Trying To Change A Sovereign.

jeering length of six feet of Andrea Eerrara . He was a man whose moustache went up under his nose , and whose nose came down over his moustache . To this sentinel an individual , habited in cloth of frieze , slouched up , and thus diffidently accosted him : " If you please , I have called from the company to inspect the gas meter . " " You be Mowed ! " ejaculated the sentry coarsely .

" That's what I apprehend you will be—up ! " responded the other , " if your service is in the condition I conjecture it to be in . " " Bully for you ! " inconsequently replied the cloaked individual , blocking up the doorway -with his huge person . " Don ' t be impertinent , " said the other . "Who are yon , young fellow ? What ' s your name ? " " John Johnson , own man to Master Percy , of kin to his Worship ful

Lordship the Earl of Northumberland , and one of his Majesty s Gentleman Pensioners , " was the reply . " What ' s yours ? " " My name is Nerval , " responded the interrogator , absently . Yon see Scotland and Scottish subjects were in everybody ' s mind at that time . "Yes , I know , " interrupted the other ; "that ' s when you ' re on the Grampian Hills , and a precious sight too many of you have come off the Grampian Hills lately , but as you ' re not stuck up there now , you know , why

your name can ' t be Nerval at present . The fact is , I know your name better than you do yourself . " " Can it be possible ? " reflected the Lord Cham , I mean the wearer of the frieze jerkin , " that my dis—ger—er—rise is—er—penetrated—er—but —er—no—it can—not—be , " so he enquired aloud , " and what may my name he , then ?" . " I don't know what your name may be then . I know what your name is NOW , " the sentry confidently responded : " your name ' s Walker . " " Nay , then—I "

" I tell you your name must be Walker , abruptly broke in the other—and he accompanied the assertion with such a significant movement of the toe of his rig ht jack-boot that the soi disant inspector made no further attempt to explain his mission , but forthwith made a prudential and strategic movement to the rear . "THAT cock won't fight , " was all the account he condescended to give of the interview and of his failure .

Says Peter , when he heard all about it , " Leave it to me . " When Peter was a gay and . smart young barrister—pish ! I mean bachelorhe had seen that inscription prominent in a gin shop window in Drury Laneit meant that the customer might safely trust to the purveyor ' s discretion in the commingling of the desiderated fluids . Then he confided his idea to Sir Thomas Knyvett , and that worth y beaka worthier never voted for cutting clown barristers' fees on a court prosecution—winked , and signed a search warrant .

At midnight precisely the slouched sentinel on duty at Mr . Percy ' s residence was accosted by three individuals . One was a portly gentleman , in doublet and trunk hose ; another an uneasy-looking party in a frieze jerkin ; the third , a stalwart Inspector of the A Reserve . " This is a rummy business , " said the Police officer , interposing , as the magistrate engaged the cloaked warder in conversation ; "I hold here a warrant of Sir Thomas Knyvetta Westminster justiceto search these here

, , premises . Pact is , some of the king ' s stuff has been collared from the wardrobe hard by , and from information I have received—in short—I must search the crib , and that ' s all about it . " John Johnson started , and , en regie , cried , " Ha ! Ha !! " Then he withdrew the shade from a bull ' s-eye lanthorn he produced from behind his back , find the light flashed upon a tiny , thin , black streak , meandering along the