It is to begin on the 1st of September with the partridges.

We expect a most tremendous sale.
It will be the first halfpenny publication in the market, and as the retailers will get them for sixpence a score--twenty-four to the score--they'll go off like wildfire.' 'Well, Charley, and what do you do with the dead bodies of your two heroes ?' 'Of course I needn't tell you that it was not the Baron who killed Sir Anthony at all.' 'Oh! wasn't it?
O dear--that was a dreadful mistake on the part of the retainers.' 'But as natural as life.

You see these two grandees were next-door neighbours, and there had been a feud between the families for seven centuries--a sort of Capulet and Montague affair.

One Adelgitha, the daughter of the Thane of Allan-a-dale--there were Thanes in those days, you know--was betrothed to the eldest son of Sir Waldemar de Ballyporeen.

This gives me an opportunity of bringing in a succinct little account of the Conquest, which will be beneficial to the lower classes.