how
they extend on each side beyond the hubs of the wheels? They serve for
feelers in a tight place: wherever you clear your whiffletrees, you can
clear your wheels; and these cravats are built on the same
principle--wherever you clear your tie, you can clear your partner."

By one in the morning the democracy of the ballroom had had enough of
four hours' dancing and looking on. "Our set" was left in full
possession of the floor. Forthwith they seized upon all the chairs, and
the interminable German cotillon commenced. It lasted two hours--and how
much longer Ashburner could not tell. When he went away at three, the
dancers looked very deliquescent, but gave no symptoms of flagging. And
so ended his first day's experience of an American watering-place.

FOOTNOTES:

[26] This is the strongest American (slang) way of putting an
affirmation; and, probably, the strongest instance of it on record is
that of a Bowery boy, who, when asked by a clergyman, "Wilt thou have
this woman?" replied, "I won't have any one else."

[From the Dublin University Magazine.]

THE MYSTIC VIAL:

OR,

THE LAST DEMOISELLE DE CHARREBOURG.

_Continued from page 75._

PART II.

VI.--THE MINIATURE.

Lucille had not, therefore, gained by her marriage the position to which
her ambition aspired. She had made several ineffectual efforts to
dissolve the spell of isolation which seemed to seclude the intercourse
of the Chateau des Anges from all human ken and visitation as absolutely
as the palace of a merman. With the exception, however, of a few visits
from the great ladies who resided in the neighborhood, no casual beams
from the brilliant world of rank and fashion without penetrated the
dismal shadows of her gorgeous abode.

She was dissatisfied, angry, and resolved upon the earliest fitting
occasion to rebel against the selfish tyranny which consigned her to
solitude and monotony.

She had hitherto gained nothing by those little expedients, hints, and
even entreaties, which are sometimes found so effectual in like cases.
The old fermier-general was just as smiling and as promising as the
Chateau des Anges itself, but, alas! as absolutely impenetrable. An iron
will encountered and repressed all her shifts and struggles. She chafed
and coaxed alike in vain. Whether the bird sang or fluttered, the bars
of her cage were immovable.

Under these circumstances, no very cordial feelings began to animate the
fiery girl respecting h