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HE attention of 'he Public is i mde to their SLock, consisting 0f [1E Undursigned is authorized tostatoihai Ilendford. Sept. 23, 186”. M. TEEFY, RICHMOND HILL, Notary Public. Agent. 8w Deeds, Mortgagss. Wills. Bonds, &c. wn with nemness and despatch.â€"- WW W. WHARIN 85 CO" Great Variety Successor to James Holliday, J. SEGSWORTH, WILLIAM COOK NEAR CHURCH STREET, DENTISTRY. On the shortest notice Headford Mills. IMPORTERS AND IMPORTER 0F BUTCHER,‘ Street East, 6 doors east of RICHMOND HILL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1869. and newest designs. n tu the repairing of Jewelry manufactured JOHN EYER. I? DOUBLES AND qtm‘s: ‘ ‘A COMEDY 0F ERRORSâ€"PART I CRAP/TEE. I. Ii: is not an accepted article of thepop- ular creed, that no two objects in nature exa_ctly resemble one another? . I started in life with this impression. I rejoiced in it. I detest monotony, and here was a. high enough sanction for the indulgence of my dislike. I now beg to inform the nobility, gentry, and pub- lic in general, that this axiom is a. hum- bug. I denounce it as a. fallacyâ€"vâ€"as a dream dreamed in afool’s paradise (from which I have been wakened)â€"as a swindle, a. snare, and a delusion, in at least one most important instance. It will be conceded, I presume, that any given man is, to fingelf at all events, a most important natural object; and there- fore, without offending against the laws of modesty I may say that I myself am the eminent instance in which Nature appears to have deviated from her'rule. I aih not going to investigate the oriâ€" gin of that belief; I am not going to inquire what laborious wielder of the ‘Novum Organon’ undertook to estab- lish it; I only ask if We do not regard it as an irrefragable axiom, that Nature, in all her efforts of creative power, from the highest to the lowest, does not re- pea_t herself tion, exact cgby, or i’éfgeii part of apother m‘anfi’; The abbve-megigm hithgrtg regarded/31‘1" nus if")- 1mg :fi'ul fanéyé’f‘ a 1 LIf' she were to be arraigned on a charge of inconsistency, she might. plead that her scheme would fall to the ground if she became monotonous 0r uniform in any respect. - .. r . u n Let it be granted, for the sake of avoiding argument; but then, why se- lect me as the exception? I yield to none in my devotion’to her and all her works. She has no fender or more duti- ful son; was it well, W it fitting, then, to make a step-child 0 me? to exempt me from the privilevr' common to all her other offspring, and even largely to curtail the value of my personal identity by giving me a “ deuble” ? Someone is sure to say, What is a “double”? Some people have a nag- ging and unappeasable, thirst for defini- tions ; so, to prevent dklay in limine, let me at once define liixzas “second edi- tion, exact copy, or existing counter- rt another man Pan.of .. we», . t . L' g» Wed dogma has hitherto regardeflfih ' shame as fabul- E’hard pr the rlzfig’ful fancy 6f” - .af.§5tâ€"-liké'fiie Meuae'dfinii cf Plau‘t 5,41» Dromios and the Antipholi of Shakespeare, the Dies curi of the ’ancient classics, yoozssim1 and the Corsican Brothers of our own Dion Boucieault. But my “double” indivi- dually is an entity in very truthâ€"~n solid prosaic captain of the Heaviest Dragoons standing six feet: and one inch in his stockings, decider “inclined to emban- point,” with a florid _,eomplexi0n and J udas-coloured hair,boisterous red whisk- ers, pale eyes, a, gigantic imperial, pump- handle nose, a mouth like to a Gothic gurgoyle, and a facial angle instantly suggestive of “the companion and the friend of man.” The 'above-men That is what my ‘double’ 1;. 0011- found him! ' Malevolent reader, you are not likely t0105e his ehance of making ‘ a very palpable hit.7 I can hear you say (Oh! ‘petulanti spiene cachinno ’)â€"-I can hear you sayr‘ Here, t]1en,,y0u have also pre- sented us with your own portrait!” 77 And I suppoée I must éorrowfully'ad- unit it. I used to read myself different- ly, as on this wiseâ€" n 1 l J I‘A Captain ’â€"â€"not, 0 ye gods! a ‘Heavy ’â€"‘ a Captain of Fusileers, standing six feet and one inch in my stockings; of a grand, full, military figure; warm, manly cornplexron; auâ€" burn hair; luxuriant ditto whiskers; cold, grey, intellectual eyes; nose large indeed, but commanding; mouth Wide, but gracious; and a forehead expressing a character full of bland and Christian attributes.’ An inner emotion of my soul tells me that the latter is my true description, but the concurrent evidence of many men leads me to believe that, to the grosser vision of the rest of' my species, I appear in the former likeness. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere between the two portraits; it is possible that person- al enmity may have imparted to the former some dash of caricature, and that a well-grounded self-esteem may have limned the latter more favourably than is quite consistent with facts ; it is possi- ble, I say, but let it pass. Robert Burns breathed an infamous aspiration, on behalf of all mankind, that the Powers above might endow them yith the faculty of seeing themselves as others see them. ‘ Evertere domes toms, optantibus ipis, Di faciles.’ True, but I never commissioned Burns or any one else to prefer such an absurd request. I would that he had left it alone, or spoken for himself. n n.. The gods, however, with a facility which I cannot but deplore, have heard his prayer in my case so a pleasant dream is dissolved. and I awake a humbl- ed, miserable man. .. . n u But keen though the pain of such a disenchantment may be, the possession of a ‘double ’ supplies me with a heavi- er grievance still. - 7 What Ido complain of. and declare to be too intolerably burdensome for human @iimstm. Mo Téefy, Esq' One day last season, in a London drawing-room where a party was as- sembled before dinner, seeing a man en- ter Whom I knew very well, and was in the habit of meeting everywhere, I tried to shake hands with him; whereupon he (he Was an ass, of course) placed his hands ostentatiously behind his back,aud elevating his voice so as to attract every one’s attention, bowled out,â€" How would youâ€"how would any one of a respectable walk in the country and a character to lose, like things of this sort ? ‘ No, sir! certainly not; you shan’t know me one day and cut me the next ; my name in Baxter’ (a slightly irrele- vant statement), ‘ and no man shall pe- tronise me.’ ‘ My dear Baxter ’ I began. ‘Don’t ‘deaz‘ Baxter’ me, sir: and see- ing the idiot was going to make a scene of it before the ladies, I suggested the possibllity of a mistake, and the proprie- ty of deferring explanations. During dinner the flaming eyes of'anter scorch- ed me with looks of scorn and indigna- tions came off. I found I was accused of having brutally cut him in the Park that day, and of having sworn with ferocious expletives that I had never seen him before. Here I proved an alibi and told.the sad tale of my ‘douhle’; but a men can’t spend the whole of his London season proving alibi: and telling long yarns about his ‘ double ’ Jan he patience, are the perpetual mlstakes as to the identity of this man and myself which are made by my most intimate friends and relativesâ€"mistakes that have already landed me in most compromising situations. and involved we in not a few social and domestic imbroglios. There is also a slight inconvenience in such a scene as the followingâ€"it ruffles the temper and acts injuriously 0n the digestive organs :~ One day last week I was sauntering up Pall Mall with a couple of friends. quiet and refined men like myself, when we were startled by a loud human bellow from behind, and im- mediately after I sustained a shock be- tween the shoulders which nearly upset me. Turning round, I found ,a bearded and perfectly colonial-looking person standing with outstretched paw, and a face full of affectionate recognition, and glowing with tropical if not alcoholic tints. My face was Y‘ace‘nt.‘ ‘What, Dollvi’ the monster roared, clutching my hand. ‘ My own old Dolly VVallahl It does my hem't good to see youâ€"how are all the other jolly- old Patagoniaps ?’ and ‘with his other pa‘w he began to hamsm the region of the liver, whieh-with me is a tender organ. ‘Ohi dâ€"d-d-don’t,’ I cried, doubled up with pain. ‘ ’es, 1 wi.11,Ҥ15fi{3d"§;£rior of Atâ€" tock I Yes, I will, Wild bird ofthe Mof~ fussial,’ and he did, heartily._ ‘AS a dancing dervish, mad with joy at. seeing 01d Dolly again. Do you re- member the Grampus ?’ and he went on hammering m9. ' ‘No, sir, I 'don‘t remember Grampus, 0r Dolly, or Welly, or Patagonia, or any of your cursed low friends. It‘s not my line. You’re evidently from Indiaâ€"I never was there. You’re got sunstroke, I snppose, or something; but, by Jove, if you don't let my liver alone, I’ll cal} the police.‘ 1-..1 1 1 gasped. ____ I , .Thpre was a quite a little crowd by thls tyme,and my quiet and refined friend Emght be observed in the distance walk- mg rapldly off on the other side of the street. ‘011! I see,’ said my assailant sud- denly assuming an air of dignified hau- teur, ‘we’re too fine to recognise an indio'o- planter in Pall Mall, although we anW the way to his bungalow pretty well in Rollilcund, and did’nt mind punishinv his Brandy-pawnee and cheroots or be: rowing his horses, or calling hini ‘Jack’ Lhat was in the north-west provinces but here it’s another thingâ€"here we inust be disarm}; we’re in London now and swells, and we must forget. Oh yes' we must forget.’ . ‘Upon my life, sir, this is to intoler- able ‘ (he was gesticulatiug and talking; at the pitch of his voice.) ‘ It’s quite evident you forggt yourself. If‘yuu’re mad, why the deuce don’t you ’go to Hanwell ? If you're drunk, why don’§ you go and sleep it 011'? You’ve hurt my back and my liver, and you’re mak- ing a scene in the street with a total stranger; but, if you don’tleaVe OK, I’ll give you in charge._ 2 §wear I will !’ D ‘ 'fotal stranger l T. like that. I sup‘ pose you'll tell me next that you’re not Captain Burridge, of theâ€"Dragoon Gurds, ygu RPDPY V ‘YesII will, you rufflan l’ for I wasl nettle-d by the time“ ‘I’m not Captain Burridgc, and I’m glad of it, if you’re a specimen of his friends. Bufi there, see for yourselfâ€"there's my card! For heaven's sake don’t follow me!’ and I dashed into the Army and Navy Club, and told the porter to give him in charge if he came bothering. From an upper window of the Club I saw the man of indigo leaning for srune minutes against the railings of the War Office, and re garding my card with a. look of stupe- faction. These two cases may be sufficient to es- tablish the fact that a. remarkably strong likeness does exist between this man and me; but I Will and one other, for the truth of which L solemnly vouch, one which will show the reader that the word ‘double’ is strictly appropriate, u, uuu “v nu“, novle "U . ‘â€"â€"n it, sir, you must be mad,’ and enable him to grasp some concep- tion of the abominable inconveniences a man so afliicted is likely, nay, certain, to undergo. The first intimation I had of the existence of my ‘double’ was conveyed to me the year be- fore last, in a letter from a brother of lmine who was then serving with his re- giment in India. My own regiment had been for some time under orders to pro- ceed to the same favoured elime; and my brother’, on his return from a six months’ expedition in Thibet, ’during which he had been cut off from all news, expected to find we had arrived. On his way down country the first civilised place he reached was one of the saue- toriumsâ€"Nynee Tal, or Simla,~or Mos- soorie, I forget which; but whichever it .was, its leading hotel possessed a table d’kote to which my brother went for din- ner on the day of his arrival. He had not been long seated When an individual entered the room and took a chair opposite him. This individual (who was no other than the aceursed to Burridge) my brother at once Conceived to be me, whom he had not seen for five yearsâ€"4m had no doubt whatsoever on the .subjeetâ€"â€"but as Burridge merely gave him a glance of perfect non-recog- nition. he said nothing. The (hot is, my brother and I were both farceurs in a small way, and he im- mediately imagined that I was feigning ignorance of him by Way of a joke; and delighted with the idea of foregoing all other human emotion in the cause of mirth, he fell heartily into humour of the thing; and though fraternal yearn- ings turned his gaze now and then in the direction of Burridge, he contrived to make his expression as indifferent and unconscious as possible. At the same time he could not sufficiently admire my supposed nonchalrmce; for Burridge, being hungry and a plunger, after satis- fying his curiousity with one bovine glance round the table, thereafter devot- ed himselfexcluswely to his victuals. Dinner being added, the company dropped one by one from the room, till at last my brother was left alone with Burridge, who continued to work con- scientiously through the desert. \Vhen the door closed on the last person, my brother clapped his hands and loudly shouted, ‘Bravol bravo! bravissimo I’ Burridge on this put up his eyeglass and stared at him for a second or two with :3. perfectly stolid countenance, then, dropping his glass, proceeded to attack a fresh mango. _ ‘ a \ . . .‘Bravxssnno! braussxmo!‘ shouted minbmthor, doubly pleased ;4‘ capital! can a , ‘Oh! the proprietor, Isuppose ; well, it would take a good deal of this kind of enough to make a feast. But look here, if I pay you your contract price, I’ve a right to eat as much as ever I please ; and I’ll tell you what it is, I’lljust serve you out. I’ll eat your whole desert, if I have cholera for it ; and I’ll ring for more if I’m alive when this is done.’ ,Again Burr’idge inserted his glassptia slowly remarked, ‘ If it‘s the dinner you’re so pleased with, 1 can’t say much for your taste; in my opinion it‘s the foulest thing I ever ate in Europe, Asia, Africa or America.’ Again my brother was in ecstasies, but cheeking his mirth, ‘he remzirked, ‘ Well but comeâ€"enough’s as good as a feast , you’ve carried that game quite far enough; don’t you think you had better stop it now ?’ Again the eyeglass was inserted, and the pmng spokefâ€" ‘ Come, come,” said my brother, ‘ no more humbug. How’s the governor? ‘What governor?’ said’ Burridge, in great astonishment. ‘ My governdr, of course.’ ‘ Don’t beliefile ' you ever had one,’ was the scornful reply; and he ate on. ‘ Tut, tut, mam! how’s the old lady ?’ ‘I sincerely hope she’s dead,’ said Burridge7 sucking away imperturbubly. ‘Oh,iDonald,you parricidal ruflian ! 1 where are your natural affections?‘ and he playfully threw an over-ripe mango at tho dragoon, which took effect upon his chin and burst over his white waistcoat. Thercupon a terrible scene ensued ; the phlegm of the plunger gave way to un- governable fury, and he overwhelmed my brother with handfuls of fruit, plates, glasses, knives, and whatever came to hand. The’lrow alarmed the whole esw tablishment, and Burridge was with dif- ficulty overpowered. Eventually an ex- planation took place, and my brother was, though with some difficulty, con- vinced. They immediately became great friends (1 fear my brother’s tastes , are rather low), and he afterwards saved Burridge from falling over a ‘ cud.’ I don't know whether that is the right spelling, and I‘m not quite sure that I know what a ‘oud’ is, but I believe it to be a kind of precipice in the Himalayâ€" as over which picnic parties appears to have an unfortunate habit of loosing their lives. Be that as it may, my bro- ther somehow saved his life in connection with a ‘cud,’ and I, for my part, can’t say I think the better of him for it. I have now mentioned three of these cases of mistaken 1dentity, and I think they are sufiicient, though, 1f necessary, instead of three I could adduce three hundred ; and every day at this present writing brings large additions to the list. Burridge has a large acquaintance‘ap. parently, and on an averagerday in the height of the season I should say I out about a dozen of them who insist on Whole N0. 553. ly diminishing, @731ng the~ i-mpractica-v' b111ty of establishing . altln to every one who is cut by on! L ouble. I find; that Burridge (who is bx’cessively indig- nant at the mistakes, on the ground, I understand, that his personal beauty and ten are superior tamineâ€"hal ha!) in outing my acquaintances, contrives, by i the way he does so, to leave behind very rancorous feelingsâ€"so much so that many are too angry to entertain the idea of an alibi or any other basis of explana- tion. So I now make a point of cutting his people as offensively as possible, mow- ing them down with a irenohant sneer, or blighting them with the incredulous. astonishment of a wintry eye. It is war to,the knife between us nowâ€"a war of reprisals, and, I suspect, of extermina~ tion, as far as our visiting lists are con- cerned. , At the beginning of the season, when Burridge returned from Patagonia or the Monfussil, or whencesoever he did return, when and, consequently, the dis‘ tressing inconvenience Ihave,I iear,been too long dwelling upon, began first to be felt, I sent an envoy to him to see if we could not come to some arrangement to obviate the inconvenience of these mis- takes. M y representative (Who was filled with zeal rather than with discre- tion, and who was, moreover of a bully- ing and autocratic turn of mind) pointed out to Burridge that, as he was the latest comer, in a Parkgoing point of view, I was clearly entitled to consider myself the aggrieved party, and to call upon him to make any sacrifice that might be necessary to restore our re- spective identities to a proper footings He then suggested that Burridge should shave his whiskers off, which was declin- ed : that he should adopt blue spectacles ; no, he wouldn’t. Well, then,'a blue eye- glass; certainly not. That he should r~ wear perpetual mourning, or a white hat ' with a black band, or become notorious by walking about with an alpenstock, or cairyinga kitten or a squirrel on his shoulder Wherever he went. Nd, he would agree to nothing of the sort. ‘Well, then.’ said my envoy, ‘there’s only one thing for itâ€"we can’t have you in town at all during the season; you must go and cricket or fish somewherew-say Cornwall or Norwr yâ€"during May,:Dme and July. I daresny we can spare u the last week in July, provided you‘zveb‘id the Park and the Opera.’~ .Bu’rridge, who is evidently unreasonable, hereupon drove my envoy from his presengo with language unfit for publication ;, and from, that day Burr-idge eyes me arm Ieye Burridgc as Saul eyed Devil. CHAPTER II. The proceeding pages were Vmitten 'a good many years ago, and the‘evgnts therein related are separated by air in- terval of five years from those which be- long to the narrative I now propose to lay before the public. They were writ- ten, it will be seen, at a time when I was smarting under the annoyance of feeling that my indentity Was almost shared by another man. “Thylll wrote i has any. wesc, edm _,reeo ectipn. It may hfie‘b‘ééfiiigafifig Were intend- ed as the introduction to a series of pa‘ pers, wherein were to be duly chronicled the various contretemps and “untoward events which seemed likely to arise from the startling resemblance between Bur- ridge and myself ; perhaps with the wild .hope of a vain youth who wished the eyes of all London to be upon him, of advertising the pubic thoroughly pf the existence of the double idenlity, and thereby of that half of. the identity which belonged to himself ; thus salving his amour prop/re wounded by the pre~ vious mistakes, by making himéalf nota- ble in this somewhat ignoble way. {It may be so; we know 119w sweet the ‘monstrari digito' is to many hinds, and what devices are resorted t0 pro- cure the feeblest little tootle ubr‘rthe smallest of Fame’s penny tru pets; but it is now immaterial why hey were bowing to me. 1 too have a large ac- qunintance, go it may be presumed that Burridge’s av‘erage daily bag approaches the same dimensoens my own. 011,1; respective lists, the}; e, {nuggbe rag-yid- it is now immaterial 'why “they 'were written. Sufiice it that here they are, ready to my hand, and that I am going to prefix them as an explanatory intrw duction to the narative of the remarlp able chain of circumstances to which, after being lost sight of and forgotten for a good many years, this singular resem- blance has more recently given rise, in- fluencing in a manner as singular as the likeness itself the desitinies of my ‘double' and myself. Little did I think when I used to pass Captain Bur- ridge in the park, or encounter him in the ‘Zoologicals’ with a fixed eye and erected crestâ€"little did I think that one day I should be , but pshaw l I must not anticipate. I accompanied my rich aunt (widow of a rich city maternal uncleâ€"«for though a Seotehman, I will be moderate enough to own that I have some city blood) one evening‘ two or three seasons ago, to the ooera, and having established her and uiyself‘ in the stalls which she had select- ed at Mitchell‘s, after half an hour 8 de- liberation and discussion with the long- suffering man, I proceeded to take the usual survey of the house, in quest of friends or notables worthy of observa- tion. My aunt. I must explain, was in the habit of Visiting the opera once an. nua'll'y, but these annual occasions were for her grand festas and gala nights, and she entered upon each with the avowed intention of ‘getting her pennyâ€"worth.’ In this expression was implied not so much a full swing of musical evioyment; to this, I fear’ she was indifferent, except when her ear recognised some air with which the interpreting organ-grinder had fainiliariscd her in making hideous the Bromptonian day and night. ‘ Getting her pennyworth ’ implied the largest pos- sible gratification of her social rather than of her musical tastes; it implied the earlist possible arrival and the latest possible departure ; it implied the selec- tion of a night when there was likely to 'be a full and brilliant house, With its fine toilettes and diamonds, grandees, lions, he“??? and lialf'nes of burning Sfiandfllfig v’l