... and other works. As a boy I remember listening to him with delight, for big memory was stored with never-ending stock of stories, many of which were wonderfully like those I have since heard while sitting by the African evening fires. My grandmother, ...

... in the fear and reverence of the natives.— Letter from, Cawnpore. Modern Chivalry.—A young clergyman, residing in Bristol, short time ago paid a flying visit to London, and in Oxf rd Street he met a young lady weeping bitterly. Moved by her distress, he ...

... Robertson, the Prince Consort’s commissioner, and to Mr Grant, the head gamekeeper at Balmoral. Incident of latb “Crisis. —The story of the late monetary crisis will probably never be written in its more private phases and incidents, though, if it could, a ...

... daughter of first-class legal celebrity, his wife obtained the rare honour of being created a peeress in her own right, while a short time previously her ladyship’s father had been ennobled; and in order that the dignity of a coronet should be conferred on ...

... wha appears to ha’e tell’t a bit o’ his mind on Thursday that wad vex some o’ the Commisshioners a wee bit. The sura o’ his story’s jist this, that the contrackit was acceptit in August, and the contracktor alloo'd to commence the wark when he liked, altho’ ...

... in a biographical sketch of the lamented Havelock, relates the following : —We have heard a story about his boyhood which reminds us of the well-known story of Nelson, as given by Southey in his life of that gallant Admiral. When about seven or eight ...

... as the teetotaller did afore him, and made sic an unco puir job o’ his defence, that he had to sit doon afore finishin’ his story, the meetin’ bein’ oot o’ a’ patience wi’ him. I’ll no say exackly whether his break-down was on account o’ his inabeelity ...

... to the mouth of the enemy’s uns, and the regiment surpassed all it ever did before.” A Ghost ! —The Glasgow Herald tells story of a young woman who became acquainted with the servant of a lady, and gradually got into the good graces of the mistress. ...

... in them in fewer words. And maybe it michtna be an ill rule to lay doon for sic a paper as yours, that ye shud tak nane but short letters, hooever gude they micht be. But I maunna set doon laws on a subjeck that ye ken mair than me, an’ leavin’ ye to yere ...

... Newcastle, a bankrupt, was robbed of £9OO in April last, between Carlisle and Longtown. He is now, however, in Newcastle gaol, his story disbelieved, and the protection of the Court of Bankruptcy withheld. Miss Tyrrell, the only daughter of the Admiral of that ...

... evening placed Ivin arms of Rodger as his own flesh and blood, and his very picture. The husband never for a moment doubted the story of his wife, who evinced the greatest kindness §*r child, and rejoicing on the eventful occasion was the The neighbours, however ...

... robbery to the first policeman she met. Police constable Reading, 335, deposed to having taken the prisoners into custody at short distance from the spot where he met the prosecutrix, who was bleeding profusely from the face and in an extreme state of excitement ...