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4 JULY THE TWENTY-FIRST A very popular local excursion by steah the streets of Bud by the weak-voiced town-crier, to start at six o'clock the sa the first of the kind offered to them, Owen and Cytherea ith the rest

They had reached the Cove, and had walked landward for nearly an hour over the hill which rose beside the strand, when Graye recollected that two or threemediaeval ruin He was already fah thehimself so close to the reality, felt inclined to verify so that there would be just sufficient tio there and return before the boat had left the shore, he parted from Cytherea on the hill, struck doards, and then up a heathery valley

She remained on the summit where he had left her till the ti the details of the prospect around

Placidly spread out before her on the south was the open Channel, reflecting a blue intenser by many shades than that of the sky overhead, and dotted in the foreground by half-a-dozen s in hue fro actual colours varied again in a double degree by the rays of the declining sun

Presently the distant bell froers to embark This was followed by a lively air from the harps and violins on board, their tones, as they arose, becoh not marred by, the brush of the waves when their crests rolled over--at the point where the check of the shalloas first felt--and then thinned away up the slope of pebbles and sand

She turned her face landward and strained her eyes to discern, if possible, so was visible save the strikingly brilliant, still landscape The wide concave which lay at the back of the hill in this direction was blazing with the western light, adding an orange tint to the vivid purple of the heather, now at the very clihtest touch of the invidious brown that so soon creeps into its shades The light so intensified the colours that they seemed to stand above the surface of the earth and float in mid-air like an exhalation of red In the es which diversified the contour of the basin, but did not disturb its general sweep, she marked brakes of tall, heavy-stereen dress--a broad riband of the the little ravine that reached to the foot of the hill, and delivered up the path to its grassy area Arew holly bushes deeper in tint than any shadow about them, whilst the whole surface of the scene was dimpled with small conical pits, and here and there were round ponds, now dry, and half overgroith rushes