THE SHIPWRECK. 287

. Trach. “Justso, my dear. That’s Poseidon’s way.
He’s very particular. Give ne a bad piece of ‘goods,
and he’s sure to throw it up.”

Amp. “You're an impudent rascal’!

Trach. “ And so Labrax tried to carry you off.
Well, it is exactly what I knew he would do. After
this I’ll let my hair grow, and set up fora prophet.” _

Amp. “But if you knew it, my friend, why didn’t
you take care, youn master and you, that he did not
run off ?”

Trach. “ But how?”

‘Amp. “ Ask how, and he a lover? Why, watch
the girl night and day. Fine care he has taken of
her, indeed!”

Trach, “Well, -well; this watching is not so easy
as you think. You see, the thief knows the honest
man, but the honest man doesn’t know the thief.
But where is Palestra? I should like to see her.”

Amp. “You will find her in the temple. She is
crying, poor thing.”

Trach. “ But why?”

Amp. “Because she has lost the casket that had
her tokens in it. I mean the tokens by which her
parents were to recognise her. You-know she was
free-born. She had put the casket into’a little trunk,
and now it has gone to the bottom.”

_ Trach. “1 dare say some one has dived down and
recovered it. Anyhow, I will go in and try to cheer
her up.” Pas fs

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