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 it, according to the uual fahion, between his houlders, but carried it under his arm, jut as if it had been a lap-dog. This montrous figure, only three trides off, excited great conternation both within and without the coach. The young mies and the maid, who did not at other times preume to make obervations till the ladies had done, now creamed all with one conent, and let down the ilk curtain to avoid eeing the figure, and hid their heads, like the otrich when it is run down by the hunters. Mama claped her hands in ilent agony; and this unphiloophical movement gave room to uppoe, that he was ilently recanting her confident aertions concerning the non-exitence of pirits. John, againt whom the formidable figure in black eemed to be meditating ome deign, began, in the anguih of his heart, the alutation appointed to be addreed to all good pirits, but,