THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

THE BOUNTY SHILLING. [Continued.'] Dick Harlowe, cross between yeoman and farm laborer, living in the outskirts ofNunscroft, one of the pleasant little villages of Warwickshire, on the borders of Worcester and skirting the Yale of Evesham, almost magical in its summer beauty, and redolent of memories of Simon de Montfoit and King Edward Longshanks—Dick Harlowe was decidedly in that mood fitting him to be operated upon by any doubtful agent, when he went out from his mother’s thatched cottage on a certain September evening during the great war of England and Napoleon I. Eit at that moment, to have been met by Mephistopheles, in any of the shapes which he assumes in those weird legends of which the young farmer had never heard ; fit to be operated upon by any mere human instrumentality fall ing in his way and having motive to in fluence him. Fit, especially fit, for that governmental agency and influence, through so many ages known to English men as the recruiting sergeant. Dick was young, round-faced, good looking generally, and so athletic as to be a proverb of nimbleness in that active portion of the West country. He had that comeliness that belongs to his years, and, alas ! that nervous sensitiveness so apt to belong to the same age, not depen dent on any great keenness of intellect, and quite capable of making the holder unhappy without affording the necessary wisdom for extrication from unpleasant surroundings. He knew quite enough to feel acutely and to become very unhappy; but—poor fellow!—he did not know enough to place himself beyond the necessity of that feeling—as, indeed, how small a percentage will be found to have that power, in any given hundred or thousand 1 Not to make any mystery of the matter —things had “ gone wrong with him,” to quute the phrase when he would himself have used if he used any— in the farming of the small glebe held by his father before him, and afterwards entrusted to himself and his mother, the widow. The season had been rainy; help was beyond his means ; and much of what might have been the product of his fields had been lost through inefficiency combined with a certain. amount of inattention. In fact, so doleful had become the prospect for the ensuing winter, that he had been ekeing out subsistence for the present, and pre paring a dismal way for the dark hour, by working, half as farm-hand and half as overseer, on the luckier or better-tilled fields of some of the other land-owners in the neighborhood. He was consequently poor, dull, discouraged, sad-hearted, with out quite knowing the whole meaning of the phrase, and with that sort of indefinite feeling sometimes characterized, nowa days, as “ down in the mouth.” Then, the evening was that of Monday; and on the previous day, coming back from the little church to the abode of that “neat-handed Phillis,” he had managed to get up a sort of lover’s quarrel with pretty Susan Ackley, his finances for the previous twelvemonth and his playmate and admiration from childhood—this quarrel leading him to the belief that he was the moat miserable, worthless and wronged dog in creation ; and that the sooner he was out of the way, and Susan made happy by that indefinite removal, the better for all parties. (N, 8.- Dick would have pounded to a jelly, in five minutes, any man who dared hint that Susan would be the happier for parting with him ; that peculiar and peculiarly foolish assertion he held as his own private right and property ; and held it, of course, all the more solemnly and sacredly on that account. Then he had another grief or grievance, manifested in a row with his mother, the widow, who was certainly not in the habit of inflicting unheard of cruelties upon any one falling under her charge. It is not necessary to state, at the present moment, what was that grievance, indeed, to do so would remove it, and so the little story could not be told at all. Enough to say that the fact will develop itself indue time ; a little more to that disproof of old maxims and general leveling of arrogant statements which will no doubt be found necessary before the coming of the millen nium. But the sense of injury was suf ficient to induce him, just after changing the corduroy pants and smock-frock in which he had been at work afield during the day, to an old but more becoming suit of velveteens for “ evening prome nade,” to hurl out at the window a very injured, innocent expression of wrathful disappointment, his hands meanwhile thrust nearly deep enough in his breeches pocket to produce the belief that he must have had a covert Yankee somewhere among his ancestry. “I do think that you might ha’ done it mother! ” he ejaculated on that occa sion, with an amount of feeling showing that the wrong had struck very near to the fountain of his existence. “ It was a main little to do, for a woman like you ; and, dang it!—l am a chap that needs taking a little care of, just now—that I do ! I don’t like a bit to have what you promised to do, neglected in that way, seeing that I am not one of the kind that asks for favors very often; harkee to that, now! And when I come back, if I do come back at at all," — “ Why, boy, what are you talking of 1 ” interrupted the grey-headed and snugly capped poor widow, just in time to pre vent the utterance of that no-doubt awful threat. Her kind and motherly appear ance, however humble, seemed to make it doubtful whether she could have perpe trated any crime beyond forgiveness, against her only son; and there was a promise of reparation in what follows. “ Sure it was only a little miss, Dick, and I’ll do it to-morrow, true as I’m a woman. Don’t ’ee grieve old mother by making so much ado about so small a thing ! And then to talk of staying away ! Why, Susan—” “Dang Susan, and all girls like her !” exclaimed the son, interrupting in his turn, and with much more than the widow’s force of expression. “Don’t talk to me any more about Susan Ackley, mother—never i She and I be off—that’s all, and that be enough !” “ You and Susan ! Why, Dick I” That was all that the widow, literally over whelmed by such intelligence, found time to say ; for Dick, bearing both his old and new griefs about him, strode away from the little cottage porch, in which his mother was standing under the yet unfaded vines and climbing flowers —strode away through the rustic gate, closing it with a bang enough to have shown his temper without any other evidence, and took his way across the field, as the widow could see in the lingering September light, toward that portion of the picturesque straggling hamlet of Nunscroft where stood the noted ale-house known as the “ Nine Chickens.” The watering place of all the carriers who traversed that well-frequented road; the lounging-place, and, alas ! the tippling place of the thriftless and the idle of a whole neighborhood ; as such houses have been, time out out of mind, in other sections of Merrie England than that bordering the Vale of Evesham. Good old Dame Harlowe would much have preferred that Dick should assuage his grief, even at a quarrel with Susan Ackley, as well as any discontent with herself, in some other mode than by a night at the ale-house, with its company lower than himself as well as much less intelligent; but she sighed a remembrance that “ his lather before him, God rest his soul, did so I” closed the door, and went

in to what night labor yet remained to do by the dim evening lamp. She was re solving, meanwhile, that the forgetfulness of which her son complained should not occur again—that she would do, yet that night or certainly on the morrow, what she had so grieved and angered him by neglecting to do that day. Dick Harlowe, meanwhile strode on towards the “Nine Chickens.” He was just at that desperate folly of youth, so quick to find duplicated at an earnest search, so hard to resist, so easy for any one except the sufferer to ridicule or argue away. He had not a penny in his pockets—not a ha’penny—not a farthing ; perhaps it had been to make that dis covery, that his hands went so deep down in those pockets ; but he had credit at the ale house, and a score consequent thereupon ; and if he had any intention at all, as he strode, it was to get as “ boozy,” that night, as stiff old ale could make him, and then decide in the morn ing (we do decide those things so much better in the morning, with eyes reddened and head splitting !) what he would espe cially do to spite cruel Susan and better his dull prospects. Arrived at the ale-house, fortune proved more kind to the young fellow, in the way of providing cheap potables for at least a part of that wise resolution, than he could have possibly have antici pated. Two or three of his village com panions dropped into the tap-room of the “Nine Chickens,” very soon after his arrival; and they guzzled ale com fortably at each meeting, with Dick Har lowe making more stupid and ineffectual attempts to be jolly, than any of the others remembered of him. But these dropped away again somewhat early—the evening being a remarkably unproductive one, for some cause, to the hostelry; and, at no very late hour, Dick found himself alone in the company of the very pleasantest fellow he had ever met—cer tainly the most entertaining conversationa list, .and , quite ,as certainly the most liberal-handed. This gentleman, who sat at one of the side-tables in the tap-room, seemed to take an especial interest in Dick from the moment of meeting—an interest highly flattering to that young person. He wore a red coat, and had a bunch of colored ribbons on his cocked hat; he told the most interesting and appetizing stories of the adventures he had met in His Majesty’s service, in Spain, Flanders, America—everywhere. He insisted on being paymaster for the ale, again and again ; and then declaring the malt to be flat and stale to one who had drunk wine in the countries where the grapes grew, ordered a bottle of that beverage, followed it with a second, and insisted upon Dick appropriating much more than half ol most the orders. Dick Harlowe grew almost confidential with the very pleasant stranger whc treated him like an old friend and a prince —confided to him (it is feared) some oi his hopes and all his many troubles—had a dim impression of being invited by him to join in the gayest, brightest, easiest, beat-paid of lives—that of a soldier, and oi refusing to arrange for doing so—at leasi before the following morning—and then he did not seem to remember anything more, and he did not; for he dropped his head over on the table ond slept the sleep of the young and the—drugged Yes, drugged—that was precisely the misfortune into which Harlowe had fallen. He was, as the recruiting-sergeant at once recognized, a valuable prize, for whom the premium paid would be much higher thar for any ordinary clodhopper: and he engaged the young fellow in conversation, without naming his peculiar profession oi business wdiile any sobriety remained in his victim —then substituted wine when he found ale too slow and doubtful in bringing him to the proper state of uncon sciousness, adding secretly a few drops ol a well-known preparation carried in big pocket for extreme cases. Now the deed was accomplished. His Majesty had another sarvant, sure and certain, for he had extracted enough drunken words from Dick to be able to swear to his willing acceptance of what he had, at the lasi moment, adroitly dropped into tho gaping pocket of his velveteen trousers —the “ King’s Shilling.” When he had slept, perhaps an hour, and no other victims seemed likely tc present themselves, the sergeant pinned a bunch of colored ribbons, like that he him self wore, to the hat of the young fellow (as the French and some others adorn and be-ribbon prize calves and bullocks for slaughter), then edged him on his feet, took him, half dead and entirely stupefied as he was, to the sleeping-room already engaged, and passed the night with his prize so fastened to him that escape, was impossible. A little alarmed by the words which Dick had spoken when leaving her, the widow Harlowe became much more so as hour after hour went by and she did noi hear his returning step. The night wore on, and there was no return, and, con sequently no sleep for the anxious mother. What is it that induces mothers to place especial dependence upon the wives oi fiancees of their sons, and to believe thal those people exercise some influence beyond theirs—remains a question to be hereafter solved : enough to know that some such impression prevails. With the first rays of daylight the widow was stirring ; and before the sun had risen she presented herself at the still smaller thatched cottage of her neighbour widow Ackley, tapping at Susan’s window. The young girl sprang up, en deshabille and alarmed—then reddened with shame to see that the early visitor was the mother of the young man whom (in spite of occasional quarrels) she loved so dearly. She presented a very pretty picture, at that moment, with her sweet girlish face, Saxon-blue eyes and blonde hair, and a bewitching, plump, neat figure, which had never (of course) blessed Dick Harlowe’s eyes to any extent as it radiated upon his mother’s. “ What ever is the matter, dame Har lowe 1 Have anything happened to —to Dick ?” was the natural though shame faced inquiry of the young girl, as she threw up tke window. “ Oh, lass, I do not know,” sighed the widow, “ Dick have been gone all night; and he did say such wild words, before he went away, about being off with thee, and about never coming back—” “ Hush ! do not let my mother hear you, dame ! Wait only a moment till I slip on my clothes, and then we will go over the wide world after him if need be ! Poor Dick ! poor Dick !” the young girl muttered as she made her hasty toilet, “ did he take my words so badly to heart that he could talk of leaving mother and me ? What a bad girl I must be, to be sure ! And if I have driven him away, why then I must bring him back again— that is my duty, and I must do that, you know !” Certainly, Susan—always do “duty;” but duty is much pleasanter when there is a little love mixed with it, as more than one ef us have had occasion to ascertain ? Less than five minutes, dame Harlowe waiting at the window, and her neighbor widow undisturbed, brought Susan with out, bright-eyed even in the midst of her anxiety, short skirted, neat-ancled un bonetted.

(to be continued.)

He that never changed any of his opinions, never corrected any of his mis takes ; and he who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes in himself, will not be charitable enough to excuse what he reckons mistakes in others.

“ What makes you so grum, Tom ?” “ Oh, 1 have had to endure a sad trial of my feelings.” “ What,on earth was, if?” “ Why I had to tie on a pretty girl’s bonnet while her xna was looking.”

CHISPA’S LETTER

“I am not yet so bald that you can see my brains. ” —Longfellow. (From Ashburton Herald, July 10.) I was quite overcome last week with the intensity of the situation. I had seen my respected friend Mr Purnell trotted off to the place from the limited room of which he has in his day so ably saved such a large number of evil doers, and I was quite upset. I tried to write but 1 couldn’t go it—it was too much. So I went to the Oddfellows’ ball, and swung my elegant form about there for a while. , I may say just here that I came to grief at that ball. I aiu something like Richard the Third— not suited to amble in a' lady’s chamber — and so, after clumsily ruining several yards of drapery, and getting one or two looks that were affectionate on the surface but anything but loving, I am sure, if the surface could have been lifted, I cleared. But it was in the clearing I came to grief. Dr. Stewart was about, being surgeon to the Oddies, and 1 thought I would ad journ upstairs with him. I only got half way up when I met with an accident. Thanks to the Dr. and a slice of raw beef that George Eagle found for me, I can look the whole world in the face again. The magistrate has much to answer for. If he hadn’t sent Mr. Purnell to: quod I shouldn’t have gone to that bad, and shouldn’t have got that black eye. There, now, that’ll do on the subject of myself. Mr. St. Hill is the best Councillor we have. I have always said so. He is so thorough, you know, and goes to the root of things. He went to the root of that immigrants’ cottage that was to have been given to the Fire Brigade to practice on, and he had made, what he thought to be, very effective arrangements for tearing it up, root and branch. He sold it for Ls— whom, think you ? Why, to Brown, the gentleman who was for some consider able time, “ The cook, and the captain bold, And the mate, and the purser big, And the bosun, tight, and the midshipmile, And the crew of the captain’s gig ” in fact, in his own proper person, the com plete labor gang of the Borough Council. While Mr, Brown occupied that solitary but exalted position—a sort of concentrated essence of labor gang —I have often looked over his person to see if he hadn’t branded himself with the letters A. 8.0., the same as the spades are—for he was so essentially the property of the Council, and looked after everything and everybody connected with it, or doing anything for it, that I fancied ho ought to bear the alphabetical brand somewhere on his person, just as the Freemasons brand theii new members. If you are a Mason 1 know you will feel an uneasiness about the left pocket of your surtout, when 1 mention this brani, and unpleasant re collections of the fiery ordeal will come to your memory. But I was never able tc discover the mystical letters anywhere upon his person. When the Council rise to the dignity of haying a man under Mr. Brown, 1 can always find the letters about the working gang, because “ he” has to use a spade, and the spade is stamped. Well, Mr. St. Hill sold the dilapidated- cottage to the essence of labor gang, and smiled benignly to him self, thinking that the eyesore was to be removed, for the cottage was sold with that understanding. But Mr. St. Hill is not the “boss” of the essence of labor gang, and he found that out. The essence of labor gang sold the cottage again, and turned the nimble penny on the sale. The shanty has now become a stable—patched up, and made habitable for a horse, if not for a man and Mr. St. Hill, the most practical man in the Council, the leader of the great Liberal party in the local parliament, has been had by the head and middle and tail fall in one) of a whole department of the pa rochial civil service. Somegeniusor otherhasgoneinto figures over the Borough Council’s expenditure on salaries &c., as against their income. I admire that chap’s way of putting things. He seems to allow rates only for revenue, and leaves out the license fees, and every little source of revenue that exists. Avast heaving, young man ! What about the money fromtheßoadßoards and the County Council. Is that outfall drain paid for out of rates, or the water scheme, or the concrete channelling 1 Don’t you believe it. Do you think my friend Mr. Fooks draws his salary for simply saying to the concentrated essence of labor gang “do this,” and he doeth it—if he please— and draws it out of rates only ? Not he. The County Council stands in the gap for that work, for the same fund that supplies the concrete channelling supplies also the engineer’s cost. We get through a lot o’ money, I dare say. But don’t paint us any blacker than we are. Boniface Quill and Auctioneer Harrison are to beputupin two lots. They are about a size, and this fact is causing some fun. Tom Brown, hurriedly passing me offered two to one on the “ little man.” I took Kim. Who loses it Alfred knocks Tom down all in one lot, and who if Tom gives Alfred a consolation blow out after Tom has got to the head of the poll 1 They are both litlle ones—both game. I don’t know how to vote. I like Harrison. He’s a decent little fellow ; and so is Tom. I like him, too. Oh—l know, I have two votes. I’ll give one to each. “ Give up smoking.” At the Library show, at the Sunday-school tea fight, and in every good or goody-goody periodical published, we have been told to give up smoking and we will be able to do great things. We’ll be able to join the Library, we’ll be able to subscribe to the Christian Record, to a Building Society, to a missionary society, to a church, to a thousand and one benevolent institutions, and put money in the bank. I went into figures on this subject, and I find that if I give up smoking I will be able to save about a hundred pounds a-year if I put all the “ threepence a-weeks” together that I have heard mentioned. But then, as tobacco only costs an average man about 7£d. a week, and I am an average man, I fail to see how I am going to save from being spent what never was in danger. Chispa.

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Sir, —Having suffered for some time from an obstinate cough, accompanied with fever, continuous head-aches, and sleepless nights, I resolved after having vainly tried several other medicines, to have recourse to your BALSAM of ANISEED. I cannot resist, sir, the desire of making you acquainted With the really marvelous results, which 'I derived from it. From the first dose I felt great relief, the bad symptoms grew feebler, the irritation of the throat was calming down, and I recovered the sleep which had nearly left me. r The third dose delivered me completely, and I am now, completely restored to health. Receive, sir, with the expression of my gratitude the assurance of my distinguished sentiments. , . DUO DE MQNTABOR.” For coughs, bronchitis, in fluenza, COLDS, &c. For coughs, bronchitis, in- FLUENZA, COLDS, &c. F° R COUGHS, BRONCHITIS, IN- FLUENZA, COLDS, &c. FOR’ COUGHS,"'BRONCHITIS, IN- FLUENZA, COLDS, &c. POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED, “ Sir, —I have for a long time suffered from a severe cough and tried all manaei of remedies. Dr. Libcrecht advised POVVEU/S BALSAM of ANISEED ; it cured' me after a few days. You are at liberty to use this letter in hopes that others may benefit by it— lam, Sir, Yours. &c., ■ ALBERT COUNT POTOCKI.” pOWELL’S BALSAM OF ANISEED ILL LOOSEN the PHLEGM imme diately.—The Dean of Westminster’s Verger writes: “I was advised to .try the Balsam of Aniseed; I did, and have found great relief. It is most comforting in allaying irritation and giving strength to the voice.” Lionel Brough, Esq. j the eminent actor, writes: I think it an invaluable medicine for members of my profession, and have' always recommended it to my brother and sistc r artistes,”: 1 ; 1 ■■■■ RULY an EXTRAORDINARY EX* PECTORaNT.—Mr. Edward,M. Ullett, l of Bury, Hunts., writes to Messrs. Palmer Son, Ramsay : —“ Having been in the habit O using Powell’s Balsam of Aniseed for a number of years, I have great pleasure in bear ing testimony to its incomparable effects as am expectorant. I always find a single dose gives: immediate .relief, and a small bottle'effects a perfect cure.” , •••; POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED.— The effects of one teaspoonful taken in % little water before going to bed is extraordinary. N© family should be without it in the winter. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World, isT>£d and as 3d per per bottle; a great saving in taking family bottles, lis each. Established: over.so years. Prepared only by THOMAS POWELL, Blackfriars Road, London. 1 A SK . for POWELL’S BALSAM . ANISEED of SOLD by all CHEMISTS and ■ STORE KEEPERS.. Observe the Trade Mark, “Lion, Net, and Mouse.” Wholesale Agents in the Australian and New Zealand Colonies- -Elliot Brothers; Evers & Solomon ; Felton, Grimwalde, & Co. ; P. and S. Falk, Faulding;& Co. , Rocke, Tompsit, &. Co. 1 Rosenthall & Co.; Kempthorne, Prossek, & Co.; S. Hoffenung & Co. ; Hemmons, Laws, & Co.; Berkley, Taylor, & Co.; and all other wholesale houses. Proprietor —Thomas Powell, Blackfriars Road London. KEATINGS COUGH LOZENGES, .. COUGHS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS,* ACCUMULATION OF .PHLEGM. Composed of the -purest articles. ’ These Lozenges contain no opium nor any deleterious drug, therefore the most delicate lean take them with perfect confidence. Their beneficial effect is speedy and certain. This ; old un failing family remedy is daily recommended by the most eminent. Physicians. (In ,use nearly 60 years), j • > . MEDICAL TESTIMONY. ; . July 25th, 1877. 22, Cold Harbour Lane, London. ; Sir, —Your Lozenges are excellent, and their beneficial effect most reliable. I strongly recommend them in cases of cough-and . asthma. You are at liberty to state this as my opinion, formed from many years experience. J. Bringloe, M.R.C.S.L., L.5.A.,-:L.M. Mr. T. Keating, Indian Medical Service. Dear Sir, —Having tried your Lozenges in India, I have much pleasure in testifying to their beneficial effects in cases of incipient consumption, asthma and bronchial affections, s I have prescribed them largely, with the best results. W, B. G, • , Apothecary, H.M.S. KEATINGS COUGH LOZENGES are sold by all Chemists, in tins of various sizes, each having the words, “Keatings’si Gough Lozenges” engrrvenon the government stamp. KEATING'S WORM TABLETS, A PURELY VEGETABLE SWEETMEAT, ooth in appearance and taste,' furnishing a most agreeable method of administering' the only certain remedy for INTE ST I N A L or viis THREAD WORMS. It is a‘ perfectly safei|| and mild preparation, and-is especially adaptedAsi for children. Sold in tins by all Chemists. Proprietor, THOS. KEATING, London, Export Chemist and Druggist. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. EPPS’S OOOOA. BREAKFAST. BY a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition; and by a icareful application, of the fine properties i‘o£ weU v : ’ selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctor’s bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually- built up until strong enough to resist every ten pency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak .point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.— See article in the Civil Service OazeUt: a Made simply with boiling water or’inilk. Sold only in packets or tins, labelled ; JAMES EPPS AND CO.,’ HOMCEOPATHIC CHEMIST, 1 : ’ LONDON. 91 i