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A large variety of new Fancy Type and Borders, for Cards, Circulars. Ac. kept always on ’utnd. ini.ouu.os Hitmen^ 1)r. JAMES LANG STAFF, llichmoHd SHU. December, 1858, J-jtf JOSEPH KELLER, BAILIFF Second and Third DIVISION Court. Ofiice, Richmond Hill. December, 1858. 1-tf A J. B. DHEG1KH, PPOINTED CONSTABLE at the Assizes for tho Countios of York, On- tario and Simcoo. Residenceâ€"Corner of 1 Wright and Yonge Streets, near A- Wright, iEsq’s. Richmond llill, Dec. 1858. 05-1-tf P. CROSBY, DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Wines, Liquors, Hardware, &c. Richmond Hill, Dec. 1358,. 1-tf T. J. WHEELER, WATCH & CLOCK MAKER, JEWELLER, &y. RICHMOND HILL, Oct. 1.1858. 69-ly ^ THOMAS SEDMAN, AND RICHMOND HILL ADVERTISER. Vol. I. KICHMOIVl) S5If.X, Fit ID AY, DECEMBKli 24, *858. JOHN COULTER, Tailor and Clothier ! Yongo St., Richmond Hill, December, 185^. 1-it FUNERAL FURNISHER, CARRIAGE, Waggon & Sleigh Maker? Opposite the White Swan Inn. Richmond Hill, Doc. 1858. 1-tf JAMES McCLURE, T NNKEEPER. Licensed Auctioneer J[ for the Counties of York, Ontario and Simcoe. Corner of Yonge and Bradford •streets, Holland Landing. December, 1 858. 25- 1-tf JOHN HARRINGTON, Jr., DEALER in Dry Goods, Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Hardware,Glass, Earthenware, j &c. tCT Also, Licensed Auctioneer. â-  December, 1858. 1-tf WELUN GTON 110 TEL, -MfiAR the Railroad Station, Aurora. Careful Hostlers always in attendance. C. CASE, Proprietor. December 1858. 32-1-tf MANSION IJOPSE, GEORGE DODD, Veterinary Surgeon Lot 26, 4th Con., Vnughan. • HORSE & FARRIER” INN. gl5- t-tf J. VERNE Y, Boot and Shoe Maker. T. MACBETH, Jns\, CARRIAGE, SIGN, â€" AN 1*â€" Orna men tal Fa i 11 ter. Richmond Hill, Feb. 17, 1858. t37-ly rtj. SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMN. 0 PPOS1TE Ar LAW’S, Yonge street, Hich- mond Hill. Ladies’ and Gentlemens’ made after the latest styles. December 1858- Boots and Shoes, 1 -8in YONGE STREET HOTEL, AURORA. Winks and Liquors Excellent Accomino- Farmors, and others A Good supply of always on hand, dation for Travellers, Cigars of all brands. D. MCLEOD, Proprietor. Aurora, July 6, 1858. 57-Gm P J. N. REII), II Y S I C I A N & SURGEON Corner of Yonge and Centre Streets, Thornhill. December 1858. 10-1-tf ROACH’S HOTEL, ORNERof Front and George s reets, one block east of the Market, Toronto. JOHN ROACH, Proprietor. 39-1 - tf C' December, 1858. ROBERT SIVER, Boot and Slioe Maker) \ DJOINING tho Wosleyan Methodist Chapel, Yonge Street, Richmond Hill. \ choice selection of Gentlemens’, Ladies’ and Childrens’ Hoots and Shoes constantly ou hand, aud made to order ou the Shortest No- tice. O’ All kinds Shoemakers Finding for sale. Richmond Hill. Dec. 1858. 1-tf GLOUCESTER HOTEL, rUKKK M rPHE a T con rHUKE MILLS NORTH OK TORONTO, ON VONGL-ST. BLACK HORSE HOTEL [FORMERLY KEPT BY WM. ROl.I’H,] CORNER of Palace and George streets, east of the Market Square, Toronto. Board $1 per day. Good Stabling and attentive Hostlers alwavs in attendance. An omnibus to and from tho Railroad Station. THOMAS PALM Ell. Proprietor. Toronto, Feb 26, 1858. t38-ly ANGlJO-AMERICAN HOUSE ! MAEKjSAM VILLAGE. GOOD Accommodations. Winos, Liquors and Cigars of the choicest brands. R. MARR, Proprietor. Markham. Dec, 185S. 57-ly NEW STORE, Richmond Hill) CORNER of Wright & Yonge strw ts. Cheap Groceries and Provisions. Crockery and Glassware cheap for Cash. No Credit. D. HOPKINS. Dee. ^ 1858. ' 1-tf THORNHILL HOTEL. rnilE Subscriber begs to inform ibe J[ Public that lie b»s leased the above premises, and fitted them up in a upat and comfortable style. Boarders and transient visitors will find th*> accomodations in every way agreeable. The best of Liquors and Cigars carefully selected. Gflod stabling and attentive hostlers HENRY LEMON, Thornhill, ? Propiietor.. Jan 20, 1858. i '-'38 above Hotel is fitted up in neat and com ortable style. Transient visitors aud others will find the accommodations to bo that of the first class, while the charges will be ex- tremely low, [LiJ Good Stabling and an attentive Hostler. THOMAS COATES, Proprietor. Yonge Street, Doc, 1858. 1)2.-1 y (CjHA-ROiV. Attentive Hostlers always in attendance. J. kavanagh. .December, 1858. Proprietor. 32-1-tf CLYDE HOTEL, KING STREET EAST, TQSONTO. GOOD Stabling and Attentive Hostlers JOHN MILLS, Proprietor. December, 1858. 1-tf RICHMOND ILILL HOTEL. A STAGE runs from tbo a^>ove Hotel to Toronto every morning, Starting from the Elgin Mills at 7,’ Q-yi- end returning at 7, p.m. Fare 2s. 6d'. each way. GOOD ACCOM JJODATION FOR TRAVELLERS. RICHARD NICHOLLS, Proprietor Richmond 11)11, D^c. 2, 1858. ' 55-ly DR. J. W. GRIFFITH, MARKHAM VILLAGE, C,W- Doc. 2, 18.5S. 52-ly ESPLANADE H OT E L, BY G. TURNER, works) ALACK ST. (0PJ»0SXTK THE OJ,i» TORONTO. THE PLOUGH INN, HW, PECK begs respectfully to inform , the Inhabitants of RICHMOND MILL and surrounding country, that he has opened the Hotel formerly known as the White Swan, The Bar will bo replete with all kinds of Liquors of the best quality. Good Stabling, Hay and Oats at all times. An attentive Hostler always pu cft.ll, .Xovembor 5, 1858. 74 4m To be sung at tho Primitive Sunday School, Victoria Square, on Now Years’ Day. Tuneâ€"*> Mount Ephaim." Npw anpther year is past, And our die is not vet cast ! But again we’re met to be Happy in festivity. Friends aud Teachers, Children all. Praise our great Emanuel ! In His goodness now lejoico, Sound aloud each grateful voice ! We have all his blessings shared,â€" By his kindness we are spared. Friend*, See our Teachers, there they stand. Still to train their l.'ttle band, In the path their Saviour ledâ€" Up to God, our living head. Friends, &c. To the Bible then we goâ€" Soe him full of gri.of and woe, Fasten’d to the cross on big1’, There to suffer, bleed and die. Friends, &c. Do you ask me why ’twas done, Unto God’s beloved Son ? ’Twas that sinners, such as we, Might our Heavenly Father see. Fronds, &c. Whilst jve lj ten, we may die And be caljpd away on high, With our Christ to reign above,â€" Through his evorlasting love. Friends, &c. Would you go with us along ? Joii> die great Redeemer’s throng ; Now got ready,â€"waste no time-=- For you’re bound to yonder clime. Frauds, &c. Then vve all above shall inept, Cast our crowns at Jesus’ feet And the vaults of Heaven shall ring, llajlelujah to our King, Friends, t&p, By J. Macey. IrUtlioiis. COMPANY TO DINNER. EDWARD CROWN, HAS always on hand a large and well assorted stock of DRAPERY, GRO- CERIES, BOOTS and SHOES, &c. Ac. which will be sold at prices that will defy com- petition. Thornhill. July 30, 1858. 60-ly Meals 20 cents each, and good accommoda- tion for Farmers and others. Toronto, Dec, 1858. 53-ly JAMES 1IALL, HAS always on hand a large assortment of BOOTS and SHOES, which will be old at prices to meet the times. Richmond Hill, Dec. 1858. 54-1-ly T BY HELEN FORKKST GRAVES. [From the New York Weekly,] 4 Please, inassa, there’* nothin’ to eat in the house !’ ‘ Nothing to eat 1’ and Thomas Parker, Esq., Attorney and Coun- rest of your natural life in the jour- ney ; I may want you in the office- Here's the money ; now be back by noon, or Iâ€"I’ll skin you !’ ‘ Sartln, sir S’ rejoined Pete, not at all cast down by the threat ol haying, as he pocketed the coin, and clapping his hat on the top of his woolly shock, darted avvav like an arrow. ‘I shall probably see him back here about sunset,’ coolly reflected Mr. Parker. ‘ Meanwhile I’ve got to be my own office boy, 1 suppose P So saying, he proceeded to open the shutters of the room he digni- fied by the title of ‘office,’ admit- ting a shower of bright summer sunbeams among the dusty parcels of papers and tape-tied documents. ‘ Seems to me,’ said Thomas, as he stood choking, coughing, arid sneezing amid thc clouds of dust raised by his every motion, ‘ this room is a little dusty. 1 never could abide dirtâ€"I’m a neat tnan by nature. Guess I’ll sweep it out!’ â-ºSeizing a broom, he proceeded energetically to envelop himself in whirlwinds of dust, adopting the peculiar tactics of his sex who ge- nerally, when thev assume this branch of household duty, make great reforms in the center of an apartment, entirely oblivious of its corners. Just as he was in the midst of his triumphant operations, the door- bell tinkled softly. Tom dropped the broom in amaze. ‘That don’t sound like a client,’ muttered he, ‘ and it isn’t the office bell, eitherâ€"wonder who it can be ?’ and at the imminent risk of his neck, he stretched his head out of thc window so as to reconnoitre the doorsteps. One glance was enoughâ€"he drew back as though a bee had stung him. 4 Women, as I 1 ve !’ he exclaim- ed. aghast, 4 May I be shot if I didn’t Sbc an enormous crinoline, and the fluttering of a pair of bojir net-strings! What nan they pos- sibly want here? andâ€"Jupiter Am- mon ! what a spectacle 1 am!’ Yes, a bachelor of thirty has some right to be sensitive about his per- sonal appearance, and Tom’s was, to say the least, rather outre at that ‘nstant. He rushed into his bed- W. liODGE & Co. YT" HOLES ALE and Retail Copper, Tin W and non I’late Woike/s, and Furnishing Ironmongers, Parties giving this house a call ill fiud their orders punctually attended to, and the lowest prices charged. Richmond llill, Dec. 1858. 54-1-ly EDMUND GRAINGER, BUTCHER, THORNHILL- Fresh and Pickled Meats, Poultry, &c., always HALF-WAY HOUSE, RICHMOND HILL "HE Subscriber begs to inform liis numerous Patrons and the public, that be has removed from the White j Swan Hotel to the above Premises, whererthefe will be found excellent ac- commodation for Travellers, and good Stabling. Horses and Buggies for Hire. JOSEPH GABY, Proprietor. Richmond Hill, Oct. 22. 1858. 72 an green bush hotel, 1C MILKS NORTH OF TORONTO ON IHE yONCfE ST&KKT l£OAD, sellor at Law, slowly took his cigar j room jn a high state of excitement ; from lus lips, and expelled a tumbled all the things ogt of his fu*. of smoke, his eyes fixed the,cjrawers to fjn£j a cjean dickey; while in a sort ol deliberate aston- i,ast,|y tje(j on a purple silk neck- cloth ; brushed his hair in nervous haste, and pplM ,on his new coat 110 j of shiny broQcl-cJpth wijh suph in- ! considerate abruptness, that the we done gone and i shoulder-seam (Tom. it must be re- ishment on the ebon face of a little black boy about twelve years age. who stood grinning in doorway. ‘ No, massa riPHE Proprietor b> gs J_ public that he lias Families supplied on tho shortest 41 -1 tf on hand, notice. Thoruhill, Dec. 1658. WILLIAM HARRISON, .Saddle and Harness Maker* Next door to G. A, Barnard’s, Richmond Hill. December, 1858. 1-tf JAMES JEN&INS*, Grocery & Provision Store RICHMOND HILL O fSRLDIT GIVEN. Pro due u taken in ^xp.bango- The above is the oldest established Grocery and Provision Store on the Hill. Doc. 2, 1858. 55-ly N‘ F. W. HOLLISS, MERCHANT TAILOR, has always on band a very superior stock9//SLOTHS, READY-MADE CLOTHING, £c. Gar- ments made to measure in the first ^ty^o. A good fit warranted. Thornhiil, Dec, 1858. 60-1-if (0 inforn) the I'uicbaseil the above Hotel, and has recently refitted and furnished it throughout in a comfortable style. The Bar will be continual ly supplied with good Liquors and Cigars. Good Staulks attached to the premises, with careful Hostlers to at- tend to travellers wants. THOMAS STEELE, Proprietor. (formerly of tho Bond Lake Hotel.) Sept. 29, 1858. G9-ly ST. LAWRENCE HOTEL 142 KING STREET, TORONTO. Subscriber begs to inform his L friends and the public generally that he has opened the Above Hotel, opposite the St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto. His bar will alwavs bo found replete yvUli all kinds of i^iquors of first-rate quality. His ’I able will also be found recitertte. Good Stables aro attached to the premises. W. M. SHORT. .Vltinarv Surgeon, Proprietor. Toronto Sept. 17, 1858. 67-ly eat it all up.' 1 membered, was something of a * •/?//, 1 ete . Are you sure . dandy, and liked his co.^ts made 1 Yes, massa ebery blessed ! narro’.v and small) split open instan- mouthfull _ j taneouslv. Whew- heicsa bid look-out! , ‘Con-found it all!’ ejaculated soliloquized Mr, 1 arker. • How | rponi) looking dolefully at the yawn- thoughtless of old Mrs. 1 lume. to jn as he viewed it in the overstay the time she set lor le- mjrror> ‘There goes that bell turning. phve was to have been a^ajnâ€"jingleâ€"jingle!’ Yes, jingle back yesteiday mojnjng, at latest, 1 avvay^ ^j|| y0u’re cracked! Now, and here we are absolutely provi- liere’g a. pretty fix! Well, it can’t sionlessâ€"pies, biead and all the et- helped ; I’ll just pin it together eeteras she left devoured long ago. 1 ag well as possible. Alem. Not What does her sister-in-Jaw want to turn back towards the ladies, be sick for just now. One never! ^ j can help it. Js'ow, I’m ready, can depend upon these old hags ot! [jere troes.’’ housekeepers and }<~>ung ones,, ^nd Tom advanced gingerly to- plague 011 ein, he added, with a ^vard the door, settling his watch- venomous altei thought, ‘are ten c|iajllt aiu] trying to look debonnair times worse! Now 1 wonder; ancj unconcerned, what I’m going to do! I hese lit- l0j and behold ! as he opened the tie country villages are the worst ; joor< a pair of plump white arms, places in the world to live in no : handed with gold bracelets, were restaurants, no bakeries, 110 oyster thrown around his neck, and a J. iiAGKETT, M.D. Licentiate of the Board of Upper Canada LATE RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICER, KINGSTON GENERA,L HOSPITAL. Residence,mapl£ village. Dec. 23, 1858. 59-l-6m WILLIAM U. SKENE, MILLWRIGHT, ALTONA, EGS to intimate Xhat he is now pre- pared to erect MILLS of every description, by contract or otherwise, on - 4 j reasonable terrps. Ho jis ^so ,^g.ent foi‘ some ; nOOll as liot-â€"r;tlO VOU 11 e,{ ,of the best Foundr^s in Caua^la. All contract * Yes, gil’,5 replied jtllC I jots warranted from three to six months. From thirteen years’ experience ho hopes to give general satisfaction. Altona, August 20, 1858. G3-6m B1 saloon, and nobody one can venture to borrow from. Why, if I asked a favor from Mrs. Anthony across the way, she’d expect me to beau all her six red-haired daughters to every picnic for a year lo con.e ; and if 1 borrowed a loaf of bread from old Mother Hopkinson, next door, she’d make it an excuse to send her squint-eyed niece over twice a day to take observations, and ask for the loan of every thins: I had in thc house. Noâ€"no ! that’ll never do ! I say, Pete !’ ‘ Yes sir.’ ‘Get your hat and go over to Penningvilleâ€"they’ve got a bakery there, thank Providence, and its only six miles off-â€"and buy three or four loaves of fresh bread. Be /quick, now ! Don’t stop on the road oftener than you can helpâ€" you n?ay just as well be back" bv ISo, 4. So, said I : ‘ Bell, we can’t live through to-day in the spare room of a country tavern ; let’s go and see Cousin Tom ; he practices law here.’ ‘ No,’ says Bell ; better not ; it may be inconvenient.’â€" ‘Fiddlestick!’ says I; ‘ isn’t Tom just like my brother V So, here vve are, and you may do the best you can with us til) evening 1 Pin so glad to get an opportunity to be- hold that swpet little bachelor home you’ve told us of so oftenâ€"that abode where peace and happiness reign supreme !’ ‘May the fiends take my gab- bling tongue !’ thought Tom ; but he didn’t say so, of course-r-only set chairs, jerked up the vvindow- shadesâ€"thereby disturbing a colony of portly spiders, which scampered in every direction from their devas- tated homeâ€"and sat down, dispos- ing himself so as to conceal a pair of old boots thoughtlessly left in thc room over night, under the chair! * Don’t make strangers of us, Tom, dear!’ said Mary, sweetly. ’ N-r-not at alj,’ responded Tom, absently, while he inwardly Gogi- tated. 4 They’ve comc to dinnerâ€" by all that’s unlucky, they have! Saints and angels ; what’s 3 fellow to do? If there is such a thing as my guardian angel, I beg he’ll make his appearance, with a fry- ing-pan, and something to cook in it ; for I never needed his services more 1’ ‘ Pin afraid we interfere with your domestic arrangements, Mr. Parker,: said Mig? Isabel, demuiely. ‘ Oh. no! not the least in the world! Pray don’t think of it?’ exclaimed Tom, suddenly recol- lecting his part as hospitable host. ‘ Nothing ever puts me out! We, merry bachelors, you knowâ€"as- sure you I appreciate the high ho- nor of your visit /’ While he was thus rattling away, he was secretly considering what coursp it vyefc fcfpst tp adopt. He would sogpcr Jiaye c|jt his throat than have given the two fair guests thc least idea of how matters re- ally stood, and as to appealing to them for help, he’d bite his tongue out first. For, had lie not crowed and boasted qref J.hp luxuries of his bachelor home ] Had he not boldly trumpeted forth his entire independence of wifp qy sifter 1â€" And now, to sneak ingloriously from the field, he couldn’t do that! IIow Mary would laugh at him! what a comic affair Isabel would make of it! how all the girls would titter down in Wavcrlyville J Tom Parser burst into a cold perspira- tion at the thought. ‘Ladies,’ lie said, after a few minuses’ chit chat, ‘important business calls down street for an hour or two. I assure you it gives me pain to leave you, even for a moment ; but you must make all allowances for business en- gagements. I ll be back by dinner- â- fi)tf>e.? liule ne- gro, grinning gleefully at the pros- pect of his mission. " ‘ Now, Pete, dont’t spend thc dulcet little voice exclaimed : * How do you do, Cousin Tom V It was that little minx. Mary Waverley, his cousin, with Isabel Clifton, her ‘ dear, particular friend,’ whom Tom had often met at thc house of his Uncle Waver- lyâ€"the two persons in thc world whom, of all others, he had rather not have seen at that particular mo- ment; for Mary was always teaz- ing him about his ‘ love-lorn bache- lorhood,’ and Isabel had such a pro- voking vyay of turning everything and everybody into ridicule. More- over, Tpm ha.d a painful conscious- ness that his establishment was not in i!;e best possible order to be sub- mitted to feminine .criticism. So he ushered Jt^em into his little par- lor, muttering something about ‘great ^onorâ€"de I igh te$ to see them- â€"cxcuse disorderâ€"â€"- ‘ Oh, 110 apologies, Tom V ex- cl aimed Mary. ‘ You see, Bell and I are en route for C------------ and thc stage don’t go on till even- ingâ€" only think how provoking!â€" ‘ Pray don’t mind us’ said Isabel.. Tom bowed courteously, and re- treated in <7 leisurely manner. The moment the door was safely closed on the two girls, however, he rush- ed down into the jiilchen, and com- menced igniting a fire with all pos- sible rapidity. Tho fire declined to burnâ€"a con?mou fault with fjresâ€" and Tom had nearly blown h:s eyes out, to say nothing of ash-besprink- led locks, grimy broad-cloth, and sooty hands, before it consented to perform its ofiice. The next duty was to hoist on a tremendous iron pot filled with water, into which our hero emptied six potatoes. ‘ Two a piccc, think, will be enough,’ he meditated’; ;and now for the tea! Bother it! I don’t know how under the sun the old women brew it! They boil the kettle, anyhow, and they draw the tea ; and, seems to me, I’ve heard of a teaspoonful to each guest, and one for the pot. Well, here goes, anyhow !’ And Tom filled the tea-kettle full, perched it safe- ly on the fire. This done, he mounted on a chair, to reach thc tea-cad'ly, out of which he mea- sured four tcaspoonfuls into the kettle. ‘ There!’ he ejaculated, with mu^h satisfaction ; ‘ who says J can’,,t make tea? Nothing lilte the plain, common sense way qf go^ug at things! Talk about the mystery of cooking, indeed! it takes a man’s intellect to see through these shal- low pretensoins.’ These preparations complete, thc meat question next came up. â€"------------â€"---------. I MO1 * i That little imp Pelej!'. if I could only make sure of hir. being back by nppn. 1 could manage fam- ously. But he’ll not be here befpre night ; and now I’ve got tp go to the market myself, right past the parlor windows, tool However, I can creep along under that hedgd of gooseberries ; arid, once p?isj tfit; corner, all is safe.’ Off, therefore, started Thomas, slinking along under the gooseberry hedge as stealthily as might be? and soon returned, bearing under his arm a brown paper parcel. ‘ Well, I am tired,’ he soliloquiz- ed. depositing the parcel on the table and throwing himself on a chair, As lie took off his hat to cool his heated brow, h’s eye hap-: pened lo catch a small triangular bit of looking-glass opposite. Horrible to behold !â€"his face was streaked with soot, and his hair powdered w'ith ashesâ€"oh, that abominable fire. ‘Now I know why tjje hi]tchej; laughed so much while I was bar- gaining for thc beefsteaksâ€"thought it curious!’ exclaimed poof Tom. aloud, ill his vexation ; * now I know why Miss Hopkinson tittered so when I passed her in the street., and Bill McDougal turned black iii ihe face when I stopped to ask him the time of day 1 By a!l the pow- ers of Tartarus, I’ve a mind to gjyp up the whole affair j No I won’t' either; I’ll cook the meat, ancj then I’ll scrub up. O, dear me J what a looking dickey-â€"all soot and cindersâ€"and what’s worse, | can’t get another without passing right through the room wherq those two confounded girls arp.-t: That reminds me I’ve left ir,y room door unlocked, and I’ll bet sixpence they’re prying aroundâ€"girls $re nar turally curious. At^d, as I live 1 all Fanny Scaburg’s old love-letters are lying on the bureau, careless blockhead that I ami The little puss Mary ! she’ll dive in^o t{]en} like a bee ill cloypr.’ Cheered by these meditations, Tom took the lid off his iron Atlaflr tic to view thc progress of the cookery. All right; thc six pota- toes were bobbing up and down like solitary ships in thc. midst of a boil- ing maclstrorn, and the tea-kettle u'as singing a melodious lav. Muclj exhilarated, our hero raj>ed put a bed of coals, took down the grid- iron and adjusted his becfsje.qlf thereon. ‘ Now I’ll spread the table while the meat is cooking. Let me seeâ€" table-cloth, â€" hanged if I know where it is. Never mindâ€" -thty ironing-cloth will do just as \ycj|--r no it won’t, either • hereof a big hole in it. \YeII, 1 can put some dish or other on top of it, that's qqq comfort. Plates, knives, tea-cups, forks, mustard, sugar, milk, cake- basket, preservc-platesâ€"fm pretty sure there’s a dish of apple-saucc somewhere down cellar--pickles, half an onion and two grapes, buj they say half a loaf’s better than nq breadâ€"syrup cup-â€"don’t spe what there is to eat syrup with, but, any- how, Pll maj^e as bi" a &l)Qjv as I canâ€"tca-saucers, salt-cellar, yinc- gar, butterâ€"rthat’s all, 1 belicye. Haven’t any bread,’ said Tom, re- gretfully, scratching his heat) • J but maybe they won’t notice that.! Phew ! what a strong, disagreeable smell that pine-wood hasâ€"strange I haven’t noticed it before ! By the ashes of Agame nnon, it’s irjy njeat burning!’ Tom flew to the rescue. ant| took the charred viands from thc devouring coals with a deep groan. ‘ No matter; I can scrape off the burnt p^rt, ai),d it’ll do famously It’s surprising hpw. circumstances will develop a ipan’s talents. 1 never suspected before \yh.qd 9 good disciple of Soyer I was. There, thenâ€"meat’s on the table. Now, I must hurry up the other things,’ It was no easy matter to fish up the potatoes from the huge pojj and when found, they were ra- ther under-done than otherwise. However, Tom thought his tea would rcdeerr) all else. With a sigh of satisfaction, he contemplated his dinner when i| was finally arrayed on the board. ‘Pretty well done!’ he exclaim- ed, rubbing his hand?. 1 Tom Parker, I think you’re a genius, my man! I’d like to see any p.et» ticoat of ’em all set out a better meal on so short a notice !’ Chuckling gleefully, Tom pyt on his hat, tucked a red-tanec) packet under his arm, and en- tered the liitie .parlor in an off- liand way7 as if just arrived from down street.’ ‘Good afternoon, ladies,’ li£ said; ‘how have you aiV)usig/| yourselv.es V ‘ Oh, excellently !’ giggled Mary, vyhile Isabel turned very red, and pretended to be absorbed iii llpr b.Qok. ‘ I believe our humble dinner is ready,’ said Tom ; will you honor me by walking put V ‘ What a curiouslyrpalterncd i table-cloth, Cousin Ton} !’ saitl Mary, innocently. Oh !’ said Tom, b^uslvi.ng scar- let, arid .epvejrecJ with confusion, ‘thatâ€"that’s a bole I’m afraidâ€" (Aside: Stupid ass lhat 1 am 1 came I to forget to cover that "P J