nd the animal was wrenched off its perch,
and the tail inserted between the bars of the grate. But burnt feathers
were of no use; and Seymour, when he had burnt down the parrot's tail to
the stump, laid it upon the table in despair.

He now began to be seriously alarmed, and the beauty of the object
heightened his pity and commiseration. His anxiety increased to that
degree that, losing his presence of mind, and giving way to his
feelings, he apostrophised the inanimate form, and, hanging over it with
the tenderness of a mother over her lifeless child, as a last resource,
kissed its lips again and again with almost frantic anxiety. At the
time of his most eager application of this last remedy, McElvina and
Susan entered the room, without his being aware of their approach.

The parrot on the table, with his tail still burning like a slow match,
first caught their eyes: and as they advanced further in, there was
Seymour, to their astonishment, kissing a young lady to whom he had
never been introduced, and who appeared to be quite passive to his
endearments.

"Seymour!" cried McElvina,--"what is all this?"

"I'm glad you've come; I cannot bring her to. I've tried everything."

"So it appears. Why, you've smothered her--she's black in the face,"
replied McElvina, observing the marks of the Indian ink upon Emily's
cheek.

Susan, who immediately perceived the condition of Emily, applied her
salts, and desired McElvina to call the women. In a few minutes,
whether it was that the remedies were more effectual, or nature had
resumed her powers, Emily opened her eyes, and was carried upstairs into
Mrs McElvina's room.

We must return to the servant, who, with no other injury than a severe
contusion of the Os coccygis, from the frontal bone of the bull,
recovered his senses and his legs at the same moment, and never ceased
exerting the latter until he arrived at --- Hall, where he stated, what
indeed he really believed to be the case, that Miss Emily had been gored
to death by the bull; asserting, at the same time, what was equally
incorrect, that he had nearly been killed himself in attempting her
rescue. The tidings were communicated to Mrs Rainscourt, who, frantic
at the intelligence, without bonnet or shawl, flew down the park towards
the fields, followed by all the servants of the establishment, armed
with guns, pitchforks, and any other weapons that they could obtain, at
the moment of hurry and trepidation. Th