journey homeward, he would furnish him handsomely for a foot traveler. By this assistance, Norgate arrived in his own country.
AN ARCHITECT'S STRATAGEM.
William Winde, a Dutch architect who visited
England in the reign of Charles II., erected, among
other works, Buckingham House in St. James'
Park, for the Duke of Bucks. He had nearly finished
this edifice, but the payment was most sadly
in arrears. Accordingly Winde enticed the Duke
one day to mount upon the leads, to enjoy the grand
prospect. When there, he coolly locked the trapdoor
and threw the key over the parapet, addressing
his astounded patron, "I am a ruined man, and
unless I have your word of honor that the debts
shall be paid, I will instantly throw myself over."
"And what is to become of me?" asked the Duke.
"You shall go along with me!" returned the desperate
architect. This prospect of affairs speedily drew
from the Duke the wished-for promise, and the trapdoor
was opened by a workman below, who was a
party in the plot.
THE FREEDOM OF THE TIMES IN THE REIGN OF
CHARLES II.
The freedom allowed in social intercourse is well
illustrated by a sketch in the account of Graham.
William Wissing, a Dutch painter who succeeded
Sir Peter Lely in fashionable portrait painting in
