Time's Flight.

up , the boat was steered close to the beach , to avoid the outsetting current , then pulled round the garrison point into the harbour , and thence into the Admiral's Camber , where it was made fast and all right . It was eleven o ' clock when we landed , and walked homo with the rolling gait of veritable "Jack Tars . " We did not lose the motion of the boat until sweet sleep had closed our eyes for a night ' s rest .

The officer , who had kindly lent us the craft , told our respective , and respected , friends , that wc had gone to sea in an open boat , and that we could not get back again under two or three days , if we got back at all ! He , jirobably , was more alarmed at the prospect of our losing a jiurf of ill . M . stores , than anything else . As it , fortunatel y , turned out , all of us agreed , mid do to this day , that it was—A DAY'S PLEASURE "

Jimmy Jackson An' His Bad Wife.

JIMMY JACKSON AN' HIS BAD WIFE .

BY 3 IHS . GEORGE MAEKHAM TWEDDELL . ( From " Ttceddell's North of England Illustrated Annual " ) SUM years sahn ther lived iv a sartin jfleeace i' t' Noth ov Iugland , a homiest , hardwerkin ' stiddy chaji , call'd Jimmy Jackson ; budunfottenatelfer himhe'd

, , y , gitten a regiler gud-for-nowt wife . Sheea waz up te all sooats o' badness . Sheea weeasted hiz brass , an' nivver tried te male hiz yam cumfottubel at all . An' warse ner that ,-sheea'd getten ankeld on wiv a fella tha call'd Ben , ' at had geean te luclge wiv ' em .

• Jimmy saw thruff't all , an waz ommest at hiz wit ' s end te knaw what te deea . Howsumivver- , yah clay ther waz a plan kom intiv hiz heead , an' he meead up Liz mahnd te try ' t on . Seea when Setterda neet kom , a ma ister paid him hiz wage , Jimmy sed tiv him : — " Maister , Ah want yah te bag mah ! " " Te sack thoo , Jimmy 1 " sed t' maister . " Ah wad be varry sorry te deea onnything o ' t' kahnd . Thoo ' z a gud warkman , an' Ah deea n't want te loss tha . Aheanawluz dippencl upon thoo hem' at the wark , an' deeiu' 't all reet teea . What fer sud All suck tha ?"

" Whyah , maister , ' sed Jimmy , " Ah knaw all that varry weel ; bud , Ah tell ya , yoo mini sack mah . ' ' " Ah tbowt , " sed t' maister , " ' at Ah 'd awlnz deean all ' at waz reet an' fair be tha , an' can n ' t tell whativver ' z i' t' wind wi' tha . Diz tha want mair wage er sumniat If seea , thoa sud ha' gie ' n mah nooaris , mun . Bud , niebbe thoo an ' t' udder chaps hez been fallen' oot , ha ' e ya ? Tell mah all aboot it , Jimmy ; an' Ah ' 11 see tha reeted , if onny on ' em ' z been deean' owt ' at iz n't ackooardin' te Cocker . "

" All ' z reet beeath wi' yoo an't' warkmen , maister , " sed Jimmy . " Yoo mooant ax mah fer onny reeason noo ; bud All tell ya Ah want ya te sack mah ; an' what' « mair , Ah want me nooatis iv yer awn handwritin ' , an' ya mooaut tell onnybody 'at M ' axt ya te gi ' e mah ' t . Say nowt aboot it tiv onnybody , maister . Ah mun leeave ya fer a bit ; bud varry lahkly Ah ma' cum back afboar lang . Bud ya mun bag ma ' " maister ; ya munhowivver . Ah 11 tell ya all aboot it efter . Write mah oot Die

, nooatis just noo , maister ; deea , if ya pleeaz . " Seein' ' at nowt else wad sarra , t' maister wrate oot hiz fotnitb ' s nooatis te leeave , & he 'd axt him te deea , an' Jimmy teeak it away yam wiv hiz wage . He sat hiz sel' doon az seean az he gat kite t' boos , au' sed nowt te neeabody ; biul