Why, yes; it is a General De Benyon, who has lately returned from the East Indies." "Good God! is it possible!" thought I; "how strange that my own wild fancy should have settled upon him as my father!" I hurried away; threw myself into the hackney-coach, and desired the man to drive to Lincoln's Inn. I hastened to Mr. Masterton's rooms: he was fortunately at home, although he stood at the table with his hat and great coat on, ready to go out. "My dear sir, have you forgotten me?" said I, in a voice choked with emotion, taking his hand and squeezing it with rapture. 46 By heavens, you are determined that I shall not forget you for some minutes, at least," exclaimed he, wringing his hand with pain. Who the devil are you?" Mr. Masterton could not see without his spectacles, and my subdued voice he had not recognised. He pulled them out, as I made no reply, and fixing them across his nose-"Hah! why yes-it is Japhet, is it not?" "It is indeed, sir," said I, offering my hand, which he shook warmly. "Not quite so hard, my dear fellow, this time," said the old lawyer; "I acknowledge your vigour, and that is sufficient. I am very glad to see you, Japhet, I am indeed-you-you scamp-you ungrateful fellow. Sit down--sit down-first help me off with my great coat: I presume the advertisement has brought you into existence again. Well, it's all true; and you have at last found your father, or, rather, he has found you. And what's more strange, you hit upon the right person: that's strange-very strange indeed." "Where is he, sir?" interrupted I, "where is he-take me to him." "No, rather be excused," replied Mr. Masterton, " for he is gone to Ireland, so you must wait." 66 Wait, sir! oh no-I must follow him." "That will only do harm; for he is rather a queer sort of old gentleman, and although he acknowledges that he left you as Japhet, and has searched for you, yet he is so afraid of somebody else's brat being put upon him that he insists upon most undeniable proofs. Now we cannot trace you from the hospital unless we can find that fellow Cophagus, and we have made every search after him, and no one can tell where he is." "But I left him but yesterday morning, sir," replied I, "and Timothy as well." "Good-very good; we must send for him or go to him; besides, he has the packet entrusted to the care of Miss Maitland, to whom he was executor, which proves the marriage of your father. Very strange-very strange, indeed, that you should have hit upon it as you did almost supernatural. However, all right now, my dear boy, and I congratulate you. Your father is a very strange person: he has lived like a despot among slaves all his life, and will not be thwarted, I can tell you. If you say a word in contradiction, he'll disinherit you: terrible old tiger, I must say. If it had not been for your sake, I should have done with him long ago. He seems to think the world ought to be at his feet. Depend upon it, Japhet, there is no hurry about seeing him; and see him you shall not, until we have every proof of your identity ready to produce to him. I hope you have the bump of veneration strong, Japhet, and plenty of filial duty, or you will be kicked out of the house in a week. D—n me, if he didn't call me an old thief of a lawyer." "Indeed, sir," replied I laughing; "I must apologise to you for my father's conduct." "Never mind, Japhet; I don't care about a trifle; but why don't you ask after your friends?" "I have longed so to do, sir,” replied I. “Lord Win. dermear--" "Is quite well, and will be most happy to see you." "Lady de Clare, and her daughter 66 Lady de Clare has entered into society again, and her daughter, as you call her-your Fleta, alias Cecilia de Clare is the belle of the metropolis. But now, sir, as I have answered all your interrogatories, and satisfied you upon the most essential points, will you favour me with a narrative of your adventures (for adventures I am sure you must have had) since you ran away from us all in that ungrateful manner." "Most certainly, sir, I will; and, as you say, I have had adventures. But it really will be a long story." "Then we'll dine here, and pass the evening together -so that's settled." I dismissed the coach, while Mr. Masterton gave his orders for dinner, and we then turned the key of the door to avoid intrusion, and I commenced. It was nearly dinner time before I had finished my story. Well, you really appear to be born for getting into scrapes, and getting out of them again in a miraculous way," observed Mr. Masterton. "Your life would make a novel." "It would indeed, sir,” replied I. "I only hope, like all novels, it will wind up well." "So do I; but dinner's ready, Japhet, and after dinner we'll talk the matter over again, for there are some points upon which I require some explanation." We sat down to dinner; and when we had finished, and the table had been cleared, we drew to the fire, with our bottle of wine. Mr. Masterton stirred the fire, called for his slippers, and then crossing his legs over the fender, resumed the subject. "Japhet, I consider it most fortunate that we have met previous to your introduction to your father. You have so far to congratulate yourself, that your family is undeniably good, there being, as you know, an Irish peerage in it; of which, however, you have no chance, as the present earl has a numerous offspring. You are also fortunate as far as money is concerned, as I have every reason to believe that your father is a very rich man, and of course you are his only child; but I must now prepare you to meet with a very different person than perhaps the fond anticipations of youth may have led you to expect. Your father has no paternal feelings that I can discover; he has wealth, and he wishes to leave it he has therefore sought you out. But he is despotic, violent, and absurd; the least opposition to his will makes him furious; and, I am sorry to add, that I am afraid that he is very mean. He suffered severely when young from poverty, and his own father was almost as authoritative and unforgiving as himself. And now I will state how it was that you were left at the Asylum when an infant. Your grandfather had procured for your father a commission in the army, and soon afterwards procured him a lieutenancy. He ordered him to marry a young lady of large fortune, whom he had never seen, and sent for him for that purpose. I understand that she was very beautiful; and had your father seen her, it is probable he would have made no objection, but he very foolishly sent a peremptory refusal, for which he was dismissed for ever. In a short time afterwards, your father fell in love with a young lady of great personal attractions, and supposed to possess a large fortune. To deceive her, he pretended to be the heir to the earldom, and, after a hasty court. ship, they ran off, and were married. When they compared notes, which they soon did, it was discovered that, on his side, he had nothing but the pay of a subaltern, and on hers, that she had not one shilling. Your father stormed, and called his wife an impostor; she recriminated; and the second morning after the marriage was passed in tears on her side, and oaths and revilings on his. The lady, however, appeared the most sensible party of the two. Their marriage was not known; she had run away on a pretence to visit a relative, and it was actually supposed, in the country town where she resided, that such was the case. Why should we quarrel in this way?' observed she. You, Edmund, wished to marry a fortune, and not me-I may plead guilty to the same duplicity. We have made a mistake; but it is not too late. It is supposed that I am on a visit to and that you are on furlough for a few days. Did you confide your secret to any of your brother officers?' Not one,' muttered your father. Well, then, let us part as if nothing had happened, and nobody will be the wiser. We are equally interested in keeping the secret. Is it agreed?' Your father immediately consented. He accompanied your mother to the house at where she was expected, and she framed a story for her delay, by having met such a very polite young man. Your father returned to his regiment, and thus did they, like two privateers, who, when they meet and engage, as soon as they find out their mistake, hoist their colours, and sheer off by mutual consent." "I can't say much for my mother's affection or delicacy," observed I. "The less you say the better, Japhet; however, that is your father's story. And now to proceed. It appears that about two months afterwards, your father received a letter from your mother, acquainting him that their short intercourse had been productive of certain results, and requesting that he would take the necessary steps to provide for the child, and avoid exposure, or that she would be obliged to confess ber marriage. By what means they contrived to avoid exposure until the period of her confinement, I know not, but your father states that the child was born in a house in London, and, by agreement, was instantly put into his hands; that he, with the consent of his wife, left you at the door of the asylum, with the paper and the bank note, from which you received the name of Newland. At the time, he had no idea of reclaiming you himself, but the mother had, for heartless as she appears to have been, yet a mother must feel for her child. Your father's regiment was then ordered out to the East Indies, and he was rapidly promoted for his gallantry and good conduct during the war in the Mysore territory. Once only has he returned home on furlough, and then he did make enquiries after you; not, it appears, with a view of finding you out on his own account, but from a promise which he made your mother." 44 My mother what, have they met since ?" "Yes; your mother went out to India on speculation, passing off as a single girl, and was very well married there, I was going to say; however, she committed a very splendid bigamy." 1 "Good heavens! how totally destitute of principle!" "Your father asserts that your mother was a freethinker, Japhet; her father had made her one; without religion a woman has no stay. Your father was in the up country during the time that your mother arrived, and was married to one of the council at Calcutta. Your father says that they met at a ball at Government House. She was still a very handsome woman, and much admired. When your father recognised her, and was told that she was lately married to the honourable Mr. he was quite electrified, and would have quitted the room; but she had perceived him, and walk. ing up to him with the greatest coolness, claimed him as an old acquaintance in England, and afterwards they often met, but she never adverted to what had passed between them, until the time for his departure to England on leave, and she then sent for him, and begged that he would make some enquiries after you, Japhet. He did so, and you know the result. On his return to India, he found that your mother had been carried off by the prevailing pestilence. At that period your father was not rich, but he was then appointed to the chief command in VOL. XXVII. DECEMBER, 1835.-77 the Carnatic, and reaped a golden harvest in return for his success and bravery. It appears, as far as I could obtain it from him, that as long as your mother was alive, he felt no interest about you, but her death, and the subsequent wealth which poured upon him, has now induced him to find out an heir, to whom it may be be queathed. "Such, Japhet, are the outlines of your father's his tory; and I must point out that he has no feelings of affection for you at present. The conduct of your mother is ever before him, and if it were not that he wishes an heir, I should almost say that his feelings are those of dislike. You may create an interest in his heart, it is true; and he may be gratified by your personal appearance; but you will have a very difficult task, as you will have to submit to his caprices and fancies; and I am afraid that, to a high spirit like yours, they will be almost unbearable." 'Really, sir, I begin to feel that the fondest anticipations are seldom realised, and almost to wish that I had not been sought for by my father. I was happy and contented, and now I do not see any chance of having to congratulate myself on the change." "On one or two points I also wish to question you. It appears that you have entered into the sect denoininated quakers. Tell me candidly, do you subscribe heartily and sincerely to their doctrines? And, I was going to add, is it your intention to remain with them? I perceive much difficulty in all this." "The tenets of the sect I certainly do believe to be more in accordance with the Christian religion than any other; and I have no hesitation in asserting, from my knowledge of those who belong to that sect, that they, generally speaking, lead better lives. There are some points connected with their worship, which, at first, I considered ridiculous: the feeling has, however, worn off. As to their quaint manner of speaking, that has been grossly exaggerated. Their dress is a part of their religion." 66 Why so, Japhet?" "I can reply to you in the words of Susannah Temple, when I made the same interrogatory. You think the peculiarity of our dress is an outward form which is not required. It was put on to separate us from others, and as a proof that we had discarded vanity. I am aware that it is not a proof of our sincerity; but still the dis carding of the dress is a proof of insincerity. We consider, that to admire the person is vain, and our creed is humility. It is therefore an outward and visible sign, that we would act up to those tenets which we profess. It is not all who wear the dress who are quakers in heart or conduct; but we know that when it is put aside, that the tenets of our persuasion are at the same time renounced; therefore do we consider it essential. I do not mean to say but that the heart may be as pure, and the faith continue as steadfast, without such signs outwardly, but it is a part of our creed, and we must not choose, but either reject all or none.' " "Very well argued by the little quakeress; and now, Japhet, I should like to put another question to you. Are you very much attached to this young puritan ?" "I will not deny but that I am. I love her sincerely." "Does your love carry you so far, that you would for her sake continue a quaker, and marry her?" "I have asked myself that question at least a hundred times during the last twenty-four hours, and I cannot decide. If she would dress as others do, and allow me to do the same, I would marry her to-morrow; whether I shall ever make up my mind to adhere to the persua sion, and live and die a quaker for her sake, is quite an other matter-but I am afraid not-I am too worldly. minded. The fact is, I am in a very awkward position with respect to her. I have never acknowledged my affection, or asked for a return; but she knows that I love her, and I know that she loves me." "Like all vain boys, you flatter yourself." "I leave you to judge, sir," replied I, repeating to him our parting tète-à-tête, and how I had returned, and found her in tears. "All that certainly is very corroborative evidence; but tell me, Japhet, do you think she loves you well enough to abandon all for your sake?" "No, nor never wiH, sir; she is too high-principled, too high-minded. She might suffer greatly, but she never would swerve from what she thought was right." "She must be a fine character, Japhet, but you will be in a dilemma: indeed, it appears to me, that your troubles are now commencing instead of ending, and that you would have been much happier where you were, than you will be by being again brought out into the world. Your prospect is not over cheerful. You have an awkward father to deal with; you will be under a strong check, I've a notion, and I am afraid you will find that, notwithstanding you will be once more received into society, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." "I am afraid you are right, sir," replied I; "but at all events, it will be something gained to be acknowledged to the world by a father of good family, whatever else I may have to submit to. I have been the sport of fortune all my life, and probably she has not yet done playing with me; but it is late, and I will now wish you good night." "Good night, Japhet; if I have any intelligence, I will let you know. Lady de Clare's address is No. 13 Park Street. You will, of course, go there as soon as you can." "I will, sir, after I have written my letters to my friends at Reading." I returned home to reflect upon what Mr. Masterton had told me, and, I must say, that I was not very well pleased with his various information. His account of my mother, although she was no more, distressed me; and from the character which he gave of my father, I felt convinced that my happiness would not be at all increased by my having finally attained the long-desired object of my wishes. Strange to say, I had no sooner discovered my father, but I wished that he had never turned up; and when I compared the peaceful and happy state of existence which I had lately passed, with the prospects of what I had in future to submit to, I bitterly repented that the advertisement had been seen by Timothy; still, on one point I was peculiarly anxious, without hardly daring to anatomise my feelings; it was relative to Cecilia de Clare, and what Mr. Masterton had mentioned in the course of our conversation. The next morning I wrote to Timothy and to Mr. Cophagus, giving them a short detail of what I had been informed of by Mr. Masterton, and expressing a wish, which I then really did feel, that I had never been summoned away from them. (To be continued.) FREAK OF NATURE-A gentleman has brought to our office a pear, taken from a tree of the jargonelle species, in the garden of Mr. Thomas Milton, of Pershore, which presents a very curious instance of the manner in which nature sometimes departs from her usual rules. When the pear was partly grown, a blossom sprung from the eye, and in due time another pear was formed; and from the eye of this last pear another blossom appeared, and produced fruit: so that the pear is literally now tria juncta in uno. It has been presented to the Natural History Society, and means will no doubt be taken to preserve it.-Worcester Journal. From the London New Monthly Magazine. Dear HORACE, be melted to tears; For I'm melting with heat as I rhyme;- I am cast on a barbarous shore, Where a barber alone is my friend. But no muse of the Helicon's spring. And the Frenchman, disguised in his wine. You may say, as the Mussulman goes, My hippogriff's course I must rein; My heart feels a patriot's grief; British beer.-Hail! Britannia, hail! Melan-cholic effects might ensue. T. CAMPBELL *A mantle worn by the natives. DR. HOGG'S VISIT TO DAMASCUS AND JERUSALEM. From the London Spectator. DR. HOGG'S VISIT TO DAMASCUS AND JERUSALEM. Within the memory of the present generation a journey to the Holy Land was in reality a pilgrimage, to be accomplished with nearly as much difficulty and privation as during the middle ages, so far as regarded Palestine itself. The "march of intellect" in Turkey and in Egypt, the reforms effected both by sultan and pasha, and the influence upon Mahomedan opinion which has been produced by the spread of European commerce, by the great events of the Napoleonic wars, and more lately by the successes of the Russian invasions, have considerably les. sened the risks of traveling. For some years past, Syria, Palestine, and Asia Minor, with the exception of Damas. cus, have been accessible to any tourist who could submit to the exertions and inconveniences of traveling in a semi-barbarous country; and many movement-loving persons, both English and foreign, have extended their grand tour from Rome to Jerusalem and the Seven Churches. This was all very well in itself, but, unluckily, they were determined to narrate their adventures to the world without discriminating between the different positions of themselves and their predecessors. A person who tells us something new is certain of attention; and, if his information be incomplete or superficial, his readers receive it with every allowance when it has been snatched up at the peril of his life and amidst the necessary hurry of a forced journey. But a man who travels rapidly over a beaten ground which is patent to the world at large can see but little which has not been seen already; and his observations not only want the freshness of novelty, but this want is unredeemed in the reader's mind by the peculiar hazard or difficulty of making them. ruler of Egypt: he then set sail for Syria, and landed at DISCIPLINE OF IBRAHIM'S ARMY. "One evening, at Jaffa, as I returned from a solitary walk on the shore, I remarked, on passing a barrack, an Egyptian soldier, who hastily withdrew from an upper window. In a few moments he reappeared, and with an air indicating rather contemptuous insult than mischievous intention, threw two large stones, which fell at my feet. This outrage I could only resent by a menacing gesture; but resolved to complain to the authorities of so gross a violation of the pasha's promised protection. The consul took up the affair warmly, assuring me that I should obtain justice; for he had himself with much satisfaction lately witnessed the punishment of three soldiers who had been detected trespassing in his garden outside the walls. Accompanied by the consular dragoman, I instantly sought the military commander, was received with attentive civility, coffee and pipes were brought in, and my complaint made with the usual formalities. A serjeant, promptly despatched to ascertain the offender, returned in a few minutes with a procession into the hall. countenance evidently disturbed by First appeared two athletic men, bearing large sticks, then a soldier, with These remarks have an immediate application to the work before us. Had Dr. Hogg visited a country of which we knew but little, his publication would have been a valuable addition to our books of travels, but the districts he passed through have been lately traversed by several tourists, and, amongst others, by the Rev. Vere Munro; who not only sojourned in the same places, but appears to have devoted a longer time to the examination of their curiosities than the doctor was enabled to bestow. Hence the value of his sketches on the road have been rather deteriorated by the lateness of their appearance; for though the route of each traveller and the circum. stances attending it were different, the generic features For this accidental drawback no blame were the same. whatever attaches to Dr. Hogg: his movements appear to have been in a measure regulated by a companion, and his own health required those valetudinarian conveni-apprehension. Two others followed, carrying a chain, ences which the more robust organisation of his reverend attached to a pole, and a few stragglers brought up the The process was summary; the dragoman, at my predecessor enabled him to laugh to scorn. These cir- rear. cumstances, however, are matter of regret; for our author request, explaining to me sentence by sentence what possesses a quick and keen perception of character, a passed. The culprit made his salaam; and in reply to terse and animated style, with an occasional felicity of the question why he threw the stones, simply stated that expression that would have enabled him to produce a having found them on the floor, he had hurled them from series of capital sketches of Asiatic life, had time and the window without observing that any one was passing below. No further question was asked; but the officer, opportunity been allowed him to study it. taking his pipe from his mouth, coolly pronounced, 'Give him fifty.' The soldier, without a word, laid himself on the floor, kicked off his shoes, and in a moment his feet were firmly fixed in a loop made in the chain by the two soldiers who held it. Sleeves were instantly tucked up and the stick raised; but ere it fell I sprung from the divan, and placing myself before the criminal, exclaimed La, la!' ('No, no!") waving my hand to arrest the blow. I then desired the dragoman to thank the commandant for his promptitude, to request that the punishment might be remitted, and to assure him that the only object of my appeal was answered; for the soldiers, aware that Frank travellers were protected by the Egyptian government, would now be convinced that they were entitled to re Dr. Hogg introduces himself to the reader as having reached that point of life when a man may be allowed to consider himself as neither old nor young. After some years of successful practice in England, he retired to Naples, to repair the inroads made by laborious exertion on a constitution never robust; and we are happy to learn it has afforded him an agreeable retreat. In April, 1832, an opportunity "presented itself of accompanying an intelligent friend to the East;" and the doctor gladly availed himself of it. Proceeding by sea to Alexandria, they touched at Sicily and Malta in their course, and remained long enough at each to enable our traveller to make some agreeable observations. At Alexandria he saw what there was to be seen; and amongst other curiosities the "Not master, Timothy; say rather of your friend." Well, of both if you please, Japhet; and very pretty adventures I have had, I assure you, and some very hairbreadth escapes." Tim; "but do not blame me until you have heard my | it. He was very kind to me, and offered to do any story. Thank God, I have found you at last. But tell thing for me; but I resolved to go in search of you. I me, Japhet, you will not send me away, will you? If had more money in my pocket when you went away your dress is changed, your heart is not. Pray answer than I generally have, and with the surplus of what you me, before I say any thing more. You know I can be left for the bills, I had twelve or fourteen pounds. So I useful here." wished Mr. Masterton good-b'ye, and have ever since "Indeed, Timothy, I have often wished for you since been on my adventures in search of my master." I have been here, and it will be your own fault if I part with you. You shall assist me in the shop; but you must dress like me." "Dress like you! have I not always dressed like you? When we started from Cophagus's, were we not dressed much alike? did we not wear spangled jackets together? did I not wear your livery, and belong to you? I'll put on any thing, Japhet-but we must not part again." My dear Timothy, I trust we shall not; but I expect my assistant here soon, and do not wish that he should see you in that garb. Go to a small public-house at the farther end of this street, and when you see me pass, come out to me, and we will walk out into the country, and consult together." 66 "I have put up at a small house not far off, and have some clothes there; I will alter my dress, and meet you. God bless you, Japhet." Timothy then picked up his ballads, which were scattered on the floor, put up his leg, and putting on his wooden stump, hastened away, after once more silently pressing my hand. "I think, when we compare notes, mine will be found the most eventful, Timothy; but we can talk of them, and compare notes another time. At present, whom do you think I am residing with ?" "A quaker, I presume." "You have guessed right so far; but who do you think that quaker is ?" "There I'm at fault." Mr. Cophagus." At this intelligence Timothy gave a leap in the air, turned round on his heel, and tumbled on the grass in a fit of immoderate laughter. "Cophagus!—a quaker!" cried he at last. "Oh! I long to see him. Snuffle, snuffle-broad brims-wide skirts-and so on. Capital!" "It is very true, Timothy, but you must not mock at the persuasion." "I did not intend it, Japhet, but there is something to In half an hour my assistant returned, and I desired me so ridiculous in the idea. But," continued Timothy, him to remain in the shop, as I was going out on busi-" is it not still stranger, that after having separated so ness. I then walked to the appointed rendezvous, and many years, we should all meet again—and that I should was soon joined by Tim, who had discarded his sailor's find Mr. Cophagus-an apothecary's shop-you dispens disguise, and was in what is called a shabby genteel sorting medicines-and I-as I hope to be-carrying them of dress. After the first renewed greeting, I requested Tim to let me know what had occurred to him since our separation. · "You cannot imagine, Japhet, what my feelings were when I found, by your note, that you had left me. I had perceived how unhappy you had been for a long while, and I was equally distressed, although I knew not the cause. I had no idea until I got your letter, that you had lost all your money; and I felt it more unkind of you to leave me then, than if you had been comfortable and independent. As for looking after you, that I knew would be useless; and I immediately went to Mr. Masterton, to take his advice as to how I should proceed. Mr. Masterton had received your letter, and appeared to be very much annoyed. Very foolish boy,' said he, but there is nothing that can be done now. He is mad, and that is all that can be said in his excuse. You must do as he tells you, I suppose, and try the best for yourself. I will help you in any way that I can, my poor fellow,' said he, 'so don't cry.' I went back to the house and collected together your papers, which I sealed up. I knew that the house was to be given up in a few days. I sold the furniture, and made the best I could of the remainder of your wardrobe, and other things of value that you had left; indeed, every thing, with the exception of the dressing-case and pistols, which belonged to Major Carbonnell, and I thought you might perhaps some day like to have them." "How very kind of you, Timothy, to think of me in that way. I shall indeed be glad; but no-what have I to do with pistols or silver dressing-cases now? I must not have them, but still I thank you all the same." "The furniture and every thing else fetched 4301., after all expenses were paid." "I am glad of it, Timothy, for your sake; but I am sorry, judging by your present plight, that it appears to have done you but little good." "Because I did not make use of it, Japhet. What could I do with all that money? I took it to Mr. Masterton, with all your papers, and the dressing-case and pistols:-he has it now ready for you when you ask for about as I did before. Well, I shall row in the same boat, and I will be a quaker as well as you both." 66 Well, we will now return, and I will take you to Mr. Cophagus, who will, I am sure, be glad to see you." First, Japhet, let me have some quaker's clothes : I should prefer it." 66 "You shall have a suit of mine, Timothy, since you wish it; but recollect it is not at all necessary, nor indeed will it be permitted that you enter into the sect without preparatory examination as to your fitness for admission." -I then went to the shop, and sending out the assistant, walked home and took out a coarse suit of clothes, with which I hastened to Timothy. He put them on in the shop, and then walking behind the counter, said, "This is my place, and here I shall remain as long as you do." "I hope so, Timothy; as for the one who is with me at present, I can easily procure him other employment, and he will not be sorry to go, for he is a married man, and does not like the confinement." "I have some money," said Timothy, taking out of his old clothes a dirty rag, and producing nearly twenty pounds. "I am well off, you see." "You are, indeed," replied I. "Yes, there is nothing like being a sailor with one leg, singing ballads. Do you know, Japhet, that sometimes I have taken more than a pound a day since 1 have shammed the sailor?" Not very honestly, Tim." Perhaps not, Japhet; but it is very strange, and yet very true, that when honest I could make nothing, ar when I deceived, I have done very well." I could not help calling to mind that the same had occurred to me during my eventful career; but I had long considered that there was no excuse for dishonesty, L that, in the end, it would only lead to exposure and de grace. I went home early in the evening to introduce Timothy to Mr. Cophagus, who received him with great kindness, and agreed immediately that he ought to with me in the shop. Timothy paid his respects to |