. Harper's young people . inted in his arms. It was the work of sometime to revive her; and as Mr. Thompson gathered up herparasol and fan, which she had dropped in her alarm, andassisted her faltering steps homeward, he made a solemnvow never again to be a mouse, since the inoffensive ani-mal carried such terror to the feminine heart. TOM FAIRWEATHERAT ADEN. BY LIEUTENANT E. W. STURDY, next port made by the ves-sel upon which Tom Fair-weather was so activeand interested a passen-ger was Aden. Tom hadbeen told that Aden wascalled the Gibraltar ofthe East, so that he wasprepared for frown
. Harper's young people . inted in his arms. It was the work of sometime to revive her; and as Mr. Thompson gathered up herparasol and fan, which she had dropped in her alarm, andassisted her faltering steps homeward, he made a solemnvow never again to be a mouse, since the inoffensive ani-mal carried such terror to the feminine heart. TOM FAIRWEATHERAT ADEN. BY LIEUTENANT E. W. STURDY, next port made by the ves-sel upon which Tom Fair-weather was so activeand interested a passen-ger was Aden. Tom hadbeen told that Aden wascalled the Gibraltar ofthe East, so that he wasprepared for frowningrocks and natural for-tresses when his fathersship steamed into the he was not preparedfor anything quite soblack and barren as greet-ed him. Lieutenant Jol-lytarre was leaning withhim over the ships never saw such black hills, said Tom. Theylook as though they had just been thrown up by an earth-quake. And so they were, only longer ago than you and Icould count. You see their forms show all the violence. MAY 15, 1883. HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. 437 of the convulsion which created them—heaps of burnedfragments, cliffs divided by deep fissures, and sharp peaksshooting upward. Perhaps the fires are still raging with-in their sides. I shouldnt like to live here. I should be afraid of anoutburst any day. That has not happened for a long time. I supposethe earths fury is gradually dying out. But take it allin all, tlic other nickname by which Aden is known suitsit the best; it is quite often called the coal-hole of tin-East. And I dont know anything it looks more like, quothTom. • Yes, it is a good name, and for other reasons. Agreat quantity of coal is stored here, belonging chiefly tosteam-ship companies. Aden drives a nourishing tradefrom the fact that it is a free port. It has almost ruinedMocha by taking away a great deal of the coffee tradefrom there. It exports also honey, gum. feathers, dyes,pearls, and ivory. Of course it imports but little besidescoal, win
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