a _misfortune?_ explain yourself, my poor
fellow."--"Readily," replied Donilla, "if that will help to heal
me."--He then explained minutely the circumstances of the case,
concluding thus:--"Not but what I am, after all, remarkably indebted to
Juana, for had she only called the eleven thousand Virgins to her
assistance, their zeal would undoubtedly have divided my body amongst
them; since, then, my wife has such friends in heaven; I shall
henceforth be careful how I enrage them again."--Perez Donilla kept to
his resolution, and the _Three Maries_, whom, without doubt, the
intelligent reader has recognised through their disguise, lived for many
years to rejoice in the blessed effects of a severe, but merited
infliction. M.L.B.

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RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.

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THEATRICAL BILL.

At a play acted in 1511, on the Feast of St. Margaret, the following
disbursements were made as the charges of the exhibition:--

_L. s. d._
To musicians, for which, however,
they were bound to
perform three nights 0 5 6
For players, in bread and ale 0 3 1
For decorations, dresses, and
play-books 1 0 0
To John Hobbard, priest, and
author of the piece 0 2 8
For the place in which the
representation was held 0 1 0
For furniture 0 1 4
For fish and bread 0 0 4
For painting three phantoms
and devils 0 0 6
And for four chickens for the
hero 0 0 4

H. B. A.

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ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND.

The United States ship, Vincennes, visited the island of Juan Fernandez,
off the coast of Chili, a few months since, and remained there three
days. There were two Yankees and six Otaheitans on the island. The
former had formed a settlement for the purpose of supplying whale-ships
with water, poultry, and vegetables. The soil is said to be
astonishingly fertile.

_--New York Shipping List, 1366._

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THE LETTER H.

_From an old History of England._

"Not superstitiously I speak, but H his letter still
Hath been observed ominous to England's good or ill."

Humber the Hun, wit