FEBY 27.] 
ES 
THE NSS Peat BENON IE 
~ Inverar ene. distressing -accident occurred here last 
week. - Anderson, a highly-esteemed Sergi in 
still lowin: 
when he saw my on the thi pretty 5 ply tanga in | 
oe re of the ie and caught by her head a 
e 
0 
e anrannt my ais extricated h 
to give hi s peopl opl e “meat-dinner, poor Toby fell a 
sacrifice to proud por ll "—Indagator. 
The Goose, the H. and the Duckling: es.—At 
he was wi It appeared that a strong gust The er, “the lowing of th . Newb TL there was a goose, a ic 
of wind had b ‘oa tae on the sane, and his cloak had got | others -  Tcould not learn that my “aaa sh a one Cea apt solitary, without mate toring, 
round him so jeldige © prevent his making any attempt | ever after attempted the humours of the ing.’ nder or ronlieas Now it happened, as is comm 
t —_ Indagato hat the miller’s wife had set a number ba eek 's sexes 
Leith.—A narrow escape from drowning took plac Sieimn ing.The natives of the Frien diy Islands swim | undera hen, which in due , 
hereon Saturday afternoon Six Snell Posh, ov students constantly upon the ar part of the ref with the neck the pemree Ss, as they come forth, ran wit! % gatradirg roa 
in Edinburgh, w , bei g entirely out of the water, and m ate short strokes | stinct t 2 ie and the | hen was put thereby into a sad 
unaccustom = yo ne all it t bly | with the left hand, which is in “front while great fright s $ her maternity on the one hand u urging her to fol- 
below the Tower. When trying to make the “arated speed is given by the right sen ied to tl w the brood, and her fear of her own safety, on the other, 
against a strong wind and tide, the boat fake against the | thi igh, o me same side, at eee stroke. The body pon her to keep on fit land. In the midst of her 
buoy. yo! and dan mage ed her r bation so much that Id i t the | ’ peat increases the anxiety, her fears, and alarms, up sailed the , and 
not one of them thrust | hi t idit h it with a zou a mich Ava in meant, 
= the others, b ‘The ‘Leeeh and Lord ovens ine.—The late Lord Erskine | ** leave am up sia n the 
dish, thrown out the cate part of the water, by bi had an raordina ary penchant to have anoue him Several | st gS; tap a good-natured friend 
means fe to whom he had b will sometimes promenade with 1 a country cousin, and 
pletely exhausted. 
-THEATRICALS, 
Cov —On Thursday a new e was A es 
taden ca nite 7. The Ca ‘aptain of the Guard. Thoth edie 
plays no great onperiaeny § be a 3 ‘neideuts are 
bars. was success sfu ul. 
and concerning whom all his acq uaintance cane fe num- 
used 
acting as _chaperon, or kind € icerone, will pris > her | ander 
her 
the beaux, so did the 
tired with their Ris ity aubiiinios, me consi, ned them 
in to the care of the pny The next m 
e, and 
came saue the ducklings 
g for Ben 
Te the resent occasion, we are not 
The scene is laid in a st 
ventures of = — oh wa 8 Agrereshia by Mr. C. 
Mathews. was announced for repetition: amidst 
ina applause. 
th: 
out on Yael a = title of 
Itis fo ‘ounded on an incide nt in the 
French; i brought 
The King’s Barber. 
0 kill him, under piytence of his 
bein ite, gaese hich follow d him when 
ever he ed abou : 
and Other ties favourites oahent number. But above 
all, he had tw d d been blooded by fen nal tro 
atall sure rar the e goose. invite eos hen she be her ma- 
uble, but this 
he shore. has sat the 
they had | wry his ie, as he spporel and he _ brought 
them 
and the 
¢ 
ducklings, (swimming hefore her in “the. da 
and the hen 
goose 
glass gave th ery day f esh ry and formed an 
t 
ea Fy = FI 
the pond. ye this was ‘not a olay event, rf day after 
reign of Alphonso. 
well got up and well fet it was ov much eee 
and was received by a cro bask Bie with an equal mix- 
ture of disappro robation and a 
altauae 
Colonel Aiccamder IM'Leod.— eod.—It may interest some of 
He had 
ne, after: the 
as 
both ate eg and were even Pomme 
given them different names, cid me and Cline 
two ea or of the m 
e Late 
and the ducklings sailing close by their es in perfeet 
cote, and all Pit the excursion in perfect 
umour toget n le came far wa near 
ropolis. 
of the eches, td Enkine cs were like those 
of the apttlene quite different. After a good desk c of oo 
See? on 
to wi eontinned to amuse the 
visitors, until the ducklings coming to years of discretion, 
versation one day 
self and brought them out of his library, and pa them | 
ship of ‘the prosy-mother, the hen, to warn them from 
on a ge ving Seem 
neern the sae th Can ve of 
the pa <n of ge oe . the county es Folie having 
been born in the ** w Law’’ ther S$ ago. 
i 0. Upper Canada, 
setting in the. district of Lt Province mich formed me 
k place the @ three yea 
ago. It 5 years since Co 
join his brther who had gone out som 
and 
e pri avidthy, 
was located a: 
as a schoolma ster in ybeendl os Island, 
tion, was actively engage que! 
Fro om bis: offici al station, sal moving been for some years 
, where he attained the rank of ser. 
to head the R oy aliats, 5. at a time 
as accord 
geant, he was selected to 
My ee the rok for two gpl and ea deliver one bat 
| tothe renter, and take the ainder 
ingly appointed colonel of volunteers. cording to all 
accounts, Forfarshire owns the parentage gr a more than 
f thos: took part in the Canadian 
of his 
ary quota of those who 
—Mr. M‘K is having also 
oe 
} to thi + 
itis “impossible, however, without the Yivecity, ‘the cone, | 
the details, and the roma of Lord Erskine, to giye 
The Attaci Ament of a Goose to her Master —tThe fol- 
yard 
| lowing has been related with, fall ssuranee “oF fact :—A 
eman observ: 
ed to 
adequate idea of the singular scene.—J. R. 
aes which imita fet _ Human Voice.—Tn n the Sal (or 
of Ne are ONE kinds 
of birds w peleee, = account f their | 
2. 
"= 5 
a gent! 
| take a very particular liking to ud rats 
"This attach- 
n and so marked, that all en 
neighbourhoo d took noti ice ie 
ment was so ae mm0' 
tamed by tl the 
sin og or rtinitating the human y 
form nsidered se 
bird oe atham. 
Amrita ¢ chela ; ; Madna Kajla, + ts nearly allied 
to the P. f Lathan Tetiya, Psittaca | 
nguete 4 of Brisson ; Chandana, a Parakeet t not describe d 
by Lath 
about the house an 
give ni cknames, and with the sinister motive, . perhaoes of 
expressing their sense s the weak nadessianding of 
man, called him pp y.? Alas! for = pn atl 
goose’s oe love di dn tye et run r her mas ie 
hes ik abate her 
1 SmOOEH 5 | 
Wold th the Pei, 
a small pote tiled Perthies nearly 
} +} 
sisted upon her ene locked up in the poultry- 
shortly after he went he the i ged town to 
S Ca 
lgulus. The of taking 
nest 
the trees, w 
ie who again employ | people to climb 
when the “birds are arn t fledged. 
the middle fF his busi- 
essions pea 
ness, what does % feel b 
themselves, 
Sales aoe from the 7a pete se 
and disperse them through Ben: 
The Fire-eater.—The Chakor, | 
of 
rdix raf) and de aegis a make Tae 
Fue t Cak 
of the set” vay pag on iar etna bank of th 
a 
of swallowing fire. 
epal, is 
rege | ade of » that it in the season 
urged him en 
ashamed of, for, ptr the shone of his whip about the 
The faet, ae- | nec 
of 
ft rubbing again: 
en ae ae 
ry: Ly: neck Protsaed, guineing her fe cepand 
he fulness of her enjo 
laughter, 
k of his dear friend, he swung git iraat and round, 
and again, till he supposed = cast her o 
_Seine, a recent traveller in Brittany 
juring his walks, a a quantity of small round 
pepper, after eating. two or ‘three abil of whieb, it will 
an adjoining dunghil. very on pe this, Mr. 
brown von ranged in rows ag 
ty in the sun, and was for a long time unable to or 
ecture Paes? ex might be, and what the cir desti natio 
‘ill his was at | gth 
that they 9 were the refuse of the apple e from which cider 
haa bee: en pressed, and that they were thus made up into 
e IT. R. 
Drees ess 
The Anziety of Animals for their Kind in —_— — 
Ly inhabitants # ‘irdant say th that 
1 
Goosey, the owner, was fers vs a very severe illness, 
he gr 
aye, and one day 
is a matte: ubt; but it is certain that some birds | when slow]; y recovering, being pHs to recline in the 
will peck at pote of re, where aa capsicum or Cayenne Window for air, the first object he saw was od .¢ aa 
P s ety and Io 
‘The Attachment of ‘The Gander at th The effect on him was pen 
Mill—aA t ing; ween says — “‘is this bird come back to life, 
time ago, or oe follo: lowing ae og ach  nigbour, 
a worthy, good sort of a — earried on the 
printing business, and who a though once in ve very | 
soa am I, for ds sin of SS akooh it, to be = in this 
ay 27” father,”’ said his 
harshly a the 
' 
so 
in a 0s = “The ey pa ay very well, and a rather 
mild at first, a little skittish—and chases oh. too, like the 
ladies = different under proper 
trea t, exceedingly gentle and familiar. et “When ay 
by the ead relator of this anec pipes ee always choase 
head and the horn. ah Ik out tho: on 
se I c 
tment 
them,” 
in the times, very | rst In his mill-yard was a pier 
whieh hea kh 
largest bird el be pies’ us ever saw,”’ said the cura 
watehfulness no. dog could cpt ia 1 . 
vigilance, or io i attacking strangers 
e, all gave way —— 
ateinle attachment. 
Bae feyour again, treated. 
them 
sideraehees st people do ladies 
it please n ei ‘ashy te the thre 
bought; they bee shor! 
b} 
bind add wel 
could hurt ter "When. 
a yisit, th 
Ss, havin 
wr mrss he w would ‘eabee iting ap po 
give me a gratuitous call ore his aster rose in the 
cen 1 a 
The pporiortecte of the Seal tbo eject pape to the 
i, there are a 
ye entre oer 
mple of eran 
is related by M. Frederick Cavier, of a seal , 
oeeeeka number of 
cm stalked back to his proper station at the mill 
year I 
y friendship with Toby t 
when 
ed fair ones could gi him long away, and hi 
Year: ervae 
his ijn and m my who 
as inor inately urious, — the y¥ 
noon. ¥ 
y, about 
at 
pe — nearest t we sto and my fat who was 
went: 
peg tz the matter. As soon as he 
ee 
came to the 
bertirnin Ane ements 
er part. of my ™ 
fil often swinging, pe - ie: cup) sh she = take 
swing too 00 her elf. _Be as oe 
have | 
spt tang sata yusociion tote toe Fo 
‘was not - 
use by a severe 
he ho 
h the mi 
“fond. Fo oad 
; lie 
numerous 
i or, 
ears 
whatever is s taug’! opt When 
spoken to, ey turn thee countenances to pe speaker 
with a favourable aspec with ul 
make a reply. He a asserts th 
ita'slens up to 
ret follow these for a long apa ay 
to be speaking loud, they seem. : 
