oGi FACTS AND INFERENCES, GEAVE AND GAY. 



might have almost consented to go with undarned stockings 

 for a month, sooner than that the insidious substance 

 should be wound around their very hearts. Besides, if 

 Bobbin & Co. have made too good a bargain, the greater 

 is the pity that such fringing woods should be despoiled 

 even to the laying bare of old majestic mountains, while 

 the proprietor, whatever may be made of cotton, is himself 

 worsted. — The Voyage. 



Our next extracts from " The Voyage " let us a little 

 deeper into the heart of the writer. In them we have 

 g'i npses of his love of home, his faithfulness to old friend- 

 ships, his piety, his admiration of all goo* 1 less. 



ORCADIAN LINNETS. 



Close to either side of the southern end of the bridge 

 which leads across to the northern promontory stands a 

 great sentinel stone, as if the remains of a gateway or 

 barrier. On the top of one of these a beautiful pair of 

 linnets sat twittering and preening, secure as they thought 

 upon almost the loftiest elevation which the neighbourhood 

 afforded, and of course we did nothing to scare them from 

 their stony height. They seemed quite tame, and very 

 cheerful, as linnets arc wont to be. We could see their 

 little sparkling eyes and sharpened beaks, and we thought 



