if he performs not my command, he never marries you. Come, come, Franz, you know lovers do impossible things." Is that the only condition on which you will give me the hand of fair Ninette?" demanded Franz. "Then thus," answered the lover, "thus do I rlaim your promise;" and he drew the identical golden shoe from his pocket. "How !-what!" shouted Winken Plaus, eagerly snatching it: how got ye this?" 66 Lurking about under Ninette's window three nights back, I kicked it with my foot, lying on the ground. I picked it up, and have since kept it in my possession, expecting to meet with the owner of so strange a thing." "And you have found the owner," cried Winken, joyously, "and saved my life, and won Ninette into the bargain. Come in, come in, Franz; we'll have a merry night of it." And they had a merry night: the cobbler repaired all damages in half an hour, Paul paid handsomely for it, and, in a glass of fine old wine, they drank "Success to the Golden Shoe!" A SECOND MAJOR LONGBOW. TALKING of broiling steaks-when I was in Egypt we used to broil our beef-steaks on the rocks-no occasion for fire--thermometer at 200 -hot as Etna! I have seen four thousand men at a time, cooking for the whole army as much as twenty or thirty thousand pounds of steaks at a time, all hissing and frying at a time—just about noon, of course, you know-not a spark of fire! Some of the soldiers, who had been brought up as glass-blowers at Leith, swore they never saw such heat. I used to go to leeward of them for a whiff, and think of old England! Ah! that's the |