man, and followed until the men entered a little cottage, a short way out of the village. We told the people our connection with Joe, and were immediately admitted. After he had been laid upon a bed, one of the men hurried to the town for medical assistance; while the rest, one by one, left the house; so that, with the exception of the woman who lived in it, we were alone with the sufferer. He had fallen, and had received a wound in the head, from which the blood flowed freely; and this the cottager, in the meantime, used all her exertions to staunch.

Pity for the sufferer absorbed every other feeling in my mind as I looked on. I remembered all the little services which he used so often, and always so willingly, to perform for me at Brackenbraes. I never looked upon what had occurred as the almost inevitable consequence of his falling before this one, but all powerful, temptation-one which is the sure destroyer of the happiness of its victims both in this, and in the future world.

He lay motionless upon the bed, and showed no signs of life, save by occasional incoherent mutterings which escaped his lips. And these in a short time ceased.

The latch of the door was quietly raised, and the doctor entered. He stepped to the bedside-bent over the suffererstarted-turned to us and said, "The poor man is dead!”

At the time, the circum

I shall never forget this scene. stance cast a deep gloom over Brackenbraes.

PYRO.

THE PARIS ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

As I felt that I could manage to crawl about the garden, or even occasionally to sit down and rest myself without assistance, on coming out of the Museum, I paid off my brown-faced attendant to his entire satisfaction, and having thus thrown off my allegiance to him, I determined for about half an hour, to enjoy "liberty, fraternity, and equality." I therefore joined the crowd, and as everybody seemed to be strolling about, he or she knew not where or why, I very luxuriously did the same. Sometimes I found myself in an avenue of lime and chesnut trees, then in a large enclosure forming the botanical

garden, and called the School of Botany; then in a nursery teeming with indigenous, exotic, and perennial plants; then looking over the railings of a sunk enclosure, containing a beautiful assortment of flowering shrubs; then, after wandering about, I saw within a few feet on my right the bright eyes of a pair of beautiful antelopes in an enclosure entirely their own; then some very odd sheep, that looked as if their grandfather had been a respectable goat; then, with horns growing backwards, some buffaloes; then a flock of llamas. Then I came to a poultry-yard, in the middle of which stood a magnificent peacock, with his tail spread so that every eye in it might look directly at the sun, around him were a wife, and an only child; a couple of cranes, some eccentric looking geese, ducks, and other water-fowl from various quarters of the globe. In another direction, were some long-legged ostriches, and a cassowari. Then I passed a hexagonal building with a projecting pavilion from each side, surrounded by railings, in which were a young rhinoceros, an Asiatic buffalo, a capybara from Brazil, and a brace of elephants, whose sagacious minds, or rather trunks, were constantly occupied in analyzing the contents of a great number of little outstretched hands, some of which contained a bit of orange-peel-rejected: half a bun-accepted; the core and pips of an apple, the rest of which a maid servant had eaten-accepted, &c.

In one enclosure were some beautiful zebras, in others South American buffaloes, antelopes, gazelles, and bisons. In the menagerie, composed of two dens full of wild beasts, were hyænas, wolves, jackals, leopards, lions, and lionesses, safely secured by iron bars, through which a crowd of people of all ages in round hats, cocked hats, casquets, caps, bonnets, and with mouths closed or gaping, are continually to be seen gazing at the captives. The chief point of attraction, however-I mean that which appeared to be best suited to all sorts, and conditions of men, women, and children-of senators, soldiers, and clergy, was a substantial stone building, divided into a number of little compartments, with a large circular playground in front, covered with wirework, in which were to be seen caressing, squalling, quarrelling, gambolling, biting, pinching, pulling, jumping, vaulting, swinging by their tail, until tired by

all these exertions, they paused to rest and chatter, a large and complicated assortment of monkeys, daily allowed to enjoy sunshine and fresh air, and to hold a levee until four o'clock, at which hour a couple of keepers with whips drive them into their respective cells, the doors of which, some not more than a foot square, shut them up for the remainder of the twenty-four hours to ruminate on what they have seen, and digest as well as they can, what they have eaten.

After passing some very large, lazy, soft, flabby, boa-constrictors, under glass, and kept warm by blankets and hot air-in short, looking altogether very much like highly respectable aldermen after a civic feast-I came to a quantity of cages containing all sorts of Roman or hook-nosed birds of prey from the tiny sparrow-hawk up to the eagle, vulture, and at last, the great condor of South America, whose bald-pate, bony legs, and muscular frame, I had never before seen in captivity. Among them I observed a dull puny-looking brown bird, with a particularly weak beak, over whose head as he stood moping on his perch, was written-surely, said I to myself, by some royalist

"Aigle Vulgaire de Corse." *

After strolling about some little time among a crowd of people, who seemed to be as happy and as thoughtless as the birds singing in the trees around them, I saw several persons peeping over each others shoulders at something beneath them, and on my peeping too over the bonnet and beautiful ribbands of a lady, if possible as old as myself, I perceived that the objects of their attention were some bears in two or three deep pits separated from each other by high walls of the same altitude as those which surrounded them on the three other sides. In one of these cells, were two transatlantic specimens, living with all that can conveniently be granted to them, to remind them of their distant homes, and thus in the middle of the universe of their small paved court, there has been placed a solitary pole with iron bars instead of branches, to represent the great forest of North America. With these reminiscenes before them, they are perfectly at liberty to roam as far, and to climb as high, as they can. One of the captives, however, instead of doing either

* Common or vulgar eagle of Corsica.

one or the other, stood on his hind legs, searching for benevolent faces that would give him apples, while in the adjoining cell a white bear looked up most piteously, as if begging only for cold. In another cell I observed poor bruin cantering for exercise round his pit, as steadily as if a horse breaker had been lounging him, and yet I remarked that even he, now and then, like Rasselas, looked upwards, evidently longing to be out. Among those who, like myself, were intently watching these poor captives, were two young fresh-coloured priests in long black gowns, tight over their chests, and loose downwards, three-cornered black hats, white bands, and white edges to their stocks.

As they stood directly opposite, I found I could not conveniently raise my eye from the animals without looking at them, and whenever I did so and reflected, poor fellows! on the unnatural lives that had been chalked out for them, I could not help feeling that, on the whole, the bears had the best of it.

As I was retiring from the gardens in which with so much pleasure I had been a loiterer, just as I passed the barrier that contained the elephants, the clock struck three, the sagacious creatures, who, resting first one huge fore leg, and then the other, had been as attentive to the crowd, as the latter had been to them-no sooner heard this signal, than turning their short apologies for tails towards the public and republic, and their heads towards their dormitories, they awaited with apparent impatience-every now and then uttering a noise compounded of the cries of birds and beasts-until in a few seconds, the gates being thrown open, they walked in, and their doors being then closed, there being nothing to be seen but the empty court in which they had stood, everybody, like myself, walked away.-Head.

A FOOL'S HOPE.

HUME could find no higher or better employment than playing cards, reading novels, or cracking jokes upon Charon and his boat, in prospect of Eternity. Such levity ill comported with his anticipations; and was perhaps nothing better than the act of a timid boy going through a church-yard at night"Whistling aloud to keep his courage up.”

Enquiries and Correspondence,

ANSWER TO ENQUIRIES, p. 90.

Titus iii, 10.

The meaning of this verse seems to have been slightly mistaken by William S. It does not mean that we should give up the hope of the salvation of any man, for we are not justified in rejecting any man in that sense. The man is supposed to be a professor of religion, but in a wrong spirit; and, if we are to give up our hope of any thing, it is of convincing him by our arguments. The word translated " reject," denotes here to shun or avoid; and we are warned by it not to receive a "heretic" into communion, nor to retain him in our fellowship. He is no longer to be our associate, and we are not to encourage his familiarity. Christians are to deal towards him as an excommunicated person.

But we must be careful whom we charge with heresy, lest we reject as heretics those whom the Lord has received.

The heretic here is not merely, or perhaps at all, so in doctrine, but captious, self-willed, and obstinate. He chooses to throw off all restraint, and a church into confusion, rather than conform to the rules given relating to gospel order.

The word translated "reject" is found also in 1 Tim. iv. 7; V. 11: 2 Tim. ii. 23; Heb. xii. 25, &c.

Comp. Matt. xviii. 17; Rom. xvi. 17; 2 Thess. iii. 6. 14; 2 Tim. iii. 4. 5.

The Scripture nowhere justifies persecution of heretics. If moral suasion do not succeed, we may at length cease to reason with them, but we must punish them in no other way.

Psalm ii. 9. with Rev. ii. 27.

Here, as in the previous case, some confusion has arisen from not quite apprehending the full meaning of the terms employed. The word here rendered "break" does not primarily denote to break in pieces, or shiver to atoms, (which is the meaning of the verb used in the latter clause of the verse, as translated in our version,) but to make a loud noise, from which comes the sense, to "break," as in Job xxxiv. 24; Jer. xv. 12, &c. The word besides means, to be hurtful or noxious. But suppose it