"Mr. Tubbs!" she screamed.

"Wait a minute, my dear. I've only done one side of his head."

"But, Mr. Tubbs! _That wasn't the man_!"

Tubbs suspended operations, and stood fixed in horror. The remains of
the injured individual were taken into the hourly office. Then came
remorse and apologies unaccepted and unacceptable--a lawyer's
letter--an action for assault and battery, and heavy damages. The real
offender had escaped, and was never heard of; the victim was the
well-behaved young gentleman, who had sat on Mrs. Tubbs's right. Her
description, which had answered for both, had occasioned the dilemma,
which, while it proved an expensive lesson to Mr. Tubbs, was also an
effectual one, and saved him from many a rash and hasty action, and
induced him ever afterwards to adopt Colonel Crockett's golden maxim,
"_Be always sure you're right, then go ahead_."




THE CASTLE ON THE RHINE.


In one of those old feudal castles, which, perched, like eagle nests,
upon the picturesque hills that overhang

"The wide and winding Rhine,"

and with their crumbling and ivy-grown towers, arrest the eyes of the