"Ha!" he cried, "you spurn me, then, because I am a mechanic.  Well, be it so! though the time will come, Isabel Sawtelle," he added, and nothing could exceed his looks at this moment--"when you will bitterly remember the cooper you now so cruelly cast off?  Farewell!" ________________ Years rolled on.  Isabel Sawtelle married a miserable aristocrat, who recently died of delirium tremens.  Her father failed, and is now a raving maniac, and wants to bite little children.  All her brothers (except one) were sent to the penitentiary for burglary, and her mother peddles clams that are stolen for her by little George, her only son that has his freedom.  Isabel's sister Bianca rides an immoral spotted horse in the circus, her husband having long since been hanged for murdering his own uncle on his mother's side.  Thus we see that it is always best to marry a mechanic. ____________________ ROBERTO THE ROVER:--A TALE OF SEA AND SHORE. _______________ CHAPTER I.--FRANCE. Our story opens in the early part of the year 17--.  France was rocking wildly from centre to circumference.  The arch despot and unscrupulous man, Richard the III., was trembling like an aspen leaf upon his throne.  He had been successful, through the valuable aid of Richelieu and Sir. Wm. Donn, in destroying the Orleans Dysentery, but still he trembled!  O'Mulligan, the snake-eater of Ireland, and Schnappsgoot of Holland, a retired dealer in gin and sardines, had united their forces--some nineteen men and a brace of bull pups in all--and were overtly at work, their object being to oust the tyrant.  O'Mulligan was a young man between fifty-three years of age and was chiefly distinguished for being the son of his aunt on his great grandfather's side.  Schnappsgoot was a man of liberal education, having passed three weeks at Oberlin College.  He was a man of great hardihood, also, and would frequently read an entire column of "railway matters" in the "Cleveland Herald" without shrieking with agony. _______________ CHAPTER II.--THE KING. The tyrant Richard the III. (late Mr. Gloster) sat upon his throne in the Palace d' St. Cloud.  He was dressed in his best clothes, and gorgeous trappings surrounded him everywhere.  Courtiers, in glittering and golden armor, stood ready at his beck.  He sat moodily for a while, when suddenly his sword flashed from its silver scabbard, and he shouted-- "Slaves, some wine, ho!" The words had scarcely escaped his lips ere a bucket of champagne and a hoe were placed before him. As the king raised the bucket to his lips, a deep voice near by, proceeding from the mouth of the noble Count Staghisnibs, cried--"Drink hearty, old feller." "Reports traveling on lightning-wings, whisper of strange goings on and cuttings up throughout this kingdom.  Knowest thou aught of these things, most noble Hellitysplit?" and the king drew from the upper pocket of his gold-faced vest a paper of John Anderson's solace and proceeded to take a chaw.