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doubtful about the givaffe. T should certainly have had a better opportunity of holding my head high i the world than 1T ever have now ; and the eirallc has the advantage of the bluchottle in the matter of gouty feet. But what a neck for mumps! T think I saest have been a raven or a jackdaw at some time—reasoning by induction—and I musl have had a rare cood time. The great object of a raven's Tile is the collection of valuables, wherein he resembles a large halt of the human race.

He steals rings, silver thimbles,

and money, hoarding them in

a safe and quict place. Now,

there 1s nothing so impartial as

good Dame Nature, Forevery-

thing =he gives its compen- SAtion ;oevery poison has its anti- dotey every excess its counteracting scarcity ; nothing dies. Iovervthing 15 i cause, and the clfects of all causces work on for cternity. So that T conclude that my hife as a raven must have been peculiarly successtul from a0 business pornt of view, and that for that Hood of cood fortune I am now sulfermge the cbb. Obviously 1 must have been bursting with this world's wealth in come life or another, else why things

as they =0 painfully are 7 P Or perhaps — stunning

thought '—1 am saving up all this penury against a Hood of millions (o come. But, come when it will, 1t shall never overwhelm me, for

[ shall takea holidav

i a Scotch hotel.

[ quite believe

[ ~kipped the cro- codiles:at any rate, [ tind httle hereditary alfinaty between us, \When 2 crocodile objects to its surronndings, it refuses its food as 2 boy at school, T ob- jected i'm‘_\' much to my curroundines, but without any clfect ol that sort. My late friend—Gaod re-t him '— Mo Jamrach, weed