8. Mr. Brown. 9. The Army. 10. Distant View of the Capital. 11. Foreign Visitors. 12. Monument to late Duke.

     BADEN.

   A SCENE AT BADEN.

   THE RIGHT OF SEARCH.

   I.

   JONES’S DOG HAVING COME UPON A SENTINEL, AND STRUCK, PERHAPS, BY HIS SMALL SIZE COMPARED WITH THE SENTINELS HE IS USED TO, COMMENCES TO SAY, “BOW!—WOW!—WOW!—WEW—U—U!”

   THE SOLDIER, OFFENDED BY THESE REMARKS, PRESENTS FOR THE ANIMAL’S CONSIDERATION, THE POINT OF HIS BAYONET.

       II.

       JONES EXPOSTULATES, WITH THAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH WHICH IS THE BIRTHRIGHT OF EVERY ENGLISHMAN.

       III.

       BUT OBTAINING NO SATISFACTION, CALLS ON THE MISERABLE FOREIGNER TO “COME ON.”

       IV.

       FIRST (AND LAST) ROUND. —THE SOLDIER DID “COME ON,” FROWNING. JONES RECEIVED HIM, SMILING. —THE SOLDIER MADE PLAY WITH HIS MUSKET: JONES PUT IN HIS LEFT. THEY CLOSED, AND A TERRIFIC STRUGGLE ENSUED, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH JONES GOT HIS ADVERSARY’S “NOB” INTO “CHANCERY.”

       V.

       THE SOLDIER, AT THIS POINT, UNABLE TO USE HIS ARMS, TOOK TO HIS LEGS, AND ADMINISTERED A SERIES OF KICKS UPON THE SHINS OF JONES, WHO IN RETURN SEIZED HIM, LIFTED HIM IN THE AIR, AND THREW HIM.

       VI.

       THEN, CONSIDERING THAT JUSTICE AND THE HONOUR OF HIS COUNTRY WERE ALIKE SATISFIED, HE RETIRED, LEAVING THE BODY OF HIS ANTAGONIST ON THE FIELD.

       VII.

       SHOWS THE “BODY,” ON DISCOVERING THAT LIFE WAS NOT EXTINCT, ATTEMPTING TO RISE.

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