We, who know the hostile feelings of the population, are not surprised
at the occurrence, and rather congratulate the tourists that they
effected their escape so well. We notice the affair to put others on
their guard; and (as the Chinese say) if they should get into a similar
scrape, they cannot blame us for not warning them of their danger.
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THE GATHERER
"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
SHAKSPEARE.
BAPTISMAL PROMISES.
One of the subjects for confirmation at a bishop's recent visitation, on
being asked by the clergyman to whom she applied for her certificate of
qualifications, what her godfathers and godmothers promised for her,
said, with much _naivete_, "I've a yeard that they promised to give me
hafe a dozen zilver spoons, but I've never had 'em though."
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A GOOD WIFE.
The real portrait of a fine lady, wife to one of the ancient and noble
family of the Fanes, Earls of Westmoreland, drawn by her husband, and
inscribed in old characters upon a wall of a room in Buxton Place, a
seat belonging to the noble family, near Maidstone, in Kent.--_Taken
from Mist's Journal_.
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