<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">xt7000000467 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7000000467/data/mets.xml Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. 1881  books b92-199-30751778 English Estes and Lauriat, : Boston : Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Europe, Southern Description and travel. Zigzag journeys in classic lands, or, Tommy Toby's trip to Mount Parnassus  / by Hezekiah Butterworth. text Zigzag journeys in classic lands, or, Tommy Toby's trip to Mount Parnassus  / by Hezekiah Butterworth. 1881 2002 true xt7000000467 section xt7000000467 


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THE ZIGZAG SERIES.


                  BY  

I HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTHA,
   OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE YOuTriS COMPANION, AND
I CONTRIBUTOR TO "ST. NICHOLAS" MAGAZINE.


         NOW PUBLISHED,

ZIGZAG 7OURNVE-YS IN EUROPE.

ZIGZAG _OURVE i-S IN CLASSIC
           LANDS.


       TO BE FOLLOWED BY


ZIGZAG 7O URNE YS IN TZHE ORIENTV7.

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PETER THE GREAT AND LITTLE LOUIS XV.-Page 28.

 
ZIGZAG


JOUXiRNSTEY\S


IN


CLASSIC


LARNDS;


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TOMMY TOBY'S TRIP TO


MOUNT PARNASSUS.


BY


HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH,
AUTHOR OF "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE."


     BOSTON:
 ESTES AND LAURIAT.
        IsIf.

 
      Cofiyrlgqllt,
By ESTES  LAURIAT,
         88Xo.


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                        PRE FACE.


                HE warm welcome which the public gave to "ZIG-
                  ZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE," and its large sale and
     /    M       continued success have led the publishers and the
                  writer to plan a series of entertaining and instruc-
                  tive books which shall illustrate the scenery, rnan-
ners and customs, history and legendary lore of different parts of
the world.
   It was decided that the second volume should be such as wvould
tend to awaken an interest in classical studies, and afford a glimpse
of the past glory and a view of the present condition of Greece and
Rome. The tourists were to pass through the old Roman empire
and to go over the waters crossed by Ulysses, /Eneas, the Apostle
Paul, and by the early arts in their progress towards the West.
   The former volume met with so much acceptance as a holiday
gift-book that a special Christmas chapter has been prepared for
this, describing one of the entertainments and relating some of the
best stories of the Zigzag Club.

 
Viii                         PREFA C-E.

   The writer is indebted to Mrs. MARIE B. WILLIAMS of Opelousas,
La., for the admirable story of De Soto, many of the facts of which are
translated from a choice Portuguese work.
   A profuse use of illustrations and curious and humorous stories is
a part of the plan of this series of books. It is intended that these
popular features shall be helps towards forming the best literary tastes
for wholesome reading, and so lead to the profitable companionship of
the best books.
   Should the present volume be as kindly received as the first, it is
intended to follow it by - Zigzag Journeys in the Orient," which shall
take the young tourists down the Danube, across the Black and Cas-
pian Seas, and up the Volga, giving a view of the romantic histories
that are associated with these water-courses of the storied Empires of
the East.

    28 WORCESTER STREET,
        B3oSTON, MASS.

 
                 Ca tihe ;Mcinarp

                         OF

       WILLIE ALBERT TOWLE,

         A LATE MIEMBER OF THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL,


WHO TOOK A HELPFUL INTEREST IN THE PREPARATION OF TIlE WORK,

         THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDIICATED).


CHAPTER
   I. THE ZIGZAG CLUB


   II. THE ZIGZAG CLUB'S CHRISTMAS STORIES


 III. A NEW JOURNEY PROPOSED .


 IV. FRO.M BOST(ON TO LISBON .


 V. FROM LISBON TO GRANADA .


 VI. THROUGH THE HEART OF SPAIN


 VII. MARSEILLES ANrD THE RHONE


VIII. GENOA, MIILAN, AND VENICE


IX. PARNASSUS.


  X. THE LANI)S OF VULCAN AND CYCLOPS


  XI. ROME .  ...      ..  .......


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Peter the Great and Little Louis XV.
                             Frontis/iece.


Climbing Parnassus.            Hai
Nix's Mate . . . . . . .
  I 've seen a Spoke !.
  What a Mistake ! " .
Basin of Neptune .
Statues in the grounds of Versailles  .
Fountains at Versailles
The Grand Monarch .
Thle iMIagic Raisins
Thle Pinakothek
Bavarian Market-people.
Market-place, Nuremburg.
The Glyptothek
Outgeneralled by a Gander.
Goatherd's Hut .
Bavarian Peasants .
The Irish Giant
Defile in the Hartz Mountains.
In the Hartz MIountains .
Supposed Spectres
Alfred the Great wvatching the Peasant's
  Loaves .
The Shores of the Mediterranean
Ruins of the Parthenon .
Italian Beggars.
Italian Mountebanks .
The Roman Forum
Be-gars in Rome ..
Venice
Columbus looking for Land  .


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Columbus in Prison  . . . .
Bivouac of De Soto's Expedition in Flor-
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Burial of De Soto .
Crater of Volcano .
Milking a Goat. . . .
S wingI,,inIg.
Travelling in Spain
The ITower of l3elem.
Doorway of Santa Maria, Belem.
Gate of the Castle of Pintra de Cintra
Tableaux of .1 The Cic " in the Middle
  Ages .
Interior of the Cathedral, Seville .
Hall of the Ambassadors, Seville .
Court of the Lions .
Fountain in the Alhambra
General View of the Alhambra
Cave-dwelling of the Gypsies .
Al ol(1 Gypsy.
Bull-h-ltg.
The R-oyal Palace, Madrid .  . .
The Escurial
The Leaning Tower of Sara-ossa
I'ublic (;ardlen, Marseilles
Girondists sining the 'Marseillaise Hymn
Ch:iteau of the Popes, Avi-non
Cathedral of Lyons .
Park of the Tate d'Or, Lyons . .
Fountain in the Park of la T(te d'Or
Christianity established in Gaul
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IBeizunce amidst the P'lague-stricken
Preaching the Crusade
Crusaders on the way to Palestine
Pierre
Jacques
"You are a Liar anl a Villain
Donkeys.
Genoese.
On the Canal.
Venetian Water-carrier
The Dwarf of Lombardy
The Temple of Apollo
The Propylkea .
View of Athens from the Acropolis
Temple of the Wingless Victory
Theatre of Herod .
The Council of the Gods
Plain of Troy
Helen and Priam on the Ramparts
Funeral Pile of Patroclus
Blinding of the Cyclops .
Escape of Ulysses.
Ulysses recognized by Eurycleia
The Temple of Zeus, Olympia.
Modern Festival at the Temple of Jupi-
  ter .
Messina.
Waves of Volcanic Fire .
Mt. /Etna .
Lava Beds of Mt. Etna
The Headland of Cape d'Alessio .
Cathedral of Palermo .


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173 Taormina.
175  West Porch of the Cathedral, Palermo
179  Lava Streams .
IS3  South Porch of the Cathedral, Palermo
185  Aci Castello . . . . ...      . . .
i86  The Cathedral of Monreale .
i88 !Western Porch, Cathedral of Monreale
191  Cloisters of the Cathedral of Monreale
192  The Palace of La Ziza.
196  Edith discovers the body of Harold
ig9  Archbishop Aldred's Curse .
i99  Street-scene in Naples
201  A Military Officer.
204  A Be frggar without Le-s
203  The Arena of the Colosseumr
208  Erythrxan Sibyl, Sistine Chapel
209  Interior of the Colosseum
212  Ancient Constantinian Basilica of St.
213    Peter's
214  Ruins of the Palace of Tiberius
215  Arcb of Constantine.
216  Arch of Septimius Severus .
217  View from the Palatine.
21S  Fountain of Trevi .
220  Piazza and Garden in Rome
     Calciarium of the Baths of Caracalla.
227 Prayer.
232  Peasant Family in Rome
235 A Roman Villa.
238  The German Artist.
239  An Enthusiastic Copyist
240  The Moses of Michael Angelo
241 Adieu.


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                         CHAPTER I.

                     THE ZIGZAG      CLUB.

MXI. TOEPFER. - THE RETURN FROM EUROPE. - BOSTON HARBOR. - Nix's IATE. - MRS.
   TRAVIS'S PARROT. - THE CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICER. -" WHEN I WAS IN EUROPE."
   , "HE IS AN AMERICAN."

                 DELIGHTFUL schoolmaster was M. Toepfer, and
                 when he died he left behind a fragrant memory
                 in the homes and schools of France. He used to
                 wander with his classes during the vacations of
                 summer over the Alps and the Oberland, and into
                 the green valleys of France and Italy, telling stories
                 as he went, and publishing his stories and adven-
                 tures for the entertainment of young people who
                 could not make such free-and-easy excursions. He
and his classes had no fixed route in their travels, but went wherever
a picturesque scene, an historic ruin, or a pleasing tradition, attracted
them. His midsummer wanderings in this haphazard way he called
"Zigzag Journeys," and the French school-boy was usually pleased
to receive the splendidly illustrated volumes for his reward of merit,
or Christmas or holiday present.
   In a former volume, entitled " Zigzag Journeys in Europe," we have
told how an American school became interested in the good French
teacher's plan of securing for his pupils both recreation and historical
instruction during the midsummer vacation; how a class arranged to

 
ZIGZAG 7OURNEYS IN CLASSIC LANDS.


visit Europe with their teacher; what adventures it met and what
scenes of historic stories and legends it visited.
    Wie related how the school formed a society called " The Zigzag
 Club," for the purpose of gaining as much information as possible
 about the lands which the class proposed to visit; and how, at the
 meetings of the Club, historic stories and legends of particular coun-
 tries and localities were told.
    WVe should further repeat that the teacher was Master Lewis; that
 the class which went abroad with him consisted of six boys, - Frank
 Gray, Ernest Wynn, Wyllys WNynn, " Tommy" Toby, George Howe,
 and Leander Towle; that the class visited Scotland, England, Belgium,
 Normandy, and Brittany; that two of the boys made the excursion in
 the most economical way by which it would be possible for a student to
 visit these countries, arid remained abroad but a short time; and that
 the others zigzagged through these delightful countries at leisure, and
 studied history, poetry, and legendary lore.
   On the voyage going out, the class had suffered from sea-sickness.
The return was over a calm sea, and Master Lewis took this favourable
time to explain to the boys the physical geography of the ocean, and
the wvonders of sub-marine life. Nine calm days brought them in sight
of Boston Harbor.
   "It is delightful to be in a ship going out," said Wyllys Wynn, as a
great ocean steamer passed by on the calm September afternoon.
                        "It is more delightful to be in a ship com-
             X                 ing in, said Tommy Toby. "Yonder is Nix's
                     Mate."
                        W"ho was Nix " asked Wyllys of Master
          ! !!1 W !FLewis.
     NIXES MIAT'E.       He was the captain of a ship in old colonial
times. His mate was supposed to have murdered him, and he was
buried on this island. The mate was arrested, and convicted of the
murder on circumstantial evidence, and was sentenced to be hung on

 
TIRE ZIGZAG CLUB.


the island. The island was as green then as it is black now. The
man was hung near where the black pyramid now stands.
   "The mate declared that he was innocent of the murder.  He
believed Providence would witness his innocence after his death. He
said:
      I prophesy that this green will become a desolate spot. The
ocean will wash away the place where I shall perish, and that shall be
the sign in the future by which all shall know that I am innocent of
the charge against me.'
     The green vegetation slowly disappeared from the island; then
the island itself wasted away, and the rocks on which it had been turned
black, and only the dark pyramid erected as a warning to ships, and a
few sharp crlags, now remain.
                          ' he island is -tone,
                          And the nate is free
                          Of this cruel char-e
                          Mlade b)y history.'

   "So runs the old song. The event took place about two hundred
years ago. Another hundred years will perhaps witness the disappear-
ance of the last rock of the island.
   " I tell the story," continued Master Lewis, " not that I have full
confidence that the island is disappearing for the reason assigned, but
to show you that our own shores are rich in stories as well as those
we leave been visiting."
    Do you wish to know which is the most glorious dome I have seen
durinlg the last three months " asked Tommy. He pointed.
   The golden dome of the State House was shining in the sun. He
added,
   " It may not represent art, but it represents liberty, and America is
the best land I ever was -
   it Born in, -to be perfectly truthful," said Master Lewis. One
ought to be modest in speaking of one's own country."


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   Some curious incidents had happened during the homeward voy-
age, which ended in an amusing episode when the ship arrived, and
the custom-house officers came on board.
   Several times, during the pleasant days, a finely dressed lady had
greeted Master Lewis, in the morning, with a monologue which became
noticeable for its sameness.
   i' Good mauning, Mr. Lewis. A remarkably fine mauning, this
mauning. I hope you are well, Mr. Lewis.
   " Do you think we will be likely to arrive at mauning or at night,
Mr. Lewis.
   i Will we be likely to be detailed long  I hope we will not be
detained long, 1Ir. Lewis."
   When this had been repeated for several mornings in the hearing
of the boys, Tommy Toby said to Master Lewis, -
   " What does the lady mean by 'Will we be likely to be detained
long '"
    She probably has dutiable goods in her trunk or about her person,"
replied Master Lewis, " and hopes to arrive in port at night, that she
may more easily evade the custom-house officers."
   "She would seem to be too much of a lady for such a plan as
that," said Tommy.
   " The tricks and deceptions which fine ladies use to evade the
custom-house officers, and to get the goods they have purchased
abroad into port free of duty, is one of the most discreditable exhibi-
tions one meets in travellingc" continued Master Lewis.  "1Many
people, both women and men, seem to consider it smart to be un-
truthful to a custom-house officer. Now a lie is a lie, and a deception
is a lie in any situation. It requires a remarkably strong character to
pass through the custom-house inspection, and maintain a true self-
respect.  I have known ladies to conceal point-lace in their hair,
jewels in apples and oranges, and to wear fur capes in the hottest days
in summer, to escape the payment of duties."

 
THE ZIGZA G CL UB.


   "Are not men as dishonest as women in this respect" asked
Tommy.
   "Yes," said Master Lewis. " WVhy I speak of women is because
women generally have a finer moral sense, and more conscientious self-
respect, than men. The finer the character, the more painful seems
the departure from the strict practice of truth."
   The lady's name was Travis. She had a great amount of baggage,
and a poodle dog, and a- parrot beside. The parrot xias frequently
taken into the saloon and on deck, where it greatly amused the
passengers.
   The bird could speak several words very distinctly, but its most
wonderful accomplishment was the utterance of two whole sentences.
These wvere,-
    You get out ! I shall die."
    Sometimes it added to these the exclamations, " Oh! Oh ! Oh."
    When Polly became tired of a visitor to her cage, or became vexed
by being too much talked to, she would say,
    You get out! I shall die."
    As Polly was disposed to scream, "I sllall die. Oh! Oh! Oh!"
whenever the ship gave a lurch or pitched perceptibly, Irs. Travis
sometimes put the bird in a small unoccupied apartment amidships,
which she had received permission to do from an officer.
   A French lad employed on the ship thought one day that this un-
occupied apartment would be a better sleeping-room than his berth,
and received permission to make a bed there. He knew nothing of
IMrs. Travis's habit of taking Polly, when she was too noisy, to the
banishlnment of the room.
   The lad one night took a candle and went to the room. He had
partly undressed, when he heard a dreadful voice, whichl he tlho0ught to
be supernatural, say,
   "You get out!"
   He obeyed the admonition at once, his hair standing on end, and
was presently found by an officer, who said sharply,-


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   "What are you wandering about with a light for "
   iI 've seen a spoke," said the lad, bewildered. " Will you go back
with me, and get my clothes"
                                   The man and boy turned back to
                                the room.
                                   As the officer entered, there came
                                as from the air a more vigorous ex-
                                postulation,
                                     You get out! I shall die. Oh!
                                Oh! Oh!"
                                   But the ol'fcer understood the
                                matter, and the story passed from
                                mouth to mouth on the followingD

                                   When the custom-house officer
                                came to examine Mirs. Travis's trunk,
                                the lady passed backward and for-
                                ward on the deck in a very cool,
                                dignified way, after saying carelessly
                                to him,-
                                   "It must be very annoying to
                                search a lady's trunk at a time like
                                this, when every one is so impatient
      I'VE SEEN A SPOKE!"     to get on shore."
   But the officer did not seem to be in any haste: he carefully turned
over parcel after parcel.
   As the examination proceeded, and the bottom of the chest was
nearly reached, Mrs. Travis lost her assumed dignity, and tiptoed up
behind the conscientious official, and gazed with staring eyes over
his shoulder.
    The officer took from the chest a suspicious-looking bundle.


On it was a written direction,-


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    - Aiay, when you open the trunk, see that these clothes are
 mended before they are put away."
    This looked innocent, cer-
tainly. The bundle was tied  
up with cords, and there were \
hard knots at all the angles.
     I hope you will tie up the
bundle securely again," said               A


       Thev ar dtagze, aidnheoic
Mrs. Travis, evidently hoping !
it would not be untied.
    The officer looked at the                   ed a         t o
knots, then coolly took his
pocket-knife  and made per-    /
fectly easy work in laying open  
the bundle.
     Are these the clothes that
you wish 'Mary' to mend" he 
said coolly.
   The bundle contained sev-
eral ,sIlk dress-patterns IUZcuI.
     What a miistake! " said
IMrs. Travis. " I must h1ave
markzed the ayro7g- things.
Those are some goods that I             "WA A MIIil'AKF:"
bought for my own private use."
    They are dutiable," said the officer.
    Dutiable! my own things!  Oh !
    Polly caught sound of the "Oh," and knew her mistress was in
trouble. Her cage was close to the trunk, at the end, and partly out
of Sighit.
   Polly screamed, " Oh
   The exclamation seemed to proceed from the trunk. The officer
started.


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   " You get out! "
   The officer rose to his -feet.
   "You get out!"
     I think I will," said the gentleman, discovering the cause of the
mystery. " I am very sorry, very sorry, but I shall have to take this
bundle with me; very sorry; good-evening, madam."
     I shall die ! " screamed Polly.
   And poor Mrs. Travis's look was as despairing as Polly s melan-
choly words.
   The boys' excursion to Europe stimulated them in their studies,
gave them a fresh relish for the best reading, and led them to take
more intelligent and broader views of the duties of life. But it made
several of them a little pedan'tic. Frank Gray, especially, was heard
referring to "the time when I was in Europe," on almost every occa-
sion; and he always tried to make it appear that every thing he saw in
Europe was immensely superior to any thing that could be seen at
home.
   George Howe was a practical, clear-sighted boy; and he had little
sympathy with Frank's assuming airs over the magnificent sights he
had seen in Europe.
   Several of the boys of the academy were walking on the Common
in Boston one fine autumn day, and among them was Frank, still
dazzled by the splendours of Europe. The fountains were playing
under the trees, and over the grand old elms, on Beacon Street Mall,
the dome of the State House was shining, looking very modest in
Frank's eyes after his recent visit to English and French cathedrals
and palaces.
   "The fountain in the Frog Pond is playing," said George Howe.
 Let us go down there and see it; how it tosses its spray over the
 trees into the light of the sun!
     The Frog Pond! " said Frank, in a tone of depreciation, " wlcn
I was in Euroype I saw the Basin of Neptune at the Palace of Ver-
sailles."


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   " And so did I," said George, " but I am just as glad to see the
good old Frog Pond as I was before I went to Europe."
   "All the air seemed full of fountains at Versailles," continued
Frank, to one of the new scholars, " and you cannot fancy the beauty
of the bowers, grottoes, statues, and works of art that rise on everv


STATUES IN THE GROUNDS OF VERSAILLES.


hland. It is said that two hundred mfillions of dollars were spent
upon the palace and partk, and that an army of Frenchmen were
employed for years upon the palace."
   "At a time when the people had no more political rights and privi-
leges than horses," said George; "and when the poor man's table con-


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sisted of two or three dishes, and often of more dishes than kinds of
food."
   " But just think of it," said Frank, " two hundred millions of
dollars ! What should we think of a public building that cost forty
nillions of dollars"


FOUNTAINS AT VERSAILLES.


   1 I should think it a piece of very great extravagance," said George,
"and a matter of great wickedness and folly, if it were built by
spilling the blood of poor people in unnecessary wars, and overtaxing


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their hard earnings in short intervals of peace. Thai is the wav Ver-
sailles was built, and my head was not at all turned by my short visit
to all of its magnificence. Louis XIV. - the Grand Monarch - left


                         THE GRAND MONTARCH.

the nation eight hundred million dollars in debt. Only think of i/iaf!
It used to take, at one time, thirty million dollars a year to meet his

 
8ZI(,ZAG 7OU6lVEYS LA' CLASSZC LANDS.


expenses; and that was when several of the great palaces we saw were
building, and when the peasants were so taxed that they had scarcity
of shoes and outward covering.   What do you think of f/iat   He
was succeeded by Louis XV. The young king was told that all the
people of France belonged to him, and he believed that he owned
them  in the same sense that one owns a herd of cattle. Peter the
Great, on visiting France, kissed the boy with delight, as a brother
with him in the inheritance of nations.  During the whole reign of
Louis XV. wicked women influenced the king in all things, and so
ruled France. People were arrested for offending any member of his
dissipated court, on secret warrants called ieffres de cachci.  They
were thrown without any form of trial into the dungeons of the Bastile
and other prisons, to rot alive. A joke at the expense of Madame de
Pompadour is said to have led to the seven years' war. If even a rich
man remonstrated against taxation, he might be arrested on one of
these lcttrcs de cachet, and dropped into one of the oubliettes, or stone
jugs, of the Bastile to suffer and die forgotten. One hundred and fifty
thousand of these le/tres de cacdet were issued during the reign of
Louis XV. alone. A young collegian made a sarcastic rhyme about
the kinlg, and was immured without trial in the Bastile thirty years.
WNhat do you think of that"
   " I think you are an American," said Tommy.
   The boys laughed, and heartily joined in the chorus of a song
which Tommy began:-

                       For he himself hath said it,
                       And 't is greatly to his credit,
                       That lie is an American
                       For lhe might have been a Russian,
                       A Frenchman, Turk, or Prussian,
                       Or perhaps Italian;
                       But, in spite of all temptation
                       To belong to other nation,
                       He remains an American."


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CHAPTER II.


             THE ZIGZAG CLUB'S CHRISTMAS STrORIES.

THE CHRISTMAS PARTY.-CHRISTMAS M1IELA.NGE -I'UTZZLI S.-STORY OF THE KING
   WHO WAS OUTGENERALLED BY A GANDER. - STORY OF KING FREDERICK \WILLIAMI
   AND) TH-lE IRISII GIANT.-STORY OF THE JOLLY OLD ABBOT OF CANTERBURY.-
   STORY OF THE LITTLE OLD MIAN OF TIHE FOREST.-STORY OF THIE TANNER OF
   TAMWVORTII.-STORY OF PROCOPIUS AND THE CHILDREN.

          AEVERAL        meetings of the Zigzag Club were held
               during the Fall term of the academy, and the new
               boys in the school, incited by the progress which old
               classes had made in the knowledge of books, and
               especially in history, were eager to unite with the
               society.
                  Many of the boys were to remain in the academy
              town during the Winter holidays; and some three weeks
              lbefoe th   hita     eson Master Lewis invited the
 XI\  2class that had been abroad, and all the other members
              of the Club who wvere not intending to return to their
              homes, to spend Christmas evening in his rooms.
    It will give me much pleasule to entertain you," he said. i You
might also, if you chose, agreeably contribute to the entertainment by
arranging for it sports, games, charades, or, better still, by telling old-
time Christmas stories, or relating any pleasant incidents in keeping
with the occasion."
   At the next meeting of the Club, a programme was arranged for an
entertainment by the boys at Master Lewis's on Christmas evening.
It was as follows:

 
ZIGZAG 7OURNE YS IN CLASSIC LANDS.


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CHRISTM\IAS MELANGE.


1. CAROL.Ades... . .  . .   .  . . .      .  . . . . . . 4deSte Fideles.
                            BY THE CLUB.
2. CHARADE . . . . . . . . .    . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte A'uzsse.
                  In four acts, the dialogue to be iinznrolmpflu.
3. HUaMOROUS STORY.O.. . . . .   .  . . . . . . Ougeneral/ed by a Gander.
                            THOMAS TOBY.
4. HumOROUS STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Irish Giant.
                              IFRANK GRAY.
5. HumoRous STORY . . . . . . . . .   King y7oln andt/he Abbot of Canterbzuy.
                            ERNEST WYNN.
6.. A MYSTERIOUS STORY . . . . . . . . . . . The Little Old iJan of the Forest.
                        PROMISED BY MR. LEWIS.
7. SONG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Golden Carol.
                            WYLLYS WYNN.
8. HUMOROUS STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    The Tanner of Tamnworth.
                            GEORGE HOWE.
9. POEM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Procofizis and the Children.
                            WYLLYS WN Y NN.
I0.CHARADE  . . .  . . . . .  . . . . .  . . . . .  . . . . Good i t .
                       The dialogue to be inifiromptu.


   Several of the new scholars promised to take part in the exercises,
by relating humorous anecdotes, should there be time for a more ex-
tended programme.
   The Club met at Master Lewis's on the afternoon before the enter-
tainment, and were served with an old-fashioned Christmas dinner at
five o'clock. The tables were set under gas-jets which were so inter-
mingled among boughs of evergreen, which completely covered the
chandeliers, as to produce a very picturesque effect. When the dessert
was brought in, each plate contained, besides nuts and raisins, a pleas-
ing Christmas gift.
   After the meal, and while the Club was yet seated at the table,
Tommy Toby performed some little feats in legerdemain, which proved
interesting. As perhaps some readers may have received this volume
as a holiday present, we will tell how Tommy's best trick, on this
occasion, may be performed: -

 
THE ZIGOZAG CLUB'S CHRZST.1M1S STORIES.


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    He took four raisins from the dessert-dish and placed them about a
foot apart on the table, so as to indicate a square. He folded a couple
of table-napkins about four or five times, so as to form pads about five
inclies square. He took one of these in the manner indicated in the
i1llustrAtion. The fingers are under the pad.
    He informed the company that these were magic raisins, and pos-
scssed some very striking qualities. For instance, he proposed to
leave it for the company to judge whether they
did not presently pass through1 the table.  In
the course of his remarks he brought down the
two napkins carelessly over the raisins on the
farther row. He left the right-hand napkin on the table, but, in with-
drawing the hand, brought away the raisin between the second and
third fingers, at the same tinme saxving,-
     You must notice how miany raisins I place under each napkin."
     He lifted the left-hand napkin, as if to show that there was on1y
one raisin beneath it, and transferred it to the palm of the right hand,
behind whlich the raisin was concealed.
    He replaced the folded napkin on the raisin, and in doing so left the
concealed raisin beside it. He took up the third raisin, put it under
the table</pre>