s in vain. I found that my sharp landlord had entered my
room while I was looking in at the post-office door, and had taken my
carpet-bag, with everything I had, even my overcoat, and stowed all in a
cupboard under the bar, under lock and key. He would not so much as
allow me a clean shirt; and I started for Tyre, wishing from the bottom
of my heart that the inhuman landlord might engage in a washing-machine
speculation, and involve with himself Mr. Potkins and Mr. Dobson and Mr.
Dickson and Dr. Tomson and Squire Johnson.

I reached Tyre at ten o'clock, and found that I had not been deceived
respecting its size. It was quite a large Tillage, with well laid out
streets, handsome residences, two large hotels, and three or four
churches. I took this inventory of the principal objects in Tyre with
considerable more anxiety than I had ever supposed it possible for me to
entertain concerning any country town in Christendom. I was interested
in the prosperity of Tyre. I sincerely hoped that the hard times had not
entered its quiet and beautiful streets. The streets certainly were both
quiet and beautiful, as I looked upon them in the clear moonlight of ten
o'clock at night, an hour when honest people in the country are, for the
most part, asleep. I entered the handsomest of the hotels, and
registered my name in a bran-new book on the clerk's counter.

Name.

Residence.

Destination.

_Prof. D.G. Brown,
N.Y. City.
Lecture in Tyre_.

'Beautiful evening, sir,' said the clerk, who was also the landlord, but
not also the bar-tender and the hostler.

'You are right, sir,' said I; 'it is truly a lovely evening. I have
rarely seen moonlight so beautiful. Indeed, such were the beauties of
the evening, that I have positively been tempted so far as to walk over
here from Sidon this evening, leaving my baggage to follow me in the
morning.'

'Ah! lectured in Sidon perhaps?'

'Well, ah! um! yes; that is, I intend to do so, but unforeseen
circumstances induced me to relinquish that purpose. Sidon is very
small.'

'Yes, sir, small place. Never heard of a lecture, or any kind of a
performance, there before. Fact is, they're a hard set over to Sidon,
and the place is better known by the name of Sodom around here.'

I felt much encouraged at hearing this; for, to tell the truth, my
cogitations as I tramped over the rough road between Tyre and Sidon had
been anything but cheerful. This was a realization of my fond drea