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waiting the issue with tear and trembling. The ambassador holds up one of his fingers to Geordy; Geordy holds up two of his. The ambassador holds up three; Geordy clinches his first and looks stern. The ambassador then takes an orange from his pocket, and holds it up; Geordy takes a piece of barley cake from his pocket, and holds that up. After which, the ambassador bows to him, and retires to he other professors, who anxiously enquired his opinion of their brother. "He is a per- fect miracle,” says the ambassador, "I would not give him for the wealth of the Indies!”--- "Well,” says the professors, “to descend to particulars.”---“Why,” said the ambassador, "I first held up one finger, denoting that there is one God; he held up two, signi- fying that there are the Father and Son; I held up three, meaning the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; he clinched his fist to say that these three are one. I then took out an orange, signifying the goodness of God, who gives his creatures not only the necessaries, but the luxuries of life; upon which the wonderful man presented a piece of bread, showing that it was the staff of life, and preferable to every luxury.” "The professors were glad that matters had I turned out so well; so having got quit of the ambassador, they next got Geordy, to bAar his version of the signs. “Well,
