"Peter and Mr. Ginger Dick," ses Mr. Good-man.

"Not if it's managed properly," ses Mr. Good-man, thinking 'ard.

Another in a rayling pulppet key, Drawes through her nose the accent of her voice, And in the presence of her good-man Goate Cries 'fye, now fye, uppon these wicked men That use such beastly and inhumane talke,' When being in private all her studies warne To make him enter into Capricorn.

Tucked in your best-man's pocket; deposited in his deskor washed to a pulp in his white waistcoat (if white waistcoats be the fashion of the hour), washed out of existencecan you tell where it is?

"Then you ar'n't altogether unacquainted, good-man, with the new trade you thought of setting up?"

" "You must have journeyed much, and been stirring late and early, good-man, to have seen all these things, and to have got no harm.

" "You have an ingenious turn with you, good-man," returned the wondering countryman; "now a ship might have lain on the battery island itself, and I would have hardly noticed the thing.

The strangers were three in number; for strangers the good-man Homespun, who knew not only the names but most of the private history of every man and woman within ten miles of his own residence immediately proclaimed them to be, in a whisper to his companion; and strangers, too, of a mysterious and threatening aspect.

A curl of the upper lip, and another strange smile, in which scorn was mingled with his mutterings, decided the vacillating mind of the good-man.

As to the words themselves, though the good-man they might well contain treason, he was compelled to acknowledge to himself that it was so artfully concealed as to escape even his acute capacity We leave the reader himself to judge of the correctness of both opinions.

The third individual was a man between thirty and forty, and of a mien and attire not a little adapted to quicken the already active curiosity of the good-man Homespun.

" "Indeed!" muttered the stranger, biting the handle of his whip, and fastening his glittering eyes intently on the features of the good-man, which were literally swelling with the importance of his discovery; "and what may be the nature of your suspicions?" "Why, sir, I maybe wrongand God forgive me if I ambut this is no more nor less than what has arisen in my mind on the subject.

The eyes of the confounded tailorfor it was no other than that garrulous acquaintance of the reader who had fallen into the toils of the Roverthe eyes of the good-man rolled from right to left, embracing, in their wanderings, the medley of elegance and warlike preparation that they every where met never failing to return, from each greedy look, to devour the figure that stood before him.

The good-man Homespun, who, from fright or policy, appeared to be utterly unable to move, was quickly lifted from his seat, and conveyed to the door which communicated with the quarter-deck.

"Bring hither the black book," said the publican to his wife, who had been drawn to a window by the lamentations of Desire; "I think the woman said something about starting on a journey between two days; and, if such has been the philosophy of the good-man, it behoves all honest people to look into their accounts.

Five or six of the speakers instantly stole slyly out of the throng, with the commendable intention of hurrying after the delinquent, in order to secure the payment of certain small balances of account, in which the unhappy and much traduced good-man stood indebted to the several parties.

to rob the wife of his bosom, the mother of his own children, and" "Well, well," again interrupted the landlord of the 'Foul Anchor,' with his unseasonable voice, "I never before heard the good-man suspected of roguery, though the neighbourhood was ever backward in calling him chicken-hearted.

"Bouse a bit on this waister!" called Richard, when he had properly secured the good-man; "so; belay all that.

returned the good-man; "nor can any one tell at what moment his life is to be taken from him.

" Fid cast a glance of far more than usual significance at the good-man, and even postponed his reply, until he had freshened his ideas by an ample addition to the morsel of weed which he had kept all along thrust into one of his cheeks.

" "The pay of such a service should be both generous and punctual, and the cheer of the most encouraging character," the good-man observed, in a way that manifested he should not be displeased were he to receive a reply.

" "But then there are often divisions of theaathe-prize-money, in this successful cruiser?" demanded the good-man, averting his face as he spoke, perhaps from a consciousness that it might betray an unseemly interest in the answer.

The good-man returned the glance, with interest; but an extraordinary uproar, in another part of the vessel, cut short the dialogue, just as there was a rational probability it might lead to some consolatory explanations between the parties.

I am sure my good-man never goes to any of your lodgings, but he comes home the worse for it, as they say.

and could the good-man and the good-wife deny to the spirits of their dead the welcome which they gave to the cows?