Viewed through the Baron's twenty oeM bottles, the stranger appeared to bi an aged man-eighty years if a day. Ho wore" shabby gray cloak and carried a pa mov' Ftaff. anri teemed an innocuous old fellow, cast in too commonploce a mould to furnish even a few minutes' diversqn. The Baron regretted sending for him, bu>. beinsr a persim of nnfaiPn' polite ness, when not upon tli-• lampago, he bade his guest be aentet, and filled him a beaker of the comet wine.
After an obeisance, profound yet not servile the pilgrim took the glass and critica'ly tasicil th« win«. Vc held ti/e heaJier up nlhwort tie liaht, with tren.blintc hand, and Che" tasted iKaii). The trial seemed (o alfonl him great latisfaction, and licetrok> db'slonK whitehcivd.
" Perhaps you are » c nuoisseur. It pleases lour palate <-h?"sai(l th» Bar' n, winking atiho nil-length portr'it o'one ofhisan'ciiow.
"Proper well," replied the pilxrin, •' though itis a trifle syrupy from too louk keeping. Hy tie bouquet and the tint Ishouldpronour.o;itof vtatagc o! 1301. grown on the steep slope aauth fOntheaai- of 'he ca?t'e. in the foik of ihc two P«hw»ys shut leal to under tho hill. Tho sun's ra;« reflected from thn turret Rive a prcu'iarex celenco to the growth a', thnt pa-ticular ipot. Bit, your rascally varlets have sliolved tlie hot. lo onihe wrong Bde of the cellar. Jt should liav- 1 beei put on tho dry side, near where your loufhtygrtndshire, Sigisiuund yon Wcinatein, thsHairy Handed wailed up hia third wife in preparation for a fourth." Tha Baron regarded his gue;t with a look of Continued onfouith page).
POLICE COURT.-This Day.
