t escape was
impossible. He drew a pistol from his belt; but before he could even put
himself in an attitude of defence, he was cloven to the teeth by a blow
of Allerton's cutlass.

Without stopping to see if there was more of them, George ran instantly
below, and found his Julia still insensible, and Miss Hastings kicking
her heels and screaming, after the most approved recipe for performing
hysterics. Allerton sprinkled the young lady's face with water and
vinegar, and ransacked the medicine-chest for hartshorn and ether, but
without success, till at length he thought of bleeding, at which he was
sufficiently expert when his patients had been sailors. The snow-white,
round arm was instantly bared and bandaged; the vein rose, and was
pierced by the lancet with as much skill as Sangrado himself could have
displayed; but the operator, although he knew how much blood a tough
seaman could afford to lose, was completely at a loss when his patient
was a delicate young lady; and, having, to his joy, witnessed the
success of his phlebotomy in restoring her to life and consciousness,
slacked the bandage and stopped the bleeding.

For a few minutes Julia's senses seemed completely bewildered; she
stared wildly around, and uttered the most incoherent ravings; when
George, who seemed to retain his presence of mind most wonderfully,
wisely reflecting that human nature was about the same, whether in
breeches or petticoats, poured out a glass of wine, and compelled his
patient to swallow a large share of it. The wine produced the most happy
effects. In a few minutes she looked up in his face with an intelligent
glance, and in a soft voice murmured his name.

In the mean time it would be unpardonable in us to leave Miss Dorothea
Hastings any longer. Allerton had been followed into the cabin by
several of his men, one of whom, compassionating the situation of the
young woman, who was, in truth, a plump, rosy-cheeked lass, and having
seen cold water thrown into the faces of people in fits, caught up a
gallon pitcher filled with the element, and dashed it into her
countenance. The remedy effectually restored her to consciousness and
herself, by rousing her indignation against the perpetrator of such an
ungallant action.

A German theorist of the present age has much such a way of curing all
human diseases; that is, he drives one disorder out of the system by
introducing another more powerful--in some cases similar, in others
directl