! couch.
ed upon the floor, his huge jowl hall-hid-
den in his paws, and wholly undisturbed
by the elemental strife without. Once
only, when a pane ot glass—which, how-
ever, they knew had been previously loos~
sened—fell withacrash upon the Kitchen
floor below, he raised his monstrous head
and muttered thunder, ‘Two candles were
kept burning, and well lit up the little
foom. lt Was abou vw U'cluck thate
short lull took place in the tempest, and
Mrs Alison distinetly heard the sound of
footsteps'n thefbuck-yard. Hersister, who,
had fallen asleep fora few moments, in
spite ot herself, had not heard the noise,
and as usualin such cases, allirmed she
had been broad awake, and must have

been consious of the incident, had it ogenr-
red, ‘Lhe widew 24 ave waste Words in

argument, but whispered, in trembling
aceents; “Look at the dog.” It was
evident enough that Towzer bad heared
something which required an oxplanation,.
for he opened his great eyes, and lilted
his ears, althovgh remaming otherwise
unmoved, ‘ Phey have gone to get the
chieken-ladder,” continued the widow in
tones of calm despair: ‘that is what §
always said they would do.” And indeed,
in a teow minutes, there wasa dull thud
against. the window-sill without, such as
would be produced by placing the ends of,
a ladder upon it. It was not a dark night
when the switt-(lying clouds permitted, aa
now, the moon to shew hersell ; yet neither
of the women dared look through the pane,
They kept their i fixed on the dog, in,
whom their sole hope now rested, “The
appearance of that magnificent creature
was indeed (it they had- been inn condi

tion to appreciate it artistically) aluyost