Cupid is a treacherous urchin, With his darts each bosom searching; If we've false and cruel found him, On the bumper's brim we'll drown him, When we mingle heart and soul O'er the flowing, foaming bowl. "Pate, you'll be singing another song to-morrow, when----" Fortune, whom we've trusted blindly, She may deal with us unkindly; At her freaks we're lightly laughing, As the bright wine we are quaffing, When we mingle heart and soul O'er the flowing, foaming bowl. "You are as crazy as a bedlamite!" exclaimed Toney, "When you come to your senses, you will consider this the greatest misfortune that----" Glorious rainbows, shine forever O'er misfortune's clouds, and never Fade away from a good fellow In his glasses growing mellow, When we mingle heart and soul O'er the flowing, foaming bowl. "Well, go ahead!" said Toney, turning on his heels. "Go ahead, if you think there is no hereafter----" Give the night to song and laughter,-- Care may come, perchance, hereafter; We will linger till the morning Smileth with a rosy warning, When we'll mingle heart and soul O'er a flowing, parting bowl. Pate continued to conduct himself in this outrageous manner, notwithstanding the repeated and earnest remonstrances of his friends, until the morning on which the vessel was to sail, when the Professor found him, with a rueful countenance, sitting on the stool of repentance. They proceeded to the office of the hotel to settle their bills. In Brazil they have an imaginary coin, corresponding to the mill of our decimal currency, in which, when making out a bill, they compute the amount, putting before the sum charged the identical mark which is prefixed to the Federal dollar, so that a stranger, whose debit is ten dollars, sees on the bill $10.000. The Professor was aware of this mode of computation, but M. T. Pate was not. The latter was therefore utterly astounded when his bill was handed to him, and he saw charged on it $55.000. Pate turned deadly pale when he perceived the heavy sum he was expected to pay; and Toney and the Professor took him aside and told him that, while so dreadfully intoxicated, he had broken and destroyed much valuable property in the hotel, and that the damage was charged in the bill. Pate was now shocked at the consequences of his indiscretion, and exclaimed,-- "Oh, that a man should be such a fool!" "As to put an enemy in his mouth to steal away his brains," said the Professor. "What am I to do?" cried Pate. "Pay the bill," said Toney. "I cannot. It is impossible for me to pay so large a sum of money," said Pate. "I am sorry for that," said the Professor. "In Brazil there is imprisonment for debt." "What?" exclaimed Pate, in extreme terror.