Trying To Change A Sovereign.

Yon see the fair merchant was not in a sufficiently large ivay of business to execute a big order Avithout a wholesale house at her back . Ancl tho present chronicler , having enumerated three eminent firms , confidently expects that , in return for this puff direct , not only himself , but his sisters , his cousins , and his aunts , will be gratuitously provided with sufficient store of " nubbl y ones" to carry them all comfortably through the

impending winter . As for Guido F ; but ha 1 I er— must er— dis—er—semble . I had very nearly enfranchised pussy from her prison of textile fabric * As for Mr . John Johnson , he took his , the nearest , vay from the vidoAv ' s emporium direct over Vauxhall Bridge to Lambeth . The observant reader Avill haA'e remarked the studied gradation of the

parenthetical Ha ' s . Mr . Johnson ' s last ejaculation was triple ; as he left the coal shed his Ha ' s Avere quadrupled ; ancl Avhen he paused at the last lamp over the arch nearest the Surrey side , and CII-BAV from beneath his ample cloak a Chubb latch key ancl a paper , ivhich he proceeded to peruse by the aid of the electric light , f he quintupled his Ha ' s ivith such vehemence that a passing policeman turned his bulls-eye upon himAvhenbeing convinced that the

, , instrument the suspected one flourished was a genuine Chubb and not a blind or skeleton key , he covered his glowing orb , whistled , and walked on . That document was an executed agreement between landlord and tenant , printed ivith blanks , purchased for sixpence at a stationer ' s slum in Fleet Street , and then filled up in writing ancl duly stamped at Somerset Hoiise . It purported to assign a right to occupy a little house in Stangateand the

, name of the assignee was Robert Keyes . To this tenement the Chubb admitted Mr . Johnson . In an apartment on the lower floor he found the tenant and another person . The room ivas feebly illuminated by rays from a candle enclosed in a cylindrical piece of ironwork , and standing on a box in the centre , which appeared to serve the purpose of a table . The dim light just rendered visible a terrible inscription

on the coffer— " Dynamite . —With care . —This side up . " What became of the chest you will learn presently . The lamp may be beheld at this clay in the museum of the Bodleian Library in the city of Oxford . All three individuals were cloaked , and wore long rapiers , tall slouched hats , and jack boots . All three had moustaches that went up under their noses , and noses that came CIOAVII OA'er their moustaches . As Fawkes—pish ! I mean Mr . Johnson—enteredthe tAvo others elevated their index fingers

, , and each glided to a closed window , assuming the Avhile the attitude in ivhich a cautious Spaniard is said to ivalk—with his beard over his shoulder . The last comer imitated the gesture as he bolted and doubl y locked the door by which , he had entered . Then all three came back with slow , and measured , and noiseless footfalls to the coif er in tbe centre of the apartment . Around this they formed a triangle with clasped hands . Then one solemnly ejaculated

the word " Bryant ! " Mr . Keyes responded ivith the conjunction ' " And ! " Mrs . Critchett ' s customer then completed the mystic formula b y uttering the syllable " May ! " Then all three shouted together the terrible incantation " Bryant and May ! " ancl struck , each with his disengaged hand , a fierce blow on the improvised table , and simultaneousl y the trio uttered , as ivith one A'oiee , the fearful assertion " They strike only on the box ! " % Then they disengaged