A Bayard From Bengal

g is pent in the poli

with thunder,-then, hors

Persian,

eing passionately fond of equitation, he was compelled himself to become the Centaur and act as her cavalier servant on a nag which was furnished throughou

ll the fashionables made sure that he was inevitably to slide over its tail quarters! But invariably he returned, having suffered no further inconvenience than the bereavement of hi

such holy estate, and consequently splendid gifts of carriage, timepieces, tea-caddies, slices of fish, jewels, blotter-cases, biscuit-caskets

f the complexion of a chestnut, and bearing an anonymously-signed paper, stat

oy, and could not be persuaded to rest until he had made a trial trip on his gif

ooing on the foliage of innumerable trees and bushes, and the blooming flowers were blowing proudly on their polychromatic beds, Mr Bhosh made the as

nd adopted an unruly deportment. Mr Bhosh inflicted corporal punishment upon its loins with a golden-heade

ED EXECUTED A LEAP W

wishing blow at the head and front of the offending animal, which instantaneously returned its forelegs to terra firma, but eleva

and propelling our poor friend into the air like the arrow, though by providential luck and managem

unwieldy quadruped at last became weary of leaping and, secur

hazarded the conjecture that his abduction would be rather speedily terminated by his being left behind, and I

he was compelled to hold on to his steed's mane by his teeth a

anter, and when the galloping horse once more reappeared, and Mr Bhosh was perceived t

-but, heigh-ho! I have to sorrowfully relate that, on his third circuit, it was the different pair of shoes-for the headstrong animal, abstaining f

o now was forced to experience the crushing repartee of his tu quoque, for such a forcible collision wit

e Mr Bhosh-thanks to his landing on such soft and yielding material-re

n thou learnest that the aforesaid great lady was no other than the Duchess of Dickinson, and (what is still more wonderful) t

here is a divinity that rough-hews our ends, howev