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THE FRIENDS ANSWER, REFUSING BOTH

 ACCEPTANCE AND BOND.

 MY DEAR MoNTAGUE-Yo our letter has given me great pleasure You know how highly always thought of friendship; 1t is, as you say, divine thing. Indeed, to my mind so divine, that it should never, be mix ed Up with money.

 Nevertheless, however we may differ on this little point, it is impossible for me to speak as feel on your letter. IL is charm lngly written. There is beauty, iervor Tn your sentiments about friendship that con- vince me you have felt it's treasures, and are therein, though poor in the worlds esteem, rich as an nemperor. My friend, cultivate this style oi writing 1 am certain money is to be made by 1t.

 agree with you to the opinion of the world-lt Is a gloiioHs world-and glorious, indeed are some the people The friend ship that has so long subsisted between US, must make me acknowledge this Your simle of friend and iddleis perfect and touching. What, indeed, are they both made for fl not to be played upoa2

 Your picture of the unison of souls, when both the souls hands are to the same bill, is beautiful, affecting. have read the passage over twenty times. l. has neither one word too many or too few The picture is per feet; cabinet gem to be locked up in one'a heart. The unison of souls is q charming phrase; but, unhappily my friend, 1t is toe fine, of too subtle an essence to be acknoWl edged and respected by the coarse men 0 the world. The sheriff, for instance, cares not for souls, only inasmueh us they are il bodies. Now, unhappily, so far us we know disenbodled souls do not draw or accept otherwise, what felicity would il be 10 me to meet and mingle with your spirit on five shilling stamp!

 confess, too, that it is tempting to thiHl, that, by the alchemy of few ink-drops, could put a hundred and fifty gold piece. batting lhe diseount) in the purse ol my friend Alas! if the ceremony began and ended wtl ink, would spend BlaeI. Sea upon you You should have my name ten thousand time multiplied, with good wish in every stroke hair thick.

 That you have eschewed so many acquant anee, all happy with cIeaa-nlbbed pens to ac cept for yoa, and all in the fulness of you friendship selected me, is compliment, nay more, il isan evidence of your affection whici

 I-i hope 10 deserve.

 You know that !, as yourself an apt tc

 be imaginative. Inaginations, however, llS not always together. You say, that by ac coping the bill, orr souls would be united My dear friend, for three months, shoal : feel ourselves growing together, every aa' strengthening the process. should feel a if breathed for two, nay ] should hafdl, turn i'll my bed unincumbered. l should, | my fancy, become double man, with onl single strength 10 bear about my added load You know the story of Sinbad and the Q : man of the Mouniain2 That is fine aieger. though not understood. The truth is, ttl : Old man drew bill, and Sinbad --guileles | tar,--accepled it.

 ' You speak of the roses that wreathe abou the stamp. They are, indeed, very pretty

 But, somehow, my eye fell upon the lhislee which doubt noi, the benevolence of He ; Majesty causes to be embossed there thistles clearly significant that the man who accept a bill, save for his own debt, is ali ass. am, on the contrary,

 Your aAcctonate friend, JoHN ReHARps. P. 5. can't come on Monday, and don like pate de foie gras Why in the name C mercy, should geese be treated as you des !. cribe, They never accept other geese's billi 