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T H E V I C A 2 .

Some years ago, ere Time and Titste Had turned our parish topqy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Wasta And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the green And guided to the Parson's wicket.

Up rose the Reverend Doctor Brown, Up rose the Doctor's—" winsome marrow,'' The {»dy laid her ifnitiingldown, Her husband clasped his ponderous barrow. What'er the stranger's caste, or creed, Pundit or papist, saint or sinner, He found astable for his steed And welcome lor himself, and dinner,"

Tho Doctor was » sound divine, Of loud dissent the mortal terror ; And when by dint of page and lino He 'stablished truth, or startled error, The Baptist found him lar too deep; The Doist sighed with saving sorrow, And the lean Levi te went to sleep And dreamt of eating pork to-morrow.

His sermon sever said or showed That earth is foul, that Heaven is gracious, Without refreshment on the road From Jerome or from Athanasius ; . And sure a righteous aeal inspired The hand and head that pinned aud planned

them ; For all who understood, admired, And some who did not understand them.

He always had a tale for me Of Julius Cesar or of Venus : From him I learned the rule of three,

.Cat's cradle, leap frog, and G UNI genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig To steal the staff he put such trust in, And make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustine.

And he was kind and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage And praise the farmer's homely wit And share the widow's homelier pottage. At his approach complaint grew mild And when his hand unbarred the shutter The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome that they could not utter.

Alack the change! In vain 1 look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled. The church is larger thau before, You reach it by a carriage entry ; It holds three hundred people-more Aud pews are fitted for the gentry.

SU in the Vicar's seat ; you'll hear Tlie doctrine of a gentle Jo'hnian Whose hand is white, whose voice is clear, Whose tone is very Ciceronian Where is the old man laid 1 Lrfok down

-..AIM] construe on the slab before you— Hie jaeet Gulielmus Browu.

Vir nulla non douandua laura." PRAED.

[From the New York Ledger.]

THE OLD BED SLEIGH.

BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.

^klmon Craig—hallo, there !" I stopped short. Jem Studley was

.behind me, waving Iiis ftir-cap and as nearly out of breath as a fellow with his splendid lungs could be.

"Are you walk ing for a wager ?" he asked, as he came up. '-You are strid­ing as though you wore tho seven league boots. Ï have been looking- for you all the morning. We are getting up a sleighing party—will you go T'

"YfcS,'' I said. "You might have coun­ted qn that betöre you asked me. Where is it?"

"We meet at Hulda Whipple's—at net father's I meau," said J em, blush­ing—for Hulda was his sweetheart— "and we drive to 'the Bed Farm, aud have our dance and supper there. As Usual, you invito whom you pleasp to .share your sleigh, always providing it is a lady, and—But you'll meet with us to tfikitorer to-night. At our home, yon »kn<*w—sharp eight; and I'll not detain you bere any longer, for you seemed" in a hurry."

: I*was in haste, I told him, and prom iaed to meet them ; and went my way. It-was thé same way that it had been— thö'short cut to the.houso where Hepsy ij§rjrewlived. • otx • " •" s .. • " . J ,bad a fashion of going that way

twilight, when the district school W*x elosed. and she (the teacher) had gone home for the evening. I never gtftid long, but I went often—always teUing aome little story aa* to how " I happened to pass, and thought I'd stop aad «peak to her!"

Any^otBfer young follow would have owned iö comiog ou purpose, and would have spent more time with her and said something more to the purpose than I;— any one Who liked Hep*y as well as I did. \

Liked ya»a cool word for it—• I loved her. I bad loved her ever since I saw lier first coming through the gold-, en-grain fields in her white dress ; mak­ing q»e think of Btfth among the reapers bMàï#^fihë looked so like a picture paint­ed by some g?#ftt artist, that I had once seed; which illustrated the beautiful story—so like the Ruth in that picture, only prettier. I did not know it was

love for a long while; but suddenly I found out why the world was brighter when she was near, and why I began to like some things I had never cared much for before—music, and poetry, and sen­timental stories.

It frightened me to know the truth ; for how could she like me ? I was not hideous, perhaps. A tali, straight, an­gular Maine youth, with yellowish hair and light-blue gray eyes. But I was certainly not handsome. Then we were poor—mother and I. We lived in a little trame house which we never had the moans to repair or paint, and our few acres barely kept its from want. Only for mother I should have left the place long before ; but she clung to it, for there her young husband had brought her on her wedding-day, and from its upper window ehe could see tin- white stones which marked his resting place and that of her lost children. I was too poor to marry, certainly ; but after I had felt th;.t I could only be happy if Ilepsy liked me, I resolved, come what would to make some effort which would lift us above the condition which bordered so closely upon poverty. If I could only first obtain her promise to be mine, I should be inspired to accomplish any­thing I undertook ; but to go sway leaving her quite free and with no knowledge that I cared for her—know­ing that there would be little hope that my return would find her still Ilepsy Harrow—would be impossible.

Yet it seemed also impossible to speak to her ou the subject. I had resolved to do so a dozen times, but her presence awed me. She like me—that slender young beauty, so bright and so wit:y, so much admired. She The speech I had prepared always died upon my lips, and I went home knowing tjiat I had only uttered stupid truisms about the weather and the crops, and was no nearer the point I wished to gain than before.

But that evening, having spoken with Jem Studley of the sleigh-ride, I went on with a lighter step, I could muster courage, I thought, to ask her to go with me.

Gno word. There is no such fun a3 a sleighing party. City folks know nothing of it.

The lona: sleigh-ride, f.-.st and furious, amidst jingling bells and merry laughter, each young fellow with the gi"rl he likes best nestling by his side, with a chance, for once at least, to say what he chooses to her, to discover the state of her heart, or even pop the question. The snow spray tossed up by the horse's feet ; the breeze iust sharp enough to redden pret­ty cheeks and chins, and put warmth arid lightness into every heart. The supper and dance at the end, and the star-lit home going. It is hard to tell which like it best—the girls or the boys, or who is the happiest—the individual who, in virtue of being the best dancer, or, owning the best horse, takes the lead, or he, who, being last, has the cosies, téte-â téte, with the happiness of know­ing that if his arm should steal about a taper waist, there is no malicious jokin watcher behiud to take notes and "print 'em."

If Ilepsy Harrow would go with me, when I had her all alone with me under the cold stars, I might whisper what I had only dared to dream thus far. At least I could judge how she would take the knowledge of my liking.

I was very brave until I stood fr.ee to face with her. Then my courage de­serted me. rI he blood rushed into my face. L looked at the carpet, instead of at her, and stammered aud hesitated. But I found, when I went away, that I had asked her to ride with me, and that she agreed to go

I whistled merrily all the way home, and after I had met Jem and the resc, and we had settled mattets, could not help turning into the shed where our little red sleigh stood, and looking at it. It was all .shabby, and the cushions needed patching. I took it in for mother to do. She had no cloth to match, but she put a blue piece in. A good square patch ; but velvet cushions would not have been fine enough to my mind for Hepsy.

" It's shabby," I said, "confoundedly

for a poor man. I hope when she ma­ries it will be a rich one."

' 'I hope so too," said I. "Eh?" asked my mother, sharply.

Then she went on with her knitting with a puzzled face, There had been a meaning in my wort's which I had not expected her to fathom ; but I think she did. QjjAfter mother had gone to bed I went upstairs and brought down my wtiting-desk. There were some sheets of pap^r and some delicate envelopes, which had beeu there for months stored within, and a silver pen and pen-handle, which had been a birthday present in my schooldays.

1 took them out, and the ink-bottle also. The ink was thick, for we did not write much—either of us—and I brought the vinegar-cruet from the clos­et and thinned it to my liking. Then I sat down and looked at the paper. Then I went to the stairs and listened to see that mother was not coming down. Then I actually seated myself, squared my el bows, and began to write. This is what I wrote :

DEAU MISS HARROW—1 am a coward. Not I hope, in one sense, but certainly as regards you. For a year I have loved you. Yet I no more would have dared to say so than I won have dated had you been a queen Perhaps because I do not cherish a hope that you like

BRITISH PERIODICALS. wanted nothing but my presence. She the§ Illinois Central lùiilroad the rentre | would not come to me, but she urged me fruit trains which run through, without to return to her. I break or transfer, to the farthest cities of The'London Quarterly Beview (Conservative),

At first my heart was loo weak to be, trusted among those old familiar scenes. I To have met Hepsy would have been J too much to bear. But Time helps us' all. At the end of five years I wrote to ' my mother : \

To-morrow you and I will ridn together. To-morrow ] had made up my mind to try my fate, bur I know I shall not dare to speak So, I write. I will give you this letter to read at home. If the answer be "No," it will be easier for both of us. Will you try to think well enough of me to be my wife some day

I love you better than my life, and I will do all man can to make life happy for you. With a little hope I can make my way in the world as other men do. I am young and strong and not utterly ignorant. If I am to have that hope, give rue some sign—give a line, your name only, anything to show me what you mean. If I am to be miserable—well then, make me no answer. Silence shall mean "No.' 1 could not bear to see you or to speak to yoi; after that.

This is an awkward love-letter, no doubt. I am not used to writing letters of any kind of late. I never wrote or said a word of love to any one before. That must be its excuse. Sut were it ever so elegant it could not mean more. For I offer you all the love of my heart. The only love I have ever felt or shall ever know. ALMON CRAIG.

said moth-I was fond

shabby.' "That's a'most swearing, Almon,"

said my mother. " What's the matter with the sleigh a'sudden ? It used to be good enough, Go'in to take a girl out V

" Who ever went on a sleighing-party alone V I said.

" T'would look funny,' er. "La, those sleighings. of 'em once. I'd as lief v feet in a tub 'o

m7^jMÊ^gmf^ntry, as take met aiiii|lHM(l. iVrap up well, Almon. rheie s many a death caught a-sleigh-îng. You remember speakiDg of mv Uncle Eben ?"

"les," said I. "Did he catch his death sleighing 1"

"No," said my mother. "He propos­ed a-sleigbing. It was a dreadful thing for him. What a life Bhe led him. He couldn't say say his soul was his own whale she' lived, poor man. Who are you going with ?"

"Mi s.Harrow." "The school ma'am ?" "Yea,'* "Don't wonder you talked of the

sleigh s being shabby," said mother tcîktîs airs. Iœvt?r s&w

such a bonnet. You take notice of it." What do I know of women's bonnets,

mother ?" I asked, poking the fife. "Oh, well," said mother. ''Men don't

know much, poor critters ; besides she'll likely wear a hood sleighing. But one that puts all on her back isn't the wife

I sealed this note in tho daintiest en­velope I possessed, and wrote Hepsy Harrow's name on the back, and I hid it, and the desk from mother's eyes. Sharp eyes that looked after me anx­iously as I drove away with old Dob­bin and the little red sleigh the follow­ing evening.

She was ready for me. My mother's hint was in my mind, and I looked at her dress. All 1 discovered was that it was blue ; but her furs were good. I could judge of furs.

' ' She must marry a rich man, or one on his way wealthward," I said. She shall, too. I've more to start with than Washington had. And I fucked her into the sleigh, and drove off to the place of meeting.

It was a pleasant drive, and a merry dance and supper; butas the time went on I felt glad that I bad writien the letter. For I could not have said what it would say for ine. It was at the last moment when we were driving home­ward that I mustered courage to ask her for the little reticule she carried, as the other girls did, with a brush and some flowers in it, I think, for they had

•touched up the curls and braids after the windy ride before the dance.

" Why do you want it," she asked. " To put something in it which you

must not look at till you reach bom«"" I said.

" You arouse my curiosity," she ans­wered. " I shall look the instant I have a lamp."

And as she spoke I had dropped in the letter and snapped the clasp.

Not a word more could I speak. But at tho door I tried, for the first time, to kiss her. Her lips eluded mine, and I dared not repeat the at empt.

I took the red sleigh home and waited, waited hopefully as I knew afterwards, for an auswer. None came—a day, a week, a month. Then all hope was over. I had seen her. She had given me a little cold, smileless bow. I was rejected.

" Mother," I said, that night, " we must havo some one to farm the place. I'm going to some city."

" Why ?" said she. "To make my fortune," I said. " For that girl—the school-ma'am ?"

asked my mother bitterly. " No," said I ; " never for her." Mother knelt down b

sat on a low _ and looked in my face, iidn't dare refuse you'?" she

said. " Boy, I know you are in trouble. I'm your mother. Tell me."

" She did not accept me," I said. "The haughty minx !" said my mo­

ther. " I—" Then she burst into tears.

" And that's to part us ?" she said "Not if you'll go with me," I answer­

ed. But she would not leave her home,

and I went alone. In the frosty morn­ing, as I turned to look back at the little village from the top of-the old stage, I saw the children filing in at the school-house door and caught a glimpse of Hepsy's dress beyond—only a fold of her dress, but I knew it. The school-bell was ringing, but it did not say "Turn again" to me, as it should have done bad I been such a prophet as Whit-tington.

I made my fortune. I-had a cousin in New York who was -deep in the mys­teries of Wall street. He helped me. So did Luck, or Fate. In five years I was a moderately rich man. My mother

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And on the moirowl went. My mo­ther had not altered much. But I had grown a long, light beard, and was a youth no longer—a fact which troubled lier- There were changes in the place, too. Girls were married. Old people dead. The tallest, handsomest man I remembered had met with an accident and crawled about a wretched cripple. The church was rebuilt, and the huts in the hollow had been burnt down. A factory had risen and the factory peo­ple's houses were about it. Instead of the old frame school-house was a brick building with many windows and a cupola.

Who was the teacher ? Was she there —Hepsy Harrow ? I dared not ask.

Idly I sauntered «bout the house, painted and refurnished now ; and idly in the evening of my second day of home I went out to the shed where the little red sleigh stood—the shabby old thing with a green patch on the cushion.

' ' It aint been touched since you left, Almon," said my mother. " Poor old Dobbin ! How smart he used to take it round ! I felt as if I'd lost a (riend when he died. Hem ember my patchin' the cushion ?"

She lifted it as she spoke. From be­hind it dropped something. What ? Ot leather, blue with mold, crushed by its long lying under the cushion, but a reti­cule for all that. Hepsy Harrow's reti' cule !

I opened it. There lay a comb and brush, and artificial rose—how well I emembered it in her hair!—and my

letter. Yes, my letter, that she had never read, never seen, never known of.

What's the matter, Almon ?" asked my mother.

For a few moments I did "not know. :it last I spoke :

" It is Miss Harrow's reticule." " She must have lost it when you took

her sleigh-riding," said my mother. " Jest like her, to lose it aud not know, extravagant critter. She's teaching yet: likely too—she air.t married ; no doubt she will be an old maid, and serve her igbt."

The rest my mother said to herself, for 1 waited tor no more.

I took the reticule in my hand and went over the long-forgotten path toward the school-house. School was over. A figure stood alone near the gate. I did not know it at first. But on a nearer view I found that it was a more mature edition of Hepsy Harrow's slender frame

not so slender now, but pretty—just as pretty in the face, and fresh and buxom.

I walked up to her. She gave me a puzzled look. Then her cheek flushed.

" Mr. Craig !"' she said. " Yes, Miss Harrow," I answered. "I

am here to restore your property. You lost a reticule in my sleigh five years ago. To-day I found it. There is some­thing in it which I asked you to look at when you were alone. I make the same request now. May I see you this eve­ning ?"

She bowed. I walked away. That night I went once more to see her. She had been weeping ; the letter lay upon bei knee.

" Such an odd relic of those foolish old times," she said.

I took her hand. " You never answered it, Ilepsv,"' I

said, M Will you answer it now ?" " After all this time ?" she said. "Yes," I said. She said nothing, and I kissed her. Our wedding was a quiet one, and our

lives have been quietly happy from that day to the present hour.

Providence smiles on u .

We are glad to record that the news from every quarter continues to betoken the reaping of large crops during the v._^ .. year 18G8. Cotton is always so precari- 1

ous, and beset with so many dang-yfll from the seed to the reception of the cash \ balances, that it is hard to predict any- \ thing respecting it ; but corn and such

its a$ we have planted and in bearing. will, this year, yield bountifully, beyond anything we have enjoyed for years.

We could wish to hear of more diver­sified farming, af more attention to wheat and barley, live stock, and all the multi­tude of things which make home desira­ble and which tend to prevent emigration, which store up a man's wealth and gains upon his homestead, inducements to roar there his children, and thence bury his dead, and to learn him to regard it al­most like sacrilege to permit it to pass in!o other hands.

This perhaps will all come in due time. As men learn to confine their ef­forts to smaller tracts of ground, they will also learn to make each toot of ground more prodpetiye, and to plant on it such things as are either perennial in their yiel 1. or which will the more continual­ly minister ta their sustenance and gra­tification.

Mobile has lately fried the experiment of sending early vegetables and fruits to Northern cities. We can all, who are adjacent to water communication or rail­roads, do the same. All we want is sys­tem and proper managers to be stationed at all points of transfer and sale. On

the North and Fast. We can have the same on our radroads,

and our steamboats can at Vicksburg, Memphis and Cairo, connect wiih roa s so as to cause very little detention ar, such points. There is no reason wiiv

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1'rovideuce smiles on us. L -t us j* t o w o r k u n d e r s u c h e n e o ; i r a i r e i t i e n f , a n d make ourselves first, independent, then rich, within the precincts of our own home, and then of our abundance ft ed the ice bound North for hail' the year, bearing home with us the tribute we weie wont to pay into its treasury.—

Kr- The immigration into Southern Kansas is very lar^e, and I l ie people say their railroad enterprise is the eause ot it. The London Times or.ee sai l that in Europe the railroad followed the tarn-pike, but that in America matters were reversed, and that there tho turnpike, if it ever came at all, would generally have to follow the railroad. The first thing to be done in these times, for,a countrv which has natural resources, is to run a railroad through it ; the people who are looking out for homes will take care of everything els«, not forgetting to return the railroad company a large profit on the investment.— Galceston Xcirs.

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attorney and Counsellor at Law, WILL practice his profession in the Parishes

of the 8th Judicial District. Prompt attention given to the collection and prosecution of

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