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We passed a large house on our left. "Who lives there?" said I. "Mr Smith," he replied. "It is called Plas Newydd; milltir genom etto we have yet another mile." In ten minutes we were at Bangor. I asked him where the Albion Hotel was. "I will show it you," said he, and so he did.

William Young, the thoroughly accomplished editor of the Albion, is to be our creditor in the coming autumn for two hundred songs of Beranger, in English, with the pictorial illustrations which graced the splendid edition of the great lyrist's works recently issued in Paris. Mr.

"Yes, Coventry is dead; attend the strain, Daughters of Albion, ye that, light as air, So oft have trips in her fantastic train, With hearts as gay, and faces half as fair; For she was fair beyond your highest bloom; This envy owns, since now her bloom is fled. &c. &c. &c. We have then a sketch of a man of considerable celebrity in his day, Lord Sandwich.

"Hola!" she cried, leaving Voltaire for what took her fancy. "We talk of Albion there is one of her sons. I detest your country, but I must confess she breeds uncommonly handsome men."

I have been as grave as a judge for nearly a week; and besides, every Englishman whom I succeed in making thoroughly uncomfortable, is one scion of the stock of perfidé Albion paid off for all old scores!" "Humph!" said Harding. "You are incorrigible, and that is all that can be said about it."

Steamboat Dan failed not to respond; for he was stricken of a wholesome fear of Inspector Val. And well he might be. There was that prison cell in Joliet all vacant for his coming; and he must protect the shady peace of the Albion House near James Slip. Altogether, there was no help for it; Steamboat Dan must yield to his destiny of stool pigeon or pay the penalty in stripes.

John river and its numerous tributaries, with their lakes; therefore farmers generally used small boats for means of conveyance, waggons being looked upon as an extravagant luxury. Another public house, kept by Mr. Robert Welch, and known as the Albion Hotel, also occupied a prominent position, being well furnished and affording comfort and good accommodation to the travelling public.

Then an albatross was seen wheeling above the sea. Then, on March 6, two lonely land seals went plying past; and whales were noticed. Surely they were nearing the region that Drake, the English freebooter, had seen and named New Albion two hundred years before. Suddenly, on the morning of March 7, the dim offing ahead showed thin, sharp, clear lines. The lines rose higher as the ship approached.

"What's the sense of talking that way don't be so tragic. This isn't the stage of the Albion." "No, it's not." She dropped her hands and faced him. "It's real life it's my real life. It's the first I've ever had." And suddenly she went to him, caught his arm, and pressing against it looked with impassioned eyes into his.

After you pass Albion village, with its streets shaded by elms and maples and its outskirts embowered in blossoming orchards, you wind along a hilly country road that runs between grassy fields.