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'Oh!Well, his family is no better than ers and ditchers by rights But once in ancient ti Charles the Second, and saved the king's life King Charles came up to him like a common man, and said off-hand, "Man in the smock-frock, my name is Charles the Second, and that's the truth on't Will you lend er Luxellian; and they changed there and then "NowCharles the Second said, like a common man, as he rode away, "if ever I come to the crown, you co Charles the Second at home?' Tell your name, and they shall let you in, and you shall be made a lord" Now, that was very nice of Master Charley?'

'Very nice indeed'

'Well, as the story is, the king caer Luxellian, knocked at the king's door, and asked if King Charles the Second was in "No, he isn't," they said "Then, is Charles the Third?" said Hedger Luxellian "Yes," said a young feller standing by like a common man, only he had a crown on, "my name is Charles the Third" And----'

'I really fancy that lish history about Charles the Third,' said the other in a tone of h, only 'twasn't prented; he was rather a queer-teo on'

'And, by hook or by crook, Hedger Luxellian waswent on well till so Charles the Fourth

'I can't stand Charles the Fourth Upon e the Fourth, wasn't there?'

'Certainly'

'Well, Charleses be as coes However I'll say no more about itAh, well! 'tis the funniest world ever I lived in--upon my life 'tis Ah, that such should be!'

The dusk had thickened into darkness while they thus conversed, and the outline and surface of the radually disappeared The hich had before been as black blots on a lighter expanse of wall, becaht on the general dark body of the night landscape as it absorbed the outlines of the edifice into its gloomy monochrome