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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 750, May 11, 1878 - -Author: Various - -Editor: William Chambers - Robert Chambers - -Release Date: October 23, 2020 [EBook #63533] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL LITERATURE, MAY 11, 1878 *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL - -OF - -POPULAR - -LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. - -Fourth Series - -CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS. - -NO. 750. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1878. PRICE 1½_d._] - - - - -A VOYAGE IN THE _SUNBEAM_. - - -We have not for a long time perused a more lively and interesting book -than that written by Mrs Brassey, purporting to be an account of her -voyage round the world, in the yacht named the _Sunbeam_. The lady was -accompanied by her husband, Mr Thomas Brassey, M.P., also her children -and a few private friends. The yacht, a handsomely fitted up and -commodious vessel, possessed three masts, and had a powerful sailing -capacity, but was provided with a screw and steam-power, to be used as -occasion required. - -Though laying no claim to literary skill, Mrs Brassey writes pleasingly -in the form of a diary; and she may be complimented on her untiring -energy in bearing fatigue, and the good taste with which she describes -the multiplicity of scenes and circumstances calling for observation. -Mr Brassey, usually called Tom in the narrative, was his own navigator, -which infers no small degree of nautical knowledge; and we are led to -believe that this was not his first expedition with the _Sunbeam_. -He was, of course, assisted by a sailing-master, a boatswain, and -engineer, besides a crew of at least twenty able-bodied seamen; the -full compliment being made up by a steward and stewardess, cooks, -nurse, lady’s-maid, and other domestics. - -One can fancy the pleasurable excitement in preparing for a year’s -voyage of this kind, the arrangements to be made, the articles to be -taken; the hopes probably predominating over the fears, the farewells -on going on board. It is the fate of few to have so splendid a chance -of making a tour of the globe, carrying from clime to clime not a few -of the comforts of home—an elegant saloon for daily resort, a library -of seven hundred volumes for amusing reading, nicely fitted-up cabins, -baths, a first-rate cuisine and larder, everything else to make life -pass away agreeably; letters of introduction, abundant means, liberty -to sail where and when you like. What more could anybody desire? Such -is yacht-life. It was brought to perfection in the _Sunbeam_. Looking -to the elegant form of the vessel, and the large quantity of sail she -carried, we can form an idea of her great speed when running before a -favourable wind. The only drawback, it can be supposed, was the small -draught of water, about nine feet, wherefore in rough weather there -must have been a considerable tumbling about. However, that is what -will be expected in yachting, which differs materially from performing -a voyage in large sea-going ships. - -The _Sunbeam_, sailing from the Thames, set out on the 1st July 1876, -and steering westward by the Isle of Wight, suffered some rough weather -in getting into the Atlantic. On the 13th there was a cry of a ‘sail -on the port-beam;’ but on investigation it proved to be an abandoned -vessel tossed about on the ocean, with masts gone, and the sea washing -over the half-broken-up deck. This unfortunate derelict was visited; it -had been laden with wine, of which several casks were carried away, and -then it was left to its fate; though, had time permitted to take the -hulk into port, a considerable salvage might have been realised. The -party were beginning to settle down. At meals there was much pleasant -talk; Mrs Brassey read and wrote a good deal, and learned Spanish; one -of the gentlemen taught the children, and the commissariat department -was satisfactory. The land first reached was Madeira. At Funchal, the -vessel dropped anchor; and with jaunting about to see the island, -there was a stay of several days. Many friends came on board before -departure, and ‘all admired the yacht very much, particularly the -various cosy corners in the deck-house.’ - -On the 20th July, off for the Canary Islands; and these being reached, -there was an expedition on horseback to the Peak of Teneriffe. -Tremendous as was the ascent of a mountain which rises eleven thousand -four hundred and sixty-six feet above the level of the sea, Mrs -Brassey did not shrink from the undertaking. She, however, did not -attempt to climb the cone of five hundred and thirty feet, composed -as it is of hot ashes, into which the feet sink at every step, while -sulphurous vapours pour from the various fissures. View from the summit -magnificent. Of the picturesque scenery drawings and photographs were -taken. Teneriffe being exhausted, off went the _Sunbeam_, still holding -in a southerly direction by the Cape de Verde Islands. - -Rio de Janeiro, on the coast of South America, was reached on the 18th -August. A graphic account is given of excursions in Brazil. The eye -everywhere was struck with the brilliant colours of the humming-birds, -flowers, and butterflies. Palm, orange, lemon, and citron trees were -among the common objects of vegetation. A variation in the general -amusement consisted of a voyage up the River Plate and a journey on -the Pampas. Splendid country, and well farmed, but under what an -infliction—the locusts. Of these terrible creatures Mrs Brassey heard a -good deal, and she longed to see them, and her wish was gratified. She -says: ‘In the course of our ride we saw in the distant sky what looked -very much like a heavy purple thunder-cloud, but which the experienced -pronounced to be a swarm of locusts. It seemed impossible; but as we -proceeded they met us, first singly, and then in gradually increasing -numbers, until each step became positively painful, owing to the smart -blows we received from them on our heads, faces, and hands.... As the -locusts passed between us and the sun they completely obscured the -light; a little later, with the sun’s rays shining directly on their -wings, they looked like a golden cloud, such as one sometimes sees in -the transformation scene in a pantomime.’ We pass over much that is -described in the Argentine Republic, as of little or no interest in -this country. - -The _Sunbeam_ set off in its course southwards on September 28th. -While lying down to rest after breakfast, Mrs Brassey was summoned to -come on deck to see a ship which had signalled being on fire. A boat -being despatched to discover the condition of affairs, the vessel was -found to be the _Monkshaven_, sixty days out from Swansea, bound for -Valparaiso with a cargo of smelting-coal, which had taken fire by the -spontaneous ignition of gases. As it was evident that the unfortunate -ship could not be saved, prompt assistance was given in bringing the -crew on board the _Sunbeam_. ‘The poor fellows,’ says Mrs Brassey, -‘were almost wild with joy at getting alongside another ship, after all -the hardships they had gone through, and in their excitement they threw -overboard many things which they might as well have kept, as they had -taken the trouble to bring them. Our boat made three trips altogether; -and by half-past six we had them all safe on board, with most of their -effects, and the ship’s chronometers, charts, and papers.... While we -were at dinner the ship was blazing like a tar-barrel.’ The last time -the _Monkshaven_ was seen, she was burned down nearly to the water’s -edge. From the information given respecting the ill-fated ship, it -was learned that a large American steamer had passed quite close to -her, and disregarding signals of distress, had steamed away southward, -leaving all on board to their fate. The kind attention shewn by Mr -Brassey comes strongly out in contrast with such heartless conduct. The -unexpected addition of the crew of the _Monkshaven_ to those on board -the _Sunbeam_ proved a trial on the commissariat, but the difficulty -was overcome. The inconvenience was fortunately for only a few days. -The _Ilimani_, one of the Pacific Company’s mail-steamers, came in -sight on the route for England, and to this vessel the crew of the -_Monkshaven_ were consigned. Besides affording this relief, ‘the -captain of the _Ilimani_ kindly gave us half a bullock, killed this -morning, a dozen live ducks and chickens, and the latest newspapers.’ - -On the 6th October, the _Sunbeam_ was off the coast of Patagonia; -the rugged mountains of Tierra del Fuego rose on the sky, and now -the yacht shaped its course for the Straits of Magellan. To get -through these tortuous narrows is reckoned one of the clever feats in -navigation. There are many sunken rocks to be avoided, and the natives -scattered about the coast are not to be relied on. The scenery, which -is described as singularly picturesque, is well represented in some -beautiful illustrations. - -The narrow channels were got through on the 12th October; the sun -pierced through the clouds, and the broad Pacific was in view. What a -triumph in navigation to have piloted ‘the yacht through the Straits, -for it would do credit, not only to any amateur, but to a professional -seaman.’ Sails were hoisted; and now begins what we deem to be the -most amusing part of the work; for after touching at Valparaiso, the -voyaging was among the groups of islands which, dotting the Pacific, -lie basking in the profuse beauty of the tropics. Valparaiso, the most -important trading town of Chili, left some agreeable impressions. -Several English gentlemen were solicitous that the party should stay -for a few days; and there were excursions in the neighbourhood. An -emporium of Panama hats was visited. These hats are a curiosity, and -are worn by almost everybody on the coast. They are made of ‘a special -kind of grass, split very fine,’ and are sold at an extraordinary -price; fifty to sixty guineas being not an unusual price for a single -hat, though some are sold at a cheaper rate. Their recommendation is -that they are light, pliable, and so enduring that they will almost -last for ever. Very wonderful hats, as Mrs Brassey thinks, but gravely -adds, that where ‘so many hats are lost overboard, they would prove -rather an unprofitable investment.’ Some curious details are given -respecting the abundance of eggs, which are offered in profusion at -meals. Eggs on all occasions are the order of the day, and poultry in -superlative abundance. Valparaiso, in short, is the paradise of eggs. -It is stated that there are good shops, but everything is ‘frightfully -dear.’ We can at all events say that there is a considerable import of -English books and periodicals. - -The route adopted from Valparaiso was westward to the Society Islands, -lying in nearly the twentieth degree of south latitude. They may be -said to be at the very middle of the Pacific, and out of the way of -general navigation. It was a charming sail, but rather slow work; and -looking to the great stretch of ocean to be traversed, there were -qualms of feeling as to how provisions and water would last—fear that -there will have to be a dependence on potted meats; and talking of -these meats, we are assured that none at all equal those of American -preparation. Slipping on at the rate of five miles an hour under sail, -but sometimes accelerated by a breeze, the _Sunbeam_ went onward night -and day with nothing to look at but the ocean and sky. Much time -was spent in reading, and there was some amusement in noticing the -paroquets, monkeys, and other pet animals that had been domesticated -on board. On Sundays, as was customary throughout, all hands were -summoned for Divine service, just as at home in England. The length -of the service depended on the weather. When circumstances permitted, -Mr Brassey read a sermon in addition to the usual prayers. One likes -to read of these continued acknowledgments of Divine care by a whole -ship’s company, amidst the perils of the deep. - -The Society Islands were reached on the 26th November. For the very -interesting account of these islands we must refer to what is described -by Mrs Brassey. But for the rise of coral reefs, these islands would -scarcely have an existence. This is one of the wonders of nature. Our -authoress is at a loss to describe the beauty of the scene. ‘Submarine -coral forests of every colour, studded with sea-flowers, anemones, -and echinidæ, of a brilliancy only to be seen in dreamland; shoals -of the brightest and swiftest fish darting and flashing in and out; -shells, every one of which was fit to hold the place of honour in -a conchologist’s collection, moving slowly along with their living -inmates: this is what we saw when we looked down from the side of the -boat into the depths below.’ On landing at one of the islands, the -party were hospitably received by the natives. Piles of cocoa-nuts, -fish, and fowls were laid down as presents at their feet. From the -cocoa-nuts they were refreshed by a drink of cool milk offered for -their acceptance. For these gifts there was a proper requital. Mrs -Brassey says: ‘The women were gentle and kind, and were delighted with -some beads, looking-glasses, and knives I gave them; in return for -which they brought us quantities of beautiful shells.’ At the island -of Tahiti there was a similar exchange of courtesies. Papiette is -described as quite a town, with a market affording an immense choice of -articles for sale. - -The pleasures of a tropical clime are unfortunately apt to be marred -by certain torments. During the rainy season, water falls in solid -masses which no temporary shelter can withstand; that, however, is -nothing in comparison with the invasion of insects. A small party which -set out in an American wagon for a drive of two days round Tahiti, -passed the night at an inn where the insect pest was experienced in -an unmistakable way. The rooms were swarming with cockroaches ‘about -three inches long’, which climbed the walls and were seen in every -crevice. ‘Then there were the mosquitoes, who hummed and buzzed about -us, and with whom, alas! we were doomed to have a closer acquaintance. -Our bed was fitted with the very thickest calico mosquito curtains, -impervious to the air, but not to the venomous little insects, who -found their way through every tiny opening in spite of all our efforts -to exclude them.... Amidst suffocating heat, in the moonlight, were -seen columns of nasty brown cockroaches ascending the bed-posts, -crawling along the top of the curtains, dropping with a thud on the -bed, and then descending over the side to the ground.’ Being unable -to stand it any longer, Mrs Brassey rose, emptied her slippers of the -cockroaches, seized on her garments, and fled to the garden; whence, -however, she was driven back by torrents of rain. Such is a picture of -certain inconveniences in these tropical islands. Prodigious beauty of -vegetation, flowers magnificent, all seemingly a kind of paradise—but -the plague of insects. - -Making a run northwards, the _Sunbeam_ reached Hawaii, one of the -Sandwich Islands, on the 22d December. Here was the same profusion -and beauty of flowers. The women and girls are described as being -gaily decorated with wreaths and garlands, and wearing a dress of -a very simple yet not inelegant fashion, consisting of ‘a coloured -long-sleeved loose gown reaching to the feet’—no tying at the waist, -all flowing and free, with no restraint in walking or sitting down. -Our space does not permit us to follow the movements of the party in -their excursions through interesting scenery. Hawaii, like all the -other islands in the group, is of volcanic origin. Kilauea, which is -still raging, is reckoned to be the largest volcano in the world, for -its crater is nine miles in circumference. This extraordinary volcano, -situated at the top of a mountain six thousand feet above the level -of the sea, was visited by Mrs Brassey, although the journey to it is -fatiguing, and the approach to it is attended with some peril. There -happens to be a comfortable inn near the brink of the crater, at which -travellers are accommodated and are furnished with guides to conduct -them with safety to points of interest. - -According to Mrs Brassey’s account, the scene was horribly grand. ‘We -were standing on the extreme edge of a precipice, overhanging a lake -of molten fire, a hundred feet below us, and nearly a mile across. -Dashing against the cliffs on the opposite side, with a noise like the -roar of a stormy ocean, waves of blood-red, fiery, liquid lava hurled -their billows upon an iron-bound headland, and then rushed up the face -of the cliffs to toss their gory spray high in the air. The restless -heaving lake boiled and bubbled, never remaining the same for two -minutes together.... There was an island on one side of the lake, which -the fiery waves seemed to attack unceasingly with relentless fury, as -if bent on hurling it from its base. On the other side was a large -cavern, into which the burning mass rushed with a loud roar, breaking -down in its impetuous headlong career the gigantic stalactites that -overhung the mouth of the cave, and flinging up the liquid material for -the formation of new ones. It was all terribly grand, magnificently -sublime; but no words could adequately describe such a scene.’ - -Perhaps the specimens now presented will incline readers to undertake a -thorough perusal of this unique and interesting work, which (published -by Longman) we doubt not will be found at all the libraries. The -route homewards of the _Sunbeam_ from Hawaii was by way of Japan, the -China Sea, the Straits of Malacca, Ceylon, the Bay of Bengal, the Red -Sea, the Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean, about all which there are -many amusing details. As regards the traffic on the Suez Canal, the -gratifying fact is mentioned, that on the day the _Sunbeam_ entered the -Canal, the sum of six thousand pounds was taken as dues at the Suez -office alone. The climate of the Mediterranean, which we are in the -habit of extolling as beneficial to invalids from northern countries, -suited badly, as we are told, with the delicate constitution of the -pet animals brought from the South Pacific and other warm regions. -Although tended with great care, several pined and died, from the -effects of acute bronchitis or other ailments, after passing Malta. All -these victims to a change of climate ‘were placed together in a neat -little box, and committed to the deep at sunset, a few tears being shed -over the departed pets, especially by the children.’ - -Mrs Brassey with her family and friends reached home—a palatial mansion -on the south coast of England, near Hastings—on the morning of the -27th May 1877. In the whole voyage round the world, no hitch nor any -misadventure had occurred. We can imagine that the expedition will -have left an agreeable topic of conversation for life, and that its -surprising success will inspire others equally qualified to follow the -brilliant example offered by ‘A Voyage in the _Sunbeam_.’ - - - - -HELENA, LADY HARROGATE. - - -CHAPTER XXV.—AT THE PHEASANTRY. - -‘I have letters to write—one to the Lord-lieutenant in particular, on -county business,’ said the Earl, smiling, and addressing himself to -Captain Denzil; ‘otherwise I daresay that I too should have been able -to find something worth the showing you out of doors. As it is, you -young people must go without me.’ - -Jasper, who had a lazy man’s horror of improved implements, Dutch -dairies, new patent draining-tiles, and cattle-food, and who knew -the Earl’s passion for farming, felt inwardly grateful to the -Lord-lieutenant for detaining his noble host within doors. The Countess -had not the slightest intention of accompanying her guests in their -visit to the pheasantry. Except in a carriage, or in dry weather among -the well-rolled paths of the rose-garden, Lady Wolverhampton scarcely -ever left the house. Her age, though she looked younger, was within -a year or two of that of her lord, and he was by far the stronger of -the two. Indeed it was mainly due to her declining health and growing -incapacity for exertion that the High Tor family had for this year -foregone what most persons of their rank regard less as a pleasure than -as a duty, the passing of at least a portion of the season in London. - -The party from Carbery Chase had been very cordially received. People -can afford yet to cultivate the old-fashioned quality of cordiality in -rural retirement, where it answers to detect hidden merits and to see -in the best light the things and persons in the midst of which and whom -our lives have to be passed. - -‘I am glad,’ said the Countess, ‘that Captain Denzil was able to come -over with you to-day, my dears.’ - -With Sir Sykes’s two daughters the mistress of High Tor was on -sufficiently familiar terms; but their brother’s character was not -quite so much esteemed by the De Vere family as were theirs. Still, in -the country, a young man and an elder son is _per se_ a being of some -importance, and to Jasper, with his arm yet in the black silken sling, -there attached somewhat of romance, on account of his late accident -and the adventurous way in which he had incurred it. He had not been -expected, and his presence at High Tor was taken as a compliment. - -Scarcely had the Ladies Maud and Gladys De Vere had time to don the -pretty hats that so well set off the comeliness of the one and the -bright beauty of the other, before their brother came into the room. -Lord Harrogate had a riding-whip in his hand, and a long ride over -the purple moorlands in prospect; but he was easily induced to defer -it, and to make one of the party, that presently sauntered across the -park towards a sunny sandy nook, screened from cold north winds by -a friendly belt of fir and pine, where the new pheasantry had been -established. - -Near to the place where a footpath led to a sequestered dell, the -new governess Miss Gray and her pupil met the group of advancing -sight-seers. Ethel would have passed on with a quiet graceful bow of -recognition; but Lady Alice had no notion of being thus shelved. - -‘You are going to look at the pheasants,’ she said; ‘and we have just -seen them. They seem rather frightened, but so very pretty!’ - -The words which young Lady Alice had employed when speaking of the -exotic birds would have been singularly appropriate to Ethel Gray. The -new governess looked timid and something more than pretty during the -general hand-shaking and interchange of civil conventional phrases -which now ensued. Jasper, whose acquaintance with Ethel was of the -slightest, had contented himself with lifting his hat; but he had -stared at her beautiful face with as cool a steadiness of gaze as -though she had been a picture or a statue. Why Lord Harrogate should -have resented this, it would have been no easy matter for his lordship -to explain; but there was scorn, and anger too, in the glance which he -shot at unconscious Jasper; while it was not without some embarrassment -that he addressed a word or two of polite commonplace to Miss Gray. -Then the governess and her pupil pursued their way to the house, and -the rest of the party strolled on towards the pheasantry. - -‘How handsome she is!’ exclaimed honest Lucy Denzil, looking back after -the angular form of Lady Alice, and the graceful figure that contrasted -so strongly with the bony awkwardness of the school-girl; and Lady Maud -echoed the praise, and Lady Gladys smiled approval. The Earl’s second -daughter was, as has been said, very lovely, and her golden hair and -blue eyes had produced the usual effect of fascinating for the time -being Jasper’s fickle fancy. It is quite possible to be very hard and -at the same time very weak where women are concerned; and Captain -Denzil, wary man of the world as he boasted himself to be, and selfish -as he certainly was, could not at the moment resist the spell of the -enchantress. - -‘Cripple as I am,’ said Jasper, glancing at his injured arm, ‘you see -that I could not resist the temptation to come when you asked me.’ - -‘They are not my pheasants; they are Maud’s, you know,’ returned Lady -Gladys, as though wilfully misunderstanding him. - -‘Fortunate birds!—that is if you condescend to take an interest in -them,’ said the captain, nonchalant as ever, but contriving to throw -into his tone and look a something of suppressed tenderness, that -was not perhaps wholly feigned. Ruth Willis saw the look, although -she was not near enough to overhear the words, and her eyes flashed -and her white teeth closed sharply, almost savagely, on her pouting -lip. She felt the mortification which an angler might feel did he see -the half-hooked salmon, the silvery patriarch of the pool, desert -his bait, and leap provokingly at the artificial fly of some rival -disciple of Piscator. She could not forget how, an hour or two ago, -the heir of Carbery had deigned to devote to her service those very -tricks of manner—in her anger she mentally called them so—which now -before her very eyes he was practising for the benefit of another. She -did not care for him; but he piqued her, by the very effrontery of his -fickleness, into attaching to him a value which in calmer moments she -would never have set on one so intrinsically base as Jasper Denzil. - -In spite of world-old experience and sage aphorisms, each sex remains -to some extent a standing problem to the other. So Ruth Willis, -nettled, baffled, wrathful, still did not fathom the depths of Jasper’s -worthless nature one half so clearly as she would have done had her -keen powers of observation been exercised at the expense of a woman. -She even felt angry with Lady Gladys, though most unreasonably, for the -proud beauty wore her most glacial armour of chilling haughtiness when -she perceived that Jasper was disposed to pay her what is popularly -known as ‘marked attentions.’ - -The innocent pheasants, the ostensible end and object of this -expedition, were duly inspected, and lavishly fed with the millet and -barley, the chopped eggs and crushed maize, which young pheasants -love. They were fair enough to look upon, these shy pretty captives, -still timorous and bewildered by their close confinement in the -darksome baskets wherein they had been crammed by the irreverent -poultry-merchant who had consigned them to High Tor; and not yet quite -at home in their new abode, which had been so freshly decorated for -their reception that the paint on the wood and the lacquer on the wires -were barely dry. Golden pheasants there were, and white or silver -pheasants, and pencilled pheasants, worthy descendants of a feathered -ancestry that had pecked and strutted in the gardens of coral-buttoned -mandarins, in far-off China. - -The curious thing was, that except by their mistress Lady Maud and the -elder of the two Denzil girls, who was a kindred spirit, the pheasants -were scarcely looked at with regardful eyes. Is it not always so? At -launch or military review or polo-match, or when a princely trowel -of pure gold condescendingly applies a dab of sublime mortar to a -glorified foundation-stone of some new building, how very, very few of -the nominal spectators concentrate their thoughts and their vision on -the show, which the reporters will presently describe with such graphic -power! Private affairs, hopes, fears, interests, are all of them petty -magnets sufficient to neutralise the great avowed attraction of the -hour. - -There was Ruth Willis, her whole attention stealthily concentrating -itself upon Captain Denzil at the side of the Earl’s second daughter; -there was Jasper, vainly trying to thaw the ice of Lady Gladys’ -disdain; and Lord Harrogate, whose thoughts seemed at times to wander -away from the present scene and company. Add to these Blanche Denzil, -sorrowfully conscious that Lord Harrogate himself, in whose eyes she -would have given much to find favour, was thinking of anything rather -than of her preference for him, and it will be seen that the real -amateurs of fancy pheasants were but in a narrow minority. - -A good girl who loves a man worthy of her esteem, yet who is -constrained by maiden modesty and the rules of good-breeding to hide -away the sentiment as though it were a sin, deserves more pity than -often falls to her lot. It is never Leap-year for her. She cannot -be the first to speak. And if there be one point upon which men are -exceptionally blind, it is to the perception that their merits may -be highly appreciated by some young lady to whom they never give a -thought when absent from her. Poor Blanche had trouble enough now and -then to keep down the rising tears that welled up to her eyes as she -noted twenty signs of the painful fact that Lord Harrogate regarded her -with that amicable indifference which cannot readily ripen, as dislike -sometimes can, into love. But Blanche was too gentle to grow bitter -over a disappointment, as did Ruth Willis, although for her too the -pleasure of the day was damped and dulled. - -The visitors from Carbery would not, on getting back to the broad -gravelled drive where the basket-carriage awaited them, re-enter the -house. They had taken leave of the Earl and Countess, and declined all -hospitable proffers of luncheon beforehand. There was some kissing -among the girls and a good deal of hand-shaking, and then the ‘double -basket’ again received its living load, and ‘good-bye’ was said, and -off dashed the mettled Exmoor ponies under Lucy Denzil’s guidance. - -Two of the party from the Chase carried back with them to Carbery -hearts that were heavier than when they had first set out for the -projected visit to the pheasantry at High Tor. Sir Sykes’s ward, so -talkative two hours ago, had become sullenly mute. Ruth Willis was -smarting under her defeat, for she had measured herself with Lady -Gladys, and could not but acknowledge to herself that her own elfish -piquancy was quite thrown into the shade by the superior charms of the -Earl’s daughter. Blanche was sad and thoughtful. Jasper, twisting his -well-waxed moustache, seemed unaware, in the preoccupation of his own -mind, that Ruth was resentful and Blanche melancholy, while Miss Denzil -frankly wondered why conversation languished as it did. Excellent Lucy -had had no by-play to distract her attention from the object of the -expedition; she had seen the birds and chatted with her friend, and -was mildly gratified with her outing. Nevertheless it was but a silent -party that the Exmoor ponies whisked back along the well-kept road that -led to Carbery Chase. - - -CHAPTER XXVI.—THE NEW BROOM. - -‘Clever enough, and too clever! It’s your look-out, sir, of course, -and not mine; but I can’t help thinking that to give my friend Mr -Wilkins an estate to manage is uncommonly like turning a fox into a -poultry-yard to take care of the chickens.’ - -Such was Jasper Denzil’s remonstrance with his father, on hearing the -baronet’s announcement of his intention to transfer the reins of local -government to the willing hands of the City solicitor, _vice_ Pounce -and Pontifex superseded. Privately, Sir Sykes was of much the same -opinion as his son; but as he was merely seeking to put a good face on -what he felt to be really a surrender to a demand imperiously urged, -he shook his head, saying: ‘You are prejudiced against this person, -Jasper, and perhaps not unnaturally so. His manners, I admit, are not -prepossessing, and his moral code has probably been shaped in a rough -school of ethics; but I consider him to be one of those men whom it is -pleasanter to have for a friend than for an enemy.’ - -Jasper’s expressive upper lip wore a curl of disgust. It was to him -very disagreeable that Mr Wilkins, who had got the better of him, as -he resentfully felt, in many an encounter of wits, should be often -at Carbery, and right-hand man to its owner. He resolved on one more -attempt to dislodge the intruder. - -‘I would not, were I you, sir,’ said he, ‘either trust Wilkins a -yard farther than I could see him, or be guided by his advice as to -the management of the estate. You yourself heard the fellow say, at -luncheon to-day, that he should not know turnips when he saw them -unless there were boiled mutton in the middle of them. Wilkins only -meant to raise a laugh when he hashed up that old joke against the -Cockney sportsmen who ride to hounds, but he was nearer the truth than -he was aware of.’ - -‘Ah, well,’ returned the baronet blandly, ‘I daresay his agricultural -knowledge is after all pretty much on a par with that of Messrs Pounce -and Pontifex.’ - -And then Jasper shrugged up his shoulders and was silent, for he -perceived that it was hopeless to deprecate a foregone conclusion. For -good or for ill, Sir Sykes had made up his mind to convert Mr Wilkins -into a grand-vizier over the broad acres that lay within the circuit of -his wide-stretching ring-fence. - -Enoch Wilkins, gentleman, had on that morning reached Carbery Chase, -and was in a fair way of earning for himself any rather than golden -opinions from its inmates. Mr Wilkins, as he often and not untruly -boasted, knew the world, that is to say he had a minute and almost -microscopic acquaintance with one or two sections of the shady side -of it. He understood turf-men, as a smart prison-governor understands -convicts, and knew the natural history of the fast-living and -embarrassed young officer as well as some lecturer on entomology knows -the ways of beetle and butterfly. In a lower social grade, he was -deeply versed in the arcana of Loan Societies, and could apply the -thumbscrew of the County Court in nicely calculated proportions to a -struggling debtor. Of what he called swell society Mr Wilkins had but -a limited experience. He had shared, as the purveyors of welcome cash -often do share, in the costly banquets given at Greenwich or Richmond -hotels by wild young gentlemen of blood and fashion. He had even, at -the instance of some needy man about town who curried favour with any -dispenser of ready-money, received a card which entitled him, now and -again, to be crushed and jostled and trodden upon by distinguished -company at the maddening ‘At Home’ of some berouged and bewigged old -peeress. - -There was, as Mr Wilkins felt with some inward misgivings, a difference -between forming part of a mob at Macbeth House or at the Baratarian -Embassy, and mixing on intimate terms with such a family as were the -Denzils. Yet, as the French idiomatically twist the phrase, he paid it -off with audacity, being greasily familiar with Sir Sykes; on terms of -brotherly frankness where Jasper was concerned; and for the benefit of -the young ladies, assuming the character of the facetious and agreeable -rattle, as he conceived incumbent on a regular Londoner and a bachelor -to boot, when on a visit in the country. - -Blanche and Lucy Denzil scarcely knew whether to let amusement or -dislike predominate in their minds as Mr Wilkins rattled on, pouring -out miscellaneous anecdotes and jokes that, if worn threadbare in the -metropolis, would, he was convinced, retain enough of their original -gloss and sparkle to pass muster in the country. That the man was -coarse, pushing, and unscrupulous, was evident even to critics so -lenient as the baronet’s daughters; while Sir Sykes, behind his urbane -smile, suffered martyrdom from his new agent’s deportment. - -There was one member of the family circle at Carbery whom Mr Wilkins -eyed with quite an exceptional interest. He rarely addressed himself in -conversation to the Indian orphan, Sir Sykes’s ward, but he watched her -narrowly, and the more he saw of her the harder he found it to adhere -to his original hypothesis as regarded the young lady whom Richard -Hold, master mariner, had recommended to his good offices. - -‘If that demure manner and those downcast eyes do not belong to as -sly a puss as ever lived, write me down a greenhorn!’ was the mental -reflection of Enoch Wilkins, of St Nicholas Poultney, in the City of -London, gentleman. ‘That she sets her cap at the captain, Sir Sykes -Denzil’s hopeful heir, I take for granted. Her communicative friend, -the pirate fellow, implied as much. The Lancer does not seem, however, -disposed to come forward in a satisfactory style, and play Philemon to -her Baucis.’ - -And it was a fact that since the morning which had witnessed the drive -to High Tor and the visit to the pheasantry, the snares of Miss Ruth -Willis had been vainly set for the capture of that bird of dubious -feather, Jasper Denzil. - -Why Jasper, who had so much to gain by the match on which his father’s -mind was inexplicably bent, should hang back and prove recalcitrant, -it was hard to say. His was not an independent soul. He was free from -any trammels of a too scrupulous delicacy, and would have fingered any -money got through the grimiest channels, without fear of soiling those -white useless hands of his, the manliest work of which had hitherto -been to grasp a bridle-rein. Yet Jasper had been very remiss of late in -his attentions towards Ruth Willis, and apparently indifferent to the -bribe of an income and establishment to be earned by marrying her. - -‘Now look here, Sir Sykes!’ said the lawyer after dinner, as he edged -his chair nearer to that of his host, refilled his glass, and assumed -a tone of waggish confidence—‘look here, Sir Sykes! You want brushing -up down here at Carbery, you do indeed; ay and a little fresh air let -in upon you. In an old estate like this, and under such management as -those of Pounce and Proser—beg his pardon; I mean Pontifex; ha, ha, -ha!’—pursued Mr Wilkins, having his laugh out, without so much as a -sympathetic titter from Jasper or a smile from Sir Sykes—‘in an estate -of this kind matters are apt to stagnate, and all sorts of abuses and -jobs to grow up, like the green duckweed on the surface of a pool. Your -head-gamekeeper now, Sir Sykes, I never saw him, but I’m sure that he’s -a rogue.’ - -‘Leathers is an old servant,’ answered Sir Sykes coldly; ‘I have had no -reason to think ill of him.’ - -‘I’ll go bail that he’s a rogue, for all that,’ returned the unabashed -lawyer, holding up his glass to the light, to admire the ruby claret -before he swallowed it. ‘The head-keeper of an easy-going, moneyed -gent of your standing—excuse me, Sir Sykes—must be a saint, if he’s -not a sinner. Think of the temptations! Why, the rabbits alone must -be a cool two hundred a year to the man; and then the pheasants, and -the black-mail from the tenants for keeping the ground-game within -reasonable numbers, and the percentage on watchers’ wages. I’ll get -you a contract with a London poulterer, Sir Sykes, that shall stand -you in something handsome, provide you with a keeper twice as useful -as Leathers, and insure your having a hot corner for your friends at -battue-time. I’m a new broom, and sweep clean.’ - -‘You promise well, at anyrate!’ said Jasper with a languid sneer. - -‘And did you ever know me not ready to implement when I had once -promised?’ briskly retorted the solicitor. ‘I merely mention the -gamekeeper to shew that all’s fish that comes to my net, and that I am -not above attending to such minor fry as a fellow in velveteen with a -dog-whistle at his button-hole. We must go on commercial principles, -Sir Sykes, if we want to manage an estate so as to make it pay, -nowadays. All that feudal nonsense of an affectionate tenantry and a -liberal lord of the manor is about as dead as Queen Anne. You should -get a new steward as well as a new gamekeeper, Sir Sykes.’ - -The baronet stirred restlessly in his chair. He did not at all like -this. Carbery, and the fair estate that went with it, had never yet -been administered on commercial principles, especially when applied -by so sweeping a reformer as Mr Wilkins of St Nicholas Poultney. ‘Mr -Cornish keeps his accounts very correctly,’ he said in a hesitating -tone. ‘Old Lord Harrogate gave him the stewardship, which his father -had had before him, and his tenure of it has satisfied me.’ - -‘Because you can afford, or fancy you can, to be robbed right and -left,’ said the lawyer, gulping down his wine. ‘It is your plausible -hereditary steward, that has fattened and battened on the plunder of -successive generations, who sucks the very marrow out of the land. -Don’t tell _me_! I’ll overhaul Mr Cornish’s accounts in a way he’s -little used to. But first you must introduce me to the farmers, Sir -Sykes, and give me time to worm out of them what they pay, in kind -or money, by way of fines, good-will, premium, and so forth, for the -honour of tilling your under-rented acres. I’ll raise your rent-roll, -never fear me, but not with a native chawbacon for prime-minister.’ - -‘So the steward must be flung overboard, it seems, as well as poor old -Leathers the keeper,’ observed Jasper, half amused, but half annoyed. - -‘And I’ve got another peg to fit into the vacant hole,’ said the -lawyer, again addressing himself to the claret. ‘With your permission, -Sir Sykes, to-morrow we’ll wire for him to run down from London -for your approval. A sharp fellow is Abrahams. You won’t mind his -persuasion? Jew as he is, he’s thoroughly at home in a farmhouse, -counts every sheaf of wheat in the barn, and every house-lamb in the -kitchen on frosty days, and wheedles out of the women what the husbands -are too dogged to tell.—This is delicious claret, but no one except -myself seems to drink it. Suppose we join the ladies?’ - -‘What has the governor done,’ groaned Jasper, as he lit his cigar, ‘to -be under the thumb of such a man as this?’ - - - - -WORK IN THE LONDON DOCKS. - - -In the metropolis there is always to be found a vast amount of ‘labour -unattached,’ recruited from men in nearly every rank of life. To -form an idea of the surplusage in the labour market, advertise for a -‘light-porter,’ and you will have at least two hundred applications -before eleven o’clock the next day. If you desire a clerk at a salary -of, say, twenty shillings a week, half a thousand eager candidates -will apply for the vacancy. While if you have anything of a superior -sort to offer, such as the secretaryship of a charitable institution, -or hospital, suitable to the talents of retired military officers -and others, probably a thousand competitors will offer themselves to -your discrimination. Of course many people will be surprised that -such numbers should prefer living in semi-idleness, hunting after -any opportunity that offers, rather than exert themselves to obtain -employment in less crowded localities; but then in London there is -the great magnet of the ‘lucky chance’ constantly before their eyes. -If one obtains a situation at a pound a week, there are constantly -opportunities of bettering one’s self, especially in large firms, who -carefully select and promote their men according to capability and -merit. Then, again, a man may be starving in a garret, poorly dressed, -existing somehow by borrowing a shilling or two occasionally when you -meet him in the street; but in a month or two may be in a good position -in an insurance company or an actuary’s office. But as bread must be -obtained somehow until the golden opportunity offers itself, a number -of men who have seen better days are compelled by sheer necessity to -fly to that paradise of the destitute, the Docks. - -The great Dock Companies in London, fully aware of the superabundance -of labour always in the market, do not employ, permanently, one-third -of the men they require, since they are usually able to procure at -least twice as many hands as they need at a moment’s notice. Indeed -so great is the competition for even Dock employment, that unless you -are known to one of the foremen, or in some way furnished with an -introduction to one of the Company’s officials, you stand a very poor -chance of obtaining work, save occasionally, when a sudden pressure -of business comes on and they are glad to accept any one that offers. -Sometimes a huge ship comes in requiring to be discharged in a few -days; and everybody who can work may, by offering himself, obtain -employment for a brief period; but, the time of pressure over, he will -present himself at the Dock-gates day after day in vain. The Company’s -foremen of course give the preference to their regular hands, and the -stranger who has helped them in their time of need is passed over. So -the best thing you can do if you desire employment at the Docks is to -obtain a letter of recommendation from some broker or merchant who does -business with the Company, and according to the influence he possesses -so will your work be regulated. It will require great influence to -enable you to be placed on the ‘permanent’ or ‘extra-permanent’ staff; -and the utmost you can hope for is to obtain employment by the day so -long as any ships are at work, with the prospect of losing a few days -now and then when things are dull. - -The clock has struck a quarter past seven in the morning, and already -may be seen clustered round the Dock-gates small groups of men, with -hands invariably in their pockets and short pipes in their mouths, -discussing the prospect of work for the day, and the only chance they -have of obtaining a meal of food and a night’s lodging. These are the -‘chance’ or ‘odd-time’ men, who if they are not taken on the first -thing, loiter about the entrance all day, waiting a ‘call’ from one of -the foremen; sometimes making two, four, or five hours, as the case -may be. Of all this class of men, it may be truly said that they are -waiters upon Providence, for they are usually the last selected; and -as to their garments (their sole earthly possession), very few of them -could obtain a shilling for all they wear from head to foot. Indeed -so dilapidated are some of their shoes, that it is no uncommon thing -for them to be paid off after an hour’s work or so, because their feet -will not retain a footing upon a slippery floor. It also occurs at -times that they come in to work so famished that they sink exhausted -after a little exertion, though in this case the foremen who employ -them are generally kind-hearted enough to advance a few pence to obtain -a little food to enable them to hold out the day. As the clock nears -the half-hour (7.30 A.M.) the regular ‘outsiders’ come up. These men -are in better condition than the others; but there is a seedy, ragged -appearance about most of them, which tells the unmistakable tale that -their chief earnings go to the public-house. And now there is a stir. A -small wicket in the gate is open, and a foreman comes out, and calling -out the names of the men he requires, they pass in. These are engaged -by the half-hour, and are liable to be dismissed as soon as their work -is completed, let the time be what it may. Usually they remain at work -the whole day; but, should any unforeseen occurrence—such as stoppage -of a ship’s discharge on account of weather, or a break-down in some of -the machinery for removing cargo—prevent them labouring, the word is -passed to ‘wash up,’ and they are paid off at once, perhaps an hour or -two after they have been engaged. - -After this crew come the Company’s ‘recommended’ men, persons who -through the influence of some merchant obtain employment. With them -also arrive the ‘extra-permanent’ men; and these two classes always -have a preference when any work is going on. They are engaged by the -day and paid by the day; and each man on entering receives a numbered -ticket about the size of a railway ticket, which will entitle him to -receive his wages in rotation at the pay-box in the afternoon. The pay -for all alike is fivepence per hour; but the highest class of all, -the ‘permanent’ men, receive twenty shillings per week all the year -round, be the hours long or short, and are always certain of their -money whether the Company can find work for them or not. In the months -of November, December, January, and February, the work is from nine to -four, and the remainder of the year from eight to four, with extra pay -for overtime to all alike when any is to be made. Thus it will be seen -that with pretty constant employment a fair living is to be made at the -Docks; but in addition, many men make something extra in the evenings, -either as ‘supers’ at one of the theatres, chairmen at those convivial -meetings known as ‘Free-and-Easies,’ or in some other capacity. In -short, at the Docks, as elsewhere, it is only the idle and disreputable -class that starves; for the Company’s officials naturally select the -best men first, and only employ the ‘duffers’ when they cannot possibly -do without them. - -At a few minutes before eight we are all at our posts; men are on board -ship commencing to roll out the bales of merchandise from the ‘hold;’ -the ponderous hydraulic ‘ram’ swings out from the warehouse, and three -or four bales are hooked on and hoisted ashore. It is (we will say) a -large Australian wool ship; and as soon as the bales are landed, they -are pounced upon by a man with stencil-plate and brush, who with nimble -fingers marks the name of the ship on each. Then an individual with -stentorian lungs (probably a broken-down auctioneer) shouts out to the -check clerk at the table the mark on each particular bale, and this is -recorded in a book called a ‘tally-sheet.’ Next, a couple of muscular -men attack with axes the iron bands with which the bales are clamped, -and sever them, so that the wool expands to nearly double its size; for -it is all pressed by hydraulic machinery previous to being stowed in -the ship, in order to economise space. The bales thus released are now -trotted off by active truckmen to the scales, where they are weighed, -marked, and sorted in different piles according to their mark. All this -is done in less time than it takes to read about it, amid a storm of -shouts, execrations, commands, and other noises in every conceivable -variety. - -Let us take a walk round the Docks and warehouses and inspect the vast -piles of merchandise lying about in every direction. Yonder is a ship -discharging brandy, with a vigilant Custom-house officer watching -every cask as it comes ashore. In another place they are emptying -on the floor hogshead after hogshead of coffee, to be weighed for -duty. That sedate-looking man with a needle in his hand sewing up -rice-bags has been a schoolmaster, and can write excellent hexameters. -A little farther on, a solicitor, unfortunately struck off the rolls, -is wheeling a truck; and farther on a once prosperous merchant is -assisting to push along a hogshead of sugar. The conclusion one arrives -at, after making the round of the Docks, is, that nearly everything we -eat and drink is manipulated first by the dirty classes, who shovel -our necessaries about at their pleasure, and tread over them as if -they were so much dirt. See those dingy men with garments tattered -and patched stooping and working on those sloppy floors. They are -scraping up the molasses which has filtered out from the sugar-casks, -and putting it into tubs. This will be all sent away to the -sugar-boilers’, and converted into cheap sugar, and go to localities -where it will be bought by housekeepers who study economy in the -kitchen. This sort of sugar always has a lumpy clear appearance, with -a slight clammy taste in the mouth, and can be detected with a little -practice at a glance. It is usually sold alone, but is often mixed with -better sugar, in order to make that half-penny difference in the pound -so tempting to certain housewives. - -We are warned that it is noon by the tinkling of a bell, which resounds -all over the Dock; and at the first stroke everything is dropped out -of hand immediately, and to the cry of ‘Bell ho!’ every one rushes out -of the warehouses for dinner. A few of the more provident have brought -some in their pockets; but the majority go straight to the old man or -old woman who is permitted by the Company to supply them with bread, -cheese, beer, soup, and pudding, all of an indifferent sort; and if -they have any money, buy something to eat; and if they have none, try -and borrow a penny or two from somebody else; or cajole the refreshment -caterer into giving them credit until four o’clock. Very few of them -have knives wherewith to cut their food decently; they gnaw it anyhow; -in fact their chief rule seems to be to buy nothing that they are not -absolutely compelled to buy, for fear the vendor should cheat them; -and if some of them could observe this rule so far as the beer-shop -is concerned, they would make their fortunes, many of them possessing -talents, as experts in ‘tasting,’ of no common order. - -Their meal finished, some now creep on board ship to smoke, a thing -they are not allowed to do in the warehouses; others of a larcenous -disposition, prowl about the cook’s galley to appropriate anything -they can, such as meat, knives, brushes, in short any small portable -articles, which they either devour, or else sell at any price to -somebody else. At twenty minutes past twelve the bell again summons -them to work, and each man crawls slowly back to his post, the -majority of cheeks indicating apparently the existence of gum-boil to -the uninitiated, but which abnormal appearance is due solely to the -companionable ‘quid’ of tobacco. - -By this time a number of vans are in the yard waiting to take away -goods, and the foremen are pretty nearly sure to want some extra hands -to assist. Consequently out they go to the gates, and select as many -as they require from the forest of palms held up before them. In this -way work goes on until a few minutes before four, when all parties -knock off, unless the ship should have to work an hour or two longer. -At the pay-box the men arrange themselves in numerical order, and are -paid with great celerity by the cashier, the exact amount due to each -man being handed to him as he passes the window. At the exit gate are -stationed two of the Company’s constables, who search any one they have -cause to suspect, for in spite of the utmost vigilance and the aid of -a large staff of police, pilfering is constantly going on within the -Docks, and it requires great watchfulness to prevent the men taking -anything out. As it is, things are occasionally smuggled out, though, -when an offender is convicted, he usually meets with a severe penalty. - -The London and St Katherine’s Docks (now amalgamated under one -Company) cover an area of about forty-five acres, and have nearly -as much warehouse accommodation as all the other Dock companies -put together. The capital embarked in them, inclusive of loans and -debentures, may be stated at about eight millions sterling, and the -employés of all classes about three thousand daily. The annual imports -into these Docks are seldom less than seventy millions, the exports -being also considerable. With all this enormous trade and this vast -amount of business, things are managed with great, though of course not -perfect accuracy; every man knows his place, and there are seldom any -mistakes but such as will occur at times from unavoidable hurry and -confusion. - - - - -PRETTY MRS OGILVIE. - - -All the women are jealous of her; there is no doubt about that. The -first time she appears in church with crisp mauve muslins floating -about her and a dainty mauve erection on her head, which presumably -she calls a bonnet, I know at once how it will be. And of course the -other sex will range themselves on her side to a man; that is also -beyond question. As she rises from her knees and takes her little -lavender-gloved hands from her face and looks about her for a moment -with a sweet shy glance, she is simply bewitching; and I doubt if any -male creature in our musty little church pays proper attention to the -responses for ten minutes afterwards. A new face is a great rarity with -us, and _such_ a new face one might not see more than once in a decade, -so let us hope we may be forgiven. - -As I gaze at the delicate profile before me, the coils of golden hair, -the complexion like the inside of a sea-shell, the slender milk-white -throat, and the long dark eyelashes, which droop modestly over the -glorious gray eyes, shall I own that I steal a glance of disapproval -at Mary Anne, my Mary Anne, the partner of my joys and sorrows for -twenty years, and the mother of my six children? Mary Anne’s figure is -somewhat overblown, her hair is tinged with gray, and the complexion of -her good-humoured face is slightly rubicund. But she has been a good -wife to me; and I feel, with a twinge of compunction, that I have no -right to be critical, as I think of a shining spot on the top of my -own head, and of a little box I received from the dentist only a month -ago, carefully secured from observation. But as we emerge from church -I draw myself up and try to look my best as we pass the trailing mauve -robes. Jack, one of our six, stumbles over the train; which gives -me an opportunity of raising my hat and apologising for the brat’s -awkwardness; and I am rewarded with a sweet smile and an upward glance -out of the great gray eyes which is simply intoxicating. - -‘We must call on Mrs Ogilvie at once,’ I observe to Mary Anne as we -proceed across the fields on our homeward walk. ‘It is my duty as her -landlord to find out if she is comfortable. She is a ladylike person,’ -I continue, diplomatically forbearing to allude to the obvious beauty; -‘and I daresay, my dear, you will find her an agreeable neighbour.’ - -‘Ladylike!’ cries my wife, with a ring of indignation in her voice. ‘I -don’t call it ladylike to come to a quiet country church dressed as if -she were going to a flower-show. Besides, she is painted. A colour -like that can’t be natural. But you men are all alike—always taken with -a little outside show and glitter.’ - -‘But my dear,’ I remonstrate, ‘perhaps she did not know how very -countrified and bucolic our congregation is; and I really do think it -will be very unneighbourly if we don’t call. It must be very dull for -her to know no one.’ I ignore the remark about the paint, but in my -heart I give the assertion an emphatic contradiction. - -Mrs Ogilvie has rented a small cottage which I own in the west-country -village in which I am the principal doctor. She is the wife of a -naval officer who is away in the Flying Squadron, and has settled in -our sleepy little hamlet to live quietly during his absence. All her -references have been quite unexceptionable, and indeed she is slightly -known to our Squire, as is also her absent husband. ‘A splendid fellow -he is,’ Mr Dillon tells me, ‘stands six feet in his stockings, and is -as handsome as Apollo; indeed I don’t believe that for good looks you -could find such another couple in England.’ - -The following day Mary Anne, with but little persuasion, agrees to -accompany me to the cottage to call on Mrs Ogilvie. The door is opened -by a neat maid-servant. She is at home; and we are ushered into the -drawing-room, which we almost fail to recognise, so changed is it. -Bright fresh hangings are in the windows, a handsome piano stands open, -books and periodicals lie on the tables in profusion, and flowers are -everywhere. ‘Evidently a woman of refinement and cultivated tastes,’ I -think to myself; ‘the beauty is more than skin deep.’ - -Presently Mrs Ogilvie comes in, looking if possible even lovelier than -she did the day before. She is in a simple white dress, with here and -there a knot of blue ribbon about it; and she has a bit of blue also -in her golden hair. Her manner is as charming as her looks, and as she -thanks my wife with pleasant cordial words for being the first of her -neighbours to take compassion on her loneliness, I can see that my Mary -Anne, whose heart is as large as her figure, basely deserts the female -faction and goes over to the enemy. Mrs Ogilvie is very young, still -quite a girl, though she has been married three years she tells us. - -‘It is dreadful that Frank should have to go away,’ she says, and -the tears well up in her large gray eyes; ‘that is the worst of the -service. But I suppose no woman ought to interfere with her husband’s -career. I am going to live here as quietly as possible until he -returns. See; here is his photograph,’ she continues, lifting a case -from the table and handing it to Mary Anne. ‘Is he not handsome?’ - -He is most undeniably so, if the likeness speaks truth, and we both say -so; Mary Anne, with the privilege of her sex and age, adding a word as -to the beauty of the pair. - -‘O yes,’ replies Mrs Ogilvie without the smallest embarrassment: ‘we -are always called the “handsome couple.”’ - -I suppose something of my astonishment expresses itself in my -countenance, for she smiles, and says: ‘I am afraid you think me very -vain; but I cannot help knowing that I am good-looking, any more than -I can help being aware that my eyes are gray, not black, and that my -hair is golden. It is a gift from God, like any talent; a valuable one -too, I think it; and I own that I am proud of it, for my dear Frank’s -sake, who admires it so much.’ - -Yes, this is Mrs Ogilvie’s peculiarity, as we afterwards discover—an -intense and quite open admiration of her own beauty. And indeed -there is something so simple and naïve about it, that we do not find -it displeasing when we get accustomed to it. She always speaks of -herself as if she were a third person, and honestly appreciates her -lovely face, as if it were some rare picture, as indeed it is, of Dame -Nature’s own painting. She is equally ready to admit the good looks of -other women, and has not a trace of jealousy in her composition. But -often you will hear her say, in describing some one else: ‘She has a -lovely complexion—something in the style of mine, but not so clear.’ -Or, ‘She has a beautiful head of hair, but not so sunny as mine;’ &c. -&c. At first, every one is astonished at this idiosyncrasy of hers, -but in a little while we all come to laugh at it; there is something -original and amusing about it; and in all other ways she is _so_ -charming. - -My wife, with whom she speedily becomes intimate, tells me that she is -sure she values her beauty more for her husband’s sake than her own. -‘She evidently adores him,’ says Mary Anne; ‘and he seems to think so -much of her sweet looks. She says he fell in love with her at first -sight, before he ever spoke to her.’ - -But Mrs Ogilvie has many more attractions than are to be found in her -face. She is a highly educated woman, a first-rate musician and a -pleasant and intelligent companion; and more than all, she has a sweet -loving disposition, and a true heart at the core of all her little -vanities. She is very good to the poor in our village, and often when -I am on my rounds, I meet her coming out of some cottage with an empty -basket in her hand, which was full when she entered it. - -In a quiet little neighbourhood like ours, such a woman cannot fail to -be an acquisition, and every one hastens to call on her, and many are -the dinners and croquet parties which are inaugurated in her honour. -To the former she will not go; she does not wish to go out in the -evening during her husband’s absence—much to my wife’s satisfaction, -who approves of women being ‘keepers at home’—and it is only seldom -that she can be induced to grace one of the croquet parties with her -presence. - -But when she does, she eclipses every one else. She always dresses -in the most exquisite taste, as if anxious that the setting should -be worthy of the jewel—the beauty which she prizes so highly. She is -always sweet and gracious, and vanquishes the men by her loveliness, -the women in spite of it. But she is in no sense of the word a -coquette; and the only admirer she favours is our Jack, aged fourteen, -who is head-over-ears in love with her, and is ready at any moment to -forego cricket for the honour of escorting Mrs Ogilvie through the -village, and the privilege of carrying her basket. So the quiet weeks -and months glide by, linking us daily more closely together. - -She has been settled at the cottage rather more than two years and -is beginning to count the weeks to her husband’s return. _We_ do not -number them quite so eagerly, for when he comes he will take her away -from us, and we shall miss her sorely. It is summer again, a hot damp -summer; it has been a very sickly season, and my hands are full. - -‘I shall have to get a partner, my dear,’ I say to my wife as I prepare -to go out. ‘If this goes on I shall have more to do than I can manage. -There is a nasty fever about which I don’t like the look of; and if we -don’t have a change for the better in this muggy weather, there is no -saying what it may turn to.’ - -‘I am glad all the boys are at school,’ observes Mary Anne, ‘and I -think I will let the girls accept their aunt’s invitation and go to her -for a month.’ - -‘It would be a very good plan, and I should be glad if you would go -too. A little change would do you good.’ - -‘And pray who is to look after you?’ asks my wife reproachfully. ‘Who -is to see that you take your meals properly, and don’t rush off to see -your patients, leaving your dinner untasted on the table?’ - -Mentally I confess that I should probably be poorly off without my Mary -Anne; but it is a bad plan to encourage vanity in one’s wife, so I say: -‘Oh, I should do very well by myself;’ and with a parting nod betake -myself to my daily duty. - -In the village I meet Mrs Ogilvie, basket in hand. She doesn’t look -well, and I say so. - -‘You have no business out in the heat of the day,’ I tell her. ‘You are -not a Hercules, and you will only be knocking yourself up. What will -your husband say, if he does not find you looking your best when he -comes back?’ - -A shade passes over her face. ‘Ah! he would not be pleased,’ she says -rather gravely; ‘he always likes to see me look my _very_ best and -prettiest.’ - -‘Well then, as your doctor, I must forbid your doing any more -cottage-visiting just at present. You are not looking strong, and going -into those close houses is not good for you. I will come and see you on -my way back.’ - -Which I do. I find there is nothing the matter with her; she is only a -little languid. Perhaps the weather has affected her; perhaps she is -wearying for her husband; and I prescribe a tonic, which I think will -soon set her to rights. I do not remain long with her, for I have an -unspoken anxiety, and I am in a hurry to get home. - -‘You had better send the children away to-morrow morning, Mary Anne,’ -I say as soon as I get in. ‘Mrs Black is very ill, and I am afraid—I -cannot quite tell yet, but I am afraid—she is going to have small-pox. -Of course I shall have her removed at once, if I am right; but it may -prove not to be an isolated case, and it will be as well to get the -children out of the way. I shall try and persuade every one in the -village to be vaccinated to-morrow.’ - -‘You will be clever if you manage that,’ says my wife. ‘I am afraid -some of the people are very prejudiced against it. You know when -the children and I were revaccinated three years ago, you could not -persuade any of the villagers to be done at the same time.’ - -On the following day we despatch the children early to their aunt’s, -under the care of an old servant; and as soon as I have seen them off, -I go down to Mrs Black’s. To my consternation I find Mrs Ogilvie just -leaving the house. - -‘I have been disobedient, you see,’ she says gaily; ‘but I promised -to bring Mrs Black something early this morning; and she seemed so ill -yesterday that I did not like to disappoint her. But I am not going to -transgress orders again—for Frank’s sake,’ she adds softly. - -I give an internal groan. Heaven grant she may not have transgressed -them once too often! And I hasten into the cottage, to find my worst -fears confirmed. Mrs Black has small-pox quite unmistakably. - -For some hours I am occupied in making arrangements for her removal -to the infirmary, and in vaccinating such of my poorer patients as I -can frighten or coerce into allowing me to do so; and it is afternoon -before I am able to go and look after Mrs Ogilvie. - -She seems rather astonished when I inform her what my errand is—that -I want to vaccinate her (for of course I do not wish to frighten her -by telling her about Mrs Black); but she submits readily enough when I -say that I have heard of a case of small-pox in a neighbouring village -(which I have), and think it would be a wise precautionary measure. - -‘It is very good of you,’ she says in her pretty gracious way as she -bares her white arm. ‘I have never been vaccinated since I was a baby, -so I suppose it will be desirable.’ - -Desirable? I should think so indeed! And I send up a prayer as I -perform the operation that I may not be too late. - -I am so busy for the next few days that I am unable to go down to the -cottage. One or two more cases of small-pox appear in the village, and -I am anxious and hard-worked; but Mary Anne tells me that Mrs Ogilvie -has heard of Mrs Black’s removal and is dreadfully nervous about -herself. ‘I hope she will not frighten herself into it,’ adds my wife. - -‘If she hadn’t contracted it before I vaccinated her, I think she is -pretty safe,’ I reply; ‘but there is just the chance that she may have -had the poison in her previously.’ - -Almost as I speak a message comes from Mrs Ogilvie, who ‘wishes to see -me professionally.’ My heart sinks as I seize my hat and follow the -messenger; and with too good reason. I find her suffering from the -first symptoms of small-pox; and in twenty-four hours it has declared -itself unequivocally and threatens to be a bad case. I try to keep the -nature of her illness from her, but in vain. She questions me closely, -and when she discovers the truth, gives way to a burst of despair which -is painful to witness. ‘I shall be marked; I shall be hideous!’ she -exclaims, sobbing bitterly. ‘Poor Frank, how he will hate me!’ - -In vain I try to comfort her, to convince her that in not one out of -a hundred cases does the disease leave dreadful traces behind it; she -refuses to be consoled. And soon she is too ill to be reasoned with, -or indeed to know much of her own state. She is an orphan, and has no -near relatives for whom we can send, so Mary Anne installs herself -in the sick-room as head-nurse; and as I see her bending lovingly -over the poor disfigured face, and ministering with tender hands to -the ceaseless wants of the invalid, my wife is in my eyes beautiful -exceedingly; so does the shadow of a good deed cast a glory around the -most homely countenance. - -For some time Mrs Ogilvie’s life is in great danger; but her youth and -good constitution prevail against the grim destroyer, and at length I -am able to pronounce all peril past. - -But alas, alas! all my hopes, all my care, all my poor skill have been -in vain; and the beauty which we have all admired so much, and which -has been so precious to our poor patient, is a thing of the past. She -is marked—slightly it is true; but the pure complexion is thick and -muddy, the once bright eyes are heavy and dull, and the golden hair is -thin and lustreless. We keep it from her as long as we can, but she -soon discovers it in our sorrowful looks; and her horror, her agony, -almost threaten to unseat her reason. My wife is with her night and -day, watching her like a mother, using every argument she can think of -to console her, and above all, counselling with gentle words submission -to the will of God. But her misery, after the first shock, is not so -much for herself as for the possible effect the loss of her beauty may -have on her husband, who is now daily expected. His ship has been at -sea, so we have been unable to write to him; and only on his arrival -in Plymouth Sound will he hear of his poor young wife’s illness and -disfigurement. Before her sickness she had been counting the hours; -now she sees every day go past with a shudder, feeling that she is -brought twenty-four hours nearer to the dread trial. At length his -vessel arrives, and I receive a telegram telling me when we may expect -him, and begging me to break the news gently to his wife. She receives -it with a flood of bitter tears and sobs, crying out that he will hate -and loathe her, and that she is about to lose all the happiness of her -life. My wife weeps with her; and I am conscious of a choking sensation -in my throat as we take leave of her half an hour before Mr Ogilvie is -expected, and pray God to bless and sustain her. - -We are sitting in rather melancholy mood after dinner, talking of the -poor young husband and wife, when Mr Ogilvie is announced, and I hasten -to the door to meet him. - -‘She will not see me!’ he says impetuously, coming in without any -formal greeting. ‘She has shut herself into her room, and calls to me -with hysterical tears that she is too dreadful to look upon, that I -shall cease to love her as soon as I behold her, and that she cannot -face it.’ And the strong man falls into a chair with a sob. - -‘It is not so bad as that,’ I begin. - -‘I don’t care how bad it is,’ he cries; ‘she need not doubt my love. -My poor darling will always be the same to me whether she has lost her -beauty or not.’ - -Whereupon I extend my hand to him and shake his heartily; and I know my -wife has great difficulty in restraining herself from enveloping him in -her motherly arms and embracing him. - -‘We must resort to stratagem,’ I say. ‘I will go down to the cottage -at once, and you follow me in ten minutes with my wife. I will try and -coax Mrs Ogilvie to come out and speak to me, and you must steal upon -her unawares.’ - -Mrs Ogilvie at first refuses to see or speak to me; but I go up to her -door and am mean enough to remind her of my wife’s devotion to her and -entreat her, for her sake, to come down to me. - -‘Where is Frank?’ she asks. - -‘I left him at home with Mary Anne,’ I reply, feeling that I am worthy -of being a diplomatist at the court of St Petersburg, as she opens the -door and descends the stairs. I take her out into the garden and begin -to reprove her for her conduct, with assumed anger. She listens with -eyes blinded by tears. I, on the look-out for it, hear the latch of the -garden gate click; but she, absorbed in her sorrow, does not notice -it. I look up and see Frank Ogilvie’s eyes fixed hungrily on his wife. -Her changed appearance must be an awful shock to him; but he bears it -bravely; and in a moment he has sprung forward, clasped her in his -arms, and the poor scarred face is hidden on his true and loving heart! - -Then Mary Anne and I turn silently away, and leave him to teach her -that there are things more valuable, of far higher worth than any mere -beauty of face or form. - - * * * * * - -After all, we do not lose her, for Mr Ogilvie coming into some money, -leaves the navy and purchases a small estate in our neighbourhood, -on which they still reside. Mrs Ogilvie is no longer young, and has -a family of lads and lasses around her, who inherit much of their -mother’s loveliness. But one of the first things she teaches them is -not to set a fictitious value on it; ‘for,’ she says, ‘I thought too -much of mine, and God took it from me.’ No one ever hears her regret -the loss of her beauty; ‘for through that trial,’ she tells my wife, ‘I -learned to know the true value of my Frank’s heart.’ - -She simply worships her husband, and is in all respects a happy woman. -Indeed, seeing the sweet smiles which adorn her face and the loving -light which dwells in her eyes, I am sometimes tempted to call her as -of yore—Pretty Mrs Ogilvie. - - - - -BURNABY’S RIDE IN TURKEY. - - -In his volume of travels in Turkey, Captain Burnaby has given such a -large variety of amusing particulars, that it is eminently worthy of -perusal. The following are a few rough notes: - -Radford, the captain’s English servant, was one of the veritable -descendants of Uncle Toby’s Corporal Trim; men—for there are a large -family of them—to whom the word duty means obeying the word of command, -no matter what form it may happen to take, be it to cook a dinner or -storm a trench. At Constantinople another servant was required and -engaged—one Osman, a Mohammedan, a very smart fellow, in every sense of -the word. Picturesque in dress, tall and fine-looking into the bargain, -and fully alive to the worth of the Effendi’s gold, to which he helped -himself unsparingly, without hurt to his conscience or hinderance to -his prayers. The devotions of this worthy proving a fruitful source -of misery to the captain, he came to the conclusion that religious -servants are a mistake, especially in the East. - -At Constantinople there was some little delay occasioned by having -horses to buy and friends to see, and then there were the cafés, which -are always amusing more or less; for the proprietors find that good -voices and pretty girls are sure attractions, whether for Giaour or -Turk. But the poor girls have a hard time of it. By birth they are -chiefly Hungarian and Italian. They act as waitresses mostly, and are -compelled by the Turks who frequent the cafés to sweeten, by tasting, -all that they order. The violence thus done to their digestive organs -may be imagined. One Italian girl bemoaned her lot, saying: ‘It is -such a mixture. I have a pain sometimes (pointing to the bodice of her -dress). I wish to cry; but I have to run about and smile, wait upon -visitors and drink with them. It is a dreadful life! Oh, if I could -only return to Florence!’ - -Captain Burnaby found the Turkish women’s faces ‘sadly wanting in -expression;’ at least those he had an opportunity of seeing, for -the women all go veiled. Still their veils are of very thin muslin, -and man’s curiosity is penetrating. But this noticeable lack of -expression is not to be wondered at, when we hear that they are wholly -uncultivated in mind—only one in a thousand among them can read or -write. They amuse themselves in gossip and eating. - -The Ride was not at all times agreeable. It was not pleasant, for -instance, having to cross wooden bridges without parapets, and to see -the river below through holes in the wooden planks beneath the horse’s -feet; or to wade up to the horse’s girths through lanes of water. But -such is the fortune of travelling in the unknown. - -At the village of Nahilan the caimacan or governor was hospitable, and -soon the whole population was in attendance to see and talk with the -traveller. He was given the seat of honour on a rug near the fire. The -caimacan in a fur-lined dressing-gown came next, the rest of the party -in order not according to rank, but according to their possessions—the -man who owned one hundred cows being seated next the governor. -Conversation at first did not get on any better there than at home. -But some one made a plunge, and the state of the roads was discussed. -This opened the way to politics and the prospect of English help, about -which the Turks were eager and anxious to learn. The war was the one -topic of interest among them, as well it might be. The scenery in the -neighbourhood was lovely, and Captain Burnaby wished that he had been -born a painter, to have caught the impression of the beauty around -him, and have fixed it for ever on canvas. He has painted at least one -little sketch successfully in words: ‘A succession of hills, each one -loftier than its fellow, broke upon us as we climbed the steep (leading -towards Angora). They were of all forms, shades, and colours, ash gray, -blue, vermilion, robed in imperial purple, and dotted with patches of -vegetation. Our road wound amidst these chameleon-like heights, whose -silvery rivulets streamed down the sides of the many-coloured hills.’ - -But we must leave this pretty scene to describe the night’s lodging -at the next halt, which gives us an insight into Turkish beds and -bedrooms. No bedsteads are used. ‘One or two mattresses are laid on the -floor; the _yorgan_, a silk quilt lined with linen and stuffed with -feathers, taking the place of sheets and blankets. These yorgans are -heirlooms in a Turkish family, and are handed down from father to son. -It is a mark of high respect when a host gives you his wedding yorgan -to sleep under. Captain Burnaby found the honour a trying one, as many -generations of fleas shared it with him. Osman grew eloquent on the -subject of yorgans. He had one so beautiful that neither his wife nor -himself liked to use it. - -Hearing that he was married, Captain Burnaby questioned him about his -wife. Did he love her? Was she pretty? To which Osman replied: ‘She is -a good cook. She makes soup. Effendi, I could not afford to marry a -good-looking girl. There was one in our village—such a pretty one, with -eyes like a hare and plump as a turkey—but she could not cook, and her -father wanted too much for her. For my present wife I gave only ten -liras (or Turkish pounds); but she did not weigh more than one hundred -pounds. She was very cheap. Her eyes are not quite straight, but she -can cook. Looks don’t last; but cooking is an art that the Prophet -himself did not despise.’ - -At every place a cordial reception awaited the traveller. The Turks -are not ungrateful; and English help during the Crimean War is still -remembered. At Angora, a town of importance, there was an English -vice-consul, a married man, living in a house furnished with every -English comfort. He is the only Englishman, or rather Scotchman, -in the place. A Turkish gentleman gave a dinner-party in honour of -the traveller. These Turkish dinner-parties are compared to Turkish -music, and declared to consist of a series of surprises. ‘In music the -leader of an orchestra goes from andante to a racing pace without any -crescendo whatever. The cook in the same manner gives first a dish as -sweet as honey, and then astonishes our stomach with a sauce as acid as -vinegar. Now we are eating fish, another instant blanc-mange. And so on -throughout the feast were the startling contrasts continued. Servants -were abundant and pressing. Each guest ate with his fingers, helping -himself according to his rank or social status.’ When dinner was over -the host rose, not forgetting to say his grace: ‘Praise be to God.’ -A servant then poured water over the hands of each, according to his -rank, for precedence is duly observed in the veriest trifle; and then -they all adjourned to another room to smoke and drink coffee. - -Nothing can exceed the hospitality and generosity of the Turk. Admire -what belongs to him, and he begs you to accept it, be it a book, a -horse, or a servant. Talking of servants, it was amusing to hear Osman -railing at the man in charge of the pack-horse for allowing the horse -that carried the valuables, in the form of groceries and cartridges, -to lie down in a river, thus injuring the contents of his pack. The -Eastern method of abuse is to attack a man’s female relatives—a point -on which all Easterns are most sensitive—in language the reverse of -choice. - -In Anatolia and in most parts of Asia Minor, every man is his own -architect and builder, on the following simple principles. When old -enough to marry, a man chooses a bit of oblong ground, on the side of -a hill if he can, and digs out the earth to the depth of several feet. -‘Hewing down some trees, he cuts six posts, each about ten feet high, -and drives them three feet into the ground, three posts being on one -side of the oblong, three on the other. Cross-beams are fastened to -the top of these uprights, and branches of trees, plastered with clay, -cover all.’ The doorway is of rude construction. In the interior, a -wooden railing divides the room into two, one-half of which is occupied -by the animals, the other by the family. A hole in the ceiling is the -only mode of ventilation, and in cold weather this is stopped up. The -‘family’ often consists of twelve in number, and at night they lie -huddled on the floor, which in poorer houses is covered with coarse -rugs of camels’ hair, and Persian rugs among the wealthier. The close -proximity to livestock invites a third and irrepressible population -of fleas in most of these houses. The misery of a night spent with -legions of these insects must be felt to be thoroughly understood -and appreciated. They formed the chief discomfort of the travellers, -whose English skins were not case-hardened to the assaults of the -lively banqueteers. When sickness overtook them (as it did when they -had advanced far on their journey) and sleep became imperative, the -misery of our travellers grew serious. To be ravaged by fever as well -as by fleas would at once try the strongest. At last in one village a -hint was given that if the Effendi’s skin were attacked, no bucksheesh -would follow. Instantly the host had a remedy at hand. He had a cart -in his yard; and the Effendi at last had the comfort of a few hours of -undisturbed slumber. - -At various places the Armenian churches were visited. It is the custom -among the Armenians, as among the Jews, to separate the women from the -men during divine service. The Armenians take the further precaution -of hiding the women behind a screened lattice-work. Great pity was -expressed for our English clergymen when it was found they used no such -precaution in their churches, and it was remarked: ‘They must find it -difficult to keep the attention of their flock, if the ladies are as -pretty as they are said to be.’ In the Armenian churches, however, -the precaution is used to keep the women devotional; but such is the -power of attraction, that in many places Captain Burnaby noticed that -the lattice had been broken away! The interior of an Armenian church -resembles a mosque, and is carpeted with thick Persian rugs. As the -Armenian Christians worship pictures, the walls are hung with several -in gaudy frames. The service is ritualistic in the extreme, and politic -to temporal no less than spiritual rulers; for on the occasion of -Captain Burnaby’s attendance, the service opened with two songs sung by -the choir—one in honour of the Queen of England, out of compliment to -the visitor present; the other for the Sultan. Some of their traditions -are curious. One is, that a prince of theirs, a leper, living at the -same time as Christ, heard of his miracles, and wrote a letter to the -Saviour, inviting him to come and take up his abode in Armenia and cure -him of his disease. The Lord is supposed to have replied: ‘After I have -gone, I will send one of my disciples to cure thy malady and give life -to thee and thine.’ With the letter, Christ is supposed to have sent at -the same time a handkerchief which had received the image of his face -by being pressed to it; and it is this tradition which they adduce to -justify their adoration of pictures. - -The Turk’s religion is a compound of faith and fatalism, sprinkled -occasionally with due precaution. Here is an instance of their -fatalism. When Captain Burnaby was at Kars, the streets were in such a -filthy condition, owing to the sewage of the town being thrown in front -of the buildings, that the hospitals were full of typhoid, and cholera -was anticipated; and yet neither soldiers nor inhabitants would stir a -finger to remove the source of their miseries out of the streets; the -soldiers declaring that they were not scavengers, and the inhabitants -making some other excuse. When warned of the consequences, each took -refuge in kismet or fate. Allah was great and able to perform miracles. -If Allah saw fit, there would be no cholera—although their streets were -reeking with the seeds of disease. - -In most of the towns, excitement prevailed in organising battalions for -the seat of war. The Turks are essentially a warlike nation, and fight -for their country without a murmur, in the face of such disadvantages -as bad food and long arrears of pay. - -We have not before spoken of a new travelling companion who took -Osman’s place—one Mohammed by name, who was as faithful as the Prophet -himself. Osman turned out a very bad bargain. His fidelity to the -Effendi’s purse became at last greater even than his love of prayer; -and his keen eye after an exorbitant percentage was worthy of a London -usurer. Remonstrance was in vain. At last he was dismissed, having been -caught thieving, and Mohammed reigned in his stead, to the comfort of -all parties. He was a soldier and a mountaineer, brave and hardy on -land, but a coward at sea. He loved his lord the Effendi, and dearly -loved his ‘brother’ Radford’s cooking. His ‘brother’s’ opinion of -him at parting was characteristic: ‘That Mohammed was not such a bad -chap after all, sir. Them Turks have stomachs, and like filling them -they do; but they have something in their hearts as well.’ And so -Mohammed shewed—for in illness he was a kind nurse, and faithful to his -‘lord’s’ interests throughout. On one occasion, Mohammed complained -of rheumatism, and Radford applied a mustard paper. What a sensation -it created among the Kurd villagers—some of whom were spectators -of course—when they heard that the wet paper had produced the fire -under which Mohammed lay writhing and groaning. It was a miracle; and -forthwith the Effendi was hailed everywhere as a _hakim_ or doctor, and -his fame spread from place to place on the road. A Persian asked, and -even admitted him into his harem, to prescribe for his pretty wife, to -whom he gave small doses of quinine. Another time a Kurd asked him to -cure his toothache; but mustard papers were powerless here; so Radford -was called in consultation, and said it ought to come out. But there -were no instruments at hand, and the operation had to be declined. -‘Give me something for my stomach then,’ asked the Kurd. Three pills -were then handed to him, which he chewed deliberately, declaring, when -he had finished them, his tooth was better! - -At one place, after passing over a narrow wooden bridge that spanned -the Euphrates—only forty yards wide at this point—the travellers -crossed the Hasta Dagh (mountain); presently they came to a glacier, -the frozen surface of which extended a hundred yards, the decline -being steeper than the roof of an average English house. ‘Should it be -taken?’ was the question asked with much consternation, and decided -in the affirmative. The guide rode his horse to the glacier. The -poor animal trembled when it reached the brink; but a reminder from -Mohammed’s whip hastened the poor brute’s decision, and he stretched -his forelegs over the declivity, almost touching the slippery surface -with his girth. Another crack from Mohammed, and horse and guide were -whirling down the glacier, and only pulled up at last by finding -themselves buried in a snowdrift six feet deep. When his turn came, -Captain Burnaby describes the sensation as if he were ‘waltzing madly -down the slippery surface.’ To witness the descent of the others was -something fearful; though not so dangerous as it appeared. When Radford -emerged from his snowy burial, he exclaimed: ‘I never thought as how -a horse could skate before. It was more than sliding, that it was; a -cutting a figure of eight all down the roof of a house.’ - -Our travellers at last reached Batoum, where they parted from Mohammed, -and where we must part from them, not without sincere regret. After -this, they took ship across the Black Sea to Constantinople, and all -adventures were over. We shall not quickly forget the two thousand -miles of ground so graphically described, and over a portion of which -we have travelled with them in the saddle. Nor will the reader of -Captain Burnaby’s volume of travels throughout the land of the Osmanli, -easily forget the scenes and incidents and people so graphically -depicted. We omit with regret many good stories we should like to have -told; but space is inexorable. To those who are inclined to echo this -regret, we can only say: ‘Do as we have done, and take the ride with -Burnaby for yourselves.’ - - - - -WEDDING EXTRAVAGANCES. - - -The following sensible observations on the wastefulness which often -takes place on marriage occasions, are from the pen of Camilla -Crosland—our old and esteemed contributor originally known as Camilla -Toulmin. They appear in _Social Notes_, a weekly periodical not unlike -our own, edited by Mr S. C. Hall, and which has our best wishes for its -success. - -‘How many people there are who in fine clothes and with smiling faces -“assist” at a modern wedding, yet in their heart of hearts think the -profuse outlay and the general festive arrangements usual on the -occasion a piece of tiresome folly! Few, however, like to make a dead -set against time-honoured customs, unless strong personal feelings or -personal interests are concerned. - -‘Marriage may certainly lay claim to being the most important event -in life, and as such there must ever be solemnity associated with it. -In fact our Prayer-book speaks of the solemnisation of matrimony. Of -course it is right that there should be a certain publicity attached -to every marriage ceremony, and probably in this fact originated the -custom of inviting friends to be present on the occasion, till by -degrees wedding-parties have become more and more crowded, and now it -is a common thing for a vast assembly to congregate at them. Of course -where there is great wealth, and people love this sort of display, and -bride and bridegroom have nerve for it, and are, moreover, happy in -possessing “troops of friends,” there is no reason why money should -not circulate—the confectioner revel in _chefs-d’œuvre_, the florist -realise a week’s ordinary income in bouquets, and the milliner make her -mint of money by rich toilets. But a vice of the English middle class -is to ape the rank above it; and I confess it has often to me seemed -pitiable to know at what a cost of after self-denial a showy wedding -has taken place. - -‘It is desirable that when two young people, suitable in age, -character, station, are warmly attached, they should be married as -soon as prudence permits. Let us take, for instance, the case of -an accomplished but portionless young lady, the eldest of several -daughters, who has been accustomed to utilise her talents in the home -circle. She has been engaged, say four years, to a gentleman in a -government office with a slowly rising salary. He is about thirty, she -five or six and twenty. He has saved enough money to furnish a pretty -little suburban dwelling, and she will be provided by her father with a -modest _trousseau_, and they think it now high time to “settle.” Their -income, even including a fatherly allowance for pin-money, will be -considerably less than five hundred pounds per annum, and they, being -good arithmeticians, know they must live quietly, visit and entertain -only in a homely, friendly manner, and neither go to nor give formal -parties. Of what use is the costly white silk bridal dress, which in -all human probability will never in its original state be worn again? -It will, of course, be laid up carefully, and looked at occasionally -with tender sentimental interest; but by-and-by, in a year or two, it -will seem old-fashioned, and most probably be picked to pieces and -dyed some serviceable colour. Then there were probably at least four -bride’s-maids, each to be presented with a jewelled _souvenir_ by the -not too affluent bridegroom, and the costly wedding-breakfast to be -provided by the father. One mischief of the thing being that the whole -arrangement becomes a precedent, so that the next sister who marries -would seem slighted if she were to have a less stylish wedding. - -‘Perhaps the costly entertainment—which is often a great trial to the -feelings of the parties most chiefly concerned—can only be given by -dipping into a very slender capital, or by relinquishing the autumn -seaside holiday. The worst of the matter is that the class a little -below the one I have attempted to describe, imitates the bad example in -its own way and to its own detriment.’ - -Mrs Crosland, in conclusion, mentions a case in which persons of -respectable standing consulted economy and common sense in their -marriage arrangements. ‘Due arrangements having been quietly made, -the young lady one morning, dressed in ordinary attire, escorted by -her father to “give her away,” and accompanied by a younger sister to -serve as bride’s-maid, walked to the parish church, where the expectant -bridegroom was ready to receive them. There the ceremony was performed, -the little party returning to partake of the family luncheon before the -wedded pair started on their tour. Was not this an example worthy under -many circumstances to be followed?’ - - - - -CANINE CUNNING. - - -The following is from a correspondent: ‘A near neighbour of mine has -a large mongrel dog, a terrible nuisance to all passing the house, -which unfortunately stands near the highway. The brute has the nasty -habit of rushing out and attacking every passing vehicle. Complaints -were loud and numerous; and at length the owner hit upon a plan which -he thought would effectually cure his dog. He attached a small log of -wood or a “clog” by a chain to his collar. This answered admirably; -for no sooner did the dog start in pursuit of anything than the clog -not only checked his speed but generally rolled him over into the -bargain. Now this would not do. Doggie was evidently puzzled, and -reflected upon the position; and if he did not possess reasoning -powers, he certainly shewed something very like them, for he quickly -overcame the difficulty, and to the surprise of all, was soon at his -old work, nearly as bad as ever. And this is how he managed. No longer -did he attempt to drag the clog on the ground and allow it to check -and upset him, but before starting he caught it up in his mouth, ran -before the passing horse, dropped it, and commenced the attack; and -when distanced, would again seize the clog in his mouth, and resume his -position ahead, and thus became as great a pest as ever. Even on his -ordinary travels about he is now seen carrying his clog in his mouth, -instead of letting it drag on the ground between his legs.’ - - -LOST DOGS. - -Few facts will better illustrate the vast scale on which almost -everything presents itself in the English metropolis, even so humble a -subject as that of poor dogs that have temporarily lost their masters, -than one mentioned in the Annual Report of the Chief Commissioner of -Police. He informs us that nearly nineteen thousand (more than 18,800) -stray dogs were taken charge of by the police in the metropolis during -the year 1876! A little romance might be mixed up with the story of -most of these homeless wanderers, if we could but know it: how Carlo or -Boxer was distressed at losing his protector. The animals were either -taken for a while to the Dogs’ Home at Battersea, or were otherwise -provided for. - - - - -IN MEMORIAM. - -(M. A. W.—POETESS. ÆTAT 25.) - - - O Noble heart! so gentle, kind; - Thy life, like a brief summer wind, - Hath passed away, - And left me here on earth to mourn - Thine early flight to that sweet bourne - Where angels stay. - - There may my soul from slumber ’wake - When heaven and earth their concord break, - And Time is o’er; - When Christ, in his enthroned array, - Proclaims aloud his Advent Day - From shore to shore! - - There may we meet at last and find - (Mind, heart, and soul for aye entwined) - Eternal rest; - There tread together Eden’s bowers— - The land of life and light and flowers— - With souls as blest. - - Brief was thy sojourn here, sweet girl; - And life, with all its glittering whirl, - Soon passed thee by; - Leaving the flower to droop unseen, - The world rolled on, not heeding e’en - Thy dying cry. - - In that dark hour, thy fleeting soul, - Regardless of Death’s stern control, - Broke forth in song; - And as the falt’ring numbers came, - By angels fair thy hallowed fame - Was borne along. - - O well-beloved! enseamed in light, - If thou canst gaze upon my night - Of lonely grief: - Behold me now, and mark the tears - That still must flow through future years - Without relief. - - Yet the dread tomb which steals away - From brightest gem its purest ray— - The Life sublime! - Must know we can its power defy, - For thou art safe beyond the sky, - And for all time. - - Yea; thou art safe with that great God - Who rules Creation with a rod - Of love and light; - The Being of a glorious mien, - Whose majesty is Grand, Serene, - And Infinite! - - Oh, better far thou shouldst be there, - Removed from this world’s doubt and care— - A gloomy train; - Full-veiled in peerless robes of light, - Enthroned where comes nor storm, nor night, - Nor grief, nor pain. - - And could I gaze above and see - The glow of immortality - That veils thy soul, - And feel thy holy presence near, - To guard me from ungodly fear, - And its control: - - Then should I bless the hidden blow - That laid my darling’s bosom low - Within the grave; - And own that Love’s immortal Hand - Did guide the swift unerring brand - Which struck to save. - - J. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 750, May 11, 1878 - -Author: Various - -Editor: William Chambers - Robert Chambers - -Release Date: October 23, 2020 [EBook #63533] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL LITERATURE, MAY 11, 1878 *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_289"></a>{289}</span></p> - -<h1>CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL<br /> -OF<br /> -POPULAR<br /> -LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.</h1> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" >CONTENTS</h2> -</div> - -<p class='center'> - -<!-- Autogenerated TOC. Modify or delete as required. --> - -<a href="#A_VOYAGE_IN_THE_SUNBEAM">A VOYAGE IN THE <i>SUNBEAM</i>.</a><br /> -<a href="#HELENA_LADY_HARROGATE">HELENA, LADY HARROGATE.</a><br /> -<a href="#WORK_IN_THE_LONDON_DOCKS">WORK IN THE LONDON DOCKS.</a><br /> -<a href="#PRETTY_MRS_OGILVIE">PRETTY MRS OGILVIE.</a><br /> -<a href="#BURNABYS_RIDE_IN_TURKEY">BURNABY’S RIDE IN TURKEY.</a><br /> -<a href="#WEDDING_EXTRAVAGANCES">WEDDING EXTRAVAGANCES.</a><br /> -<a href="#CANINE_CUNNING">CANINE CUNNING.</a><br /> -<a href="#IN_MEMORIAM">IN MEMORIAM.</a><br /> - -<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> - -</p> - - - - - - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="figcenter" id="header" style="max-width: 37.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/header.png" alt="Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, -and Art. Fourth Series. Conducted by William and Robert Chambers." /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="center"> -<div class="header"> -<p class="floatl"><span class="smcap">No. 750.</span></p> -<p class="floatr"><span class="smcap">Price</span> 1½<em>d.</em></p> -<p class="floatc">SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1878.</p> -</div></div></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_VOYAGE_IN_THE_SUNBEAM">A VOYAGE IN THE <i>SUNBEAM</i>.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">We</span> have not for a long time perused a more -lively and interesting book than that written by -Mrs Brassey, purporting to be an account of her -voyage round the world, in the yacht named the -<i>Sunbeam</i>. The lady was accompanied by her -husband, Mr Thomas Brassey, M.P., also her -children and a few private friends. The yacht, -a handsomely fitted up and commodious vessel, -possessed three masts, and had a powerful sailing -capacity, but was provided with a screw and steam-power, -to be used as occasion required.</p> - -<p>Though laying no claim to literary skill, Mrs -Brassey writes pleasingly in the form of a diary; -and she may be complimented on her untiring -energy in bearing fatigue, and the good taste with -which she describes the multiplicity of scenes and -circumstances calling for observation. Mr Brassey, -usually called Tom in the narrative, was his own -navigator, which infers no small degree of nautical -knowledge; and we are led to believe that this -was not his first expedition with the <i>Sunbeam</i>. -He was, of course, assisted by a sailing-master, -a boatswain, and engineer, besides a crew of at -least twenty able-bodied seamen; the full compliment -being made up by a steward and stewardess, -cooks, nurse, lady’s-maid, and other domestics.</p> - -<p>One can fancy the pleasurable excitement in -preparing for a year’s voyage of this kind, -the arrangements to be made, the articles to be -taken; the hopes probably predominating over -the fears, the farewells on going on board. It -is the fate of few to have so splendid a chance -of making a tour of the globe, carrying from -clime to clime not a few of the comforts of home—an -elegant saloon for daily resort, a library -of seven hundred volumes for amusing reading, -nicely fitted-up cabins, baths, a first-rate cuisine -and larder, everything else to make life pass away -agreeably; letters of introduction, abundant means, -liberty to sail where and when you like. What -more could anybody desire? Such is yacht-life. -It was brought to perfection in the <i>Sunbeam</i>. -Looking to the elegant form of the vessel, and -the large quantity of sail she carried, we can -form an idea of her great speed when running -before a favourable wind. The only drawback, -it can be supposed, was the small draught of -water, about nine feet, wherefore in rough weather -there must have been a considerable tumbling -about. However, that is what will be expected -in yachting, which differs materially from performing -a voyage in large sea-going ships.</p> - -<p>The <i>Sunbeam</i>, sailing from the Thames, set out -on the 1st July 1876, and steering westward by -the Isle of Wight, suffered some rough weather -in getting into the Atlantic. On the 13th there -was a cry of a ‘sail on the port-beam;’ but on -investigation it proved to be an abandoned vessel -tossed about on the ocean, with masts gone, and -the sea washing over the half-broken-up deck. -This unfortunate derelict was visited; it had been -laden with wine, of which several casks were carried -away, and then it was left to its fate; though, -had time permitted to take the hulk into port, -a considerable salvage might have been realised. -The party were beginning to settle down. At -meals there was much pleasant talk; Mrs Brassey -read and wrote a good deal, and learned Spanish; -one of the gentlemen taught the children, and the -commissariat department was satisfactory. The -land first reached was Madeira. At Funchal, the -vessel dropped anchor; and with jaunting about to -see the island, there was a stay of several days. -Many friends came on board before departure, and -‘all admired the yacht very much, particularly -the various cosy corners in the deck-house.’</p> - -<p>On the 20th July, off for the Canary Islands; -and these being reached, there was an expedition -on horseback to the Peak of Teneriffe. Tremendous -as was the ascent of a mountain which -rises eleven thousand four hundred and sixty-six -feet above the level of the sea, Mrs Brassey did not -shrink from the undertaking. She, however, did -not attempt to climb the cone of five hundred and -thirty feet, composed as it is of hot ashes, into -which the feet sink at every step, while sulphurous -vapours pour from the various fissures. View -from the summit magnificent. Of the picturesque<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_290"></a>{290}</span> -scenery drawings and photographs were taken. -Teneriffe being exhausted, off went the <i>Sunbeam</i>, -still holding in a southerly direction by the Cape de -Verde Islands.</p> - -<p>Rio de Janeiro, on the coast of South America, -was reached on the 18th August. A graphic -account is given of excursions in Brazil. The eye -everywhere was struck with the brilliant colours -of the humming-birds, flowers, and butterflies. -Palm, orange, lemon, and citron trees were among -the common objects of vegetation. A variation -in the general amusement consisted of a voyage -up the River Plate and a journey on the Pampas. -Splendid country, and well farmed, but under -what an infliction—the locusts. Of these terrible -creatures Mrs Brassey heard a good deal, and she -longed to see them, and her wish was gratified. -She says: ‘In the course of our ride we saw in the -distant sky what looked very much like a heavy -purple thunder-cloud, but which the experienced -pronounced to be a swarm of locusts. It seemed -impossible; but as we proceeded they met us, -first singly, and then in gradually increasing -numbers, until each step became positively painful, -owing to the smart blows we received from -them on our heads, faces, and hands.... As the -locusts passed between us and the sun they completely -obscured the light; a little later, with the -sun’s rays shining directly on their wings, they -looked like a golden cloud, such as one sometimes -sees in the transformation scene in a pantomime.’ -We pass over much that is described in the -Argentine Republic, as of little or no interest in -this country.</p> - -<p>The <i>Sunbeam</i> set off in its course southwards on -September 28th. While lying down to rest after -breakfast, Mrs Brassey was summoned to come on -deck to see a ship which had signalled being on -fire. A boat being despatched to discover the -condition of affairs, the vessel was found to be -the <i>Monkshaven</i>, sixty days out from Swansea, -bound for Valparaiso with a cargo of smelting-coal, -which had taken fire by the spontaneous ignition of -gases. As it was evident that the unfortunate ship -could not be saved, prompt assistance was given -in bringing the crew on board the <i>Sunbeam</i>. ‘The -poor fellows,’ says Mrs Brassey, ‘were almost wild -with joy at getting alongside another ship, after -all the hardships they had gone through, and in -their excitement they threw overboard many things -which they might as well have kept, as they had -taken the trouble to bring them. Our boat made -three trips altogether; and by half-past six we had -them all safe on board, with most of their effects, -and the ship’s chronometers, charts, and papers.... -While we were at dinner the ship was blazing like -a tar-barrel.’ The last time the <i>Monkshaven</i> was -seen, she was burned down nearly to the water’s -edge. From the information given respecting the -ill-fated ship, it was learned that a large American -steamer had passed quite close to her, and disregarding -signals of distress, had steamed away -southward, leaving all on board to their fate. -The kind attention shewn by Mr Brassey comes -strongly out in contrast with such heartless conduct. -The unexpected addition of the crew of -the <i>Monkshaven</i> to those on board the <i>Sunbeam</i> -proved a trial on the commissariat, but the difficulty -was overcome. The inconvenience was -fortunately for only a few days. The <i>Ilimani</i>, -one of the Pacific Company’s mail-steamers, came -in sight on the route for England, and to this -vessel the crew of the <i>Monkshaven</i> were consigned. -Besides affording this relief, ‘the captain of the -<i>Ilimani</i> kindly gave us half a bullock, killed -this morning, a dozen live ducks and chickens, -and the latest newspapers.’</p> - -<p>On the 6th October, the <i>Sunbeam</i> was off the -coast of Patagonia; the rugged mountains of Tierra -del Fuego rose on the sky, and now the yacht -shaped its course for the Straits of Magellan. To -get through these tortuous narrows is reckoned -one of the clever feats in navigation. There -are many sunken rocks to be avoided, and the -natives scattered about the coast are not to be -relied on. The scenery, which is described as -singularly picturesque, is well represented in some -beautiful illustrations.</p> - -<p>The narrow channels were got through on the -12th October; the sun pierced through the clouds, -and the broad Pacific was in view. What a -triumph in navigation to have piloted ‘the yacht -through the Straits, for it would do credit, not -only to any amateur, but to a professional seaman.’ -Sails were hoisted; and now begins what we deem -to be the most amusing part of the work; for -after touching at Valparaiso, the voyaging was -among the groups of islands which, dotting the -Pacific, lie basking in the profuse beauty of the -tropics. Valparaiso, the most important trading -town of Chili, left some agreeable impressions. -Several English gentlemen were solicitous that -the party should stay for a few days; and there -were excursions in the neighbourhood. An emporium -of Panama hats was visited. These hats -are a curiosity, and are worn by almost everybody -on the coast. They are made of ‘a special kind of -grass, split very fine,’ and are sold at an extraordinary -price; fifty to sixty guineas being not an -unusual price for a single hat, though some are -sold at a cheaper rate. Their recommendation -is that they are light, pliable, and so enduring -that they will almost last for ever. Very wonderful -hats, as Mrs Brassey thinks, but gravely -adds, that where ‘so many hats are lost overboard, -they would prove rather an unprofitable -investment.’ Some curious details are given respecting -the abundance of eggs, which are offered -in profusion at meals. Eggs on all occasions -are the order of the day, and poultry in superlative -abundance. Valparaiso, in short, is the -paradise of eggs. It is stated that there are good -shops, but everything is ‘frightfully dear.’ We -can at all events say that there is a considerable -import of English books and periodicals.</p> - -<p>The route adopted from Valparaiso was westward -to the Society Islands, lying in nearly the -twentieth degree of south latitude. They may -be said to be at the very middle of the Pacific, and -out of the way of general navigation. It was a -charming sail, but rather slow work; and looking -to the great stretch of ocean to be traversed, there -were qualms of feeling as to how provisions and -water would last—fear that there will have to -be a dependence on potted meats; and talking -of these meats, we are assured that none at -all equal those of American preparation. Slipping -on at the rate of five miles an hour under -sail, but sometimes accelerated by a breeze, the -<i>Sunbeam</i> went onward night and day with nothing -to look at but the ocean and sky. Much time -was spent in reading, and there was some amusement<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_291"></a>{291}</span> -in noticing the paroquets, monkeys, and -other pet animals that had been domesticated on -board. On Sundays, as was customary throughout, -all hands were summoned for Divine service, -just as at home in England. The length of the -service depended on the weather. When circumstances -permitted, Mr Brassey read a sermon in -addition to the usual prayers. One likes to read -of these continued acknowledgments of Divine care -by a whole ship’s company, amidst the perils of -the deep.</p> - -<p>The Society Islands were reached on the 26th -November. For the very interesting account of -these islands we must refer to what is described -by Mrs Brassey. But for the rise of coral reefs, -these islands would scarcely have an existence. -This is one of the wonders of nature. Our authoress -is at a loss to describe the beauty of the scene. -‘Submarine coral forests of every colour, studded -with sea-flowers, anemones, and echinidæ, of a -brilliancy only to be seen in dreamland; shoals -of the brightest and swiftest fish darting and -flashing in and out; shells, every one of which -was fit to hold the place of honour in a conchologist’s -collection, moving slowly along with their -living inmates: this is what we saw when we -looked down from the side of the boat into the -depths below.’ On landing at one of the islands, -the party were hospitably received by the natives. -Piles of cocoa-nuts, fish, and fowls were laid -down as presents at their feet. From the cocoa-nuts -they were refreshed by a drink of cool milk -offered for their acceptance. For these gifts there -was a proper requital. Mrs Brassey says: ‘The -women were gentle and kind, and were delighted -with some beads, looking-glasses, and knives I -gave them; in return for which they brought us -quantities of beautiful shells.’ At the island of -Tahiti there was a similar exchange of courtesies. -Papiette is described as quite a town, with a -market affording an immense choice of articles -for sale.</p> - -<p>The pleasures of a tropical clime are unfortunately -apt to be marred by certain torments. During -the rainy season, water falls in solid masses -which no temporary shelter can withstand; that, -however, is nothing in comparison with the invasion -of insects. A small party which set out in an -American wagon for a drive of two days round -Tahiti, passed the night at an inn where the insect -pest was experienced in an unmistakable way. -The rooms were swarming with cockroaches ‘about -three inches long’, which climbed the walls and -were seen in every crevice. ‘Then there were the -mosquitoes, who hummed and buzzed about us, -and with whom, alas! we were doomed to have -a closer acquaintance. Our bed was fitted with -the very thickest calico mosquito curtains, impervious -to the air, but not to the venomous -little insects, who found their way through every -tiny opening in spite of all our efforts to exclude -them.... Amidst suffocating heat, in the moonlight, -were seen columns of nasty brown cockroaches -ascending the bed-posts, crawling along -the top of the curtains, dropping with a thud -on the bed, and then descending over the side -to the ground.’ Being unable to stand it any -longer, Mrs Brassey rose, emptied her slippers -of the cockroaches, seized on her garments, and -fled to the garden; whence, however, she was -driven back by torrents of rain. Such is a picture -of certain inconveniences in these tropical islands. -Prodigious beauty of vegetation, flowers magnificent, -all seemingly a kind of paradise—but the -plague of insects.</p> - -<p>Making a run northwards, the <i>Sunbeam</i> reached -Hawaii, one of the Sandwich Islands, on the -22d December. Here was the same profusion -and beauty of flowers. The women and girls -are described as being gaily decorated with -wreaths and garlands, and wearing a dress of a -very simple yet not inelegant fashion, consisting -of ‘a coloured long-sleeved loose gown reaching to -the feet’—no tying at the waist, all flowing and -free, with no restraint in walking or sitting -down. Our space does not permit us to follow -the movements of the party in their excursions -through interesting scenery. Hawaii, like -all the other islands in the group, is of volcanic -origin. Kilauea, which is still raging, is reckoned -to be the largest volcano in the world, for its -crater is nine miles in circumference. This extraordinary -volcano, situated at the top of a -mountain six thousand feet above the level of -the sea, was visited by Mrs Brassey, although the -journey to it is fatiguing, and the approach to it -is attended with some peril. There happens to -be a comfortable inn near the brink of the crater, -at which travellers are accommodated and are -furnished with guides to conduct them with -safety to points of interest.</p> - -<p>According to Mrs Brassey’s account, the scene -was horribly grand. ‘We were standing on the -extreme edge of a precipice, overhanging a lake -of molten fire, a hundred feet below us, and nearly -a mile across. Dashing against the cliffs on the -opposite side, with a noise like the roar of a -stormy ocean, waves of blood-red, fiery, liquid -lava hurled their billows upon an iron-bound headland, -and then rushed up the face of the cliffs -to toss their gory spray high in the air. The -restless heaving lake boiled and bubbled, never -remaining the same for two minutes together.... -There was an island on one side of the lake, which -the fiery waves seemed to attack unceasingly with -relentless fury, as if bent on hurling it from its -base. On the other side was a large cavern, into -which the burning mass rushed with a loud roar, -breaking down in its impetuous headlong career -the gigantic stalactites that overhung the mouth -of the cave, and flinging up the liquid material -for the formation of new ones. It was all terribly -grand, magnificently sublime; but no words could -adequately describe such a scene.’</p> - -<p>Perhaps the specimens now presented will -incline readers to undertake a thorough perusal -of this unique and interesting work, which (published -by Longman) we doubt not will be found -at all the libraries. The route homewards of the -<i>Sunbeam</i> from Hawaii was by way of Japan, the -China Sea, the Straits of Malacca, Ceylon, the -Bay of Bengal, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, and -the Mediterranean, about all which there are many -amusing details. As regards the traffic on the -Suez Canal, the gratifying fact is mentioned, that -on the day the <i>Sunbeam</i> entered the Canal, the -sum of six thousand pounds was taken as dues -at the Suez office alone. The climate of the -Mediterranean, which we are in the habit of extolling -as beneficial to invalids from northern -countries, suited badly, as we are told, with the -delicate constitution of the pet animals brought<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_292"></a>{292}</span> -from the South Pacific and other warm regions. -Although tended with great care, several pined -and died, from the effects of acute bronchitis or -other ailments, after passing Malta. All these -victims to a change of climate ‘were placed together -in a neat little box, and committed to the -deep at sunset, a few tears being shed over the -departed pets, especially by the children.’</p> - -<p>Mrs Brassey with her family and friends reached -home—a palatial mansion on the south coast of -England, near Hastings—on the morning of the -27th May 1877. In the whole voyage round the -world, no hitch nor any misadventure had occurred. -We can imagine that the expedition will -have left an agreeable topic of conversation for -life, and that its surprising success will inspire -others equally qualified to follow the brilliant -example offered by ‘A Voyage in the <i>Sunbeam</i>.’</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="HELENA_LADY_HARROGATE">HELENA, LADY HARROGATE.</h2> -</div> - - -<h3>CHAPTER XXV.—AT THE PHEASANTRY.</h3> - -<p>‘<span class="smcap">I have</span> letters to write—one to the Lord-lieutenant -in particular, on county business,’ said the -Earl, smiling, and addressing himself to Captain -Denzil; ‘otherwise I daresay that I too should -have been able to find something worth the showing -you out of doors. As it is, you young people -must go without me.’</p> - -<p>Jasper, who had a lazy man’s horror of improved -implements, Dutch dairies, new patent draining-tiles, -and cattle-food, and who knew the Earl’s -passion for farming, felt inwardly grateful to the -Lord-lieutenant for detaining his noble host -within doors. The Countess had not the slightest -intention of accompanying her guests in their visit -to the pheasantry. Except in a carriage, or in dry -weather among the well-rolled paths of the rose-garden, -Lady Wolverhampton scarcely ever left -the house. Her age, though she looked younger, -was within a year or two of that of her lord, and -he was by far the stronger of the two. Indeed it -was mainly due to her declining health and growing -incapacity for exertion that the High Tor -family had for this year foregone what most -persons of their rank regard less as a pleasure -than as a duty, the passing of at least a portion -of the season in London.</p> - -<p>The party from Carbery Chase had been very -cordially received. People can afford yet to cultivate -the old-fashioned quality of cordiality in rural -retirement, where it answers to detect hidden -merits and to see in the best light the things and -persons in the midst of which and whom our lives -have to be passed.</p> - -<p>‘I am glad,’ said the Countess, ‘that Captain -Denzil was able to come over with you to-day, -my dears.’</p> - -<p>With Sir Sykes’s two daughters the mistress of -High Tor was on sufficiently familiar terms; but -their brother’s character was not quite so much -esteemed by the De Vere family as were theirs. -Still, in the country, a young man and an elder -son is <i>per se</i> a being of some importance, and to -Jasper, with his arm yet in the black silken sling, -there attached somewhat of romance, on account of -his late accident and the adventurous way in -which he had incurred it. He had not been -expected, and his presence at High Tor was taken -as a compliment.</p> - -<p>Scarcely had the Ladies Maud and Gladys De -Vere had time to don the pretty hats that so well -set off the comeliness of the one and the bright -beauty of the other, before their brother came -into the room. Lord Harrogate had a riding-whip -in his hand, and a long ride over the purple -moorlands in prospect; but he was easily induced -to defer it, and to make one of the party, that -presently sauntered across the park towards a -sunny sandy nook, screened from cold north winds -by a friendly belt of fir and pine, where the new -pheasantry had been established.</p> - -<p>Near to the place where a footpath led to a -sequestered dell, the new governess Miss Gray and -her pupil met the group of advancing sight-seers. -Ethel would have passed on with a quiet graceful -bow of recognition; but Lady Alice had no notion -of being thus shelved.</p> - -<p>‘You are going to look at the pheasants,’ she -said; ‘and we have just seen them. They seem -rather frightened, but so very pretty!’</p> - -<p>The words which young Lady Alice had employed -when speaking of the exotic birds would -have been singularly appropriate to Ethel Gray. -The new governess looked timid and something -more than pretty during the general hand-shaking -and interchange of civil conventional phrases -which now ensued. Jasper, whose acquaintance -with Ethel was of the slightest, had contented -himself with lifting his hat; but he had stared -at her beautiful face with as cool a steadiness -of gaze as though she had been a picture or a -statue. Why Lord Harrogate should have resented -this, it would have been no easy matter for his -lordship to explain; but there was scorn, and anger -too, in the glance which he shot at unconscious -Jasper; while it was not without some embarrassment -that he addressed a word or two of polite -commonplace to Miss Gray. Then the governess -and her pupil pursued their way to the house, -and the rest of the party strolled on towards the -pheasantry.</p> - -<p>‘How handsome she is!’ exclaimed honest Lucy -Denzil, looking back after the angular form of -Lady Alice, and the graceful figure that contrasted -so strongly with the bony awkwardness of the -school-girl; and Lady Maud echoed the praise, and -Lady Gladys smiled approval. The Earl’s second -daughter was, as has been said, very lovely, and -her golden hair and blue eyes had produced the -usual effect of fascinating for the time being -Jasper’s fickle fancy. It is quite possible to be -very hard and at the same time very weak where -women are concerned; and Captain Denzil, wary -man of the world as he boasted himself to be, -and selfish as he certainly was, could not at the -moment resist the spell of the enchantress.</p> - -<p>‘Cripple as I am,’ said Jasper, glancing at his -injured arm, ‘you see that I could not resist the -temptation to come when you asked me.’</p> - -<p>‘They are not my pheasants; they are Maud’s, -you know,’ returned Lady Gladys, as though wilfully -misunderstanding him.</p> - -<p>‘Fortunate birds!—that is if you condescend to -take an interest in them,’ said the captain, nonchalant -as ever, but contriving to throw into his -tone and look a something of suppressed tenderness, -that was not perhaps wholly feigned. Ruth -Willis saw the look, although she was not near -enough to overhear the words, and her eyes -flashed and her white teeth closed sharply, almost<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_293"></a>{293}</span> -savagely, on her pouting lip. She felt the mortification -which an angler might feel did he see the -half-hooked salmon, the silvery patriarch of the -pool, desert his bait, and leap provokingly at the -artificial fly of some rival disciple of Piscator. -She could not forget how, an hour or two ago, -the heir of Carbery had deigned to devote to her -service those very tricks of manner—in her anger -she mentally called them so—which now before -her very eyes he was practising for the benefit -of another. She did not care for him; but he -piqued her, by the very effrontery of his fickleness, -into attaching to him a value which in calmer -moments she would never have set on one so -intrinsically base as Jasper Denzil.</p> - -<p>In spite of world-old experience and sage aphorisms, -each sex remains to some extent a standing -problem to the other. So Ruth Willis, nettled, -baffled, wrathful, still did not fathom the depths -of Jasper’s worthless nature one half so clearly as -she would have done had her keen powers of -observation been exercised at the expense of a -woman. She even felt angry with Lady Gladys, -though most unreasonably, for the proud beauty -wore her most glacial armour of chilling haughtiness -when she perceived that Jasper was disposed -to pay her what is popularly known as ‘marked -attentions.’</p> - -<p>The innocent pheasants, the ostensible end and -object of this expedition, were duly inspected, -and lavishly fed with the millet and barley, the -chopped eggs and crushed maize, which young -pheasants love. They were fair enough to look -upon, these shy pretty captives, still timorous and -bewildered by their close confinement in the darksome -baskets wherein they had been crammed by -the irreverent poultry-merchant who had consigned -them to High Tor; and not yet quite at home in -their new abode, which had been so freshly decorated -for their reception that the paint on the -wood and the lacquer on the wires were barely -dry. Golden pheasants there were, and white or -silver pheasants, and pencilled pheasants, worthy -descendants of a feathered ancestry that had pecked -and strutted in the gardens of coral-buttoned -mandarins, in far-off China.</p> - -<p>The curious thing was, that except by their -mistress Lady Maud and the elder of the two -Denzil girls, who was a kindred spirit, the pheasants -were scarcely looked at with regardful eyes. -Is it not always so? At launch or military -review or polo-match, or when a princely trowel -of pure gold condescendingly applies a dab of -sublime mortar to a glorified foundation-stone of -some new building, how very, very few of the -nominal spectators concentrate their thoughts and -their vision on the show, which the reporters -will presently describe with such graphic power! -Private affairs, hopes, fears, interests, are all of -them petty magnets sufficient to neutralise the -great avowed attraction of the hour.</p> - -<p>There was Ruth Willis, her whole attention -stealthily concentrating itself upon Captain Denzil -at the side of the Earl’s second daughter; there -was Jasper, vainly trying to thaw the ice of -Lady Gladys’ disdain; and Lord Harrogate, whose -thoughts seemed at times to wander away from -the present scene and company. Add to these -Blanche Denzil, sorrowfully conscious that Lord -Harrogate himself, in whose eyes she would have -given much to find favour, was thinking of anything -rather than of her preference for him, and -it will be seen that the real amateurs of fancy -pheasants were but in a narrow minority.</p> - -<p>A good girl who loves a man worthy of her -esteem, yet who is constrained by maiden modesty -and the rules of good-breeding to hide away the -sentiment as though it were a sin, deserves more -pity than often falls to her lot. It is never Leap-year -for her. She cannot be the first to speak. -And if there be one point upon which men are -exceptionally blind, it is to the perception that -their merits may be highly appreciated by some -young lady to whom they never give a thought -when absent from her. Poor Blanche had trouble -enough now and then to keep down the rising -tears that welled up to her eyes as she noted -twenty signs of the painful fact that Lord Harrogate -regarded her with that amicable indifference -which cannot readily ripen, as dislike sometimes -can, into love. But Blanche was too gentle to -grow bitter over a disappointment, as did Ruth -Willis, although for her too the pleasure of the -day was damped and dulled.</p> - -<p>The visitors from Carbery would not, on getting -back to the broad gravelled drive where the -basket-carriage awaited them, re-enter the house. -They had taken leave of the Earl and Countess, -and declined all hospitable proffers of luncheon -beforehand. There was some kissing among the -girls and a good deal of hand-shaking, and then -the ‘double basket’ again received its living load, -and ‘good-bye’ was said, and off dashed the mettled -Exmoor ponies under Lucy Denzil’s guidance.</p> - -<p>Two of the party from the Chase carried back -with them to Carbery hearts that were heavier -than when they had first set out for the projected -visit to the pheasantry at High Tor. Sir Sykes’s -ward, so talkative two hours ago, had become -sullenly mute. Ruth Willis was smarting under -her defeat, for she had measured herself with Lady -Gladys, and could not but acknowledge to herself -that her own elfish piquancy was quite thrown -into the shade by the superior charms of the -Earl’s daughter. Blanche was sad and thoughtful. -Jasper, twisting his well-waxed moustache, seemed -unaware, in the preoccupation of his own mind, -that Ruth was resentful and Blanche melancholy, -while Miss Denzil frankly wondered why conversation -languished as it did. Excellent Lucy had -had no by-play to distract her attention from the -object of the expedition; she had seen the birds -and chatted with her friend, and was mildly gratified -with her outing. Nevertheless it was but a -silent party that the Exmoor ponies whisked back -along the well-kept road that led to Carbery -Chase.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER XXVI.—THE NEW BROOM.</h3> - -<p>‘Clever enough, and too clever! It’s your look-out, -sir, of course, and not mine; but I can’t -help thinking that to give my friend Mr Wilkins -an estate to manage is uncommonly like turning -a fox into a poultry-yard to take care of the -chickens.’</p> - -<p>Such was Jasper Denzil’s remonstrance with -his father, on hearing the baronet’s announcement -of his intention to transfer the reins of local -government to the willing hands of the City -solicitor, <i>vice</i> Pounce and Pontifex superseded. -Privately, Sir Sykes was of much the same<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_294"></a>{294}</span> -opinion as his son; but as he was merely seeking -to put a good face on what he felt to be really -a surrender to a demand imperiously urged, he -shook his head, saying: ‘You are prejudiced -against this person, Jasper, and perhaps not unnaturally -so. His manners, I admit, are not prepossessing, -and his moral code has probably been -shaped in a rough school of ethics; but I consider -him to be one of those men whom it is pleasanter -to have for a friend than for an enemy.’</p> - -<p>Jasper’s expressive upper lip wore a curl of -disgust. It was to him very disagreeable that -Mr Wilkins, who had got the better of him, as -he resentfully felt, in many an encounter of wits, -should be often at Carbery, and right-hand man -to its owner. He resolved on one more attempt -to dislodge the intruder.</p> - -<p>‘I would not, were I you, sir,’ said he, ‘either -trust Wilkins a yard farther than I could see him, -or be guided by his advice as to the management -of the estate. You yourself heard the fellow say, -at luncheon to-day, that he should not know -turnips when he saw them unless there were -boiled mutton in the middle of them. Wilkins -only meant to raise a laugh when he hashed up -that old joke against the Cockney sportsmen who -ride to hounds, but he was nearer the truth than -he was aware of.’</p> - -<p>‘Ah, well,’ returned the baronet blandly, ‘I -daresay his agricultural knowledge is after all -pretty much on a par with that of Messrs Pounce -and Pontifex.’</p> - -<p>And then Jasper shrugged up his shoulders and -was silent, for he perceived that it was hopeless to -deprecate a foregone conclusion. For good or for -ill, Sir Sykes had made up his mind to convert -Mr Wilkins into a grand-vizier over the broad -acres that lay within the circuit of his wide-stretching -ring-fence.</p> - -<p>Enoch Wilkins, gentleman, had on that morning -reached Carbery Chase, and was in a fair way of -earning for himself any rather than golden opinions -from its inmates. Mr Wilkins, as he often and not -untruly boasted, knew the world, that is to say he -had a minute and almost microscopic acquaintance -with one or two sections of the shady side of it. -He understood turf-men, as a smart prison-governor -understands convicts, and knew the natural history -of the fast-living and embarrassed young officer as -well as some lecturer on entomology knows the -ways of beetle and butterfly. In a lower social -grade, he was deeply versed in the arcana of Loan -Societies, and could apply the thumbscrew of the -County Court in nicely calculated proportions -to a struggling debtor. Of what he called swell -society Mr Wilkins had but a limited experience. -He had shared, as the purveyors of welcome -cash often do share, in the costly banquets -given at Greenwich or Richmond hotels by wild -young gentlemen of blood and fashion. He had -even, at the instance of some needy man about -town who curried favour with any dispenser of -ready-money, received a card which entitled him, -now and again, to be crushed and jostled and -trodden upon by distinguished company at the -maddening ‘At Home’ of some berouged and -bewigged old peeress.</p> - -<p>There was, as Mr Wilkins felt with some inward -misgivings, a difference between forming part of a -mob at Macbeth House or at the Baratarian -Embassy, and mixing on intimate terms with such -a family as were the Denzils. Yet, as the French -idiomatically twist the phrase, he paid it off with -audacity, being greasily familiar with Sir Sykes; -on terms of brotherly frankness where Jasper -was concerned; and for the benefit of the young -ladies, assuming the character of the facetious and -agreeable rattle, as he conceived incumbent on a -regular Londoner and a bachelor to boot, when on -a visit in the country.</p> - -<p>Blanche and Lucy Denzil scarcely knew whether -to let amusement or dislike predominate in their -minds as Mr Wilkins rattled on, pouring out -miscellaneous anecdotes and jokes that, if worn -threadbare in the metropolis, would, he was convinced, -retain enough of their original gloss and -sparkle to pass muster in the country. That the -man was coarse, pushing, and unscrupulous, was -evident even to critics so lenient as the baronet’s -daughters; while Sir Sykes, behind his urbane -smile, suffered martyrdom from his new agent’s -deportment.</p> - -<p>There was one member of the family circle at -Carbery whom Mr Wilkins eyed with quite an -exceptional interest. He rarely addressed himself -in conversation to the Indian orphan, Sir Sykes’s -ward, but he watched her narrowly, and the more -he saw of her the harder he found it to adhere to -his original hypothesis as regarded the young lady -whom Richard Hold, master mariner, had recommended -to his good offices.</p> - -<p>‘If that demure manner and those downcast -eyes do not belong to as sly a puss as ever lived, -write me down a greenhorn!’ was the mental -reflection of Enoch Wilkins, of St Nicholas -Poultney, in the City of London, gentleman. ‘That -she sets her cap at the captain, Sir Sykes Denzil’s -hopeful heir, I take for granted. Her communicative -friend, the pirate fellow, implied as much. -The Lancer does not seem, however, disposed to -come forward in a satisfactory style, and play -Philemon to her Baucis.’</p> - -<p>And it was a fact that since the morning which -had witnessed the drive to High Tor and the visit -to the pheasantry, the snares of Miss Ruth Willis -had been vainly set for the capture of that bird of -dubious feather, Jasper Denzil.</p> - -<p>Why Jasper, who had so much to gain by the -match on which his father’s mind was inexplicably -bent, should hang back and prove recalcitrant, it -was hard to say. His was not an independent -soul. He was free from any trammels of a too -scrupulous delicacy, and would have fingered any -money got through the grimiest channels, without -fear of soiling those white useless hands of his, -the manliest work of which had hitherto been to -grasp a bridle-rein. Yet Jasper had been very -remiss of late in his attentions towards Ruth -Willis, and apparently indifferent to the bribe of -an income and establishment to be earned by -marrying her.</p> - -<p>‘Now look here, Sir Sykes!’ said the lawyer -after dinner, as he edged his chair nearer to that -of his host, refilled his glass, and assumed a tone -of waggish confidence—‘look here, Sir Sykes! You -want brushing up down here at Carbery, you do -indeed; ay and a little fresh air let in upon you. -In an old estate like this, and under such management -as those of Pounce and Proser—beg his -pardon; I mean Pontifex; ha, ha, ha!’—pursued -Mr Wilkins, having his laugh out, without so -much as a sympathetic titter from Jasper or a smile<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_295"></a>{295}</span> -from Sir Sykes—‘in an estate of this kind matters -are apt to stagnate, and all sorts of abuses and jobs -to grow up, like the green duckweed on the surface -of a pool. Your head-gamekeeper now, Sir -Sykes, I never saw him, but I’m sure that he’s a -rogue.’</p> - -<p>‘Leathers is an old servant,’ answered Sir -Sykes coldly; ‘I have had no reason to think ill -of him.’</p> - -<p>‘I’ll go bail that he’s a rogue, for all that,’ -returned the unabashed lawyer, holding up his -glass to the light, to admire the ruby claret before -he swallowed it. ‘The head-keeper of an easy-going, -moneyed gent of your standing—excuse me, -Sir Sykes—must be a saint, if he’s not a sinner. -Think of the temptations! Why, the rabbits -alone must be a cool two hundred a year to the -man; and then the pheasants, and the black-mail -from the tenants for keeping the ground-game -within reasonable numbers, and the percentage on -watchers’ wages. I’ll get you a contract with a -London poulterer, Sir Sykes, that shall stand you -in something handsome, provide you with a keeper -twice as useful as Leathers, and insure your -having a hot corner for your friends at battue-time. -I’m a new broom, and sweep clean.’</p> - -<p>‘You promise well, at anyrate!’ said Jasper -with a languid sneer.</p> - -<p>‘And did you ever know me not ready to -implement when I had once promised?’ briskly -retorted the solicitor. ‘I merely mention the -gamekeeper to shew that all’s fish that comes -to my net, and that I am not above attending -to such minor fry as a fellow in velveteen with -a dog-whistle at his button-hole. We must go -on commercial principles, Sir Sykes, if we want -to manage an estate so as to make it pay, nowadays. -All that feudal nonsense of an affectionate -tenantry and a liberal lord of the manor is about -as dead as Queen Anne. You should get a new -steward as well as a new gamekeeper, Sir Sykes.’</p> - -<p>The baronet stirred restlessly in his chair. He -did not at all like this. Carbery, and the fair -estate that went with it, had never yet been -administered on commercial principles, especially -when applied by so sweeping a reformer as Mr -Wilkins of St Nicholas Poultney. ‘Mr Cornish -keeps his accounts very correctly,’ he said in a -hesitating tone. ‘Old Lord Harrogate gave him -the stewardship, which his father had had before -him, and his tenure of it has satisfied me.’</p> - -<p>‘Because you can afford, or fancy you can, to be -robbed right and left,’ said the lawyer, gulping -down his wine. ‘It is your plausible hereditary -steward, that has fattened and battened on the -plunder of successive generations, who sucks the -very marrow out of the land. Don’t tell <i>me</i>! -I’ll overhaul Mr Cornish’s accounts in a way he’s -little used to. But first you must introduce me to -the farmers, Sir Sykes, and give me time to worm -out of them what they pay, in kind or money, by -way of fines, good-will, premium, and so forth, for -the honour of tilling your under-rented acres. I’ll -raise your rent-roll, never fear me, but not with a -native chawbacon for prime-minister.’</p> - -<p>‘So the steward must be flung overboard, it -seems, as well as poor old Leathers the keeper,’ -observed Jasper, half amused, but half annoyed.</p> - -<p>‘And I’ve got another peg to fit into the vacant -hole,’ said the lawyer, again addressing himself -to the claret. ‘With your permission, Sir Sykes, -to-morrow we’ll wire for him to run down from -London for your approval. A sharp fellow is -Abrahams. You won’t mind his persuasion? Jew -as he is, he’s thoroughly at home in a farmhouse, -counts every sheaf of wheat in the barn, and every -house-lamb in the kitchen on frosty days, and -wheedles out of the women what the husbands are -too dogged to tell.—This is delicious claret, but -no one except myself seems to drink it. Suppose -we join the ladies?’</p> - -<p>‘What has the governor done,’ groaned Jasper, -as he lit his cigar, ‘to be under the thumb of -such a man as this?’</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="WORK_IN_THE_LONDON_DOCKS">WORK IN THE LONDON DOCKS.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">In</span> the metropolis there is always to be found a -vast amount of ‘labour unattached,’ recruited from -men in nearly every rank of life. To form an idea -of the surplusage in the labour market, advertise -for a ‘light-porter,’ and you will have at least two -hundred applications before eleven o’clock the next -day. If you desire a clerk at a salary of, say, -twenty shillings a week, half a thousand eager -candidates will apply for the vacancy. While if -you have anything of a superior sort to offer, such -as the secretaryship of a charitable institution, or -hospital, suitable to the talents of retired military -officers and others, probably a thousand competitors -will offer themselves to your discrimination. Of -course many people will be surprised that such -numbers should prefer living in semi-idleness, -hunting after any opportunity that offers, rather -than exert themselves to obtain employment in less -crowded localities; but then in London there is -the great magnet of the ‘lucky chance’ constantly -before their eyes. If one obtains a situation at -a pound a week, there are constantly opportunities -of bettering one’s self, especially in large firms, who -carefully select and promote their men according -to capability and merit. Then, again, a man may -be starving in a garret, poorly dressed, existing -somehow by borrowing a shilling or two occasionally -when you meet him in the street; but in a -month or two may be in a good position in an -insurance company or an actuary’s office. But as -bread must be obtained somehow until the golden -opportunity offers itself, a number of men who -have seen better days are compelled by sheer -necessity to fly to that paradise of the destitute, -the Docks.</p> - -<p>The great Dock Companies in London, fully -aware of the superabundance of labour always in -the market, do not employ, permanently, one-third -of the men they require, since they are usually -able to procure at least twice as many hands as -they need at a moment’s notice. Indeed so great -is the competition for even Dock employment, that -unless you are known to one of the foremen, or -in some way furnished with an introduction to -one of the Company’s officials, you stand a very -poor chance of obtaining work, save occasionally, -when a sudden pressure of business comes on and -they are glad to accept any one that offers. Sometimes -a huge ship comes in requiring to be discharged -in a few days; and everybody who can -work may, by offering himself, obtain employment -for a brief period; but, the time of pressure over, -he will present himself at the Dock-gates day after -day in vain. The Company’s foremen of course -give the preference to their regular hands, and the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_296"></a>{296}</span> -stranger who has helped them in their time of -need is passed over. So the best thing you can -do if you desire employment at the Docks is to -obtain a letter of recommendation from some -broker or merchant who does business with the -Company, and according to the influence he possesses -so will your work be regulated. It will -require great influence to enable you to be placed -on the ‘permanent’ or ‘extra-permanent’ staff; and -the utmost you can hope for is to obtain employment -by the day so long as any ships are at work, -with the prospect of losing a few days now and -then when things are dull.</p> - -<p>The clock has struck a quarter past seven in -the morning, and already may be seen clustered -round the Dock-gates small groups of men, with -hands invariably in their pockets and short pipes -in their mouths, discussing the prospect of work -for the day, and the only chance they have of -obtaining a meal of food and a night’s lodging. -These are the ‘chance’ or ‘odd-time’ men, who -if they are not taken on the first thing, loiter -about the entrance all day, waiting a ‘call’ from -one of the foremen; sometimes making two, four, -or five hours, as the case may be. Of all this -class of men, it may be truly said that they are -waiters upon Providence, for they are usually the -last selected; and as to their garments (their sole -earthly possession), very few of them could obtain -a shilling for all they wear from head to foot. -Indeed so dilapidated are some of their shoes, -that it is no uncommon thing for them to be paid -off after an hour’s work or so, because their feet -will not retain a footing upon a slippery floor. -It also occurs at times that they come in to work -so famished that they sink exhausted after a little -exertion, though in this case the foremen who -employ them are generally kind-hearted enough -to advance a few pence to obtain a little food to -enable them to hold out the day. As the clock nears -the half-hour (7.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>) the regular ‘outsiders’ -come up. These men are in better condition than -the others; but there is a seedy, ragged appearance -about most of them, which tells the unmistakable -tale that their chief earnings go to the -public-house. And now there is a stir. A small -wicket in the gate is open, and a foreman comes -out, and calling out the names of the men he -requires, they pass in. These are engaged by the -half-hour, and are liable to be dismissed as soon -as their work is completed, let the time be what -it may. Usually they remain at work the whole -day; but, should any unforeseen occurrence—such -as stoppage of a ship’s discharge on account -of weather, or a break-down in some of the -machinery for removing cargo—prevent them -labouring, the word is passed to ‘wash up,’ and -they are paid off at once, perhaps an hour or two -after they have been engaged.</p> - -<p>After this crew come the Company’s ‘recommended’ -men, persons who through the influence -of some merchant obtain employment. With -them also arrive the ‘extra-permanent’ men; and -these two classes always have a preference when -any work is going on. They are engaged by the -day and paid by the day; and each man on entering -receives a numbered ticket about the size of a -railway ticket, which will entitle him to receive his -wages in rotation at the pay-box in the afternoon. -The pay for all alike is fivepence per hour; but -the highest class of all, the ‘permanent’ men, receive -twenty shillings per week all the year round, be -the hours long or short, and are always certain -of their money whether the Company can find -work for them or not. In the months of November, -December, January, and February, the -work is from nine to four, and the remainder of -the year from eight to four, with extra pay for -overtime to all alike when any is to be made. -Thus it will be seen that with pretty constant -employment a fair living is to be made at the -Docks; but in addition, many men make something -extra in the evenings, either as ‘supers’ at -one of the theatres, chairmen at those convivial -meetings known as ‘Free-and-Easies,’ or in some -other capacity. In short, at the Docks, as elsewhere, -it is only the idle and disreputable class -that starves; for the Company’s officials naturally -select the best men first, and only employ the -‘duffers’ when they cannot possibly do without -them.</p> - -<p>At a few minutes before eight we are all at our -posts; men are on board ship commencing to roll -out the bales of merchandise from the ‘hold;’ the -ponderous hydraulic ‘ram’ swings out from the -warehouse, and three or four bales are hooked on -and hoisted ashore. It is (we will say) a large -Australian wool ship; and as soon as the bales -are landed, they are pounced upon by a man -with stencil-plate and brush, who with nimble -fingers marks the name of the ship on each. -Then an individual with stentorian lungs (probably -a broken-down auctioneer) shouts out to the check -clerk at the table the mark on each particular -bale, and this is recorded in a book called a ‘tally-sheet.’ -Next, a couple of muscular men attack -with axes the iron bands with which the bales -are clamped, and sever them, so that the wool -expands to nearly double its size; for it is all -pressed by hydraulic machinery previous to being -stowed in the ship, in order to economise space. -The bales thus released are now trotted off by -active truckmen to the scales, where they are -weighed, marked, and sorted in different piles -according to their mark. All this is done in less -time than it takes to read about it, amid a storm -of shouts, execrations, commands, and other noises -in every conceivable variety.</p> - -<p>Let us take a walk round the Docks and warehouses -and inspect the vast piles of merchandise -lying about in every direction. Yonder is a ship -discharging brandy, with a vigilant Custom-house -officer watching every cask as it comes ashore. -In another place they are emptying on the floor -hogshead after hogshead of coffee, to be weighed -for duty. That sedate-looking man with a needle -in his hand sewing up rice-bags has been a schoolmaster, -and can write excellent hexameters. A -little farther on, a solicitor, unfortunately struck -off the rolls, is wheeling a truck; and farther on -a once prosperous merchant is assisting to push -along a hogshead of sugar. The conclusion one -arrives at, after making the round of the Docks, is, -that nearly everything we eat and drink is manipulated -first by the dirty classes, who shovel our -necessaries about at their pleasure, and tread over -them as if they were so much dirt. See those -dingy men with garments tattered and patched -stooping and working on those sloppy floors. -They are scraping up the molasses which has -filtered out from the sugar-casks, and putting it -into tubs. This will be all sent away to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_297"></a>{297}</span> -sugar-boilers’, and converted into cheap sugar, -and go to localities where it will be bought -by housekeepers who study economy in the -kitchen. This sort of sugar always has a -lumpy clear appearance, with a slight clammy -taste in the mouth, and can be detected with a -little practice at a glance. It is usually sold alone, -but is often mixed with better sugar, in order to -make that half-penny difference in the pound so -tempting to certain housewives.</p> - -<p>We are warned that it is noon by the tinkling -of a bell, which resounds all over the Dock; and -at the first stroke everything is dropped out of -hand immediately, and to the cry of ‘Bell ho!’ -every one rushes out of the warehouses for dinner. -A few of the more provident have brought some -in their pockets; but the majority go straight to -the old man or old woman who is permitted by -the Company to supply them with bread, cheese, -beer, soup, and pudding, all of an indifferent -sort; and if they have any money, buy something -to eat; and if they have none, try and borrow a -penny or two from somebody else; or cajole the -refreshment caterer into giving them credit until -four o’clock. Very few of them have knives -wherewith to cut their food decently; they gnaw -it anyhow; in fact their chief rule seems to be to -buy nothing that they are not absolutely compelled -to buy, for fear the vendor should cheat -them; and if some of them could observe this rule -so far as the beer-shop is concerned, they would -make their fortunes, many of them possessing -talents, as experts in ‘tasting,’ of no common -order.</p> - -<p>Their meal finished, some now creep on board -ship to smoke, a thing they are not allowed to do in -the warehouses; others of a larcenous disposition, -prowl about the cook’s galley to appropriate anything -they can, such as meat, knives, brushes, in -short any small portable articles, which they either -devour, or else sell at any price to somebody else. -At twenty minutes past twelve the bell again -summons them to work, and each man crawls -slowly back to his post, the majority of cheeks -indicating apparently the existence of gum-boil -to the uninitiated, but which abnormal appearance -is due solely to the companionable ‘quid’ of -tobacco.</p> - -<p>By this time a number of vans are in the yard -waiting to take away goods, and the foremen are -pretty nearly sure to want some extra hands to -assist. Consequently out they go to the gates, and -select as many as they require from the forest of -palms held up before them. In this way work -goes on until a few minutes before four, when all -parties knock off, unless the ship should have to -work an hour or two longer. At the pay-box -the men arrange themselves in numerical order, -and are paid with great celerity by the cashier, -the exact amount due to each man being handed -to him as he passes the window. At the exit gate -are stationed two of the Company’s constables, who -search any one they have cause to suspect, for in -spite of the utmost vigilance and the aid of a -large staff of police, pilfering is constantly going -on within the Docks, and it requires great watchfulness -to prevent the men taking anything out. -As it is, things are occasionally smuggled out, -though, when an offender is convicted, he usually -meets with a severe penalty.</p> - -<p>The London and St Katherine’s Docks (now -amalgamated under one Company) cover an area -of about forty-five acres, and have nearly as much -warehouse accommodation as all the other Dock -companies put together. The capital embarked in -them, inclusive of loans and debentures, may be -stated at about eight millions sterling, and the -employés of all classes about three thousand -daily. The annual imports into these Docks are -seldom less than seventy millions, the exports -being also considerable. With all this enormous -trade and this vast amount of business, things -are managed with great, though of course not -perfect accuracy; every man knows his place, -and there are seldom any mistakes but such as -will occur at times from unavoidable hurry and -confusion.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="PRETTY_MRS_OGILVIE">PRETTY MRS OGILVIE.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">All</span> the women are jealous of her; there is no -doubt about that. The first time she appears in -church with crisp mauve muslins floating about -her and a dainty mauve erection on her head, -which presumably she calls a bonnet, I know at -once how it will be. And of course the other sex -will range themselves on her side to a man; that is -also beyond question. As she rises from her knees -and takes her little lavender-gloved hands from -her face and looks about her for a moment with a -sweet shy glance, she is simply bewitching; and I -doubt if any male creature in our musty little -church pays proper attention to the responses for -ten minutes afterwards. A new face is a great -rarity with us, and <i>such</i> a new face one might not -see more than once in a decade, so let us hope we -may be forgiven.</p> - -<p>As I gaze at the delicate profile before me, the -coils of golden hair, the complexion like the inside -of a sea-shell, the slender milk-white throat, and -the long dark eyelashes, which droop modestly -over the glorious gray eyes, shall I own that I -steal a glance of disapproval at Mary Anne, my -Mary Anne, the partner of my joys and sorrows for -twenty years, and the mother of my six children? -Mary Anne’s figure is somewhat overblown, her -hair is tinged with gray, and the complexion of -her good-humoured face is slightly rubicund. But -she has been a good wife to me; and I feel, with a -twinge of compunction, that I have no right to be -critical, as I think of a shining spot on the top of -my own head, and of a little box I received from -the dentist only a month ago, carefully secured -from observation. But as we emerge from church -I draw myself up and try to look my best as we -pass the trailing mauve robes. Jack, one of our -six, stumbles over the train; which gives me an -opportunity of raising my hat and apologising for -the brat’s awkwardness; and I am rewarded with a -sweet smile and an upward glance out of the great -gray eyes which is simply intoxicating.</p> - -<p>‘We must call on Mrs Ogilvie at once,’ I observe -to Mary Anne as we proceed across the fields on -our homeward walk. ‘It is my duty as her landlord -to find out if she is comfortable. She is a ladylike -person,’ I continue, diplomatically forbearing -to allude to the obvious beauty; ‘and I daresay, -my dear, you will find her an agreeable neighbour.’</p> - -<p>‘Ladylike!’ cries my wife, with a ring of indignation -in her voice. ‘I don’t call it ladylike to -come to a quiet country church dressed as if she<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_298"></a>{298}</span> -were going to a flower-show. Besides, she is -painted. A colour like that can’t be natural. But -you men are all alike—always taken with a little -outside show and glitter.’</p> - -<p>‘But my dear,’ I remonstrate, ‘perhaps she did -not know how very countrified and bucolic our -congregation is; and I really do think it will be -very unneighbourly if we don’t call. It must -be very dull for her to know no one.’ I ignore -the remark about the paint, but in my heart I -give the assertion an emphatic contradiction.</p> - -<p>Mrs Ogilvie has rented a small cottage which -I own in the west-country village in which I -am the principal doctor. She is the wife of a -naval officer who is away in the Flying Squadron, -and has settled in our sleepy little hamlet to live -quietly during his absence. All her references -have been quite unexceptionable, and indeed -she is slightly known to our Squire, as is also -her absent husband. ‘A splendid fellow he -is,’ Mr Dillon tells me, ‘stands six feet in his -stockings, and is as handsome as Apollo; indeed -I don’t believe that for good looks you could find -such another couple in England.’</p> - -<p>The following day Mary Anne, with but little -persuasion, agrees to accompany me to the cottage -to call on Mrs Ogilvie. The door is opened by -a neat maid-servant. She is at home; and we are -ushered into the drawing-room, which we almost -fail to recognise, so changed is it. Bright fresh -hangings are in the windows, a handsome piano -stands open, books and periodicals lie on the -tables in profusion, and flowers are everywhere. -‘Evidently a woman of refinement and cultivated -tastes,’ I think to myself; ‘the beauty is more -than skin deep.’</p> - -<p>Presently Mrs Ogilvie comes in, looking if possible -even lovelier than she did the day before. -She is in a simple white dress, with here and -there a knot of blue ribbon about it; and she has -a bit of blue also in her golden hair. Her manner -is as charming as her looks, and as she thanks -my wife with pleasant cordial words for being -the first of her neighbours to take compassion -on her loneliness, I can see that my Mary Anne, -whose heart is as large as her figure, basely deserts -the female faction and goes over to the enemy. -Mrs Ogilvie is very young, still quite a girl, -though she has been married three years she tells -us.</p> - -<p>‘It is dreadful that Frank should have to go -away,’ she says, and the tears well up in her large -gray eyes; ‘that is the worst of the service. But -I suppose no woman ought to interfere with her -husband’s career. I am going to live here as -quietly as possible until he returns. See; here -is his photograph,’ she continues, lifting a case -from the table and handing it to Mary Anne. ‘Is -he not handsome?’</p> - -<p>He is most undeniably so, if the likeness speaks -truth, and we both say so; Mary Anne, with the -privilege of her sex and age, adding a word as -to the beauty of the pair.</p> - -<p>‘O yes,’ replies Mrs Ogilvie without the smallest -embarrassment: ‘we are always called the “handsome -couple.”’</p> - -<p>I suppose something of my astonishment expresses -itself in my countenance, for she smiles, -and says: ‘I am afraid you think me very vain; -but I cannot help knowing that I am good-looking, -any more than I can help being aware that my -eyes are gray, not black, and that my hair is -golden. It is a gift from God, like any talent; a -valuable one too, I think it; and I own that I am -proud of it, for my dear Frank’s sake, who admires -it so much.’</p> - -<p>Yes, this is Mrs Ogilvie’s peculiarity, as we -afterwards discover—an intense and quite open -admiration of her own beauty. And indeed there -is something so simple and naïve about it, that we -do not find it displeasing when we get accustomed -to it. She always speaks of herself as if she were -a third person, and honestly appreciates her lovely -face, as if it were some rare picture, as indeed it is, -of Dame Nature’s own painting. She is equally -ready to admit the good looks of other women, -and has not a trace of jealousy in her composition. -But often you will hear her say, in describing -some one else: ‘She has a lovely complexion—something -in the style of mine, but not so clear.’ -Or, ‘She has a beautiful head of hair, but not so -sunny as mine;’ &c. &c. At first, every one is -astonished at this idiosyncrasy of hers, but in a -little while we all come to laugh at it; there is -something original and amusing about it; and in -all other ways she is <i>so</i> charming.</p> - -<p>My wife, with whom she speedily becomes -intimate, tells me that she is sure she values her -beauty more for her husband’s sake than her own. -‘She evidently adores him,’ says Mary Anne; ‘and -he seems to think so much of her sweet looks. -She says he fell in love with her at first sight, -before he ever spoke to her.’</p> - -<p>But Mrs Ogilvie has many more attractions -than are to be found in her face. She is a highly -educated woman, a first-rate musician and a pleasant -and intelligent companion; and more than all, -she has a sweet loving disposition, and a true -heart at the core of all her little vanities. She -is very good to the poor in our village, and often -when I am on my rounds, I meet her coming out -of some cottage with an empty basket in her hand, -which was full when she entered it.</p> - -<p>In a quiet little neighbourhood like ours, such -a woman cannot fail to be an acquisition, and -every one hastens to call on her, and many are the -dinners and croquet parties which are inaugurated -in her honour. To the former she will not go; -she does not wish to go out in the evening during -her husband’s absence—much to my wife’s satisfaction, -who approves of women being ‘keepers at -home’—and it is only seldom that she can be -induced to grace one of the croquet parties with -her presence.</p> - -<p>But when she does, she eclipses every one else. -She always dresses in the most exquisite taste, as -if anxious that the setting should be worthy of -the jewel—the beauty which she prizes so highly. -She is always sweet and gracious, and vanquishes -the men by her loveliness, the women in spite of -it. But she is in no sense of the word a coquette; -and the only admirer she favours is our Jack, aged -fourteen, who is head-over-ears in love with her, -and is ready at any moment to forego cricket for -the honour of escorting Mrs Ogilvie through the -village, and the privilege of carrying her basket. -So the quiet weeks and months glide by, linking -us daily more closely together.</p> - -<p>She has been settled at the cottage rather more -than two years and is beginning to count the weeks -to her husband’s return. <i>We</i> do not number them -quite so eagerly, for when he comes he will take<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_299"></a>{299}</span> -her away from us, and we shall miss her sorely. -It is summer again, a hot damp summer; it has -been a very sickly season, and my hands are full.</p> - -<p>‘I shall have to get a partner, my dear,’ I say to -my wife as I prepare to go out. ‘If this goes on I -shall have more to do than I can manage. There -is a nasty fever about which I don’t like the look of; -and if we don’t have a change for the better in this -muggy weather, there is no saying what it may -turn to.’</p> - -<p>‘I am glad all the boys are at school,’ observes -Mary Anne, ‘and I think I will let the girls accept -their aunt’s invitation and go to her for a -month.’</p> - -<p>‘It would be a very good plan, and I should be -glad if you would go too. A little change would -do you good.’</p> - -<p>‘And pray who is to look after you?’ asks my -wife reproachfully. ‘Who is to see that you take -your meals properly, and don’t rush off to see your -patients, leaving your dinner untasted on the -table?’</p> - -<p>Mentally I confess that I should probably be -poorly off without my Mary Anne; but it is a bad -plan to encourage vanity in one’s wife, so I say: -‘Oh, I should do very well by myself;’ and with a -parting nod betake myself to my daily duty.</p> - -<p>In the village I meet Mrs Ogilvie, basket in -hand. She doesn’t look well, and I say so.</p> - -<p>‘You have no business out in the heat of the -day,’ I tell her. ‘You are not a Hercules, and you -will only be knocking yourself up. What will -your husband say, if he does not find you looking -your best when he comes back?’</p> - -<p>A shade passes over her face. ‘Ah! he would -not be pleased,’ she says rather gravely; ‘he always -likes to see me look my <i>very</i> best and prettiest.’</p> - -<p>‘Well then, as your doctor, I must forbid your -doing any more cottage-visiting just at present. -You are not looking strong, and going into those -close houses is not good for you. I will come and -see you on my way back.’</p> - -<p>Which I do. I find there is nothing the matter -with her; she is only a little languid. Perhaps the -weather has affected her; perhaps she is wearying -for her husband; and I prescribe a tonic, which I -think will soon set her to rights. I do not remain -long with her, for I have an unspoken anxiety, and -I am in a hurry to get home.</p> - -<p>‘You had better send the children away to-morrow -morning, Mary Anne,’ I say as soon as I -get in. ‘Mrs Black is very ill, and I am afraid—I -cannot quite tell yet, but I am afraid—she is -going to have small-pox. Of course I shall have -her removed at once, if I am right; but it may -prove not to be an isolated case, and it will be -as well to get the children out of the way. I -shall try and persuade every one in the village to -be vaccinated to-morrow.’</p> - -<p>‘You will be clever if you manage that,’ says -my wife. ‘I am afraid some of the people are -very prejudiced against it. You know when the -children and I were revaccinated three years ago, -you could not persuade any of the villagers to be -done at the same time.’</p> - -<p>On the following day we despatch the children -early to their aunt’s, under the care of an old -servant; and as soon as I have seen them off, I -go down to Mrs Black’s. To my consternation I -find Mrs Ogilvie just leaving the house.</p> - -<p>‘I have been disobedient, you see,’ she says -gaily; ‘but I promised to bring Mrs Black something -early this morning; and she seemed so ill -yesterday that I did not like to disappoint her. -But I am not going to transgress orders again—for -Frank’s sake,’ she adds softly.</p> - -<p>I give an internal groan. Heaven grant she -may not have transgressed them once too often! -And I hasten into the cottage, to find my worst -fears confirmed. Mrs Black has small-pox quite -unmistakably.</p> - -<p>For some hours I am occupied in making -arrangements for her removal to the infirmary, -and in vaccinating such of my poorer patients -as I can frighten or coerce into allowing me to -do so; and it is afternoon before I am able to -go and look after Mrs Ogilvie.</p> - -<p>She seems rather astonished when I inform her -what my errand is—that I want to vaccinate her -(for of course I do not wish to frighten her by -telling her about Mrs Black); but she submits -readily enough when I say that I have heard of -a case of small-pox in a neighbouring village -(which I have), and think it would be a wise precautionary -measure.</p> - -<p>‘It is very good of you,’ she says in her pretty -gracious way as she bares her white arm. ‘I have -never been vaccinated since I was a baby, so I -suppose it will be desirable.’</p> - -<p>Desirable? I should think so indeed! And I -send up a prayer as I perform the operation that -I may not be too late.</p> - -<p>I am so busy for the next few days that I am -unable to go down to the cottage. One or two -more cases of small-pox appear in the village, and -I am anxious and hard-worked; but Mary Anne -tells me that Mrs Ogilvie has heard of Mrs Black’s -removal and is dreadfully nervous about herself. -‘I hope she will not frighten herself into it,’ adds -my wife.</p> - -<p>‘If she hadn’t contracted it before I vaccinated -her, I think she is pretty safe,’ I reply; ‘but there -is just the chance that she may have had the -poison in her previously.’</p> - -<p>Almost as I speak a message comes from Mrs -Ogilvie, who ‘wishes to see me professionally.’ -My heart sinks as I seize my hat and follow the -messenger; and with too good reason. I find her -suffering from the first symptoms of small-pox; -and in twenty-four hours it has declared itself -unequivocally and threatens to be a bad case. I -try to keep the nature of her illness from her, but -in vain. She questions me closely, and when she -discovers the truth, gives way to a burst of despair -which is painful to witness. ‘I shall be marked; -I shall be hideous!’ she exclaims, sobbing bitterly. -‘Poor Frank, how he will hate me!’</p> - -<p>In vain I try to comfort her, to convince her that -in not one out of a hundred cases does the disease -leave dreadful traces behind it; she refuses to -be consoled. And soon she is too ill to be reasoned -with, or indeed to know much of her own state. -She is an orphan, and has no near relatives for -whom we can send, so Mary Anne installs herself -in the sick-room as head-nurse; and as I see her -bending lovingly over the poor disfigured face, -and ministering with tender hands to the ceaseless -wants of the invalid, my wife is in my eyes -beautiful exceedingly; so does the shadow of a -good deed cast a glory around the most homely -countenance.</p> - -<p>For some time Mrs Ogilvie’s life is in great<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_300"></a>{300}</span> -danger; but her youth and good constitution prevail -against the grim destroyer, and at length -I am able to pronounce all peril past.</p> - -<p>But alas, alas! all my hopes, all my care, -all my poor skill have been in vain; and the -beauty which we have all admired so much, and -which has been so precious to our poor patient, -is a thing of the past. She is marked—slightly it -is true; but the pure complexion is thick and -muddy, the once bright eyes are heavy and dull, -and the golden hair is thin and lustreless. We -keep it from her as long as we can, but she soon -discovers it in our sorrowful looks; and her horror, -her agony, almost threaten to unseat her reason. -My wife is with her night and day, watching her -like a mother, using every argument she can think -of to console her, and above all, counselling with -gentle words submission to the will of God. But -her misery, after the first shock, is not so much -for herself as for the possible effect the loss of her -beauty may have on her husband, who is now -daily expected. His ship has been at sea, so we -have been unable to write to him; and only on -his arrival in Plymouth Sound will he hear of -his poor young wife’s illness and disfigurement. -Before her sickness she had been counting the -hours; now she sees every day go past with a -shudder, feeling that she is brought twenty-four -hours nearer to the dread trial. At length his -vessel arrives, and I receive a telegram telling me -when we may expect him, and begging me to -break the news gently to his wife. She receives -it with a flood of bitter tears and sobs, crying out -that he will hate and loathe her, and that she -is about to lose all the happiness of her life. My -wife weeps with her; and I am conscious of a choking -sensation in my throat as we take leave of her -half an hour before Mr Ogilvie is expected, and -pray God to bless and sustain her.</p> - -<p>We are sitting in rather melancholy mood after -dinner, talking of the poor young husband and -wife, when Mr Ogilvie is announced, and I hasten -to the door to meet him.</p> - -<p>‘She will not see me!’ he says impetuously, -coming in without any formal greeting. ‘She has -shut herself into her room, and calls to me with -hysterical tears that she is too dreadful to look -upon, that I shall cease to love her as soon as -I behold her, and that she cannot face it.’ And -the strong man falls into a chair with a sob.</p> - -<p>‘It is not so bad as that,’ I begin.</p> - -<p>‘I don’t care how bad it is,’ he cries; ‘she need -not doubt my love. My poor darling will always -be the same to me whether she has lost her beauty -or not.’</p> - -<p>Whereupon I extend my hand to him and shake -his heartily; and I know my wife has great difficulty -in restraining herself from enveloping him -in her motherly arms and embracing him.</p> - -<p>‘We must resort to stratagem,’ I say. ‘I will -go down to the cottage at once, and you follow me -in ten minutes with my wife. I will try and coax -Mrs Ogilvie to come out and speak to me, and you -must steal upon her unawares.’</p> - -<p>Mrs Ogilvie at first refuses to see or speak to me; -but I go up to her door and am mean enough to -remind her of my wife’s devotion to her and -entreat her, for her sake, to come down to me.</p> - -<p>‘Where is Frank?’ she asks.</p> - -<p>‘I left him at home with Mary Anne,’ I reply, -feeling that I am worthy of being a diplomatist at -the court of St Petersburg, as she opens the door -and descends the stairs. I take her out into the -garden and begin to reprove her for her conduct, -with assumed anger. She listens with eyes -blinded by tears. I, on the look-out for it, hear -the latch of the garden gate click; but she, -absorbed in her sorrow, does not notice it. I look -up and see Frank Ogilvie’s eyes fixed hungrily on -his wife. Her changed appearance must be an -awful shock to him; but he bears it bravely; and -in a moment he has sprung forward, clasped her -in his arms, and the poor scarred face is hidden on -his true and loving heart!</p> - -<p>Then Mary Anne and I turn silently away, and -leave him to teach her that there are things more -valuable, of far higher worth than any mere beauty -of face or form.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>After all, we do not lose her, for Mr Ogilvie -coming into some money, leaves the navy and purchases -a small estate in our neighbourhood, on -which they still reside. Mrs Ogilvie is no longer -young, and has a family of lads and lasses around -her, who inherit much of their mother’s loveliness. -But one of the first things she teaches them is not -to set a fictitious value on it; ‘for,’ she says, ‘I -thought too much of mine, and God took it from -me.’ No one ever hears her regret the loss of her -beauty; ‘for through that trial,’ she tells my wife, -‘I learned to know the true value of my Frank’s -heart.’</p> - -<p>She simply worships her husband, and is in all -respects a happy woman. Indeed, seeing the sweet -smiles which adorn her face and the loving light -which dwells in her eyes, I am sometimes tempted -to call her as of yore—Pretty Mrs Ogilvie.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="BURNABYS_RIDE_IN_TURKEY">BURNABY’S RIDE IN TURKEY.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>In his volume of travels in Turkey, Captain -Burnaby has given such a large variety of -amusing particulars, that it is eminently worthy -of perusal. The following are a few rough notes:</p> - -<p>Radford, the captain’s English servant, was one of -the veritable descendants of Uncle Toby’s Corporal -Trim; men—for there are a large family of them—to -whom the word duty means obeying the word -of command, no matter what form it may happen -to take, be it to cook a dinner or storm a trench. -At Constantinople another servant was required -and engaged—one Osman, a Mohammedan, a -very smart fellow, in every sense of the word. -Picturesque in dress, tall and fine-looking into the -bargain, and fully alive to the worth of the -Effendi’s gold, to which he helped himself unsparingly, -without hurt to his conscience or hinderance -to his prayers. The devotions of this -worthy proving a fruitful source of misery to the -captain, he came to the conclusion that religious -servants are a mistake, especially in the East.</p> - -<p>At Constantinople there was some little delay -occasioned by having horses to buy and friends to -see, and then there were the cafés, which are -always amusing more or less; for the proprietors -find that good voices and pretty girls are -sure attractions, whether for Giaour or Turk. -But the poor girls have a hard time of it. By -birth they are chiefly Hungarian and Italian. -They act as waitresses mostly, and are compelled -by the Turks who frequent the cafés to sweeten, -by tasting, all that they order. The violence thus<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_301"></a>{301}</span> -done to their digestive organs may be imagined. -One Italian girl bemoaned her lot, saying: ‘It is -such a mixture. I have a pain sometimes (pointing -to the bodice of her dress). I wish to cry; but I -have to run about and smile, wait upon visitors -and drink with them. It is a dreadful life! Oh, -if I could only return to Florence!’</p> - -<p>Captain Burnaby found the Turkish women’s -faces ‘sadly wanting in expression;’ at least those -he had an opportunity of seeing, for the women all -go veiled. Still their veils are of very thin muslin, -and man’s curiosity is penetrating. But this -noticeable lack of expression is not to be wondered -at, when we hear that they are wholly uncultivated -in mind—only one in a thousand among -them can read or write. They amuse themselves -in gossip and eating.</p> - -<p>The Ride was not at all times agreeable. It -was not pleasant, for instance, having to cross -wooden bridges without parapets, and to see the -river below through holes in the wooden planks -beneath the horse’s feet; or to wade up to the -horse’s girths through lanes of water. But such -is the fortune of travelling in the unknown.</p> - -<p>At the village of Nahilan the caimacan or -governor was hospitable, and soon the whole -population was in attendance to see and talk -with the traveller. He was given the seat of -honour on a rug near the fire. The caimacan -in a fur-lined dressing-gown came next, the rest -of the party in order not according to rank, -but according to their possessions—the man who -owned one hundred cows being seated next the -governor. Conversation at first did not get on -any better there than at home. But some one -made a plunge, and the state of the roads was -discussed. This opened the way to politics -and the prospect of English help, about which -the Turks were eager and anxious to learn. The -war was the one topic of interest among them, -as well it might be. The scenery in the neighbourhood -was lovely, and Captain Burnaby wished -that he had been born a painter, to have caught -the impression of the beauty around him, and -have fixed it for ever on canvas. He has painted -at least one little sketch successfully in words: -‘A succession of hills, each one loftier than its -fellow, broke upon us as we climbed the steep -(leading towards Angora). They were of all forms, -shades, and colours, ash gray, blue, vermilion, -robed in imperial purple, and dotted with patches -of vegetation. Our road wound amidst these -chameleon-like heights, whose silvery rivulets -streamed down the sides of the many-coloured -hills.’</p> - -<p>But we must leave this pretty scene to describe -the night’s lodging at the next halt, which gives -us an insight into Turkish beds and bedrooms. -No bedsteads are used. ‘One or two mattresses -are laid on the floor; the <i>yorgan</i>, a silk quilt -lined with linen and stuffed with feathers, taking -the place of sheets and blankets. These yorgans -are heirlooms in a Turkish family, and are handed -down from father to son. It is a mark of high -respect when a host gives you his wedding yorgan -to sleep under. Captain Burnaby found the -honour a trying one, as many generations of fleas -shared it with him. Osman grew eloquent on -the subject of yorgans. He had one so beautiful -that neither his wife nor himself liked to use it.</p> - -<p>Hearing that he was married, Captain Burnaby -questioned him about his wife. Did he love her? -Was she pretty? To which Osman replied: ‘She -is a good cook. She makes soup. Effendi, I -could not afford to marry a good-looking girl. -There was one in our village—such a pretty one, -with eyes like a hare and plump as a turkey—but -she could not cook, and her father wanted too -much for her. For my present wife I gave only -ten liras (or Turkish pounds); but she did not -weigh more than one hundred pounds. She was -very cheap. Her eyes are not quite straight, but -she can cook. Looks don’t last; but cooking is an -art that the Prophet himself did not despise.’</p> - -<p>At every place a cordial reception awaited the -traveller. The Turks are not ungrateful; and -English help during the Crimean War is still -remembered. At Angora, a town of importance, -there was an English vice-consul, a married -man, living in a house furnished with every -English comfort. He is the only Englishman, -or rather Scotchman, in the place. A Turkish -gentleman gave a dinner-party in honour of the -traveller. These Turkish dinner-parties are compared -to Turkish music, and declared to consist -of a series of surprises. ‘In music the leader of -an orchestra goes from andante to a racing pace -without any crescendo whatever. The cook in -the same manner gives first a dish as sweet as -honey, and then astonishes our stomach with a -sauce as acid as vinegar. Now we are eating fish, -another instant blanc-mange. And so on throughout -the feast were the startling contrasts continued. -Servants were abundant and pressing. -Each guest ate with his fingers, helping himself -according to his rank or social status.’ When -dinner was over the host rose, not forgetting to -say his grace: ‘Praise be to God.’ A servant then -poured water over the hands of each, according to -his rank, for precedence is duly observed in the -veriest trifle; and then they all adjourned to -another room to smoke and drink coffee.</p> - -<p>Nothing can exceed the hospitality and generosity -of the Turk. Admire what belongs to him, -and he begs you to accept it, be it a book, a horse, -or a servant. Talking of servants, it was amusing -to hear Osman railing at the man in charge of -the pack-horse for allowing the horse that carried -the valuables, in the form of groceries and cartridges, -to lie down in a river, thus injuring the -contents of his pack. The Eastern method of -abuse is to attack a man’s female relatives—a -point on which all Easterns are most sensitive—in -language the reverse of choice.</p> - -<p>In Anatolia and in most parts of Asia Minor, -every man is his own architect and builder, -on the following simple principles. When old -enough to marry, a man chooses a bit of oblong -ground, on the side of a hill if he can, and -digs out the earth to the depth of several -feet. ‘Hewing down some trees, he cuts six -posts, each about ten feet high, and drives them -three feet into the ground, three posts being on -one side of the oblong, three on the other. Cross-beams -are fastened to the top of these uprights, -and branches of trees, plastered with clay, cover -all.’ The doorway is of rude construction. In -the interior, a wooden railing divides the room into -two, one-half of which is occupied by the animals, -the other by the family. A hole in the ceiling is -the only mode of ventilation, and in cold weather -this is stopped up. The ‘family’ often consists of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_302"></a>{302}</span> -twelve in number, and at night they lie huddled -on the floor, which in poorer houses is covered -with coarse rugs of camels’ hair, and Persian rugs -among the wealthier. The close proximity to livestock -invites a third and irrepressible population -of fleas in most of these houses. The misery of a -night spent with legions of these insects must -be felt to be thoroughly understood and appreciated. -They formed the chief discomfort of the -travellers, whose English skins were not case-hardened -to the assaults of the lively banqueteers. -When sickness overtook them (as it did when -they had advanced far on their journey) and -sleep became imperative, the misery of our -travellers grew serious. To be ravaged by fever -as well as by fleas would at once try the strongest. -At last in one village a hint was given that if -the Effendi’s skin were attacked, no bucksheesh -would follow. Instantly the host had a remedy -at hand. He had a cart in his yard; and the -Effendi at last had the comfort of a few hours of -undisturbed slumber.</p> - -<p>At various places the Armenian churches were -visited. It is the custom among the Armenians, as -among the Jews, to separate the women from the -men during divine service. The Armenians take -the further precaution of hiding the women behind -a screened lattice-work. Great pity was expressed -for our English clergymen when it was found they -used no such precaution in their churches, and it -was remarked: ‘They must find it difficult to keep -the attention of their flock, if the ladies are as -pretty as they are said to be.’ In the Armenian -churches, however, the precaution is used to keep -the women devotional; but such is the power of -attraction, that in many places Captain Burnaby -noticed that the lattice had been broken away! -The interior of an Armenian church resembles a -mosque, and is carpeted with thick Persian rugs. -As the Armenian Christians worship pictures, -the walls are hung with several in gaudy frames. -The service is ritualistic in the extreme, and -politic to temporal no less than spiritual rulers; -for on the occasion of Captain Burnaby’s attendance, -the service opened with two songs sung by -the choir—one in honour of the Queen of England, -out of compliment to the visitor present; the -other for the Sultan. Some of their traditions are -curious. One is, that a prince of theirs, a leper, -living at the same time as Christ, heard of his -miracles, and wrote a letter to the Saviour, inviting -him to come and take up his abode in Armenia and -cure him of his disease. The Lord is supposed to -have replied: ‘After I have gone, I will send one -of my disciples to cure thy malady and give life to -thee and thine.’ With the letter, Christ is supposed -to have sent at the same time a handkerchief which -had received the image of his face by being pressed -to it; and it is this tradition which they adduce -to justify their adoration of pictures.</p> - -<p>The Turk’s religion is a compound of faith -and fatalism, sprinkled occasionally with due precaution. -Here is an instance of their fatalism. -When Captain Burnaby was at Kars, the streets -were in such a filthy condition, owing to the sewage -of the town being thrown in front of the buildings, -that the hospitals were full of typhoid, and cholera -was anticipated; and yet neither soldiers nor -inhabitants would stir a finger to remove the -source of their miseries out of the streets; the -soldiers declaring that they were not scavengers, -and the inhabitants making some other excuse. -When warned of the consequences, each took refuge -in kismet or fate. Allah was great and able to -perform miracles. If Allah saw fit, there would -be no cholera—although their streets were reeking -with the seeds of disease.</p> - -<p>In most of the towns, excitement prevailed in -organising battalions for the seat of war. The -Turks are essentially a warlike nation, and fight -for their country without a murmur, in the face of -such disadvantages as bad food and long arrears of -pay.</p> - -<p>We have not before spoken of a new travelling -companion who took Osman’s place—one Mohammed -by name, who was as faithful as the Prophet -himself. Osman turned out a very bad bargain. -His fidelity to the Effendi’s purse became at last -greater even than his love of prayer; and his -keen eye after an exorbitant percentage was -worthy of a London usurer. Remonstrance was -in vain. At last he was dismissed, having been -caught thieving, and Mohammed reigned in his -stead, to the comfort of all parties. He was -a soldier and a mountaineer, brave and hardy -on land, but a coward at sea. He loved his lord -the Effendi, and dearly loved his ‘brother’ Radford’s -cooking. His ‘brother’s’ opinion of him -at parting was characteristic: ‘That Mohammed -was not such a bad chap after all, sir. Them -Turks have stomachs, and like filling them they -do; but they have something in their hearts as -well.’ And so Mohammed shewed—for in illness -he was a kind nurse, and faithful to his ‘lord’s’ -interests throughout. On one occasion, Mohammed -complained of rheumatism, and Radford -applied a mustard paper. What a sensation it -created among the Kurd villagers—some of whom -were spectators of course—when they heard that -the wet paper had produced the fire under which -Mohammed lay writhing and groaning. It was a -miracle; and forthwith the Effendi was hailed -everywhere as a <i>hakim</i> or doctor, and his fame -spread from place to place on the road. A Persian -asked, and even admitted him into his harem, to -prescribe for his pretty wife, to whom he gave -small doses of quinine. Another time a Kurd -asked him to cure his toothache; but mustard -papers were powerless here; so Radford was called -in consultation, and said it ought to come out. -But there were no instruments at hand, and the -operation had to be declined. ‘Give me something -for my stomach then,’ asked the Kurd. -Three pills were then handed to him, which he -chewed deliberately, declaring, when he had -finished them, his tooth was better!</p> - -<p>At one place, after passing over a narrow wooden -bridge that spanned the Euphrates—only forty -yards wide at this point—the travellers crossed -the Hasta Dagh (mountain); presently they came -to a glacier, the frozen surface of which extended -a hundred yards, the decline being steeper than -the roof of an average English house. ‘Should it -be taken?’ was the question asked with much -consternation, and decided in the affirmative. The -guide rode his horse to the glacier. The poor -animal trembled when it reached the brink; but -a reminder from Mohammed’s whip hastened the -poor brute’s decision, and he stretched his forelegs -over the declivity, almost touching the -slippery surface with his girth. Another crack -from Mohammed, and horse and guide were<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_303"></a>{303}</span> -whirling down the glacier, and only pulled up -at last by finding themselves buried in a snowdrift -six feet deep. When his turn came, Captain -Burnaby describes the sensation as if he were -‘waltzing madly down the slippery surface.’ To -witness the descent of the others was something -fearful; though not so dangerous as it appeared. -When Radford emerged from his snowy burial, -he exclaimed: ‘I never thought as how a horse -could skate before. It was more than sliding, -that it was; a cutting a figure of eight all down -the roof of a house.’</p> - -<p>Our travellers at last reached Batoum, where -they parted from Mohammed, and where we must -part from them, not without sincere regret. After -this, they took ship across the Black Sea to Constantinople, -and all adventures were over. We -shall not quickly forget the two thousand miles of -ground so graphically described, and over a portion -of which we have travelled with them in the -saddle. Nor will the reader of Captain Burnaby’s -volume of travels throughout the land of the -Osmanli, easily forget the scenes and incidents and -people so graphically depicted. We omit with -regret many good stories we should like to have -told; but space is inexorable. To those who are -inclined to echo this regret, we can only say: ‘Do -as we have done, and take the ride with Burnaby -for yourselves.’</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="WEDDING_EXTRAVAGANCES">WEDDING EXTRAVAGANCES.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">The</span> following sensible observations on the wastefulness -which often takes place on marriage -occasions, are from the pen of Camilla Crosland—our -old and esteemed contributor originally -known as Camilla Toulmin. They appear in -<i>Social Notes</i>, a weekly periodical not unlike our -own, edited by Mr S. C. Hall, and which has our -best wishes for its success.</p> - -<p>‘How many people there are who in fine clothes -and with smiling faces “assist” at a modern wedding, -yet in their heart of hearts think the profuse -outlay and the general festive arrangements usual -on the occasion a piece of tiresome folly! Few, -however, like to make a dead set against time-honoured -customs, unless strong personal feelings -or personal interests are concerned.</p> - -<p>‘Marriage may certainly lay claim to being the -most important event in life, and as such there must -ever be solemnity associated with it. In fact our -Prayer-book speaks of the solemnisation of matrimony. -Of course it is right that there should be -a certain publicity attached to every marriage -ceremony, and probably in this fact originated -the custom of inviting friends to be present on -the occasion, till by degrees wedding-parties have -become more and more crowded, and now it is a -common thing for a vast assembly to congregate -at them. Of course where there is great wealth, -and people love this sort of display, and bride and -bridegroom have nerve for it, and are, moreover, -happy in possessing “troops of friends,” there is no -reason why money should not circulate—the confectioner -revel in <i>chefs-d’œuvre</i>, the florist realise -a week’s ordinary income in bouquets, and the -milliner make her mint of money by rich toilets. -But a vice of the English middle class is to ape -the rank above it; and I confess it has often to -me seemed pitiable to know at what a cost of -after self-denial a showy wedding has taken place.</p> - -<p>‘It is desirable that when two young people, -suitable in age, character, station, are warmly -attached, they should be married as soon as prudence -permits. Let us take, for instance, the case -of an accomplished but portionless young lady, the -eldest of several daughters, who has been accustomed -to utilise her talents in the home circle. -She has been engaged, say four years, to a gentleman -in a government office with a slowly rising -salary. He is about thirty, she five or six and -twenty. He has saved enough money to furnish -a pretty little suburban dwelling, and she will be -provided by her father with a modest <i>trousseau</i>, -and they think it now high time to “settle.” Their -income, even including a fatherly allowance for -pin-money, will be considerably less than five -hundred pounds per annum, and they, being good -arithmeticians, know they must live quietly, visit -and entertain only in a homely, friendly manner, -and neither go to nor give formal parties. Of -what use is the costly white silk bridal dress, -which in all human probability will never in its -original state be worn again? It will, of course, -be laid up carefully, and looked at occasionally -with tender sentimental interest; but by-and-by, -in a year or two, it will seem old-fashioned, and -most probably be picked to pieces and dyed some -serviceable colour. Then there were probably at -least four bride’s-maids, each to be presented with -a jewelled <i>souvenir</i> by the not too affluent bridegroom, -and the costly wedding-breakfast to be -provided by the father. One mischief of the thing -being that the whole arrangement becomes a -precedent, so that the next sister who marries -would seem slighted if she were to have a less -stylish wedding.</p> - -<p>‘Perhaps the costly entertainment—which is -often a great trial to the feelings of the parties -most chiefly concerned—can only be given by -dipping into a very slender capital, or by relinquishing -the autumn seaside holiday. The worst -of the matter is that the class a little below the -one I have attempted to describe, imitates the -bad example in its own way and to its own -detriment.’</p> - -<p>Mrs Crosland, in conclusion, mentions a case in -which persons of respectable standing consulted -economy and common sense in their marriage -arrangements. ‘Due arrangements having been -quietly made, the young lady one morning, -dressed in ordinary attire, escorted by her father -to “give her away,” and accompanied by a -younger sister to serve as bride’s-maid, walked to -the parish church, where the expectant bridegroom -was ready to receive them. There the -ceremony was performed, the little party returning -to partake of the family luncheon before the -wedded pair started on their tour. Was not this -an example worthy under many circumstances to -be followed?’</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak ph3" id="CANINE_CUNNING">CANINE CUNNING.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>The following is from a correspondent: ‘A -near neighbour of mine has a large mongrel -dog, a terrible nuisance to all passing the house, -which unfortunately stands near the highway. -The brute has the nasty habit of rushing out and -attacking every passing vehicle. Complaints were -loud and numerous; and at length the owner hit -upon a plan which he thought would effectually<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_304"></a>{304}</span> -cure his dog. He attached a small log of wood or -a “clog” by a chain to his collar. This answered -admirably; for no sooner did the dog start in pursuit -of anything than the clog not only checked -his speed but generally rolled him over into the -bargain. Now this would not do. Doggie was -evidently puzzled, and reflected upon the position; -and if he did not possess reasoning powers, he -certainly shewed something very like them, for -he quickly overcame the difficulty, and to the -surprise of all, was soon at his old work, nearly -as bad as ever. And this is how he managed. -No longer did he attempt to drag the clog on -the ground and allow it to check and upset him, -but before starting he caught it up in his mouth, -ran before the passing horse, dropped it, and -commenced the attack; and when distanced, would -again seize the clog in his mouth, and resume -his position ahead, and thus became as great a -pest as ever. Even on his ordinary travels about -he is now seen carrying his clog in his mouth, -instead of letting it drag on the ground between -his legs.’</p> - - -<h3 class="ph3">LOST DOGS.</h3> - -<p>Few facts will better illustrate the vast scale on -which almost everything presents itself in the -English metropolis, even so humble a subject as -that of poor dogs that have temporarily lost their -masters, than one mentioned in the Annual Report -of the Chief Commissioner of Police. He informs -us that nearly nineteen thousand (more than -18,800) stray dogs were taken charge of by the -police in the metropolis during the year 1876! -A little romance might be mixed up with the story -of most of these homeless wanderers, if we could -but know it: how Carlo or Boxer was distressed -at losing his protector. The animals were either -taken for a while to the Dogs’ Home at Battersea, -or were otherwise provided for.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="IN_MEMORIAM">IN MEMORIAM.</h2> - -<p class="ph3">(M. A. W.—POETESS. ÆTAT 25.)</p> -</div> - - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">O Noble</span> heart! so gentle, kind;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy life, like a brief summer wind,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Hath passed away,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And left me here on earth to mourn</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thine early flight to that sweet bourne</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Where angels stay.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There may my soul from slumber ’wake</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When heaven and earth their concord break,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">And Time is o’er;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When Christ, in his enthroned array,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proclaims aloud his Advent Day</div> - <div class="verse indent12">From shore to shore!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There may we meet at last and find</div> - <div class="verse indent0">(Mind, heart, and soul for aye entwined)</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Eternal rest;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There tread together Eden’s bowers—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The land of life and light and flowers—</div> - <div class="verse indent12">With souls as blest.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Brief was thy sojourn here, sweet girl;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And life, with all its glittering whirl,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Soon passed thee by;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leaving the flower to droop unseen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The world rolled on, not heeding e’en</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Thy dying cry.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In that dark hour, thy fleeting soul,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Regardless of Death’s stern control,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Broke forth in song;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And as the falt’ring numbers came,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By angels fair thy hallowed fame</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Was borne along.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O well-beloved! enseamed in light,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If thou canst gaze upon my night</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Of lonely grief:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Behold me now, and mark the tears</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That still must flow through future years</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Without relief.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet the dread tomb which steals away</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From brightest gem its purest ray—</div> - <div class="verse indent12">The Life sublime!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Must know we can its power defy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For thou art safe beyond the sky,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">And for all time.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Yea; thou art safe with that great God</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who rules Creation with a rod</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Of love and light;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Being of a glorious mien,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose majesty is Grand, Serene,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">And Infinite!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh, better far thou shouldst be there,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Removed from this world’s doubt and care—</div> - <div class="verse indent12">A gloomy train;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Full-veiled in peerless robes of light,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enthroned where comes nor storm, nor night,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Nor grief, nor pain.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And could I gaze above and see</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The glow of immortality</div> - <div class="verse indent12">That veils thy soul,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And feel thy holy presence near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To guard me from ungodly fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">And its control:</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then should I bless the hidden blow</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That laid my darling’s bosom low</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Within the grave;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And own that Love’s immortal Hand</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did guide the swift unerring brand</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Which struck to save.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">J. A. 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