The Susser Calf.

The butcher said " Tt is too much , The calf is small in size . " " I'll take six s \ ull \ n- » s oil : thc price , " The wily host replies .

Thc bargain struck , tbe call : again Is put upon tho horse ; Arid to tbe wood the- second timc The butcher took his course .

But scarcely had he entered it , When he began to hear The bleating of a calf close by , Which sounded full and clear .

" Eh ! are you there ? " the butcher cried , " I ' m surel y not . deceived ! That I should ' hear that voice again T could not have believed ! "

The butcher hurried through the wood , His former calf to lind , 'Whilst . Crispin , who close by was hid , Slide that now left behind .

For he , too , had thc wood regained , His tricks to further play ; And bleating like a calf , again The butcher led astray .

Then straightway hastening to fhe inn . The guests and landlord told . How lie again laid stolen ( he calf Thc host so late bad sold .

Meanwhile the butcher looked about But it was all in vain So giving up ( he search he went Unto his horse airain .

But when hc found bis second calf Had vanished like the lirst , His anger he could not restrain , But stamped , and swore and cursed .

Again he seeks , disconsolate , Thc u \ u—his horse dismounts , And to fhe landlord and his guests His second loss recounts .

The Susser Calf.

Bud when they saw his doleful phiz And long-drawn visage pale , With laughs and shouts of men intent , They interrupt his tale .

The waggish cobbler , laughing still , Informs him of the jest , Which , though the butcher little liked , He thought to laugh was best .

So turning to the publican , He said , " I think the calf , Though twice bought cheap , if thus it yields You all so good a- laugh . "

" Most , heartil y T do forgive The trick you on me played ; Tlie calf s last , price I'll stand as treat , Regaining him I ' m paid . "

The butcher then re-mounts his horse , And this time without , fail , He and the calf arrive safe home , Which finishes my tale .

The Order Of The Secret Monitor.

The Order of the Secret Monitor .

Till'Grand Visitors of the Order , to whom the ollice of Inspectors Geneva ! of ( ho various conclaves is entrusted , have- made tt very healthy report to the Earl of Warwick , Grand Supremo Knler , and to the Grand Council , showing a highly satisfactory amount of progress during the past year . The state of the finances , too , no bad index of progress , leaves nothing to be desired . Sir Thomas Wright , K . I ! ., of Leicester , is the Treasurer of Ihe . year , and fhe llrclhreii have shown iheir appreciation of his efforts by responding to his

call in the readiest manlier . We have had a glimpse of the General Iteport of the Kxecutive—to be siihmiltotl to Grand Council at the end of ( he year -and note ils cheery and hopeful lone ; another new and very strong Conclave is on the point of being formed near London , under ( lie immediate patronage of a brother of high rank in the Craft , as well as in most of the other Degrees ; ami , ipiite recently , one of the regular Conclaves indiicled no less than six candidates ai one silting , in order to oualil'v them as founders of this new Conclave , in one of the most , active of our

suburban centres . \\ e also hear rumours of a peaceful set I lenient , of ( he tint using warfare in which the Secret monitors have been involved in order to defend their position in Kiiglanil , and hope soon to be able io report I he abandonment of tactics showing the sorry spectacle of one body of Englishmen " raging furiously " against another body of their countryinen ami brethren , in t Im supposed interests of a handful nf foreigners whom their own fellow citizens "let severely alone . "

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