Masonic Reminiscences.

MASONIC REMINISCENCES .

BY inarofiXog , P . M ., L . 50 , Dublin . ( Continuedfrom p . C 58 . ) CHAPTER XII . —MRS . PHIL IS DOMICILED IN HER FUTURE HOME . — THE EARLY HISTORY OP MAURICE DE COURCY , THE HIGHWAYMAN . —MARY BUTLER , & C , & c .

IN the last chapter we somewhat ungallantly flew off at a tangent , and left a young bride to suffer , in lonely silence the pangs of a first parting from one , who , whatever he might have been to the rest of the world , was to her a most indulgent father . The bridegroom had but little tendency to the " melting mood , " and

was by no means suited to the gentle office of ministering , in the soothing accents of sympathetic tenderness , to beauty in tears ; he was quite unskilled in the intellectual operation of " plucking from the memory a rooted sorrow , " no matter how little beneath the surface , the roof of woe might have penetrated , and as far as Phil was concerned , she might have met the fate of the grief stricken Niobe , and be carved into a monumental

ornament for the family Mausoleum of the Simpsons . Fortunately , however , other cares and duties required her attention , and her grief gradually evaporated in the bustle of preparation for her journeyto her future home . The distance was but short , yet it took nearly as much time to get her under-weigh as if she were about to make a voyage to Canton , or become a settler in the far west , beyond the broad Atlantic .

Her paraphernalia , if not very valuable , were very varied ; all sorts and sizes of boxes , bandboxes , and bijouterie cases—the presents of many a slighted or faithless beau , seemed interminable ; the live stock , too , was considerable ; dogs , cats , birds of many lands , claimed her protecting care ; among the first were , of course , our old friends , Sappho and Tasso , and among the latter a pair of ear-piercing paroquets , which seemed in a state

of perpetual exasperation , with every thing and every body , and from morn to night , sent forth the most execrable sounds . The Colonel had a strong presentiment that she would be accompanied by a very heterogeneous , and by no means agreeable retinue , and accordingly laid his plans to get rid of the most troublesome and mischievous part of the live stockas summarilyand as quietlas possible . This

, , y deed of generalship he entrusted to an old pensioner , rejoicing in the euphonious name of Phelim , who had accompanied his Colonel from the wars , in which he had lost an arm and a leg , and had now become a sort of Majoi-donio at the Hall ; he was a most faithful and trustworthy servant , and exercised a sort of good-natured supervision over every department but the wine cellar , a becoming consciousness of his own

weakness on this point , induced him to decline the responsibility of the duty . When the long expected train arrived , Phelim was in attendance , to see