im out, loud crying, 'Treason must be nippt!'

O ye who doe the crusades' musters tell,
In wise that maketh myndes incredulous,
And paynte how like Dan Neptune's sweeping swell
The North bore down on the perfidious!
Ne nigh so potent thatte as was with us;
Where men, like locusts, darkened all the land,
As marched they toward the place that's treacherous,
And shippes, that eke did follow the command,
Like forests, motion-got, doe walk along the strand.

Fierce battails ther were fought upon the ground,
Thatte rob'd the heavens alle in ayer dunne;
And shoke the world as doth the thunder's sound,
Till, soth to say, it well-nigh was undone:
But of them alle, ther is an one
That frayle pen dispairs for to descrive,
Which mortalls call the Battail of Bull Run;
But why I mote ne tell, as I'm alive,
Unless it haply he ther _running_ did most thrive.

LAWRENCE MINOT.

'Our Orientalist' appears this month with

_EGYPT IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS._

BY A FAST TRAVELER.

'You ought to go to the East,' said Mr. Swift, with a wave of his hand;
'I've been there, and seen it under peculiar circumstances.'

'Explain, O howaga! Give us the facts.

'Immediately. Just place the punch-pitcher where I can reach it easily.
That's right! Light another Cabanas. So; now for it. In 1858, month of
December, I was settled in comfortable quarters in the Santa Lucia,
Naples, and fully expected to winter there at my ease, when, to my
disgust, I received letters from England, briefly ordering me by first
steamer to Alexandria, thence per railroad to Cairo, there to see the
head of a certain banking-house; transact my business, and return to
Naples with all possible dispatch. No sooner said than done; there was
one of the Messagerie steamers up for Malta next day; got my passport
visaed, secured berth, all right. Next night I was steaming it past
Stromboli, next morning in Messina; then Malta, where I found steamer up
for Alexandria that night; in four days was off that port, at six
o'clock in the morning, and at half-past eight o'clock was in the cars,
landing in Cairo at four o'clock in the afternoon. Posted from the
railroad-station to the banker's, saw my man, arranged my business, was
to receive instructions at seven o'clock the next morning, and at eight
o'clock take the return train to Alexandria, where a steamer was to sail
next day, that would carry me back to Naples, _presto_! as