Chamber's Home Book Or Pocket Miscellany Author:Robert Chambers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pose, was because you were with us, for 1 e cannot be acquainted with yon.' The joyous glance of the faithful Albert assnred Selina that the years of care and... more » sorrow which had passed over her head since last they met, had neither banished her from his recollection, nor divorced her from his love. 'But our fortunes are different at present,' sighed she to herself: 'we parted in anger; I was in the wrong, and it is now his turn to indulge in proud and scornful feelings.' Proud and scornful feelings never formed any part of Albert's character: his affections were warm and kindly; and though his love partook not of the nature of romance, it was not on that account the less enduring and sincere. Our tale having already exceeded the prescribed limits, we must disappoint the gentle reader of the details of the interesting scene which took place on the following day between the worthy Albert Orlando Fisher and Selina Stanfleld. Suffice it to say, that the latter, instead of envying the destiny of either pirate's or bandit's bride, considered herself as one of the happiest among women, when, at the next civic festival, she presided in St. Andrew's Hall as mayoress of Norwich. TIGER-HUNTING. The hunting of the tiger is fully as dangerous and exciting a sport as that of the wild bnffalo, and is usually conducted in India on a magnificent scale?dogs, horses, elephants, with the huntsmen in howdahs on their backs, and attendants of various kinds to beat the bushes, all composing a large and powerful cavalcade. In these grand hunting-matches, the elephants often do important service, for, loaded as they are with armed men, they will rush into the jungle upon the wounded tiger, and transfix him to the earth with their tusks. Occasionally, to relieve the tedinm of existence at t...« less