On hearing the jest they had put upon Santi, and | state, asked the men who it was that died. They, his business leading him that way, he determined to not knowing, answered that they could not tell; howcarry on the farce, and have a little sport; having met ever, the carrier getting near to the hearse, knew Santi, he asked him what he would sell the two ca- Santi instantly, and cried out, "Why, it's that booby, pons for? Santi, who no longer considered them as Santi del Grande; how came the mad fellow to die kids, though he had been asked the price of the kids, so soon? a stupid dog?" Santi, hearing himself thus bargained with Girolino for three livres, the which abused, could not abstain from answering, yet withbeing two fine ones, he bought, rather to prevent out moving; he opened his eyes, and cried out, “If I some one else from having the bargain, paid Santi for was alive, instead of being dead as I now am, I'd let them, and led him to a cousin of his in the market- you know who Santi del Grande is." On hearing the place, took him up stairs, saying to him, "What is the dead man talk thus, the porters dropped their load, matter with you? are you not well? are you in any and ran off as if the very devil was after them; pain? how pale you look; will you have a glass of Santi, meanwhile, lay on the ground weeping and wine? why, thou art not the same man; how changed!" groaning, and as many came round him to see this At these words, and in thinking of the capons, Santi living dead, and asked him what was the matter, the became wild, and thought that, like the kids that had only thing he could say was, "Take and bury me turned capons, he also had turned to something fright- where my daddy lies." A cousin of his, who had reful. The young men, who had noticed that Girolino turned from market, where he had been to sell some had bought the kids, were determined to inquire how wood, seeing him in that state, bound him safe on the the matter ended, and went to Girolino's house, and hearse and had him taken home. His mother and there found Santi drinking. "Well, how is it," said brother seeing him in that condition, asked him what the one; but, before he could well answer, Girolino was the matter, and how he came to be in such a said, "I have made him take a glass, for he feels very state; to which he only answered, "Oh! I am dead, ill." "Poor fellow!" said one of the men, “where bury me-bury me where my daddy lies." His brodo you feel pain? how deadly thou dost look; thou art ther, suspecting some one had played him a trick, and surely dying." "He ought to be put to bed," said the made him believe that he was really dead, adopted other. Hearing this, and much more to the same pur- the only means he thought could bring him to his pose, Santi, almost maddening, thought he began to senses, and, taking a horsewhip, began to lay it thick feel very ill, and conceiving he was dying, cried out, and thin on Santi's back; upon which Santi, roused "My head aches! my body! my back! my legs! oh by the blows, cried out, “ Villain that thou art, thou dear! oh dear! I am going." "Art thon cold?" said hast caused my death by giving me two capons in. Girolino. "He must be so," said the one," though it stead of the kids I asked thee for;" and, upon this, be intensely hot." Indeed, I do begin to feel cold," he run after his brother, and began fighting. The quoth Santi. Girolino, still determined to go on with mother, hearing the bustle, came in with some neighit, ordered a maid servant to warm a bed for him; bours, and parted them at last. Santi, much bruised when put to bed, they said, "Santi, how long is it with the rope that fastened him on, and the shock of since thou hast confessed? hast thou been to confess the hearse when it fell, in addition to the horse-whipthis year?" "Yes," said he. "Well, but," said one ping, was put to bed black and blue. After two or of them, “if thou diest, where wilt thou be buried?" three days he recovered, went to his usual work, but Santi, thinking he was either dead or dying, said, swore he never would go and sell any thing at marLet me be buried at St. Giulia, where my dad lies; ket again. and let the money I got for the capons go to mother, for I won't let brother have a farthing." Girolino perceiving that Santi thought he was actually dying, ordered a large old sheet, and he and the other two cut out and sewed up a winding-sheet, and took it unto Santi, saying, "Look ye, Santi, I will have ye die like a gentleman; put this on quick, or it will be too late." Santi, who had no notion that dying was a serious thing, put it on, and in so doing, said, "Why, it's too long! I never shall get it on." Having thus equipped him, they said, "Now, Santi, thou art dead; lay still, shut your eyes, and don't speak, and we will get thee carried to the ground where your dad lies." While they were laying him on a sort of hearse, and four men were sent for to carry him, they alternately cried out, "Poor Santi is dead; poor fellow, he is really dead!" The porters, who thought they were carrying a corpse, went through the gates quietly, without being stopped, intending to take him to Strove, his own village: as they went on, there happened to pass by a carrier belonging to the cavalier Cappacci, who knew Santi well, but not recognizing him in that

TO A SEA-WEED.

PICKED UP AFTER A STORM.
Translated from Schiller.

Exotic! from the soil no tiller ploughs,

Save the rude surge; fresh stripling from a grove
Above whose tops the wild sea-monsters rove;
Have not the genii harbor'd in thy boughs,
Thou filmy piece of wonder! have not those

Who still the tempest, for thy rescue strove,
And stranded thee thus far, the might to prove
Of spirits that the caves of ocean house?

How else from capture of the giant spray

(

Hast thou scapest free, slight ocean flower,
As if Arachne waves thus faultless lay

The full develop'd forms of fairy bower;
Who that beholds thee thus, nor with dismay
Recalls thee struggling thro' the storm's dark hour!
W. H.

X. Remember that friends are more easily lost than made. Do not, therefore, be running after every new acquaintance, lest you be thought a light, trifling fellow, of general agreeableness, but of no individual value. Old Polonius, a statesman and a gentleman, gave his son the same advice; his words are worth repeating

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new hatch'd, unfledged comrade.

Do not expect fidelity in any untried friend-you may meet with it, but real friendship is as rare as real champagne; and the virtue frequently possesses the effervescence of the wine without its flavor. When Jupiter required the presence of Fidelity, and Mer cury had vainly searched the palaces of kings and the armies of heroes, a peasant discovered the happy maiden in a dog kennel.

Friendship, by the way, to be worth any thing, must, like a rare and costly scent, be perfectly pure. A specious imitation may deceive the senses for a time, but the feculent mixture will not bear shaking, the slightest jar upsets its equability, and a muddiness comes over the brightness of its hue. The selfish friendship of the wordling is no more to compare with the refined etherialities of an honest mind, than the sweet smelling nastiness sold by the barbers as rose water, is comparable to the heavenly Attar of the Orientals.

munity at large. A great display of brooches, bream pins, rings, and chains, is fit only for jeweller's shop men, blacklegs, and foreign swindlers. A gentleman should paint his nose pea green in preference to toting trinkets as a mark of respectability. The Spartans enacted sumptuary laws against the excessive use of jewellery. None but courtezans were allowed to wear golden ornaments, under pain of death; and one of the Seleucida decreed that no lady should walk the streets with more than one servant in attendance unless she were helplessly drunk-or wear jewel of any sort, under pain of being considered infe

mous.

XIII. Asafoetida is the very best sauce in the world for a broil. Have your plate made hot; let couple of drops of the genuine tincture fall on the end of your knife, and rub them, with a small piece a butter, well over the plate. Let your steak or chop be removed from the gridiron to the plate, and you have a sauce piquante superior to any other concoction in creation, and partaking of the excellencies of the clove, allspice, and garlic, without any of their offen sive qualities. Experimentalize before you turn u your nose. The ancients delighted in the use of the gum, and called it "food for the Gods." It is wholesome member of the Pharmacopoeia, and the Orientals use it profusely in their various sauces.

Ever

XIV. Never tell a lie. This advice may appear ridica lously childish, but its practice is the choicest morse in my philosophy. I have heard various cosmopolit professors support the stale gallows-tickling prover that the truth is not to be told at all times. adage admits of a double sense; extreme cases no arise, wherein it would not be wholesome to tell th exact fact-remain silent, but lie not, for nothing ca justify the paltriness of deceit. Truth has been tem

XI. Never insult your cigar by igniting him at the blaze of an oil lamp, or the white flame of a tallow candle. A fetid smell will be drawn in, pervade the herb, and totally annihilate the aroma. There is nothing better than the Chinese jostic-if that is noted the conformity of expression to thought; but equ to be obtained, burn a twist of paper.

XII. Avoid all excess in your costume. A gentle man will never caricature his person like a stage fop in modern farce. A wealthy man can afford to appear plain and neat-a poor man sometimes is compelled to dress rather extravagantly, lest the suspicion of his poverty should arouse the venom of his creditors. Some persons look genteel in a well worn coat and napless beaver-others appear grossièrement in the best broad cloth fabrications and correct etceteras-a man, too, may look very Broadwayish amongst the loafers of the Five Points, who would appear rather Five Pointish amongst the swells in Broadway.

Dandyism is fit only for free niggers. An outrageous and useless peculiarity in the shape or color of your coat or hat, is an insult to the good sense of the com

vocation is the expedient of a mean mind to avo
telling the truth without verbally telling a lie. W
willingly risk our lives if our veracity is impugne
yet thousands daily put it in the power of their en
mies to prove them liars. The slightest taint of
mendacious propensity destroys every pretension to t
character of a gentleman, and a paltry lie may lo
you a valuable friend. A youth at college indulge
in what is frequently called a harmless white lie;
had been profuse with the ladies, and foolish upon t
race course-his father requested him to be mo
careful in the expenditure of the next half year's
come. "Dear father," he wrote in answer, "I w
never touch bet again, but spend every dollar wi
prudence." Now, Bet was the name of his discard
mistress, and Prudence was the new one.
It was

good joke, but a dear one. His father found out the deception, and turned him forth a pennyless outcast.

Some few persons can tell a lie with an imperturbable grace-and you can no more discover that they are uttering falsehoods, than you can tell by the tone of the clapper of the town clock that it is an hour too fast. But, in general, a little attentive observation will convince.

When you suspect your dear friend tells you lies,
Watch well the workings of his lips and eyes;
If his mouth twitches, and eyelids wink,
Think what you please, but I know what to think.

of drinking soda water immediately after eating a hearty dinner. Unless a man has the stomach of an ostrich. this habit must produce serious indigestion. A violent hiccough, and other eructant pleasantnesses are likely to result, with considerable acidity of stomach, particularly if you indulge in much wine.

XVIII. Quotations, unless very pertinent or very pretty, are absolute insults to your hearers or readers. On the other hand, a forcibly-written, well-timed extract, gives a terrific power to a peroration, and graces, motto-wise, the beginning of a chapter. Avoid the use of phrases in foreign tongues; excepting always the various idiomatic terms in French and Latin, which may almost be considered as embodied in the English language-for without their use we should have to fabricate longer and less expressive sentences. But beware how you handle a line in a language you are not intimately acquainted with-the most trivial instance of cacography or cacology betrays your presumption-and you are sure to receive the ducking you deserve for getting out of your depth. A Spanish padre of some distinction, visited England in an official capacity, and cut a very distinguished figure at various literary parties and conversaziones. His man

XV. If you are dyspeptic, drink Madeira. It possesses a more delicate flavor than Sherry, but is equally spirituous, and very little more acidulous. It is not in condition unless it has been kept for ten years in wood, and for twice that time in bottle. Madeira wine cannot be too old. Sea voyages assist to mellow it, but age can alone deprive it of the original harshness, and bestow that agreeable pungency, that bitter sweetishness, and nutty flavor, which is so much admired. It is too often spoiled by the addition of brandy when racked off; and an adulterating compound of burnt almonds and tansey is frequently ad-ners were elegant, and his English passably correct. ded, to give it some of its wonted peculiarities.

XVI. Do not be ashamed of your station in life, be it ever so humble. An honest ambition is praiseworthy, but thousands of young men have doomed themselves to everlasting misery by indulging in an overweening desire to appear of extra importance in the scale of life. The frog endeavored to swell him self to the size of the ox, and burst himself in the attempt.

XVII. A custom has lately been introduced from Europe that deserves the severest reprehension-that

The father was not content with a middle path of fame he would speechify, and be conspicuous. Encountering Dr. Johnson at a dinner party, he launched forth in profuse praise of "The Rambler," and in a speech of considerable length, proposed the health of the author; but mistaking the name, and confounding the properties of an apparent synonyme, he proposed the health of Doctor Johnson, the greatest vagabond in the world. The cachinnatory shouts aroused the Doctor's ire-he pitched into the padre, and terrifically used him up.

B.

In the early part of my life, I was fond of sporting, I was cold sleeping under a hedge, and the fowls went and possessed an adventurous turn of mind, which frequently led me many days' journey from home, exploring the country, with little care for any means of subsistence beyond my dogs and gun. In one of these rambles, about the month of December, I continued to follow my game far into the Low Counties, where I was swamped and bewildered amongst wild fowl of every description. My eagerness led me on and on, I knew not whither, till I found myself, towards dusk, in the middle of a large moor, which seemed destined to be my bed for the night. The prospect was not very comfortable, for I was wet through, and well nigh starved.

Whilst musing what was to become of me, I reached the broken towing path of an old and apparently deserted river, for I could perceive no recent trace of horses, and a dilapidated lock, hard by, was covered with moss, as though it had not been opened for a month. I took my seat upon the decayed handle of the gate, and looked wistfully along the banks, in the faint hope of spying some solitary barge which might supply my necessities. Fortune was disposed to favour me; for, as my eye gradually rose towards the cold, blue distance, I could distinctly see a little column of moving smoke. In a moment afterwards, I discovered a red night-cap, and heard the smack of a whip. Never did any thing come more opportunely.

home to roost, and suppers were scarce. He consoled himself likewise with the reflection that it was excellent sport to steal after the wild birds, occasionally with an old brass fire-lock, six feet long, and stocked up to the muzzle; and that, if the place was lonely, there was the less danger of interruption from gamekeepers and justices of the peace. Things, however, were shortly to undergo a vast revolution. All the bog which I saw to the right and left was to be turned into parks and pleasure-grounds, all the peat holes were to be fish ponds, and every bulrush was to spring up into an oak tree. And then for fine houses! they were to stand as thick as daisies! Upon inquiring who was to perform all these prodigies, I was told that they were to be the work of the great man who had built a house in the Pond.

This great man, it appeared, was not very great-yet, but meant to be so shortly. He had the character of having undertaken wonderful projects which no one else had ever thought of, and, though they never yet repaid his pains, he was allowed on all hands to be the greatest genius in the world, and sure to be strangely rich some day or other. In other words, he had been an unsuccessful speculator, and was determined to persevere until he made or marred himself. Amongst other wise calculations, he had taken it into his head that it was cheaper to buy water than land, and had In a few minutes the boat arrived at the lock. It purchased Wild Water Pond, an interminable sheet was laden with coals, but my habits had rendered me of that element, only broken by a few beds of bul not over difficult as to accommodation, and it answer- rushes, and small islands of quagmire, for the purpose ed my purpose as well as could be wished. The of draining it, and planting it, and doing heavencaptain, who was likewise all the attendants, except-knows-what with it, till both the lord and the land ing a ragged boy who flogged the horses, was an in- were to thrive for all the world like Jack and the bean telligent fellow enough for his kind, and informed me stalk. that I was ten or a dozen miles from the nearest house, Like speculators in general, Mr. Carroll, which was which it was impossible for me to find, and twenty the wise man's name, was too much occupied to confrom Wild Water Pond, whither he was bound. As sider the comforts of those who depended upon him, he described the country onwards to be a grand ren- and had brought a patient, gentle-hearted wife, to dezvous for wild ducks, and it signified very little in recruit a sickly constitution in the strong holds of which direction I travelled, I stepped on board, and typhus and the ague. There was likewise a young took up my quarters in his little smoky cabin. lady whom he called his daughter, but who went by another name. From this I concluded that the mother had been married twice, and had probably herself been the subject of a speculation, and made her fortune a stepping-stone to the Pond, in which they stood so good a chance of sinking together. All this gave me but sorry prepossessions of Mr. Carrol, and I could learn nothing better, excepting that he did good by employing the poor upon his embankments, and setting the boats to work to bring necessaries which could

My companion had been chosen for his present occupation (for which beings of civilized regions would have had little fancy) from the vagrant tribes of those parts, who were in the habit of being driven about from place to place by the floods, and my predilections for wandering appeared to win much upon his regard. He told me long stories of the weariness of working a barge along a river where nothing was moving, and how it was only supportable in winter time, when it

come by no other means. Our cargo of coals was intended to keep the rot out of these identical walls; and, when it was delivered, I could either return by the same conveyance, or remain at the Wild Water Lock House and take a lesson in making a fortune.

barge, and acquainted him that it was not my intention to return with him, I committed myself to a crazy mud boat, and pushed off to shoot, and meditate how to scrape acquaintance.

In my progress I saw hosts of half naked wretches, toiling up to their eyes in slime and slough; but I could not perceive that the water-mark had sunk one jot from its original height, and Mr. Carrol's bargain seemed by no means to improve upon acquaintance. The only crop which it was ever likely to yield was of ducks and geese, of which, indeed, there was such abundance that they soon put the proprietor and his concerns quite out of my head. I followed them from island to island, sometimes punting and sometimes

varied constantly from six inches to twice the number of feet, till, as usual, I found myself benighted.

Our voyage continued through the night, and, at daybreak, the aspect of the country, as far as I could judge through the dense vapours, had only changed for the worse, the bog extending from about ten feet below the bed of the river even up to the horizon. The increased myriads of water-fowl showed that every step we advanced was farther and farther from the haunt of human beings. By degrees, the green, oozy sad became more intersected by stagnant pools, which continued to grow wider, till the whole country open-wading, according to the depth of the water, which ed upon us like a boundless ocean. About it, as I have before said, were various clusters of wild, willowy islands, and on one of these, which was of the most considerable extent, arose the forlorn white walls of a newly built mansion. As I gazed upon the desolate abode, I could not restrain an expression of indignation at the heartless being who could hope to prosper by this abandonment of all domestic solicitude. Had he come here by himself, I could have pardoned and pitied him for a madman; but to bring others, who showed, by their compliance, that they were worthy of better fates, was an offence for which, my companion agreed with me, he ought to have had his house tied about his neck and been smothered in his own swamp. The Lock House, at which I was to lodge, was a small, ruinous hut, inhabited by an old couple, who were sore stricken with the rheumatism, and received me upon crutches. The sight of a human face seemed to rejoice their hearts, for they told me that, though their prospect would be mighty fine in summer, if it were not for the gnats, people had no great admiration for the country thereabouts. As for the great man, nobody came to see him. All the world were afraid of him, because he was so wonderfully clever and had dug such deep ditches.

Fortunately, the great man's house was not shut up, and while this was the case, there was no possibility of losing sight of his lights, for which I straightway directed my course. It was no bad opportunity for gratifying my curiosity by introducing myself as a benighted traveller, and I moored my shallop within a few yards of the window. The room was large, and barely furnished, and like the handiwork of speculators in general, unfinished. Mr. Carrol was sitting at the table. He was a square built, middle-aged man, dressed in a short green jacket and high mud boots. His countenance was dark, forbidding and disappointed; and his manner, when he muttered a few words over a plan or calculation, which was lying before him, seemed abrupt and petulant. His wife sat opposite to him with her work, and formed a strong contrast. She was handsome and mild looking, like one whose fate was ordained to be ruled by others, and the pale melancholy of her cheek bore witness that this rule had not always been in unison with her inclinations. By the fire, with her hands before her, as though her thoughts were too busy to allow them occupation, and her eyes turning from one to the other of her companions, with alternate fondness and indignation, sat the daughter. Her features were handsome like her mother's, but there was a decision of character about them which rendered them far more remarkable, particularly in one so young. Her fine dark eye was full of impetuous feeling, and her whole person was of the stamp which nature is wont to place upon spirits of unusual order. This was a being worth knowing; and, in despite of a blunderbuss and several other weapons which were hanging over the fire-place I rang boldly at the door.

Good souls! They had stuck to their home as tenaciously as a brace of dab chicks, and had never left it except to bury their children, who had all been subject to sore throats. They loved to dabble about their old nest. They had employment in keeping the keys of the Lock, and doctoring their rheumatisms. They had amusement in setting eel pots in the waste water, which tumbled through their pen into the great man's Pond (a circumstance which added materially to his draining avocations); and they had the satis faction of having grown lusty, which showed that, harring the aforesaid rheumatism, the place agreed The house was so formed that I could see into the with their constitutions. No wonder, then, that these room even here. The party looked at each other in contented and untravelled persons were somewhat considerable surprise at the prospect of a visiter, and astonished by the genius of such a magician as Mr. well they might, for, to say nothing of the scanty neighCarrol, who had astonished all the wild geese and bourhood, the approach to their abode was calculated water rats in the country. Before I had been half an to make people call at seasonable hours, if it produce shour domesticated, I had heard wonders enough to no other advantage. Before the door was opened, petrify me, and my interest for this strange person's saw Carrol move closer to his depot of arms, where family, which was considerably heightened by the he stood frowning and listening to the parley between description of the daughter, increased into a determi- me and the servant. As I told my tale of distress nation of knowing something about them. Having he evidently uttered an exclamation of impatience, therefore, expressed my obligations to my friend of the and his wife as evidently besought him to invite the