Trying To Change A Sovereign.

" Saul o' me body , Sirs , a bauld traitor , " gasped the monarch . " The question now is , Sire , " said the principal Secretary of State , with a low obeisance , " what is to be clone with him ? " " The morn ' s morn is jaist a free day at the Toower , " mused Majesty , " and thaur'll be unco' muckle folk there . Hech , Sirs , 1 ha ' t it . Jaist scribble an order mon to our Lieutenant , Sir William Wade , to let the gentleman inspect

the resairved sights , " *—here His Highness chuckled with much satisfaction" and send him doon in ane o' our ain barges wi' a wheen musqueteers and halberd bearers , and kimmers , get ye a' gane , and Prinnie MacPhairson , ye loon , help me back into bed , for I ' m unco' cauld and—hark ye , mon—leave the whusky-bottle hard by on the mantle , and the wee thing they ca' an Etna burnin ' , for I maun e ' en requeer some toddy i' the nicht . "

It was five in the morning when the renowned Guido Pawkes beheld the reserved sights . Their chief interest to him consisted in a frame , with rollers , sheaves , levers , ropes , and pulleys , level with the ground , on the basement floor of William Rufns ' s keep . Here , too , was a small cell or cavity scooped out of the twenty-five feet thickness of the foundation wall , and so constructed that its occupant , when it had one , could neither stand , sit , nor lie down . Into this

hole they crumpled poor Guy , and then they shut and double-locked and bolted the door upon him , and left him to reflect upon the reserved sights he had been privileged to behold . Just as they closed the door" Hath this place a name ? " moodily enquired he . " It is called the 'Little Ease , ' " sternly responded his gaolers . " Little Ease ! " he wildly reflected , as the portal clanged to . " Small ees ! and my sentence will he

A CAPITAL ONE !" CHAPTER X . THE ONLY PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY . THERE are many roads to Rome . We have poetical authority for asserting that there are also more than one road to heaven . There are two roads from London

to Highgate . One runs to the . eastward of the renowned hill , and is popularly supposed to be that by which the traditional Dick Whittington climbed that eminence . The other is on the west , and Lad y Coutts ' s estate is thereon situate . Now , as you take this occidental route , you pass by a mamelon on your left , which is known to this day as the Parliament Hill . On the

afternoon of Tuesday , the 5 th November , 1605 , two or three moody-looking individuals were grouped on the summit of this mound , staring wistfully at the great city lying at their feet . They were unencumbered b y the damp sheets which the news boys in the road below were vending , shouting " Last 'dishnn —Special ! Openin' o' Parliament—King ' s Speech ! " They heeded not these seductive announcements . We are told by Milton that " They also serve who only stand and wait . "

These watchers were standing and waiting above ; the news-boys were running and serving below . Watching and waiting for what ? Por a Pyrotechnic display .