"Only!" retorted my spectral and shifting visitant, again shifting spectrally. "Why, I'm thinking of writing, for the Nineteenth Century, an article on 'Political Lightning Conductors,' which, I rather flatter myself, will comprehend everything, convince everybody, and conciliate even Professor Tyndall. If you like I will read, from the advance-sheets, a few passages which——"

But here I roused myself to determined resistance, and—awoke.


On the Wing.

In getting fair hold of the Coburg, Prince Ferdinand,

Bulgaria palpably thought she'd a "bird in hand,"

But the Prince and the Bulgars, when put to the push,

Will probably wish the "bird" back in the bush.