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may rely upon me.’ ‘ Mind,’ says he,‘ you have'nt the slightest curiosity in my com- don’t make any noise in the morning. 1’il position.’

Port Phillip direct. When I went down to. engage a berth, | found they were all taken

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. . . ' THE GAME OF LIFE up. At the last moment, however, a large come and let you out before breaktast, when! You see I was awfully sleepy, and it was Tailoring Establishment ' i compartment in the second cabin, which had the skipper’s on deck, and all hands are at quite clear to me, by the way, the old fellow BY ELIZA COOK been reserved for a hospital, was objected work, swabbing themseives down.’ was settling himself down and clearing his CHARLES BELL, nN PSE aera Sa ee to by the surgeon as not adapted for the With that be opened the cabin-door, throat that he meant to talk for the next QUEEN SQUARE. ......CHARLOTTETOWN She mention thas our 1 has Saeed purpose, so I got billeted in it along with banded me a candle, pushed me hastily in, hour at the least, which was'nt at all to my NNOUNCES the arrival of his FALL Os a eee deen lensiiee three others, and arranged to mess in the and turned the key in the lock. The cabin fancy. and WINTER GOODS, w! teh are all of the Fie gurmenté se we put thon on chief cabin. While we were running down was a model of neatness—a nice carpet on * Well,’ says he, ‘if you are not curious, Saat Srocilon Deapiry Trede ae i, We rear our palaces of jos Channel the sea was as calm as a mill pond, the floor, a first-rate bunk on one side, and you ought to be ; so here goes, and mind you represented in bie Establishawnt. His GOt bs Silat aad itil dexeRind iid with a fine breeze on the quarter, and all a delightfully soft sofa on the other ; in fact, pay attention, or else I shall have to waken are decidedly of the Newent and Best Clase manu Till, crumbling round, ‘tis plainly found sail set. I felt as jolly as a sandboy, all that one could desire; everything, too, | you up us I did betore, by sticking my pipe nn ee oe ones Sam a ETP ET enn ape ene Cee Pe smoked cigars, swaggered about the deck, | cleeted and fastened down in its proper under your nose. 1 was born in alittle town

nd bave been purchased for CASH, which is a very And thus we ply the game of Life, and talked as if I had been accustomed to n i ’ I t

place, so as*to prevent the possibility of any in the north of Kogland—’

ee eee Shadow and substance ever blending the ocean all my life—in fact, any one might of the furniture taking to execute the very‘ Oh, confound it,’ eried TI, * hadn’t you

cH as oo = pe Mid flowers of Peace and tares of Strif have imagined that it had acted as my nurse, unpleasant nautical horopipes which I bad better begin at the beginning of the world Oy came time, cenGdently recommend the article Gaily begiuning—sadly ending and rocked me in my cradle. But when we witnessed in the second cabin, and which *¢ once? How do yoo think I am to get my be selis. Me cnumerates afew leading articles us i hel iat Biel got into the Bay I soon changed my tone. | had been the cause of a very considerable — ae veo : we Seat: your Wea of Eugland and Yorkshire CLOTHS ; Heavy They jar to-morrow, and she floute hin I believe that in that disgusting portion of diminution in the skin that ought to have y s

the world it generally manages to blow two |

Beavers, Whitneys and Pilot COATINGS; Now she believes whate’er he'll say ns jes $0 8 covered my ankles. 1 did not, however, to tell you something about my early life, Desshive; Cassimeres » Eaglioh and Soon h A cocath banmene. alent shodecktohins : | Ways at once, or something of the kind ; but| waste much time in contemplation, but un- for | was always consideted a very remark- I A amar TD elves, i, Vale ntia, ane The lover henge upon a glance, ob this occasion, as the mate, who was a dressed, inserted myself within the enow- able child, but perhaps, upon consideration,

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rough old fellow, with a face made of un-, white sheets, and, in spite of the roaring of | bad better postpone that subject till some Twilled and Shirting FLANNELS,;

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Sext vear he roasee from his trance, polished mahogany, informed me, it had the tempest, and the trampling of the sailors | other night. | thirte and Collars; Shetland and Lamb's Wool | ; i it $ F ‘ i ; ‘ : » sp ~ NDER ed ene. — iil cecien tha men te tale wen wealed been blowing bard from three different quar- | overhead, was so@® sound asleep. And sh ost Yes, old fellow,’ thought I, * you can tell | man ; you seem put out at something Pat

xDE ern eet oka a oti wie ters within the last twenty-four h Tae |t doe eek * h ad me all that when you catch me in here again, out! so would you be if you had been rob- "ace been Socks Geshvotien , ~— ro tf sm oh oes ooh ee | consequences Ror J i i oman lt a ae by a huge’ but that won't be for some time, 1 know.’ | bed like I have.” ‘And who has robbed end Trenks; Ser Clath. Glased. Our dreams dispell d, our plans de feated | = = I Cs were extreme y uupleasant. pipe, which persisted In following me all . W hen { was about thirty," he continued, you?’ ‘ Why, my nephew, Jack, the sca pe- i “sil te INTER Ss. gk | And when we've lost with pain and cost stuck by the deck as long as I over the world. I fied to the interior of} (I made a gesture of impatience). ‘I must/ grace.’ With that I told him the whole Reversable, and other WINTER CAP‘ ilk i aid. § friot : . - ; " of) t zg im p stg ‘ ‘elt, Wool, and Glazed HATS; FURS—Rus- | Still stand as ready to be cheated could, for, frightfully sea-sick as I was, | Africa, there was the pipe. At last, in| begin somewhere,’ said he rily, ‘and if story, and asked him what he would advise we . : t/a pip : gin sor apgrily y ed him \ sian Deg, Sherion Lamb, Nutria, and ius it ee iad a horror of the close air below; but at disgust, I returned to England, to my old you don’t let me start at thirty, may 1 never me todo. * Well,’ said he, ‘ the new ghost a skratl, el pte be cooing mint & — as » mens a om ° e * 7 2. - ’ - 4 . -_ — . "2 i Be anil TROEMINGS Sid. orleans the ewasien’d portion last the seas began to break over the ship lodgings, and the pipe came and took up itg | Smoke again if I won't go back to my grand- | regulations are very Severe upon us; we ate The best assortment of TAILORS TRIMMING Apt; * eae so fast that I was obliged to go down ‘abode with me, and smoked all day long, | ‘ther: ‘not allowed to go about frightening people Ce Ne ee ee een ee ar On entering my cabin I was i ceaed . . j 1008, | + Thirty be it, then, and now bowl along.’ | inte fits as we used to do, «t least not in a) Linings, Vest Backs and Linings, Coat Canvas, Mone see the death-rocks in the ocean g my cabin | was struck with | and in the smoke I seemed tosee all manner) . w, : ; _~ | dima ese ata Al Ste ae vee Padding, Wadding, Coat and Vest Braids and Bind the strong odour of tobaco a whisk ‘ ; . Well, as I said, when [ was about thirty usual way; bu elieve, ia fact I am sure, age, Buttons of alli&iuks, and other The rich man toils to “ gather up sia 7 ur of tobacco and whiskey that of strange things ; first, my creditors — a || came up to London, and went into business | that in a case like yours, the injured ghost is | 'TAILORS’ TRIXIMINGS, Meaning to bask in Fortune's clover, pervaded the atmospuere. At a glance the fearful sight—each man with a writ in his ,as a tobacconist; I had a snug little trade, ‘allowed to visit the ill doer every night until will attest liieaiions And while he pours into his eup cause was evident. My cabio-companions hand as big as himself. Then, floating | and managed to scrape together a goodish he obtains restitution of his property. There

—three old diggers on their return to Aus- tralia—were tucked snugly in their bunks

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lightly on the smoke, came my uncle, with | bit of money. I wasn't quite such a fool as

his pockets buttoned very tightly, and my | to trouble myself with a wife, so I got along

Ready - Made Clothing. |

is we play the game of Life,

‘ Well now,’ said he, ‘ I should have liked | quaintances in the other world. I was burn--

This Branch of his Trade is anusailly large at Now simply suared, now wisely brooding each with a bottle of whiskey and a tin pan- creditors immediately made a rush towards iret rate. [bad boos in the business aboat J present. (wing to the depression of the time es . — } Tr now spr ; nik sda d in behi : : : ° one | twenty years—there s a skip for you—when sone requiring Suits will get them at very RE-| Now bribed by smiles, now spreading wiles, kin wedged in behind his pillow, andaclay him, and up they all went to the ceiling, | one fine morning | received a letter with DUCED PRICES Living d - pipe ae Now, if there was any and [saw them no more. Then, out of the /the American post-mark on it. It was MOURNING, : The poet prattles to the stars, one thing | abhorred more than another, it |pipe, there came a whiskey bottle, and in-) from my brother, the only relation 1 had to and all other orders for Clothing promptly attende: Philosophers dissect the thunder, to. and good fitting ees ea But beth ave ctepe'’é by erystal hare, Cigars I liked, but a pipe smoked imme-| spirits) were my, three cabiu companions, before, and from whom I had never heard le » . rho av c at i ami } - ° - * ° : - ‘ . = ne Caking me =p, through Tailors Aud stand outside to watch and wonder distely under my hose within doors, I bated. | who tapped upon the glass, and nodded at | cae bie — “4 ee oe for he Shecne their Cloth and Trinnaings for them, from We moralize on battle plains, So to the kind invitation of my shipmates to meina threatening manner, as much as to bh . 7 ee ee “a eal t the different aeeees ee = oe Ta a ed Where blood has poured and famehaswon; | ‘art in and do likewise, L returned no very | say, if you want anything for yourself, just ours shen : thoughs I al uk ' Ww eZamine the Stock vi Cloths ame —— » a . 2. : _ : ‘i : biti . } ’ ’ . . quite the prices for making up at this Establish We turn and see the baby’s lee polite reply, but begged to recall to their pull out the cork, and we will step out and|~ « He told me that he was writing on his ment. before they purchase elsewhere go thes ean Over his mimic sword and gun memories that smoking below was strictiy| give it to you.

t » oue b tung Le articies ii > . , i , 7 : : . } a ; eave ona aud mouey, by getting att the arieis And thus we play the game of Life forbidden ; to which the biggest and ugliest | seemed to grow more strong and pungent,/son. Ashe hadn't any money, he couldn’t | room. Ged irec oly houwht aud fearfal eet ; > ania ein< a . atte . . } 7 > i °

At the lowest rate in One Place. Pwist holy Thought an arful Deed of them apes using a great many adjec- and the smoke got up my nose, and | gave | leave me anything ; ae Some only stay to work and pray, tives, which 1 shall omit, that 1 was a fool; great sneeze and awoke. The principle recognized and practically : Lixht Aud some but live for Crime and Greed that I didn’t think that they were going to i tat wedy Sulce ic agt oat wie Ut i Vv me and Greet > ‘ , ‘ f . out at this Establishment is Speedy Sales and Lig a Somat a y going : I hope, sir, you have had a comfortable of which he begged my acceptance. A few quite out, so I turned it on, and then went | Profite, for CASH ath s Our feet of clay trip up each other e aone out of their smoke for me,—did [ ? nap.’ | daye after The LATEST FASAIONS are always secure : c Of Cimy tr 1 other, aud thar I had tented 46 bad i Lat ' } ’ — ; i all ie i omplain t _ : Charlottetown, Oct.7, 1862 Our wings of ether seek the sky the captain, aa he aii encetl ce on I started up and looked across the cabin ‘hat my nephew had arrived at Liverpool. — i ome We breathe—we are—child follows mother, : 7 to the sofa her Cc he j > NOTICE. ieoaish ia iniiitiaiinen <oih oudieiaaaderiadianiiilies deck at that particular moment to put out i» Pi gunn Absa: proceeded. | (r éteen. 1 brought bim up to So. Yet none ean tell us“ H by oe : bere, stretched out at his ease, lay a little . ’ M* MONK will open bis CLASSES Our hearts, like clocks, keep ticking fust, their pipes if a swell, like myself, was to ’ aw in the GRAFTON STREET SCHOOL Nin oftsah idl ieee, inne cal eee, usk him. * * * At last, maddened Room on THURSDAY, the Sih inst., at | eh teak it clos, ot tee tend by this everlasting persecution, I rose, vu clo a.m . So ] y -_ ] aa anuht and the fees charged, a dressed myself as well as I could, and wer . ; : The Seanches tanght, and the free sean ee of We sol ma Seep. , ar S0676,. OE Wont candle, and fixed it on the table io front of be identical with those taught iu the Prin And thus we play the game of Life, on deck avain. Here, however, it was im- |, - : | Wales’ College Juny. 5 : aa ae 1g him, so that I could see him very well. , In mot \ Grief gnd Pleasure, possible for me to remain, as the waves were was rather ugly, with a pimply nose, as if| sweet. Till we are dressed in that green vest treaking over tbe ship every moment with. i : Valuable Freehold E tate = yee a ae J a given to drinking, badly made clothes, and For which the sexton takes our measure such violence that the seuppers were insuf- Si aibiadihee auakiili aiiitdions. oc OF te - . . > a a g e > 2a e AT PRIVATE SALE. <<—.>- ficient to carry off the water, and the deck pad | don kept for iam eee in a dap; ‘ —— oe . : aa vev ey ’ SHE “" V ICTORLA ST EA M MILL, A QUEER CABIN COMPANION was knee-deep in it, F vur men were at the . P ; t .

owned by the subscriber, and situate at the Eastern end of thus Cur

if prelerred, the machinery apd mw)

Ye , + ia tear would) — ¢ Doctor,” said one of a party of diggers

be sold parately at a very low price, and on time 4 : ‘

The engine is of J) horse-power lhe machinery snugly ensconced one rainy winters night

is in goud Working order, aud could « usily be re in front of the Red Shirt Store's huge chim-

moved . . he al ~~ : The whole premines, consisting of Mill, Dwelling | 2€Y, piled high with blazing logs, * spin us

House, and Guthouse, woald be sold at a moderate yarn.’

The doctor, nothing loth to display his talents, knocked the ushes out of his pipe, finished his gro’, pushed his glass over to be

filled again, and began as follows:

sum, payable iu teu anuua!l inustaluwents, with lu terest For iuformation please apply at the office of CHAKLES YOUNG

Charlottetown, Oct. WD, 1562 =! Sum

FOR IMMEDIATE SALE,

HAT DESIRABLE WATER LOT, in GEORGETOWN, containing half an acre of LAND. with usual! privileges, known as No. F or Putnr Lor. Terms Cash or short time on security. Apply to the Lion. Joseru Hlensiey, Charlottetown. December 2, 1561. tf

Valuable Freehold Property

FOR SALE.

HE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale A VALUABLE FREEHOLD FARM, fronting ou the west side of Morell Kiver, contain ing eighty actes, of which about sixty eight acres are under eultivation, and the remainder is covered with Lougers. There are on the Premises A GOOD SUBSTANTIAL DWELLING HOUSE, and geod Out Houses for farming and mereantile purposes For further information application to be made to the pr or ow the premises a ONO TMARD MATES ~

Fortune has made me a digger, but my uncle intended me for a physician. He wa: a crusty old bachelor, generous and open- handed, but irascible and obstinate. My father, his brother, having been a genius, had naturally come to grief. [le married my mother for her beauty, which was ber sole dower. It would have been a good thing for both of them, bad Heaven taken away a trifle of the beauty ou the one side and the genius on the other, and endowed each with alittle sound sense. Afier a life of makeshifts, they both died when I was very young, leaving me nothing for my for- tane but a fair share of the gifts which they bad individually possessed. Did not old Jack Godfrey say of me, when I set his leg. that I was the cleverest chap in Victoria ? And Bill, the fop, will bear testimony to the effect of my appearance, as [ have cut him clean out of the graces of the fair land- lady of the Pick and®Shovel. About my common sense [ won't bragg, but | finey

[have acquired a wrinkle or two since l

HE Subscriber offers for sale that well came to this golden country. Well, while FE ksown tract of Land, fronting on Bedeaue ayy father was dissipating what, little po containing 390 acres of excellent Land, well stocked | trimopy he had possessed iD wild schemes,

each of which was certain to bring him inat

with building timber and cedar a a - a ood Marsh attached to the property, from which a | — gy eg : F inapsen men, if industrions, can out from forty-five to tifty least a million, only it didn’t, my uncie com tons of Hay every year. Three good Dwelling Houses, barns, and other outhouses erected — An abundance of sea manure can be procured at any | . a ; : season of the year it ix an excellent place for fist- of the continual drain his brother had been ins, and oysters and lshetoreace in oe _ upon him, was tolerably well off. When a above property is well fenced, and a large part © . ; i it in a woo! state of cultivation. It can be « ivided | lad, his great desire bad been to be a doctor. by « plan, in fifty or a hundred acres to suit pur- Circumstances prevented the wish being gra- po , \ tified ; but at any rate he determined that ALSO ,—250 acres of Freehold Land, fronting on | { should become one. So he sent me to 8

Bede m 17,3 jle or so of : . randall omer Phy edd capital school, where I remained till L was

Morell, Nov. 17th, 1862

Valuable Freehold Property it 0 Sao tare, and 9 now Basen ee et wanet of learning and a great dea! of cricket and ent two hundred acres, adjoining IJerael

acquired what little knowledge of medicine There is a small Dwelling house and a large barn | At for tillage, and level lest degree anything to do with my story, —one containing 100 acres of land, and known as | about myself; so, if you wish to raise any rent, £4 108. per annum When I

the flourishing town of Summerside, fifty acres of i

whieh is well fenced, and about 18 under cultivation, eighteen, picking up 4 very smal! allowance

thereon erected, and a never failing well of water .

at the door, and is known as Harvey's farm. The foot-ball, and then { was apprenticed tot

i incipal surgeon i yn, from whom Green's farm, is well stocked with timber, and a principal surgeon 10 the tow swall stream of fresh water running through it, tioin I possess. Now, I have given you al! this

erected on the p The whole of the land is | ! 3 —. : :

7? exeellent quality, and not ove foot of it but is | information, not because it has in the slight ALSO — The Lenechold Tuterest of me Rave | ‘mply for the sheer pleasure of talking

adjoining the above property , on the Linkleuer road | but simply P

Thomas Murray's farm, rent, £64 year; the other| objections, you had better do so while | am

—— ee taking a pull at my grog. (Afier a long The above land is known as part of Welling’s draught the narrator continued.)

pi ot b ta st Bo Sapete of Oe et | wen twenty-one | came up to @ London hos-

Anu Compton, of Chatham, Kent, England. Baw . ¢ Part of the purchase money may remain on se-| pital, My old unele made me a tidy allow curity on the premises ance, and | determined to see life. My

For further information, application to be made | to M. P. Kotcurogp, opposite the Nunnery, Chur- | lotetown, or to

MARIA ANN ROTCHFORD,

Administratrix.

CH If the above Property is not disposed of before the first day of JUNE next, it will be put up and seld at Public Auction

Charlottetown, Dec. 8, 1862

knowledge of drugs did vot increase, it is true, but [ became a wonderful judge of beer; my botanical studies were limited, but [ culled the choicest flowers of speech that flourish on the cab-ranks, and had a large stock of chaff always on hand ; and though ————— || never paid much attention to anatomy, |

Leasehold Farm for Sale. | have spent many a night over the, Dow

FROK SALE, the Leaschold Interest. in| Now this sort of thing coull Del Oey One Hundred and Ten Acres of LAND, si-| old uncle was the style of man who

tuate about eleven miles from Charlottetown, on | object to outlay, but always expects @ pro- the Mt. Peter's Road. Sixty-five acres are cleared . yee : that after L had been and in # high state of cultivation , the remainder is | portionate returo ; $0 . d ap- ae with hard and soft WOOD. There plucked a second time, he answered my . Poesia tant taverns for a crop of Wheat and plication for a third payment of my ~ y

On the Premises area GOOD BARN, 60 by 35\a letter, short but to the purpose. re- feet, a frame fora DWELLING HOUSE, prepar-| member it perfectly, 80 I'll give it to you. od, 35 by 25 feet; anda GRANARY, 30 by 2 feet “ 7 a eheck for £100; you

Also, for sale, a MARSH, about one mile from |‘ Sir,—I enclose eens bat is done 80 ou the said Farm, which cuts from seven to eight tons won't get any more when that Is done,so y of Ha anouaily. Rent Wes per year. The Lease | may go to the devil, or to Australia, which

of laces is for 999 years. t , ; shilling | a certs ete me mane to like.’ I liked the latter; so, a3 my

TeRms—One third of the t be | before a week f the purchase money to re were troublesome, paid down; the remaiader in twelve months, on oe CZ found myself on board the

¥' ving good security. F 4 premises Ocean King, 1200 tons register, A l, au

For further particulars apply on the BERNARD SHANNON, jcarrying a competent surgeon, bound for

Bt. Peter's Road, Dec. 29, 1962

menaced business in a small way, saved and scraped, and when my parents died, in spite |

helm, and by their side stood the captain, a oe

mass of water-proof. To the inquiry shout- | ed in his ear, of whether he thought things were likely to mend soon, the only answer I got was how the devil could he tell, and what the devil | wanted on deck in every- body’s way. As, uucer the circasmstances, L did not think this a very favourable op- portunity of laying my complaint before him, I took myself down to the chief cabin, and after ingeniously, as | imagined, lashing myself to a sofa, was soon asleep. I had not been so, however, many minutes before I was awakened by a tremendous concus- sion. For a moment [ imagined that the ship had struck, and was going down, but | very soon discovered that she had only given a heavier lurch than usual, causing my ill- contrived knots to slip, and that the striking bit i to my forehead which

what the deuce you want in this cabin? The little man took the pipe from bis. mouth, allowed a dense volume of smoke to escape, and then gently replied : ‘I might ask you the same question in| equally strong terms, if it was the practice | ‘in my part of the universe to be so rude.’

this,’ exclaimed I, in a rage. ‘ First he | takes my money, which I pay for a quiet | night's rest, aod then he turns io a horrid, |

out; but | won't stand it, so I should re-|

in the wrong) ‘Oh, no, I shan’t,’ said he, steeising| uself out at his full length, * you see, the | fact of the matter is, that it is you who is | the intruder, and not 1: this cabin happens to be uline.’

‘ Yours, indeed ; come now that wou't go down with me: this eabin was hired by a person who ordered it to be kept locked during the voyage, and who never came on

else you'll soon find yourself

had been confined had come against the leg of the table with such force as to raise a lump on it as big as an egg. I bad almost made up my mind to return to my disagreeable companions, | when happening to cast my eyes upen the door of one of the state-cabins, I remember- od — _— my ae —— l nenad one? at dinner, on the posens ing day, that t | 6 Tuas ie'te say,—no obe saw Atel on gentleman who had taken it had not come yg. 4 ont th

board as had been expected. | Ogre ; Cus, RevertEeeN 5 Gm the perse uae I ‘who hired it, and [ came on board on

‘By Jove!’ I exclaimed, ‘how can I Tyesday evening last, at a quarter past have been such an ass as not to have thought (welve, just as you were passing the Start.’ of this before. Here, steward !’ ‘Why, you confounded old liar, no boat

The steward emerged from his den, and | ever came near us after the pilot left; and balanced himself carefully in front of me. | he had been gone hours before that.’

‘ The state-cabin that is unoccupied, I will, * Very likely—very likely: but I never remove into it, and will readily pay any ad- | said I came in a boat,’ ditional sum that may be required.’ | «Qh, L suppose you swam, then ?

‘Very sorry, but you can’t have it, sir?| ‘ No, I didn’t swim either.’

‘Can't have it—why not ?’ | * Then, sir, if you neither came in a boat |

‘Why, you see, sir, that cabin was en-|/ nor swam, pray may 1 ask you how you gaged by a gentleman as came aboard 'did get on board ?” late one vight, about a fortnight before we) * Well, if you want to know, I walked.’ | sailed. He comes down, and, says he,| ‘Ob, you walked, did you? Now, do “Steward, have you a cabin disengaged. | you think I am drunk, or mad, which 2 | * Yes,’ says I, ‘ state-cabin.” ‘ I'll take it,’ | Did ever anybody hear of a living being | says he. * Can I pay for it now, for it won't | walking about on the British Channel?’ | be convenient for me to call at the offiee and) ‘ Perhaps nobody did ever hear of a liv- ‘arrange.’ ‘ Well, there is no one here at | ing being doing it, but you see, sir, I don’t, this tiwe of night authorised to take the happen to be a living being.’ money ; but if you do not mind trusting me | with it, l’ve been man and boy twenty years you ?” in Mr. Green’s service, and though I say it ‘I am a ghost.’ | —who shouldu’t say it—lI am to be trusted.’, ‘A ghost ¢’ Well, with that he hands me a purse, and,, ‘ Yes, a ghost z says he, ‘ you’ll find there more than you'll |

| self. all straight, lock the door, and don’t open | much for me. ; ‘ ‘it again until you get to Melbourne, unless} * Confound you,’ cried I, ‘do you think | I give you express orders to do so.’ ‘ Very | you are going to humbug me with any of good, sir,’ says 1; and off he goes. Well, | your cock-and-bull stories? Out you go at | did as he told me, fitted the cabin up first- | once, or I'll make you.’

‘rate, locked it, and as he isn’tcomeon board) ‘ All right,’ says be, ‘ make away,’ and ‘togive me my orders, why it won't if opened till we reach Hobson's Bay;’ * But | across the room into my face. | steward,’ says I, * what’s the use of keeping | made me pretty wild, you may guess; so up| the place locked up when the owner is not I jumped, tock one stride to the sofa, and on board?” ‘Ah, you sce our captain's a seized the little man, that is to say, attempt- | strict sort of a chap. He holds that a ‘ed to seize the little man, by his nose, for bargain’s a bargain, and if he was to know to my atter astonishment, instead of hold- |

‘Pray, sir,’ said I, ‘might I ask you that ever since

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from Mephistopheles, but I never knew that ny were tied to one spot before.”

‘ I don’t know anything about Mephistop- heles,’ replied the ghost, * but you may rely upon it that the information I am giving you is as correct as anything he can furnish. [ am very glad, too, to see that you are becom- ing interested in my story.’

‘ Not a bit of it,’ said 1, * but I can’t let you have all the talkto yourself. However, go a-head.’

‘ Well, as I told you, I had been visiting my nephew regularly every night for about _ three months, when there was a general order issued, that from and after the lst of the next month, no ghosts was to be allowed out for twenty-eight days, as it was intended to take pipe, that he had taken the liberty of making | decennial census, and also to obtain certain the undertaker’s man drunk, unscrewing the | ghostly statistics which had been long needed coffin, and effecting an exchange, and wishing! by the administration. For this purpose |me a pleasant time of it with my new ac- commissioners were appointed to ask each individual a certain number of totally useless questions, and although only a few of us could be examined every night, it was con- sidered necessary to confine us all until the investigation was at an end On the last night of liberty v nephew perceived I was out ef sorts when I come, and asked me the reason. I told him that J should be unable to see him for a whole month, as I should be | detained by business, but that I should re- new my Visits as soon as ever that term ex- pired. He made nc remark at the time, bat as I rose to depart he-said : * My dear unele, your visits have caused me the greatest pleasure, but you will at once see the pro- priety of discontinuing them in future, when | inform you that this day week Iam about to mary. You would not, I am sure, think of intruding inta my bedroom, and frighten- ing my wife out of her wits, and as a matter of course, it would be highly improper on my part to spend my night in future in car- ousing and smoking.’

** Oh, you are going to get married, are ‘Yes, you may appear to | you, and that without eonsulting me ? Very well, sir, you can of eourse please yourself ; bet if l am to be denied in future the charms

‘so I kept a sharp lookout on my nephew. |The night before I was to be buried, up he came into the room with the lawyer, the landlord of the Golden Bull, and the under- taker’s man; put the tobacco and myers- chaum pipe into the coffin, though much | against his will, asl could see, whereupon the lid was screwed down. And now, thought 'I, everything is all right, so off I went to look about me a bit. Well, I was buried \the next day, and at midnight, as soon as ‘ever the ghosts were allowed out, off 1 went |to have a smoke. But what do you think, |instead of my meerschaum pipe. 1 found a score of long clays, such as | am now smok- jing, and a short note from my nephew, in- forming me, if ever I came to look for my

ing with indignation, when up came the | ghost of an old friend of mine, a solicitor, who had been dead some half-dozen years. + What, Simpson, you here :’ said he, + 1 am ‘glad to see you; but what's the matter.

are, I know, several cases in the books al- most on all fours with your, thoughs I can't call any of them to mind just at this mo- |ment.’ ‘Then,’ said I, ‘ I may go doWn and claim my pipe ?’ | your nephew, or to any one else who has anything unlawfully in his possess:on or oc-

was the smell of tobacco in a smal! 100m. | side it (not at all injured by being soaked in | my knowledge, who had left England years | cupation which belongs to you as ghost; bat, | of your conversation and your punch, at an ) y g y g z y P your p y

mind, you are not to attempt to take your rate, I will carry off my pipe to comfort me, so hand it over, and you will have done with me now and forever.’

‘* How many times have | told you that When I came down to! you will never get the pipe ?’

** Very good, then, you had better inform

pipe away, you must obtain it by fair means, ‘or not atall.’ * All right,’ said I, turning ‘to go. * Wish you luck,’ said he, ‘mind you | jare in at sunrise.’ ‘the shop, I got quietly in through the key- |

Aud then the tobacco | death-bed, and recommended to me his only hole and went upstairs into my nephew's / your wile beforehand that your house is

He was in bed asleep. ‘There was a/ haunted, for rest assured I shall never dis-

but my nephew would strong smell of tobacco, and on a chair by | continue my visits until that pipe is restored

| bring me a valuable meerschaum pipe, which | :he side of the bed lay my beloved pipe. The | to me.’

‘he himself had smoked for many years, and | room was lighted with gas, which was not

I received a note, informing me and took a seat on the bed and ealled out! I |‘ Jack, Jack,’ half adozen times. He didn’t | went down, and found a fine strapping youth | wake at first, for he was always a sound)

liek aa sleeper, but aftera little, he roused upa bit, | as the ensuing one.

* * That is your fixed determination ?*

* ¢ It is.’

‘ * Very well, we shall see.’

**So we shall.’

‘ Neyer do | remember so irksome a month The instant I was freed

put him in the shop, where he soon made and without opening his eyes, he cried out, | from restraint | was at my nephew's house.

fat man, with a long clay pipe in his mouth, | j,imself uncommonly useful, so that I was * Whatdo you want; and who are you?’ I entered; the stairs were bare of carpets. from which a perfect column of smoke went pretty well contented with my bargain. The ‘lam your uncle’s ghost, Jack, and | am | passed into his bed-chamber; it was empty. up into the air. He had relighted the pipe was indeed a splendid one. Never had come for my pipe.’ With that he jumps up | Not a stick of farniture in any room in the I seen one so perfectly coloured, never had as if he had been shot, and seizing hold of | house, not an ounce of tobacco in the shop. He | I possessed one out of which the tobacco tasted | the pipe, clapped it under his pillow, and | The bird was flown.

It was universally admired, and | says he, * I am very glad to see you, uncle, | . * Oh, ho, thought I, so he thinks to escape

many a time have L been offered fabulous but you don’t get this pipe, L can tell you ; |in this way, does he ; but the possession of

prices for it. But though I was by no means so you had better go back to your coffin that pipe insures my entry wherever he may

disinclined to turn a penny as a general rule, again, and leaye me to have my sleep out.’ | have gone, and I don’t think it will take me penn ~ , J P g

| which increased evety day.

health improved.

alone.

jleasant to have some one to take a fancy to, | live.’ hal bet I don’t see how affection for one’s nephew ; always be glad to see you, but you don’t limit of 1000 miles.

‘It's that rascally steward who has done could improve ones appetite, do you? But, | get the pipe, as I said betore ; however, as 1) phew, Jack Siurson.’ you are half asleep; allow me to | am to have the pleasure of your company for! « J Jooked at the date.

bless me,

waken you.’

With that he thrust the bowl of his pipe | self comfortable.’

‘ventured to hint that the companionship o

It seemed to me get that pipe. I had possessed it my food had | night at twelve precisely, wherever you may | it up. tasted better, my sleep had been sounder, my | be, and stop till daybreak, so you had better Some one or another once | make up your mind and give it up at once.’ | leave me in peace, 1 am obliged to resort to

f\* Why didn’t you take it,’ said artful Jack, | extreme measures. /my nephew was the real cause of all this, but |* while it waslying on the chair?’ * Because}my business, and am going with my wife | knew better. The pipe did it, andthe pipe [I mayn’t; |! t u I don’t deny that I found it very |shan’t have a wink of sleep as long as you/is fair, so that by the time you get this I