... . Br 0. K. Harkivay. IV. A DOG SHOW. HAVING lost Tootsie and disposed of Wootsie, I was in a dog- less condition, but did not remain so for very long. When on a visit to some friends at Bury St. Edmunds, I came across a beautiful collie belonging to a shepherd which had won several prizes on the show-bench, and was entered for the forthcoming show at Cambridge. After a little haggling I ...

... . THE following facts were obtained at first band and are wholly accurate and trustworthy. The story has no likeness to the numerous wonder tales which have no better foundation than gossip and imagination. The occurrence, should it prove to be true, was deemed of so great importance that a special messenger was detailed to visit the spot with instructions to inquire carefully and thoroughly ...

... . HERE is another extraordinary letter from your Cousin Ann, exclaimed the bride of Captain Arthur Forster, glanc ing up from the closely written missive she had just opened. xou know I would not say a word against any of your rela tions for the world, darling, but don't you think that Cousin Ann is just a wee bit. eccentric No, I certainly never thought that, laughed her husband. She is a ...

... FOLLOWING THE BARON. WELL, how will your system work now? What will win next year's Derby? It was Roland Myers who asked the above question; it was addressed to Jack Pointsford, and, as he was standing next to me, I overheard it. The Middle Park Plate of 1870 had just been run, and the winner's number-- Albert Victor-- was being hoisted. What was third? asked Pointsford. Hannah? Well then ...

... THE NEW BOUNDARY EIDER. A STORY OF AUSTRALIAN BUSH LIFE. By Mary Gaunt. IX. MARRIED. AND the next morning she set off for Acacia Greek. She wished she was not going, she wished she had not promised to go; but, having promised, she did not quite see how she was to get out of it. No reasonable excuse presented itself. She could not say to Tom she wanted to stay at home because Adrian Grant had ...

... . IT was somewhere about the year 1887 I first became en gaged to the subject of this story-- subject I must call him, and must find him an alias, for he still lives, and, man-like, objects to these tales. Don't however think that I am going to exaggerate. I will tell you the truth as to the matter in hand. George, we will call him George (for I had a lover of that name), is one of the most ...

... . ON Monday next the season of Fat Stock Shows culminates with the holding of the Cattle Show par excellence of the year-- that promoted by the Smithfield Club. The forthcoming exhibition of fat cattle will derive some importance from the fact that it is the hundredth of the series, and possibly the executive of the club-- the Prince of Wales is president for the year-- would have been glad if ...

... MARTIN'S DOUBLE. A FAMINE ROMANCE. By Hope Eittc. I WAS one of three or four men lounging round the smoking- room fire in a Service Club in town not many week sago. Our conversation had been of the usual desultory, after-dinner type. We had discussed sport and the drama, touched on social themes, criticised the Frontier policy of the Government, from which our talk glided imperceptibly into ...

... FOE THIS NIGHT ONLY. THERE is no more popular place of entertainment in London than the Queen's Theatre in the Strand, and it seemed on that particular evening as if the entire theatre-going public had fixed on it for its evening's amusement. It was to he a great occasion. Old Guy Ashlyn, after a re tirement of twelve years, had been persuaded to appear for one night as Hamlet, the greatest of ...

... . I. THEY all called him, because they all liked him, old Billy, but they none of them knew how old old Billy'' was. If he knew himself, he kept the information to himself, being of opinion that a man's age is his own affair, and knowing that it is sure to beat him at the finish. A philosopher has, indeed, observed that in the great race of life it is always 1,000 to 3 on Tombstone; and ...

... ROSALIND. A COACHING ADVENTURE. CURIOUS stories and pleasant companions may often be found in the smoking-rooms of country inns. A short time ago I solaced myself at that old hostelry, The Boar's Head, Bolton. It was late, but a gentlemanly fellow full of anecdote and fun tempted me to sit up half an hour longer than usual. Let us light up once more, said he, and we began fresh cigars. My ...

... FOKETOLD. A STORY FOR PALMISTS. Bv Eveline Michell Farwkll. CHAPTER I. WELL! will she marry a millionaire? A woman who told her fortune by cards the other day vowed she would. Make haste, Coralie, you're keeping me on tenterhooks all this time, exclaimed plump, impetuous Mrs. Gordon, as Coralie Grey bent a thoughtful and somewhat anxious face over the little hands Nina Gordon held ...