But two of them were sure to turn up in every tale, the Devil and the Pope, and the working of the drama invariably had the same issue--the utter ruin and disgrace of these two potentates.

I had often thought that there was a presage here of the mission which produced _The Bible in Spain_ .-- I am, dear sir, very truly yours, JAMES MARTINEAU.[42] Yet it is amusing to trace the story through various phases.

Dr.
Martineau's letter was the outcome of his attention being called to a statement made in a letter written by a lady in Hampstead to a friend in Norwich, which runs as follows: _11th Nov.

1893._ Dr.Martineau, to amuse some boys at a school treat, told us about George Borrow, his schoolfellow: he was always reading adventures of smugglers and pirates, etc., and at last, to carry out his ideas, got a set of his schoolfellows to promise to join him in an expedition to Yarmouth, where he had heard of a ship that he thought would take them.

The boys saved all the food they could from their meals, and what money they had, and one morning started very early to walk to Yarmouth.