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From Outre-Mer, or, a Pilgrimage beyond the Sea,
BY H. W. LONGFELLOW, Esq.
JACQUELINE.

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
SHAKSPEARE.

"Dear mother, is it not the bell I hear?"
"Yes, my child; the bell for morning prayers. It is
Sunday to-day."

"I had forgotten it. But now all days are alike to me. Hark! it sounds again-louder-louder. Open the window, for I love the sound. There; the sunshine and the fresh morning air revive me. And the church bell--oh mother,--it reminds me of the holy sabbath mornings by the Loire-so calm, so hushed, so beautiful! Now give me my prayer-book, and draw the curtain back that I may see the green trees and the church spire. I feel better to-day, dear mother."

It was a bright, cloudless morning in August. The dew still glistened on the trees; and a slight breeze wafted to the sick-chamber of Jacqueline the song of the birds, the rustle of the leaves, and the solemn chime of the church-bells. She had been raised up in bed, and reclining upon the pillow, was gazing wistfully upon the quiet scene without. Her mother gave her the prayer-book and then turned away to hide a tear that stole down her cheek.

shall never hear again on earth. Next sabbath mother, kneel again by that window as to-day. I shall not be here, upon this bed of pain and sickness, but when you hear the solemn hymn of worship and the beseeching tones that wing the spirit up to God,think mother, that I am there, with my sweet sister who has gone before us,-kneeling at our Saviour's feet, and happyoh, how happy!"

The afflicted mother made no reply,—her heart was too full to speak.

"You remember, mother, how calmly Amie died. Poor child, she was so young and beautiful!-I al ways pray, that I may die as she did. I do not fear death as I did before she was taken from us. But ohthis pain-this cruel pain-it seems to draw my mind back from heaven. When it leaves me I shall die in peace."

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My poor child!-God's holy will be done!" The invalid soon sank into a quiet slumber. The excitement was over, and exhausted nature sought relief in sleep.

The persons, between whom this scene passed, were a widow and her sick daughter, from the neigh borhood of Tours. They had left the banks of the Loire to consult the more experienced physicians of the metropolis, and had been directed to the Maison De Sante at Auteuil for the benefit of the pure air. But all in vain. The health of the suffering, but uncomplaining patient grew worse and worse, and it soon became evident that the closing scene was drawing near.

At length the bells ceased. Jacqueline crossed herself, kissed a pearl crucifix that hung around her neck, and opened the silver clasps of her missal. For a time Of this Jacqueline herself seemed conscious; and toshe seemed wholly absorbed in her devotions. Her ward evening she expressed a wish to receive the last lips moved, but no sound was audible. At intervals sacraments of the church. A priest was sent for: and the solemn voice of the priest was heard at a distance, ere long the tinkling of a little bell in the street_anand then the confused responses of the congregation,nounced his approach. He bore in his hard a silver dying away in inarticulate murmurs. Ere long the vase containing the consecrated wafer, and a small thrilling chaunt of the Catholic service broke upon the vessel filled with the holy oil of the extreme unction ear. At first it was low, solemn, and indistinct;-then hung from his neck. Before him walked a boy car. it became more earnest and entreating, as if interced-rying a little bell, whose sound announced the passing ing, and imploring pardon for sin;-and then arose loud- of these symbols of the Catholic faith. In the rear, er and louder, full, harmonious, majestic, as it wafted a few of the villagers, bearing lighted wax tapers, formthe song of praise to heaven,-and suddenly ceased. ed a short and melancholy procession. They soon enThen the sweet tones of the organ were heard,tered the sick chamber, and the glimmer of the tapers trembling, thrilling, and raising higher and higher, and mingled with the red light of the setting sun, that shot filling the whole air with their rich melodious music. his farewell rays through the open window. The vessel of What exquisite accords!-what noble harmonies!- oil and the vase contaming the consecrated wafers were What touching pathos!-The soul of the sick girl placed upon the table in front of a cuucifix that hung seemed to kindle into more ardent devotion, and to be upon the wall, and all present excepting the priest, wrapt away to heaven in the full harmonious chorus, threw themselves upon their knees. The priest as it swelled onward, doubling and redoubling, and then approached the bed of the dying girl, and said in rolling upward in a full burst of rapturous devotion! a slow and solemn tone: Then all was hushed again. Once more the low sound of the bell smote the air, and announced the elevation of the host. The invalid seemed entranced in prayer. Her book had fallen beside her, her hands were elasped, her eyes closed,-her soul retired within its secret chambers. Then a more triumphant peal of bells arose. The tears gushed from her closed and swollen lids; her cheek was flushed; she opened her And turning to the kneeling crowd around, he dark eyes and fixed them with an expression of deep waved his hand for them to retire, and was left alone adoration and penitence upon an image of the Saviour with the sick girl. He seated himself beside her pilon the cross, which hung at the foot of her bed, and low, and the subdued whisper of the confession minher lips again moved in prayer. Her countenance ex-gled with the murmur of the evening air, which lifted pressed the deepest resignation. She seemed to ask only that she might die in peace, and go to the bosom of her Redeemer.

The mother was kneeling by the window, with her face concealed in the folds of the curtain. She arose, and, going to the bed side of her child, threw her arms around her, and burst into tears.

"My dear mother, I shall not live long-I feel it here. This piercing pain-at times it seizes me, and I cannot-cannot breathe."

"My child, you will be better soon."

"The King of kings and Lord of lords has passed thy threshold. Is thy spirit ready to receive him?”— "It is, father."

"Hast thou confessed thy sins?"
"Holy father, no."

"Confess thyself, then, that thy sins may be forgiven, and thy name recorded in the book of life.”

the heavy folds of the curtains and stole in upon the holy scene. Poor Jacqueline had few sins to confess, -a secreet thought or two towards the pleasures and delights of the world,-a wish to live, unuttered, but which to the eye of her self-accusing spirit seemed to resist the wise providence of God, no more. The confession of a meek and lowly heart is soon made The door was again opened; the attendants entered, and knelt around the bed, and the priest proceeded:

"And now prepare thyself to receive with contrite heart the body of our blessed Lord and Redeemer."Yes, mother, I shall be better soon. All tears and Dost thou believe that our Lord Jesus Christ was corpain and sorrow will be over. I have just heard what Iceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary?"

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This lasted for sometime; but still there were no signs of man's boasted pre-eminence! not an animal had the party secured dead or alive. * * At low water the following morning one party formed a line across one of the shallows, where the depth was not

"Dost thou pardon, with all thy heart, all who have above two feet, while the boats went up the river and offended thee in thought, word or deed?"

"I pardon them."

"And dost thou ask pardon of God and thy neigh. bor for all offences thou has committed against them either in thought, word, or deed?" "I do!"

"Then repeat after me; O Lord Jesus, I am not worthy, nor do I merit, that thy divine Majesty should enter this poor tenement of clay; but according to thy holy promises be my sins forgiven, and my soul washed white from all transgression."

Then taking a consecrated wafer from the vase, he placed it between the lips of the dying girl, and while the assistant sounded the little silver bell, said;

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Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam eternam."

And the kneeling crowd smote their breasts and responded in one solemn voice;

"Amen!"

The priest then took from the silver box on the table a little golden rod, and dipping it in holy oil, anointed the invalid upon the hands, feet and breast in the form of the cross. When there ceremonies were completed, the priest and his attendants retired, leav ing the mother alone with her dying child, who, from the exhaustion caused by the preceding scene, sank into a death-like sleep.

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Between two worlds life hovered like a star, "Twixt night and morn upon the horizon's verge." The long twilight of the summer evening stole on; the shadows deepened without, and the night-lamp glimmered feebly in the sick chamber; but still she Slept. She was lying with her hands clasped upon her breast, her pallid cheek resting upon the pillow, and her bloodless lips apart, but motionless and silent as the sleep of death. Not a breath interrupted the silence of her slumber. Not a movement of the heavy and sunken eye-lid-not a trembling of the lip--not a shadow on the marble brow told when the spirit took its flight. It passed to a better world than this.

"There's a perpetual spring--perpetual youth; No joint-benumbing cold, nor scorching heat, Famine, nor age have any being there.'

HIPPOPOTAMUS HUNTING. The following account of an African hunt, may interest sportsmen. It appears to be a somewhat laborious and dangerous sport.

actually drove the animals down the stream, another party having lined the banks to prevent their taking to the woods and reeds. These, whenever the monstrous but timid animals, attempted to pass them, set up a shout, which in most instances proved sufficient to turn them back into the water; when, collecting a vast number on one shallow bank of sand, the whole of the hunters commenced from all sides a regular cannonade upon the astonished brutes. Unwieldy as they appeared, still much activity was displayed in their efforts to escape the murderous and unceasing fire to which they were exposed. The one-pound gun occasionally furrowed the thick hide of some, while others were perpetuaily assailed by a shower of pewter musket balls. One, a cub, was nearly caught uninjured in attempting to follow its mother, who, galled to desperation, was endeavoring to escape through the land party; but soon as the affectionate brute perceiv ed her offspring falling into the hands of her enemies, forgetting her fears she rushed furiously at the offenders, when they in their turn were obliged to retreat; but again they contrived to separate them, and had almost secured the prize, when the angry mother, regardless of their close and almost fatal fire, succeeded in redeeming it from their grasp and bearing it off, although herself in a state of great exhaustion. With the flood this sport ended.

On their return to the schooner along the banks of the river, passing near a spot where an hippopotamus heard in the reeds, as if the animal had retreated thither had been seen sporting in the water, a rustling was on the discharge of their pieces. Messrs. Arlett and Barrette, with two of the seamen, immediately followed with the view of driving him out. The former gentleman was a little in advance, and eager in the pursuit, when he was heard loudly to exclaim, "here animal instantly followed and in a few seconds Mr. he is!" The shrill, angry scream of some large Barrette rushed from the reeds with his face covered with blood and calling aloud for assistance, as Lieu. tenant Arlett was attacked and thrown down by an elephant. The party were immediately on the alert in search of the unfortunate officer, whom they expected to find a mangled corpse. As they approached, the elephant alarmed at their number, retreated, leaving his victim on the ground in a state that may more easily be imagined than described. He was stretched motionless on his back, covered with blood and dirt, and his eyes staring from their sockets, in all the expressive horror of a violent death.

As all our attempts to obtain an hippopotamus had Every attention was immediately paid to him, but hitherto failed, and as we were not likely to meet with it was long feared that the vital spark had fled. Some another opportunity, this being our last visit to Delagoa water was procured, when, after his face had been Bay, a party of officers volunteered for the chase, and washed and a little introduced into his mouth, he were conveyed up the Dundas river in the Albatross. showed symptoms of returning life; but it was some The evening set in before they reached that part of time before he recovered his senses, and became suffithe river where the hippopotami were the most abund-ciently collected to give a connected account of the ant. Three parties were, however, formed, who at midnight commenced their pursuit. The scene was novel and imposing; a body of men armed at all points

occurrence that had led to his pitiable state. It ap peared that, from the thickness of the reeds, he was close to the animal before he was at all aware of his

situation, but immediately on making his discovery, he | uttered the exclamation heard by his companions of "here he is!" This had hardly escaped him, when he discovered that instead of an hippopotamus, he was almost stumbling over an enormous elephant. The animal which appeared highly irritated at the intrusion, waved its trunk in the air and the moment he spoke, reared upon its hind legs, turned short round, and, with a shrill, passionate cry, rushed after him, bearing down the opposing reeds in his way, while Lieutenant Arlett vainly attempted his escape. For a short time he had hopes of eluding his pursuer, as the animal perceived one of the seamen mounted on the top of a tree, about twenty feet high and three in circumference, menacing him by his voice and gesture, while preparing to fire. The elephant turned short round, and shrieking with rage, made a kind of spring against the tree, as if to reach the object of his attack, when his ponderous weight bore the whole to the ground, but fortunately without hurting the man, who slipped among the reeds. The ferocious animal still followed him, foaming with rage, to the rising bank of the river; the man crying loudly, an elephant! an elephant!" until closely pressed by his pursuer, they both came upon the top of the slope, where the party who had heard his cries were prepared, aud instantly fired a volley as the elephant appeared. This made him return with increas ed fury to Mr. Arlett, who, in his eagerness to escape, stumbled and fell, the huge beast running over him and severely bruised his ancle.

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As soon as he had passed, Mr. Arlett arose and limped with pain, attempting once more to retreat, but the animal returned to the attack; his trunk was flourished in the air, and the next moment the unfortunate officer was struck senseless to the ground. On recovering himself his situation appeared hopeless, his huge antagonist standing over him, chaffing and screaming with rage, pounding the earth with his feet, and ploughing it with his tusks. When the party first saw them, Mr. Arlett was lying between the elephant's legs, and had it been the intention of the animal to destroy him, placing a foot on his senseless body would in a moment have crushed him to atoms; but it is probable that his object was only to punish and alarm, not to kill-such conjectures being perfectly in accordance with the character of this noble but revengeful beast.

Mr. Arlett was with much care instantly conveyed on board the schooner, when, on examination, it was found that his body was severely bruised, yet no bones were broken, excepting the fibula of the left leg, which was supposed to be slightly fractured. It appeared that the elephant on his return to Mr. Arlett had filled his trunk with mud; which, having turned him on his back, and forced open his mouth, he blew down his throat, injecting a large quantity into the stomach. It was this that produced the inflated appearance of Mr. Arlett's countenance, for he was almost in a state of suffocation, and for three days after this adventure, he occasionally vomited quantities of blue sand.

When he encountered the elephant, he had a rifle in his hand, but he was too close to fire, knowing as he did that in case of failure his destruction would be certain, for, when wounded, the desperation of this animal is fatal to all. Upon conveying him to the boat, this rifle was forgotten, and a party of four sent to recover it. They had just succeeded, and were about to return, when the elephant rushed in amongst them. The first and second men fired without effect, but the ball of the third fortunately injured him.

Woman.-A modern writer says that woman is a cordial for all the diseases of the mind-a nymph among a band of satyrs-in short she is the attic salt which seasons the dish of mortality.

From Wild Sports of the West of Ireland. "In 181-," said my kinsman, "a gentleman with his family left Dublin, and removed to an extensive farm he had taken in the wild and troublesome barony of. There was no dwelling-house procurable for some time, and the strangers took up their residence in a large cabin upon the road-side, about a mile distant from the little town offord.

"It was naturally supposed that, coming to settle in a strange country, this gentleman had brought money and valuables along with him; a gang of robbers in fested that lawless neighbourhood under the command of the notorious Captain Callagher, and they marked out the stranger for a prey.

"This new settler had been married but a few months, and his wife was a young and lovely woman. On the third night after their arrival they retired st their customary hour to rest-he slept upon the ground floor, and the lady and her female attendants occupied some upper chambers.

"It was past midnight; the unsuspecting family bu ried in deep repose, when Mr. was fearfully awakened by a stone shattering the window and breaking the looking-glass upon the table. He was unhappily, a nervous, timid man; he was aware that the house was being attacked; a loaded carbine lay within his reach, but he appears to have abandoned all hope or thought of defending himself—he heard the crashing of the cabin-windows-he heard the appalling sound of women's shrieks-but, trembling and agitaled, he had not power to leave his bed.

"Never did a more dastardly gang attack a house than Gallagher's. After every window was driven in, more than half an hour elapsed before one of them would attempt to enter, although no show of resistance had been offered by the inmate of the house. The cowardly villians would occasionally peep through the shattered casement, and instantly withdraw.

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A single blow struck with good effect, one shot from the loaded carbine, would have scattered the scoundrels and saved the family from plunder and a dreadful insult. But the unhappy man, paralyzed with terror, lay in helpless imbecility upon his bed, and the banditti, satisfied that no resistance would be offered, at last made good an entrance.

"They lighted candles, bound the unfortunate gen. tleman, left him half dead with terror, and proceeded to ransack the premises. Soon after shrieks from the lady's chamber announced their being there. They drank wine, and broke every place and thing in the expectation of plunder.

But unfortunately, they were disappointed; I say unfortunately, as, had they found money, it is possible the lady would have been preserved from insult. Maddoned by liquor, and disappointed in their expected booty, the helpless women were subjected to savage insult.

"What must have been the wretched man's sufferings, as he listened to the supplications of his beautifu! wife for pity?

"After a dreadful visit of three hours, the ruffians left the house. Their apprehension was almost imme diate. I was present at the trial, and the testimony of that beautiful woman, who sat on the bench beside the judge, with the evidence of the wretched husband, was melancholy.

"Conviction followed, and I attended at the place of execution."

TENACITY OF LIFE-The genus of animals called sea nettles, is very tenacious of life. If one of these animals is sliced, either perpendicularly or otherwise, each slice forms a new and complete being, in which will be found the mouth, as perfect as in the origin. The young of these sea nettles come into the world from the mouths of their mothers.

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