the lower shank of a sheep's leg. To her, however, found in such a place, it could be no other than a human one, and had belonged to one of the unfortunate sufferers in the carnage of the Château; taking it into my hand, and applauding the humanity that had influenced her intention; I was explaining the real nature of the bone, when we were rejoined by our party. It was handed from one to the other, each giving an opinion as to what animal it belonged; and it would in an instant have been hurled into the air by the lieutenant - the majority having agreed with me in opinion - had not the captain, who had just come up, decided to the contrary, and in an instant stamped it with a character that rendered it an invaluable relick! His opinion, founded on experience - for he had entered on the career of arms - was infallible; and it was certainly "the lower arm bone of a drum-boy!" Never did pope or cardinal, monk or friar, abbot or priest, contest the possession of an ancient relick of a saintly bone, with more zeal than was this poor sheep's shank amongst our party: - Maria sighed for it, to consign it to mother