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 CARRATRACA 
 
 MINERAL SPPJNGS CO. 
 
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 NORTH PLANTAGENET 
 
 ONTARIO 
 
 The Moor's Legacy 
 
 T/ie Story of the Stone Eyes 
 
 WINNING, HILL & WARE 
 
 389 ST. PAUL STREET 
 
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 ; -....'.««=, 31. rfAHSS Bi-. MONTHEAl 
 

 1870 
 
 la again presenting our little book to the public, we 
 feel a positive certainty, a careful perusal may be the 
 means of affording relief, at least, to many now suffer- 
 ing. We, by no means, pretend the Carratbaca 
 Waters are specifics ; but we do assert the effects 
 Foduced by their use, in many cases, hare been almost 
 
 MIRACULOUS. 
 
 A single proof of the high esteem in which they are 
 held can be taken from the fact, that during the sea- 
 son of 1869 (in reality the first summer they were pro- 
 minently brought before the public), nearly 1,000 bar- 
 eels EQUAL TO 50,000 GALLONS WERE SOLD ; and not 
 
 one single instance has come to our knowledge, where 
 their use has not been attended with positive benefit. 
 
 In calling particular attention to the comparisons be- 
 tweeen the Carratraca Waters and those of the most 
 NOTED Springs of the United States, we desire to stMe 
 in each instance the analyses have been taken froD' pub- 
 lished documents of the respective Spring Companies. 
 WINNLXG, HILL & WARE, 
 389, St. Paul Str^t, 
 
 Montreal. 
 
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 CARRATRACA ! 
 
 HE WELL KNOWN WATERS PBOM TBI CARSA- 
 TBACA SMINOS OP PlaNTAOENET, ONTARIO 
 
 atl T J,*."' ^"'""^ "•'" <"™' '«'<' ""oh «e not 
 approached by any of the various known waters either in 
 ft.nada, or the UniM States. Being the most pl^ 
 beverage at all seasons possible to be had ; as a vZhh 
 
 ZoiTr " r' f ^*-'»'"'™. GO"', Struma 
 and Glandular Complaints, Epihp,y, Leprae and 
 
 aeknow edged wherever used. Being the most riehlv 
 mmerahzed of all the Canadian or American Min^Il 
 
 Z.I^'1 '^■'^^" ^''"^^'^ '"•' "^'*»''' ™«=^^ in every 
 '^f_^<^'l2'y,D,fepna, Gravel, Dialete,,IH,ea,Jf 
 theUver &e., and m nearly every description of Di>e^ 
 of<U Kidney, they are invaluable. In fact, there is 
 har-dly any condition of the body that positiv; benefit 
 W.11 not result from their use; and there is nothW 
 more certain than that, under no circumstances can any 
 barm result from their use even by the most delicate ' 
 These waters have been locally known for over half 
 A CENTURY, and now being on sale throughout thi 
 
 17^"^: r r """"^ '^ '^' ^"'''''P^' "«^ of the 
 Unitod States, the attention of nil n«™p, ;. .^ „ 
 
 called to them and a trial solicited: "" " '"'""""^ 
 
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lESEND OF THE MOOB^ LEGACY. 
 
 
 UST within the fortress of the Alhambra, in 
 front of tho royal palace, is a broad open esplan- 
 ade, called the Place or Square of the Cisterns da 
 Plaza de los Algibes), so called from being undermined 
 by reservoirs of water, hidden from sight, and which 
 have existed from the time of the Moor's. At one cor- 
 ner of this Esplanade is a Moorish well, cut throu-h 
 the living rock to a great depth, the water of which^is 
 cold as ice and clear as crystal. The wells made by the 
 Moors are always in repute, for it is well known what 
 pains they took to penetrate to the purest and sweetest 
 spnngs and fountains. The one of which we now speak 
 IS famous throughout Granada, insomuch that the wat^r 
 carriers, somme bearing great water jars on their should- 
 ers, others driving aases before them laded with earthen 
 vessels, are ascending and descending the steep, woody 
 avenues of the Alhambra, from early dawn until a late 
 hour of the night. 
 
 Fountains and wells, ever since the scriptural days 
 have been noted gossiping places in hot climates, and at 
 the weU in question there is a kind of perpetual club 
 kept up, during the live-long-day, by the invalids, old 
 women, and other curious do-nothing folk of the fortress 
 who sit here on the stone benches, under an awnino^ 
 spread over the well tn slirlfor fKo *f.u ~«iv ^-_ ., * 
 
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 Most blessed water ! neither tongue can tell, 
 The blessedness thereof ; no heart can think, 
 Save only those to whom it has been given, 
 To taste of that divinest gift of heaven. 
 
 SOUTHET. 
 
 ^^HERE are few subjects connectea with medicine 
 m^ more interesting to the general reader than that 
 of mineral waters. Their universal use in all parts of 
 the world, the knowledge that many of them produce 
 effects far from what can be accounted for, either by their 
 chemical composition or the power c 'leir known ingre- 
 dients, their undoubted benefits in myriads of cales, 
 have always cast a mystery about them that may in 
 reality be a principal reason of their success in many 
 cases that have baffled the profoundest medical skill. 
 
 Apart from the reality of their known value in 
 disease, they also have their romance, how fascinating 
 may be judged by the following, from the history of 
 Juan Ponce de Leon, Discoverer of Florida. 
 ^ Juan Ponce de Leon resigned the command of Porto 
 Rico with tolerable grace. The loss of one wild island 
 and wild government was of little moment, when 
 
 
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 LKQEND OP THE MOOB's LEQAOr. 
 
 sun, and dawdle over the gossip of the fortress, and 
 question every water carrier that arrives about the news 
 of the city, and make long comments on every thing 
 they hear and see. Not an hour of the day but loiter- 
 , mg house-wives and idle maid-servants may be seen 
 mgenng with pitcher on head or in hand, to hear the 
 last of the endless tattle of these worthies. 
 
 Among the water carriers who once resorted to this 
 well, there was a sturdy, strong-backed, bandy-le^'ged 
 little fellow, named Pedro Gil, but called Peregif for 
 shortness. Being a watar carrier, he was a Galle^^o or 
 native of Gallicia, of course. Nature seems to\ave 
 termed races of men, as she has of animals, for different 
 kinds of drudgery. 
 
 In France the shoeblacks are all Savoyards, the por- 
 ters of hotels all Swiss, and in the days of hoops and 
 hair-powder in England, no man could give the regular 
 swing to a sedan-chair but a bog-trotting Irishman. 
 
 So in Spain, the carriers of waters and bearers of 
 burdens are all sturdy little natives of Galiicia. No 
 man says, "Get me a porter," but, " Call a Gallego." 
 
 To return from this digression, Peregil the Gallego 
 had begun business with merely a great earthen jar which 
 he carried upon his shoulders; by degrees he rose in the 
 world, and was enabled to purchase an assistant of a 
 correspondent class of animals, being a stout, shaggy, 
 haired donkey. On each side of this long-eared aid-de- 
 camp, in a kind of pannier, were slung his water jars, 
 covered with fig-leaves to protect them from the sun! 
 
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 there was a new world to be shared out, where a 
 bold Soldier like himself, with sword and buckler, 
 might readily carve out new fortune for himself. Besides 
 he had now amassed wealth to assist him in his plans, 
 and, like many of the early discoverers, his brain was' 
 teemmg with the most romantic enterprises. He had 
 conceived the idea that there was yet a third world to be 
 discovered, and he hoped to be the first to reach its shores, 
 and thus secure a renown equal to that of Columbus. 
 
 While cogitating these things, and considering which 
 way he should strike forth in the unexplored regions 
 around him, he met with some old Indians, who gave 
 him tidings of a country which promised, not merely to 
 satisfy the cravings of his ambition, but to realize the 
 fondest dreams of the poets. They assured him that 
 far to the north, (perhaps as far north as Carratraca) 
 there existed a land abounding in gold and in all manner 
 of delights : but, above all, possessing a river of such 
 wonderful virtue, that whoever bathed in it would be 
 restored to youth ! They added, that in times past, before 
 the arrival of the Spaniards, a large party of the natives 
 of Cuba -had departed northwards in search of this 
 happy land and this river of life, and having never 
 returned, it was concluded that they were flourishing in 
 renovated youth, detained by the pleasures of that "en- 
 chanting country. 
 
 Here was the dream of the alchemist realii^ed ' One 
 had but to find this gifted land, and revel in the enjoy- 
 ment of boundless riches and perennial youth ; nay 
 some of the ancient Indians declared that" it wL not 
 
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 Granada, nor one more merry withal. The streets rang 
 with his cheerful voice as he trudged after his donkey, 
 singing forth the usual summer note that resounds 
 through the Spanish towns : Quien quiere agua— agua 
 mas fria que la nieve ? " 
 
 ''Who wants water— water colder than snow?" 
 "Who Wants water from the well of the Alhambra, 
 cold as ice and clear as crystal ? " When he served a 
 customer with a sparkling glass, it was always with a 
 pleasant word that caused a smile ; and if perchance, it 
 was a comely dame or dimpling damsel, it was always 
 with a sly leer and a compliment to her beauty that was 
 irresistible. Thus Peregil the Gallego was noted through- 
 out all Granada, for being one of the civilest, pleasant- 
 est, and happiest of mortals. Yet it i 5 not he who sings 
 loudest and jokes most that has the lightest heart. 
 
 ^ Under all this air of merriment, honest Peregil had 
 his cares and troubles. He had a large family of rag- 
 ged children to support, who were hungry and clamor- 
 ous as a nest of young swallows, and beset him with 
 their outcries for food whenever he came home of an 
 evening. He ho^ a helpmate too, who was anything but 
 a help to him. She had been a village beauty before 
 marriage, noted for her skill at dancing the bolero and 
 and rattling the castAnets ; and she still retained her ! 
 early propensities, spending the hard earnings of honest i 
 Peregil in frippery, and laying the very donkey under i 
 requisition .for junketing parties into the country on 
 Sundays and Saints' days, and thoso innumerahlp holi- ' 
 days which arc rather more numerous in Spain than the 
 
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 necessary to go eo far in quest of these rejuvenating 
 waters, for that in a certain island of the Bahama group 
 call Bimini, which lay far out in the ocean, there was a 
 fountain, possessing the same marvellous and inestima- 
 ble qualities. 
 
 ^uan Ponce de Leon listened to these tales with fond 
 credulity. He was advancing in life, and the ordinary 
 term of existence seemed insufficient f( Ms mi<^hty 
 plans. Could he but plunge into this marvellous foun- 
 tain or gifted river, and come out with his battered 
 war-worn body restored to the strength and freshness 
 and suppleness of youth and his head still retaining the 
 wisdom and knowledge of age what enterprises might he 
 not accomplish in the additional course of vigorous years 
 insured to him I ^ j 
 
 It may seem incredible, at the present day, that a 
 man of years and experience conld yield any faith to a 
 story which resembles the wild fiction of an Arabian tale • 
 but the wonders and novelties breaking upon the worM 
 in that age of discovery almost realized the illusions of 
 fables, and the imaginations of the Spanish voyages had 
 become so heated, that they were capable of any stretch 
 of credulity. 
 
 So fully persuaded was the worthy old Cavalier of 
 the existence of the region described to him, that he 
 fitted out three ships at his own expense to prosecute the 
 discovery, nor had ho any difficulty in finding adventu- 
 rers in abundance ready to cruise with him m qne^* ^.f I 
 this tairy land. - ^ i 
 
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 LEQEND OF THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 days of the week. With all this she wus a little of a 
 slattoru, somethiug more of a lie-abed, and above all, 
 a gossip of the first water ; neglecting house, household, 
 and everything else, to loiter slip-shod in the houses of 
 her gossip neighbors. 
 
 IIo, however, who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb 
 accommodates the yoke of matrimony to the submissive 
 neck. Peregil bore all the heavy dispensations of wife 
 and children with as meek a spirit as, his donkey bore 
 the water-jars ; and, however, he might shake his cars 
 in private, never ventured to(|uestion the liousehold vir- 
 tues of his slattern spouse. 
 
 He loved his children too even as an owl loves its 
 owlets, seeing in them his own image multiplied and 
 perpetuated, for they were a sturdy, long-backed, bandy- 
 legged little brood. The great pleasure of honest Pere- 
 gil was, whenever he couKl afford himself a sounty holi- 
 day, and had a handful of marevedis to spare, to take 
 the whole litter forth with him, some in his arms, some 
 tugging at his skirts, and some trudging at his heels, and 
 to treat them to a gambol among the orchards of the 
 Vega, while his wife was dancing with her holiday 
 friends in the Angosturas of the Darro. 
 
 It was a late hour on summer night, and most of the 
 water carriers had desisted from their toils. The day 
 had been uncommonly sultry ; the night was one of those 
 delicious moonlights, which tempt the inhabitants of 
 those southern climes to indemnify themselves from the 
 heat and inaction of the day by lingering in the open air 
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 turcra alone that were licated by these Indian traditions, 
 and romantic fubles. Men of learnin^r and eminence 
 were likewise beguiled by them : 
 
 Witness the following extract from the second decade 
 of Peter Martyr, addressed to Leo. X, then bishop of 
 Rome. " Among the islands on the north' side of Hispa- 
 niola, there is one about 325 leagues diiitant, as they 
 say which searclied the same, in tlSs wliich is a conti- 
 nual spring of running water, of such marvellous virtue, 
 that the water thereof being drunk, perhaps with some 
 diet, make the old men young again. And her^ I must 
 make protestation to your Holiness not to think this to 
 be said lightly or rashly, for they have so spread this 
 rumour for a truth throughout all the Court, that not 
 only all the people, but also many of them whom wisdom 
 or fortune hath divided from the common sort, tlmnk it 
 to be true ; but if you will ask my opinion lierein, T 
 will answer,— that I will not attribute so great power 
 to nature, but that God hath no less reserved this prero- 
 gative to himself than to search the hearts of men, &c. 
 P. Martyr, decade 11, Cap. 10, Lock's translation 
 (1508). 
 
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 LEQEXD OP THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 Cusvomors for water were therefore still abroad. Pere- 
 
 gil, like a considerate pains taking little father, thought 
 
 of his hungry children. " One more journey to the 
 
 well," said he to himself, "to earn a Sunday's puchero 
 
 for the little ones." So saying, he trudged manfully up 
 
 the steep avenue of the Alhambra, singing as he went, 
 
 and now and then bestowing a hearty thwack with a 
 
 cudgel on the flanks of his donkey, either by way of 
 
 cadence to the song, or refreshment to the animal, for 
 
 dry blows serve in line of provender in Spain for all 
 
 beast of burden. 
 
 When arrived at the well, he found it deserted by 
 every one except a stranger in Moorish garb, seated on 
 the stone bench in the moonlight. Peregil paused at 
 first, and regarded him with surprise, not unmixed with 
 awe, but the Moor feebly beckoned him to approach, 
 "I am faint and ill," said he, '' aid me to return to the 
 city, and I will pay thee double what thou couldst gain 
 by thy jars of water." 
 
 The honest heart of the little water carrier was 
 touched with compassion at the appeal of the stranger. 
 " God forbid," said he, " that I should ask fee or reward 
 for doing a common act of humanity." He according- 
 helped the Moor on his donkey, and set off slowly for 
 Granada, the poor Moslem being so weak that it was 
 necessary to hold him on the animal to keep him from 
 falling to the earth. 
 
 When they entered the city, the water carrier de- 
 manded whither he should conduct him. " Alas ! " 
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 Leaving these must^ old traditions of tU past, the 
 Mowing description of a trip to Carratraca frori the 
 columns of the Evening Star of Montreal will prove 
 perhaps interesting to many. 
 
 TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 I ^HL Guide Book was right about Carratraca so 
 ' fXii far as it went, but the Gui,5e Books senerallv 
 • imitate the noble Roman in brevity." I was now 
 under the ciceronage of my Jiost to learn those lessons 
 m practical geography, and see with my own eyes those 
 Mghts which the most conscientious Guide Book cannot 
 teach nor see. 
 
 It was a lovely sabbath morning as I have already said 
 and when, after breakfast, we set out for our ramble, I 
 felt all that exhiliration of one who though warped and 
 worn by three unbroken years of head work in the 
 soaring of the stony streets, haa ever had the country 
 |nth Its unadulterated air and sunshine present with 
 ium. Now, 
 
 Through golden vapors of the mora, 
 I hoard tho hlpof r>f d1...«.. . 
 
 I trod with a wild ecetacy 
 
 The bright fringe of the living sea. 
 
 
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 LEGEND OF THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 I am a stranger in the land. Suffer me to lay my head 
 this night beneath thy roof, and thou shalt be ample re- 
 paid." 
 
 Honest Peregil thus saw himself unexpectedly saddled 
 with an infidel guest, but he was too humane to refuse a 
 night's shelter to a fellow-being in so forlorn a plight, so 
 he conducted the Moor to his dwelling. The children, 
 who had sallied forth open-mouthed as usual on hearing 
 the tramp of the donkey, ran back with affright, when 
 they beheld the turbaned stranger, and hid themselves 
 behind their mother. The latter stepped forth intrepid- 
 ly, like a ruffling hen before her brood when a vagrant 
 dog approaches. 
 
 " What infidel companion," cried she, " is this you 
 have brought home at this late hour, to draw upon us 
 the eyes of the Inqui^tion ? " 
 
 " Be quiet, wife," replied the Gallego j " here is a poor 
 sick stranger, without friend or home; would'st thou 
 turn him forth to perish in the streets ? " 
 
 The wife would still have remonstrated, for although 
 she lived in a hovel she was a furious stickler for the 
 credit of her house ; the little water carrier, however, 
 for once was stiffnecked, and refused to bend beneath 
 the yoke. He assisted the poor Moslem to alight, and 
 spread a mat and sheep-skin for him, on the ground, in 
 the cooljst part of the house ; being the only kind of 
 bed that his poverty afforded. 
 
 In a little while the Moor was seized with violent con- 
 vulsions, which defied all the ministering skill of the 
 simpliB water carrier. The eye of the poor patient ac- 
 
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 The bright fringe aforesaid was damp-that could 
 not be denied. The water in the main river had risen 
 in twenty-four hours three feet, the little streams were 
 swollen and turgid, and the creek, adown which is borne 
 away two Bethesdas of waste water daily, had asserted 
 itselt as the recent and omnipresent mud showed. The 
 grass was yet wet with morning dew when we set out 
 
 tarratraca Farm coversabout 250 acres, and is mainly 
 blue clay over sand, with a frequent vein of peat a foot 
 thick. Geologically the vicinity is one of the mo.f 
 
 lTn-'°lrMr^'°r^'' '°^ ^'' ^^^° ' long-time favorite 
 with Sir Wilham Logan. On one side of the road is a 
 arge and level field, destined, under new management^ 
 to become an amusement ground, whereon, at no distant 
 period, the youthful swells sojourning at the Canadian 
 Saratoga shall urge their hacks and wield their mallets 
 The house and its outbuildings cluster round the creek 
 which IS formed by the rising of a myriad springs in one 
 basin. Then, for half a mile, the property runs back to 
 the wooded heights and deep ravine towards which we 
 were now wending our way. Along little paths of damp 
 c ay, through grass still glistening, over fences and amid 
 stumps on we went. The grass was alive with creaking 
 grass-hoppers, frogs leaped away head over heels as we 
 passed little snakes drew their rapid green ribbons 
 through the herbage. " There are snakes about here " 
 says my guide; " they killed one six or seven feet lone 
 last week." On, into a patch of imperial r,ODr,ies 
 growing rank and crimson, and just beyond them Vas a 
 sight worth walking a mile to see. A field of sun-flowers 
 
18 
 
 LEGEND OP THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 knowledged his kindness. During an interval of his fits 
 he called him to his side, and addressing him in a low 
 voice, " My end," said he, " I fear, is at hand. If I die 
 1 bequeath you this box as a reward for your charity," 
 so saying, he opened his albornoz or cloak, and showed 
 a small box of sandal wood, strapped round hi3 body. 
 " God grant, my friend," replied the worthy little Galle- 
 go, " that you may live many years to enjoy your trea- 
 sure, whatever it may be ! " The Moor shook his head ; 
 he laid his hand upon the box, and would have said 
 something more concerning it, but his convulsions 
 returned with increased violence, and in a little while he 
 I expired. 
 
 The water carrier's wife was now as one distracted. 
 ''This comes," said she, "of your foolish good nature, 
 always running into scrapes to oblige others. What 
 will become of us when this corpse is found in our house ? 
 We shall be sent to prison as murderers, and if we escape 
 with our lives, shall be ruined by notaries and alguazils." 
 
 Poor Peregil was in equal tribulation, and almost re- 
 pented himself of having done a good deed. At length 
 a thought struck him. "It is not yet day," said he; 
 " I can convey the dead body out of the city, and bury 
 It in the sands on the banks of the Xenil. No one saw 
 the Moor enter our dwelling, and no one will know any- 
 thing of his death." 
 
 So said, so done. The wife aided him; they rolled 
 the body of the unfortunate Moslem in the mat on 
 which he had expired, laid it across the ass, and Peregil 
 set out with it for the banks ot the river. 
 
TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 19 
 
 each as tall as a man, with great, staring yellow faces 
 turned to meet the blaze of the sun. Such a mass of 
 ghstenmg gold one does not often meet. The sicrht of a 
 grain field is after all only that of sober, moderate plenty • 
 Its yellow is business-like, but this was sumptuous 
 luscious, exuberant, cloying, and with the glow of crimson 
 and gold through which we had passed, it was some time 
 ere it could take cognizance of milder hues. 
 
 ^•We are now," said our leader, ''on the most interesting 
 portion of the farm. Just below is the ravine, which a1 
 you see, is a couple of hundred feet lower than this 
 table land. The warm spring there is one of the 
 curiosities of the place. It never freezes, and in the 
 winter retains a temperature of 65 ^ . The most curious 
 thing about it is the crevice in the hill when it rise. 
 This IS so deep that its end cannot be seen, and when 
 last winter we put a lighted candle attached to a pole 
 mto It, we found that the sides were covered for six or 
 eight inches thick with flies and mosquitoes, who 
 evidently made this their winter quarters. The ground 
 here is hollow, and every few yards you will find a deep 
 hole." ^ 
 
 The ground did indeed ring hollow under the foot 
 and holes were a plenty down which one could probe a 
 ten-foot pole without finding bottom. Elsewhere, in a 
 pretty little glade, overhung with matted boughs and 
 cumbered with the trunks of rotting trees, gurgled a 
 stream as cool as ice, over a bed reddened with iron 
 
 and whnsft trntpr alirlinr. ;«*^ « ;^. -• .1 . ^ .. 
 
 . ■—,■-^5 iuiu a cicvicc iu ine eanii, tails 
 
 with a hollow sound never to re-appear. The whole place 
 
i 
 
 
 20 
 
 LEGEND OP THE JIOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 As ill-luck would have it, there lived opposite to the 
 water carrier a barber, named Pedrillo Pedrugo, one of 
 the most prjung, tattling, and mischief-making of his 
 gossip tribe. He was a weasel-faced, spider-legged var- 
 ht, supple and insinuating; the famous barber of Seville 
 could not surpass him for his universal knowledge of the 
 affairs of others, and he had no more power of retention 
 than a sieve. It was said that he slept but with one eye 
 at a time, and kept one ear uncovered, so that even in his 
 sleep, he might see and hear all that was going on 
 Certain, it is, he was a sort of scandalous chronicFe for 
 the quidnuncs of Granada, and had more customers than 
 all the rest of his fraternity. 
 
 This meddlesome barber heard Peregil arrive at an 
 unusual hour at night, and the exclamations of his wife 
 and children. His head was instantly popped out of a 
 Uttle window which served him as a look-out, and he saw 
 his neighbor assist a man in Moorish gp-b into his dwel- 
 ling. This was so strange an occurrence, that Pedrillo 
 Pedrugo slept not a wink that night. Every five minutes 
 he was at his loop-hole, WJitching the lights that gleamed 
 through the chinks of his neighbor's door, and before 
 daylight he beheld Peregil sally forth with his donkey 
 unusually laden. 
 
 The inquisitive barber was in a fidget; he slipped on 
 his clothes, and, stealing forth silently, followed the water 
 carrier, at a distance, until he saw him dig a hole in the 
 sandy bank of Ihe Xenil, and bury something that had 
 the appearance of a dead body. 
 
 The barber hied him home, and fidgeted about his 
 
 % '^< 
 
^ »C it 
 
 TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 21 
 
 seems one cavern. The Indians told of it in a legend, 
 that is now matter of memory only to an old priest in the 
 vicinity from whom I heard it, that this was the Medicine 
 Ground of the Great Spirit (Manitonowonah) and that 
 as well it was his armory. In a great lodge of mystery 
 in the recesses of the earth, he started up fire for arrows 
 and thunder for war-clubs, and great pestilences, trouble 
 and destructions, but that though old heroes had been 
 found worthy to be admitted to these secrets, and to 
 attain thereby invulnerability, men now were too much 
 squaw. The legend seems to point to a cave now forgot- 
 ten, and a period of earthquake and volcano. 
 
 About one of these caves a story of the present day 
 is told. It is a cave about three feet wide at the mouth 
 and running into the earth about twenty-five feet, with a 
 slight descent. This has been the haunt of bears durino- 
 the winter for many years, the animals hybemating, and 
 issuing in the spring when the snow and torpor had 
 passed. In 186 1, the neighbors determined to make some 
 attempt to solve the mystery of the cave, and to deter- 
 mine whether it was the northwest passage, the prologue 
 to Galconda, or a short cut to the realms of the Great 
 Bear. One man, Henry Boyle, if my informant's memory 
 did not err, went down feet foremost with a rope fastened 
 round his arm-pits. After proceeding some twenty-five feet 
 through a narrow passage ridged by the action of water 
 and the claws of beasts, he found himself in a sort of 
 
 Near its 
 regions more subter- 
 
 chamber about five feet high and eight wide. 
 
 uOiu CvIuCui 
 
 ranean. Our explorer in cautious l lise thrust his candle- 
 

 22 
 
 tlOEND OF THE MOOR rf LEOd' 
 
 T. 
 
 shop settlmg eycryMuns upsido down, until sunrise Ho 
 then took a hmn under his arm, and saUied forth to the 
 house of his daily eustomer the alcalde. The joa i 
 
 threw a napkm round his neck, put a basin of hot wate 
 under h.s ohm, and began to mollify his beard with Us 
 
 doLt," R r"""''; "' "■' '"""^ *'">»• "Strange 
 dmngs ! Robbery, and murder, and burial, all in one 
 
 "Hey! how! what is that you say?" cried the 
 ialc, e. "Isay," replied the barber, rubLg a "f 
 
 ' Z Tk T r. ^^ ■"^""' "^ "-^ dign^uvfor a 
 Spanish barber desdains to employ a bmshl'^ i 'sL^Lt 
 
 Pcregi the Ga%o has robbedVd murd red tlZ^ 
 
 Mussuhnan, and buried him, this blessed night. Cd ja 
 
 sea la noche-aecrsed be the night for th^samel " 
 
 But how do you know all this?" demanded the 
 
 It, rephed Pednllo, taking him by the nose, and slidin. 
 a razor over his cheek. He then reeount^i all th t h: 
 had seen „ through both operations at the .»me time 
 sh vmg his beard, washing his ehin, and wipin. himlv 
 w. h a irty ,.pkin, " while he was robbing m°urrrinl 
 and burying the Moslem." muraermg, 
 
 Now it so happened that tlus alcalde was one of the 
 m t overbearmg, ana . ,bc same time most gripi; and 
 corrnp curmudgeou., . ,w c-onada. It could not 
 be denied, hotvever t) -i ^ ^ \- u i 
 
 ■ ~ '^ '^ ^^ '^" ^-S'lt ^ gold. He presumed the 
 
iM 
 
 TEIP TO CARBATBACA. 
 
 23 
 
 end into the aperture to reconnoitre the " unoccupied 
 territory." To his consternation it was knocked out of 
 his hand, and a j^iece of the hand went with it, while a 
 bass growl wrapped in bearskin "went for" him. The 
 intrepid exi)lorer scrambled out in the best time on record, 
 ■ID 1 the bear following close at his boot-heels, a hairy 
 whirlwind of vengeance, was shot. In 1866, two bears, 
 one a remarkably large one, were killed here. 
 
 But, « let the dead past bury its dead " bears ! We 
 have much to see ere dinner, and the glorious sun is 
 already high. Leaving the lowland behind us we came to 
 a hill about two hundred feet high. The sandy path up 
 which we panted was red with the iron washed down by 
 the recent rains. We gained the summit, a pleasant close- 
 cropped sward, with a back-ground of gloomy pines set oflf 
 here and there with the light foliage of the maple, or the 
 deep red sumach. "And, now," said my guide, "look." 
 The whole Ottawa valley abounds with lovely glimpses 
 and landscapes, which if they were in Europe, difficult 
 of access, and fashionably expensive, would attract the 
 attention of Montreal. The remote has charms, where 
 the next door is common-place. This view that there 
 for the first time I looked upon need not sit below the salt 
 at the great banquet of Ottawa scenery. To the right 
 we looked over intervening ravines, gray with pines blasted 
 by fire and decay. Beyond the level was beautiful with 
 dark-green woods as yet unshorn. Further rose the hills 
 over whose summits we could see for leagues, till the eye 
 caught the thin blue bulk of Mount Rigand, and 
 the twin hills which give their name to the La 
 
MOEND OP THE MOOR's I.EQACT. 
 
 case in point to be one of murder and robbery ■ donbfk™ 
 We n..st l« rich spK.il ; how was it to Krld'^ 
 
 trapping the delmqnent-that would be feedins the -al 
 ws; but entrapping the booty-that would b'eenrSh 
 
 ~ \ ^ "*■ ^° 'hi-Woft-he summoned to his 
 Tar et, dad according to the custom of his or^r T 2 
 anient Spanish garb, a broad black bcaverur^rd up 
 
 ?rol hf :■ ^^"' """' " ™''" Wackclo k dTnglin' 
 offhisrar "^ ™^*y •"'"='' underclothes, thafl? 
 ll ITl '"^ '^'"™' '■'"e i° his hand he bore a 
 ^Pl»d«j wh,te wand, the dreaded insignia of hi office 
 
 br ed 7f: "'^' """""""""^ °^ the'Incient SpaS 
 car^ei td '." "'"". ""^ '™^ "^ «■« unluek/water 
 
 TnkTv befo'e thH^^^^ "''^^™''S''t both him and his 
 Tr , , d'spenser of justice. 
 
 ™!r .; 1 ^'' °"'P"' ' '■°"«'<l he, in a Toice that 
 
 made the knees of the littlo ctu ■ 
 
 "hark je, culprit "th„l" ^'^^'Bo smuo together- 
 }<!, cuipriti there is no need of denvin,. ih„ 
 guilt, everything is known to me A LllZ " J^ 
 
 nfill 1 ° °'"'"^'' '" ">y ''»"- was a Moor an 
 -ufidel, the enemy of our faith. Itwasdoubtles, in ^ fit 
 
 ""^"'"' ^^"' "^^' ^^^o^ f'««t siain him. I will be in- 
 
TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 25 
 
 of Two Mountains, while a little cloud showed the 
 waters of the Ottawa at St. Anne's. To the North we 
 looked over lower clumps of hills across the river, hidden 
 by intervening ranges, to the loftier hills, which like Al- 
 cides bore the weight of the intense blue sky on their 
 shoulders. On one of these a Uttle mite of a white house, 
 the only sign of man's presence, humanized the prospect. 
 The magnificence of the view bounded only by the sky 
 and fringed in with ranges of beautiful hills, the purity 
 of air and sun, the sublime peace of the whole scene, 
 which in its potent simplicity dwarfed mere pastoral or 
 architectural prettiness, — these were enough to make me, 
 cynic as I am, keep quiet and lift my hat in homage, 
 
 '' Upon this hill, sheltered from the k^cn northern 
 winds by this screen of pine-trees," said my guide, philo- 
 sopher, and friend, "shall stand the Carratraca House, 
 which hostelry is destined, under favorable circumstan- 
 ces, to eclipse the fame of such cots as the Union, the Con- 
 gress, and the Continental. It shall be built in Virginian 
 style, one story, with an attic for bed-rooms, and a broad, 
 cool, trellised verandah, [overhung with vines, which 
 shall drop shadows and June-bugs upon the loungers. I 
 do not like pretentious six-story houses. Invalids do 
 not want to pant up long flights of stairs. The rooms 
 shall be large, lofty and airy, the furniture plain, good 
 taste and comfort shall prevail, even at the sacrifice of 
 expense, style and snobbery. The grounds are to be laid 
 out with serpentine walks. The late occupants here 
 nave not ceon so v andul as the gouerality of farmers in 
 Prescott. They have spared the beautiful cedars 
 
 V^A^ 
 
26 
 
 l^OENB OP THE MOOB'S tmACr. 
 
 duIgcDt, therefore, render „„ .•, 
 <hou hoat robbed hj atd ^L^l ^T''^ "*' "W'h 
 The poor ^ater easier „IJ" """* "■« »««*' »P. 
 witness hi, innoceneoTaoa 11 T"/'! "^ "'"°'' '" 
 »-J if they had, ,he alc^e Zd h?' '.'-^ ."^P^"^'- 
 "hole calender. The wat« r ''*™ ^'^WieTed the 
 
 ^toryof the dvioAloo! *1 r' '"'"'"^ "=« ">»'« 
 f-eitj of trut^b ";;*,*; ^'"^h'^o^'a sin., 
 persist in saying," d 111^ /." ""."• "'^^'" 'l""" 
 Jloslem had neither .old r,.''"''^''' "**** «Ws 
 «f thy enpidity ?" ^ '"•''"^'''' "■«'' '"e the object 
 
 wailfL^eT-rehaV:!';^""' '"*>'" ^P^ tl-e 
 
 wood, Which 'heXi;t"'^ 
 
 serricos." ' ^^ " »"= "> reword for my 
 
 e.clatc*^'hfaS:! h^tLMly' """»' ''~<' ' " 
 precious jewels. "Ad wh^if I^'^ \* '\« ''''- »f 
 J-ou concealed it ? " *'' '"'* ' where have 
 
 ■''^■in'ro^rx:;;^^''*^"'^'--^ 
 
 at the service of your worll^." ^ """'' ""'^ '■"""'y 
 
 ;;ig!^atil darS Id I,;'; JJ^ '"^ <"« keen 
 he n.ysterious box of sandal wood tI , 'Tf "' "'"" 
 f "'* »» eager and trcmblinrhand ■ In 't "'"'"-'•^ 
 
 to gaze upon the treasures i^Jl ' '"''"^'' '*'™"d 
 
 when, ,0 their disap^^^l'o.v''*''''^ *» "»"*"'"; 
 t«t a parchment i, r^.^ :'*;"«^ within, 
 
 and an end -*" "" Arabic charnn*/>»- 
 
 -V! a TvaivD taper. "" ' 
 
TBIP TO CARRATBACA. 
 
 27 
 
 and firs vihich grow in picturesque clumps up from the 
 level clean sward. That tree yonder, tipped with the 
 light of an Italian moon and shrined in Italian turf, 
 would set half of Europe crazy. There will be rustic 
 seats, and bosky thickets for lovers; there will be a 
 tramway down to the spring about half a mile from hero ; 
 there will be every appliance for health or flirtation. 
 And if the latter be carried too far, and a man desires to 
 scc'\ in self-murder the torture denied him in matrimony, 
 all he has to do is to go to that hollow near the road, 
 and drown himself We shall dam the creek and have a 
 pond five acres in extent for fishing, boating, and suicide, 
 and as there will be in some places fully twelve feet of 
 water, every purpose will be answered. Let us go hence. 
 I will show you the plans and elevations of the hotel 
 down at the house. 
 
 We walked home. The sun was now high, and had 
 ravished the grass and brier of their dew-drops. The 
 red raspberry beloved of the bear,— the beautiful waxen 
 berries of bright scarlet, and, like a coquette, as deadly 
 as handsome,^thesc grew in unplucked plenty on the 
 slopes. Wc came to the croquet ground, shaded by 
 beautiful elms, and amused ourselves by setting fire to 
 the heaps of brush piled up for destruction. Soon a 
 dozen smoulders of white smoke showed where the last 
 traces of the forest primeval were vanishing into oblivion 
 and potash. Then we, attracted by the magnificent 
 geological formations disclosed by the deep cutting of the 
 creek, played the geologist. There is a wealth of min- 
 erals on this farm. Lithographic sand of the purest 
 
28 
 
 LEGEND OP THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 f I 
 
 ««>■ The alcalde ha;^,^^^'^' '».'>» in>par. 
 
 ment, and found that there wl! n ""' '^'»'PP'>i"t- 
 
 e-e, no. listened disp=^ :j^;',:'f ^ ^-'7 in the 
 
 the water carrier wl,;!^i. ^ , «P'anatbn of 
 
 ■"ony of his w fc filr "°™'""^'^^ ''^ ««> tost 
 
 -nocencc, he distar^rLT"""' *""'»'^' "^ "- 
 
 permitted him to carry offThlT "-'I' "''• """^' t« 
 
 of sandal wood and ib contends ."^^ '°^'"=^' ""= ''« 
 
 «rd of his humanity Tu^l' "" ''""-""itcd re- 
 
 Payn-ent of cost"nd Irt "'''"" '"^ ''""^"^ '- 
 
 Behold the unfortunate Fittle n.,}U 
 to the necessity of b«V 1 °'"'°'^'"""^ '""='= ">ore 
 fudging up to'theweT'oflT" T -™'. »<! 
 -^"then jar upon his shoulder ^""^ "'"^ " Sr<^^ 
 
 As he toiied up the hill .',. ♦! i 
 f ^ -ual good Vnou :'„?:' °''™r" "-'' 
 «lo»ldeI " would he crv " to I "• ^"^ "f «■> 
 
 of his subsistence, of' th bestT^^f "^ ""^ "'»»"' 
 world I" *- ""^'t '""-'"d he had in the 
 
 io^of Ua hboult'auT^'r "' "" '"""^'»<' -"P">- 
 breal forth. . ACdlt^tr ° ''^ "'"'^ -»"'" 
 ciclaim, resting his burdc!„ ^^ ""*""" ''""I'' ho 
 ^'^oat from hif br w -' I / T^' ""^ "'P-g the 
 "want mc thou thinkest of ;., , /^ "^ ""^ '"="t ! I 
 •nethoumissest the watcrlf ' "" T'"' ^'"'™'" 
 To «dd to his afliicTio' -^I ~?r *""'' ' " 
 ., mum h„„«, ^uh wwl":,?l! !!*? '-«™d '"m. on his 
 IL *'"""=°'"""'«P"'a'''g3; ehehad 
 
 I I 
 
TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 29 
 
 quality is found here. There is a bed of peat almost on 
 the surface. And for those who care for the idle curious, 
 there is a great bed of the horns and bones of deer who 
 must have broused and belled here about the time of 
 Adam. 
 
 And there are fossil shells plainly distinguishable in 
 stones which are petrified mud of some primeval time. 
 And there are other stones glittering with mica, in scales 
 which may be detached by the nail. In one place the 
 wet bank seemed to sparkle in the sun from the number 
 of these particles. Other stones there are tinted beauti- 
 fully with various combinations of sulphur. In short it 
 is not to be wondered at that Sir William Logan has an 
 affection for the place. Possibly his especial interest 
 arises from the discovery of a bed of granulated quartz 
 while digging down for the spring, and from a suspicion 
 that where quartz is there may gold be also. 
 
 Tired and muddy we re-enter the house, first paying 
 our attentions to the naiad of Carratraca. Here I make 
 an amende honorable. " W., I say, I thought when first 
 you sent me that Carratraca, that, like your cordials, it 
 was manufactured on the premises. There was a sparkle 
 and an actual aroma about it perceptible to nostril as well 
 as to palate. But now I find it was brewed in an 
 alombric subtler than even your patent still? I retract." 
 
 While awaitini; dinner, I lounged or rather swuns, 
 
 Cuban fashion, in a hammock on the piazza, watching 
 
 the passers-by coming from church at Curran. Ye city 
 
 ciica au-a ucaui, iiiiic Kuuw yu 01 coiOF ana 01 cut. iuuir 
 
 hath not seen, nor Gibb heard, neither hath it entered 
 
30 
 
 LEGEND OP THl! Tirr»Ai»»« 
 
 XUE MOORS LEGACr. 
 
 '»»'»», d« took e^r^f"""^' '»•' «i» » t-owing 
 or Deeded . new garment 21 ,i '''''^'' '°«'=^'J ««><). 
 imhr^i^ h^ I;, t, ' *" ^'"S Chico of the Al- 
 
 "on he lost aJl patie„;r He d d t"? "" *''° "^""' ™- 
 "Ponher.buthisevereMflJ,! "'V '™"""'' *» fotort 
 
 '».<«W, at his veX &'ir'/' '"""^''•"S in 
 with indignation to th L ?f, '.' "f' ■>« <>'«''0<1 it 
 
 prdme the scroll for some t W f^"'^' ^' '^■ 
 
 f^gtl. rallying his iiZlZllT'^' f'"^' ^t 
 "fx" this writing may bTnf ""'' *^<"'8'" ho." 
 
 Moorseemstoha'Sd twT T '**■"«. «» the 
 ■"g it »P, therefor, Cpntit LT T^ '"' ' " ^'''^■ 
 "■""■i^e, as he was c5ng w . r th T "'^ *""= ■"=« 
 ^'opi^d at the shop of IT: 1"!^^^ i'« "'oots he 
 , " ""■ ■' " "■'"™ 01 iangiers, who 
 
raed him 
 that had 
 knowing 
 superior 
 ^ed food, 
 I sneer — i 
 ' the Al- 
 strong- 
 
 having 
 grieved 
 ith the 
 . when, 
 ti man- 
 
 retort 
 
 wood, 
 ing in 
 ied it 
 day 
 dthy j 
 
 TRIP TO CARBATaACA 
 
 31 
 
 into the heart of Anderson to conceive styles such as 
 these. " There are chords in the humming heart which 
 cannot be vibrated," said Mr. Guppy. There are fashions 
 in dress which cannot be imagined, say I, and these were 
 of them. French carts, guiltless of springs, drawn by 
 furry horses. Old men with the most prodigious beaver 
 hats, wide in the brim, big at the crown, furry all over 
 ornamented with a short pipe in the band, rough clean 
 flannel shirts about as soft as nutmeg-graters, blue or 
 red or yellow checked vests, and gray homespun coats 
 and trousers. Old women with black hoods tied round 
 their necks, and green tartan cloaks tied round their 
 heels. Young men in threadbare black frock coata out 
 with the daring uncertainty of a country tailor. And young 
 women — women to whom the dying dolphin was tame, 
 and the rainbow uniformity itself, and Solomon in his 
 glory dowdy ! And all as they passed home from church 
 called at the spring to drink Carratraca, and then went 
 on their way refreshed. For the spring has a wide 
 renown among the simple country folk. 
 
 After dinner we went out for a drive through the 
 country. The roads around here are lovely. Carratraca 
 is just on the limit of the sandy uplands, and so escapes 
 those terrible mud-puddles, and as formidable dust holes 
 which are the curse of Caledonia. The roads are hard 
 and level, and the scenery varied and pleasing ; and as 
 there are no less than seven roads accessible from the 
 house one can have change, and bowl merrily along for a 
 week over a different road everv da^. 
 
 We came home under the cold winking stars, paat 
 
32 
 
 LEGEND OP THE w^r^r.' 
 
 I-HE MOOR 8 LEGACr. 
 
 ( ffi 
 
 form of incantation for *e T'"'"^'" "*" ^' " i- - 
 tf«t is under the powt, rf H? "'^ '^"''^^'' '^'e, 
 iavemch virtne thaT^hf f «'""'tn,ent. It is ^^id to 
 
 'he .damantine ' roet 11?^"^^ '""^ »<» l"«, -y 
 "Bah I" cried the iUtirlan' ^'"''^ "^^^^ i"'' 
 "■e? I am no ench nS »1T' "'"" '^ "" *atto 
 'wa^ro." So savin, he 1 ,'?"'",''»'"''? of buried 
 fte ^roil in the ha^nd^'of the M^ '"'' .'" ''"^'-J^'' '^^ 
 on'his daily rounds. '*""''' ""<' '™<Jg«i forward 
 
 -umber of gossips assembled att^f"' '^ «»"'<' » 
 versation, as is not unusual tl^.^'r- ""^ *heir con- 
 
 -m old tales and tra^n ' rfl'f ''""y'""". '"^d 
 
 Bemg all poor as rats, they d^l V.T™'"'^ ■"""«• 
 
 upon the ^pular theme Z en" h L 'f '"r'*"" «""^-- 
 
 Moo,« in various parts of Alhtmb 1 L™'''' '"" ''^ 'he 
 
 rarred in the belief th.it ,^ '"'"»■ Above all, they con- 
 
 ''-P in the eartru^r t;r Sr~ '^^ 
 
 These stories made an unnliT- "^ '^'''"' "oors. 
 of honest Pc^gi,, and they 1\ r'"^'"" » '''^ ■"-d 
 h.« thoughts as he retlZd ^LIT '"' "'"'>^' '"'o 
 avenues. " If -ft.. ,,~?'^ "'one down the darkling 
 
 neath that towor-L iV v'' *""''' "^ '-asureS 
 should enable Z to, t attr °V 'f ''* '"^ *^<- 
 I of *he thought he ha'd well '^^ JlZ^^" '^'*^ 
 
an(3 asked 
 
 troked his 
 he, "is a 
 treasure, 
 '■s said to 
 i>ars, nay, 
 ►re it ! " 
 I that to 
 f buried 
 ■jar, left , 
 forward 
 
 f about 
 )uod a 
 sir con- 
 turned 
 Jature. 
 ndness 
 by the 
 y con- 
 >uried 
 >rs. 
 
 mind 
 
 into 
 
 iling 
 
 TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 33 
 
 trees and swamps noisy with katydids and crickets, and 
 lit up with a myriad of flitting fire flies. With Thack- 
 eray and brandy and water we whiled away the long 
 hours till bed-time. To-morrow was to be a busy day. 
 There were three springs to inspect, a mile and a half of 
 tables and analyses to go through, and there were bass 
 and dori innumerable and monstrous to lure from the 
 vasty deep. And on Tuesday the great magnet of the 
 distant city should draw us with its potent allurements 
 over the river and along the rail, till in heat and dust, 
 and worse, we should forget, or remember with a sigh, 
 the sunshine, the coolness, the rural fragrance, the rustic 
 scenery, and hospitable rest of Carratraca. 
 
 The reader, not knowing everything naturally asks : 
 What is Carratraca? Who is Carratraca? or, Where is 
 Carratraca ? according as he dimly imagines Carratraca 
 to be an eatable, a man, or a village. 
 
 There was a time last year, just about the period when 
 the rope was being wound round Whelan's neck, and fat 
 steers were waddling in the exhibition grounds here, 
 when Carratraca was the conundrum over which all 
 Montreal vainly exercised its wits. The word of mys- 
 tery, Quiz, newly chalked on the Dublin shutters, did 
 not create more conversation and conjecture. Columns 
 of newspaj)ers, dead walls, fences, sidewalks, all bore the 
 legend "Carratraca." As Douglas Jerrold said about 
 Sordells, no one knew if it was a man or a castle. People 
 consulted Webster, who was silent, Worcester, who was 
 !£,!s-it,ui , uuvi .Tiuiiiicui was m ii icvcT, uiijy aiiajeci oy 
 — Carratraca ! 
 
34 
 
 LEGEND OP THE MOOE's LEQACY. 
 
 That night he tumbled and tossed and could scarcely 
 get a wink of sleep for the thoughts that were bewilder. 
 
 shop of the Moor, and told him all that was pa.sin. in 
 his mind. ^ You can read Arabic," said he ; " sup^se 
 we go together to the tower, and try the effect ofVhe 
 Charm; if it fails we are no worse off than before, but 
 It It succeeds we will share equally all the treasnre we 
 day discover. 
 
 ''Hold," replied the Moslem; - this writin<? is not 
 sufficient of itself; it must be read at midnight^ by the 
 ightof a taper singularly compounded and prepared 
 the ingredients of which are not within my reach' i 
 VV ithout such taper the scroll is of no avail." ' ! 
 
 "Sp- no more!" cried the little Gallego, "I have i 
 such a taper at hand, and will bring it here in a moment - ' 
 feo saying, he hastened home, and soon returned with 
 the end of yellow wax taper that he had found in the 
 box of sandal wood. 
 
 The Moor felt it and smelt it. " Here are rare and 
 costly perfumes," said he, " combined with this yellow 
 wa^ This is the kind of taper specified in the scroll 
 W hile this burns, the strongest walls and most secret 
 caverns will remain open. Woe to him, however, who 
 lingers within until it be extinguished. He will remain 
 enchanted with the treasure." 
 
 It was now agreed between them to try the charm that 
 very night. At a late hour, therefore, when nothin- 
 was stirring but bats and owls, they ascended the woody 
 
 ulll of the Alh.imhr.o QnA o»^^- v-j ^^ . ^ , , 
 
 , „a^ ajpi^iuauucu tiic awiui tower 
 
•CY. 
 
 ould scarcelj 
 rere bewilder- 
 •aired lo the 
 IS passing in 
 e; "suppose 
 effect of the 
 I before, but 
 ! treasnre we 
 
 iting is not 
 light, by the 
 d prepared, 
 my reach, j 
 
 0, "I have 
 a moment." 
 urned with 
 und in the 
 
 e rare and 
 this yellow 
 the scroll. 
 nost secret 
 wcver, who 
 ^il\ remain 
 
 ?harm that 
 n nothins: 
 the woody 
 rful tower, 
 
 ^l«. 
 
 Il 
 
 TRIP TO CARRATEACA. 35 
 
 At the Provincial Exhibition here the murder came 
 out. Thirsty souls who wandered wide in search of 
 something bibable besides flat pop and tepid soda, found 
 at the booth of Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, without 
 money, and without price, Carratraca. The discovery 
 then flashed across their minds that Carratraca was a 
 newly discovered mineral water, cool, moussant a& ham- 
 pagne, with a peculiar taste, half fragrant and half saline, 
 which utterly transcended all previous experiences, were 
 they of Congress, Plantagenet, Caledonia, Seltzer. 
 
 So much for Carratraca. Humanity is prone to 
 wander, and no sooner was the first problem solved than 
 a second arose. Why Carratraca ? What did it mean ? 
 Was it Italian, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Sanscrit, Hi-h- 
 Dutch, or had W. H. and W. put the alphabet into that 
 famous still of theirs and evolved Carratraca? The 
 nomenclature of commerce, especially in fancy or medi- 
 cinal preparations, is very happy as a rule. Odonto 
 Kalydor, Sapolio, Sozodont, Macassar, all these are 
 taking, appropriate, original. Carratraca is just as 
 pretty, quite as appropriate, but it was not manufactured 
 for the occasion. It is a Spanish word, recalling all the 
 romance of Iberian and Maurcsque sources,— donas with 
 tawny skins, luminous eyes, mantill.-is and little feet- 
 dons moustachcd, be-rapiered, haughty-mules with tink- 
 ling bells,-gay clad muleteers,— white curvents,— plazas 
 gay with coquettish costumes,— bull fights,— alhambra^ 
 --and snow-covered sierras lost in the unpalpable blue 
 of the sky. 
 
 In that capital series of papers in the Cornhill, '^ The 
 
: 
 
 36 
 
 LEGEND OP THE MOOE's LEGACY. 
 
 shrouded by trees and rendered formidable by bo many 
 traditionary tales. By the light of a lanthom, they 
 groped their way through bushes, and over fallen stones, 
 to the door of a vault beneath th i tower. With fear 
 and trembling they descended a flight of steps cut into 
 the rock. • It led to an empty chamber damp and drear, 
 from which another flight of stefs led to a deeper vault. 
 In this way they descended four several flights, leading 
 into as many vaults one below the other, but the floor of 
 the forth was solid ; and, though, according to tradition, 
 there remained three vaults still below, it was said to be 
 impossible to penetrate further, the residue being shut up 
 by strong enchantment. The air of this vault was damp 
 and chilly, and had an earthy smell, and the light scarce 
 cast forth any rays. They paused here for a time in 
 breathless suspense, until they faintly heard the clock of 
 the watch-tower strike midnight j upon this they Ut the 
 wazen taper, which diffused an cdour of myrrh and 
 frankencense and storax. 
 
 The Moor began to read in a hurried voice. He had 
 scarce finished when there was a noise as of subterraneous 
 thunder. The earth shook, and the floor yawning open, 
 disclosed a flight of steps. Trembling with awe they 
 descended, and by the light of the lanthorn found them- 
 selves in another vault, covered with Arabic inscrip- 
 tions. In the centre stood a great chest, secured with 
 seven bands of steel, at each end of which sat an en- 
 chanted Moor in armour, but motionless as a statute, 
 being controlled by the power of the incantation. Be- 
 fore the chest were several jars filled with gold and 
 
CT. 
 
 by 80 many 
 nthorn, they 
 fallen Btonee, 
 With fear 
 «p8 cut into 
 p and drear, 
 ieeper vault, 
 ghts, leading 
 t the floor of 
 to tradition, 
 IS said to be 
 eing shut up 
 lit wa« damp 
 
 light scarce 
 r a time in 
 the clock of 
 
 they lit the 
 
 myrrh and 
 
 !e. He had 
 ibterraneoufl 
 wning open, 
 h awe they 
 ibund them- 
 bic inscrip- 
 cured with 
 sat an en- 
 8 a statute, 
 ation. Be- 
 ll gold and 
 
 
 I 
 
 TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 37 
 
 This 
 
 Knapsack in Spain," I find all about Carratraca. 
 is what the traveller says : — 
 
 Cwratraca is a picturesque lonely little village planted 
 on the side of a bare wild valley shut in by lofty grey 
 mountains. In spite of its loneliness, or perhaps because 
 of it, it is high in favor as a watering-place with the 
 people of Seville, Cadiz, and Malaga, who muster there 
 in great force during the autumn months. Rheumatic 
 and cutaneous affections are, I believe, the special pro- 
 vince of the waters, but as far as I could make out there 
 is no ailment under the sun for which they cannot do 
 something in the way of alleviation. Dyspepsia, hypo- 
 chondriasis, loss of appetite, over-eating, over-work, or 
 idleness, all these seem to find relief at Carratraca. But 
 perhaps the s' rongest proof of the marvellous efficacy of 
 these baths is to be found in a case which I saw quoted 
 in the columns of M Cascabel. A middle-aged gentle- 
 man of ancient descent but impoverished estate had mar- 
 ried a lady of mature years and some property, and 
 having thus restored the fortunes of his house, was 
 naturally anxious for an heir to his name. After wait- 
 ing in vain lie consulted a friend, who recommended a 
 trial of the waters of Carratraca. The advice proved 
 sound, for in due time, after a course of the baths, the 
 worthy couple had the happiness of welcoming a little 
 stranger. But the eflfect did not cease here. For the 
 next fifteen years did that lady continue with astonish- 
 ing regularity to present her husband annually with a 
 pledge of her afiection and proof of the potency of the 
 Carratraca waters, and thus, though the continuance of 
 
ill 
 
 
 38 
 
 LEGEND OF THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 silver and precious stones. In the largest of these they 
 thrust their arms up to the elbow, and at every dip 
 hauled forth handfuls of broad yellow pieces of Moorish 
 gold, or bracelets and ornaments of the same precious 
 metal, while occasionally a necklace of oiiental pearl 
 would stick to their fingers. Still they trembled and 
 breathed short while cramming their pockets with the 
 spoils ; and cast many a fearful glance at the two 
 enchanted Moors who sat grim and motionless, glaring 
 upon them with unwinking eyes. At length, struck 
 with a sudden panic at some fancied noise, they both 
 rushed up the staircase tumbled over one another, into 
 the upper appartment, overturned, and extinguished the 
 waxen taper, and the pavement again closed with a 
 thundering sound. 
 
 Filled with dismay they did not pause until they had 
 •groped their way out of the tower, and beheld the stars 
 «hining through the trees. Then seating themselves 
 upon the grass, they divided the spoil, determining to 
 content themselves for the present with this mere skim- 
 ming of the jars, but to return on some future night and 
 drain them to the bottom. To make sure of eaoirother's 
 good faith, also, they divided the talismans between 
 Hipm, one retaining the scroll and the other the taper ; 
 this done, they set off with light hearts and well lined 
 pockets for Granada. 
 
 As they wended thoir way down the hill, the shrewd 
 Moor whispered a word of counsel in the car of the 
 simple little water carrier. 
 "Fficad Pcfegil," said he, "all this affair must be 
 
 ^H 
 
 I 
 
TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 39 
 
 his line was made pretty safe, the restoration of his 
 family to its ancient splendor remained as far oflf as ever. 
 
 That is the legend of Carratraca. When Mr. 
 
 hands ine the book, I observe that he does well to sup- 
 press the story of the hidalgo, as such marvellous effects 
 ^ |C might detract from the patronage the Spring is receiving, 
 
 especially as regards fashionable mammas and American 
 matrons. 
 
 Now knowing what Carratraca is, and why it is called 
 Carratraca, the question naturally arises, Where is Car- 
 ratraca? With the precision of a guide-book we answer : 
 
 " The Carratraca Springs are situated in the Town- 
 ship of Plantagcnet, Prescott County, Ontario, about 
 half a mile from the South Nation liivcr, thirty miles 
 from Ottawa City, and five miles from Brown's Wharf 
 on the Ottawa liivcr. So having daily communication 
 with 3Iontreal and Ottawa City. The Springs are all 
 contained in a natural basin, nearly nine hundred feet 
 long, by one hundred and fifty feet wide. So numerous 
 are the Springs and so enormous is the supply of water, 
 they give rise to a large and ever flowing creek. 
 
 As yet the waters of only three of the Saline Springs 
 have been analyzed, but there arc some fifteen of the 
 largest Springs to bo complctccK The waters all differ, 
 a number of them being strong sulphur. The Springs 
 are hundreds in number, the waters rise through a strata 
 of clay which overlies a bed of magnetic iron sand. A 
 pipe has been driven through this sand to the depth of 
 
 In sinking the wells now in use, at the depth of twelve 
 
'— ■-■ • 'T l 
 
 i I 
 
 
 40 
 
 LEGEND OP THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 kept a profound secret until wo have secured the trea- 
 sure and conveyed it out of harm's way. If a whisper 
 of it gets to the ear of the alcalde we are undone I" 
 "Certainly," replied the Gallego, "nothing can be 
 more true." 
 
 "Friend Percgil," said the Moor, "you are a di.screot 
 man, and I make no doubt can keep a secret: but you 
 have a wife." 
 
 "She shall not know a word of it," replied the little 
 water carrier sturdily. 
 
 " Enough," 8»id the Moor, " I depend upon thy discre- 
 tion and thy promise." 
 
 Never woa promise more positive, and sincere ; but, 
 alas ! what man can keep a secret from his wife ? Cer- 
 tainly not a one as Peregil the water carrier, who was 
 one of the most loving and tractable of husbands. Cu 
 his return home, he found his wife moping in a corner 
 "Mighty well," cried she as he entered, "you've come 
 at last ; after rambling about until this hour of the 
 night, I wonder you have not brought homo another 
 Moor as a house-mate." Then bursting into tears, she 
 began to wring her hands, and smite her breast ; "Un- 
 nappy woman that I am!" exclaimed she, " what will 
 become of uje? My hou«) stripix^d and plundered by 
 lawyers and alguazils ; my husband a do-no-good that 
 no longer brings home bread for his family, but goes 
 rambling abi»ut day and night, with infidel Moors! 
 my children ! my children ! what will become of us ? wo 
 shall nil have to beg in tin- streets 1" 
 
 Honest Peregil wjw 
 
 po moved by the distress of his 
 
 .'■''^s. \ 
 
TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 41 
 
 )Iio(l the little 
 
 stress of his 
 
 feet from the surface, and after passing through from 
 five to six feet of clay, many horns and bones of deer 
 and other animals were found. Only a few years ago 
 these springs were celebrated as a great resort for doer, 
 and even yet scarce a day passes in summer but somei 
 can be seen." 
 
 People never read guide-books, and from the way in 
 which they are written and prinUnl, slip-shod and care- 
 less, I don't wonder. Why can't a guido-book bo as 
 well written and oh interesting as a magazine article ? 
 
 It waa recognizing this great fact and the principle 
 that the press in the Arkimijean lever which moves the 
 
 world, that induced Mr. to invite the writer to 
 
 visit Carratraca, to taste the waters, to sec the scenery, 
 and to return and gladden the hearts of the public by a 
 graphic and graceful narrative. This series of letters 
 may not exactly answer the purpose, but that is my 
 fault. 
 
 Five minutes had clasped since the events narrated in 
 the preceding chapter took place. In this brief space 
 of time I had recognized in my estimable hostcas the 
 sister of an old school-mate, and was on terms of inti- 
 macy with the house-dog. But it waa not for this I had 
 come to Carratraca, braving the beef-steak on the 
 Prince y the roads and the mosijuiUx^s. So, armed with 
 a tumbler, we wound our wcjiry way through the mud 
 left by the rixx3nt freshet to the barn already mentioned. 
 It was a big building, with a sticky cl.iy floor, heapcjd 
 
 
 rr 11 _l..if. 
 
 with pum{)8 in the middle, stood up amid the muddy 
 
I \ 
 
 
 42 
 
 LEGEND OP THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 spouse, that he could not help whimpering also. His 
 heart was as full as his pocket, and not to be restrained. 
 Thrusting his hand into the latter he hauled forth three 
 or four broad gold pieces, and slipped them into her 
 bosom. The poor woman stared with astonishment, 
 and could not understand the meaning of this golden 
 shower. Before she could recover lier surprise, the 
 little Gallego drew forth a chain of gold and dangled it 
 before her, capering with exultation, his mouth disten- 
 ded from ear to ear 
 
 "Iloly Virgin protect us!" exclaimed the wife 
 "What hast thou been doing, Peregil ? Surely thou hast 
 not ]iceu committing murder and robbery " ? 
 The idea scarce entered thcbiain of the poor woman, than 
 it bee. mo a certainty. She saw a prison, and a gallows in 
 t^'.e uistance, and a little bandy-logged Gallego hanging 
 pendant from it ; and overcome by the horrors conjured 
 up by the imngination, fell into violent hysterics, 
 
 What could the poor man do? IIu had no other 
 means of pacifying his wife and dispelling the phan- 
 toms of her fancy, than by relating the whole story of 
 his good fortune. This, however, ho did not do, until' 
 he had exacted from her the most solemn promise to 
 keep it a profound secret from every living beinn-. To 
 describe her joy would be impossible. Siie flung her 
 arms around the neck of her husband, and almost stniui;- 
 led him with her caresses. "Now wife," exclaimed the 
 little man with honest exultation, what Kay you now 
 
 to Ihr ...nnr'a lnnPMr.w 9 IT«r.y,r»A^. u -t /. 
 
 - --- c,— ^ • ^i--"vviun.ii ucvcr auuac me lor 
 
 helping a fellow-crcaturc in distress." 
 
 f. 
 
iCY. 
 
 ng also 
 
 His 
 
 be rostrained. 
 ed forth three 
 :hem into her 
 astonishment, 
 >f this golden 
 surprise, the 
 nd dangled it 
 mouth disteii- 
 
 i the wif« 
 rely thou hast 
 
 :? 
 
 'woman, than 
 1 a gallows in 
 lego hanging 
 rors conjured 
 terics, 
 
 lad no other 
 3g the phan- 
 liolo story of 
 not do, until 
 1 promise to 
 being. To 
 le flung her 
 imoststrang- 
 cclaimcd the 
 ly you now 
 buse me for 
 
 TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 43 
 
 confusion, and a man seated on a keg was working the 
 brake of one of the pumps, while through a gutta-percha 
 pipe into a funnel in the bung-hole of one of the barrels, 
 was flowing the pure Carratraca. 
 
 Here, said Mr. (filling a tumbler and handing 
 
 it to me,) here is Carratraca. 
 
 I took the goblet filled with water as pure as distilled 
 sunbeahis run through an alembic of diamond, — spark- 
 ling, — moussant with gases of virtue as the joUiast 
 Verzenay or Clicquot,— cold, so cold that a film clouded 
 the glass. I tasted. 
 
 " Talk of your Sugar-of-lead wines, and your chemical 
 nastinesses," said I, the enthusifism of the poet breaking 
 conventionalities like cobwebs — " who shall peer the per- 
 fection of the great Chemist, who with patient processes 
 deep down amid the secrets of the earth, amid srnd sof 
 gold, and diamond spar, and red iron, and a myriad im- 
 palpable essences too subtle for clumsy analyses, has 
 been mingling and distilling for thousands of years this 
 perfect purity I When mastodons and mogatheria, 
 saurians and pterodactyls weltered in the swamps and 
 amid the gigantic ferns of the pro-Adamite earth- 
 when across the world the stars of the first twilight 
 twinkled in Eden — when the bear and the deer drank of 
 these waters and the Indian roving through these woods 
 paused to lap and be refreshed, when in later days men 
 gave them virtue and a name, eternal Carratraca, all 
 hail I Chinkapins and pine-apples, what an odor I Clic- 
 ,quot and St. reray wiuit un exhilirating bead I Mr. 
 , forgive the word, I don't want tumblers, give me 
 
li I 
 
 44 
 
 LEGEND OP THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 The honest Gallego retired to his sheep-skin mat, and 
 
 slept as soundly as if on a bed of down. Not so his wife ; 
 
 she emptied the whole contents of his pockets upon the 
 mat, and sat all night counting gold pieces of Arabic 
 gold coin, trying on necklaces and earrings, and fancy- 
 ing the figure she should one day make when permitted 
 to enjoy her riches. 
 
 On the following morning the little Gallego took a 
 broad golden coin, and repaired with it to a jeweller's 
 shop in the Zacatin to offer it for sale, pretending ) 
 have found it among the ruins of the Alhambra. The 
 jeweller saw that it had an Arabic inscription, and was 
 of the purest gold ; he offered, however, but a third of 
 its value, with which the water carrier was perfectly 
 content. Peregil now bought new cloths for his little 
 lock, and all kinds of toys, together with ample provi- 
 sions for a hearty meal, and returning to his dwelling, 
 set all his children dancing around him, while he 
 capered in the midst, the happiest of fathers. 
 
 The wife of the water carrier kept her promise of 
 secrecy with surprising strictness. For a whole day 
 and a half she went about with a look of mystery, and 
 a heart swdling almost to bursting, yet she held her 
 peace, though surrounded by her gossips. It is true, 
 she could not help giving herself a few aire, apologized 
 for her ragged dress, and talked of ordering a new bas- 
 quina all trimmed with gold lace and bugles, and a new 
 lace mantilla. She threw out hints of her husband's 
 
 ~.,L,g, vii iii3 ixauc ui water carryiug, as 
 
 it did not altogether agree with his health. In fact she 
 
TRIP TO CARRATRACA. 
 
 45 
 
 [>-skiQ mat, and 
 '^^ot so his wife ; 
 )ckets upon the 
 leces of Arabic 
 ngs, and fancy- 
 Yhen permitted 
 
 pails, tubs, kegs, barrels, puncheons, the big tun of 
 Heidelberg; quaffing, sipping, tasting, swallowing, drink- 
 ing, these are too feeble, let me Swig ! " 
 
 And I drank seven tumblers, and burst into Involun- 
 tary song. 
 
 Here follows my Idyl of Carratraca: — 
 
 r carrying, as 
 . In fact she 
 
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 46 
 
 LEGEND OP THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 thought ihey would all retire to the country for the sum 
 mer, that the children might have theTeneVt /I" 
 mountain air, for there was no living in the city in thi 
 sultry season. ^ ""^ 
 
 The neighbours stared at each other, and thought the 
 poor woman had lost hor wits; and her airs and g Ic 
 and elegant pretensions were the theme of uniCa 
 scoffing and merriment among her friends, the ZZl 
 her back was turned. mouiLni; 
 
 If she restrained herself abroad, however she indemni- 
 
 fied herself at home, and putting a string „f rich oriental 
 
 pearls round her neck, Moorish bracelets on hor arm d 
 
 n aigrette of diamonds on her head, sailed backwards 
 
 ndforwards m her slattern rags about the room, now and 
 
 T. t'fr°" " i">'^!'-->«» ^ pi- of broken mirror ^ 
 
 resist, on one occasion, shewing herself at the window 
 to enjoy the effect of her fin. ry on the passe,, by. 
 
 A3 the fates would have it, Pedrillo Pedwego the 
 meddlesome barber, was at this moment sitting id e in 
 Ills shop on the opposite side of the street, when lis evcr- 
 wa ehful eye caught the sparkle of a, diamond. In an 
 instant he was at his loop-hole reconnoitring the slattern 
 spouse the water carrier, decorated with the splendo™ 
 
 mventry of her ornaments than he posted off with all 
 speed the alcalde. la a little while the hulry 
 alguazile was again on the scent, and before the lay 
 was over the unfortunate Pcregil was again dra..cd d 
 uio presence of the judge. " ' ~ ' 
 
 II i 
 
3ACY. 
 
 ^ry for the sum- 
 benefit of the 
 the city in this 
 
 nd thought the 
 airs and graces 
 le of universal ' 
 Is, the moment 
 
 'r she indemni- 
 )f rich oriental 
 1 her arms, and 
 led backwards 
 room, now and 
 broken mirror. ! 
 she could not ; 
 t the window 
 sers by. 
 Pedwego, the 
 ittingidlo in 
 'hen his ever- 
 lond. In an 
 ; the slattern 
 he splendour j 
 I an accurate j 
 off with all i 
 the hungry 
 ^ore the day 
 iragffed into 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 THE IDYL OP CAERATBACA. 
 
 ^ 
 
 This is what I imagined as the Idyl of 
 Carratraca : — 
 
 I well from sunless rifts of earth, 
 
 Through sand and sturdy granite. 
 The brightest sunbeams gild my wave, 
 
 The coolest breezes fan it. 
 All elements the pure and free, 
 
 All coolness and all sparkle. 
 All bubble of the Avine from slopes 
 
 Where Ch<ampagne's bosquets darkle, 
 All fragrance of the violet 
 
 Wet with the dews of morning, 
 All molten sunbeams, essenced ice 
 
 Mv runlets are adornincr. 
 Ten thousand years my stream has run, 
 
 So, poc t, just throw back a 
 Glance along the history of 
 
 The spring of Carratraca. 
 
 In days when suns and stars were not, 
 
 When chaos w.is a cooling, 
 A bed of diamond molten hot 
 
 Was plunged my primal pool in. 
 And cool as autumn afternoons 
 
 And sweet as stolen kisses, 
 The first pure mountain sparkled up 
 
 Pre-Aflamite abysses. 
 
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 48 
 
 LEGEND OF THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 "How is this, villain !" cried the alcalde in a furious 
 voice. " You told me that the infidel who died in your 
 house left nothing behind but an empty coffer, and now 
 I hear of your wife flaunting in her rags decked out 
 with pearls and diamonds. Wretch that thou art ! pre- 
 pare to render up the spoils of thy miserable victim, and 
 to swing on the gallows that is already tired of waitin^^ 
 for thee." ° 
 
 The terrified water carrier fell on his knees and made 
 a full relation of the marvellous manuer in which he had 
 gained his wealth. The alcalde, the alguazil, and the 
 inquisitive barber, listened with greedy ears to this Ara- 
 bian tale of enchanted treasure. 
 
 The alguazil was despatched to bring the Moor who 
 had assisted in the incantation. The MosI<3m entered 
 half-frightened out of his wits at finding himsielf in the 
 hands of the harpies of the law. When he beheld the 
 water carrier standing with sheepish looks and downcast 
 countenance, he comprehended the whole matter. 
 Miserable animal," said he, as he passed near him, 
 did I not warn thee against babbling to thy wife ? " 
 The story of the Moor coincided exactly with that of 
 his colleague; but the alcalde aflfected to be slow of belief, 
 and threw out menaces of imprisonment and rigorous 
 investigation. 
 
 " Softly, good S^nor Alcalde," said the Mussulman, who 
 by this time, had recovered his usual shrewdness and self- 
 possession. " Let us not mar Fortune's favour in the 
 scramble for them. Nobody knows anything of this mattfir 
 but ourselves— let us keep the secret. There is wealth 
 
 (( 
 
 IC 
 
QACY. 
 
 ilde in a furious 
 ho died in your 
 coffer, and now 
 •ags decked out 
 b thou art ! pre- 
 able victim, and 
 ired of waiting 
 
 mees and made 
 n which he had 
 juazil, and the 
 irs to this Ara- 
 
 the Moor who 
 '^oshm entered 
 himsielf in the 
 he beheld the 
 3 and downcast 
 (^hole matter. 
 3ed near him, 
 
 thy wife?" 
 y with that of 
 J slow of belief, 
 
 and rigorous 
 
 iissulman, who 
 'dness and self- 
 favour in the 
 of this matter 
 here is wealth 
 
 
 THE IDTL OP CARRATRACA. 
 
 Mid rnins of the shapeless hills, 
 
 Mid ghastly scars of valleys, 
 The naiad of my stream help up 
 
 Her pure and brimming chalice. 
 And Providence that wisely meant 
 
 That man should never lack a 
 Blessing, laid up a supply 
 
 Endless of Carratraca. 
 
 The days of mastodons passed on, 
 
 When shapeless masses wallowed 
 In mud primeval, and their prey 
 
 On wings of n'^htmaro followed. 
 And things unea* ihly one might deem 
 
 The offspring of delirium. 
 Snorted and plunged about my stream 
 
 Mammoth and megatherium. 
 They passed in hideous love or war, 
 
 But merrily gave back a 
 Laughing echo to their roar. 
 
 The rill of Carratraca. 
 
 I've caught in days when suno were new 
 
 The earliest sunbeam's sparkle, 
 I saw through skies of rosy blue 
 
 The first soft twilight darkle. 
 The soft-eyed deer drank at my stream, 
 
 The slinking- wolf succeeding. 
 In days contemporaneous with 
 
 Or Marathon or Eden. . 
 And red men later at U\q brink 
 
 O'er shoulders would throw back a 
 Stealthy glance, ere they stooped to drink 
 
 The waves of Carratraca. 
 
 And pine trees towering at my side, 
 Decrepit grew and hoary, 
 
 49 
 
 
50 
 
 LEGEND OF THE MOOR's LEOACY. 
 
 enough in the cave to enrich us all. Promise a fair 
 
 division, and aU shall be produced-refuse, and the cave 
 
 snail remain for ever closed." 
 The alcalde consulted apart with the alguazil. The 
 
 a ter was an old fox in his profession. ^'Promise any- 
 
 thing, saidhe, "untilyougetpossessionof the treasure. 
 
 i:oumay then seize upon the whole, and if he and his 
 accomphce dare to murmur, threaten them with the 
 lagot and the stake as infidels and sorcerers " 
 
 The alcalde relished the advice. Smoothing his brow 
 and turning to the Moor, "This is a strange story " 
 said he and may be true, but I must have ocular proif 
 ot It. This very night you must repeat the incantation 
 m my presence. If there be really such treasure we will 
 share it amicably between us, and say nothing further of 
 the matter; if ye have deceived me, expect no mercy at 
 ""Vu'^t* *^' "meantime you must remain in custody " 
 
 Ihe Moor and the water carrier cheerfully a-reed to 
 these conditions, satisfied that the event would p°rovc the 
 truth ot their words. 
 
 Towards midnight the alcalde sallied forth s. cretlv 
 attended by the alguazil and the meddlesome barber all 
 strongly armed. They conducted the Moor and water 
 carrier as prisoners, and were provided with the stout 
 donkey of the latter to bear off the expected treasure. 
 They arrived at the tower without being observed, and 
 tying the donkey to a fig tree, descended into the fourth 
 vault of the tower. 
 
 The scroll was produced, the vellow ^axm taper 
 lighted, and the Moor read the f;>rm of incantation. 
 
EOACr. 
 
 Promise a fair 
 ISC; and the cave 
 
 J alguazil. The 
 "Promise any- 
 
 1 of the treasure. 
 
 d if he and his 
 them with the 
 
 irs." 
 
 othing his brow 
 strange story," 
 Lve ocular proof 
 the incantation 
 treasure we will 
 hing further of 
 3ct no mercy at 
 iiu in custody." 
 fully agreed to j 
 ould prove the 
 
 forth secretly, 
 me barber, all 
 oor and water 
 rith the stout 
 ctcd treasure, 
 observed, and 
 ito the fourth 
 
 ^axcR taper 
 jantation. 
 
 L 
 
 THE IDYL OF CARRATRACA. 
 
 And from their fossil ashes sprang 
 New forests green with glory. " 
 And gone were deer and savage* red, 
 
 And for the mavis' singing 
 My music was tlie woodman's axe 
 
 Upon the pine-tree ringing 
 And later still when I bccanio 
 
 A belle, the toast of cities, 
 Unlike the rustic streamlet that 
 
 Babbled primeval ditties, 
 And praised and quaffed across the land 
 Men said : It does but lack a ' 
 
 Title ; so I won my name 
 The name of Carratraca. 
 
 A name that's bora in sunny Spain, 
 
 Where up the rocky jmss. 
 At eve are heard tlie lover's lute, 
 
 Tlie bell's of (other) asses. 
 Where beauties plump in boddice red 
 
 Coquette upon tho plaza, 
 Where swords, moustaches, masks and nuui 
 
 Suffice to drive one crazy. 
 And so while others praise my stream 
 
 In stereotyped discourses, 
 The poet may perceive in mo 
 Food for a tliousand verses. 
 I smack of more than iodine 
 
 To contemplative palate. 
 For you with memories I am rich 
 
 As Fortunatus' wallet, 
 And as you drink my double stream 
 
 "uu i snail uui iaek a 
 Laureate to celebrate 
 The spring of Carratraca. « ALLID." 
 
 51 
 
 111 
 
52 
 
 LEGEND OF THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 The earth trembled as before, and the pavement opened 
 with a thundering sound, dislosing the narrow flight of 
 steps. The alcalde, the alguazil, and the barber were 
 struck aghast, and could not summon courage to descend. 
 The Moor and the water carrier entered the lower vault, 
 and found the two Moors seated as before, silent and 
 motionless. They removed two of the great jars, filled 
 with golden coin and precious stones. The water car- 
 rier bore them up one by one upon his shoulders, but 
 though a strong backed little man, and accustomed to 
 carry burdens, he staggered beneath their weight, and 
 found when slung on each side of his donkey, they were 
 as much as the animal could bear. 
 
 " Let us be content for the present," said the Moor, 
 " Here is as much treasure as we can carry oflF without 
 being perceived, and enough to make us all wealthy to 
 our heart's desire." 
 
 " Is there more treasure remaining behind ? " demanded 
 the alcalde. 
 
 " The greatest prize of all," said the Moor, " a huge 
 coffer bound with bands of steel, and filled with pearls 
 and precious stones." 
 
 " Let us have up the coffer by all means," cried the 
 grasping alcalde. 
 
 " I will descend for no more," said the Moor, doggedly; 
 " enough is a enough for a reasonable man — more is super- 
 fluous." "And I," said the water carrier, will bring up 
 no further burden to break the back of my poor donkey, 
 f indinif co mm nnna ffirontia anA ontyaailna A^..nli.. 
 
 vain, the alcalde turned to his two adherents. "Aid 
 
? " demanded 
 
 4'«/\a j^/^««n l1« 
 
 ANALYSIS 
 
 OP THE 
 
 CARRATRACA WATERS. 
 
 Laboratobt, 630 Laoauctetiere Street. 
 
 Montreal, August 25th., 1868. 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 I herewith enclose the results of my analysis of the 
 three samples of water you sent me, Nos. 1, 2, and 3. 
 The quantity of Iodine and Bromine in Nos. 1 and 3 
 was not determined, the amount of the samples being in- 
 ufBeient for sueh an estimation. The medieinal aeUon 
 these waters w.ll be mueh the same, the analysis being 
 so mueh alike No. 2, from eontaining a larger amount 
 of earbon.0 aeid is slightly sparkling, and therefore more 
 palatable and refreshing to drink. 
 
 I would recommend their nso both internally and ex- 
 tona ly. Externally their action will be stimulating 
 and ton.e, and they will be « good substitute for sea^ 
 bathmg. Internally the iron they contain gives th.m a 
 
 T ^T; 'u '"''™ '""' ^"'""- "» -I'^rativeeir 
 acter, whilst the saline eenstituents give them a mild 
 purgative effect Hence in full doses they will be useful 
 tTn! J; '«''"™..'"'"'' i" small repeal doses con- 
 Unued for a long time alterative topics. The Iodine and 
 Bromine haang a rtimulating .action on the absorbent i 
 system. The oiwgh in wi^ioi, k c » , . .1 
 
 from their use, are, habitual constipation, hicmorrhoids, 
 
 1 
 
 
MHMi 
 
 r I 
 
 54 
 
 LEGEND OF THE MOOR's LEGACY. 
 
 me said he, "to bring up the coffer, and its contents 
 shall be divided between us." So saying, he descended 
 the steps, followed with trembling reluctance, by the 
 alguazil and the barber. 
 
 No sooner did the Moor behold them fairly earthed 
 than he extinguished the yellow taper; the pavement 
 closed with its usual crash, and the three worthies re- 
 mained buried in its womb. 
 
 He then hastened up the different flights of steps, nor 
 stopped until in the open air. The little water carrier 
 followed him as ftist as his short legs would permit 
 
 "What hast thou done ?" cried Peregil, as soon as he 
 could recover breath. " The alcalde and the other two 
 are shut up in the vault." 
 "It is the will of Allah !" said the Moor devoutly. 
 "And will you not release them ?" demanded the Gallego. 
 "It is written in the book of fate that they shall re^ 
 main enchanted until some future adventurer arrives to 
 break the charm. The will of God be done !" so saying, 
 he hnrl.a the end of the waxen taper f tr amon'^ the 
 gloomy thickets of the glen. ° 
 
 There was now no remedy, so the Moor and tlie water 
 carrier proceeded with the lichly laden donkey toward 
 the city, nor could hone.^t Peregil refrain from hugginir 
 and kissing his long-eared fellow-labourer, tiius restored 
 to him from the clutches of the law ; and in fact, it is 
 doubtful which gave the simple-hearted little man most 
 joy at the moment, tlie gaining of the treasure, or the 
 
 recovery uf the donkey 
 
 The two partners in good luck divided their spoil 
 
i its contents 
 
 he descended 
 
 tance, by the 
 
 *er arrives to 
 
 r amonj,' the 
 
 ANALYSIS Oy THE CARRATRACA WATERS. 55 
 
 determination of the blood to tlie head, hepatic affcc- 
 tions, disease of the Hver, hypocliondriasis, chronic he- 
 patitis, jaundice, &c., lepra, cholorsis, dyspepsia, in dis- 
 ordered conditions of tlie digestive organs consequent on 
 high indulgence and intemperance, gout, and chronic 
 rheumatism, in scrofula, and scrofulous complaints, en- 
 largement of glands, &c. 
 
 AiV^ALrsiS OF CARTiM.-ACA SPRINGS NOS 1 2 and 3 
 KESULTF IRAINS PER GALLON. ' 
 
 Chloride of Socliilm 
 
 Do^ of Potassium.. . , 
 Bromidf of Magnesium. 
 Iodide do 
 
 iSiilpliate of Lime ...... 
 
 Carbonate do 
 
 Do of Magnesia. . . 
 
 Do of Iron 
 
 Silica 
 
 Alumina 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 028,740 
 
 y,ioo 
 
 No. 2. 
 
 Free Carbonic Acid equal 
 to 
 
 Solid rontonts in 1 gallon. 
 
 8,610 
 
 22,050 
 
 9,040 
 
 583,870 
 
 3,730 
 
 .004,550 
 
 .003,200 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 8,890 
 
 08.2710 
 
 5.3900 
 
 075,710 
 9,940 
 
 078,440 
 00,500 
 
 744,940 
 
 070.104750 
 105.234000 
 
 77ft.30875C 
 
 8.5960 
 97,440 
 39,200 
 
 830,380 
 68,170 
 
 889,056 
 
 I am, Gentlemen, 
 
 Yours truly, 
 (Signed,) O. P. GIRDWOOD, M.D., M.R C.S.E 
 To Winning, Hill h Wari, 380 St. Paul Street. 
 
56 
 
 LEGEND 01- TUT MOOR's LEQACT. 
 
 1 
 
 ittle taste for trmketry, made out to get into his heap 
 the most of the pearls and precious stones and other 
 baubles, but then he always gave the water carrier in lieu 
 magnificent jewels of ma^y gold, of five times the size 
 with which the latter was heartily content. They took 
 c...re not to live within reach of accidents, but made off to 
 enjoy their wealth undisturbed in other countries The 
 Moor returned to Africa, to his native city of Tetuan 
 and the Gallego with his wife, his children and his don- 
 key, made the best of his way to Portugal. Here, under 
 the admonition and tuition of his wife, he became a I 
 personage of some consequence, for she made the worthv I 
 little man array his long body and short legs in doublet ' 
 and hose, with a feather in his hat and a sword by his 
 side, and laying aside his familiar appelation of Pere-il 
 assumed the more sonorous title of Don Pedro Gil I his 
 progeny grew up a thriving and merr^-hearted though 
 short and bandy-legged generation, while SGnora g1i 
 befringed, belaced, and betasselcd from her head to her 
 heels with glittering rings, on every finger, became a 
 model of slattern fashion and finery. 
 
 As to the alcalde and his adjunct's, they remain shut 
 np under the great tower of seven floors, and where they 
 remain spell bound at the present day. Whenever there 
 -shall be alack in Spain of pimping barbers, sharking ' 
 alguazils, and corrupt alcaldes, they may be sought after 
 but If they have to wait until such time for their deli- 
 verance, there is dancrer of thoir Pnn?,nr,*«,«^* „_j-. . 
 until doomsday. '^ 
 
ANALYSIS OP THE CARRATRACA WATERS. 57 
 
 From the careful and scientific analysis of the waters 
 above given, their value in a great variety of diseases acute 
 and chronic, becomes at once apparent to the skilful and 
 enlightened Physician, who can prescribe their use with 
 perfect reliance of obtaining the most favorable results. 
 
 In constipation, probably, the most frequent of all 
 causes of Haemorrhoids, or piles, almost immediate relief 
 is obtained, and the cure of the one follows the eradica- 
 tion of the cause of the first. 
 
 In chronic dyspepsia, disease of the liver, inflammation 
 of the liver, jaundice, gout, rheumatism, great benefits 
 have always resulted from the use of these waters. 
 
 In that most common and distressing of all ailments, 
 Hypochondriasis, (a disease characterized by extreme in- 
 crease of sensibility, palpitations, morbid ieelings that 
 simulate the greater part of diseases, exaggerated uneas- 
 iness and anxiety, chiefly in what concerns the health, 
 &c.) This disease is intimately connected, if not 
 caused by disorder of the digestive functions. Many a 
 man lives in constant fear of death, he is firmly con- 
 vinced that he labors under cancer, consumption, disease 
 of the heart, &c., and passes a miserable existence living 
 upon drugs. 
 
 This most unhapp^y condition being mainly traceable 
 to dyspepsia, or disorder of the digestive and assimilative 
 apparatus, can be entirely removed by the proper use of 
 these waters; and ordinary attention to the simplest 
 rules of diet. 
 
 It is neither our intention to write a book on diseases, 
 nor to assume for the waters the virtues of a panacean 
 
THE 
 
 STORY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 the driver to hi, ;„ .f "> » gf«ss.grown siding, 
 
 mountainous countrv „ ° , " ''"'"''™ "^ « 
 distant. ^' "''P"™"^ "''»"' five „,iles 
 
 No station-master was visible tt«„i -. 
 hermit, in the eostume of a p„l of . v ' "". """''^ 
 patiently cphinod to me the t t M ""°""'' "^^• 
 passed my proper "junetion ■• r I f", ^"8 o™'" 
 residonee at the Den nf f i' "^ '"'''"•'' ""« « 
 
 _Whatt„d:rTfe'wAr'!!!^*^-'---- 
 
 hesUeMt drilled, ™i.,edZ.,;„^ ,-——-; 
 
CARRATRACA. 59 
 
 cure. It is within the reach and means of aU to try 
 their merits, and even should they fail to acoomplish the 
 wished for good, there is the certainty,_they can do no 
 harm. 
 
 The following testimonials are but a small portion of 
 the many we have had, the publication of many would 
 be distasteful to the writers. We shall always feel 
 obliged for any letter proving the value of the waters, 
 but shall never publish any without sanction. 
 
 CuRRAN, Feb. 15th, 1868. 
 
 Messrs. Winning, Hut. & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Dear Sirs: This is to certify, that I have used the 
 tarratraca Waters, with good effect in the following dis- 
 eases, viz : in all Rheumatic Affections, Skin Diseases 
 ot iUl kind, &c. And I can recommend them as a " sine 
 qua non;' in all cases of impurity of the blood. 
 
 I have practised medicine in the vicinity of the sprin-s 
 for some years past, and consequently have had ^)p1e 
 opportunities of noting the effects of the waters in their 
 purity. 
 
 I can strongly recommend them in the above mentioned 
 diseases, from practical experience. 
 
 The Carratraca waters are, in my opinion, f«r superipr 
 m every respect to those of any other springs in Plan, 
 tagenet. ° 
 
 1 am always yours, 
 (Signed) A. xMcLARKN, M. D. 
 
 i 
 
THE STORY OP THE ST0NE-ETE8. 
 
 that Signifies a substance equi-distant between nothing 
 and ram? Books I had none, nor even a penknife 
 wherewith to improve the time and trees. There was 
 It IS true, on the wall of the station itself, a small but 
 choice collection of high art. Thence I learned how 
 that Sampson Barkwise Pecklebody (address in full) 
 having, one fatal morn (specified), permitted himself to 
 occupy a certain class of carriage not usually associated 
 with the description of ticket he had previously taken, 
 was mulcted by indignant justices (set forth) in the 
 tmmitigated penalty of Thirty Shillings and costs- 
 the permanent proclamation of which little incident on 
 
 P u'i'.T* ^'^^ ^°^P"*'^ " P^^^Ji^ interest to kr. 
 I'ecklebody s subsequent journeyings by that line 
 
 The Bed sent by Post-not only sent, but actually 
 
 prepaid-perpetual enigma to the untravelled mind-- 
 
 pre^nted its graceful form. Leisure there was to 
 
 ponder why Messrs. Kornyman should alone dispense 
 
 the pure article. Whether those gentlemen found it a 
 
 commercial success, or whether a proud sense of moral 
 
 rectitude was their sole reward. Ha! Frith? N.. 
 
 It is but a hold episode of London life, by a hand 
 
 unknown importing pictorially that Messrs. Bobbs and 
 
 Thirkettle have engaged two-thirds of the western side 
 
 of Regent-street for the display of their unrivalled 
 
 ass9rtment of summer stufi^s. A royal equipage has 
 
 just rolled heavily from the door, surcharged with 
 
 VuroMm. The Lord Mayor, dissatisfied with eastern 
 
 establishments, comes prancing un. nff^nrlo^ /-« , 
 
 on shopping expeditions) by his f ithful sheriffs, and 
 
ITE8. 
 
 etween nothing 
 en a penknife, 
 3. There was, 
 elf, a small but 
 I learned how 
 ldre..s in full), 
 tted himself to 
 ally associated 
 Jviously taken, 
 forth) in the 
 I and costs — 
 e incident, on 
 nterest to Mr. 
 lat line. 
 , but actually 
 elled mind — 
 here was to 
 lone dispense 
 n found it a 
 nse of moral 
 Frith? Nu. 
 by a hand 
 s. Bobbs and 
 western side 
 r unrivalled 
 iquipage has 
 larged with 
 fvith eastern 
 
 -s \«c usual, 
 
 sheriflfs, and 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 61 
 
 Montreal, 9th Sept., 1869. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 
 Montreal. 
 Gentlemen : I have for some time past prescribed 
 the " Carratraca " Water, and do not hestitate to recom- 
 mend it as mild, agreeable and efficient aperient. It 
 has proved especially useful in cases of Dyspepsia attended 
 with habitual constipation. The slightly alterative and 
 tonic properties it possesses in virtue of the Bromides 
 and Iodides which enter into its composition will, no 
 doubt, give it additional claims to favor in suitable 
 cases. 
 
 I am, Gentlemen, 
 Yours trulv, 
 
 (Signed) J. M. DRAKE, M. D. 
 
 One of the Attending Physicians Montreal General Hospital. 
 
 Montreal, 28th May, 1869. 
 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Gentlemen : Having made use in my practise of the 
 "Carratraca" Wate^, from the Springs in North Plan- 
 tagenet, I am unabled to speak favorably of its effects. 
 In cases of Dyspepsia, accompanied by a constipated 
 condition of the bowels, I have seen much benefit from 
 a tumblerfuU taken each morning on an empty stomach. 
 Judging, however, from the Chemical analysis by Dr. 
 Girdwood, the Water is capable of a much more extend- 
 ed use, and would certainly, from the presence of Iron 
 
MMpw itiWititjjji -I 
 
 
 I 
 
 62 
 
 THE STOET OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 Other CIVIC functionaries, among whom I think I fdntly 
 recog„,3c tl,e toastmaster. Three officers of H r 
 Majes ys L.fe Guard,, in complete cuirass, about to 
 onto m quest of their summer stuffs, make way for a 
 right roverend dignitary, his wife, and a proceiorf 
 
 " ^' 'he literature of Something's Den is quite capable 
 
 tribrein ""1 't" <-in-time, allow me to'co ! 
 tribute to It, said a pleasant voice beside me. 
 
 rhe speaker, a man about sixty, perfectly genllem.an- 
 
 ke in appearance and address, had stepped outfrom 
 
 the Wk,„g.ffice, and was offering mc'a handful „f 
 
 shl^'LLT '"'".T """'^"'"^ ™ ">'« iol'ospitable 
 
 cercmonv ^7 'r'""^?/"""' "''^«' °<" ''"""J » "y 
 ceremony, I think. It will be a good three hours before 
 succour reaches us." «■>- "ours oeioie 
 
 We gradually slid into conversation, pacin. up and 
 down the sheltered portion of the pLform The 
 stranger talked easily and agrecahlv I ^^1^ 
 will in p„„r u , o'^'-'-'"'?' -t had seldom met 
 
 with on Englishman who overcame, with such un 
 obtrusive facility, the reserve of fiUt . , 
 
 At. !>«.,. a > . '^<=''<'rve 01 lirst acquaintance. 
 
 An hour flew past, and, before its expiration, we had 
 become as old and intimate friends 
 
 there LTf ""'"'*. ""^ '^'' '™^ "^''"'^ » ""le, »d 
 the had become visible the grey top of an old ma^ion 
 
 ». h one tower, half smothered in fine woodland, covcrD 
 a slope some two miles off, ' "^"'"""o 
 
 "Whoso residence is that, yonder?" inquired my 
 
:yes. 
 
 think I faintly 
 ficers of Her 
 irass, about to 
 iiake way for a 
 a procession of 
 
 be continued 
 
 s quite capable 
 iv me to con- 
 
 me. 
 
 tly gentleman- 
 
 'ped out from 
 
 a handful of 
 
 1 inhospitable 
 stand on any 
 
 2 hours before 
 
 icing up and 
 Ltform. The 
 d seldom mei 
 h such un- 
 cquaintance. 
 ion, we had 
 
 I little, and 
 )ld mansion, 
 nd, covering 
 
 iquired my 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 63 
 
 and Iodine, prove beneficial in Scrofulous affections. 
 To do the Water justice, it should be taken regularly 
 for some time. 
 
 (Signed) FRANCIS W. CAMPBELL, 
 
 M. D,, L.R.C.P., London. 
 
 Montreal, 17th March, 1868. 
 3Iessrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 
 Montreal. 
 Dear Sirs : Since I became acquainted with the 
 Carratraca Mineral Water, I have frequently prescribed 
 them for my patients with very beneficial results, 
 especially where a gentle Saline aperient has been indi- 
 cated. 
 
 I remain yours truly, 
 
 (Signed) E. H. TRENHOLM, M. D. 
 
 Montreal, 23rd Sept., 1809. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 
 Montreal. 
 Gents : With regard to your Carratraca Waters so 
 named, I have prescribed them to my patients for up- 
 wards of Forty years, with satisfaction. As a mild 
 Cathartic, ple^ising to the taste, they are superior to any 
 Waters I have met in Europe or on the Continent of 
 America. • 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 (Signed) J. P. COWAN, M. D. 
 
 iJ 
 
 
tMMm 
 
 64 
 
 THE STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 companKa of the hermit-porter, who, seated on a retired 
 bench was dropping a sharp-pointed knife, with 
 singularly inaccurate aim, at a disabled humble-bee 
 squatted on the soft boards. Having, at the moment! 
 nearly got the range of his victim, the hermit did not 
 deem it expedient to suspend his fire, but simply replied 
 that he didn't justly know. " Twarn't nobody's. 
 Ihere was-summot wrong. Ghosts 'fested it-least- 
 ways, them top-rooms-Gardener's -wife— below (The 
 bee, suddenly impressed with a vague presentiment of 
 danger, gave a convulsive shudder, and drew up one 
 log.) Never heard the rights on it. Howsever, nobody 
 can t-hve-jbee dissevered longitudinally, presenting 
 the remarkable appearance of two half bees in animated 
 conversation)— live there, they can't.'* 
 
 " I WBB curious," observed the stranger, as we turned 
 away, to hear what we would say. That place is 
 Mournivale, the scene of one of the most extraordinary 
 series of incidents that ever found place in England's 
 domestic annals. If you wish it, seing that we have 
 abundant time, I will give you the substance of the 
 history." 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 WHIRTY years ago (resumed my friend), I com- 
 mit? menced my professional career of medicine with 
 the ridiculous blunder of purchasing what i.. nmr^.i^ 
 called the « good will " of this district. I couH have 
 
3YES. 
 
 tted on a retired 
 d knife, with 
 3d humble-bee, 
 Lt the moment, 
 lermit did not 
 t simply replied 
 trn't nobody's. 
 Jsted it — least- 
 -below. (The 
 resentiment of 
 drew up one 
 ^sever, nobody 
 lly, presenting 
 3s in animated 
 
 ', as we turned 
 I'hat place is 
 extraordinary 
 in England's 
 that we have 
 stance of the 
 
 3nd), I com- 
 edicine, with 
 
 '• m nrrtnAvl-itT 
 — i — 1"^" 'J 
 
 i could have 
 
 1 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 65 
 
 Plaktagenet, Aug. 18th, 1869. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 I hereby certify that I have used the waters of your 
 celebrated Springs, and that, from the ii.a'ysis of said 
 Waters, do recommend them for the ro]hmiiv : — Habi- 
 tual'Constipation, Derangements of S^ m ich an : Bowels, 
 Chronic Inflammation of Kidneys, Cr'Tvel, jrout, and 
 Rheumatism, especially the Chronic forms, by baths, 
 certain forms of Scrofula, many Skin affections, Dyspep- 
 sia, and as a purgative after a debauch, &c. 
 Yours truly, 
 
 (Signed) G. W. PRENTISS, M.D., M.C.P. & S.O. 
 
 Dunham, P.Q., Jan. 26th, 1870. 
 Messrs. Winning. Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 CrENTLEMEN : I have much pleafeure in testifying to 
 the valuable medicinal properties of the Carratraca 
 Spring Waters, and although as yet I have not had as 
 many opportunities, as I could wish of testing their 
 characteristic effects upon the various diseases usually 
 benefitted by the use of Mineral Waters, still I am of 
 opinion that these Waters must eventually supersede 
 many now in use in curing disease ; and from the analy- 
 sis which Dr. Girdwood has made ; which from his well 
 known ability must be considered reliable, I am led to 
 believe that in curing the diseases he has enumerated. 
 
 
 
66 
 
 THE STOBT OF THE STONE-ETES. 
 
 predecessor £dSedt Mv "^ "" "■'* -"y 
 Tolenco itself, and Jh„r „f l^ °''^°"' ''^'^ ''»» 
 
 There wanilLr t L^r'"'* .^'"' ''""P^' 
 industrious otters a ', *™"' f """S. «f wliich certain 
 
 and between «f the bc«t Th ' T' "''' P^P™'"-; 
 sparing ™y favouri e Xb »d "7? T,""'"'' "'"^ 
 the immediate neighborhood of th Tu-^ '"''^'''" 
 
 robust to l-house anrl ih/i. , nealthy farms, a 
 
 for my favorite snorbr'"'P' '^''' ^"'P'" '^is^re 
 neighbours '^ ' '"'"'"^ '^'"^'""S n,y busier 
 
 Do not imagine that the nartio, T 
 present the entire p„r„h,tirr,,,;:,:f -<>•<' 
 where among the trees lurk two lit.l , '• I ™"- 
 
 right of its superior size Inn, t '"""'' "'>'•'' '" 
 
 other, availing itse oTLrt"„f"t^T' '''"''' "'" 
 heing disposed in two ranks c'l„/?p^™ ''""■'""8' 
 The spirit of rivals! p^tw^ftl r"''-'"''"^*' 
 communities was const™,; 1;^!" 7" '"'"^f"' 
 ^m and so bitter was the Llou v .Ir '" '"'""'' 
 «="reely any intercourse was ^ nl'te n,' ""^ T'"'"' 
 ; »'ato of things the morf™ Tc , tX •""■ 
 (« cnnous fact) the society „f the 11" p' ""'''' 
 composed almost entirelv nf . ,,'^"""^'' Covey was 
 
 Covey-lcStrcet embr c ^"4S T:d-'^""" '""' "' 
 moned from the awaiting Ml ^ ^ '' ^'"^ ""'"»'- 
 
 Will, .1,;. 1 ... ^ "^^ of spmstcrhood. 
 
 W.th tJus little ooa.com».„„ity I h„d „„ „,„p,..:, .__, 
 
S£3ig& 
 
 EYES. 
 
 on 
 
 which my 
 ours were bene- 
 nj time, within 
 -did everything 
 3le and happy. 
 
 which certain 
 ole proprietors; 
 prevailed, they 
 !ate]y avoiding 
 ycUiugs; while 
 ilthy farms, a 
 
 ample leisure 
 'g Kiy busier 
 
 G referred to | 
 trict. Some- | 
 ''•1^:08, one, in 
 ^ Covey, the 
 en dwellings l| 
 vey-lc-Street. 
 tv'o powerful 
 
 in various 
 ' one period. 
 Tccn thcni: 
 2tted, since 
 
 Covey was | 
 lie that of I 
 vet unsum- 
 >d. 
 
 ^rr\(!>aoI^ 1 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 67 
 
 the Waters will be considered almost a specific. I have 
 no hesitation therefore in recommending them to the 
 public. I am, gentlemen, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 (Signed) J. B GIBSOX, M. D. 
 
 St. L.UVRENCE Drug Hall, 242 Lawrence St. 
 
 Montreal, 7th Jan., 1S70 
 Messrs, Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Gentlemen: Duri,,. the time I have been A<.e„t 
 for the sale o the Carrut.,ea Mineral Water, I C 
 
 .ts .0, derful curative power, (.u„re e.speeially i„ llheu- 
 mat.eIl.hou, aud %„,ie e»e,;) I ftel eouhdent the 
 Carratraea Wate.. are far «u,K.rior to ...any of the kZ 
 
 Sd! " '""'"' '''"'""' '-p-'«j ."w 
 
 Wisluns j-ou succo.« in your undertaking to make 
 our.t™M.neranVater,..deserved,y popular ..t,.e; 
 
 Gentlemen, yours respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) J. D. L AMBIIOSSE 
 
 Assistant of the Ai>othecaries Co., London, Kn^land • 
 
 Associate Pharmaceutical Society of Grea; B i •': 
 
 LlGCntiato Annfl,n/..>ri— n^n—. t« . . '""m , 
 
 gcons, L.Cr' '^""''°'^'' i-nyaicians and Sur- 
 
mmm&^assr^ 
 
 68 
 
 THE STORY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 1 
 
 concern. The whole was presided over by one of the 
 bachelor brethren, who, tolerated as a necessary evil, 
 went and came between the two camps, a just subject of 
 jealousy and suspicion to both. Charley Tincture was 
 by nature a merry pleasant little fellow, and, being only 
 fifty-seven, was looked upon by the elder brethren of 
 Great Covey as little more than a boy. Nevertheless, it 
 was now thirty-five years since Charley had been jilted, 
 and had cast from his soul every thought of matrimony! 
 Many a pleasant evening have I passed in Charley's 
 society, at his snug lodging over the postK)fl5ce (he was 
 rich enough to have had a good house to himself, but 
 preferred that celibate flavour which attaches to lodg- 
 ings), and to this circumstance I owe the power of 
 making you acquainted with the story of Mournivale. 
 
 The vast old mansion, after being for some time un- 
 tenanted, had, just before my arrival, passed into the 
 absolute possession of Sir George Corsellis. This gentle- 
 man had held a high military post in India, and had 
 brought home a reputation the reverse of prepossessing. 
 He was represented aa a stern proud individual, gloomy 
 and unsocial in disposition, a tyrant in his profession, a 
 tyrant in his homo. He had (said rumour, coming down 
 hke a black mist before him^ resigned his command, in 
 the hofK) of averting a threatened inquiry into some un- 
 due exercise of authority— something, it was oven whis- 
 pered, scarcely distinguishable from what men call 
 murder— and \w had come hither, with his lady, intend- 
 ing, if inmolcsted, to pass the remainder of his days 
 "'"-■"o '■"^' ^i^^p v.uous oi iuourruvale. 
 
CARRATRACA. 
 
 69 
 
 OoBOURG, Ontario, 29th Dec., 1869. 
 Messrs. "Winnino, Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Gentlemen : I have frequently ordered Carratraca 
 Water for my patients, and proved it to be an excellent 
 aperient and alterative. I have found it particularly 
 useful .in disorders of the Liver, congested states of the 
 Stomach, and in subjects of a Rheumatic or Gouty 
 Diathesis. 
 
 (Signed) C. C. MOORE, M. D., M. R. C. S. E. 
 
 COBOURQ, Ont., Dec. 10th, 1869. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Gentlemen : I have used the Carratraca Water in 
 my practice, and have great pleasure xn stating that both 
 as an Aperient and Diuretic; it haa proved tj be all 
 that can be desired. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 (Signed) N. W. POWELL, C. M. D. 
 
 (TRANSLATION.) 
 
 CuRRAN, 15th Sept., 1869. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware. 
 
 Montreal. v 
 
 riFVTT.ir\firV • Tliio ]ottaT Jo *n (tnm*iC„ *l.«l. r il.- 
 
 ■ - •!-•'-! i-T IV L-ti m J tjiai, i\jr liJC 
 
 twelve years I have lived at Curran ; I have very often 
 
'"':Tsimnml!ll9efS 
 
 70 
 
 THE STORY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 The very first proceedings of the new proprietor were 
 singular enough to provoke comment. He had fixed 
 midnight for his arrival at the mansion with his familv • 
 directing the land-steward, Harper, who had mana4d 
 the property for some yea.s, and whom he had retained 
 m office, to be in attendance at that hour, and alone 
 
 Precisely at twelve, a hollow rumble of wheels came 
 up from the gra^s-grown avenue, and Harper, throwing 
 open the tall iron gates which gave immediate approach 
 to the house, admitted a procession consisting of three 
 gloomy old coaches, and a black van. From the first of 
 these vehicles, alighted three dark figures, so closely 
 muffled that it was only by a comparison of height that 
 he steward understood them to represent his master 
 (whom, indeed, he had already seen) and two females 
 one of a stature almost diminutive. Both, on enterinc^ 
 the house retired instantly to a suite of apartments 
 upon which a regiment of painters and decorators had 
 been employed for at least a month. 
 
 The other carriages were filled with domestics, Encr. 
 hsh and foreign, who immediately, without exchan-an"^' 
 
 a word. 3t to work in their different departments as i°f 
 they had lived at Mournivale all their previous lives 
 So quaint and singular was the whole proceeding, that 
 the simple-minded steward folt as if he were movin. 
 about, in the midst of a band of beings of a different 
 naturc-whose. supernatural gifts placed them alike be- ' 
 yond his help and control. They made civil gestures 
 and seemed to regard him with consideration enou-^h • 
 -.»,. none 0. the«,, none eveu uf the English, spoke direct- 
 
 a- 
 
S"^^?WW»W*i^i^«.*J^^;a 
 
 EYES. 
 
 proprietor were 
 He had fixed 
 'ith his family : 
 ) had managed 
 le had retained 
 ', and alone, 
 af wheels came 
 irper, throwing 
 diate approach 
 isting of three 
 rom the first of 
 ■es, so closely 
 of height that 
 >nt his master 
 : two females, 
 h, on entering 
 of apartments 
 ccorators had 
 
 •mestics, Ens- 
 t exchanirins: 
 'tments as if 
 previous lives, 
 ceeding, that 
 were moving 
 of a different 
 lem alike bc- 
 vil gestures, 
 ion cnouirh ; 
 spoke direct- 
 
 CARRATRACA. 71 
 
 used the Carratraca Waters, as also have a large number 
 of my parishioners, and we have all remarked that they 
 have done us much good. Furthermore having often 
 found wyself on different occasions in the company of 
 several medical men, all certified that they cousidered 
 the Waters very salutary. 
 
 Thus I certify to all to whom this letter may come 
 that according to my opinion the Carratraca Waters are 
 far superior to all the other mineral waters known. 
 
 (Signed) 1>. BEllTKAXD, Parish Priest. 
 
 Dauragii's Wharf, Plantagenet, 
 
 15th June, 1809. 
 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware. 
 Montreal. 
 
 Gentlejien: According to your desire, I hereby 
 wish to say, I have found the use of the Carratraca 
 Water entirely beneficial in my case. 
 
 Having suffered very much from Rheumatism con- 
 tracted in California, I am pleased to iufiirni you I have 
 been entirely cured by the Waters. I am also aware of 
 many other cures from the same, and of the general hi<'h 
 esteem in which the Waters are held by all in thi., pan 
 of the country. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 (Signed) A, P, DARIIAOTt 
 
72 
 
 THE STORY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 ly to him. And the language that did reach his ear had 
 a curious rolling accent, sucL as he iiad never heard 
 
 Determined to break tLe spell, Harper singled out b. 
 member of the mysterious company who appearni ^o dis- 
 charge the office of cook, and who, UAa^ fattisL, might 
 prove good tempered. Accosting her ob she glid-r^ by 
 he civilly i^Kiuired by what nrm.e he should address her ' 
 "Moi-rn k Fay,' replied the woman, sharply, baring 
 her glistening teeth it, a mit of snarl. 
 
 "Morgan Liffey I " thought Harper. •' Irish, eh ? " 
 Feeling, or fancyintr, ib .t Lis presence was not accept- 
 able to the now cojaers, the excellent steward, who at 
 present occupied one of the keepers' lodges, took a hasty 
 leave, and withdrew. 
 
 "Hot dinners at half-past one in the morning!" 
 tL.-ight Mr. Harper, as he tumbled into bed; "I 
 won-lor at what time they sup I " 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 HE external doings of tbe new proprietor were 
 _ _ equally remarkable. It had been decided iu the 
 neigbourbood that one of his first acts of ownership 
 would bo to thin the overgrown woods, wherein were 
 thousands of noble specimens of oak, beech, elm, and fir 
 —nay, even the fragrant cedar— positively pining for 
 the axe. An enterprising timber merchant had prepared 
 a tender, and only waited for what ho considered a de- 
 cent interval bcfliro nrnen»w;nf» ; o.'-n 1, 
 
 r o «-"" '-^cur^-, nowever. 
 
ITES. 
 
 3ach his ear had 
 lever heard. 
 ' singled out a 
 ippearari ^o dis- 
 ; fattisL^ might 
 «he glid'; ? by, 
 lid address her, 
 jharply, baring 
 
 •'Irish, eh?" 
 w&s not accept- 
 teward, who at 
 3, took a hasty 
 
 !ie morning I " 
 ito bed; "I 
 
 oprietor were 
 ecidcd iu the 
 of ownership 
 wherein were 
 1, elm, and fir 
 Ij pining for 
 had prepared 
 jidcrcd a de- 
 fge, however, ■ 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 73 
 
 Montreal, 7th January, 1870. 
 J. I> L. Ambrosse, Esq., 
 
 St. Lawrence Drug Hall. 
 
 Tsar Sir: Aft 3r being afflicted with a Liver Com- 
 plamt for upwards of fifteen years, I was induced to try 
 ♦be (Jarratraca Mineral Water, I have been using it for 
 the last six months, and am pleased to say it has almost 
 efiected a perfect cure. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 (Signed) J. A. ADAMS. 
 
 CoBouRO, Ont., 29th Dec., 1869. 
 W. M. McCoNNELL, Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir : This is to certity that I have suffered 
 from a large sore on my leg for years past. According 
 to your advice, to drink the Carratraca Waters, I have 
 done so, and am happy to say it has resulted in a perfect 
 cure. 
 
 (Signed) MARY WISHART. 
 
 CuRRAN, Plantaoenet, Ont., 5th Aug., 1868. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware. 
 Montreal. 
 
 Gentlemen: Having resided for the past sixteen 
 years in the immediate neighborhood of the Carratraca 
 Springs, I have had ample opportunity for experiencing 
 — j-ss VJ1-- 5— .--a vuvTsjis icouiuiig irum tne use 01 tne 
 Waters. I know also of many, for miles around here, 
 
 
 
ay^;>w-"'-:;-''f3 
 
 74 
 
 THE STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 d.d nothing of the kind. Contrariwise, on the onlv 
 open ground near the mandon-a small g een kno | he 
 .mmediately planted a handsome cluster^ it " 
 mg shrubs and trees. ' = "' 
 
 In a word, lonely as the place already was, Corselh, 
 encircled the entire mrlrw;ti, , / '-"sem.? 
 
 Around the gardens he raised a lofty wall. He nur 
 chased at a great expense, a eertai'n 'alleged riU'o; 
 way, ^hieh, as the public never used it, was-dispuW by 
 their representatives with tenfold obstinacy. He dif 
 couraged any advances on the part of his country nci!." 
 
 ^7^, "."f r^'^ ^^' ''»»* ^^y™" •"« own domain ° 
 
 b„„f .?'"■"»"'««'' Sir Hugh Quickset, a nci-h- 
 Dounng squire. = 
 
 Sir George who was in tlw commission, attended the 
 nez bench of magistrates. The lunatic took the le^ 
 m all the proceedings, decided a matter which nvolved 
 great legal d ffieul.y, snuffed out the pert clerk 2 td 
 lu herto guided the decisions of the bench, and, wi ' 
 coo supenor oods, took his leave, not to appear c^ „ 
 But Sir Hugh Quickset was silenced " 
 
 "Under a cloud," affirmed old Purkiss, of Great 
 Covey: a retired solicitor, whose mental habit inclined 
 to the suspicious. ,If report were to be trnsW, ue 
 had enjoyed better opportunities of judging what mi!u 
 be the aspect of a gentleman under L^^Jf^^ 
 pherieal pressure than Mr. Purkiss himself!) bT. 
 royal duke who was staying in the county, rode acrL 
 fifteen m. es to visit Moumivale, stayed half the daT 
 and walko.J thmucrh Cr-— '- «^ ■ ^' 
 
 ^., ^ovc^ ic-oireet arm in arm with 
 
SYES. 
 
 «, on the only 
 ?reen knoll—he 
 of qiiick-grow- 
 
 J was, Corsellis 
 strong palisade, 
 vail. He pur- 
 leged right of 
 as disputed by 
 acy. He dis- 
 couutry neigh- 
 domain, 
 wset, a neigh- 
 
 attended the 
 ook the lead 
 lich involved 
 lerk who had 
 3h, and, with 
 ppear again, 
 
 5s, of Great 
 abit inclined 
 rusted, none 
 what might 
 >P"'^ atmos- 
 If!) But a 
 rode across 
 If the day, 
 I arm with 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 75 
 
 who have been cured of various diseases. I can also 
 truly say the Carratraca Waters are held in higher 
 esteem in this part of the country than any other of the 
 Waters of Plantagenet. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 (Signed) 
 
 M. MULDOON. 
 
 St. Lawrence Hall, Dec. 24th, 1869. 
 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 St. Paul Street. 
 
 Gentlemen : Please send me another case of your 
 Carratraca Water. Travelling as I do all over Canada, I 
 find it the best and most palatable aperient medicine I 
 can take, it keeps the bowels regular, aids digestion and 
 carries oflf the bile which causes that feeling of weariness 
 so often experienced after long journeys and irreo-ular 
 meals and hours. 
 
 I wish it was kept more generally through the coun- 
 try, as I miss it very much when in small towns, I would 
 almost as soon go without my breakfast as without a 
 glass of the Carratraca Water first thing in the morn- 
 
 mg. 
 
 Yours faithfully. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 JAMES H. PEARCE. 
 
 A 
 
 •^'■^ 
 
■■S*Brt* ---i^._ 
 
 -^^Ssai 
 
 I 
 
 76 
 
 THE STORY OF -^ {E bTONE-EYES. 
 
 his host, in earnest conv.:rs.tion-Mr. Purkiss was bowl- 
 
 Intense became the curiosity excited bj the manifest 
 >sire c^ Sir George to conceal the cour.. . u.. uoi^es- 
 tic hfe from every eye. The powers of conjecture were 
 exhausted m imagining theories of explanation for the 
 complete seclusion in which the family, the two ladies 
 especially, were rmderstood to live. In'respect to this, 
 the steward Harper, was as profoundly ignorant as 
 everybody else. Not only had he never seen his lady's 
 face or heard her voice, but no intelligible allusion to 
 her among the servants had ever reached h-'s ear He 
 knew, however, that a Creole maid, calhd Eisa, was her 
 principal attendant, and that she did occasionallv .ive 
 audience to Morgan le Fay. " 
 
 " My lady calls," the latter would say. with a start • 
 sometimes amid the clatter of the kitchen ; sometimes 
 when not a sound but the ticking of the cock broke the 
 dead hush. And away she would hasten 
 
 Harper observed that none t" the r^mesti ■ ever wont 
 abroad except on Sundays, when such as were E„,^Iish 
 attended the little church, and. ..^vice over, marched 
 back agam, be..g re-admitted by the huge Duto. porter, 
 Hans Troek, who never quitted his post by nC^.t or 
 day, and the monotony of whose preso- ce inspired 
 Harper with such an insane desire to k, h that 
 but for his native slowness of approhensio He Troek 
 must have read it in his face twenty times a day. 
 Harper had to pass him so often, for on him devolved 
 -mos. aa the communication that was held with the 
 
iFES. 
 
 irkiss was bowl- 
 
 )j the manifest 
 ( ivi iiis aoiaes- 
 iODJecture were 
 nation for the 
 the two ladies 
 respect to this, 
 Y ignorant as 
 leen his lady's 
 >le allusion to 
 I h'*s ear. He 
 Eisa, was her 
 isionallv give 
 
 with a start; 
 a ; sometimes 
 >ck broke the 
 
 iti» ' ever wont 
 were P]iiglish 
 rer, marched 
 Dutch porter, 
 by nJ-;it or ! 
 ce inspired ■ 
 
 h 1, that, 
 
 Ht Troek 
 
 mes a day. 
 
 im devolved 
 
 Id with the 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 77 
 
 Montreal, 31st Dec., 1869. 
 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 
 Gentlemen : I have been in the habit of using the 
 Carratraca Water for some years, and always find my 
 health much improved after using it regularly. My bus- 
 iness for some time past having kept me absent from 
 home, I found some difficulty in obtaining , except in 
 the large cities ; but I hope that I may soon be able to 
 obtain it in every place I visit in the Dominion. 
 
 If I can be of any service as a reference touching the 
 healthfil qualities of your Carratraca I shall be happy to 
 serve you. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 (Signed) D. S. CONNOR. 
 
 I TREAL, 31st Dec, 1869. 
 238 St. Urbain Street. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Gentlemen : Having heard you were about gettinf' 
 up a book of testimonals respecting the merits of your 
 Carratraca Mineral Water, one from me may not be 
 amiss. 
 
 I have used it regularly for six months or more and 
 have much pleasure in saying I require no other medi- 
 cine in my house. 
 
 tr A i_ 
 
 xuurs Lruiy, 
 
 (Signed) ALEX. KENT. 
 
78 
 
 THE 8T0RT OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 ^ter world. In the W ,a the steward transacted 
 
 If^r tLT ' ""y •'"^'-^ '^'»«ng to the estate. 
 Aiter that, he executed commissions for Morgan le Fay 
 
 peeled to take his leave; and what went on after that 
 n tt,e mysterious household, was a strange and gloom; 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 :UT about "Lady Corsellis," was the perpetual 
 f question of the spinsterhood of Covey-le-Street ' 
 who, and what can she be ? " ^ ' 
 
 th^t.^'Vl"' *^'"'* '^P""'' '"'^""S'' M^- Tincture) 
 that they would run any reasonable risk (except matri- 
 mony) to learn. ^ 
 
 For months the neighbourhood was in a state of 
 agreeable horror, for where mystery is there wiU be ter 
 ror, and it got to be believed tliat Lady Corsellis rf 
 Mournivale was not a spectacle for human eyes to ie 
 I can hardly exphiin through what iiuctua'tions The 
 general faih settled down (but so it didl into a convic 
 tion that, though elsewisefair efface, the unhappy iX 
 had the snout of a pig , At all events, this beUef rf 
 umphed. The district was rich in mast and acorns In 
 ^nsideration of his consort. Sir G^ige had suffered hi 
 beech and oak to stand I 
 
 There were still, it is true, dissentients to the porcine 
 theory. At the Jolly Bachelor, in Great C.ST 
 aucteu by Mr. Brutus Bulfinc- " ' "" " 
 
 
EYES. 
 
 v^ard transacted 
 to the estate. 
 Morgan le Fay. 
 that he was ex- 
 it on after that, 
 age and gloomy 
 
 the perpetual 
 ovey-le-Street," 
 
 Mr. Tincture) 
 (except matri- 
 
 a a state of 
 •e will be ter- 
 Y Corsellis, of 
 a eyes to see. 
 Jtuations the 
 into a convic- 
 mhappy lady 
 his belief tri- 
 d acorns. In 
 I suffered his 
 
 the 
 
 porcine 
 
 — '"J > '^^'"" 
 
 's face Wis 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 79 
 
 West Farnham, P. Q., lOth March, 1870. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Gentlemen : I hereby certify that I was for a long 
 time subject to the Disease of the Kidneys, and that after 
 trying almost every thing without relief, I was induced 
 to try the Carratraca Waters. 
 
 I am a sound man again, and I believe it not only 
 cured me, but that it saved my life. 
 
 Yours, &c., 
 (Signed) GEORGE ELiMS. 
 
 Buck's Hotel, West Farnham, P. Q. 
 Messrs. Winning, Hill & Ware, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Dear Sirs : I cheerfully give my testimony as to the 
 excellence and efficacy of the Carratraca Mineral Waters. 
 I have used it myself, and in my family for some months, 
 and always with the most beneficial results. A glass or 
 two taken on rising in the morning, facilitates a natural 
 evacution of the bowels, corrects acidity of the stomach, 
 removes indigestion and headache, and is the best remedy 
 for any excess in either eating or drinkin,^ Luown in this 
 vicinity. I am obliged to keep it constantly on draught, 
 and take pleasure in enclosing you a few certificates of 
 some of my guests and neighbors who have taken it re- 
 gularly, experienced its boueUts, and arc happy to add 
 their testimony to mine. In cases of Dyspepsia, Indi- 
 
THE STOKT or THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 opposed by a still more terriblo euraise. It is doubt- 
 ful whether the host would have admitted anybody into 
 h.s parlour, or the barmaid (an elderly female, nnmar- 
 ned exoeuted her offiee with any degree of alaerity on 
 behalf of one, who did not faithfully believe that it was 
 
 tl . .f°,' "'' ""' ""= '''="'•■ "i'l" " «'™-g bias 
 towards the latter opinion. 
 
 No wonder ; for the very nephew of the host had had 
 a glimpse of the phenomenon. 
 
 Coming home late from a distant market. Jack Bui- 
 fineh took It mto his head to shorten the road by euttin^ 
 aeross the grounds of Mournivale. This wa before the 
 
 K.. mg dofenees, had passed the mansion, and was about ' 
 tod.vemto the plantation, when the great front door 
 
 S tr' "r- ""' "•" '■' <=-» ™>i"g tamely 
 b M< e S r Geonje himself. J.aek, by his own aeeount 
 had barely time to notiee that my Lady Corselli, ha, 
 immense eyes like lurid lanternsf whiel glo; d e 
 through a thick protrusive sort of covering that veiled 
 
 length that &ir George, with much seeming politeness 
 earned a portion of it aero.,, his arm. This't we"' 
 near to discredit Jack's, but for the confirma, n tt 
 whole story received from the deposition (made rat 
 with, than upon, oath) of Ceplia., Pubgebrook, the second 
 gardener, who rolled the terrace on'the fol I'owingTy 
 and observed that it bore distinct traces of a goat tr pi-' 
 
 K.i'i'l.T'f .""."'»"«•■; "'• p«^«»brotk was ■:':; 
 
 
fie host had had 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 81 
 
 gestion or Constipation I have never seen it taken 
 without a marked and pcrmauent benefit. Wishing you 
 the success the <' Carratraca " really merits. 
 
 I remain, &c., 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 RICH. BUCK. 
 
 COMPARISONS. 
 
 The following comparisons between the Carratraca 
 Waters and the principal Mineral Waters now known 
 and in such demand throughout the United States, we 
 hope will be studied with great care and interest. The 
 statements and analyse all being taken from the pamplilets 
 published by the proprietors of the various springs. Wc 
 have no fear or hesitation in making these comparisons 
 from the face that in nearly every instance the great 
 curativo powers ascribed to them result from mineral 
 matters, in v..iieh the Carratraca Waters abound to a far 
 greater degree. We, therefore, are satisfied to leave tlic 
 matter to the unbiassed judgment of the public, and do 
 say with all confidence we believe the Carratraca AVaters 
 to bo the finest yet discovered in America, at least as 
 shown by analysis. 
 
 II 
 
:=ri 
 
 J 
 
 THE STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 gaged for two hours (all the while whistling careless 
 secular tunes) in smoothing out the footprints of the 
 enemy of mankind ! 
 
 Curiosity was at its utmost stretch, when an order 
 was one day received by Timothy Beatle, the purblind 
 clerk, to have new hassocks placed in the Mournivale 
 pew. Hassocks! They were, then, unquestionably 
 coming to church next Sunday. At all events, Sir 
 George and— and the other— would come. 
 
 The Kevcrend Benedict Loanham, of Great Covey 
 prepared his best discourse. The number of those who 
 attended their religion.' duties on that day, transcended 
 the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. The con-^re-ation 
 were already seated, when the Lord o'" ' ' -^rnivafe, a°ccom- 
 panied by two veiled ladies, en* '^,1 bv apt vate chancel 
 the party taking ther seats in fuii he assembly' 
 
 General Sir George Corsellis was, at this time, a man 
 past middle-age, of collossal build, massive head, broad 
 nose, and eyebrows so redundant as almost to emulate 
 little bards. The prevailing expression of this far from 
 attractive face, was stern even to ferocity ; but that it 
 was cnpable of much softening was apparent even to 
 purblind Timothy Beatle-who, throughout the service 
 addressed his responses personally to Sir George, adjured 
 him in a stentorian voice to join in the performance of 
 the psalmody, and having, in effect, bestowed upon the 
 astonished gentleman his undivided attention, was, 
 finally, in a position to aver that, whenever he (Cor- 
 Helhs) glanced at one of the veiled creatures at his side. 
 m« f.,co clmnged •• from a devil's to an angel's." 
 
CARRATRACA. 
 
 83 
 
 ANALYSIS OF THE BALLSTON ARTESIAN 
 SPRING, by Professor Chandler, Ph., D., Village of 
 Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, N. Y., from a depth of 
 650 feet. 
 
 Chloride of Sodium 750.030 grains. 
 
 Do. of Potassium 33.276 » 
 
 Carbonate of Lime 238.156 « 
 
 Do. of Magnesia 180.602 « 
 
 Do, of Iron 1.581 " 
 
 Alumina 0.077 « 
 
 Silica 0.701 « 
 
 This Water is claimed by the proprietors to be richer 
 in valuable Remedial Agents than any other Water 
 found in America, and there can be no doubt of its 
 value, or of the favor in which it is held. In making a 
 comparison between it and the Carratraca, one fact must 
 bo impressed upon the minds of all readers, viz. :— The 
 samples of water analysed by Dr. Girdwood were taken 
 from the surface not from a depth of 650 feet; they 
 were also taken at a time the Springs were in a perfectly 
 exposed condition, and when it was impossible to prevent 
 them being largely mixed with rain and creek waters. 
 
 By an examination of the above it will bo scon that 
 nothwithstanding the groat depth from which the Ballston 
 Spa Water is said to be procured, the diflference in 
 Chloride of Sodium is very trifling. There is an excess 
 of the Chloride of Potiwsium, Carbonates of Lime and 
 Magnesia ; but .in entire falling off in really one of the 
 most valuabic iugrcdiouts, viz. : — Carbonate of Iron of 
 37,621J grains, and an entire al)8euce of any trace of the 
 
[T wiiiiii^iiri^i^iitni^^ij 
 
 • i 
 
 TBI STORT OP THE STONI-ETES. 
 
 The serricc drew to a conclusion without the veils 
 
 S^ 7 m""?' """"™^- ^' '""^' ^' acknowledged 
 that good Mr. Loanham (whose discourse had bL 
 
 directed aga.nst the indulgence of idie curiosity, aTd 
 
 CtZ'T T'"*^""' "' °" P""') ^'^ his very 
 best to advance the secret wishes of his flock : proIon<.in^ 
 
 a^el rV'^ "%"' "' '■"!'"■»'"•' -'^Tolationft^ 
 an extent which, under any other circumstances, would 
 have been considered inordinate. 
 
 end-so had Mr. Loanham's-and, with a reluctant 
 tir?. K '=''"S;,'«"«™ dispersed. When a reasonable 
 time had been allowed for all ,,„Jesignins person, to 
 wuhdraw, the Jlournivale party c,uitted''therr ^ri; 
 who was presumed to be Lady Corsellis, leaning upon her 
 husband's stalwart arm ; the dwarflike figure of thdr 
 companion bringing up the rear. Every pi^te.t for lin 
 gcrmg about the little church-yard had by this tile 
 been exhaust A One individual, alone, stood rootedTo 
 the spot-M.ss Tiffany. This lady remained, as 
 were, under a vow, . «» it 
 
 in Tllfn 7''^Tf ''^ Strong-minded element 
 in the e rde of Covey-le-Slrcet. To her, appeal wa« 
 won ,0 be made in all such .ases a,,, underordiry 
 s ml circumstances would have necessitated theinterp,^ 
 
 Tad L! T ""'?'"' ■"'■"' ' ""''' '"">"'». M'-» Tiffany 
 had been rue ,o he, position and herself It was alleged 
 
 had really set her heart, had she ever imu bafflcl, I„ H 
 . i.-.r,..,p, unguarded monicnt, slie had pledged her*ll 
 
CARRATRACA. 
 
 85 
 
 most valuable, viz. : the Bromide and lodode of Magne- 
 sium. ° 
 
 Facts are stubborn things, and parties making decided 
 assertions should never forget. 
 
 There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio 
 Than are dreamt of in your iMlosox^hy.—Shakespere' 
 \Y\iih on tire subject of the Ballston Springs, it may 
 be stated there is .comparatively little difference in the 
 character or properties of the various waters of Saratoga. 
 As it may be a matter of interest and benefit lo those 
 not acquainted with the comparati\e richness of the fol- 
 lowing Springs so well known in the United States we 
 give a statement of the quantity of mineral matter con- 
 tamed in one gallon of the water of the springs claimed 
 to be the most effective in disease. 
 
 Congress Spring 567.943 grains. 
 
 Empire Spring 496.352 « 
 
 High Rock Spring G28.038 « 
 
 Star Spring dg^ss « 
 
 Seltzer Spring ....401.680 n 
 
 Excelsior Spring 5 14.846 " 
 
 Gettysburgh Katalysine 286,930 " 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 ^'^•1^P''"K ..744.9400 
 
 ;; \ ^; 775.39.^7 
 
 " ^ "*^ 889.0500 
 
86 
 
 THE «T.jKY of the STONE-EYES. 
 
 to see and to speak with one or both of the mvsterious 
 ladres of Monrnivale. She wag here to redem that 
 I Pledge. 
 
 Sending away her maid, Marian, to a little distance, 
 she herself took up a position half-way between the church 
 and the corner of an avenue of elms which formed a bv- 
 jath to !uournivale. ^ 
 
 .is the three figures moved pa^t, she touched the 
 (Ires!^ of her who walked alone. 
 
 "A thousand pardons," said Miss TifKmy. May I be 
 " allowed to sp ?" ^ ^ 
 
 The stranger made a sort of impatient bow, and con- 
 tmued her way. 
 
 Miss Tiffany, somewhat piqued by tliis reception re- 
 turned to the charge. 
 
 " Again, I ask pardon," she said. ''I assure you I 
 am not a beggar. I wish merely to inquire what' is 
 J.ady Corselhs s pleasure concerning the proposed new 
 8ch ?" 
 
 The stranger put her hand upon her arm, as if to im- 
 pose silence, but with the other, pointed forward in such 
 a manr^r as to invite Miss Tiffany to accompany her. 
 Thus Maid Marian, watching in the distance, saw the 
 lour disappear into the arenue. 
 
 Another minute, and her mistress was seen returning • 
 but with a step so strange and uncertain, and a demea' 
 nour altogether so unusual, that Marian started off 
 hastily to meet her. To Marian's alarm and surprise, 
 Miss Tiffany took not the slightest notice of her ; bu 
 4j _ .... w-.xr, iu tac utrectiou oi homo, her 
 
 eyes 
 
£S. 
 
 he mysterious 
 redeem that 
 
 ttle distance, 
 on the church 
 formed a by- 
 touched the 
 ly. May I be 
 ow, and con- 
 •eception, re- 
 
 ssure you, I 
 ire what is 
 roposed new 
 
 as if to im- 
 i^ard in such 
 )mpany her. 
 ice, saw the 
 
 I returning ; 
 id a demea- 
 Ptartcd off 
 d surprise, 
 of her; but 
 10, her eyes 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 87 
 
 ANALYSIS OF THE GETTYSBURGH KAT 
 ALYSINE SPRING, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 
 U.b., by Professor Mayer of the Government Smith- 
 sonian Institute, Washington. 
 
 Bi-Carbonate Soda ■) 
 
 " Lithia/ 46.05 . 
 
 ' " P^t^^h t,.,^^ 
 
 " Magnesia yg q^ 
 
 " Iron 
 
 " Lime 
 
 Sulphate of Lime 
 
 Chlorides 
 
 T>u , ^ trace 
 
 Phosphates . 
 
 Silica *^*'' 
 
 10.00 
 
 trace 
 81.00 
 53.20 
 
 266.30 
 This water as usual is also called the most valuable in 
 Amenca. The Bi-carbonates of soda and Lithia are 
 very useful but in the above analysis they are rather 
 mixed. One cannot tell whether it is the carbonate of 
 soda or of Lithia that tests 46.05. Again in compari- 
 son with the Carratraca Water we see an entire absence 
 of all the really valuable ingredients, viz.: Iron, Iodide 
 and Bromide of Magnesium. In one thing it surpasses 
 
 sand'' ■ ' ''^''^' ^' ••"'* "' """^"'^^^ ""^ ^ "i^ich 
 
 ■m 
 
WJiTWil 
 
 88 
 
 THE STORY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 " 
 
 fixed and staring, her face pale as ashes, her hands 
 
 working wildly, as though in desperate endeavour to 
 
 keep oflf some invisible assailant. 
 '' Horror, horror!" wa^the only reply her terrified atten- 
 
 daut could obtain, in answer to her repeated inquiries 
 
 " Arrived at home, Miss Tifi^any went straight to her 
 chamber, and, locking the door, remained in strict seclu- 
 sion until the evening. Then she rang for Marian, and 
 gave her certain directions for the morrow, which raised 
 that young lady's surprise and consternation to their 
 climax. 
 
 On the following day, there appeared a notice in the 
 front garden, describing that desirable cottage-residence 
 as to be let, furnished or unfurnished, for an indefinite 
 period, with instant possession. 
 
 To the numerous inquirers, answer was returned that 
 Miss Tiffany had been summoned to the sick bed of a rela 
 tive, who, though near in blood, was somewhat distant 
 m body, being, in fact, resident in Australasia. Conse- 
 quently, Miss Tiffany must not be expected back imme- 
 diately. 
 
 Miss Tiffany had, in real deed, departed that mornin- 
 and all the explanation afforded of this sudden resolu- 
 tion, was contained in the following note, addressed to 
 an mtimate friend : 
 
 ' Good-by, Sophy dear. Love to all friends. Shun 
 Mournivale. Beware of curiosity. Seek *o know no 
 more. 
 
 " Your unhappy friend, 
 
 " Theresa." 
 
ES. 
 
 s, her hands 
 endeavour to 
 
 errified atten- 
 d inquiries. 
 ;raight to her 
 1 strict seclu- 
 Marian, and 
 which raised 
 tion to their 
 
 notice in the 
 ige-residence 
 an indefinite 
 
 2tumed that 
 bed of a rela- 
 ^hat distant 
 sia. Conse- 
 back imme- 
 
 at mornins, 
 Iden resolu- 
 iddressed to 
 
 ids. Sftun 
 o know BO 
 
 IIRISA." 
 
 89 
 
 I 
 
 CAEBATRAOA. gj II 
 
 ANALYSIS OP THE MISSISQUOI SPRING 
 WATER OP VERMONT, U S 
 
 The following is taken from the pamphlet issued 
 
 f-ure. of Mine., ^^i^SJL rth^r™!' 
 tended and fraudulent imitations ^ 
 
 Milt/w«7 '"'"''^, "^^^ *^^^^ ^^' ^""k artificial 
 xUineral Waters is incalculable 
 
 analv-rofThllr'" ""^ "•"*•'' '^""'-^ " P-^ished 
 any "ood bat n^r'T' '^"°" '^"'^^ aeoomplished 
 much evil °"''"'"^' " "«''* •'» P^»<'''««^« of 
 
 "THE ANALYSIS IIERETOPOKE PCBLISIIED." 
 
 JhsZfrrl *^ ""'"■ ^-y "•<= °"J--y -Ode Of 
 anaiysmg it, the foUowmg constituents were found • 
 
 Chloride of Sodium Chlorine, 
 
 JJo. » Magnesia Calcium 
 
 Sufphate i."-!" organic Matt.. 
 
 n , . P«^roxidcof Iron 
 
 Carbonate of Sodium Protoxide of Iron 
 
 f ^»"'^«i» Carbonic Acid Gas 
 
 Manganest3....ApocromcAcid 
 ^'^" Fluoric Acid. 
 
 Do, 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Silica.. Sulphuric Acid. 
 
 Hydrochloric Acid. 
 
 1 
 
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 90 
 
 THE STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 I will not dwell upon the hubbub created by this 
 event in the community of either Covey. My business 
 is with facts, and the next fact in my recollection 
 (putting aside innumerable unsubstantiated rumors 
 concerning the doings of the family at Mournivale), is 
 a visit paid one evening by the steward Harper to my 
 friend Charley Tincture. 
 
 Harper, who was naturally a hearty fellow, with a 
 frank open manner of speech, now looked anxious and 
 careworn, and spoke in a hesitating perplexed way 
 which Charley could not understand. 
 
 He apologised for calling at that late hour— half-past 
 nine— on the ground thai V.e did not wish his -visit 
 known, and, presently af.ty;ng a blue handkerchief 
 which he carried in hk hr^nd, placed upon the table 
 something that had very niiidi the appearance of half a 
 cold apple-tart. 
 
 '' I wish you, Sir," he said, " to be kind enough to 
 examine this, and tell me if 'tis good for a Chrisdan's 
 dinner. If 'tis, why, there's an end ; if not, why then 
 I've got something more to say." 
 
 Tincture made him sit down, and retired to his 
 surgery, sending, in pursuance of an idea that occurred 
 to him, for myself, who happened to be passing the 
 evening in his neighbourhood. Together we carefully 
 analysed the viand, and, applying the usual tests, detected 
 the presence of a certain vegetable poison, in sufficient 
 quantity to destroy a dozen human livesw 
 
 On hearing this result. Harper turned so white and 
 sick, that Charley had to administer a glass of brandy, 
 
ss. 
 
 ated by this 
 My business 
 recollection 
 ited rumors 
 )urnivale), is 
 [arper to my 
 
 Jlow, with a 
 anxious and 
 pplexed way 
 
 ir — half-past 
 sh his visit 
 landkerchief 
 n the table 
 ice of half a 
 
 enough to 
 
 Christian's 
 
 !;, why then 
 
 red to his 
 It occurred 
 Dassing the 
 'e carefully 
 ts, detected 
 n sufficient 
 
 white and 
 of brandy, 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 91 
 
 By a kter method of analysing mineral waters, known 
 as Specular Analysis, the Missisquoi was f -und to pos- 
 sess, in addition to the above, other medicinal properties." 
 In regard t6 the above not doubting for m instant the 
 Missisquoi Water is valuable in certain cases, wo certaiij 
 j ly do doubt that any one could be found particularly 
 anxious to make an imitation. 
 
 In every instance we believe the public are justly en- 
 titled to know what they are using, and they are parti- 
 cularly so in the matter of Mineral waters. 
 
 It is a well known fact that ver^jr many waters contain 
 arsenic to such an extent as to make them highly danger- 
 ous; and it is therefore the duty of the proprietors of all 
 mineral waters to satisfy the people whom they desire to 
 use the same, that they are innocuous, and this can only 
 be done, by publishing an analysis made by such men as 
 Brs. A. A. Hayes, and S. Dana Hayes, of Boston, U. S., 
 or Drs. Girdwood, and T. Sterry Hunt, of Montreal, 
 Canada. 
 
 1 
 
 m 
 
 :5«£= 
 
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 ■,%. 
 
 
 IMAGE EVALUATION 
 TEST TARGET (MT-3) 
 
 7 
 
 A 
 
 
 
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 7. 
 
 
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 I.I 
 
 11.25 
 
 
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 i4_ 11 1.6 
 
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 Sciences 
 Corporation 
 
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 WMSTIR.N.Y. I4S80 
 
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after which the worthy steward commenced his tale 
 wuh the starthng information that the pastry ^e had 
 had nndcr our consideration, together with numerons 
 her dehcacies, similarly seasoned, formed the daily bill 
 offurcatMournivale. 
 For a long time p„st_in fact, ever since the arrival of 
 
 to imc attracted by a remarkable proceeding on the 
 part of Morgan Ic Fay. Every dish, whether°pr epa ed 
 by W own hands or those of assistants, received a sli.>t 
 addtuoa, sometimes in a liquid, sometimes pnlverine 
 form, the materials being obtained from a sort of cabhe 
 bu, t .nto the wall, and secured with a small but mas « 
 me a, door, of which Morgan Ic Fay always kept the k " 
 Tla ceremony, though not absolutely performed by 
 tolth, always seemed to be invested with a certain 
 degree of mystery. It was ctir,uctte to notice it as littic 
 "s possible; but Harper could not help observing 1. 
 , every d.sh, after undergoing this singular prepa^ati n 
 was regarded with a respect and tenderne., almost r • ! 
 renttal, was handled with the e.tremest caution and 
 when returned disabled from the dinner-table, was „n 
 «.«ned by the h.gh priestess, Morgan le Fay, to a ree^ 
 e c expre..ly constructed for the purpose, im wheal 
 It never again emerged. 
 
 Perpetually haunted by this mystery, Harpor at 
 e.^th coneeived an irresistible desire to'c'onvine! L: 
 
 tancj, that would sometimes intrude itself into his mind 
 was erroneous and absurd. Quo day, by ^reat 
 
CARRATRACA. 
 
 93 
 
 GUILFORD MINERAL SPRING WATER, 
 VERMONT, U. S. 
 
 I>R. Jackson's Analysis. 
 " Copy." Boston, July 14th, 1868. 
 
 Dear Sir : — I have made a careful analysis of the 
 sample 'of Mineral Water you sent me from Vermont, 
 with the following result per gallon : — 
 
 Carbonato of Lime 15.18 grains. 
 
 Do. « Soda t.... 2.40 « 
 
 Do. " Iron 2.99 « 
 
 Do. " Magnesia 0.60 " 
 
 Chloride of Sodium...., 2.41 " 
 
 Insoluble Silica 0.60 «• 
 
 Organic vcgetAble matter with traces 
 
 of Nitrate of Potash 5.60 « 
 
 Loss and trace of Sulphate of Soda.. 0.40 «« 
 
 Solid matter per gallon 30.18 
 
 Carbonic Acid Gas, 30 Cubic inches or 13.74 
 grains per gallon. 
 
 This gas gives the water an agreeable acidulous taste, 
 and renders it sparkling in the glass. 
 
 The Carbonate of Lime is antacid, as is also the Car- 
 bonate of Soda, and Carbonate of Magnesia. 
 
 The Carbonate of Iron is eminently tonic. Hence 
 this water is very useful where tonics and antacids are 
 indicated. It is also a very agreeable water to drink, it 
 being very much like the German Seltzer Water, but 
 much more tonic, owing to a larger proportion of Car- 
 bonate of Iron. 
 
) I 
 
 M 
 
 ij 
 
 94 
 
 THE STORY OF THB STONE-EYES. 
 
 fortune, an opportunity occurred of securing a portion 
 of apple-tart that had been aln^ost half consumed in the 
 parlour. Mr. Harper, possessing himself of an unfor- 
 tunate dog whose condition of skin rendered his abrupt 
 decease a matter of congratulation both to himself and 
 I mankind, presented him with a small portion of the pie 
 on receipt of which the unfortunate animal uttered one 
 broken howl, stretched himself out, and expired Under 
 the circumstances, Mr. Harper at once secured the 
 -•emainder of the tart in his handkerchief, and hastened 
 to submit it to medical scrutiny. 
 
 The case was curious, and difficult. In spite of the 
 uncommon dietary, it was certain that nothing had hap- 
 pened at Mournivale to warrant legal interference No 
 enactment restricts the indulgence in arsenic, or bella- 
 donna, so long as they suit the constitution. It was 
 ultimately agreed to keep the matter quiet, H" t un- 
 dertaking to report to us, any new incident a un- 
 usual nature that might come under his observation. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 f,T was not very long before a newphenomenon revealed 
 Itself. The summer was well advanced, and liad 
 been unusually sultry. The windows of Mournivale 
 like those of less mysterious mansions, remained open' 
 or, at least, unshuttered, long after dark. It began to 
 
 be declared flinf. tho c«,i«-i^ j ,. 
 
 i..« ,^.«„^^ aua appearances distin- 
 
wmm'^ 
 
 a portion 
 led in the 
 an unfor- 
 lis abrupt 
 nself and 
 f the pie, 
 ered one 
 I. Under 
 ired the 
 hastened 
 
 tcofthe 
 liad hap- 
 ce. No ! 
 3r bella- 
 It was 
 T un- 
 a un- 
 ion. 
 
 Qvcaled 
 id had 
 nivale, 
 open, 
 gan to 
 distiD- 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 95 
 
 If bottled it must be very tightly corked, otherwise, 
 from the escape of Carbonic Acid Gas (the solvent from 
 the Carbonate of Lime, and Oxide of Iron,) there would 
 be a brown precipitate in the bottles, which would make 
 the water turbid. 
 
 Respectfully your obedient servant, 
 
 CHAS. T. JACKSON, M. D. 
 
 State .A-ssayer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
 Any. and Con. Chemist. 
 
 WHAT THIS WATER IS SAID TO CURE. 
 
 One special and invariable quality of the water is, that 
 it is an effectual corrective. Those who have used it find 
 it is not only a certain and rapid cure of costiveness, but 
 that it is equally effectual in stopping diarrhoea. Its repu- 
 tation for having cured all kinds of skin diseases, humors, 
 eruptions, salt rheum, scaldhead, and such like disagree- 
 able and painful eruptions, is astonishing and established 
 beyond doubts. 
 
 It has never failed in dyspepsia, and some of ita cures 
 of that prostrating disease are so remarkable that they 
 are made subjects in the following certificates. 
 
 In the cure of general debility, and Nervous Prostration 
 and Broken down state of the Constitution, the Guilford 
 
 Water Rt^ndji wifhmif ?i« oiMial 
 
HI 
 
 ill 
 
 i'ii 
 
 J 
 
 96 
 
 THE STORY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 guishable through these windows, were not to be accounted 
 for by any rules of ordinary domestic life. Regularly 
 after nightfall— perhaps about ten o'clock— (as the 
 country people asserted) the entire upper portion of the 
 vast mansion became suddenly illuminated with a mighty 
 red lustre, such as might proceed from the seething 
 crater of a volcano at the close of an eruption. From 
 thence were heard to issue loud and agonising shrieks, 
 varied with the notes of some strange instrument of the 
 trumpet kind, now and then a clash of cymbals, and, not 
 unfrequently, a low horrible sound, which could only 
 be described as a lion imitating the laugh of a man. 
 
 From midnight until one o'clock, the watchers de- 
 clared, there usually reigned a profound silence. About 
 the last-named hour, a long hoarse cry, unlike the 
 voice of man or animal, pealed through the house, 
 and, in a second, the lights in every room were extin- 
 guished like one. At that period, the rising ground 
 planted by Corsellis was not covered with wood of suffi- 
 cient growth to conceal the upper windows, and the 
 crimson glow proceeding from them was plainly visible 
 from the neighbouring village. 
 
 Speculation was busy ov6r these strange doings, when 
 a new and important circumstance occurred. Harper, 
 having some business to transact with his master, repaired 
 to the mansion one morning rather before his usual 
 hour. Sir George was out, on horseback. As the 
 steward retraced his steps through the hall, a violent 
 shriek, twice or thrice repeated, struck his ear. 
 Yielding to the impulse of the moment, and imagining. 
 
CARBATRACA. 
 
 97 
 
 accounted 
 Regularly 
 —(as the 
 on of the 
 a mighty 
 seething 
 1. From 
 g shrieks, 
 nt of the 
 and, not 
 )uld only 
 man. 
 chers de- 
 . About 
 ilike the 
 e house, 
 re extin- 
 J ground 
 of suffi- 
 and the 
 y visible 
 
 ?s, when 
 Harper, 
 repaired 
 is usual 
 As the 
 t violent 
 
 agining. 
 
 FOR SXiVMFXjB. 
 
 Carratraca. 
 
 Carbonate of Lime 8.5960 grains. 
 
 Do. " Iron 39.200 « 
 
 Do. " Magnesia 97.440 " 
 
 Chloride of Sodium 675.710 » 
 
 Carbonic Acid, 230 Cubic inches, 
 or 58.170 " 
 
 879.116 
 
 Guilford. 
 
 Carbonate of Lime 15.18 grains. 
 
 Do. "Iron 2.99 " 
 
 Do. "Magnesia 0.60 " 
 
 Chloride of Sodium 2.41 " 
 
 Carbonic Acid, 30 Cubic inches, or...l3.74 " 
 
 34.92 
 Difference in grains in one gallon in favor of 
 Carratraca 844.196 
 
 Here is another case of a water without an equal, 
 whereas in the very ingredients on which they base the 
 value of the water, for the cure of the above named dis- 
 eases, there is a difference in favor of Carratraca of 
 891.554 grains. Without mentioning the two most 
 valuable components of Carratraca at all, viz. : the Iodide 
 and Bromide of Magnesium. 
 
 Astonishing cures have undoubtedly resulted from the 
 use of the Guilford Water, but how apparent the infin- 
 itely greater value of the Carratraca Water, must be to all 
 capable of a thought. 
 
 Ill 
 
'mtmes^m' 
 
 i I i 
 
 /t 
 
 
 98 
 
 THE STORY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 as he afterwards explained, that some person's clothes 
 had caught fire, he bounded up the hitherto sacred stair 
 and stood at the door of the first of the suite of apart- 
 ments inhabited by the family. It was from hence that 
 the shrieks had proceeded. The door was ajar He 
 pushed it open. All was hushed as death ; but on a 
 rich sofa, lay a slight female figure with the face turned 
 away. Beside her knelt the diminutive form of the 
 third member of the party-both of them motionless, as 
 though carved in stone. 
 
 Suddenly, Without any change in the attitude of the 
 body or limbs, the head of the kneeling figure be-an to 
 turn. Revolving slowly, as on a pivot, the face°came 
 completely round, and fronted Harper, as he stood 
 rooted to the spot. And ivhat a face ! Wrought in o-rey 
 granite, with a hideous carved grin, great white eye-balls 
 m which no pupils were visible, a huge mocking mouth 
 seeming to dart out, like tongues, spiculse of lurid flame f 
 Harper— man as he was, and no timid man— thrilled 
 with a- nameless fear, made but three steps down stairs 
 and never stopped till he reached his own domain. 
 
 In relating this strange story to us, I observed that 
 nothing seemed to have impressed him so stron-Iy as the 
 stony gleam of the woman's, or fiend's, eyes. °His con 
 stant reference to this feature, no doubt, led to the habit 
 we subsequently acquired, of talking of the personage 
 alluded to as "Mournivale Stone-Eyes." 
 
 Many were inclined to discredit the whole narrative- 
 but Harper silenced these detractors by givino- notice tn 
 ills employer, of his desire to quit his service as soon as 
 
smm^m 
 
 on's clothes 
 sacred stair, 
 te of apart- 
 L hence that 
 3 ajar. He 
 ; but, on a 
 face turned 
 )rm of the 
 tionless, as 
 
 ude of the 
 e began to 
 face came 
 he stood 
 ?ht in grey 
 :e cje-balls 
 3g mouth, j 
 rid flame ! 
 —thrilled 
 ^n stairs, 
 ain, 
 
 irved that 
 glj as the 
 His con- 
 the habit 
 personage 
 
 arrative ; 
 notice to 
 3 fioon as 
 
 CARRATRAOA. 
 
 99 
 
 J 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE 
 CARRATRAOA WATERS. 
 
 1st. As a Laxative or Diuretic. A tumblerful in the 
 morning taken on an empty stomach will in nearly every 
 case have the desired eflPect. The most obstinate case of 
 Habitual Costiveness, however, will yield to two or three 
 glasses. The effects are almost magical, and unlike all 
 other purgatives, their use is not followed by increased 
 costiveness. 
 
 ^ 2nd. As Alterative Tonics. A small glass six or eight 
 times a day may be taken. In all cases of Chronic dis- 
 ease it is only by the persistent and continued use that 
 radical cures can be expected. 
 
 ^ 3rd. As a cool and refreshing drink, any desired quan- 
 tity can be taken at pleasure. 
 
 4th. To the Habitually Intemperate, their use affords 
 the most pleasant and agreeable means of overcoming t^^: 
 constant craving for spirituous stimulants. 
 
 5th. To all suffering from a disordered condition of 
 the digestive organs, resulting from high indulgence, in- 
 temperance, or from whatsoever cause, take the waters at 
 pleasure, and be guided by the following advice, viz. :— 
 As the Carratraca Waters are particularly recommend- 
 ed for all stomach diseases or indigestion, it will probably 
 be expected that some advice should be given respectiu<- 
 diet, though after all that has been written upon the 
 subject, after the publication of volume upon volume, 
 after the country has, as it were, been inundatGci «rith 
 practical essays on diet, as a means of prolonging life,"it 
 
 11 
 
tl„lliijilU 
 
 100 
 
 THE STOKY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 arrangements could bo made ; nnd, as he had secured no 
 provision for himself, it was only reasonable to believe 
 hini actuated by a genuine repugnance to connect him- 
 self with the haunted mansion. 
 
 The event next in order, 1 believe, was this : 
 The Mournivale property ''marches," as they say in 
 Scotland, on one side with that of Squire Ilarlbutt a 
 country gentleman of considerable wealth, but who mixed 
 little with the county society, and had punctiliously 
 avoided his extraordinary neighbour. He was a ma-is- 
 tnite, and liad been one of those present on the occasion 
 when Corselhs had so defiantly taken the lead in the pro 
 ccedings of the bench. He had returned home not a 
 little disgusted at the treatment he and his brethren had 
 experienced. 
 
 It happened that Mr. Ilarlbutt received a visit from 
 his ncjiliew, a captain in the army, who had been for 
 some time in a local command. Ho had commanded a 
 frontier corps at the Cape, employed in repelling the in- 
 cursions of the Caffres : a duty requiring both courage 
 and vigilance, and not without a certain smack of adven- 
 ture greatly to the taste of the young officer. 
 
 The mysteries of Mournivale were not long in reach 
 ing his ears, and Captain Harlbutt at once came to the 
 conclusion that he could not beguile his three weeks' 
 visit at Fairwoods better than by unravelling the same 
 It was, I think, on the third or fourth day after his 
 arrival, that a party, organised for the purpose, assembled 
 by different paths after nightfall at a certain spot in the 
 ^v-.-^iax... xv wuusistca 01 liarioutt, Charley Tincture, 
 
CARRATRACA, 
 
 101 
 
 would be unnecessary to say more, did wo not feel it our 
 duty to make the humble endeavor of inducing tho pub- 
 lic to, regard them not, but to adopt that course which is 
 dictated by nature, by reason, and by common sense. 
 
 Those persons who study tho wholesome and are gov- 
 erned by tho opinions of writers on diet, are uniformly 
 both' unhealthy in body and weak in mind. There can 
 can be no doubt that the palate is designed to inform us 
 what is proper for the stomach, and of course that must 
 best instruct us what food to take and what to avoid ; 
 we want no other adviser. Nothing can be more clear 
 than that^ose articles which are agreeable to tho taste 
 were by nature intended for our food and sustenance, 
 whether liquid or solid, foreign or of native production ; 
 if they arc pure and unadulterated, no harm need bo 
 dreaded by their use ; they will only injure by abuse. 
 
 Consequently, whatever tho palate approves, eat and 
 drink always in moderation, but never in excess; keeping 
 in mind the first process of digestion is performed in tho 
 mouth, the second in th^ "tomach ; and that, in order 
 that the stomach may be ilio to do its work properly, it 
 is requisite the first process should be well performed j 
 this consists in masticating or chewing the solid food, so 
 as to break down and separate tho fibres, and small sub- 
 stances of meat and vegetable, mixing them well, and 
 blending the whole together before they are swallowed ; 
 and it is particularly urged upon all to take plenty of 
 time to their meals and never eat in haste. If you con- 
 form to ihl!] short find Ktmnin hnt. flnmrwohmnulva oArtinn 
 
 and find that there are various things which others eat 
 
102 
 
 THE STOBY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 Harper a trusty keeper of Harlbutt's famous for seeing, 
 m the dark, and myself. ° 
 
 There was a bright August moon, but she was occa- 
 sionnally veiled by dense masses of cloud. We pushed 
 our approaches nearer and nearer to the house, on the 
 side not surrounded by gardens, and from which a small 
 .side-entrance alone gave access to the grounds. Just 
 withm a cedar copse we sat in a circle, like a group of 
 gentlemanly burglars awaiting their opportunity, the red 
 sparks of our cigars alone revealing the whereabouts of 
 each, individual 4 
 
 Harlbutt was in the middle of a Caffre st(*y, when an 
 exclamation from our look-out, the kce,.cr, directed our 
 attention to the mansion. The windows, as usual, from 
 one end to the other had suddenly become one blaze of 
 lurid splendour. To this succeeded the accustomed 
 shrieks and other sounds,- the horrible unearthly lau-h 
 and, what Harper had never noticed on former occasions,' 
 a faint wild wail, like that of a funeral chant, sun- by 
 many voices, at a distance so remote as only to be occa- 
 sionnally audible. 
 
 Prepared as he was for something unusual, Harlbutt 
 was struck dumb with genuine amazement at what he 
 heard and saw. 
 
 ^ "An orgy of demons in a country gentleman's house 
 in the nineteenth century! " he muttered, in a bewild- 
 ered way. 
 
 Remark and conjecture were soon abandoned, and we 
 continued to watch the glowing windows in silence-^ 
 
 as deen aft 
 — i- 
 
 — TTxxivii uxjvi ^icvuiiuu in the iiauated 
 
Mi 
 
 for sceinff 
 
 o 
 
 was occa- 
 / e pushed 
 se, on the 
 sh a small 
 h. Just 
 group of 
 y, the red 
 abouts of 
 
 when an 
 )ctcd our 
 nal, from 
 
 blaze of 
 ustomed 
 Ij laugh, 
 ccasions, 
 sung by 
 bo occa- 
 
 larlbutt 
 fvhat he 
 
 i house, 
 bewild- 
 
 and we 
 ence — 
 uuntcd 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 103 
 
 and drink with pleasure and without inconvenience and 
 which would be pleasant to yourself only that they dis- 
 agree, you may at once conclude that the fault is in the 
 stomach, that it does not possess the power which it ought 
 to do, that it wants assistance, and the sooner the assist- 
 ance is afforded the better. 
 
 A very short trial of the Carratraca Waters will 
 prove hoT^i^oon it will put the stomach in a condition to 
 perform with ease all the work which nature intended 
 for it. By its use you will soon be able to enjoy, in 
 moderation, whatever is agreeable to the taste, and un- 
 able to nanfe one individual article of food which dis- 
 agrees with or sits unpleasantly on the stomach. Never 
 forget that a small meal well digested affords more nour- 
 ishment to the system than a large one even of the same 
 food, when digested imperfectly. Let the dish be ever 
 so delicious, ever so enticing a variety offered, the bottle 
 ever so enchanting, never forget that temperance tends to 
 preserve health, and that health is the soul of enjoyment. 
 But should an impropriety be at any time, or ever so 
 often committed, by which the stomach becomes over- 
 loaded or disordered render it immediate aid by taking 
 plentifully of the Cafratraca Water, which will so 
 promptly assist in carrying off the burden thus imposed 
 upon it that all will soon be right again. 
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 1st, In Sea SinlfnPRa fho nap nf fha Wo*r>«« «,:il V. 
 
 — ,., \-,,.,. TT ttivij trill ut 
 
 found invaluable. 
 
Bf 
 
 ,L 
 
 104 THE STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 dwelling As usual, from twelve o'clock not a sound 
 was heard. But, as the distant village clock struck one, 
 the hoarse wild cry pealed forth. Out went the lights 
 like a single candle, and all was dark and still We 
 rose to go. 
 
 a Mr '" '^°'"'"°'' ""'■"'""' "°'''''°= ""■ " ^ ''<'" 
 
 We listened A lov, muffled sound, like a passing 
 DelJ, came faintly on our ears. 
 "The door is opening," said the quick-sighted keeper. 
 Opening it wag. And out issued a curious procession 
 A bier, or stretcher, covered with a pall, on which lay a 
 corpse in white, was carried by four female figures in 
 mourning-dresses. Behind these walked Sir George 
 Corselhs, his head bare, a lady leaning on his arm ; last 
 came another woman whom Harper recognised by the 
 bright moonlight as Morgan le Fay. She led, by a 
 Cham, an animal which, but for its head, which was a 
 dogs, would seem to be a lion, having the magnificent 
 name and tufted tail which characterise the monarch of 
 tlie forest. 
 
 Thisstiange pageant, made still more singular by the 
 intermittent moon-gleams, at first (somewhat to our em- 
 b ;rrAssment) took the direction of our ambush ; but, on 
 approaching the covert, it inclined to the right and 
 p.'ssed to the rear of the copse. It was at this time so 
 near, that. Harper ro^-ognised the body on the bier as 
 that of the fearful being wo had been accustomed to 
 speak of as "Mournivale Stone-Eyes." A sudden dash 
 of moonlight fell upon the scene. AnA rr,rnoln^ *u. *.__: 
 
 II 
 
 L 
 
i^^ BMmiiia ,ii« g »«»i> 
 
 ot a sound 
 struck one, 
 the lights 
 still. We 
 
 " I hear 
 a passing 
 
 id keeper, 
 recession, 
 lich lay a 
 igures in 
 George 
 rm; last 
 1 by the 
 3d, by a 
 h was a 
 ;nificcnt 
 aarch of I 
 
 • by the 
 )ur em- 
 but, on 
 ht, and 
 time 80 
 bior as 
 ined to 
 n dash 
 
 *^ • 
 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 106 
 
 2nd. Iq the prevention of Cholera, Dysentary, Fever 
 
 of tht'w r' ^" ''.^^"^^^^ <i-ases;tl/ continued use 
 found .IMw'' ""u^ ^^r.^^r.n^ in all things, will be 
 found all that can be desired. 
 
 3rd. Being Nature's own Remedy, if afflicted in any 
 way, give them a fair trial. ^ 
 
 tai!?. ^""f" "^"'^^ '" ''^'' ^^^°^^^^ ^^^t«^«^ they re- 
 tain the entire virtues, as long as kept. 
 
 the Wo. J^^'^^I^P^^^ibleinev. ^ instance to prevent 
 the Water becoming tinged by the barrel, and as to pre- 
 vent this as much as possible, all our packages require to 
 becharred, there may at times be found smaU particles of 
 coal floating m the water; we simply desire to say the 
 
 found '' '° '''' ""'^ '^''^'^ ''' '*' '''^"''' '^'"^^ '^'^ ^' 
 6th. The watevB can he taken at all times, and at all 
 reasons, and in any desired quantity, with perfect im- 
 punity, '' 
 
 7th. All Charitable Institutions, Hospitals, &c., sup- 
 P hcd with the Waters, at actual cost of frdgh and 
 charges. ° 
 
 8th. Parties wishing the waters shipped direct from 
 Ontarfo""°'' ''^'^''''' ^^''''^'' "^''^^ Plantagenet, 
 
 9th. All payments to made to us, or to our authorized 
 agents. 
 
 WINNING, HILL & WARE, Proprietors. 
 389 and 391 St. Paul Street, 
 
 Montreal, P.Q. 
 
 ll t IS 
 
106 
 
 THE STOay OF THE STONE-ETES. 
 
 bJe^^yface,and«.one-wMte„pene,e,a3deari,. 
 
 =«q»ios. Captain Haribatt a^d 1 1 ""«" ""^ 
 
 ■^-"te, reported that the party had It ^ ./' "" "'^^'^ 
 at a somewhat open part!![a .t "^ '''"°'^- 
 «een by uswithouf dilvet7 "l""' T'^ ■"'''" ■>« 
 ot burial. The gr.v™' T P'f"°S ""^ «'«»oni»l 
 
 the body wa„ifteS^ftl:e;:T„;r'°':,T^'""™ 
 
 oflong white scarfs deep in ' he 1 X TI^T''" 
 there was a pause • whpn «v. , -^^"^ ^"^e, 
 
 Cor,cllis,ltforgrie F v'ZnV' " ''""'' ^™'- 
 gra.e-Wdin| L do"^lirT '' ,"'° "''S'" "^ «»« 
 
 seemed to shri^mcinsttftilelv 7 "''"'' "" "'""^ 
 the beast's shag., mane Z^ f" T""^ '""^ ""»« i- 
 her, until his shl no" 'anTr "" '^^-'^ ^ow^ds 
 "boulder. As she^^d Wm tZ' "^"^ ""' °™' '>^' 
 made a sudden step orw"d T^ ""'""'''' <^°'^«"" 
 something-, blowif b'ltn ro^J" "!f 1 ^'"^ "' 
 rolled over and over intot: op^^^^l;::'' 't "f""" 
 
 ea %ht,y over^^'td IZ'^JO^---'- 
 bi8 lady, and the whole party leturL , .? "'''" '» 
 the servants ehattin.. gaC/nd !" '" "'" """>«'<"' ^ 
 by the stately preseree of .h. "PP""'"'^ only deterred 
 
 ^rom enJoyin^gVdr ^L^^r ""'"«'"' '''""'■ 
 
clearly as 
 
 ^ quietly 
 range ob- 
 
 the most 
 ', in a few 
 3 copse-— 
 might be , 
 remonial 
 ^sly pre- 
 ns, when 
 •y means 
 is done, 
 al from 
 
 of the 
 
 others 
 irms in 
 owards 
 i^er her 
 3rse]Jis 
 am of 
 nimaJ 
 latter 
 
 with 
 atter- 
 rm to 
 sion ; 
 3rred 
 fore, 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 776 Craig St., 
 
 71 r TTT Montreal, April 22nd, 1870 
 
 Messrs. Finning, Hill & Ware, 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 sen?!^" »f Camtraca Water you were kind enough to 
 send me, was duly received. 
 
 I have- prescribed Carratraea Water in several cases 
 
 al tr h: w f "■" r'"- ""^ --position oTtS 
 salts m the water, as shown by chemical analysis indi- 
 cates Us action to be laxative and alterative,^and tht 
 has been sufficiently proved in the cases in which I h^e 
 prescribed its use. ™ 
 
 The benefits to be derived from the Water I have no 
 doubt would be greater, were it to be used for drLun! 
 and bathing purposes immediately at the Springs. In 
 hat region also the well known salubrious character of 
 the a r of the Ottawa Valley would prove a powerf^ 
 auxiliary to rapid convalescence, from fevers, "^^ c^ 
 arly of the intermittent type. The 6ne trout Lcms 
 descending from the Laurantian Mountains on the norTh 
 side of the Ottawa, not far from the Springs, offer C^ 
 ng ezcursions to partial invalids, who' ridfthe hobbyrf 
 old Isaac Walton. To the followers of Linnaeus the 
 forest glades and bSggy small swamps" onThe" 
 side of the river present opportunities for rambler, where 
 "Full many » flo«r i. born to bl„,h „„.een 
 And waste its sweotness on the desert air." 
 I am &o.. 
 Yours truly, 
 (Signed,) JOHNBELL, M. A. M. D. 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 I ' 
 
108 
 
 THE 8T0RY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 do was to no e by measurement the exact spot of tliis 
 
 extraordinary .nterment ; after which we return dim 
 
 consulting as to the steps that should next be taken ' 
 
 A meeting was arranged for the following day at 
 
 Fairwoods, when various opinions were expressed the 
 
 lenr"Tr' '""^ '" ""= ^'f"' 'hat some'de'of rio 
 1 nee had been perpetrated, to which it was our obviou, 
 duty to mvite the attention of the authorities TWs 
 pomt be.ng conceded, who should take the in iat.ve 
 
 larklbrd^'r' "'r""""" '» «~e tre' 
 markable depositions which would have to be made 
 
 before any action could be taken bavin.. referenL^„ 
 charge of murder. After much discuss bn^ V 
 day thus ird"""^" " '"^^ ^^^^' ^- ^' '-"o- 
 
 On the evening of the succeeding day the steward 
 
 ^^s m; H lb ff-.r-''"' '''■ ^fncturesTodJ 
 ings , Mr. Harlbutt and his nenlipw Mr i? i ° 
 
 -o|hbouri„g mag^trate, ..^t^Z^^Z^: 
 
 The statement Harper had to make renderer.l,: 
 
 mystery s.iU „ p,„,„„„, „„, -"- ^u= 
 
 out Hd. , .,., ,__ J^l^^l^ 
 My, who was mounted on « beautiful Snani.b .r„i!:! 
 
 I 
 
ffair, that 
 one pre- 
 
 we could 
 
 t of this 
 
 ed home, 
 
 iken. 
 day at 
 
 ied : the 
 
 i of vio- 
 
 obvious 
 
 . This 
 
 tiative ? 
 
 ! the re- 
 
 ! made, 
 
 e to a 
 
 i^as re- 
 
 ast one 
 
 aining, 
 
 val of 
 
 Jehold. 
 
 eward 
 
 5 lodg- 
 
 WQ (a 
 
 esent. 
 
 d the 
 
 ofore. 
 
 me of 
 
 gone 
 
 y his 
 
 "UVt, 
 
 
 OAHRATRACA. jno 
 
 Je soussign^, m«edn, certifie avoir reoommanH-s i 
 
 (Sign^,) p. c. DUFKESNE M n 
 Montr&l, 29 Mars, 18C9. ■«'''»J>li!', M. D. 
 
 TRANStATION. 
 
 I, the undersigned, Medical Doctor, do hereby certifv 
 
 Ion. tr '^"""^'"'^ ^ ^ —ber of pelT ''j 
 
 among others many members of the clergy the use of 
 
 watertdif"' Tr " "«-«^- ';:„:: 
 
 waters and have nuch pleasure in statine that th^.V 
 effects are highly beneficial particularly in cas^, of Dv 
 a^rieXr^ r ' "''''"'' "' b^eingr:a 
 
 effectr7j;ua?a::r"'"'**"'''™''"«''*' 
 
 (Signed,) P.O. DUFKESNE, M.D. 
 Montreal, March 29th, 1889. 
 
 I 
 
no 
 
 1 
 
 THE STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 lately arrived in Sir George's stables. The groom who 
 attended them reported that they had paid more than 
 one visit to distant country residences, galloping across 
 the country, laughing Hkc children, and apparently in 
 the very higliest glee. Her ladyship was still veiled, 
 but she had spoken to each and all of the domestics in 
 the course of the day, making them some presents, and 
 ordering that they should have a little feast, to celebrate, 
 as she said, the most joyous event in her existence, 
 
 Of Mournivale Stone-Eyes not one word was said. It 
 would seem, however, that her terrible mysterious in- 
 fluence was no longer an object of dread. The servants 
 went where they pleased about the mansion. Harper 
 himself— in company with Eisa the Creole, and two or 
 three of the other domestics, who were ordered to rear- 
 range some furniture in the upper rooms— had visited 
 almost every apartment in the house, without detecting 
 any trace of her occupancy. Stone-Eyes was unques'^ 
 tionably gone I But, ivhither ? 
 
 Before the council broke up, it was settled that Squire 
 Harlbutt and Mr. Fanshawe should, next morning, wait 
 upon the proprietor of Mournivale, and commence'^opera- 
 tions by referring to the subject of the poisoned tart : 
 the agency of poison being, in M. . Harlbutt's mind, in- 
 fl(>p;irably associated with the midnight scene we had 
 witnessed. 
 
11 
 
 1 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 Ill 
 
 The fotlomng parties in the S>ominion 
 keep t/iese celebrated Carratraca Mine- 
 ral Waters constantly on hand and for 
 sale* 
 
 PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 
 
 L. W. ;VIiNER Abercorn. 
 
 William Oliver Bedford. 
 
 "• C^'BijON Boundary Line. 
 
 T. B. Trihay Coaticooke. 
 
 Stephen Davis .. 
 
 ^'^•J^J^owN Cowansville. 
 
 Robert Oliver « 
 
 IT. E. Gleason «. 
 
 J^^"'* Tyo '.Z.Dundee. 
 
 Joseph Landsbcjrg Frelighsburg. 
 
 G. R. Potter ». 
 
 James Tully Huntingdon. 
 
 N- M- Davy Iroquois. 
 
 Robert Lowery «« 
 
 '^'•^ELSH .".'..'."."..Lacolle. 
 
 W. II. Weldon u 
 
 Louis Asselin LennoxviUe. 
 
 Mrs. Lindsay Levis. 
 
 J. D. L. AMBR03SE Montreal. 
 
 H. J. Benallack , .. 
 
 j. B. Buss u 
 
 D. C. Crawford «< 
 
 Decicer&Co .. 
 
 Devins & Bolton \ i. 
 
 H. DucLos « 
 
 Dufresne & McGaritv «« 
 
 Evans, Mercer & Co :=........_ «♦ 
 
 Henry, Simpson & Co •< 
 
 
 

 112 THB STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 ^HE countenance of the big Dutch porter exhibited 
 ,(^,^ as much surprise as its natural construction permit- 
 ted, when the two magistrates requested, in tones slight- 
 ly peremptory, an audience of his master 
 
 After a moment's delay, they were invited to enter 
 and conducted to a magnificent library, in which sat Si; 
 George, alone. That gentleman received them with 
 trigid politeness, and so manifestly looked for an imme- 
 diate explanation of their visit, that Mr. Harlbutt at 
 once plunged into the matter. 
 
 Sir George raised his bushy eyebrows with apparently 
 unfeigned astonishment, but made no remark 
 
 " We are desirous, sir, of obtaining from you, if willing 
 to afford It, authority to contradict in your ^ame cer 
 Sng— "''''"''' '^''' '" '^' neighbourhood res- 
 
 "Well, gentlemen, 'respecting' ?" 
 
 "Respecting," resumed Mr. Harlbutt, cooly putting 
 on his spectacles, m order to scan the gcLeral's face more 
 
 :urs;i;^^^^^^~--^^-^-f;r 
 
 Corsellis gave a slight start. Seated with his back to 
 the light, It was not easy to detect any change of coun- 
 tenance It was clear, however, that he was agitated 
 
 Allow me to remind you. Sir George," said Mr 
 Fan^iawe, " that .e do not wish to press :;on you fny 
 question you are indisposed to answer j but Jnvt "^ 
 
CARRATRACA. 
 
 113 
 
 PROVINCE OF Q[)EQEC.^Contmufc/. 
 
 Kerry, Bros. & Crathern Montreal 
 
 Lymans, Clare & Co " 
 
 E. Muir «« 
 
 MUSSEN & Macfarlane " 
 
 Charles Reay «« 
 
 John Rogers & Co " 
 
 R. Spencer " 
 
 Wm. Carson «• 
 
 Clark & Sanborn ,„ •' 
 
 J. H. WiLISON " 
 
 J. Goulden " 
 
 H. A. Chillas Nicolet. 
 
 Louis Strite rhilipsburg. 
 
 Noah Sager, Pigeon Hill. 
 
 William Ahern Quebec. 
 
 Edmund Giroux " 
 
 J. B. Martel " 
 
 John MsLeod " 
 
 William Mills " 
 
 D, Noonan " 
 
 R. Rouleau " 
 
 Henry Cameron Sherbrooke. 
 
 Oliver Cameron " 
 
 W. Chamberlain «« 
 
 H. S. Hepburn , •< 
 
 R.L. Harvey «« 
 
 Peter Daviau Sorel. 
 
 R. Fish «« 
 
 Edward Mountain «« 
 
 II. C. Harris Stanbridge East. 
 
 Joseph Cartier St. Anncs. 
 
 Wm. Evans Stanstcad. 
 
 George Hogle St. Armand. 
 
 DACIER& Beaudoin St, Johns. 
 
 i I 
 
^sm'immm. 
 
 114 
 
 THE STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 „f h^""r"' ''''" "■'P'*'"'^ *^""<^"'^' «™Pi"g "><= "■■ms 
 of h„ cha-.r ,, though about to r«, but only leanin. 
 
 forward. ' Explain yourself. Are you aw Jof what 
 you are jjaying ?" 
 
 "Perfectly. You have a domestic in your service 
 feir (reorge, called ' Morgan le Fay.' " ' 
 
 " The cook. And then ?" 
 
 "Will you allow me to ask her a single question ?" 
 
 Corselhs, for reply, put his lips to a voice-conductor 
 in the wall ; 
 
 " Send Morgan here." 
 
 A minute of profound silence followed. Then Morjran 
 le Fay appeared at the door, fre..h and rosy, curtseyL. 
 and soothing the snow-white apron that rather adorned 
 than eonoealed her plump and portly form. Sir Geor» 
 I pomwd to her, locking at h.s visitors interrogatively 
 We are desirous to ask you one question, my good 
 woman," sa,d Mr. Harlbutt. " My friend and mtself 
 are magistrates. Don't agitate yourself, I beg U i, 
 «mply this; a poisoned ap_Good Heavens! She has 
 
 thi Mf k'' f "^ ""I ™~'"'^' "'"' *^' ^ ^"^denly 
 that Mr. Fanshawo who was nearest, barely caught her 
 
 as she reached the ground. Sir George rang Z 
 assistance. Some of the maids arrived, and the woman 
 recovered. vTuman 
 
 " I-I knew it would come. God help us I" gasped 
 the poor creature, as shn w«« hr.~ ^ ^^ 
 
 
CARRATRACA. 115 
 
 PROVINCE OF QUEBEC— Conimuea. 
 
 J. L. Wight " 
 
 Dr. P. Beaudoin •* 
 
 P. Slavin •' 
 
 E. Pi.AMONDON St. Regis. 
 
 Alfred Hunt Sutton. 
 
 James Shortis Thre^ Rivers. 
 
 T. G. Farmer « 
 
 E. S. Reynolds Waterloo. 
 
 C. S. "IIali " 
 
 Bourdon & Cyr West Farnham. 
 
 Richard Buck " 
 
 C. P. Tabor " 
 
 PROVINCE OF ONTARIO. 
 
 G. C. Borrodaile Belleville. 
 
 E. Chandler ^.... •• 
 
 Charteris & Webster « 
 
 E. H.Coleman " 
 
 James Hambly '« 
 
 J. C. Holden '< 
 
 R. Holden & Co «« 
 
 L. W. Yeomans " 
 
 W. H. Bowman Berlin, 
 
 Thomas Brodie Bowmanville. 
 
 Magurn & Bannister Brampton. 
 
 C. Stork « 
 
 Francis Ellis Brantford. 
 
 W. H. Straford .-; '• 
 
 R. Barker & Son Brighton. 
 
 Levi Snider «» 
 
 J. J. Cole Brockville. 
 
 W. M. FULFORD " 
 
 T. J. B. Harding «• 
 
 James Hawkes «• 
 
 George Houston & Co ** 
 
 E. Lawless «< 
 
 I i: 
 
mmmMf.. 
 
 IM 
 
 THE STORY OF THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 A gloomy silence follow^^l this scene Tf „ u , 
 >y Sir George himself ^^ ""^ ^"^^^'^ 
 
 what may I sar^;?^::^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^- ^^^^^' ^' 
 I will tell you, Sir Geome Corscllis " ...-j ,j 
 Harlbutt. .< It bas been openl/affi™"^ '' ^ .")* 
 bourhood, that an individual known r^. k """''" 
 ™ce your arrival, rcsiden T„ . '*''°' "'"^'• 
 
 suddenly disappear J Jl;" /"" ''"™'"«'l'i. ha, 
 warrant .uspiclL -o'niv • ""'""""''' "«* 
 
 poison. WhrilntToL 7"T' -dor.tand - of 
 -inu^ ago, you T^" Cn iZn""' ^ ''^'' 
 the presence of your servanT 1 fl'/ P"""" '" 
 fct words, on rccoveZ ' : t "'• ^"^ *"" 
 — nn.ostunfar::re\:if r^,-^^^^ 
 He paused. Sir George looked at 1,;!% 
 
 as though in n>cditati„n%,::r;:ri "'""■-»'' 
 
 There is truth in what you sJ r .1 
 will not conceal from you that T T- *^''*'^"'». I 
 interview a, spe«iily ^ c ur ^ 1::,^ t" f^ 
 ^■■ay can 1 satisfy the extraordinarv S " "'''" 
 
 you have apparently lent yourSriHh: I"'"" 
 ^hn.eu.hcrofn.yhousehoHdothey^^,':;;', 
 
 to f^r'yt^r." '" '"^ '^'^ ""--W-^ -* 
 
 \!iss Blatchford. WoU «^«*i 
 foliou -" ^'"' g^°*Jemen, be pleased to 
 
 T% i ^^r^ ap the wide staircase, .n^ .1, . 
 
 .0 
 
-1 
 
 )urg. 
 .Colborne. 
 
 •c 
 
 •Cornwall. 
 
 CARRATRACA. I 
 
 PROVINCE OF OUTAR\0.-Conn»uea. 
 
 ALLAN, Turner, & Co Brockville 
 
 V/Eo. L. Landon „ 
 
 John Jelly, Jr !..."....... «« 
 
 W. F. Barker... ^,. ^ 
 
 James H. Coombs .'.; . "' 
 
 Dr. jAs^ A. Rolls .'. .Z:.Chatham. 
 
 W. McCONNELL r- u 
 
 John McHugh 
 
 Donald Robertson 
 
 P. E. Adams 
 
 Mrs. Duncan 
 
 J. KiLGOUR&SON .' 
 
 A. Macfarlane & Co 
 
 R. McDonnell. [\'[ 
 
 J. B, McKenzie 
 
 George Pringle ] 
 
 Dr. Smith 
 
 w. w. hanes .......!!....!!....! 
 
 Joshua Sullivan 
 
 Jas. P. Lamb ^^ 
 
 o- M. Cameron , r~> 
 
 c i.r„r- " ^jananoque. 
 
 S. McCammin ,, 
 
 Thomas RusTON r- 
 
 F.Jordan Georgetown. 
 
 T-v„ Tr Croderich. 
 
 Dr. Hildreth f^ r, 
 
 t, ,, Crafton. 
 
 E. Harvey .i^ Co q^j^j j^ 
 
 T.BICKLE&SON IT • u * 
 
 . TT Hamilton. 
 
 A. Hamilton & Co 
 
 Holbrooke & Starke .'.'..".!!!!!! 
 
 Thomas Lawrence & Co 
 
 Moore, Lyman & Brierly 
 
 Angus Sutherland 
 
 John Winer & Co .."".".,......'. « 
 
 George Magurn „ 
 
 • Dickenson's LanHin" 
 
-■.«tBi=3*-.ijiijiyija¥ai^5S 
 
 118 
 
 THE STORY OP THE STONE-EYES. 
 
 portion of the house, until their conductor stopped at a 
 door which, softly opening at his touch, admitted them 
 to a kindfof veiled gallery, like an orchestra, from 
 which they could observe, unseen, the interior of one of 
 the rich saloons. 
 
 Two young ladies were there; one, engaged in some 
 delicate work that looked like a bride-veil for a fairy ; 
 the other, reading aloud. 
 
 " Lady Corsellis, Miss Blatchford," said Corsellis, in 
 a subdued tone, pointing to them in the order in which 
 they have been mentioned. 
 
 Squire Harlbutt almost started at the beauty he saw 
 before him. Desirde Lady •Corsellis (born do Ahna) 
 was a woman almost too fair to live. It seemed im- 
 possible that a being so perfect in loveliness, so delicately 
 touched and retouched— as if Nature had for once 
 resolved upon a masterpiece — should be subject to tlie 
 common needs and ills of poor mortality. A brightness 
 radiated from her, almost pleading indulgence for the 
 ever-recurring fancy that something more than human 
 resided in the shape called Lady Corsellis. 
 
 Of Miss Blatchford I will only say that, if fairies are 
 ever dark, she might have been their queen. Small and 
 slender as a child, the perfect symmetry of licr pro- 
 poitions, and the easy finished grace of every movement, 
 proved that she was, in all respects save stature, as near 
 the perfection of womanhood as the most fastidious 
 
 critic could desire. 
 
 Sir wurgc aiiowcci 
 
 ^,^A l.Id iriuifrtra twn niiniif.nR tn c.nn- 
 
 template the lovely picture before them, then onco moro 
 
opped at a 
 itted them 
 stra, from 
 r of one of 
 
 ed in some 
 'or a fairy ; 
 
 ^orscllis, in 
 r in which 
 
 ,uty he iSaw 
 do Ahna) 
 seemed im- 
 io delicately 
 d for once 
 )jcct to the 
 ^ })ri<j;ht!icss 
 nee for the 
 than human 
 
 if fairies are 
 Small and 
 of her pro- 
 r movement, 
 ure, as near 
 it fastidious 
 
 >utos to con- 
 n onoo more 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 119 
 
 « 
 
 . Lanark. 
 
 PROVINCE OF O^T mo. -Continued- 
 
 J. Carruthers & Co KiniTston. 
 
 Heath & Gun ^., 
 
 g. s. hobart ,. 
 
 Henry Skinner * „ 
 
 Robert WmiE '^ « 
 
 T. G. King „ 
 
 W. Pipe. ..!!........... « 
 
 CAPt. II. Swales 
 
 Caldwell & Pollock 
 
 McMillan & McDonald '.....;: Was t'cr. 
 
 Edmund Gregory Unds^y. 
 
 Thirkell&Perrin 
 
 Fitzgerald & Scandrett .".London. 
 
 B.A.Mitchell « 
 
 E. PLUMMER& Co „ 
 
 r. w. puddicombe (i 
 
 John Salter 
 
 William Saunders 
 
 B. Wregar 
 
 A. McMartin 
 
 taggart & Mills :;:::; ::::;::::Mou„t Brydgc. 
 
 Joshua Bowers Napancc. 
 
 Detlor & SCOIT ., 
 
 J. Huffman ., 
 
 Archibald McNeil « 
 
 John Sobey * " „ 
 
 Thomas Matchett. *..7..'.'.".'.".'.*.'.Omcmcc. 
 
 KOBINSOM & Co oshawa. 
 
 Browne & Scott ouawa. 
 
 J. Browne. „ 
 
 I). T. Browne & Co » 
 
 James Buchanan <i 
 
 il 
 
 4« 
 
 .Morrisburg. 
 
 J -.-V V tusxj.-Ti CC 1-fArVlELS. 
 
 O. LORENZ.. 
 
 a= 
 
120 
 
 niE STOBY OF TM STOm-^YES. . 
 
 Ills collcji.™ a« .l,„ ■ "^^ "••"•")"« s ear by 
 
 •■'X 1 1.0 ,.l,uo of burial ol-„f tl,„ 2 T "'*'"'"* 
 
 Tbo colour mounted to Co tl^K '*'"?'' ""''"■ • " 
 
 ,; ,: , " '" '" I'^i'Wvo „n unruffled demoanonr 
 «e'lievo me, sir, notliii,.. ,|,ort „,■,,• ^"'"""'"r- 
 
 <ii«c'io.sed,'.,„.[,i„::i, i it'Tc::™' '" ","""' '» "- 
 
 "■0 way or that invc»ti,„U 710 : , li'T 'T'" '" 
 •^"Ppo-^o, alone comneb vou .„ ! \ " '''"■''• ' 
 
 ■■'i'l in the di.,c„verr "^ "'"' ^ ""' "'>»'^"' 
 
 _;;non„,tbebcll. It w« .o^ered by TrocMLe 
 
 IL 
 
CARRATRACA. 
 
 121 
 
 . Paris. 
 .Pembrooke. 
 
 • PROVINCE OF OHT mo.^continued. 
 Geor(» Mortimer Ottawa 
 
 MuSGRt>VE& Bro 
 
 Parker & CArrLE 
 
 j. g. cormack 
 
 John Cunningham 
 
 T. & W.Murray ,' 
 
 Richard White .."...!.....! 
 
 Jam^s Allen 
 
 J. S. Coombs 
 
 r^R. J. D. Kellog & Co 
 
 F. Lank 
 
 Alexander McLaren 
 
 R. Williams 
 
 • Perth. 
 
 James Campbell Pclcrhoro. 
 
 J. W. GiLMOUR „ 
 
 KINCAID& Co «. 
 
 George Mitchell ]*' « 
 
 TuRVER & Jewett •« 
 
 Cafi. John Turver ., 
 
 A. W. Kemit „ 
 
 C.11A.GHT&C0 :...";z;"Iricton. 
 
 J. Mottashed ., 
 
 Brent & woodhouse ...:::.:;::: :::::::::port nope. 
 
 G. & J. MnCHELI. „ ' 
 
 Simpson & Reid •• 
 
 W00LHOUSE& Deyell. !...'... " 
 
 I>. Anderson 
 
 Heines & Co 
 
 George Bieks 
 
 H. A. Brouse, 
 
 Charles Gray ",/] 
 
 Keilty Bros ..,..., 
 
 T. K. Melville 
 
 KoBT. Ives 
 
 . Prcscott. 
 
'■ "'tl tM««i iiiSf T^iiiB.-,. , 
 
 THE STOKY OP THE STONE-EVES 
 
 ,Z !rM "'T "^ "'" ^"''°" P'^"?'" "'"' »P'"J''« '0 the 
 iciir of the ccdar-copsc." 
 
 .S.>ing to the magistrates to follow, Corscllifpn...cd 
 mto the garden, and, thenee by a small door into the 
 
 ou^ grounds The gardeners arriving at the san,c 
 nstant Corselljs led the party directly to the scene of 
 
 the „„d„,ght burial. Pointing to the sp^t were the 
 
 :::t?'"'''*^'^'''''"«'-'''-*'odhi: 
 
 A hole was quickly made. Fast flew the loose black 
 «uplsT,::*^- ^-""^' <"-^ «'o labourct , 
 " There is something here," he said 
 " ™l, man up with it. AVhy do you stop? ex 
 
 claunedCorselhs, impatiently stamping his foot. 
 
 The men carefully uncovered the buried " son.ethin- " 
 and handed to the surface the carca,se of an anhnalrf 
 the camne family but with a shaggy mane and crest 
 somethmg resemblmg those of a lion. Even in de-.th' 
 here wa» something curiously fierce and re,,ulsive i„' 
 the aspect of the hybrid beast. It had bcH,.„ stabbed 
 with some broad keen blade, absolutely through an,' 
 
 ; Gentlemen, arc you content?" asked Corsdli. 
 poniting at the animal as it hy at Ins feet -This 
 dog-hon acknowledged but two masters in the world- 
 myself, and my servant Morgan. Ho became d:u„..rous 
 Wc tned to poison him in vain. I killed bin. with n.y 
 3L.l.y crccsc, and here's his carcase. What more T 
 " liu uh.it bc/oiv him, sir?" said old Ilarlbutt. 
 
 Ii.f-,''9^'^»,\,L ^M . 
 
^mm 
 
 CARRATRACA. 
 
 123 
 
 PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.-C.«/,>,«.^. 
 
 E™&Mrx pr„,„,^ 
 
 JohnMatter scaforth. • 
 
 josEP„T:ooMBs Smith's Falls. 
 
 John Hourigan 
 
 D. TiERNEY ,, 
 
 Thos. Morton * „ 
 
 I D. F. Wood ........!...... 
 
 f^^^'PoTTs '^'Z'^:.ZZst\r]\ng. 
 
 KoBERT Guest. ^t. Marys. 
 
 John. Button 3^,,,^,,/^, 
 
 I. P. Brunell T„,,,„t^^ 
 
 John Coombe <« 
 
 E. Hooper & Co ,. 
 
 John Howarth,, ' « 
 
 Kerry, Crathern & Co •• 
 
 Lyman, Elliott & Co .. 
 
 Shapter&Owen « 
 
 II. J. Rose ..""......... ■< 
 
 A. II. Joseph „ 
 
 Queen's Hotel ,. 
 
 Luke Doyle ^Z^Trenton. 
 
 A. Parent „ 
 
 James Young & Co « 
 
 ;^;^'^^'^^ ::::::;;;z;:uxhricig.. 
 
 (.korgeRobson Wflithv 
 
 T.ioMAS Walker „], ^..'""y- 
 
 STARK & Revel .'.'."".'Z Woodstock. 
 
 Province of Nevr Brunswick. 
 
 Sutherland k Deblols Hathurst 
 
 James W. Street g^ Andrews. 
 
 JwUN CHALONEk c* t„l„ 
 
 C. P. Clarke . ^*- /.°^"- 
 
 i 
 
 ^.w'>"L.rt&...- _>**.;■' 
 
124 
 
 THE STORY OP THE STONE-ET 
 
 a 
 
 Cor^Usb,th.ip. His eye glared upon ih, 
 w.th a gleam hardly le^ feroeiou, than that o 
 dog.l,„„, „he„ alive; he looked round upon tmirde 
 then, in a fury, burst out : P"" t^iircle, 
 
 cas't o^H "!;«'. t""™' r^ ''='™ <'°™ "i* it ! Cast out - 
 cast OH! Quick, now! That's well i" 
 
 A spade had rested upon something else than mould 
 
 Jo^ff'^Tt"^' ''°"''"«'" »^'<' CorscUis, with a 
 
 woman. Now, altogether. The;^" ' ''" 
 
 The stiffened frame was laid unon th. 
 hand Thnn ^v P. Z? ^ ''^ '^""^^ «'"se at 
 
 apart. It was an artist's lay.fir-ure On ,1 7 
 appeared a hideous mask with wM 1 . ^'"' 
 
 constructed as to pass round d Z I' "'"' T 
 
 -. any direction, as though tr:^kt:rL!!: 
 And licrc," lie added in .. i ^7 , nothing less. 
 
 0^.0 oniie dee. Ji;;:g 'r^:t ^^;"«^^;^ 
 
 «.ys.mes of Mournivale. My darhng Jife „t 1 u 
 Cod I may now so o.pre» it-,^,,. 'aentllVil"'' 
 
 passed ,n the study of brain disease tha if r . 
 
 fearlessly and minutely foII„„ ,1,. .r.^!:'^. "^ ^ """"^^ 
 
 ' ^"^^"-i^ua no Would give 
 
CARRATRACA. 
 
 125 
 
 OVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK -r.«/W/. 
 Bros ^ 
 
 Province of Nova Scotia. 
 
 H. p. Burton „ ,.f 
 
 William Caldwell, Jr.;; .. 
 
 W.F. Eager „ 
 
 w.N.wooDiLL ;;...;;;;;;;;;;;;*" .. 
 
 J. H. wooLRicH .;;;;..; <« 
 
 Arrangements have now been completed to have these 
 Waters on sale, both in wood and bottles in all the 
 oregoing places in the Dominion and also in several of 
 he leading cities of the United States. All persons 
 
 B?/FMrJlT.r^' ""^"'^ ''' '''^'^''^^"^ to CHOLERA, 
 DYSENTERY, FLUX, CHILLS AND FEVER 
 
 AGUE, AND ALL MALARIOUS DISEASES will 
 
 wIt^R^" "' ')"• ''CARRATRACA MINERAL 
 vvAiJi^Kfe, a certam preventative and cure 
 
 The Waters (fresh daily) from the Springs, can be 
 had at al times from J. B. BUSS, Place d'Armes and 
 all Retail Druggists in the City. All orders for nuun- 
 tity addressed to us will meet with prompt attention 
 
 WINNING, HILL & WARE, 
 
 38D St. Paul St., 
 
 Montreal. 
 
 
// 
 
 Im 
 
 II 
 
 ce of 
 'elusior 
 
 L 
 
 THE STOBT OF THE SrONE-ETEj 
 
 me, as adapted to my wife's peculiar case, there 
 hope, nay, almost certainty, of ultimate restor 
 portion of his system involved an absolute indil 
 the delusion under which she laboured. Her aelusinn 
 was, that she had passed into the custody of a fiTd „ 
 whose fiery palace she was condemned to pass two ho« 
 mght y, amidst the noise and riot of fearful beings who 
 were ,nv,s.ble to her. For months this hallucdn 
 was humoured. At length, certain symptoms whC 
 were from t.me to time carefully reported to the p„ 
 feasor, induced him to authorise a daring cxperiL'n 
 We raoM to kilt the fiend. It was donerwrnot 
 only killed, but the more deeply to impress the ul"d 
 occurrence on my poor patient's mind, hurled, her p™ 
 «eeu,.r with all the pageant that the resources of my 
 
 my poor Lion, on whose temper I could no longer de- 
 
 "As touching the poison, Mr. Harlbutt," continued 
 Sir George, ■ I conclude that my cook's on,,terna«on 
 arose from the fear that some apple-tart intended for . 
 destruction of Lion, had been productive oftLw; 
 e sewhere-a circumstance I should deeply depJe Tt 
 
 and that ts disappearance created no small anxiet, 
 When r add that onr own viands were occasionally .a' 
 oned with homcoopathio pi^parations, I think /have 
 touched urK,n every thing you could desire to know f 
 not, give me the pleasure of y„„r company on any futu" 
 "'" """ ^^"'^""^^■"'^«M^"^t»ons,a« well us make 
 
ice of 
 'elusion 
 fiend, in 
 70 hours 
 ags who 
 sination 
 I which 
 ;he pro- 
 riment, 
 we not 
 ipposed 
 er pro- 
 of my 
 e time 
 ^er de- 
 
 Tm BTOBV OF THK .TONE-EVES. 137 
 
 , to mj- wife, md her nurse, friend ■in.t „ • 
 , <!" «-demo„_Miss Bl.,el,ford " '" 
 
 i Bl^..cl.ford marri..C,pt;l'''7' ;'"■■■',' "■"«' -^'- 
 believe tr resiH,. ,1 , ''^' '""^ coutinued I 
 
 tinued 
 nation 
 'or the 
 schief 
 . At 
 ssinjr, 
 cioty. 
 ' sea- 
 Iiave 
 . If 
 iture 
 nuke 
 
 THE END. 
 
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