"All the Students who believe that Doctor Bloduplex did not insinuate that I had out my knife to stab him, affirm that belief by saying-yes."

Not a voice responded!

"All the Students who believe that Doctor Bloduplex did insinuate that I had out my knife to stab him, affirm that belief by saying-yes."

"Yes-yes-yes!"-from twenty voices; and from one louder than the rest-"Yes! I'll be d if he didn't!"

"There, sir!"-said now Harwood to the delinquent Government-" You well know you meant your remark for an insinuation; and sir, it was a base insinuation !”

To this the President vouchsafed no reply. And he stopped all further preceedings by running down from the Rostrum and retreating to the far side of the Hall, where he declared himself now afraid of Harwood, and said he wished to be surrounded by the Students! And then, after abusing the Professors, he cried out "let all the Students who are in my favour follow me to my house ;" when he hurried forth, followed by a few.

They did imprudent Nay! the

Had now our two Professors gone home! But "evil communications corrupt good manners ;" and so imitating the Parental System, they, forsooth, must have a little talk with the Students !-many of whom remained. not say much, indeed; yet Harwood was enough to say there "Bloduplex is a Liar !" same impertinent language both Professors used afterwards, the same day, to the citizens of the village! And for this frightful and outrageous insolence Harwood was shortly af ter excommunicated from the Communion of the Church! True, Harwood had a dreadful provocation;-but what right had he to twist and squirm about when a Holy and Reverend Man stamped upon him? Why did he not, likc an humble worm, crawl back wounded into his hole? True, Harwood offered to bring Clarence, and twenty Students, VOL. II.-14

to prove the truth of the libel; but "no," said Bishop Bloduplex, who himself presided, and advocated, and judged on the trial, in the inferior court-" no; the greater the truth the greater the libel: and let him thus be taught not to slander and abuse a clergyman !"

Ay, and true it was, that Professor Clarence was summoned before our Grand Jury, and on solemn oath declared, that to the best of his knowledge and belief there was not the slightest ground for believing that Mr. Harwood intended on that Saturday to assassinate Doctor Constant Bloduplex! But what right had a mere layman to a character? What right to defend himself, by saying indig nantly that the accusation of Doctor B. was malicious and false ?-What

"Well, but Mr. Carlton, did not the higher ecclesiastical court take up the case against Bloduplex on Fama Clamosa?-did not the officers and members of his own parish lay the matter before a bench of Bishops ?"

No! dear reader, no: but consider, he was the only Doctor of Divinity in the whole Purchase! He was too enormous a Big-Bug-and the sting of such is sometimes fatal!

"Mr. Carlton, what did the President with the Students that went with him ?"

Well, several of his body-guard told the author, and gave Mr. Clarence written certificates to the same purport, that "early on Saturday morning the President had sent for and told them expressly he was afraid of Harwood, and wished them to protect him from violence-that they then believed him, and, indeed, until the knife scene was presented; that afterwards they went back with the Doctor, but only to hear what else he would say ;-that at his house the President treated them with cakes and wine ;— that he then read Clarence's confidential letters, and spent a full hour in ridiculing and burlesquing his character, and

pronounced him in all respects incompetent to the office of

Professor of Languages," &c.

Any more questions, reader?

"No, indeed, we have heard enough."

So I had begun to think. Here, then, let us end our celebrated Saturday-a day memorable enough, also, to be the Last of our Seventh Year.

CHAPTER LXV.

CONCLUDING SIX MONTHS.

"That such a slave as this should wear a sword!"

Ha! I see the light of a Clearing! a little further,

and we are through this Romance of the Forest!

Beautiful the fresh green of our opening spring! Glorious the wild flowers and blossoms, exhaling their odours to the air! Grand as ever the dark, solemn, boundless forest! Full of awe, yon swollen water! bearing through the desert wood, on its raging bosom, an hundred branching trees, and, here and there, the shattered fragments of a rude cabin!

Hark!—ah! it is the piteous cooing of our wood doves! And hark!-there!-yes, scamper away, you little grey gaffer, and peep from the dense foliage of that lofty sugartop! I knew it was you squealing your cunning song. Fear not! shady-tail-my rifle is at home-I have no heart to shoot you now! There! cracks the brush!-I see you leap not away! bounding, timid deer! Stay

and graze the early buds and tender twigs of yon thicket-I am no more your foe!

Yes! there is a clearing ahead! A short moment more and I leave you, oh! deep and dark ravine, where I have been so often buried in solitude!-and you, oh! beetling cliff, with dizzy brow, frowning over the secret waters so many hundred feet below! And am I so soon to leave you all—and, for ever? Ah! if I revisit the Purchase, you, enchanting trees, will be prostrate !—you, merry squirrel, and timid deer, will have fled!--you, solemn ravine, will be desecrated with wide and beaten roads! Alas! the secret waters will lie open then to the public gaze !—the tall cliff be stripped of its grove !—and the solitary cabin there of Ned Stanley, be supplanted by the odious, pretending, and smirking house of brick and mortar !-alas !— "Mr. Carlton !-Mr. Carlton !!-Mr. Carlton!!!"

Sir!-Sir!!

"We shall never get out of the woods at this rate.”

Thank you, dear reader! I forgot myself—I was away in the spirit amid the apparitions of innocent joys long dead. Let us return, then, to history.

Before resuming literary topics, we must say a word of what happened some weeks ago to the firm of Glenville and Carlton and which dissolved our partnership, and sent Glenville to the Farther West, and Carlton alas!

whither?

My partner, in early days, had " put his name to paper;" a security, as he supposed, but making himself liable as a partner. Notes were given to pay for produce: and this was loaded and floated to Orleans, and there sold at a fair profit. But, by a singular negligence, the gentleman en. trusted with the boats, and pork, corn, lard, tallow, and hoop-poles, never came back with the money! And hence the merchants failing, the holders of their notes got nothing for their paper! For many long years, this paper lay

quiet and slumbering-till a lawyer suddenly appeared in the woods—and the repose of the notes was broken. And so was that of Glenville ! The holders were now taught for "a consideration," how to come upon the securityespecially as he, after a long and doubtful struggle, had got above the waves, and was swimming in comparative comfort.

The security was, therefore, advised very unexpectedly of his insecurity: and, in the next moment, stripped of all his hard earned possessions, he was soused naked into that very figurative and deeply poetical sea-a Sea of Trou. bles! Now, folks intimately connected with others, rarely take that metaphorical plunge, without ducking their associates hence, down went Mr. Carlton into the deep wa ters, from which emerging for a sniff of air, he saw most of his external good things swept away by the torrent!

Mr. Carlton's work, therefore, for the six months under consideration, was that most vexatious and profitless kind of twisting called winding-up. Suppose me, then, hard at work, turning the windlass or some other figured crank of the Wind-up-business, while we go on to wind-up also the story of the College: and then Clarence, and the rest of us, like other phantasms of our drama, disappear-perhaps, for ever!

After the Saturday, our Literati continued their labours, -the Government minding the discipline,—the Professors, the teaching. Except some official intercourse, all other was at an end for the Professors were for keeping out of harm's way, and not only avoided all sayings and doings in company of the President, but even looking at or to wards him out of the tail of an eye.

Generally, the students remained neutral: but the young gentlemen belonging to the governmental party, did very good service as partisans. Among other things, they, one dark night, girdled all Clarence's flourishing and ornamen