Calendar: 1882-1883 Page 618

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SC1EKCK 615 -tetttk Composition-dfor fc Prole was conveyed methought into the entrance of the infernal regions where saw Rhadamanthus one of the judges of the dead seated on his tribunal On his left hand stood the keeper of Erebus on the right the keeper of Elysium was told he sat upon women that day there being several of the sex lately arrived who had not their mansions assigned them was surprised to hear him ask every one of them the same question namely What had they been doing Upon this question being proposed to the whole assembly they stared one upon another as not knowing what to answer He then inter- rogated each of them separately ζ Madam says he to the first of them 'you have been upon the earth above fifty years what have you been doing there all this while Doing says she really do not know what have been doing desire may have time given me to recollect After about half an hour's pause she told him that she had been playing at crimp upon which Rhadamanthus beckoned to the keeper on his left hand to take her into custody Pyrrhus the king while travelling met dog guarding the body of murdered man and having learned that this was the third day he had remained by the body refusing to leave it he gave orders to bury the dead man and to take away the dog Now few days afterwards there was an inspection of the soldiers and march past while the king was seated and the dog was present and remained quiet but when he saw the murderers of his master going past he rushed forth at them with great noise and kept barking turning round to Pyrrhus The men were therefore arrested and being examined confessed the murder and were punished Stranger farewell guess not who you are Nor why you so addressed your tale to me Your mien is noble and own perplexed me With obscure memory of something past If as it sometimes happens our rude startling