than with the old.  He has been known to say, with a solemnity that might tickle the humorous and horrify the timid, that he wouldn’t “hab dat game leg made straight agin! no, not for a hundred t’ousand pounds.  ’Cause why? —­it was an eber-present visible reminder dat once upon a time he had de libes ob massa and Nadgel in his arms ahangin’ on to his game leg, an’ dat, t’rough Gracious Goodness, he sabe dem bof!”

Ha!  You may smile at Moses if you will, but he can return the smile with kindly interest, for he is actuated by that grand principle which will sooner or later transform even the scoffers of earth, and which is embodied in the words—­“Love is the fulfilling of the law.”

Even the lower animals testify to this fact when the dog licks the hand that smites it and accords instant forgiveness on the slightest encouragement.  Does not Spinkie prove it also, when, issuing at call, from its own pagoda in the sunniest corner of the Rakata garden, it forsakes cocoa-nuts, sugar-cane, fruits, and other delights, to lay its little head in joyful consecration on the black bosom of its benignant friend?

And what of Moses’ opinion of the new home?  It may be shortly expressed in his own words-"It’s heaben upon eart’, an’ de most happiest time as eber occurred to me was dat time when Sunda Straits went into cumbusti’n an’ Krakatoa was Blown to Bits.”

THE END

Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty, at the Edinburgh University Press.

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+The Hot Swamp+:  A Romance of Old Albion.

+The Buffalo Runners+:  A Tale of the Red River Plains.

+Charlie to the Rescue+:  A Tale of the Sea and the Rockies.

+Blown to Bits+; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata:  A Tale of the Malay Archipelago.

+Blue Lights+; or, Hot Work in the Soudan.  A Tale of Soldier Life.

+The Fugitives+; or, The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar.

+Red Rooney+; or, The Last of the Crew.

+The Rover of the Andes+:  A Tale of Adventure in South America.

+The Young Trawler+:  A Story of Life, Death, and Rescue in the North Sea.

+Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished+:  A Tale of City Arab Life.

+The Battery and the Boiler+; or, Adventures of a Telegraph-Cable Layer.

+The Giant of the North+; or, Pokings Round the Pole.