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    * They shall come to you if we cannbt reaeh home / replied Arnall , * but let us try without losing more time . I want that Hill should see your leg . ' * There would be little use in that , * said poor George , faintly , as oh trying to sit up he felt sick and dizzy . 1 Put your arm round my neck , and I will lift you up / said Arnall ; but George did not move . His companion put the arm over his shoulder ; but it fell again . George seemed insensible . Arnall made one more trial . * Will you not make an effort to see your mother ? * George opened his eyes , raised himself , and made a sort of spring upon his companion ' s shoulder , and then laid his head down , clinging with all his remaining strength . Arnall used all the speed he could with so heavy a burden , and was comforted by finding that either the air or the motion seemed to rouse the poor patient , who appeared better able to keep his hold , and even spoke from time to time .

    * Mr . Arnall , said he . * Well , George . ' * There is a thing I want to tell you about making arrows . Bring iiie a reed when you put me down , and I will shew you how the natives barb them . I meant to have made the first myself , ; but hs I can ' t , I will teach you . 4 Thank you , but do not tire yourself with talking . ' After a while , however , George began again : — ' Do you know , Mr . Arnallj I think when the crops are got in , and the houses built , and some cattle in the fields again , you will have the

    bushmen down upon you some night ?' * Well , we have sent for arms and powder from Cape Town / * I know , but they will be of no use , if everybody is asleep . I meant to ask to be a watchman with as many as would join me , and to take it in turn , three or four every night . I wish you would see it done , and have all the boys taught to fire a gun /

    Arnall promised , and again urged him to be silent . * I will , when I have said one other thing about my mother . I wish you would tell her—' 1 Here his head drooped over Arnall ' s shoulder , and presently , being unable to hold on any longer , he fell gently on the grass , and his companion saw with grief , that it was impossible id ihbve further .

    * The dogs will stay and take care of you , George / said he , * while I run for your parents apd Hill . I will be back the first moment J can . itere , I will put the sack under your head for a pillow . In less than an hour yoii will isee us . God bless you . ' * Stay one moment / said George . Tell little Mary the whistle I promised to make her is just finished ; and it lies in the hollow of the chestnut-tree , — call it hiy cupboard , and she will know /

    * All this will do when I come back / said Arnall , who was impatient to be gone . He wiped the boy ' s moist forehead and kissed it . George gave his hand and whispered , — * Let me say one thing more * only this one . If my father had seen

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    198 EriticM Notices > - ** Politicul Economy and Legislation .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1832, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1806/page/66/