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' Beg partjon; Sie ! But if you was to aim at His Lordship the next time, i think he'd feel moke comfoebleb, Sik !"

urns miwnuiB BDI7- ..„.„..„ from the rear directs its ambiguous progress, the dozing occupant

mK. CUPItin b PKi/lt NOVhLS. may not always understand, but, hearing, cannot faU to be moved to

Wr, ttt TAANifi f\v trw TOAQQ wits tears by the simple tale of Joanna crossed in all her depth and scope

No. III.-JO AM* A. OF THE CROSS WAls. rf iree\-]govou/me by him that should have stood her friend. For

(By Geokce Veeimyth, Author of "Richard's Several Editions" the man had wedded her. Of that there can he no doubt, since the
•' The, Aphorist," " Shampoo's Miaving-Pot.") chronicles have handed down the date of it. Wedded her with the

[With this story came a long, explanatory letter. The story, however, is i fatal "jes" \hat a trusting S™1> *e wolld.'s. chains. A

itself so clear and easy to uudcrstaad (as is all the work of this matter), that maIJ< A reckless, mutton-munching, beer-swilling animal!

the accompanying commentary is unnecessary.] And yet a man. A dear, taave, human heart, as it should have

„ T been; capable, it may be, of unselfishness and devotion; but, alas!

Ubapter 1. £ow Eadiy twisted to the devil's purposes on earth, an image of per-

ls the earlier portion of the lives rf all of us there is a time, • petual chatter, like the putty-faced street-pictures of morning
heaven-given without doubt, for all things, as we know, draw their I soapsuds. His names stand in full in the verse. John, shortened

origin thence, if only in our blunder- |--■— )-<n-\,\—p ■ -1 familiarly, but not without a hint of

ing, ill-conditioned way we trace them j|H 1 If lliiiiJ'iii i!l contempt, to Jack, stares at you in all

back far enough with the finger of fate ™- IP' Jlh III the bravery of a Christian name. And

pointing to us as in mockery of all I'lJ I >Jj Hi.i! n Spkatt follows with a breath of musty

striving of ours on this rough bosom of - il'" >'JP^» t'i '•{ ' antiquity. Speatt that is indeed a

our mother earth, a time there comes ,ij V-'' ^ ||>i 'iijfeei 1 u i ' , i', r |i 1 Speatt, sunk in the oil of a slothful

when the senses rebel, first faintly, ■ ,ij ii 'H ( VCU»^&/ ■ 11 imagination and bearing no impress of

and then with ever-increasing vehem- ]' j ^''jBfTfe I a lij's the sirname that should raise its owner

ence, panting, beating, buffeting and i;j I1 '« A' JwMm K il ' '0^^^ ']\vM +0 do^dy Peaks of despotic magni-
breasting the torrent of necessity, % 'h'ii'ilsX 'J Hft'f .'■' u.' \i'ft$i i [ licence.

against the parental decree that would _| Ito^ Jf i.MBtea^atf«S'- 1 iNliliS1, But of the lady's names no hint is

drench our inmost being in the remedial -jwM||Mi|oc Q sBaPLw >\f>l given. "We may conjecture Spkatt to

powder of a Gregorian doctor, famous, . , j| WMM^Q^KKKKK- "OV^O^fe, *r\\ have been hers too, poor young soul
I doubt not, in his day, and much |(|W|Mb1i ■HHHHRb /' ;' ' WWfe that should have been dancing instead

bepraised by them that walked deli- iWHH| '»fjf i !-'f-> ;' M ' \wSBMmm of f*stene^ to a table in front of an

cately in the light of pure reason and flfflflStSn P. iWiRfl'1!*' fl'MVimd^mmMtIi eternal platter. And of all names to
the healthful flow of an untainted soul, J Ml \ fc. 1 ZKMViniHH| precede it the fittest surely is Joanna.
but now east out and abhorred of child- HHIMpK^^<^m|^7 MKKUm -1' 01" w^at is that but the glorification
hood soaring on uplifted wing through m^KK^^^^^a^^^^^^^!S:~T~'Ch~ >^B»B8 wit,k many feminine thrills of the
the vast blue of the modern pharma- IIf^-lILj^gS^^ unromantic chawbacon John masti-

copceia. Yet to them is there not if!) 7) —_______ gg. ~^^mflB%SBN/UBI eating at home in semi-privacy the

comfort too in the symbolic outpour * L _ J\ —--— _<^AmK^^^^nf husks of contentment, the lean scrap-
ings of a primaeval wisdom which, ^^c-— I MUl'mF^^11^™ iugs °f the divine dish which is offered
embodied for all time in imperishable----;--once in every life to all. So Joanna

verse, are chanted in the haunts of the very young like the solt
lappings of the incoming tide on a beach where rounded pebble
disputes with shining sand the'mastery of the foreshore ?

she shall be and is, and as Joanna shall her story be told.

Chapter II.

So, too, while the infant chariot with its slow motion of treble: Many are the tales concerning Joanna's flashing wit. There
wheels advances obedient to tbSj hand of the wimpled maid who; appeared many years back, in a modest shape that excited small