The consequence was that the liquor
flowed, suddenly, over the glass, and spread its creamy foam for the
space of four or five inches around. Several persons sitting near by had
taken more interest in our young gentleman who was looking after number
one than in the dinner before them; and, when this little incident
occurred, could not suppress a titter.

Hearing this, Tilghman became suddenly conscious of the ludicrous figure
he made, and glanced quickly from face to face. The first countenance
his eyes rested upon was that of the young man who had been his stage
companion; near him was a lady who had thrown back her veil, and whom
he instantly recognized as Helen Walcot! She it was who stood behind
him when the clerk ejected him from his chair, and she had been both an
ear and eye-witness of his sayings and doings since he dropped into his
present place at the table. So much had his conduct affected her with a
sense of the ridiculous, that she could not suppress the smile that
curled her lips; a smile that was felt by Tilghman as the death-blow to
all his hopes of winning her for his bride. With the subsidence of these
hopes went his appetite; and with that he went also--that is, from the
table, without so much as waiting for the dessert. On the forward deck
he ensconced himself until the boat reached South Amboy, and then he
took good care not to push his way into the ladies' car, a species of
self-denial to which he was not accustomed.

Six months afterwards--he did not venture to call again on Miss
Walcot--Tilghman read the announcement of the young lady's marriage to a
Mr. Walker, and not long afterwards met her in company with her husband.
He proved to be the traveling companion who had been so disgusted with
his boorish conduct when on his last trip to the east.

Our young gentleman has behaved himself rather better since when from
home; and we trust that some other young gentlemen who are too much in
the habit of "taking care of number one" when they are among strangers,
will be warned by his mortification, and cease to expose themselves to
the ridicule of well-bred people.

A HINDOO BELLE.

BY J. E. P.

COME, see Ro Appo, my sweet Hindoo belle;
On Burra deen, a holiday, full dressed,
Glittering with gems, she shineth in the sun,
Superior far to maidens of the west.

Her Dahka veil, light as the fleecy cloud,
Enshrines her form in