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ENGLISH COUNTIES: HISTORICAL

ENIGMA."

FIRST let that Admiral appear,
Whose fate deserved compassion's tear;
Who long his country's cause did aid,
But with ingratitude was paid.
-And now that Admiral's name repeat,
Who did in the West Indies meet

The famed De Grasse, and took his flect.
:-Tell now the Lord High Admiral's name,
Whose conduct gain'd him endless fame,
When Spain's Armada was destroy'd,
Though it invincible was cried.

Next him who boldly cross'd the main,
And first did Prima Vista gain,
Unto his monarch's high command,
Though now its name is Newfoundland.
The Admiral who, at his ease,
(Forgot the dangers of the seas;)
Was in the Royal George consign'd,
A sudden watery death to find.

Tell him who, victor on the deep,
When sunk in death's cold arms to sleep,est
Was in the narrow coffin laid,

tan Which from the L'Orient's mast was made.

When Charles the Second sent his fleet,
Holland's opposing ships to meet, digital
Pray the Dutch Admiral's name declare,
Whose vessel blew up in the aire
-Now let the Navigator come,
Who met at last his fatal deom,
When distant from his native place,
Slain basely by a savage race.

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Last the brave Admiral who sought, And the French fleet off Ushant fought; Which, coward-like, retired from fight, Veil'd by the curtain of the night.

These Admirals' names if right you take Tell a Welch County, where a lake Abounds with fish, to that degree, That not much water you can see.

RIDDLES, 1.

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Why is P the best landlord's letter?

ENIGMA,

am great, I am small, I am near, I am far, ind the glance of my beam is an evening star; move, I am still, in my wanderings free, Ind the source of my brightness, known only to

me.

Hough earth-born I am, yet the star of my light Jas pointed to Hope in the dark gloom of night;

ly, freely I live, though I rest with the dead, And to Death as my bride, my beloved, am wed! The lamp which I hold man cannot obtain, Though beneath his proud feet, his proud grasp I disdain!

am bright, I am beautiful, leader and snare Loved, hated, sought, dreaded, man's hope and despair!

CHARADE.

My first supports you where you stay; Two-thirds of wandering from your way; My second-be my whole I pray,

And from your path you will not stray.

TRANSPOSITIONS.

1.

When dusky night, with louring clouds, Spreads darkness o'er the earth. Then superstition, leagued with fear, Will give my total birth! Curtail me, and the gloom is fled I cheer the wanderer's way; sbAgain curtail'd you find a man Whose heart is ever gay. Now view me in another form, The table I adorn; coee... To science now I'm near allied, Of industry am born.

A most destructive animal,

Tis strange, I shall appear.

Reversed, and in the well-filled barn,
The rustics greatest fear.

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I nn, by the roadside, Weariness doth prizey N
Nightshade imparts malaria unto skies;
Bower of forest shade doth Muse delight:
U rchin spreads joy or woe, by day or night;
Roc, of Arabia, fancy figured vast;
Guinea is never into dross-bag cast
Hamlet is village, wherein oft we see to co
The martin mingling with rusticity.
The nine initials of these words display
A city's title, in conjoined array:
Edinburgh is title thus unveil'd,
That classic Taste hath gladly often hail'de
Within her arbour; sending forth her son,
A second time to scan the peerless town..

EDITED BY HERR HARRWITZ.

PROBLEM No. XI.-By A. G. M'COMBE, Esq.-White to move, and mate in two moves.

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ELLEN LYNDHURST;

A TALE OF TRIAL AND TRIUMPH. (Continued from page 275.)

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The poor woman who had given Maggie shelter in her humble dwelling, was at the time stooping down, nroistening the sufferer's mouth with a feather. For a second or two she did not observe her visitors. At length she started up, exclaiming, your pardon, ladies. I never seed you come in, I'm sure. Poor soul, she's bin a raving, and now she's burnin' with faver, so I've bin wetting her lips, for they're all afire."

"We've brought you some wine, and some light cake, and an orange or two, which we thought might do the poor creature good."

"The Lord will reward you for it, ladies," said the woman; "but she'll never live to take 'em, I'm sure; if another fit comes on like the one she's just had, she's sure to go off."

"Has any doctor been here?" asked Ellen.

"No, miss, no, it's a long way to send, and we've nothing to pay when they do come. Besides, all the doctors in the world will never do her no good."

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"I should like to go and fetch some one,' said Ellen, as she looked down upon the wretched sufferer, who lay upon a bed of straw and rags, her eyes rolling heavily from internal convulsions. As she spoke, the poor creature moved, and began to mutter some words.

"Hush!" said Mrs. Lakeman, "she speaks;" and they drew near to her bed. Maggie opened her eyes with a wild delirious stare, and fixed them upon Ellen, which so alarmed her that she shrunk back.

"Stay!" cried the sufferer; "I recollect you, young lady," she said in a gentle tone, and stretched out her hand and clasped hold of Ellen's wrist. "Don't be afraid, Ellen,' said Mrs. Lakeman, 66 your presence seems to com

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"You know the Manor-house?" continued Maggie.

"That was the house her father dwelt in when she was young," said the woman.

"Oh God!" Maggie cried, "Father! father! take me back to my father!" She then fell off in a state of insensibility again, during which the by-standers talked of her painful history, which we have given in a previous chapter.

"See how firmly she holds my hand," exclaimed Ellen, alarmed at the fixedness of her grasp. They tried to release her hold, but this aroused Maggie again.

"Young lady," she said, in a subdued tone, "have you a father? did you ever break a father's heart? Were you ever tempted by the Devil?" Ellen trembled at the wildness of these words, which seemed to have within them a prophetic meaning.

"I had a father once," resumed the sufferer; "I listened not to his voice-he stretched out his arm to save me, but I mocked him. I was ensnared by a demon who lured me from my home. My friends foretold my ruin and it came. God is just!"

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Ellen turned as pale as death, for the delirious woman still held her firmly by the wrist. Seeing the dreadful pallor that spread over Ellen's countenance, a chair was placed by her, and she dropped into it.

"It is too much for me!" she exclaimed, and wept bitterly. Maggie aroused again, and said, "Why do you weep? it is I who should suffer. Oh God, forgive me!" she exclaimed in a solemn tone, "The end is nearly come!" She released Ellen's arm, and sank again into a state of insensibility, from which she never more awoke.

Ellen swooned away. The words of the dying wretch had fallen with mysterious power upon her heart. Mrs. Lakeman despatched a messenger to Windmere for the car; and as soon as Ellen recovered, she was driven to her father's house.

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Langford again arrived at the door of the Jew miser. There was a like rat-a-tat-tat to that given before, the same seryant - maid, with the same dirty apron, and a face that seemed to have become dirtier even than on the last occasion, appeared at the door, and with the same air of confidence and familiarity Langford ran into the presence of Moses, and shook him by the hand, with many inquiries after his cough, and many thoughts about his coffers.

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"Well, Moses," exclaimed Charles, we shall be able to do business to-day, I think."

"I shall be ver' glad, Mishter Langford, ver' glad indeed. I hope no offence for the 'tother day. Put you know I am 'pliged to pe ver' careful indeed."

"Oh! never mind, Moses, never mind, you're a good-hearted old fellow; but you know the world, and you understand what is right."

"Dat is just it, Mishter Langford, I know de vorld, I know de vorld; " and looking with a very meditative expression, the old man threw up his hands, shook his beard, sighed, and coughed.

"Well, Moses, look here," said Charles, pulling out his pocket-book, and drawing forth a couple of drafts, "I have just received these from my old uncle, they've thirty days, only thirty days to run, and I want you to cash them upon easy terms. You know the old gentleman is very strong."

"Oh, yes, Mishter Langford, dare can be no doubt of dat, at all-I see they are drafts upon the London and Devonshire Pank. Put vy did he not make dem payable at sight?"

"Oh, just I suppose to save the commission, or he fancied I wasn't in immediate want. You know you've done this sort of thing for me before."

"Oh, yes, yes! Put not for so large amount it is very pig a thousand pounds."

"A mere nothing-a mere nothing," said Charles. "When I come in for the old fellow's estates, I shall be as rich as an eastern prince."

"Ah, den vill pe cood times, Mishter Langford," said Moses, rubbing his

hands.

"I believe you, my old boy," said

Langford, joining in the old man's exultation.

"Vell," said Moses, "I vill do this little matter for you; put I musht charge you von hundred pounds." "A

hundred pounds!" exclaimed Langford. "No, no, my dear fellow, you're coming it too hard!"

"Not a pit-money is a ver' scarsh article-ver' scarsh indeed."

"Oh, out upon your nonsense! Why how many thousands have you in these chests of yours?''

"A mere not'ing-a mere not'ing, py my vord," said the Jew.

So the conversation proceeded-we need not follow it. The spendthrift contended for easier terms, but the miser was inflexible, and at last the negotiation ended in Moses handing over to Langford nine hundred pounds in notes and gold; and the latter drove off in high glee, laughing at the ease with which he duped the Jew, and fully believing that before the demand became due, his marriage, or the advances made in prospect of it by his good-hearted old uncle, would make everything right.

"Dat's a goot transaction," "exclaimed the miser, as he put the drafts into an iron safe. "A clear hundred in tirty days." He rubbed his sinewy hands, shook his beard again, and looked like a decayed wretch within a week of his grave.

The wheels rattled, the whip smacked, the horse pranced, and then broke out into a smart trot; the vehicle turned corners, and drove through narrow confines as if by magic, and presently Langford alighted at his club, ordered his groom to drive home, and immediately afterwards he stood amongst a group of his accustomed associates.

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upon which they thought he might venture to stake, with highly beneficial

results.

By the time they had "discussed" a few bottles of champagne, the evening was far advancing, and the hour of polite assemblies was drawing near.

"Shall we make a rubber?" asked Captain Dent.

"Not to-night," replied Charles. "I am going to Lady M'Kinnon's party. Her soirées are very agreeable, and I hope to pass a delightful evening.

"Are you going there?" asked Lord Elleswood. "So am I!"'

"So am I," said the Count. "It is very strange this circumstance. We will all go together, eh?"

With all my heart," said Charles; and after retiring to their several apartments to dress for the evening, they set out for the house of the lady in question.

The dwelling appeared illuminated in every apartment. There was a row of carriages extending from the door the whole length of the street; and as they set down, ladies in costly dresses, jewelled and painted, stepped out with a rustle of silk and a fluttering of lace, which excited great wonder among the groups of ragged bystanders, who were with difficulty kept back by a couple of policemen who guarded the doorway.

At length Charles and his two companions were put down, and entered a brilliant saloon well filled with the élite of fashion. A dance had just ended, and the ladies, with rosy faces and smiling lips, turned to salute the trio, as they passed down the room to receive the salutations of their friends. They were looked upon as marriageable men; even in the highest assemblies such chances are never thrown away. Charles was regarded as a supreme object of attraction. His probable succession to a large property was pretty generally known; therefore matrons with daughters unprovided for, and widows with limited fortunes, pressed around him and idolised him. He was quite a man of the world, and well understood how to suit himself to every circumstance. The story of his intended marriage was at last whispered abroad; for the Count, who was looking out for a fortune by matrimony, being jealous of the attentions paid to

Charles, soon whispered the matter confidentially to most of his lady admirers. And then there was a great deal of questioning and tittering-and ladies who were jealous of each other, found an acceptable revenge in the new aspect which affairs assumed, when it was told as a positive fact that some country belle would bear off the prize. This diversion occupied the company in the intervals between the dances, until an early hour. The gray dawn of morning began to break, and to dispute with the stars which still dimly twinkled in the broad vault of heaven, before, wearied and faded, the beauties of the night departed for their homes, like defeated Amazons driven from the battle of the heart.

CHAPTER XX.

THE DISCLOSURE. EFFECT OF THE WARNING.

The

Ar eleven o'clock on the morning after his halting at Exeter, Alfred started for Windmere by the only available conveyance, a square van, drawn by a single horse, with bony hips, and ribs that peeped complainingly through his skin. The old animal walked up the hills at a sleepy pace, and cantered down with an awkward jerk of his body, which sent the van rolling from side to side, jolting against stones, and into deep ruts. scenery was very beautiful, and for a time completely counterbalanced the inconvenience and tedium resulting from such a mode of travelling. But the progress was so slow, that long before Alfred reached his journey's end he was sore and wearied, and for some time lost all sense of outward attractions by the intensity of his meditations and the depression of his spirits, as he thought of the purpose of his journey, and its attendant consequences. His fellowpassengers, who from custom bore the hard joltings much better than himself, amused themselves with dialogues, marked by strong provincialisms, and by feasting upon viands which they had prepared for their journey. The average speed of their vehicle amounted only to about three miles an hour. The shades of evening began to close in, the songs of birds grew faint, and the stars one by one appeared, before they passed the turnpike-gate on the road leading to Windmere, where

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