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descent into a deep dell. The lady shuddered vio-lently as she saw this; but Sir Henry, in an at-tempt to re-assure her, said:

" There is nothing here to fear, although it mustbe confessed this pit looks ugly enough. Youknow I am an approved good charioteer, and,sec, yonder we shall have the fence again. Cheerup, my love."

He had no sooner said these words than a largebird darted out from the opposite hedge with arushing noise across the eyes of the horses, who,taking fright thereat, pulled different ways, andgrew utterly unmanageable. The lady had onlytime to shriek out, " See the horses ! the dream, thedream!"—when the carriage rolled on one side, andthen was precipitated over the edge of the steep.

Some peasants, who accidentally strayed into

that unfrequented place the same evening, found

the carriage among briars and underwood, at the

bottom of the dell, the horses mangled and dying,

and the husband and wife folded in each others'

arms, dead and cold!

C. O.