which she set behind him. I then had an opportunity of observing his features, which were regular though on a large scale; and, indeed, he might have been accounted a handsome man had not his air and expression been singularly coarse, vulgar, and stupid.

Having settled himself in his chair and lighted his pipe, his eyes fell upon me, seated on my stool in the corner; and, being quite at a loss what to make of me in my blue cloak, he uttered several inelegant exclamations, and called to the hostess to know what sort of animal she had got there.

Mrs. Gwynne was ready with her answer. "It's only a little lad from over the mountain, Sir," she said: "but would you choose, Sir, that I should mix your grog?" at the same time putting two or three lumps of sugar into the tumbler.

"No molasses, no molasses," roared the hero of the buff waistcoat: "you know that I hate sweeteners." And then followed a dialogue between the hostess and her guest, which, not being particularly to my taste, I forbear to recount. After a while, how

ever, he resumed his pipe, and his large blue eyes again fell upon me, and he returned to the charge, asking me if it might be the custom for lads to wear blue cloaks in my country; using certain expressions which excited my indignation in no small degree; and I was about to answer, and might have exhibited more choler than judgment, when suddenly my attention was attracted by the figure of the taller of the two ladies, whom I had previously seen coming out from the parlour. She was now descending the stairs, in the centre of which she stood still, looking even taller than before, in her present elevated situation, while her sallow face stood out in strong relief from her dark drapery and her black hood, or bonnet.

At the sound of her step, brother Tim turned himself half round in his chair, and we all waited in mute attention for what was to come next.

At length she spoke in a shrill querulous voice, and said, "Surely, Tim, it can't be you that's smoking, when you know my lady has such an abhorrence of tobacco!"

In reply to this, the amiable brother

sucked in a long fume from his pipe, by which unusual effort his cheeks were drawn in on either side till his face assumed the semblance of a pair of Dutch nutcrackers, and then, opening his mouth wide, he emitted the vapour in the direction of the exalted pedestal on which his sister stood.

The angry dame immediately descended, marched up to her brother, and attempted to seize the pipe from his hand, muttering something about her lady.

"Fair and softly," said the brother, holding her off with one hand, and keeping hold of the pipe with the other; "your lady is your lady, no question: but I take it, that, as far as I am concerned, things are altered now; and, therefore, you may tell your lady that I'll smoke when and where I please; accordingly, she had best make up her mind to the smell of tobacco as soon as she can."

"Brother,” replied the indignant female, "had I foreseen" and she pursed up her mouth as if resolved not to add another word; and went out of the kitchen, leaving her brother to resume his pipe.

As soon as the sister was gone, the hostess made me a bed in the corner of the kitchen, where I laid myself down in my friendly cloak, and soon fell asleep; but, waking again at twelve o'clock, I still saw Mr. Timothy with his pipe and brandy-bottle.

In the morning I arose early, paid my hostess, and took my leave of the cabin and its mysterious visiters.

CHAPTER III.

THE OVERTHROW.

Dated in 1658.

It was a lovely evening in the month of June;-I had travelled from six o'clock in the morning on the top of a stage-coach, having on one side of me a respectable farmer, and on the other a tradesman from a neighbouring town;-the sun was approaching the western horizon;-just as, at the turn of a road, a fir-crowned peak or tumulus was admitted to our view. Rising from the centre of these dark trees was a tower of stone, on which the last rays of the setting sun were shedding their red glare. Behind this object, as we advanced, other hills and woods arose to view, giving a