"Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and this procured me not only a lodging, but substance for the next day."

"The Vicar of Wakefield."

FROM "DALZIEL'S GOLDSMITH."

By G. J. Pinwell, R.W.S.

By permission of Messrs. Ward & Lock.

"Then, with a strange trouble in her eyes, Meg Blane
Crept swiftly back into her hut again."

"Meg Blane."—Robert Buchanan.