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never doubting but that Philip would willingly join in its suppression,--and he remained at Vienna, to pillage as much as he dared the wealth of the new heir, so as to secure a certain fund whereon he might retire, in case his last stratagem should fail. He resolved, to increase Philip's difficulties, to allow the marriage to take place before he revealed the extent of his power over the property; and tor that purpose remained till the last minute at Vienna, purposing to arrive at Prague, seemingly by accident, the day after the ceremony. All this while preserving, in his letters to his new master, a happy mixture of profound respect and attention to his interests, by which he hoped to efface from his mind the remembrance of their interview in the forest ;--and so well did he wear the mask, that Philip could not but be satis tied by the zeal and alacrity with which he devoted himself to his service. Had he not been weakened by illness aad grief, it is likely that the task of deceiving him would not have been so easy.

notary who had drawn the will. And now, for the comfort of those who hate a long story, I will finish mine in three paragraphs.

First-The widow Limburg, as she could not marry the gold. rejected the gallant, who made good Richilda's remark, by seeming to care marvellously little for the loss of either.

In the second place-and how it was brought about let every fair lady settle as best pleases her-before an hour was over, Count Philip was at the Lady Jane's feet.

But the Almighty has his own ways of working upon the vilest; and the wretch felt uneasy and restless when left alone at night, at the thoughts of his sin. It chanced too, that an accident which happened to the public conveyance, compelled the passengers from Prague to Vienna, to proceed on foot through the chestnut wood; and that it was night-fall when they entered it, deepening the dreariness of the place as they walked along, by the details of many acts of atrocity, formerly committed there. Schreivogel trembled like an aspen leaf, and gave back when the sound of a horse's feet approaching, broke the conversation. It was ridden by a man of stern and cruel face, clad in a scarlet mantle. The features of the rider, dimly seen through the gather ing twilight, were unknown to all, save the murderer. It was possibly only the phantasm conjured up by a guilty conscience, from the coincidence of dress and situation. But on him it acted with all the hideous reality of an apparition from the grave, and seemed to glare upon him as it passed. And the steward, whose superstition only equalled his guilt, finding the weight upon his conscience an intolerable burden, resolved, at the end of his journey, to make a full confession of his crime, and to endeavour, with his ill-amassed wealth, to buy from the church, peace for his soul. He had scarcely finished his story, when the messenger returned with the

In the third-For the credit of the Catholic Church, let me recount one good deed: the heads of the monasteries in Prague and Vienna, on its being represented to them that much of the property of the deceased, did in equity really belong to Count Philip, bestowed a handsome dowry upon the aforesaid Lady Jane on her wedding day.

MY DOG QUAIL.

THE following from the Juvenile Forget Me Not will interest many of our youthful readers :

"Great pains had been bestowed on Quail's education; she was instructed by me and my brothers in every thing we supposed her capable of learning. These she acquired with extraordinary readiness, and very little severity. But the accomplishments thus taught her, numerous as they were, bore no proportion to those which natural intelligence conferred upon her without instruction. When young, the first preparatory step was to make her perfect in fetching and carrying whatever she was sent for, both in and out of the water, till both elements were alike to her and this seemed the foundation of every thing else. She soon learned to distinguish what belonged to every person, and to every part of the person. lost a glove, I shewed my hand to Quail, and she set out on a quest, searched every place in and near the house, and almost always succeeded in finding it. This she soon improved into finding, of herself, whatever was dropped, and conveying it to us. Many a pocket-handkerchief was saved in this way, which we never thought of sending Quail in search of. If I met, out of doors, a companion who asked me to walk, and I did not wish to lose time by returning for my hat, I had only to touch my head to Quail, and go on. Our hats lay on the hall table, and Quail never failed to return to the

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house, select mine from the rest, and holding it carefully out of the dir, as she had been taught, bring it to me to a considerable distance. When sent back on such occasions, she sometimes found the door shut, and could not get in: having tried in vain to obtain entrance by scratching, she then adopted another method. There was no rapper to the back door, and the persons knocking generally thumped with their fist; this Quail of her own sagacity learned to imitate with her tail; she turned her side, wagged it against the door, and produced a sound which never failed to bring the people to open it, as if for some human being. Her capability of finding lost things was very useful to us. On one occasion I remember I went out to shoot rails, and having fired at a bird, I prepared to charge again, but could not find my powder-horn. This loss Quail soon comprehended, and instantly set back in search of it. My way had been through several meadows and fields, and across roads and ditches, since I had last used it: through all these she retraced my footsteps, frequently questing through the intricate crossings I had made several times over the same fields, and so unravelling the whole distance I had gone for several miles, at length found the powder-horn, and returned to me with it, after an absence of nearly an hour. The faculty of recognising and carrying away things. that had been touched by us was used for a bad purpose, and severely compromised her character. There was an old woman who sold apples and oranges at the corner of the next street. We had a servant boy who often set his eyes on them. One day he took up an orange, and asked the price of it; but thinking it too dear, the old woman snatched it out of his hand, and bid him go home. This was observed by Quail; and when he returned, she immediately ran back, snapped up the orange, and brought it to him in triumph. When this quality was discovered, it was soon put into requisition, and all the fruit-women in the town were laid under contribution. The appearance of Quail in the market put every one on the alert; and many a severe blow she received in doing as she was bid. She at last, however, became so sagacious, that she stole quietly behind the stall, watching her opportunity, and carried off the fruit without being perceived. When we found it out, we severely prohibited the practice. Her

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talent in carrying things in this way was sometimes useful to the servants. We had a very old woman who was fond of snuff, but not able to go for it herself. The boy was not always willing, and be taught Quail to be his substitute. When her box was empty, he put a halfpenny into it, and gave it to Quail, who forthwith carried it in her mouth to the snuff-shop; and then, rising up to the counter with her forelegs, she shook her head and rattled the halfpenny in the box. This was soon understood by the shopman, who took the money and filled the box, which Quail brought safely back to our old woman. Within doors her utility and sagacity were equally in requisition. We sat, in the winter time, in a large parlour, reading round the fire, with Quail between the legs of one of us, her head resting on our knees, and waiting for orders, either to ring the bell or shut the door, as occasion might require. On this latter duty she was often sent, as it was usually left open by whoever came in, and the room was sometimes very cold. Her method was to lift up her right paw (for she had actually a human preference for the use of the right hand), and push the door forward till the lock clicked. one occasion she could not move the door; and after sundry efforts she returned, whining in that peculiar way by which she expressed embarrassment. It appeared that the room was smoking, and the servant had opened the door to let the smoke out, and placed a smoothing iron against it to keep it so. Quail pondered for some time on the case, with her head on one side, when, as if the cause suddenly struck her, she ran at the smoothing-iron, and having dragged it away, she pushed with both her feet against the door, shut it, and returned to us rejoicing, with the same feelings, no doubt, as the philosopher when he discovered the mathematical problem. We have often placed similar obstructions there, but Quail was never again embarrassed to find out the cause; she always, however, barked at it, and shook it after she had removed it as if to express her displeasure for the trouble it gave her. When she found any thing that was mislaid, she was rewarded, and she was not long in applying this to profit. If a knife or spoon was dropped at dinner, she always took it up and presented it to the person next to it. When this did not happen, and she waited in vain, she proceeded to the sideboard where

knives were laid, with the handles sometimes projecting over the edge. Here she waited her opportunity, and when no one was observing, slily drew a knife forward, then let it fall with a noise, took it up, and proceeded to the next person and claimed her reward. It would be endless to mention all the instances in which she improved, by her natural sagacity, every thing she had been mechanically taught; and there were always such traces of reasoning on cause and effect, that it was almost impossible to suppose she was not gifted, to a certain extent, with the human faculty of arguing cases in her own mind and drawing conclusions. Her power of distinguishing persons was also very great, and decided by means very different from the mere instinct of smell. A circumstance of this kind occurred, which highly gratified an eminent and very sensible artist. Of all the inmates of our family, Quail was most attached to my mother, who returned her good-will, and was very kind to her. She had sat for her picture, and afterwards gone on a visit to a friend for a short time: and Quail seemed very uneasy at her absence. The picture, which was a strong like ness, was sent home; and before it was hung up, it stood on the sofa where my mother used to sit. I could not account one day for the boisterous joy of Quail in the dining-room; but on looking in, I saw that she had recognised the picture, and was wagging her tail and frisking about, as she always did to express her joy, frequently looking up and licking the face-a mark of affection she tried to pay to those she was fond of. When the picture was hung up, she never failed to notice it when she entered the room, and lay for sometime before it on the carpet, gazing at it intently; and this practice she continued till my mother's return, and the original quite absorbed her attention from the representation. The ingenious artist who drew it frequently declared, that he considered this recognition the highest compliment that could be paid him, and he preferred it to the most elaborate eulogy of a connoisseur."

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HABITS OF ANIMALS.-It has been asserted, from of old, that the river Falcon (Falco haliætus, Linn.) seizes at times upon fish of so large a size, that he is unable to carry it away with him, and is dragged under water by his prey, and drowned. Nor is it an uncommon thing to find the skeleton of this bird adhering to fish, which inhabit those pieces of water, to which he resorts. But, says the celebrated German naturalist, Brehm, I could never succeed in obtaining a proof of the fact, until the autumn of 1828. On the 7th of October, in that year, a countryman, who was walking near a pond. observed a large bird sitting on the edge of it: he approached the bird, and to his great astonishment, found her perched upon a fish of very large size, from which she could not extricate herself. He crept as gently as he could close up to her, and threw his stick at her with so much force. as to break one of her wings. He then killed her, but found it an extremely difficult task to disengage her claws from the gills of the captive fish. The falcon was a female, of the Pendion alticeps species, and I have given her a place in my collection, in common with a record of the extraordinary circumstances of her death. The same naturalist, when speaking of the wasp buzzard (Pernis. Cuvier,) which draws out the sting of the insect before he swallows it, communicates an interesting extract from a letter, which he had received from a noble friend. "I was informed," says Baron de Seyffertitz, "that a large bird had been for some time sitting in my garden, hard at work. The next morning he returned to the spot as soon as it was light, and taking up my gun, 1 crept, under covert of a currant bush, to within twenty paces of him. I now perceived that he was at work on a wasp's nest, which lay under-ground, and labouring at it might and main. With a view to prevent too many wasps from coming out at a time, he closed the opening into the nest with one of his

wings, sprung after the wasps, which were getting away with great nimbleness, beat them to the ground with his other wing, and then dispatched them. He pursued this game until he had reached the nest itself; this he gradually pulled to pieces, devouring the poor insects as they turned up. My patience was by this time exhausted, and I shot him dead." This, adds Brehm, is an incontrovertible proof, that the wasp buzzard, as well as the fox, dig up wasp's nests from below the surface, and are each, in their way, very useful animals.

Table Talk.

Athenæum.

BISHOP BURNET.-In conversation, he is described as having been often unintentionally disagreeable, through a singular want of consideration. One day, during Marlborough's disgrace, and voluntary exile, Burnet, while dining with the Duchess, who was a reputed termagant, compared the Duke to Belisarius. "How do you account," inquired her Grace," for so great a man as that celebrated Roman having been so miserable and detested?" "Oh! madam," replied the bishop, "he had, as you know, such a sad brimstone of a wife!"

DYING FORTITUDE. Amongst the number of misguided men who engaged in the Irish rebellion, was a Mr. Jack son, a clergyman. He was tried and found guilty, but contrived to escape the penalties of the law by swallowing a large dose of arsenic. The intrepidity with which he bore the excruciating pains of that poison was remarkable. A motion in arrest of judgment was made: he concealed the pangs he was suffering so well, that when called upon to know what he had to say, why sentence should not be passed upon him, though at the time actually unable to speak, with a smiling air he bowed and pointed to his counsel. His fortitude did not fail him to the last, for it was scarcely suspected that he was ill, until he fell down in the midst of his counsel's argument. The following anecdote is related of him in a work written by Dr. M'Niven: "While preparing for his trial, and fully apprised of what would be its result, a friend was, by the kindness of the gaoler, permitted to remain with him until a very late hour at night. On the departure of bis friend, Mr. Jackson accompanied him to the outer door of

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the prison, which was locked, the key remaining in the door, and the keeper in a profound sleep, probably oppressed with liquor. There could have been no difficulty in his escaping, even subsequent to the departure of his friend, and without his consent; but he adopted a different conduct-he locked the door after his guest, awoke the keeper, gave him the key, and retired to his apartment."-This is recorded by Dr. M Niven to prove that Jackson had a high sense of honour. The honour which remains to be hanged, when by opening a door escape is certain, appears romantic and unnatural; nor is it likely such a feeling would operate, in such a situation, on any human being." He was probably bewildered and confused by the unexpectedness of the occurrence; and, stupified and infatuated, had not presence of mind to seize the critical moment of escaping from death, though afterwards he had fortitude to meet it undaunted.

Loss OF A NOSE.-A man who has lost his nose has peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages: he cannot follow his nose-but then he cannot be said to be pocking his nose into every thing. He cannot blow his nose-but then he saves pocket handkerchiefs. He cannot be stuffed up in his nosebut then he cannot take snuff, which is, however, another saving. If he goes to sleep, you cannot tickle his nose; and when he is a wake, he cannot run his nose against a post. Let him drink what he will, he will never have a red nose, and never be exposed to the nickname of Nosey; and let him be as impertinent as he will, he may defy you to pull his nose. Sir," said a man to another with a false proboscis, "I'll pull your nose."-" Sir," retorted the other, I defy you-I shall put my nose in my pocket."

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NEW WAY OF NAMING A STREET WITHOUT LETTERS. --On a person seeing a blank painted in white at the corner of a street, on which its name was intended to be written, inquiring of a bystander if he knew what street it was. 'Oh, yes!" said he, "it is White Street, to be sure 'Then, I am right," the other replied, "for I have got a carte blanche' for a young lady, and the street I want must be nameless."

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A COCKNEY EPIGRAM.
When in hot water I immerse my feet,
This to my taste a pie-house treat reveals:
Because an aspiration I repeat-
And with a dainty flavour h-eat my h-eels.
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Ellustrated Article.

THE HARE-HOUND AND THE WITCH.*

On the western coast of Ireland is a certain dangerous bay: into it the broad Atlantic rolls its vast waters. Two leagues inland from its mouth high black cliffs frown over it, at both sides, of which the bases are hollowed into caverns; and when the winds blow angrily and any wind can effectually visit the open and exposed estuary tremendous and terrific is the roar, the dash, and the foam, which deafen the ears, and distract the eyes of a spectator. That hapless vessel, which, in a storm, cannot avoid an entrance into this merciless turmoil of mad waters, has sealed its doom.

Formerly, a great number of ships, from different countries, used to be dashed to splinters against the iron bound coast; and a few people conjecture, that the diminution of such terrible accidents, in the present day, is partially

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*Tait's Magazine.

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owing to some improvement in seamanship, or else to the timely warning now given to distant mariners, by lights erected at the mouth of the bay. But other persons, and by far the greater number in the neighbourhood, think that the comparative paucity of wrecks may more naturally and satisfactorily be accounted for in another way. In fact, there does not now reside, as formerly there did, in an almost unapproachable cavern, high up on the face of one of the black cliffs, a real witch, of the right sort."

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Not that her witchship always dwelt in her cave; no. her visits to it were but occasional. Nor did it ever become necessary for her to proclaim her presence on the coast, by exhibiting her person; the results of her close neighbourhood sufficiently " prated of her whereabouts." Farmers' wives toiled in vain at their churns; and when no butter would come, self-evident it was that the witch was at that moment in her cavern, seated on her heels before a vessel of plain water, from which, by drawing a dead man's hand through it, she appropriated the produce of other

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