They were standing with their hands in their waistcoats, as usual, and had just come to the “o-o-o,” at the end of the chorus of the forty-seventh stanza, when Orlando started:  “That’s a scream!” says he.  “Indeed it is,” says I; “and, but for the fashion of the thing, a very ugly scream too:”  when I heard another shrill “Oh!” as I thought; and Orlando bolted off, crying, “By heavens, it’s her voice!” “Whose voice?” says I.  “Come and see the row,” says Tag.  And off we went, with a considerable number of people, who saw this strange move on his part.

We came to the tent, and there we found my poor Jemimarann fainting; her mamma holding a smelling-bottle; the Baron, on the ground, holding a handkerchief to his bleeding nose; and Orlando squaring at him, and calling on him to fight if he dared.

My Jemmy looked at Crump very fierce.  “Take that feller away,” says she; “he has insulted a French nobleman, and deserves transportation, at the least.”

Poor Orlando was carried off.  “I’ve no patience with the little minx,” says Jemmy, giving Jemimarann a pinch.  “She might be a Baron’s lady; and she screams out because his Excellency did but squeeze her hand.”

“Oh, mamma! mamma!” sobs poor Jemimarann, “but he was t-t-tipsy.”

“T-t-tipsy! and the more shame for you, you hussy, to be offended with a nobleman who does not know what he is doing.”

A TOURNAMENT.

“I say, Tug,” said MacTurk, one day soon after our flareup at Beulah, “Kilblazes comes of age in October, and then we’ll cut you out, as I told you:  the old barberess will die of spite when she hears what we are going to do.  What do you think? we’re going to have a tournament!” “What’s a tournament?” says Tug, and so said his mamma when she heard the news; and when she knew what a tournament was, I think, really, she was as angry as MacTurk said she would be, and gave us no peace for days together.  “What!” says she, “dress up in armor, like play-actors, and run at each other with spears?  The Kilblazes must be mad!” And so I thought, but I didn’t think the Tuggeridges would be mad too, as they were:  for, when Jemmy heard that the Kilblazes’ festival was to be, as yet, a profound secret, what does she do, but send down to the Morning Post a flaming account of

“The passage of arms at TUGGERIDGEVIILLE!

“The days of chivalry are not past.  The fair Castellane of T-gg-r-dgeville, whose splendid entertainments have so often been alluded to in this paper, has determined to give one, which shall exceed in splendor even the magnificence of the Middle Ages.  We are not at liberty to say more; but a tournament, at which His Ex-l-ncy B-r-n de P-nt-r and Thomas T-gr-g, Esq., eldest son of Sir Th—­s T-gr-g, are to be the knights-defendants against all comers; a queen of beauty, of whose loveliness every frequenter of fashion has felt the power; a banquet, unexampled in the annals of Gunter; and a ball, in which the recollections of ancient chivalry will blend sweetly with the soft tones of Weippert and Collinet, are among the entertainments which the Ladye of T-gg-ridgeville has prepared for her distinguished guests.”