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Acihheesseg Ay
Beef, (small) per ib. 4 to! 7
Do ad the pinaster “ 3d to 6d
Fosse Coaraean) ' 34d to; 4od
Do.(emall) vy | bd to 7d
Matton,, per ibe, 3d to 6d
Lamb, per, Ib, ,,, in ’ 4d to 5d
Veal, per Abey,oci foo! ¥! « Sditodd
Ham, per Jb., ‘8 ‘bd to 6d
Butter, Urea) 9.1: /  Usite Je 8d
o by the tub; Gee ea | eee
Cheese, per db... 3d to
Talon Ri, 91 to 108
Lard, pex \b.,,,, 8d to 10d,
rite prs db., : 8d to Bd:
Oatmeal, per 100 the. 19s to 208
Kgge, per dozen,, 1s to ls 3d
Darl bushel, owned Sw Od to 48
ey, per : "
Oats va per -» ,pcrorl to ef10G Lida Od to 2s 114d
P ‘ regetabies, . ,
3, r quart. oe gore fave 109 &
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on. ong i hudate oli a oe’ fd Gd to 2e 97
‘Turkeys, each fd desde ot 4s to'78 6a
Fort. each, da yecloy ila svt | ‘Te to 1s od
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mem hy otat ae) vg bio “tw3a 0 19 60
Coilfish, por “208\to 908
Herrings, per aoe : (25s to 40s
Mackerel, per, dozen, :
Lumber.
i (Gente) 4s
aes) - 4s to bs
Del fP ne)’ 7 to 9a
Shingles, per Ma ; ; 18s to 183;
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English History of America,
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European Civilization, (Balmez)
Minister of 8tate, (Guizot, y
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arta uit of Knowledge, .

ver ges of Creation, . .

Juyenal and. orem, (English, )

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With her ownd
‘ No boatmen
was ‘Tom's

29, 1868,

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| THE ROCK OF, CULLAMORE.
‘My name is Tom

1
I'm chief boatman Desi station —
Well- own Rar oneP ORE the nationand round green Erie's 's

Rete oe ech td ancient highland

And 8 royal {s i
I've pales t 4 ot saaithye for ad years and more,
ye rowed the great Vice-regals,

Right reverands and ‘egal,
Mitres, coronets and ¢

And all the great c iy

Not one of them afraid

mounrchody the Beare;
e3,

|| To trip into Tom's wherry. at the Rock of Cullamore.

Singers, dancers and musictins, :
Poets, paititers an’ a oh
Wits, wizards, potittil and A piincphen galore,
Play-actors and ¢on' :
And mighty quare ¢ mea tet
iven them alt'a turd in va Merry days of yore,
‘ve pulled old Pagonint,
Lablacho, and Tambarini,
Loyely Gris} ju Bahia ane poor Malabran asthore.
Titiens, Patti and Alboni ,
And Madamé‘Taeliont; © '
Who danced ap Irishjig. upon the Rock ehdhanebe

ea x a Gladstone’ and Meals,
nal, Osborne and, ana, halle
Rissa, ‘Déby, right, an eqlly, Teould name ahundred

of hostile thatox sae -
And party politicians
Who PF flerce. conditions on the House of Copmons

Lord :Gotigh and Sir John Ennis,

wh ped oe Lo ame ap . sas rie
0 laid out on St. Patr a mint of go ens re.
* And ‘all thé eo Heasins .
I've hadthem in my stéera, re

And fowed:them gaily over’ fro the TREK of Cullamore,.

The’ noble Prince of Wales, ng i pelt
And Prince Alfred knew Tom's hail, sir, ‘
bee potted out to the mail, sir, and hoisted up.my,oar
». Displaying Prin‘s banners :
To reward my geuteel manners

’ ‘Taley threw-out cach a sovereign to Dalkey’s Commodore,

» Jve ferried our: prineedses
In their golden crowns and dresses ;
But Tom's, poor heart confesses, it feels ‘no little enue,
‘That they shoald so igapied, us
' Orso very méanly prize i
as not to build a pitlace heat "the Rock of iid

Each, timo: the. Quecn fame over ;
From London or from! Dover

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eco lover who's now, alas} no il:
¢. come near 'en—>
rivilege ay Steer ‘em,
Likewise to blesd'anc Iche r ss andiput them entans ashore '
As sure'as here’ Tstahd :
Twas kissed Rlag George's tiand
When he left Dimleary’s #trand amid the, cannon’s roar.
, And whea next sheoines in gloty,
I'l. shout for Queew Vietoria sia
A. <bandes thousand) welcomes from the Rock of
. Collamore. |; » [vie

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UNCLE GEORGE;
THE... FAMILY

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MYSTERY.”
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. _ BY WILKIE COLLINS.

Wa i it an sn Sigh habe or 8 Frenchman who first
remarked | ithah every family bad..a skéleton ‘ir*its
cupboard ? Lana not learned enough to’ kaow} but
L reverence |the observation, whoéver made it." It
speaks. 9 startling truth hrougti an appropriately
grim metaphor—a truth which I have discovered by
practical experience. Our family had a skeleton in
its cupboard, and the name. of it was Uncle George.

T arrived at the Ds a fe that this skeleton, ex-

in
‘Twas a Ae

here was such a

“at last discovered

which it was hidden, by slow degrees. '
when I first began to suspect,
thing, and a grown” ‘maw ‘when
that my suspicions Were true. : i 4
y father was a doctory pod ati excellent prac-
ave Weard that he
married» against’ the wishes of his family. They
could nor object to my tnother on the score of birth,
breeding elvatacter—they only disliked, her
heartily. * My ra tfathar, grandmother, uncles and
aunts all dec ared that she, was a‘heartless, deceitful
woman ; all disliked her manners, ber opinions, and
even the expression of her face—all, with the one
exception of my fatlir’s' youngest brother, George,
George was the unlucky member of our family ; ;
the rest. were all.clever;:he was: slow in capacity.
The rest, wore all remarkably handsome ; he wes the
sort.of a man that a °Woman never’ looks ' ‘twice at.
The rest sacceeded in'lite'; hé failed: His ‘profession
was:the same as wy father’s. | He had, like my
father, the best’ medical educatioa that. London and
by it, by dint: of

cal bretherfn as one of she, promisiag surgeons of his’
But he never got om When hesterted in prac-
tice for pipralt for he pever sueceeded.in forcing
{thé con eae’ ii ‘big knowledge jand. experience on
| the w shir 33 of, patients. His coarse, ugly
"| face, hesitatiag, awkward manners, his habit of
stammering when: he spoke, we his’ fodirable ‘slo-
venliess in dress, repelled " . “The ‘sick’ poor,
‘who coald not choose, étriplo, aa him and liked him.
The sick rich, who could—especially the ladies—de-

clived to oall him iw whew! se ‘¢ould get anybody
else. | Iu experiedee' he teatly by his, profes-
sion, ia money artd® ih tHe e pti nothing ©

There are very few of | We: b voll dull, and unat-

tractive we May be to SRitend appearance, who
have not some strong passion, some germ of what i LT]
called romatice, hiddén nord’ oF less deep] ia, our
natures. All'the ee and romaace in, the natine
of my tele’ 'Gedt ey: in his love. and admiration
for thy fathér. “He s Eedgrels, worshipped his eldest
wena ie @§ one of the Adee’ t, of human. beings;
thew vie tb § Aaet, te, be married, and

tt af the faimily »/a8.1 have already men-

henine to express their unfavorable

iG Pa

,. att Tovdgia edt ad baeoig ai at bb»

4 her birth ; and no other child {

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| all’that made'no differéace ‘to Uncle Gases e. She
was to be his ‘brother's wife ; and in virtwe of that
oue gf at fact, She became in the estimafion of the

geda, a very queen, who, by the laws of the
Py of the domestic eanetitatiqn, , ooolds do no

wr

ae my father had been mastied @ little while,
he took. his youngest brother to live with» him as his
assistant.' If Uncle George hid’ been made “presi-
dentof the College of Surgeons he could pot have
been prouder aid happier than he was in his new
position. Tam atraid my father never understood
the. depth of his brother's affection for him., All the
hard work {oll to George’s share ; the, long journeys
at night, the physicing of wearisome poor people,
the drunken cases, the revoltidg cases—all the drud-
zivg, dirty busines of\ the surgery, in short, was
turned over. to-him;-aod month after
month, he strugg ted hreu ly it without a murmur.
When his brother and’sister-in-law went out to dive
with the couttry gentry, it never entered his head to
feel inted,at. being Jef| unnoticed at, home.
whee in ate pi isciagesih given, and he was
asked to come, in at tea time, and . left to sit unre-
gardell ina corner, it ever decurred to’ him to itna-
gine that he was treated with any want of consider.
ation or respect. He was'part of tlie furniture of
the house, and it was the’ business as’ well os the
pleasure of his life to turn himself to any use to
which ‘his brother aid sister-in-law might please to

ut him.

Ri “So much for What T have heard from others on
the subject of my uncle George. My own, personal
experience of hitn is lifted to what I rememt er as
amere child. Let’ me'say something, however,
first about my parents, ‘nvy ‘sister, and myselt.’

My sister was the eldcst born and the best loved,
L did not come into, tae, world until: four’ years after

foplowed. me. Caroline,

from ey days, was the perfection of beauty and
health. | Iowa’ Baiall, Weakly, and, if'the trath must
be told, almost as’ plitin-fentured as ‘Witele' George
himself... lt would: be-ungracions’ and wndetiful in’
me to presume to decide whether there! was any
foundation or not for the dislike that may father’s
family felt for my mother. All I can venture to Bay
is thal her ehildrew'hever had any cause fo complain
ofher.. Hor passionate affection! for niy sister, her

‘| pridein,the child's beauty Lremember well; #3 also

4

her yniform kindness and ijvdulgeyce, towards.me.
ersonal defects must. haye been asore trial to
lér in Sedhet; “but heither she nor my father ever
showed tne “tliat they ‘perceived any differeuce be-
twéen ' Caroline. and myselt.) Whieti presents were
made, to my) sister, presents | were; made’ to’ me.
When my father and mother caught my sister ‘up in

(their arms and, kissed her, they scrupulously gave

mié thy’ tara ‘afterwards. My. childish instinct told
nie that there Was d difference in their smiles when
they looked at nie ‘and looked at her, that the kisses

| givenrto Carolina were warnmr than the kisses given

to.me, that the handy which dried hér tears in our
childish griefs touched her more gently than-the
hands which, dried miae, . -Butthese and'maby other
small signs of prelerence like them, were sach as’
no parents could be expected to contro}... Iirecall
them now without a harsh t ought either towards
my father or my mother. Both “loved me and both
did their ditty by’ me. If 1 seem to speak constrain-
edly oftliéin’ here, it is not on my own account. I
cat horestly say that with all my heart and soul,

Even uncle George, so fond as be was of me, was
fonder of my.‘ beautifal ‘child-sister:’ Whea T used
miachievously to» pull at hiv lank’ scanty hair, he
would geutly and: laughingly take it ont: of my
hands ;, but. he would let Caroliae tug at it till his
dim wandering grey. eyes winked and watered with
pain, He used to plunge perilously about: the gar-
den, in awkward imitation of the.cantering of a horse,
while I sat on his shoulders; but,he would never
proceed at any pace beyond a slow and safe walk
whet Caroline hada ride in ber turn. When he
took us ott walking, Caroline was always on the
side néxt the wall. Whea we interrupted him over
his dirty work in the surgery, he used to tell-me to
go.aod play until. he was ready for me; but he’ wou'd
put Gown his bottles, aud clean his clumsy fingers
on His’ eoat'se apron, and lead Caroline out again, as
if she had been the greatest lady in the land, Ah!
howshe loved her! and, let nie be honest and grate-
ful, nad add, iow he loved me; tod!

When I was eight years old aid Caroline was
twelve, I was.separated from home ‘for some time.
Thad been ailing for many months previously ; had
got benefit from being taken to’ the seaside; and
had shown symptoms of relapsing. on being brought
home agaiti to the midland county in which we re«
sided. Alter much consultation, it was at)last re-
solved that I should be sent to live, until my consti-
tution fot stronger, with a maiden-sister of my
mother’s, who ‘had a’housé at a watering place on
the south .conats

i left, home, F remember, loaded with presents,
‘rejoicing over the prospect of looking. at the sea

ain, as careless of the future and as happy in the
present as any boy could be, Uncle. George. peti-
tidted for a holiday to take me to the seaside, but
he éould tot be spared from the surgery. He con-
soled himsélfand me by ptomising to make me a
magnificent model ofa ship. f have that model be-
fore ny’ eyes now while I write. It is dusty with
age}; the paict on itis cracked, the ropes are tangled,
the sails are moth-eaten and yellow. The hull is
out of all proportion, and the rig has. been smiled
at by every pautical friend of mine who hag ever
looked "at ft. Yet, worn out and faulty as it is—in-
ferior to thé cheapest minature Vessel now-a-days in
any toy shop window—TI hardly know a possession
of mice.in this world that I would not sooner part
with than Uncle Geurge’s ship,

My life at the seaside was a, very happy. one. | 1
remained with my aunt, pore fuer a year, My
mother often came to seé how was getting on,
and, at first, always brought my sister with her.
But, during the last eight months of my stay, Caro-
line never once’ Appeared.’ IT noriced also, at. the
rwamé period, a change in, my mother’s, manner, |
She looked, poler, and more anxious at each succeed-

pon, e!

one si Apis hn of his ehoseu wife; Unie.) ing visity.aad always had long’ conferences in’ pri-| witnessing a, passi
eorge, who ha Aha \voatured on differsag with | vate with my awnt, ‘At laat to tome and | father's mute despair, hve crf
anyone ncaa the, amazement,,of every: bots see uy altogether, atid Paty. Wha to know how my jaf Sur firdt ineeting’ yas roline’s
Mh rewiscng the defence ot bis futare sister-iaslaw in| health was getting on. My father too, who had aj, ly and ft the tome shortened othe aber
‘the most reboment and manner” ‘In his} the earkier periods of my ‘absedée from home travel-| me out room, , She ssemed:te
peat spare he Something sa-| lod to, the seasiga tolwatch the progress ot my re- ~ me, . Ta
Cab My ge A - aight, and didy}oo corey 8 often an his) er engagements | doo pide: ates we wade
pony When deagheat his | w et », pow kept away like, my, mother. | sam down nye ot on Pa my
Bie BeOW, Impatient at, his Maenenenioget Eres nile ors whet | never bypn plier & A Sontid on fourth fy" a

| holiday to come and see-me, but who had ‘hitherto
often written and begged me to write fo him; brie
oft our il ip egg peal!

and amazed by. those ao

aunt todell ase the reason. of them, At firet abe
tried to put me off with excuses ; then’ she admitted
that there was trouble in our house ; and finally she
confessed that the trouble was caused by the illness
of my sister. When I inquired what that illoess
was, my aunt said it was useless for to attempt to
explain it to me. I next applied to the servants.
One of them was less cautious than my ts ae aad
answered my questions, but in terms that I qian
not comprehead. After much explanation, |

made to understand that ‘ something was Jor
on my sister's neck that would spoil her ogee na
ever, and perhaps kill her, if it could not be idles

of,’ How well I. remember the shudder of horror
that ran through me at the vague idea of this deadly.
‘something !’ » A fearful awe-struck curiosity to see
what Caroline’s illness was with my own eyes, trou.
bled my inmost heart, and I begged to be allowed
to yo home and help to nurse hor, . The, Fequest,
was, it is almost needless to say, refused.

Weeks passed away, aod still I heard vothing ex-
cept thar my sister continued to be il!. One day
privately wrote ® letter to Uncle George, asking him
in my childish way to come and tell me about Caro-,
line’s iMlaess. [knew where the post offide was, and
slipped otit ip the morcing unobserved, and apg
my letter into the box. I siole home a i ed 1 food
garden, and climbed io at the window o
lor on the.greund floor, The room above svas my.
atmt’s bed-chamber, aud the moment I was” inside
the hous¢ { lieard moars and loud’ convulsive: svbs
proceeding from it, My annt was: ‘a singularly.
quiet, composed woman ; I oguld, not imagine ;4
the loud sobbing and inpantag came from her 3. and
I ran terrified into the ‘kitohen - fo ‘ask the servants’
who was erying 80 violently fn my aunt's: edit te

I fonad.the housemaid and the cook talking. td-,
ge’her in whispers, with serious faces. “They. started
when they saw me, as if I had been» a grown-up’
master who had caught them heglecting their work.’

‘ Ho's too young to feel it much,” I heard one say,
to the other. ‘So far as he’s concerned, it seome,
like a mercy that it's happened. no Jater.’ re

In a few minutes they had'told me'the worst. | it’
was indeed my aupt whom Ihad ‘heard erying, i is *
the bedroom... Caroline was dead. oh) oo te oy

I felt the. blow more severely than. the. ‘aicvente.
or any one else about me supposed. Still: £ wae a
child in years, and I had the blessed: elasticity of ‘»
child’s Hature, If T had been older, I, might have:
been too much .absorbed in, grief to. okserve my,
aunt.as closoly.as I did, when she was.
enough to see’ me, later in the dayy! 4 8

I was not stirprised ty the swollen state of Hewroyen?:
the palenesé of her cheeks, or the fresh, burst ot.
tears that came from her when she took me. fpibers:
arms at meeting. But I was both amazed
plexed by'thelook of terror that I detected’ im
face. It was natural euough that she should weep-
and grieve over my sister's death; but. why should:
she bave that frightened look also, aa if some catas--
trophe had happened. . I asked if theré was any:
more dreadful news from home besides the news of
Caroline's death. My aunt said No, in. a strange’.
stifled voice, and suddenly turned her face from,me.
Was my father dead?, No. My mother? No.
Unele George? My auat trembled all over as she:
said uo to that also, and tiade me coase asking an
more quéstions, She was not fit to bear them yet,
‘she said; and sigued to the servant to lead me out
of the room. i

The next day 1° was told! that ¥ wear fo being ,
after the funeral, and was taken out towards even- _
ing by the housemaid, partly for a walk, partly Th
be measured for my. mourning clothes. After we
had left the tailor’s I persuaded the girl’ to exteud
our walk for some distance along’ thitsea-beach, tell- ”
ing her as we went, every little aneedote conutcted —
with my lost sister that came tenderly back to my
memory in those first days of sorrow, She was 46
interested in hearing, aud J in speaking, that we
let the sun go 0g before we thought ‘ot oe ,
back.

The evening. was cloudy,,and it got on isons dusk »;
to dark by the.time we approached the town again.
The housemaid was rather netvous at finding ler~
self alone with me on the beach, and otice or twice °

BY

looked behifd her distrustfilly as we webt
Suddenly she squeeze? my hand hard, and,
‘ Let’s go up on the cliff as fast as we enn.’

words were hardly out of her, mouth befone.I heard

my side, snatched me away from the girl, and cateh-
ing me up io his arms without a word, covered my
face with kisses. I knew that he was ‘crying, be-
cause my cheeks were instantly wetted, with his
tears; but it was too dark for me to see who he was
or even how he wasdrossed.. He did not, I should.
think, hold me, half a minute. in his. arms.. The
housemaid screamed for belpy L was pat down gently
on the sand, ‘and tho strange’ man instantly ‘disap-
peared in the darkness.

to my aunt, she seamed at first bewildered at hearing,
of it; but in a moment.more there came,a change
over her face, as if she, had suddeo) recollected
or thought of something. She turned deadly’ pate,

was only'a mischievous trick to frighten you, I dare
nay! ‘orget “all “about it, my, dear,—forget att
about it.” .

It was easier (6 give, me this.adyice than to make...
me follow it, For many nights after, I thonghtol
nothing but the atrange man who had kissed and

cried over me
loved me very mach ahd'who ‘was’
childish logic carried me to that wipe. th. "Ba When

I tried to think over’ alll the poem nila”
who loved me very much, I could fever get, on, te
my, own “satisfaction, beyond wy. father and, my
nucle Gaorge. ai y dari) 49? Boi
I was taken home santa suploleal ‘day to suffers
the trial-—a bard one, even at ‘tender

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footsteps behind me; a man came round quickly to. -

When this extradrdinary adventure! ‘was related ©

and suid in w herried way ‘very unusual» to her, |
* Never miad; don’t talk’ about. ft’ aay ‘more. It

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