The Scot Abroad.

" Bless my soul I" cried the agonized Englishman , starting up , " Is everybod y on earth a Scotchman 1 Perhaps I'm one myself , without my knowing it ! " And thereupon , overwhelmed by this appalling idea , he slunk aivay to bed , where I heard him groaning dismally as long as I remained awake . From that clay there was a marked change in my rollicking companion . All his former joviality disappeared , and a gloomy depression hung over him , broken by constant fits of nervous restlessness , as if he were in perpetual dread of the appearance of some Turkish , Austrian , Greek , or Tartar Scotchman . Indeed , ivhat he had already seen Avas of itself quite sufficient to unsettle him , as you may imagine ; and all this was a trifle to Avhat was coming . For about this time our corps was detached to meet a Russian

force under a certain General Tarassoff ( of whom we had heard a great deal ) , AVIIO was threatening to fall upon our flank . We fell in with the enemy sooner than we expected , and had some pretty sharp skirmishing with him for two or three iveeks together ; after which ( as usually happens in a fight when both sides have had about enough of it ) an armistice ivas agreed upon , that the tivo generals might meet—to arrange , if I recollect aright , for an exchange of prisoners . After all the trouble Tarassoff had given

us , aud all that Ave had heard of him before , Ave were naturally rather anxious to see Avhat he ivas like ; so I and three or four more ( among Avhom ivas his excellency the interpreter ) contrived to be present at the meeting . We had to ivait a good Avhile before the great man made his appearance ; but at last Tarassoff rode up , ancl the Pasha came fonvard to receive him . The Russian ivas a fine , soldier-like figure , nearly six feet high , Ai'ith a heai ^ cuirassier moustache , and a latent vigour betraying itself ( as the

" physical force novelists say ) in every line of his long muscular limbs . Our Pasha Avas a short , thick-set man , rather too round and puffy in the face to bo very dignified ; but the quick restless glance of his keen gray eye showed that he had no Avant of energy . My friend the interpreter looked admiringly at the pair as they approached each other , ancl ivas just exclaiming , " There , thank God , a real Russian ancl a real Turk , ancl admirable specimens of their race , too ! " ivh . cn suddenly General Tarassoff and Ibrahim Pasha , after staring at each other for a moment , burst forth simultaneously , " Eh , Donald Caivmell , are ye here V— " Lord keep us , Sandy Robertson , can this be you V Involuntarily I glanced at the Englishman .

" I thought as much , ' he said , ivith a calmness more dreadful than any emotion . " It ' s all over—flesh and blood can bear it no longer . Turks , Russians , Hungarians , English—all Scotchmen ! It ' s more than I can bear . I shall go home !" " Home ! '' echoed I in amazement ; " ivhy you have hardly been out six months yet !" " What of that , " groaned the victim , clutching his forehead distractedly with both hands ; " there ' s nothing left for me to do here . I came out as an interpreter ; but if

all nations of Europe talk nothing but Scotch , ivhat use can I be ! I shall go home at once , before I lose my senses altogether . I shall be talking Gaelic myself before long . " I never saw him again after his departure ; but I have since heard that to the day of his death he remained firmly convinced that the Turkish conquest of Constantinople , and the subsequent rise of the Ottoman empire , Avere a malicious invention of historians , and that all the inhabitants of Eastern Europe were in reality Scotchmen in disguise .

"Hail And Faeewell."

"HAIL AND FAEEWELL . "

" HAIL and fareivell ! " We meet to part Ei'en ivith the greeting on our lips , As those , who come from some busy mart , See all their wealth go out in ships That never come again to shore . So fade our days to rise no more ,