together, told me they had come from Ireland, and were on their route to join the regiment in Flanders. But, alas!" said the corporal, "the lieutenant's last day's march is over!" "Then what is to become of his poor boy?" cried my uncle Toby.

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"'Thou hast left this matter short," said my uncle Toby to the corporal, as he was putting him to bed, "and I will tell thee in what, Trim. In the first place, when thou madest an offer of my services to Le Fevre, as sickness and travelling are both expensive, and thou knewest he was but a poor lieutenant, with a son to subsist, as well as himself, out of his pay,that thou didst not make an offer to him of my purse; because, had he stood in need, thou knowest, Trim, he had been as welcome to it as myself." "Your honor knows," said the corporal, "I had no orders." True," quoth my uncle Toby; "thou didst very right, Trim, as a soldier, but certainly very wrong as a man.

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"In the second place, for which, indeed, thou hast the same excuse," continued my uncle Toby, "when thou offeredst him whatever was in my house, thou shouldst have offered him my house too. A sick brother-officer should have the best quarters, Trim; and if we had him with us, we could tend and look to him. Thou art an excellent nurse thyself, Trim; and what with thy care of him, and the old woman's, and his boy's, and mine together, we might recruit him again at once, and set him upon his legs.

"In a fortnight or three weeks," added my uncle Toby, smiling, "he might march." "He will never march, an't please your honor, in this world," said the corporal. "He will march," said my uncle Toby, rising up from the side of the bed with one shoe off. "An't please your honor," said the corporal," he will never march, but to his grave." "He shall march," cried my uncle Toby, marching the foot which had a shoe on, though without advancing an inch, "he shall march to his regiment." "He cannot stand it," said the corporal. "He shall be supported," said my uncle Toby. "He'll drop at last," said the corporal," and what will

become of his boy?" "He shall not drop," said my uncle Toby firmly. A-well-a-day, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point, "the poor soul will die." shall not die," cried my uncle Toby.

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My uncle Toby went to his bureau, put his purse into his pocket, and, having ordered the corporal to go early in the morning for a physician, he went to bed and fell asleep.

The sun looked bright, the morning after, to every eye in the village but Le Fevre's and his afflicted son's; the hand of death pressed heavy upon his eyelids. My uncle Toby, who had got up an hour before his wonted time, went directly to the inn, to see how the case stood. He immediately entered the lieutenant's room, and, without preface or apology, sat himself down upon the chair by the bedside, and, independently of all modes and customs, opened the curtain, in the manner an old friend and brother-officer would have done it, and asked him how he did, - how he had rested in the night, what was his complaint, was his pain, and what he could do to serve him; — and, without giving him time to answer any one of the inquiries, went on and told him of the little plan which he had been concerting with the corporal, the night before, for him.

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You shall go home directly, Le Fevre," said my uncle Toby, "to my house, and we'll send for a doctor to see what's the matter, - and we'll have an apothecary, and the corporal shall be your nurse, - and I'll be your servant, Le

Fevre!"

There was a frankness in my uncle Toby, not the effect of familiarity, but the cause of it, which let you at once into his soul, and showed you the goodness of his nature. To this there was something in his looks, and voice, and manner, superadded, which eternally beckoned to the unfortunate to come and take shelter under him; so that, before my uncle Toby had half finished the kind offers he was making to the father, the son had insensibly pressed up close to his knees, and had taken hold of the breast of his coat, and was pulling it towards him.

The blood and spirits of Le Fevre, which were waxing cold and slow within him, and were retreating to their last citadel, the heart, rallied back the film forsook his eyes

for a moment he looked up wishfully in my uncle Toby's face- then cast a look upon his boy. And that ligament, fine as it was, was never broken.

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Nature instantly ebbed again—the film returned to its place the pulse fluttered-stopped - went on throbbed -stopped again-moved - stopped. Shall I go on? No!

STERNE

114. Lochinvar.

O, YOUNG Lochinvar is come out of the west!
Through all the wide border his steed was the best;
And, save his good broadsword, he weapon had none,
He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone!
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar !

He staid not for brake, and he stopped not for stone;
He swam the Esk River where ford there was none;
But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate,

The bride had consented, the gallant came late ;
For a laggard in love and a dastard in war
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar !

So boldly he entered the Netherby Hall,
Among bridemen, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all,
Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword,
For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word, –
“O, come ye in peace here, or come ye in war?
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

"I long wooed your daughter; my suit you denied:
Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide!
And now am I come, with this lost love of mine,
To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine!
There be maidens in Scotland more lovely by far,
That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar "

The bride kissed the goblet; the knight took it up,
He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup!
She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh,
With a smile on her lip, and a tear in her eye.
He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,
"Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar

So stately his form, and so lovely her face,
That never a hall such a galliard did grace.

While her mother did fret, and her father did fume,
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume,
And the bridemaidens whispered, ""Twere better by far
To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar !"

One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear,

When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung,

So light to the saddle before her he sprung!

"She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow!" quoth young Lochinvar

There was mounting 'mong Græmes of the Netherby clan;
Fosters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran;
There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lea,
But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see!
So daring in love, and so dauntless in war,

Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar ?

SCOTT

115.

Ruins of the Settlement at Jamestown.

I HAVE taken a pleasant ride of sixty miles down the river, in order to see the remains of the first English settlement in Virginia.

The site is a very handsome one. The river is three miles broad; and on the opposite shore, the country presents a fine range of bold and beautiful hills. But I find no vestiges of the ancient town, except the ruins of a church steeple, and a disordered group of old tombstones. On one of these, shaded by the boughs of a tree, whose trunk has embraced and grown over the edge of the stone, and seated on the headstone of another grave, I now address you.

The ruin of the steeple is about thirty feet high, and mantled to its very summit with ivy. It is difficult to look at this venerable object, surrounded as it is with these awful proofs of the mortality of man, without exclaiming, in the pathetic solemnity of our Shakspeare,

"The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temple, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind."

'Whence arises the irrepressible reverence and tender affec tion with which I look at this broken steeple? Is it that my soul, by a secret, subtile process, invests the mouldering ruin with her own powers-imagines it a fellow-being-a venerable, old man, a Nestor, or an Ossian, who has witnessed and survived the ravages of successive generations, the companions of his youth and of his maturity, and now mourns his own solitary and desolate condition, and hails their spirits in every passing cloud? Whatever may be the cause, as I look at it, I feel my soul drawn forward, as by the cords of gentlest sympathy, and involuntarily open my lips to offer consolation to the drooping pile.