temptuously pitched out to be treated according to the popular pleasure, and all kinds of tools went to work to rase the hated toll-house out of existence.

There was a wild chaos for a time of pushing and shouting, levering, ramming, and hammering, sparks, splinters, and dust. The task was almost completed. Most of the rioters were gathering together the smashed wood to finish off with a bonfire-the moon had just risen-when in the comparative quiet the sound of horses' feet and a measured but rapid human tramp, tramp, tramp, were heard upon the road. Up galloped a magistrate and an officer in undress uniform. The infantry who followed them soon came swinging up at the double. "Halt!" sang out the officer, in a somewhat anxious voice, and his men, save for their hard breathing, were instantly as still as statues. The rioters, on the other hand, greeted them with a yell of execration. magistrate then addressed his countrymen in their own language, entreating them to disperse without

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bloodshed; but a hot shower of every kind of missile was his answer.

"I shall read the Act, and the soldiers must do their duty," he called out in a clear voice in Welsh, adding in an undertone in English, "Fire over their heads, Major, and scare them."

Whilst the proclamation to disperse was being made, the rioters still rained in their sticks and stones, but when, after a pause, "Make ready” was heard, a few turned tail, more fled to any shelter they could find at "Present," and panic seized most at the sound of "Fire!" When, however, the fire was found to have done no harm, a howling rush back was made, and a volley in earnest had to be given, followed by a charge.

A score or two of men and a few women were wounded, and sundry prisoners were taken : amongst them little Jollyman, who, without having the slightest idea that he was doing anything so awful, had by 1 Geo. I. c. 5, made himself a felon without benefit of clergy. If you only go to

look at a riot, remember, you may be punished as a rioter.

Little Jollyman's punishment was not very severe -only a few hours in a lock-up; and when he came out the Welsh people made such a fuss over him and his big brother-Rebeccaite, old Chuny, that I am afraid the majesty of the Law had not vindicated itself in his case,

CHAPTER IX.

BARNEY AND THE BEARS.

'HE bears in Jollyman's were brown bears,

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which Barney, who was more of a Cockney than Smith, always introduced to the public in this

way :

"Sing'lar to relate, ladies and gentlemen, the bear has as many toes as us, but it don't go a-springin' on 'em like a dandy or a dancin' master -it puts its foot flat to the ground. The bear has likewise teeth like ourn-its cheek teeth are not sharp like those of other beasts of prey. Consekently, it can live on both hanimal and wegetable food. But if he do once git a taste for beef and mutton, it's a case for the sheep and cattle round about-nothin' else will satisfy him. Poultry and ants and all kind o'small hanimals the bear will

gobble, and it is uncommon fond o' honey. It will climb up trees after honey, and with its strong claws it grubs up roots. Twigs and berries and fruits, too, the bear is fond on, and it is also mentioned in Scriptur'. David killed, we are told, a lion and a bear before he let fly at the giant, and two she-bears walked into forty-two of the kids that were pokin' fun at the prophet. But these aint the bears that is mentioned in Scriptur'. These are brown bears, which is to be met withsometimes horfener than is agreeable-in the forests of Hurup and Hasier. The biggest is a pretty fine speciment, but whoppers weighin' full a hundred stun-butcher's stun of 8 lb.-have frequently been shot. Of the great American grisly, that can crack a man a deal heasier than you could crack a walnut, ladies and gentlemen, without the crackers, we never had a speciment; and our magnificent polar, which, when on its hind legs, could put its nose pretty nigh four yards above its toes, paid the debt o' natur', howin' to the unnat'ral succumstinces in