hastened to meet him, in expectation to hear of the death of his
enemy, MacKinnon. But Allan greeted him in a very different manner
from what he expected. "You hoary old traitor," he said, "you
instigated my simple good-nature to murder a better man than yourself.
But have you forgotten how you scorched my fingers twenty years
ago, with a burning cake? The day is come that that breakfast must
be paid for." So saying, he dashed out his father-in-law's brains
with a battle-axe, took possession of his castle and property,
and established there a distinguished branch of the clan of
MacLean.--_Tales of a Grandfather--Second Series._

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ADVANTAGES OF A GOOD HEART,

_A Fragment from the "Disowned," by the author of "Pelham."_


"The next day, Sir Christopher Findlater called on Clarence. 'Let us
lounge into the park,' said he. 'With pleasure,' replied Clarence;
and into the park they lounged. By the way they met a crowd, who
were hurrying a man to prison. The good-hearted Sir Christopher
stopped--'Who is that poor fellow?' said he. 'It is the
celebrated'--(in England all criminals are celebrated. Thurtell was
a hero, Thistlewood a patriot, and Fauntleroy was discovered to be
exactly like Bonaparte)--'it is the celebrated robber, John Jefferies,
who broke into Mrs. Wilson's house, and cut the throats of herself and
her husband, wounded the maid-servant, and split the child's skull