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Hedwiga's chilblains, John Mytton's two hours' crawl on the ice in his shirt, after a flock of wild ducks. They both endured like heroes; but the former for a selfish, if not a blasphemous end; the latter, as a man should, to test and strengthen his own powers of endurance. . . . There, I will say no more. Go your way, in God's name.

Saunders kindly lent us a Snider rifle for protection, as the blacks were bad through the ranges, between his station and Mytton's. We camped the first night at the Broken River, a weird looking place. This was about May, 1868, and the nights being very cold we would place one blanket under and have the other over us, with our heads on the saddle, and the rifle between us.

'I think the raptures are genuine gush, said Bessie; 'but that is so much the worse for Arthurine. Is there any positive harm in the family beyond the second-rate tone? 'It was while you were away, said Susan; 'but their father somehow behaved very ill about old Colonel Mytton's will at least papa thought so, and never wished us to visit them.

She read it one evening when they were with us, and they declared it was too good not to be published and almost before she knew it, Fred Mytton's literary friend got hold of it and took it to the agency of this paper. But indeed, indeed, she never thought of its being considered personal, and is as vexed as possible at the way in which it has been taken up.

There was no hope of escape, and I had resigned myself to the imminent bath, when at a turn in the narrow roadway we found the path blocked by two pedestrians. With Mytton's hand forcing my head downwards I did not at first see them, but I heard a loud voice call, "Hold, rascals!" breaking in upon the watchman's feeble cry, "O my sakes! Help for the watch!"