time had borne him a grudge, saw him doing this, and immediately ran to the Cadi to tell him that Casen had dug up a treasure in his garden. It needed nothing more to inflame the Cadi’s covetous- ness, and the miser might say as much as he liked that he had not found anything, but had only meant to bury his slippers, it was no good. The Cadi had already counted on taking off a good handful of gold, and the unhappy Casen only obtained his liberty by the expenditure of a large sum of money. Our miserly friend, rendered desperate, cursing the slippers with all his might, went and flung them into an aqueduct a good distance from the town. This time, at least, he believed he was certain to hear nothing more of them. But it was not to be so; the slippers lodged in the pipe, thus preventing the free passage of the water. The superintendent of the aqueduct hastened to search into the matter, and finding Casen’s slippers, he brought them to the governor, saying the miser had caused all the mischief. The unlucky owner of the old slippers was again put in prison, and fined more heavily than before. The Cadi, after justice had been done, scrupulously returned him his precious property. Then Casen, in order once for all to free himself from the disasters they had brought on him, determined to burn them, and as they were thoroughly soaked through, he exposed them to the rays of the sun on the terrace of his house so that they might dry. Fortune, however, had not yet ended all the injuries she wished to inflict on him, but had kept the most cruel for the last. A dog, owned by some one living in the neighbour- hood, caught sight of them, rushed down from his master’s house to the place where they lay, snatched one up in its mouth, and while playing with it let it fall right on the head of a stout woman who was going by. In consequence of the fright and blow, the woman fell ill, the husband complained to the Cadi, and Casen was condemned to pay a heavy fine for the harm done. Thereupon Casen went away, and soon, carrying the slippers in his hand, he came again before the Cadi. ‘Here,’ said he, with a fury that made the judge laugh, ‘ here is the fatal origin of all my troubles: these slippers have reduced me to beggary. I entreat you to have the goodness to pass an edict, so that the evils these ill-omened things will certainly continue to cause may no longer be imputed to me. The Cadi could not refuse, and an edict was passed ; but, as you have seen, only when Casen had learnt at an enormous expense how great is the danger of wearing one pair of slippers too long. A SURGICAL SHOEMAKER. FEW years ago, a Mrs. Mary Ann Boasley kept £4 a shoemaker’s shop at Brompton and Chatham. Her handbill, .after proclaiming the excellency of her stock, concluded as follows :— ‘Surgery performed upon old boots and shoes, by adding feet, making good the legs, binding the broken, healing the wounded, altering the constitu- tion, and supporting the body with new soles. No cure, no pay. Advice gratis in the most desperate eases,’ MEDITERRANEAN. Tur following words can be made out of the letters of the word Mediterranean :— Ate deer meat nine remain and dent meet nearer raid ant dint mane neater red aim deem mend need rind at dram mad Ran remit are dream mat rain Tan air dart met rite teem a dam mate ‘ream team an Eat mar ride tar arm ear mite rim tear am err mare rate time aid ermine metre rant ten “art edit made ranter train anna(coin)errand mandate rein tide Anne enter mete rat tire Dane endear meed ram tier dean . It martin rear tear date ire meant rein-deer tare dirt inn mitre read tin drear in mere reader trim dame inner mine render tie darn inter mire rent trade dear irate main rend tinder drain idea Name rid tender dare indent near retain tainted deter Man nitre retainer tanner dine manner net reed tired determine mean neat retard tread THE SHEPHERD'S DOG. GENTLEMAN sold a large flock of sheep to a dealer which the latterwas not able to drive home alone. The seller, however, told him that he had averyintelligent dog, which he would send toassist him, and that when he reached the end of his journey, about thirty miles off, he had only to feed the dog and tell him to go home. The dog received his orders, and set off with the flock and the drover ; but he was absent so many days that his master began to have serious alarm about him, when one morning, to his great surprise, he found his dog returned with a very large flock of sheep, including the whole that he had lately sold. The fact turned out to be, that the drover was so pleased with the dog that he resolved to steal him, and locked him up till the time when he was to leave the country. The dog made various attempts to escape, and one evening he succeeded. Whether the dog had guessed the drover’s intention, and supposed that the sheep were also stolen, it is difficult to say; but by his cunduct it looked so, for he went to the field, collected the sheep, and drove them all back to his own master.