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I I CongfLing and Qor Ding. BY W. A. CROfTUT. Men Cong ling he WM a Chinse, Sen Uor Ding h« WM a Hindoo ; They quarreled and oonld not agree. And they looked at each other aakew In the ceo noils of Ham the Yan Kee. Mow GOT Ding WM jerking ohin-ohin, When Cong Ling remarked, \ Hire a hall! Dry up ! Let the business begin.\ The request WM both modest and small, For to yawp all the while it a sin. Cried Oor Ding, \ Yon want to be bos*'\ And he pounded bis desk with a rap ; *O, I'm a hyena and how And a braes mounted, terrible ohap For a stranger to happen across. *• O, you're a lyro, 1 believe,\ Remarked the brave Brahmin, Cong Ling ; \You're played, it is true, and 1 grieve.\ 44 A lyre. >T Why it neemed to Oor Ding He WM charged with attempt* to deceive. \ 111 settle this insult with yon,\ Cried Gor Ding, \ outside of this halL' In a •oioe whicb, the deo kee pah knew Meant Bla Den Bug, powder and ball, And tea and revolvers for two. Oh, did they not welter in gore ? Not a welter, but quite the reverse ; They shook hands and smiled aa before, And said, •• Brother, *ood men are sknrae, Afcd we cannot be spared from the floor.\ Then Thur Man and Bam Lia said, '' We And Tim How have settled it slick, No enemies Ling and Ding be, But they spake in the tongue of Pick Wick In the councils of Sam, the Yan Kee. BY AGBADLB. B***, efowey lids, on tired eyes, Hy little os« has DMd of sleep; <tarl low. felt olosd, the mm ran lies Tftotaaf about tbe ebeep. Shift 0 teat atream. Toor iVM'Mt aong; BM, babbling breeaee, u yon pats; Char* softly, b rda. within tb * long •ad not, ungtlhnod grua. • Husk I twlagtni fl'teri; your perfumed spsteh ti all too loud tor b»by mm: lafclak the itars' tar ohiolnjp reach So low ha tlwaxa haara. let look, O brook, and bird and itsr t Ha aoda, ha faili aal*cp; And oa tba hllit «o hint, to far, The ahcpbard call* hU abe«p. Ltakl t—% oomtnff ovar the it'); Ikoow tbat tb* y oomr by tli« fret Strath wind and tie trill Of a bird In tb* dtmpUog wbeati Ana I at tha mlil. Bevy and gav at tba mill, Steeped In •nmmar and nwftot, ,JLsa i}ad of Die noootils tia»i, AadfUd of ih« darll <«• thatatiU CeaalMiio* to tba otill. Trmuoript. ICajor Hammond's Ring. \What's this! \cried Miwllamroond,break- fag open a letter just bauded to tier by a ser- vant \You road it, Maggie ; your eyes are better thau mine.\ Small woudcr at that indeed, seeing that Maggie u aged about eighteen, aud the other stxtv*fiv* attbe very lee><t,a pleamot looking, well preserved HpiuhUr. with a brown rennlute (aoe and sausage curls over the forehead. Maggie, a handsome modern girl, sitaffown and reads: MAPAM The parishioners of 8t. Criflpin, , in vi i^rv asbtmbled, have deter- t« r-JfiiklUu-ir parish ohuivta, pro- nounced un^ifH \>\ hf hurv'VjorH, Contribu- tions ar* 1 IHHK -.'!•. *• <j«0Mled Tho alterations will ii<'c<<h-tt.ttr th rnunval oi many vaults and j^ravts ; uuionc »><•>• rs, IIHI! (>f the Ham- mond family. It i-tlm VK*I of the fhurcli- WHidenH tnrt ,np<., t tln-wi'-li*-*. of mirvivora aud othon* iu tin- di* |«>H»1 ol tli? remain*. Any direction you may have to Rive, you will be good #iufMi;»h to oomniunioatp to tte under- signed. Your most humble md obedient ser- vants, Tmn:AR Tr.i- in>TT 1 Chvirh- The two Mi^*t»< Hammond i'M»r«nrut wd Ellen) are jnmi proprietors of thwoinfurtable. estate of Wi»Htt>«rv, near Ui..;t'>'sb:iin,iwul of the handMonio mnnn on tiion-to bcionqin^. Maggie. tb<« >OIUIK girl, is ft distant counii)— although *\v* ••«)!« ln«-u» \mml\-• and liven with tl)«m. Tli«r.) i« also a votus*? mun. Ha^ph Grant, wuoow^flre »bout th \ i-laco, of whom more anmi. Old Tom Hammond, tl.T fathrr of thfl t^o maiden HIHUTS was born in tbey«ar 1740, and might have seeu the h»*adfi over Temple Bar after the rUinR of 174!i. \U> lived till I&'IO, He liad marripd late iu ltfe.and lnft onlythoso twodaughters. Th'us two ^enerationK bridged over a npiioe of time generall> occupied by many sucofwaive liven; as in the case of an- other branch of the family, the founder of which. Major Uirhard Hammond (the uncle of the two old ladies), who had been at the capture of Quebec when General \Wolfe was killed, toing the great-grandfather of Maggie Ltoidftrdalrmml lUlph Orant. Major Ham. montl WHS tho nldsr of the two brolBftrSi and should have luherited ibe Wertbnry ertnte ; but be offended his father. General John Hammond, by what WM called a low mar- riage, and was disinherited in eonnequence. Tom Hammond haddone hisbeet toremedy his father's injustice, as far as he could with- out injuring himself aud hiu own, by makiug a Mttwsieatof the estate, infaibiro of his own issue, upon the lawful desoendnntR of Maj<»r Hammond.his brother; providing that if the issue of his elder brother should fail, the estate should go to the issue of a younger brother H«nry, who. by the way, had been well provided for by the small estate of East bury. This brother Henry wan now repre- sented thtongh the female lino by a Mr. Doodles of Boodle Court, who now also held the Efwtbury eatnto. The demandants of Major Hammond are aoweonfined tothese twoyoung people. Mag- gto and Ralph. They are l>oth orphans and without means,their forcfathors havirig been mostly iu the soldierin'K and official lines. Batpb to a lieutenant in the artillery, and his bttteryis now in India; but he is at home on giak4tave; And he has taken advantage of his furlough to win the affections of his fair cousin. Aflthe West bury estate would come to ba «ventua11ydivided between them, Itwu eroakforod a tuont fortunate thin^ the young ,|Mople had come toao understanding, lialph was to le«*e the servicewheu he married, and take the home-farm. $y-and-by he would fail naturally into his position M country squire ; and it WM arranged that eventually hfi should atumme the uaroe of Hammond; hoping to continue the old line. This preamble betas necessary, let us now return to the ocmfortal^oidfasmoned draw- ing room al Westbury. \What do you think of that, Ellen f\ cried MIRS Hammond, Having read over one* mor% the circular to herself withaubdund emphasis. Miss Ellen was sitting looking into the tire, tier great wooden knitting piun and bn^ht- oolored wools lying illy on her Up, an whe shook her head while talking gently to her- self. \Do yon hear, Ellen Y* cried Miss Ham- mond more sharply. \What do you think of that letter from Truscott?\ • **I don't like the klea at all. Margaret. No, not at alL Whyoan't theykave our ancestors alone ? And I am sure I always looked for- ward to being buried there myself.\ \La! don't talk about that. Ellen, and yon five years theyounger!\ said Miss Hammond, briskly ; \and as we can't prevent its being done, we must make the best of it Balph had better go and nee to it.\ \Very well, skto-r; M yon like,\ said Ellen. Presently nhe retrained: \Sister been thinking that this would be a good ohanoeto try to get baukUucle Richard Ham- mond's ring.\ \Uncle Hammond's ring!\ repeated the elder sister. \I don't understand.\ * 'You murrthave heard our fathortalk about it. The family ring that ought to have gone with the estates—a ruby and sapphire that General Hammond brought home from Oeylon.\ : 'I ought to know all about it, Ellen, I daresay: but you were BO much more with my poor father, and had more patienoe with his stories. \My father often tried to get the ring, and had offered to give Major Hammond a large mm for it But he was so vexed with father for supplanting him, that he vowed he never should have it; and they say, sister, that rather than it should «*ver fall into his broth- er's hands, he had it buried with him, upon his finger. Our father ulways wild that if he had a chance he woftld have theooffin opened to see.\ \Maggie who had retreated to a sofa, and buried her head in a nov«l, roused up at this, 'and joined in : \I hope yon will, auntie. I 4o hope you'll have it looked for.\ \I don't know, my dear,\ said Miss Ham- mond. \I don't approve of violating the sanctity of the tomb.\ .With the «lder Miss Hammond, a phrase was everything; she deli<{hted to bring a thing within the compass of a well-rounded phrase, upon which she would then make a Stand—invinoible. 80 Maggie threw up tier head in a kind of despair, and ran off to look tor Ralph, who, when last heard of, was smoking a oigar on the terrace. \Balph!\ said Maggie, as soon as she had found him, and had submitted to a ver* smoky kiss—they were in the heyday 0? their young loves, when kisses were appreci- ated, even when flavored with tobaooo— \Balph! auntie is going to give you a com- mission—to go and see about a vault at St. Crispin's, where some of our ancestors lie.\ , \I know.\ said Italph; 'Hhey are going to poll the old place down. All right; 1'il do it.\ Then Maggie went on to tell him about the ring,and how MitwHaramond would not have it searched for. \But it is a very valuable ring—a family one too. It would be a groat pity to miss it, if it's really there.\ Balph agreed. \Well then, mind you look for it, «ir; only don't say a word to auntie, or she'll put a stop to it\ •Tin fly,\ said Italph, with a knowing wink and attempted a renewal of the oeouta- tory process; but Maggie escaped him this ime, and came fleeing m at tho dining-room window panting into the presence of her aunts. Binpe she first left the room, a visitor had appeared—a Mr. Boodles, a distant relative, who had inherited some of the family prop- erty, as before explained; a tail grim-looking ruan, with thin iron-gray hair, carefully hrnshed off his temples. The annts wore looking rather serionw, not to Ray frighteued, and both started guiltily when they saw Maggie. \Leave us, my dear, please,\ said Miss Hammond gently. Maggie had just caugW the words, \No at all,\ from Mr. Boodles, who to bo speaking loudly and excitedly ; flho went out wondering what it all Homo piece of scandal, no doubt, for boodles was the quintessence of spiteful- \it is very dVadful—very,\ said Mhw Hnmniond. *'I never had much opinion of Uncle Richard, you know ; but for the sake <>f tho young people, I hope you'll let it be kt-pt a prolonud secret.\ •\Sako of the young people 1\ screamed Boodle* at the top of bis narsh voice. \And what for the sake of old Boodles ? I'm the uext heir, you'll remember, please, through my maternal grand-fathor, Henry Ham- mond. Mr. Boodles had oome to Westbury to an- nounce an important discovery that he had recently made. In turning over some of his grandfather'spapers he had comeacross some letters from General Hammond, in which it was firmly asserted that his son Major Ham- mond had never been legally married to the woman known as his wife. •'What end do you propone to serve, Mr. BoodJfa, by hringiug this ancient scandal to light ?\ asked Mlu Hammond, with agitated voice. \End!\ cried Boodles. \This is>mly the beginning of it I am going to a oonrt of law to have myself declared heir to the West- bury estates under the settlement\ \In that case,\ said Miss Hammond.rising with dignity, \you cannot be received on friendly terms in my house.\ \On. very well, very well,\ cried Boodles, snatching upbjs hat and whip, and sweeping out of the room without further ceremony. As soon as tbedoor had shut upon him the sisters looked at each other in blank conster- nation. I always feared there would be a diffi- culty,** said Ellen tremulously; \but oh, to think at Boodles having discovered it!\ \We must send for Smith at once; the carriage shall go in and fetch him,\ said Miss Hammond, ringing the bell .,*••••.:*' V *•'•* Mr. Smith of Gigglesham WM the family ftolioltor, and the carriage WM sent off to bring him up at once for a consultation. But Smith broufihtiittle encouragement He had heard from bis father that there were curious oiroumstanoca attending Major Hammond's marriage, and if Boodles had put his finger on the flaw——Smith shrugged his should em for want of word<to expressiirc awkward- nesn of the case, \But search must be mad* everywhere; the evidence of the marriage mast be found; the children must not suffer, poor things, and always brought no to look upon tue property M tlwir own 1 * v'»/, \Why.tbey oould nevermarry,\ cried Miss Ellen; \they oould never live on Balph's pay.\ \It's altogether dreadful; and not getting married is the very lightest part of the cal- amity,\ said Miss Hammond. Smith undertook thatevery Dosaiblesearch should be made, and went away, promising to set to work at onoo. Buthis inquiries had no result He had traced out the family of the reputed wife, who had been the daughter of a small farmer living at Milton in Kent; but they had now fallon to the rauk of labor- ers,'and had no papers belonging to them, hardly - any. Xajialy.JjadiU.ous, He had •searched all theregistries of the neighboring pariflhe*; no reoord of such a marriage could be diHoovered. He ad issued advertisemente offering a reward for the production of evi- dence; all of no avail, what more could he do ? To be sure there was a presumption in favor of the marriage; but then if Boodles had documents robutting^ each a presump- tion- Again Mr. Smith shrugged his shoulders, in hopelessness of finding fitting words to represent the gravity of the crime. \And then,'' he went on to say, \the very fact that Boodle* impending money over the case shows that he thinks lie has a strong one.\ Boodles did not let the grare grow under his feet; he instituted {jrocebdiugH at once, and cited all interested to appear. The thing could no longer be kept a secret; and Mngg'e and Balph were told of the cloud that had oome Over their fortunes. \I don't care if the property does go away,\ said Maggie l ravely. \It will make no difference. I shall goto Tndia withRalph, that's all. I will be a soldier's wife, and ride on the baggage-wagons. Italph shook bis head. Hehad never been able to manage on bis pay when there wat v only himself, and there were ever no many lieutenants on the list before him, so that he oould nothopcto be a captain for many year... There was no use in sitting brooding over coming misfortunes; and Balph took the dogcart and drove over toUigglesham,to^see about tiie family vault at 8t Crispin's. It was an occupation that agteed well-with bis temper; the weather too seemed all in keep- ing—a dull drizzling day. \Don't forget thering,\ Maggiehad said to him at parting; \that is ours, you know, Balph, if we find it; and perhaps it may be worth a lot of money.\ Balph shook his head incredulously. And yet it was Doasible. The ring might be there, and it might prove of great value. Iu mis- fortunes the mind grasps at the smallest alle- viations, and Balph consoled himself in his depression bypicturing thefinding of a splen- did ruby wortn say ten thousand pounds. No more artillery work then—no more India. Giggteshazn boasts of several churches, and Si Crispin's lies in a hollow by the river, dose by the bridge. A low squat tower and plain ugly nave. But in its nook there—the dark riverflowlng by,th« sail of a barge shew ing nowand then,the tall piles of deals in the timber yard beyond,the tatjtle keepfrowning from the heighte.and the bfgwater-mill with iU wiers and rapids, the noise of which and of the great churning wheel sounded slum- brously nil day long—alliedwith these tilings the old church bad something homely aud pleiwaut about it,hardly to be replaced bythe finest modern Gothic. Workmen were swarming about it now. The roof wa# nearly off. There were great piles of sand and mortar in the graveytrd Mr. Mttrtiu.the plumber and glazier who took he most lively interest in the underground work, even to the neglect 0/ more profitable business, was on (he lookout for lieutenant Grant, and greeted him cheerily. ««Vf «'re got em aU laid out in the veetry, Oap'n Grant—all the whole family; and now the question is, what are you going to have done With them? Would you like '«un put in the vaults below, wherethey'11 ail be done up in lime and plaster ? or would you like 'em moved somewhere else—more in the open air like?\ \The least expensive way, 1 should say, 1 '* replied Ralph, grimly. Somehow or other his appreciation of his ancestors was deadened by this last stroke of fate in cutting him adrift from his succession. \But look here, Mar- tin,\ he went on, taking the plumber aside; \there is one of tie coffins, Major Ham- mond's, I should liki to have opened. It can be done ?\ enough, BU,\ cried Martin, who to say the truth, was delighted at tli» prospect of a little oharnel hiuso work. 'He's a lead un, he is. I'll h&v4 the top off in no time.' Balph looked gravely down at the loRt re- mains of the Hammonds. The wife, if she. had been *a wife, oij whom their inheritance bung, was not hen; she had died in India. But there was the 1 ajor's coffin, the wood- work decayed, bu the leaden envelope an sound as ever. Martin was*quiol|y at work with his took.' The coverwas stripped off,and for a moment the Major's feature were to beseen much as they had been in li J ; then all dissolved into dust There was no n iy ring—that most have been a fable; but here was something glit- tering among tbe 'mains, and on taking it nut it proved total plain gold hoop. \Well that's wort a pound, that is,\ cried the pracHcal Mart 1, carefully polfchiiig up the treasure trdvi It had probably been hung round the to* c of the departed—* tall bony man—for tlbe ing was a nmaU one, and then wore trioei < a black ribbon aiUohad toft S It WM a dlftftpplntment, no doubt; and yet someho w the ei( tt of the ring bad given Balph a little hope, t was the weddjpgring, he said to himself, i»s great-grandmother's eddtng-ring. Th Major must have been fond of heT to have ladber ring alwaysabout him ; and it bad b« 1 buried with him. Thai bad given rise to tl story about the ruby. He drove home; afi - giving directionfl about the disposal of thefcoffins, feeling lew sore at heart. He was >w convinced that they had right on their ie, and there was some oomfoti in that. When he reach* borne, he shewed the ring to Maggie, wb agreed with his conclu- sions. thing iniddo—some let-, ied. -Tnnrtc, 1 wild Ba»ph, turn. 'But stop That •But there is so ten, I think.' sue •It is mriy th having looked in g tells us something 'How can that 'Because there year. Bee! you c?, * K it will give TIB a date.' ' axked Maggie. a different mark every nnko it out. with a Oeortre in a pigtail.' OHigLeshttm turned up Hall-mark*, and told nifvjng glass. The Bilvewmit his tabulated list} them at ones the to of the ring—1760. *But It might 1 e bA*n made along time before it WM firs wcV mpgetted Maggie True; butH c d not have been nited before it WM ma ' replied Balph. 'It gives m a date appro* *e.ly, at all events.' At first the ifeowledge of this date did not seem likely to be of much use to the©. Bat it gave then tn# heert togo 00 tm teak* fufther faquirW Balplt firew himself into the task with fervfert Jk'obfclnedieave to search the records of the Hor*ft Guards; and ascertained at lest where had been stationed the regimeufcthat Richard Hamtuaqd then belonged to m that sanp year. It waaat Canterbury, as it happened; and that seemed significant, for it WM not RO far from there to his sweethearts home at Milton Balpbwent over to CanUA-bury,and with tbe help of a clerk of Mr. Btuith's. searched all . Uia4>ariahxegu>tfirs between the two places; but found nothing. Tbe trial was ooming on in a few' weeks, and not a scrap of evideuce could theypet of the marriage of Major Hsmniond. The other side were full of confidence, and well they might be. Bnlph had made up his mind to return home, and was walking diRconsolaUly down tut> High Btreet of Canterbury one day when he HAW over a shop window the fign, 'PIIXJRIH, Goldnmith; eittablifthed 1715.' 'I wonder,' h* said to himself, *if my great- grandfather bought a wedding-ring there ?' A suddtm impulse sent him into the shop. A nice looking old gentleman, with longwhite hair, was sitting behind tbe counter, peering into the works of a watch through an elonga- ted eve-glass. Rnlfth brought out' bis ring. \I>o you tbink this ring was bought at your shop?\ he asked. \How long ago?\ asked Mr. Pilgrim, taking up the ring and looking at it all round! \About the year 17B0\ \Ah-h 1 I can't remember so long age as that. It was in my father s time; but for all that, perhaps I can tell you.\ He took up the njagnifyiug'glaM, and ex- amined the ring carefully onoe more. \Yes he said, looking up, a mysterious expressiou on his face, \that ring was bought from my fathc-r, T havo no doubt* Balpn questioned him as to tbe sources of .his knowledge; and Mr. Pilgrim told him at last. It was his fnthor'n practice to put his private mark upon ail the jewellery he sold. He could do it in those, days, when his stock WM small and all his own. In these times of changing fahhiou*. wheu much of a jewel- lqrV stock is on approval, this would be im- possible). Batph listened to tb^se explanations with breathless impatience. Hud Mr. Pilgrim any bools belonging to hie father which might potMtibly enow the sale ? The old gentleman admitted that he had a lot of his father's old aocountbuokri up in a garret: but it would be very troublesome to get at them ; and what would be the uHe ? \Why \ said Balph. \you might possibly make thehappines* of two young people, who otherw 1KM nmy b<* sundered aU their lives.\ He exf>liiim*d enough of the circumstances to show the aid gentleman that itwas not an af- fair of more idle curiosity ; tiod after that he entend into tbo quest with ardor. Pilgrim, hiJ fattier had kept each year a sort of rough daybook, in which he entered transactions M they occurred, wtth occasional short annota* tions. Aud at last, atter a long, troublesome search.they found tbe bookfor the year 1760 n.nd 1701. Nothing was to be made of the first; but in the second they had the delight of finding the following entry : \25 March, sold ring, youug Mwter Hammond/two guineas saw ye wedding* afterwards at St. Mary's, Faversham.\ That night all the church-bells of Giggles, ham were pet a-ringing, for the news oozed out that Ralph Grant bad oome home with full proofs of tbe marriage that would make good his title to Woxtbury. For the young people wow liked by everybody, whilst Boodles WM generally execrated. Indeed, the case never came ou for trial, as Boodles withdrew the record when he found that there wan full evidence to refute bin claim. Balph and Maggie were married toon after- wards : and the bride wore as a keeper orer the golden circle, her own special dower, the long-buried but happily recovered treasure, Major Hammond'a ring. -•« Tables—Legs have they bat they walk not. —Poughkeeptu Nat*, We guess that Poughkeepsie ohap has never attended a *MM<M at a first-rate spiritual medium's. 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