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 A tricter examination of the problem was precluded, by the arrival of the recovered ervant and potilion: of whom the latter tetified no les joy at the ight of his four hores in the table, than the former on being hewn into the dining-room, and finding his mitres afe, and in uch comfortable plight. In the exultation of his heart he drew the chief intrument of the michief out of his pocket, namely, the montrous Saracen’s head of the figure in black, which had felled him to the ground, as effectually as the burting of a bomb. The examination of the head was committed to the phyician. However, without ubjecting it to his anatomical knife, he intantly recognized it for an huge hollowed gourd filled with and and tones, and worked up into a very groteque figure, by the addition of a wooden noe, and a long flax beard.

The company did not break up till the morning was begining to dawn. The ladies were conducted to tate-beds with uperb