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the girl was observed lingering about Mr. Heanley's premises, and 

 some suspicions as to the nature of her connection with Curtis, were 

 awakened. At length a female servant of Mr. Heanley found her, 

 one day, under Curtis's bed ; the strange girl, however, hid herself, 

 and could not be found, on other residents of the house being fetched 

 up-stairs. No further discovery was made until Friday, the 1 1th, when 

 a rumbling noise being heard in Curtis's bedchamber, Mr. Heanley 

 ran up stairs, but could see nothing, nor obtain any answer to his 

 calls. The same noise being renewed ere Mr. Heanley reached 

 the bottom of the stairs, he again ascended, and, seeing a chest move, 

 he laid his hand on it, and knocked, and was answered by a low 

 moan. Curtis was, just at that moment, returned from Lincoln, 

 whither his master had despatched him in the morning, on business. 

 Mr. Heanley called him up stairs, and he immediately unlocked the 

 chest, where lay the foolish, but pitiable, girl, half-dead with suffo- 

 cation ! Curtis immediately made confession that he had locked 

 the girl up at her own request in the morning, on receiving his mas- 

 ter's orders for Lincoln. She had been twelve hours crowded into a 

 space only three feet long, and one foot and a half wide how very 

 odd! 



A SENSIBLE GULL. The family of H. Peter, esq., of Harlyn, on 

 the north coast of Cornwall, one morning, at breakfast time, threw a 

 piece of bread out of the window, to a stray sea-gull, which hap- 

 pened to have made its appearance at the moment. The bird ate 

 the bread and flew away. The next day, at the same hour, he ap- 

 peared again, was again fed, and departed. From this time, for a 

 period of eighteen years, the gull never failed to show himself at the 

 window every morning at the same hour, and stalk up and down till 

 he had received his meal (a bason of bread and milk), when he in- 

 stantly took his leave till the next morning. The only time he omit- 

 ted to do this was during the period of the pilchards being on the 

 coast, which lasted about six weeks in each year, and at this time he 

 omitted his morning visit. At length he brought one of his own 

 species with him to partake of his meal, and they continued to come 

 together, daily, for about a fortnight, when they suddenly disap- 

 peared, and were never seen afterwards. 



ORIGIN OF LYNCH'S LAW. As " Lynch's Law'' has recently 

 become almost as general as it is proverbial, and as the question is 

 asked a hundred times a day, *' what is Lynch's Law ?" it may be 

 well to relate the following anecdote, which may serve as an 

 answer : In Washington county (Pennsylvania), many years ago, 

 there lived a poaching vagabond, who, it was believed, maintained 

 himself and family, by pilfering from the farmers around him* 

 Though universally suspected, he managed so adroitly as always to 

 avoid detection. At length, a Mr. Van Swearington laid the follow- 

 ing trap for him, in which he was caught. Having a newly-born 

 calf, he concealed it from his neighbours for several days ; then 

 rode over to the poacher's, and told him that a young calf had 



