" "Well," said he, lifting up his coat and looking carefully behind him as he sat down on the settle, lest a stray kitten or chicken should preoccupy the bench, "you see I was down to Orrin's abaout a week back, and he hed a litter o' pigs,eleven on 'em.

Yet I, messire (having been bred a monk) shall blithely him out-curse, an the joy be permitted me, thus turning tears to laughter and gloomy fear to loud-voiced merrimentmy lord, messires, how say you?" "'Tis blasphemy unheard!"

His uncle Cato, whose daughter Porcia he marriedwhether in Cato's lifetime or afterward is doubtfulhad initiated him from his early youth in the Stoic philosophy, and had instilled into his mind a veneration for it, as though it had been a religion.

[A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT] Is there for honest poverty That hings his head, an' a' that?

For there huge Othos sits in sad distresse, Fast bound with serpents that him oft invades, Far of beholding Ephialtes tide, 375 Which once assai'd to burne this world so wide.

The learneds meed is now lent to the foole; He sings of love and maketh loving layes, And they him heare, and they him highly prayse.

During their abode in this island, they learnt that in one of the neighbouring settlements called Laouran, at that period at war with the one in which they lived, there was another European, formerly belonging to an English brig, that had been wrecked seven years ago, and of whose crew he, and a boy since dead, had alone been spared by their savage captors.

And Mr Fejevaryis he a veteran too? GRANDMOTHER: (dryly) You don't seem to know these parts wellfor one that's all stirred up about the development of the town.