76 ORNITHOLOGICAL RAMBLES. 



' I have it !' Fairbanks, hearing the signal, dragged 

 forward the wretched, dripping Spiggleman, and the 

 inhabitants knocked the head out of a rum keg, and 

 made a rejoicing. 



"As Spiggleman was dragged forward, amid the 

 hootings of the people, he was only saved from imme- 

 diate and final lynch-law by a tragic event. His wife,' 

 a very handsome young woman, rushed forward, 

 exclaiming : ' You coward ! why did you not die 

 without confessing ?' She then sprang upon the wall 

 of the cemetery or gravej'ard, and, dashing over the 

 steep banks into the river, was over the falls and 

 drowned, before anyone could prevent her showing 

 that she at least had the determination to die rather 

 than live under the shame of defeated rascality. 



" Spraggs and Fairbanks having got- 'possession of 

 the cash, determined on a spec, to cover expenses 

 before delivering it to Government. They attended a 

 ready-money sale of war-stores, and purchased the 

 whole, immediately retailing by another, and thus made 

 a profit which laid the foundation, with Spraggs at 

 least, of the largest fortune in the now large and 

 populous city of Watertown " 



The word " scarth " is Norse for strath or glen, of 

 which this is a fair and bold example ; and the house 

 commands from the east side a most charming view of 

 Grumbuster Holm and the island of Damsa. 



A few miles to the south-east is the town of 



