running to the next house, bribed a neighbour's child by the promise of a broad-brimmed straw hat, to shade his complexion from the sun, to run for Doctor Pedrillo. Pedro soon arrived, and was evidently more puzzled respecting his deportment than the case of his patient. Sundry "nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles," and sundry eloquent glances of his bright black eyes, were covertly bestowed upon his _fair_ cousin; anon, with ludicrous solemnity, he felt the pulse of Perez, shook his head, and, in short, imitated with inimitable exactness all the technical airs and graces of a regular graduate of Salamanca.--"Cousin," cried he at length, with a sly look at Juana, "I pity your plight--from my soul I do; but your case is, I am grieved to say, desperate, unless I am informed of the _cause_ of these monstrous weals, bruises, slashes, and chafings, in order that my prescription, may--"--"The _cause_ of them," said Perez, almost frightened to death, "is, having to my cost a _saint_ of a wife."--"How! that a _misfortune?_ explain yourself, my poor fellow."--"Readily," replied Donilla, "if that will help to heal me."--He then explained minutely the circumstances of the case, concluding thus:--"Not but what I am, after all, remarkably indebted to Juana, for had she only called the eleven thousand Virgins to her assistance, their zeal would undoubtedly have divided my body amongst them; since, then, my wife has such friends in heaven; I shall henceforth be careful how I enrage them again."--Perez Donilla kept to his resolution, and the _Three Maries_, whom, without doubt, the intelligent reader has recognised through their disguise, lived for many years to rejoice in the blessed effects of a severe, but merited infliction. M.L.B. * * * * * RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS. * * * * * THEATRICAL BILL. At a play acted in 1511, on the Feast of St. Margaret, the following disbursements were made as the charges of the exhibition:-- _£. s. d._ To musicians, for which, however, they were bound to perform three nights 0 5 6 For players, in bread and ale 0 3 1 For decorations, dresses, and play-books 1 0 0 To John Hobbard, priest, and author of the piece 0 2 8 For the place in which the representation was held 0 1 0 For furniture 0 1 4 For fish and bread 0 0 4 For painting three phantoms and devils 0 0 6 And for four chickens for the hero 0 0 4 H. B. A. * * * * * ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND.