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But us soon as my head got dearer and accustomed to hear 'em spdalc,
I knew at I'd lain like that, air, for many a long, long week.
1 guessed what the lads was hi din’, for their poor old shipmate's sake
I could see by their puzzled faces they’d got sonic news to break:
So I lifts my head from the pillow, and I says to old Ben, “ Look here!
I ’m able to bear it now, lad— tell me, and never fear.”

Not one on 'em ever answered, but presently Ben goes out,
And the others slinks away like, and 1 says, “ What’s this about?
Why can't they tell me plainly as the poor old wife is dead !”
Then I fell again on the pillows, and I hid my adiin1 head ;
I lay like that for a minute,till I heard a voice cry “ John !"
And I thought it must be a vision as my weak eye1; gazed upon ;
For there by the bedside, standin1 up and well was my wife.
And who do ye think was with her? Why, jack, as large as life,

It was him as Fd saved from drownin’ the night as the lifeboat went
To the wreck of tile Royal Helen ; 'twas that as the vision meant.
They'd brought us ashore together, he’d kneit by bis mother’s bed,
And the sudden joy had raised her like a miracle from tile dead ;
And mother and son together had nursed me back to life.
And my old eyes woke from darkness to look on my son and wife.
Jade? lie ’s our right hand now, sir; 'twas Providence pulled him
through—
lie’s alius the first aboard her when the lifeboat wants a crew.
G e o r g e R, S i m s .
THE SPANISH MOTHER.

[Supposed lo be related by a veteran TVem.'ji officer.]
Y ES ! [ have served that noble chief throughout his proud career,
And beard Lhc builets whistle past in lands both far and near—
Amidst Italian Flowers, below the dark pines of the north,
Where’er the Emperor willed to pour his el ends of battic forth.

'Twas then a apScndid sight to see, though terrible, I ween,
How his vast spirit filled and moved the wheels (if the machine;