O'SHEEVO.--Oh! Lovell'll do very well by-and-by; those duties of yours are a little unpalatable at first; but by working at them they become easier, and an effort beyond that will make you do them quite involuntarily. PIPECLAY.--There's encouragement for you, Lovell; the Major thinks you'll do, and I've great hopes of you myself. LOVELL.--You're very good, I'm sure. Military discussions interest me much; I'm only anxious to hear you go on. PIPECLAY.--It's getting late now; another time we'll resume the subject. O'SHEEVO.--Yes, in a day or two. It's very good to rub up a little military stuff occasionally, but it is bad taste to be always talking shop. We've had a good dose for to-night, and to-morrow we must have a little light, easy conversation. Touch Oldham's arm, will you, Pipeclay, and let's jog. (_Pipeclay shakes Oldham._) OLDHAM.--Damned forward young humbugs! what the devil do they know about it? eh? what, going to mizzle? O'SHEEVO.--Yes, the jug's empty, and I'm telling Lovell he must come again, and he'll like it better, and we'll make a soldier of him at last. OLDHAM.--Ah! I'm afraid you'll do no good with any of them nowadays; he should have been in the 107th. Well, good-night, Lovell; we'll do what we can. O'SHEEVO--PIPECLAY.--Good-night, Lovell; sleep upon it. (_Exeunt Pipeclay, O'Sheevo, and Oldham. Lovell remains to light a cigar._) LOVELL.--Good-night. Well, I don't know but I might have spent the evening just as profitably if I'd gone to Jones's room, as he asked me. These old fellows are devilish close. However, patience, as the adjutant says. (_Exit._) HUDSON'S BAY.[S] [S] _Hudson's Bay; or, Snow-Shoe Journeys, Boat and Canoe Travelling Excursions, and Every-day Life in the Wilds of North America, during Six Years' Residence in the Territories of the Honourable Hudson's Bay Company._ With Illustrations. By ROBERT MICHAEL BALLANTYNE. Edinburgh, 1847. Printed for Private Circulation.