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suddenly roused my attention, and looking up, I per- 

 ceived all my papers flying to the four winds of 

 heaven. Vain was any effort to recall them they 

 literally filled the street from end to end, and for half 

 an hour amused the visitants of Aberystwith in chasing 

 them about the town. It so happened that they were, 

 for the most part, printed post folio sheets of speeches 

 at a railway meeting at Manchester, which had fallen 

 into my hands, and consequently excited greater 

 attention as they fled about ; while a gentleman in 

 pursuit of some of them, which he was knocking down 

 with his stick, was heard to say that he supposed 

 some member of the Society for the Diffusion of Use- 

 ful Knowledge had visited Aberystwith, though he 

 thought he had hit upon a somewhat novel mode of 

 lilling the town. For my own part, when I thus saw 

 my bills flying in all directions over the houses, and 

 heard the shouts and laughter raised in the chase 

 after them, I at once gave them up for lost, and at- 

 tempted no rescue away they dashed as if suddenly 

 gifted with life some went out to sea, others started 

 in the direction of Plinlimmon and Cadair Idris, and 

 for ought I know some may be circling in the air even 

 now ; I had thus the pleasure of unintentionally 

 adding to the circulating medium and had no re- 

 turned lills ! 



A calm has succeeded to the angry furtive gale, 

 the surgy billows faintly break upon the beach, and 

 looking out upon the wide extent of the bay of Car- 

 digan from the summit of Constitution Hill, the dis- 

 tant verge of ocean is irradiant with reflected glory. 

 Long pencils of purple cloud rest like islet banks upon 

 old ocean, and above them a broad band of ruby light 



