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Proceeding northward to Staffa, we there find transported sufficiently powerful to throw the travelled blocks from stones, particularly on the abrupt edge of the western cliff; | Cruachan, or any other mountain of the interior of all are of substances not found in situ in Staffa, and not the country. In England also we see effects which nearer than Mull, seven miles distant. McCulloch says, can scarcely be referred to any other agency than that of they could have been brought by water, “either gradual glaciers; but the evidences of subsidence are less plain. or sudden, without supposing Staffa continuous with Mull." | On the continent drifts have been traced in distinct The trap strata remain undisturbed, therefore the separa- directions, northward from the Alps, and southward tion must have taken place by gradual and tranquil action, from the Scandinavian chain; but in England the course not by violent dislocation from below. Staffa lies to the of the transported masses from the mountains of Westsouth west of Mull; and on the shore of Argyleshire, to moreland and Cumberland, is chiefly to the south and east, the north-east, is found a granite boulder 42 feet high by 38 slightly to the north, and not at all to the west ; " so that feet; it is supported upon three small stones, one of them while there is scarcely any appearance of transported gravel granite, the others ironstone. This is at Appin; there are on the borders of Scotland, the boulders have crossed the numerous other granite boulders in this part of Scotland. deep and broad vale of the Eden, and have afterwards

In Sky the alluvial deposit lying sixty feet above the traversed the Penine hills, over a pass 900 feet above the sea, near Kyleaken, is of the nature of the neighbouring Eden. This chain must, however, have been in existence, mountains; but intermixed is gneiss, and hornblende and have acted in some measure as a great natural dam, schist, which are not found in the island. On the shores limiting the eastward distribution of the blocks; for the of Fladda, the small island in Loch Staffin (Sky) are moving force was sufficient to carry the drift to the south, numerous fragments of red sandstone, with a few of gneiss, over all the undulated and hilly region between the mounboth identical with the rocks of the opposite shores of tain border of Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and the Irish Rasay and Bona. Red sandstone is not found in situ in sea; the continuity being perfect, at least as far as Bridgethis part of Sky. If the distance of the opposed shores, worth, more than 130 miles from the origin of the transand the direction of the tide stream, be considered, there ported matter." is no reason to suppose that the detached stones of Fladda The granite of Shap, in Westmoreland, is so peculiar as have been washed from Rasay, while there is no commu- to be easily recognised, even in boulders which have tranication between the islands which can have occasioned velled nearly across England. There is a block of this their being brought as ballast. In Sandy isle, one of the southern islets of the Hebrides, kapite at Darlington; others at Barton, and in the Tees

at Piercebridge, and near Newton; also in the banks of there are numerous blocks of red sandstone. No remains of the Seine. Between Embleton and Elwick there is an this are found in strata on the island, but it forms a large accumulation of diluvial matter, which begins to rise into portion of the islands of Rum and Sky, lying to the north- elevated ridges; thence ranging about ten miles nearly east. The following is McCulloch's striking description of due north over the centre of the adjacent limestone, the scene.

these ridges terminate at Wardenlaw Hill, in a capping “ The appearance produced by the fallen fragments is 200 feet thick, and overlooking all the neighbouring emivery remarkable, and cannot fail to strike a visitor on his

This transported matter is of granite, and some first entrance into the valley of Coruisk. The interval specimens of which it would be difficult to refer to their between the borders of the lake and the side of Gars- native seat. ven is strewed with them; the whole, of whatever size, Near East Bergholt in Suffolk are transported blocks lying on the surface in a state of uniform freshness and and other diluvial materials. At Stratford St. Mary in integrity, unattended by a single plant or atom of soil, as the same county, Mr. Clarke says he has “collected speciif they had all but recently fallen in a single shower. The mens of nearly every rock in England, to the north-west mode in which they lie is no less remarkable. The bot- of Suffolk.” There are beds of marine shells in the tom of the valley is covered with rocky eminences, of eastern cliffs of Norfolk, which show that coast to have which the summits are not only hare, but often very been rising; and the same process is taking place in Nornarrow, while the declivities are always steep, and way and the north of Sweden, while the most southern sometimes perpendicular. Upon these rocks fragments part of the latter country, Scania, is subsiding. The island lie just as on more level ground; and in positions so ex- of Saltholm in the Sound, opposite to Copenhagen, is mentraordinary that it is scarcely possible to conceive how tioned in the records of the Chapter of Roeskilde, in the they have risen so far after the rebound, or how they have 13th century, on account of the income which the clergy remained balanced on the very verge of a precipice. One derived from it; at present it is hardly five feet above the weighing about ten tons has become a rocking stone; level of the sea, by which it is overflowed almost every another, not less than fifty tons, stands on a narrow edge autumn, the cattle which graze there in summer taking of rock' 100 feet higher than that ground below which refuge upon some artificial mounds. It is evident that must have first met it in the descent. Possibly the pre- this island cannot have risen since the above date; it has sence of snow at the time of its fall may assist in explaining much more prubably subsided, or its revenues could not this remarkable appearance.”

have been worthy of notice. On the Danish coast of the We wonder that the transporting agency of ice did not Sound, six milts north ward of Copenhagen, a raised beach strike Mr. McCulloch in viewing this scene, as the idea of occurs about six feet above the level of the sea ; and a rock rebounding from a valley, and then fixing itself houses have been built between it and the present beach. upon a rocky pinnacle, could not have been seriously held The island of Bornholm, north-east of Rugen, is also rising, by him. In our former examples of boulders in the isles according to calculation, about a foot in a century. It is of Scotland, we had only the probability of glacier agency; curious, in connexion with this, that the slight earthquakes here we have scarcely a possibility of any other. It is which are felt in Sweden almost every year are never exevident that a torrent of water could not have left these perienced in Denmark, and that a shock of an earthquake rocks with their pinnacles and sharp edges uncovered by which, in August, 1829, was felt so strongly on the Danish smaller debris, as they must have been the earliest depo- coast of the Sound that the terrified fishermen in some sitions of the torrent, and a quantity of sand and soil must places left their houses, was not at all perceived on the ophave been afterwards brought down from the high lands. posite Swedish shores. Also no torrent powerful enough to move such rocks would Professor Forbes mentions the appearance of a former have left them nicely poised upon the edge of a precipice. glacier, noticed by Mr. Vigne in his travels in Kashmir. No power but that of a glacier could have done this. At the foot of the Diharah hills between Ghizni and

We thus see that the granite boulders of the west of Karohi there are small peaks of limestone, and denuded Scotland point to the central mountains of that country masses of hardened shingle; and on the plain there lay, as their original seat ; and we have also seen such evidences with no rock of the kind near it, a large accidental block of quiet and gradual subsidence among the isles lying the of limestone. At Dukhun, near Ahmednuggur, boulders nearest to the coast, as may well lead to the supposition cover fields of many acres. They are from 20 to 70 feet that those mountains also have greatly subsided; and that high, and as much in diameter; and are piled on each in remote times they were sufficiently elevated to send forth other, fifty or sixty in the compass of two square miles, icy streams laden with their characteristic burdens. In those with not a stone between them. In the neighbouring fields times perhaps the isles of Jura, &c. formed a part of the there are no such remains. The Sewalik”hills lie at the mainland, from which they were afterwards gradually and toot of the Himalehs, with which they are sometimes quietly disjoined; we should remember that this quiet connected by a chain of low hills, and sometimes separated disruption or subsidence, of which we have certain proofs, by valleys from three to ten miles in width. These hills totally denies the possibility of convulsive movements consist of beds of boulders or shingle, of sands hardened

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to every degree of consistency, and other substances, the small house, which, beside a stable and a shed, has opis strata dipping generally towards the north. These hills three windows, partly patched with paper.

At the top have been mentioned as the remains of glaciers, but it is

garret window hangs a shutter, suspended by a sicale probable that they owe their formation equally to deposits hinge, and threatening to fall on the heads of the from the Himalehs by means of other agents than ice.

Behind the house is a garden which, On the new continent the evidences of former glaciers

passers-by. are in proportion to the other natural characters of that although small, is divided into two by a hedgerus of

withered thorns. magnificent country. On the shores of Lake Huron lie boulders of rocks not found within the distance of six hun

In this house lived two brothers, who had kept up a dred miles, mostly of granite and porphyry. There is constant and bitter enmity for fourteen years. As in also the same appearance as in Europe, of rock smoothed the garden, so also in the house, everything was divided and furrowed, wherever the drift has come in contact with into two parts, from the garret down to the little cellar. them. Between the Alleghany mountains and the Atlan- The trap-door was open ; but in the cellar below each tic ocean, the diluvium conceals the underlying deposits of the brothers had his own stores, shut off by latka, on the eastern part of this extensive territory, consisting and locked up. Padlocks were put on all the doors, as chiefly of fine sand and gravel, but the pebbles even there if an attack of thieves were hourly expected. The stable belong almost entirely to the older rocks of the interior. belonged to one brother, the shed to the other: not a As we advance from the coast towards the west, the mass of diluvial matter becomes coarser and less sandy; and word was spoken in the house, except an occasional at length, near the rocky boundary of the plain, the gravel oath, muttered by one of the brothers. is much coarser, rolled blocks and large boulders occurring,

Michael and Conrad (so the brothers were named but alternating with clayey beds, sufficiently pure to be were advanced in years, and both were single. Conrad used in the manufacture of bricks. Diluvium is also seen had been married, but his wife had died early; and west of the Alleghanies, throughout the region of the Ohio Michael had always remained a bachelor. and Mississippi, north of Alabama, where not a boulder

A large old chest was the first cause of this feeling appears on the face of the land. In Ohio, Kentucky, and between the brothers. 'Upon the death of their mother, Indiana, detached blocks brought from a great distance, everything had been divided between them; for their and weighing several hundred pounds, rest on the ordinary sister, who was married and settled in the village, bad finer diluvium, and are promiscuously dispersed; the direction of the drift being invariably from the north-west already received her portion. Conrad declared he had and north.

bought the chest with his own money, which he earned In Canada the houlder formation is mixed with marine by breaking stones upon the roads. He said that he shells, showing, according to Mr. Lyell, “ a more arctic had only lent it to his mother, and at her death it climate thian now obtains in the neighbourhood." The became his property again. Michael, on the contrary, boulders are of primary rocks occurring at different levels, asserted that, as Conrad had always lived with his not resting on each other, but with apparently, quiet depo- mother, and been maintained by her, he could not sitions of clay, gravel, and sand between them, in which the possess any property of his own. After an angry quarrel Testacea found there had lived and died. Some of the shells are broken, others have both valves joined as when between the brothers, the affair was referred to the they lived. “ But all idea of these shells, together with bailiff, and afterwards to the court at Horb; and it was the clay, sand, gravel, and boulders having been drifted finally decreed that, as they could not settle the matter together into their present position, by a violent current amicably, everything in the house, including the chest or rush of water, must be given up at once, when I state in dispute, should be sold by auction, and the proceeds the fact, that the Terebratula psittacea, which are so shared between them. Even the house itself was pat fragile that the smallest stones would be sufficient to up for sale, but, as no purchaser could be found, the destroy them if carried along, even with a moderate brothers were obliged to keep it. degree of violence, by moving water, are found with their valves together, and their long brittle teeth entire as when chatteis, their beds, and other things, by public auctigs.

They had now to repurchase their own goods and they were living. The whole of the facts lead me to infer, To Conrad this was a great grief, for he had more that these numerous erratic blocks have been carried hy ice, and dropped from time to time on the bed of the feeling than is ordinarily met with. There are in every tertiary sea.'

house many things which possess a value beyond their In South America the boulder formation is extensive market price; for thoughts and recollections are attached and interesting, but would require more space than we to them, in which the world at large can have no share can now give to it. Mr. Darwin says, that the agency of Such things ought to be preserved, and quietly handed ice alone can be applied to the transported blocks, but he down from generation to generation, that their worth concludes that this must have been by icebers rather than may remain unimpaired; for, as soon as they pass in by glaciers. To his interesting volume upon the dis- the hands of strangers, their value, as a sacred interit coveries which he made in the Southern hemisphere we must refer our readers.

ance, is lost.

Conrad repeatedly shook his head, as these thoughts crossed his mind, when some old piece of household furniture or other was knocked down to him; and wb

his mother's hymn-book, with its silver clasps and Village Tales from the Black Forest, translated from hand to weigh the silver, the blood flew to his face, and

studs, was offered for sale, and a pedlar took it in the German of AUERBACH, by Meta Taylor. Boave: he bid for the book at any price. At last came the Fleet street.

turn for the chest to be sold. Michael hemmed aloud, The interest of these tales depends upon the severe and looked at his brother with an air of defiance, and inunadorned truthfulness of their delineations of character, fiorin more, without raising his eyes, and all the while

stantly bid a considerable sum. Conrad quickly lud 2 rather than upon variety of incident, the expression of counting the buttons on his jacket. But Metzel, highly wrought feeling, or artificial management of looking boldly around, bid still higher. No other per plot. As the name of the author is advancing into son advanced more ; but out of bravado neither of the considerable notoriety, we think it right to give our brothers would let the other have the thing in dispute : readers an example of bis style, for which purpose we

moreover, each thought to himself that he should only select, perhaps not the best, but the shortest, and for and higher. At length the chest was knocked down to

have to pay the half, and so went on bidding biglie: that reason the most suitable for our pages, of the tales. Conrad for eight-and-twenty florins, more than fre

times its worth.

For the first time Conrad now raised his eyes, and Is the thinly inhabited little street, called the his look was quite altered ; he cast a scornful glance at “ Kniebis,” in the village of Nordstetten, stands a Michael, and, trembling with rage, exclaimed, " When

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you die, I'll make you a present of the chest for a gain." The Jews were also very useful to him, and he in coffin !" These were the last words he spoke to him turn played into their hands. for fourteen years.

When Michael, on his way to market or return home, The story of the chest soon spread through the vil- saw Conrad breaking stones upon the road, he cast a lage, and became the subject of general raillery and look at him, half in pity half in scorn, and thought, jokes. When any one met Conrad, he remarked how “Poor devil ! breaking stones there from morning to shamefully Michael had behaved ; and the former night for sixpence a day, whilst I can earn, even with worked himself up by degrees into a fury. The two moderate good luck, six florins.” Conrad, short-sighted brothers were of very different dispositions, and each as he was, noticed his brother's scornful look, and pursued his own way in life. Conrad kept a cow, which worked away, banging and splitting the stones till they he used to yoke with his neighbour Christian's cow for flew right and left. We shall see, however, which got field work; whilst in his spare time he broke stones on on best in the world. Michael was a great favourite in the roads, for which he was paid sixpence a day. He the village, for he could go on telling tales from mornwas very short-sighted, and walked unsteadily; and ing till night, and knew all the tricks and ways of the whenever he struck a spark to light his pipe, he held world. Of better things he certainly knew little; for, the tinder close to his nose, to make sure that it was though he occasionally went to church, he went, as too alight; so, throughout the village he went by the name many do, without giving a thought to what he heard, of * Blind Conrandle.”

and without bettering his life. Michael was the very reverse of his brother; he was Conrad too had his faults, foremost amongst which tall and slim, and walked with a firm step, carrying was his enmity to his brother, and the manner in which himself with all the air of a peasant; not that he was he showed this. When any one asked him, " llow does one exactly, but it was useful to him in his trade to your brother Michael go on?” he only answered by appear so. He dealt in old horses, and people have a making a sign with his hand under his chin, as much much greater confidence in a horse which they purchase as to say, “Some day or other he will be hanged !" from a fellow in a smock-frock. Michael had once The folks were of course not sparing in putting this been a farrier, but was unlucky in business; so he either question, and a great shout always followed when they sold or let his fields, gave himself up to horse-dealing. got Conrad to give his usual reply. In other ways, too, and lived the life of a gentleman. He was a person of the villagers excited the mutual enmity of the brothers, great importance throughout the country; for a distance not exactly out of malice, but for idle fun. Michael, of six or eight miles round he knew the exact state of however, only shrugged his shoulders contemptuously, all the stables, just as well as a statesman knows the when they talked of Conrad as “ the poor devil.” statistics of foreign countries, and the position of dif- The brothers never remained together in the same ferent cabinets; and, as the latter learns the disposition room; if they chanced to meet in the village inn, or in of the people through the public journals, so Michael their sister's house, one of them instantly hurried away. sounded the country folks, and got at his information Nobody thought of a reconciliation between them, and, in the public-houses. In every village, too, he had some whenever two men quarrelled, it was a proverbial idle fellow as his resident, with whom he held frequent saying, “ They lived like Michael and Conrad.” recret conferences, and who in all cases of nced used to At home the brothers spoke not a word, nor did they despatch an express --- in his own person—to Michael, a ever look at one another when they met. Nevertheless, job for which he merely demanded a bottle of wine. if either of them observed that the other was unwell and But Michael had also his secret agents, who instigated kept his bed, he would instantly run to his sister, who the stable-lads to acts of revolt; and it generally hap. I lived at some distance, and say to her, “Go up, and see pened that he had in his shed (which served him for a him; I think something is the matter with him.” And stable) some jaded old horse, which he tricked out for on his return home he would move about and work sale in a new campaign ; he coloured the hair over its quietly and without noise, so as not to disturb the other. eyes, filed its teeth, and though the poor beast could no But abroad, and among the neighbours, Michael and lünger eat anything else but bran, what cared he? The Conrad lived in perpetual enmity, and no one imagined next market-day he was sụre to get rid of it for more that a spark of affection still existed in their hearts. than its worth.

This state of things continued for fourteen years. On these occasions he had his peculiar tricks and Meanwhile, by constantly buying and selling, all the stratagems: for instance, he used to place some accom. money which Michael gained from the sale of his two plice in the market-place, who would pretend to want fields had slipped through his fingers, he knew not how. to make an exchange; then they would come to high But Conrad had bought another field from a neighbour words, and Michael would cry aloud, “I can't exchange; who was about to emigrate, and had paid nearly all the I have neither food nor stall-room, and if I have to sell purchase-money. Michael now set up as a kind of agent the horse for a dollar, it can't be helped, go he must.” or adviser to other people in making their bargains, At another time he would play a still deeper trick; for and he calculated that, by the sale of another field, he a few pence he got some poor bumpkin to ride the horse should bring matters round, and set himself up in busi. up and down the market, as if it were his own, and ness again. “And there arose up a new king in Egypt.” then said to the bystanders,—“Ah, if a fellow had that | The villagers of Nordstetten might, in a peculiar man. horse who knew how to manage him, he would soon ner, apply this verse of Exodus to themselves. The old bring him into condition, and make a handsome beast parson was dead; he had been a good man, but had let of him : bis make is perfect; he wants nothing but things go their own way. His successor, on the conflesh, and then he would fetch his twenty dollars at the trary, was a zealous young man, who was for setting least.”

every thing to rights; and certainly he accomplished a Then Michael soon found a purchaser, bargained with good deal. One Sunday, after morning service, the peahim for a commission fee, and thus got a double profit sants were sitting and chatting together on the timbers by the sale of his own horse. He hated any law trans- which lay near the village pump, and which were actions, which required a guarantee for soundness; and, intended to build the new engine house. Michael was when pushed to this extremity, would rather sacrifice a one of the group; he sat, with his elbows fixed on his couple of florins than enter into any such engagement : knees, looking on the ground and chewing a straw. nevertheless, he had often a law-suit on his hands, which Little Peter, the son of John the watchman, a boy of ste up the horse together with the profit. Still there was five years old, ran past, when one of the villagers called such a charm in this free, roving, and idle life, that, to the child, and said, putting his hand into his pocket, taking the good with the bad, Michael could not resolve Hollo, Peter! here's a handful of nuts for you, if you to give up horse-dealing. He acted on the principle, make a face like Conrad. What does Conrad do 1" The “ Never go home from market without striking a bar- | child shook his head, and was running off ; for he was

a sensible little urchin, and was afraid of Michael ; but expecting him, rose, and begged him to take a chair; they held him fast, till at last he made the sign of but Michael, pointing to his brother, answered, “With hanging under his chin. At this there was a shout of all respect to your Reverence, I cannot sit down in the laughter, that might be heard through the whole village. same room with that man. Your Reverence has not But, when the boy asked for the nuts, it turned out that been long in the village, and you know not what : the man who had promised them had none; and a fresh sackful of lies he is—a sneaking, hypocritical fellow." shout arose as the boy ran up to the cheat and gave him Then, trembling with rage, he continued : " That man a kick. Meanwhile the new parson had come down the is the cause of all my misfortunes; he banished peace little hill by the court-house, and stood watching all from our house, and drove me to take to horse-dealing, that passed; but, just as the boy Peter was going to be and bad ways. Ah !” he exclaimed, darting a fierce beaten for his demand of the nuts, the parson stepped look at Conrad, “you prophesied - yes, you — that I quickly up, and snatched the boy away. Instantly all should hang myself in a halter; but, mark me, your the peasants drew back, and took off their caps. The turn will come first !” parson now beckoned to the sexton, who happened to The parson allowed them to vent their rage, only be standing by, to accompany him through the village, interposing his authority to check any personal vioand learnt from him the whole story about the enmity lence. He felt sure that, when their long-fostered and of the brothers, and all that we have related above. The secret anger was exhausted, some remains of brotherly following Saturday, as Conrad was breaking stones in love would still be found, and brought to light; but the village, he received an invitation to call upon the he was in part disappointed. parson the next morning after service. He stared at At length both brothers sat down, speechless, and the sexton, his pipe went out, and for a minute the breathing hard. The parson then addressed them, at stone remained unbroken under his wooden-soled shoe. first in a gentle tone, disclosing all the hidden recessos He could not conceive what was to happen at the par- of the heart; but it was in vain-they both cast their sonage, and would gladly have gone that very instant. eyes down upon the floor. He then pictured to them The invitation was brought to Michael just as he was the anguish of their parents in the next world. Conrad “polishing the Sunday boots” of an old horse, for so he sighed, but did not raise bis eyes. Then the parson called cleaning the hoofs. He was whistling a snatch summoned all his power, and with a voice like that of of a song, but stopped short in the middle, knowing full a denouncing prophet, he reminded them how, after well the lecture that was in store for him, and glad to death, they would have to appear before the judgmenthave time to prepare a saucy reply, scraps of which he seat, and there answer fearfully for the sin of brotherly muttered to himself.

hate. He ended ; and there was a silence. Conrad On Sunday morning the parson preached a sermon wiped the tears from his eyes with his sleeve; then he from a verse of the 133d Psalm: “Behold, how good rose from his chair, and said, “ Michael !" and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in Michael had not heard that sound for so many years, unity.” He pointed out how all earthly happiness and that he started, and looked up. Conrad stepped nearer, fortune are as nothing, unless shared and enjoyed with and said, “ Michael, forgive me !” The hands of the those who have rested with us on the same mother's brothers were in a moment fast locked in one another; breast. He showed how those parents can never be and the parson laid his hand upon them to bless the act. happy in this world, nor blest in the next, whose chil- When Michael and Conrad were seen coming down dren are estranged from one another hy envy, hatred, the little hill by the court-house, hand-in-hand, every or malice; he quoted the example of Cain and Abel, eye was upon them--not a man but felt a secret jor and showed how brotherly hate was the first cause of at his heart. As soon as they reached home, the first sin. All this, and much more, the parson spoke with thing they did on entering the house was to wrench & a clear and thundering voice, till the people said, one every padlock and fastening; and having done so, they to another, " He'll bring the walls about our ears !” went into the garden, and levelled the hedge with the But, alas! it is often easier to move stone walls than the ground; no matter what cabbages were destroyed, a!! hardened hearts of men. Barbara wept bitterly as she token of their former discord had instantly to be re thought of the conduct of her brothers; and, although moved. Then they went to their sister's house, and the parson addressed his remarks to his auditors at they all ate together at the same table. large, and urged every one to lay his hand upon his In the afternoon the two brothers sat in the church heart, and ask himself whether he had a true affection side by side, and each held a corner of their mother's for his kindred, nevertheless every one present felt sure hymn-book in his hand. that he referred to Michael and Conrad.

From that time forwards their lives were spent hap The two brothers were standing not far from one pily, in unity of spirit, and in the bonds of peace. another ; Michael bit his cap, which he held between his teeth, but Conrad stood listening, with open mouth; and once, when their eyes met, the cap fell from Michael's hand, and he stooped down quickly to pick

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nience of pariies residing at a distance, price 2s. 6d. per quarur. The psalm tune ended with a soft and peaceful close ; but, before the last sounds died away, Michael had left the church, and was standing at the parsonage door. It was still locked, so he went into the garden, and

CONTENTS. stood for a time beside the bee-hives, watching the busy activity of the little creatures. “They know not what

| Piscator's Sketches. Chap. 1. 158 Sunday is !” thought he to himself; "and I, too, have Adelgitha, (with Illustration

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353 | The Maiden Aunt, So. Ill no Sunday in my way of living, for I have no regular | A Little Talk about Buck- Chap. V. day of work.” Then, again, he thought,

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354 Boulder Stones, or Erratic hundred brothers and sisters live together in such a Frank Fairlegh; or, Old Comhive, and all work like their parents !” But he did

panions in New Scenes, Village Tales

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lenge to let the parson lecture him. As he turned toward the church-yard, the last words of Conrad recurred to his mind, and he involuntarily clenched his fist.

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