Mr.Lurton's Courtship CHAPTER XXXV.

Unbarred CHAPTER XXXVI.

Isabel CHAPTER XXXVII.

The Last WORDS AFTERWARDS ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK BEARD The Superior Being Mr.Minorkey and the Fat Gentleman Plausaby sells Lots "By George! He! he! he!" Mrs.Plausaby The Inhabitant A Pinch of Snuff Mrs.Ferret One Savage Blow full in the Face "What on Airth's the Matter ?" His Unselfish Love found a Melancholy Recompense The Editor of "The Windmill" "Git up and Foller!" THE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLE.
WORDS BEFOREHAND.
Metropolisville is nothing but a memory now.

If Jonah's gourd had not been a little too much used already, it would serve an excellent turn just here in the way of an apt figure of speech illustrating the growth, the wilting, and the withering of Metropolisville.