Fully impressed with a belief in her supernatural power of compelling obedience, and perhaps dreading more than witchcraft itself the effects of the unlucky disclosure on the temper of his New England helpmate, he made a virtue of the necessity of the case, bade farewell to the latter amidst a perfect hurricane of reproaches, and mounted the white horse, with his old wife on the pillion behind him.
Of that ride Burger might have written a counterpart to his ballad:-- "Tramp, tramp, along the shore they ride, Splash, splash, along the sea." Two or three years had passed away, bringing no tidings of the unfortunate husband, when he once more made his appearance in his native village.

He was not disposed to be very communicative; but for one thing, at least, he seemed willing to express his gratitude.

His Ohio wife, having no spell against intermittent fever, had paid the debt of nature, and had left him free; in view of which, his surviving wife, after manifesting a due degree of resentment, consented to take him back to her bed and board; and I could never learn that she had cause to regret her clemency.
THE BEAUTIFUL "A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts." EMERSON'S Essays, Second Series, iv., p.

162.
A FEW days since I was walking with a friend, who, unfortunately for himself, seldom meets with anything in the world of realities worthy of comparison with the ideal of his fancy, which, like the bird in the Arabian tale, glides perpetually before him, always near yet never overtaken.

He was half humorously, half seriously, complaining of the lack of beauty in the faces and forms that passed us on the crowded sidewalk.