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...nstruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to him? What is your Senator Martin saying and doing? What is Webb about?...

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...nclosing a draft of two hundred dollars, was duly received. I have paid it on the judg- ment, and herewith you have the receipt. I do not wish to say ... ...1858. A. CAMPBELL, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—In 1856 you gave me authority to draw on you for any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. I see clearly that s... ...he re- mainder, 658, we win by just two votes. This shows the whole field, on the basis of the election of 1856. Whether, since then, any Buchanan, or... ...was floating about several ages before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born— indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. In the year 1776 ... ...r any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself. As t... ...fter be introduced; and that the children of indentured servants should be born 82 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five free; and nothing was s... ...n I came here. I supposed it was merely to do something toward raising the flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet. I have said nothing... ... my whole life. Besides this, our friends there had provided a magnificent flag of the country. They had arranged it so that I was given the honor of ... ...of that proceeding I was a very humbled instrument. I had not provided the flag; I had not made the arrangements for elevating it to its place; I had ...

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... its mighty suburbs not less than four millions of inhabitants at the very least, as we resolutely maintain after reviewing all that has been written on that much vexed theme, and very probably half as many more. Republican Rome had her prerogative tribe; the earth has its prerogative city; and that city was Rome....

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...ast, as we resolutely maintain after review- ing all that has been written on that much vexed theme, and very probably half as many more. Republican R... ...the final adjudication, and in some re- spects, we may add, so erroneously—on a future occasion. 4 The Cæsars ished and expired together. The illimit... ...arous reguli, the obscure vassals of his sceptre, whose homage was offered on the lowest step of his throne, and scarcely known to him but as objects ... ...British trident, or should even offer a transient outrage to her sovereign flag. Such a tempestas in matulâ might raise a brief uproar in his little n... ...t emperor’s last marriage with Livia, he adopted the two sons whom she had borne to her divorced husband. These two noblemen, who stood in no degree o... ...iberius pronounced her very senators to be homines ad sermtutem natos, men born to be slaves.” 72 The Cæsars Roman descent.* And the consequences we... ... was Lucius Aurelius Verus, the son of Cejonius Commodus. These names were borne also by the son; but, after his adoption into the Ælian family, he wa... ...d some, even amongst the most humane of Chris- tian princes, have erred as flagrantly as Ælius Verus. George IV ., we have understood, was generally e... ...oor states and under despotic governments, this evil does not exist), that flagrant infirmity of our own country, for which no statesman has devised a...

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...Excerpt: The wolf and the lamb. Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf?s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: ?Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.? ?Indeed,? bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, ?I was not then bor...

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....89 THE H UNTER AND THE H ORSEMAN ........................89 THE K ING’S S ON AND THE P AINTED L ION .............90 THE C AT AND V ENUS ........... ...AMEL AND THE A RAB .................................91 THE M ILLER, H IS S ON, AND T HEIR A SS ................91 THE C ROW AND THE S HEEP ......... ... meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to... ...e.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.” Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.” “No, good sir,” rep... ...ND THE F ULLER A CHARCOAL BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with hi... ...yourself the trouble,” said the Bull; “I knew that way long before you were born.” The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep A STAG asked a Sheep to lend him... ... Thief sat down beside him and talked with him. As the conversation began to flag, the Thief yawned terribly and at the same time howled like a wolf. ... ... own hurt. The Wolf and the Fox AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow wolves in strength, s... ... The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck ...

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...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its ca...

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...nia State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 1 A Gra... ...inces, was swelling in all its arter- ies with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their gird... ...es, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still s... ... house ever since his childhood, for it was the house in which his father and grandfather, old established princely mer- chants of the princely city o... ...e, — in vain did he try to give him a taste for glory, — al- though Cornelius, to gratify his godfather, did embark with De Ruyter upon “The Seven Pro... ...atalogues of the times. In the beginning of the year 1672, Cornelius de Witt came to Dort for three months, to live at his old family mansion; for not... ... began to be tortured by the pangs of envy, by that slow fever which creeps over the heart and changes it into a nest of vipers, each devouring the ot... ...hall inform the reader in our next chapter. Chapter 10 The Jailer’s Daughter ON THE SAME EVENING Gryphus, as he brought the prisoner his mess, slipped... ...ve saved the vessel, did not suspect that the adversary had possessed himself of its precious contents, Gryphus hurled the softened bulb with all his ...

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............ 4 ANTWERP TO BOOM ....................................................................................................................... 5 ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL...................................................................................................... 9 THE ROYAL SPORT NAUTIQUE............................................................................

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................................. 4 ANTWERP TO BOOM ........................................................................................................ .......................... 13 A T MAUBEUGE ................................................................................................................. ........... 29 SAMBRE AND OISE CANAL ......................................................................................................... 40 ORIGNY ... ...ood. But for my part I have not yet learned the trick to that perfection; I am not yet able to dissemble the warmth of my sentiments to- wards a reade... ...the matter, into noisome dungeons: if his papers are in order, he is suffered to go his way indeed, but not until he has been humiliated by a general ... ...tched on a drum, and beaten night after night round the streets of every garrison town in Europe. And up the heights of Alma and Spicheren, and wherev... ...e canals. There should be books in the cabin, and tobacco-jars, and some old Bur- gundy as red as a November sunset and as odorous as a violet in Apri... ...yes, with which she interrogated mine, were vacant of sense. It depends on what you call seeing, whether you might not call her blind. Perhaps she had... ...ome souls in Creil upon the Oise would find themselves none the worse either here or hereafter. I cannot help wondering, as I transcribe these notes, ...

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...d to celebrate the fact that Josie Herrick had arrived at that time of her life when she was to wear her hair high and her gowns long, and to have a ?day? of her own quite distinct from that of her mother....

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...rom that of her mother. Ross Wilbur presented himself at the Herrick house on Pacific Avenue much too early upon the afternoon of Miss Herrick’s tea. ... ...g staccato chatter of feminine voices in the par- lors and reception-rooms on either side of the hallway. A single high hat in the room that had been ... ... with her mother and two of the other girls, and allowed them to chaff him on his forlornness. “Maybe I seem at my ease,” said Ross Wilbur to them, “b... .... It was Wilbur, and yet not Wilbur. In two minutes he had been, in a way, born again. The only traces of his former self were the patent-leather boot... .... She was, as Captain Kitchell had announced, a bark, and, to judge by her flag, evidently Norwegian. “How she rolls!” muttered Wilbur. “That’s what I... ... she ain’t ought to roll thata way; her ballast’d steady her.” “What’s the flags on that boom aft—one’s red and white and square-shaped, and the other... ...nd used as lashings to tie the canvas around the corpse. The red and white flags (the distress signals) were still bound on the halyards. “Leave ‘em o... ...im some Bradamante, some mythical Brunhilde, some Valkyrie of the legends, born out of season, lost and unfamiliar in this end-of-the-century time. He... ...hing over two stiff fingers. “Moran,” said Wilbur, “you ought to have been born a man.” “At all events, mate,” she said—”at all events, I’m not a girl...

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...ARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .....................................................................................................................................................................

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.............................................. 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV ...... 32 SPRING .............. ................................................................. 50 AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM ................................................................. ...................................................................... 94 ODE ON ST CECILIA’S DAY .......................................................... ...................................................... 94 ODE ON ST CECILIA’S DAY .......................................................................... ...OP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE E E E E Alexander Pope was born in Lombard Street, London, on the 21st of May 1688—the year of the Rev... ..., although he did not reach great profi- ciency. The prodigy has yet to be born who combines the characters of a great painter and a great poet. About... ...to please them at any rate. Methinks, as on the one hand, no single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest; so, on the o... ...; Discharge that rage on more provoking crimes, Nor fear a dearth in these flagitious times. 530 No pardon vile obscenity should f... ...rough with many a scar, Dragg’d in the dust! his arms hang idly round, His flag inverted trails along the ground! Our youth, all liveried o’er with fo...

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... hear distinctly what a speaker says, and consequently it is important that as profound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subj...

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... as profound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in fa... ...y between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked... ...ck races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so... ...lature to fight the measure. I do not propose dwelling longer at this time on this subject. When Judge Trumbull, our other Senator in Congress, re- tu... ... form did not perceive all the bearings of the alterations. He was hastily borne into the debate, and it does not follow that because there was someth... ...nning,” we will say. Does Douglas say that is a forgery? Let him say it to-day, and we will have a subsequent examination upon this subject. Trumbull ... ...they plant the institution all over the nation, here and wherever else our flag waves, and we acquiesce in it, there will be peace. But let me ask Jud... ...hat there seems to be but little room for his escape. But then it is to be borne in mind that Lanphier had less interest in the object of that forgery... ...e occasionally advanced upon the Declaration of Independence I am entirely borne out by the sentiments advanced by our old Whig leader, Henry Clay, an...

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... body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 133 The Chase — First Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515 134 The Chase — Second ... ...nd Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522 135 The Chase — Third Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 Epilogue . . . . . . . ... ...e is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.” Psalms. “In that day, the Lord withhis sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Levia... ...s or arpens of land.” Holland’s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of th... ... monstrous size. * * This came towards us, open mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” Tooke’s Lucian. ... ...of one whale.” Ibid. “History of Life and Death. ” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.” King Henry. “Very like a whal... ...ale did me confine. With speed he flew to my relief, As on a radiant dolphin borne; Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone The face of my Deliverer God. ... ...n case he invited me, I would comply or otherwise. I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presby terian Church. How the... ... infant Indian in his talons. With loud lament the parents saw their child borne out of sight over the wide waters. They resolved to follow in the sam...

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...right things, the dessert and glasses and napery of the dinner we had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. ?He was mystifying!? I said, and then: ?How well he did it!? It isn?t quite the thing I should have expected him, of all people, to do well.?...

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...d, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. “He was mystifying!” I s... ...Even the facts of his death, which ended my doubts forever, throw no light on that. That much the reader must judge for himself. I forget now what cha... ...plunged sud- denly. “I have” he said, “a preoccupation—” “I know,” he went on, after a pause that he devoted to the study of his cigar ash, “I have be... ...st children scarcely attain by seven or eight. His mother died when he was born, and he was under the less vigilant and authoritative care of a nurs- ... ...r all his brightness he found life a little grey and dull I think. And one day he wandered. He could not recall the particular neglect that enabled hi... ...s world. And everything was beautiful there … Wallace mused before he went on telling me. “Y ou see,” he said, with the doubtful inflection of a man w... ...other stories were all the things that had happened to me since ever I was born … . “It was wonderful to me, because the pages of that book were not p... ...would think if I told them suddenly I was in love with a girl who would be born a couple of hundred years or so hence, and worried about the politics ... ...would be a matter of bright uniforms and shouting charges and triumphs and flags and bands—in a time when half the world drew its food supply from reg...

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...eon by William Makepeace Thackeray Writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” I. ON THE DISINTERMENT OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. MY DEAR ——,—It is no easy ta... ...deceiving bodies, and turned out stark naked as they were before they were born— what a strange startling sight shall we see, and what a pretty figure... ...ancy,—but we must not fancy such a scene at all, which would be an outrage on pub- lic decency. Should we be any better than our neigh- bors? No, cert... ...ow in fashion for four thousand years. And so, my dear, history is written on fig-leaves. Would you have anything further? O fie! Yes, four thousand y... ...illis chez toutes les nations;” in English, “under the riddled rags of the flags that have been culled or plucked” (like roses or buttercups) “in all ... ...ificent imperial mantle brought from Paris, the four corners of which were borne by Generals Bertrand and Gourgaud, Baron Las Cases and M. Marchand. A... ... assumed the usual signs of deep mourn- ing: their yards crossed and their flags lowered. Two French merchantmen, ‘Bonne Amie’ and ‘Indien, ’ which ha... ...le. ’ The forts of the town, and the houses of the consuls, had also their flags half-mast high. “On arriving at the entrance of the town, the troops ... ...o the right-about, before the wretched misbe- gotten imperial heraldry was born, that was to prove so disastrous to the father of it. It has always be...

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...– THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE T HE STORY I HAVE TO TELL is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contem... ... are the contemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they... ...rks the race alone among Polynesians; terms of ceremony fly thick as oaths on board a ship; commoners my-lord each other when they meet – and urchins ... ... to the conclu- sion that he is hereditary and absolute. Hereditary he is; born of a great family, he must always be a man of mark; but yet his office... ...ak sense) is held on good behaviour. Compare the case of a Highland chief: born one of the great ones of his clan, he was sometimes appointed its chie... ...an summon parliaments; it does not follow they will assemble. If he be too flagrantly disobeyed, he can go to war. But so he could before, when he was... ... like the scales of a balance, one down, the other up. Tamasese raised his flag (Jan. 28th, 1886) in Leulumoenga, chief place of his own province of A... ...cross the Mulivai, and “had the coolness” (German expression) to hoist his flag in Apia. He was asked “in the most polite manner,” says the same accou... ...riot on the Emperor’s birthday. The rest shall be silence; only it must be borne in view that Tamasese all the while continued to strengthen himself i...

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...e strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all are sleeping on the hill. One passed in a fever, One was burned in a mine, One was kille... ...e toiling for children and wife- All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill. Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith, The tender heart,... ...he simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?— All, all are sleeping on the hill. One died in shameful child-birth, One of a thwarted love, One ... ...enge himself On the monstrous ogre Life. Y ou enter the room that’s being born; And then you must live work out your soul, Of the cross-current in l... ...ien boys it was Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand? There when the flags were red and white In the breeze and “Bucky” Estil Was firing the can... ...assed and one by one Death claimed them all in some hideous form And I was borne along by dreams Of God’s particular grace for me, And I began to writ... ... my little girl, who was sitting in the front seat— My little girl who was born blind! After that, all is blackness. Aner Clute OVER and over they use... ...l superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle’s Opera House. “The honor of the flag must be upheld,” he said, “Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe... ...e greatest power in Europe.” And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he waved As he spoke. And I went to the war in spite of my father, And...

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...TA A A A ATE TE TE TE TE E E E E ELE LE LE LE LECTR CTR CTR CTR CTRO O O O ON N N N NI I I I IC C C C C C C C C CL L L L LA A A A AS S S S SS S S S SI... ...P P P PU U U U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ...French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Thomas Carlyle such a victim? Universal F... ...ost before the sun goes down. This is that famed Martial law, with its Red Flag, its ‘Drapeau Rouge:’ in virtue of which Mayor Bailly, or any Mayor, h... ...rs ago, prophetic be- fore the Minister’s Hotel at Paris; and said, it was borne on his mind that he one day was to be Minister, and laughed. (Dumont,... ...oo, with ‘screams from the Opposition benches,’ and ‘the honourable Member borne out in hysterics?’ To a Children’s Parliament would I gladly consent;... ...d more outspoken, cynical; yet sunny as ever. A light melodious creature; ‘born, ’ as he shall yet say with bitter tears, ‘to write verses;’ light Apo... ...e name of the High- est, under the eye of the Highest; imagination herself flag- ging under the reality; and all noblest Ceremony as yet not grown cer... ...rand, another than that of Jacob, is on all the Eighty- three departmental flags of France; which wave or flap, with such thankfulness as needs. Towar...

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...e sat helpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and tr... ...s of History, presents itself under two most diverse aspects; all of black on the one side, all of bright on the other. Whatsoever is cruel in the pan... ...nly beyond the limits. For Nature, as green as she looks, rests everywhere on dread foundations, were we farther down; and Pan, to whose music the Nym... ...rom Legislative, from the individual Patriot, flame monitory on all walls. Flags of Danger to Fatherland wave at the Hotel-de-Ville; on the Pont Neuf—... ..., of all ages, ranks, sexes, fly- ing at once across the Loire,’ with wail borne far on the winds: and, in brief, for years coming, such a suite of sc... ..., strong Danton, whatsoever man is strong! Read- ers can judge whether the Flag of Country in Danger flapped soothing or distractively on the souls of... ...emories; but the authors were not punished: nay we saw Jourdan Coupe-tete, borne on men’s shoul- ders, like a copper Portent, ‘traversing the cities o... ...old man and his daughter are clasped to bloody bosoms, with hot tears, and borne home in triumph of Vive la Nation, the killers refusing even money! D... ...ory, of the Cercle So- cial. Sharp was the death-hail rattling round one’s Flag-of- truce, on that Bastille day: but it was soft to such wreck- age of...

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...ht of the land, is, perhaps, the last professional recognition of the land on the part of a sailor. It is the technical, as distinguished from the sen... ...means of cross-bearings which fix the place of the first tiny pencil-cross on the white expanse of the track-chart, where the ship’s position at noon ... ...f her passage. And there may be sixty, eighty, any number of these crosses on the ship’s track from land to land. The greatest number in my experi- en... ...a footstool; the quiet, watchful care of the elderly, gentle woman who had borne him five children, and had not, per- haps, lived with him more than f... ...age to the productions of our brain and to the work of our hands. A man is born to serve his time on this earth, and there is something fine in the se... ...NG AND RACING of yachts has developed a class of fore-and-aft sailors, men born and bred to the sea, fishing in winter and yachting in summer; men to ... ... a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’clock as if in honour of our arrival. It would have been a... ...f war-scarred three-deckers, and shredded out in mere sport the bunting of flags hallowed in the traditions of honour and glory. He is a good friend a... ... straw and crossed by a yard like a knitting-needle, flying the signals of flag and balloon, watches over a set of heavy dock- gates. Mast-heads and f...

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...peace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is... ...ocument or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, t... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DE... ...ope) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that your flag is hoisted on board one of the grandest of 4 Notes on a Journey from ... ...ntry church, and on going on deck we found an awning raised, a desk with a flag flung over it close to the compass, and the ship’s company and passeng... ... considerably under the value of a farthing,—streamed out. “They know that flag, sir,” said the good-natured old tar, quite solemnly, in the evening a... ...ishops, the big-wigged marshals, the shovel-hat- ted abbes which they have borne in their time—the human mind becomes affected in no ordinary degree. ... ... soul to good?Y ou go about Warwickshire, and fancy that from merely being born and wandering in those sweet sunny plains and fresh wood- lands Shaksp... ...imate and appearance of Attica must have had in enno- bling those who were born there: yonder dirty, swindling, ragged blackguards, lolling over greas...

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......................................... 46 In the School of —— is a tablet on which are inscribed, in gilt .............................................. .................................................................... 66 POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES....................................................... .................................................................... 67 POEMS on the NAMING of PLACES. ..................................................... ...lter mounted him; he was the third Which he had mounted on that glorious day. Joy sparkeled in the prancing Courser’s eyes; The horse and horsem... ..., “Till now Such sight was never seen by living eyes: Three leaps have borne him from this lofty brow, Down to the very fountain where he lies.”... ...tain in the dell; And they, who do make mention of the same, From this day forth, shall call it Hart-leap Well. And, gallant brute! to make thy ... ...birds their morning carols sing, And he, perhaps, for aught we know, was born Not half a furlong from that self-same spring. But now here’s neit... .... Fair are the woods, and beauteous is the spot, The vale where he was born: the Church-yard hangs Upon a slope above the village school, And ... ...rits busy to do and undo: At remembrance whereof my blood sometimes will flag. —Then, light-hearted Boys, to the top of the Crag! And I’ll build...

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... written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the editor of it. Bob Redforth (he?s my cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn?t because he couldn?t. He has no idea of being an editor....

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.... I am the editor of it. Bob Redforth (he’s my cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn’t becaus... ...ounce our nuptials. It flew right up when it went off, and turned over. Next day, Lieut. Col. Robin Redforth was united, with similar ceremonies, to A... ...s en tered into, between the colonel and myself, that we would cut them out on the following Wednesday when walking two and two. Under the desperate ... ...ith a paper knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on ... ... black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on the eventful and appointed day. He had drawn out the plan of attack on... ...ne, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on the eventful and appointed day. He had drawn out the plan of attack on a piece of paper, which was r... ... were to conquer or die. The enemy appeared, approached. Waving his black flag, the colonel attacked. Confusion ensued. Anxiously I awaited my sign... ...e the measles, and will have recovered from the whooping cough before being born.’ On hearing such good news, everybody cried out ‘Hip, hip, hip, hur... ...t through, and seeing Boldheart slashing a path towards him, hauled down his flag himself, gave up his sword “Holiday Romance” Charles Dickens 21 t...

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..................................... 116 TO ALEX. SMITH, THE ‘GLASGOW POET,’ ON HIS SONNET TO ‘FAME’............... 117 GRANDFATHER BRIDGEMAN.............. ..........................................................................185 ON THE DANGER OF WAR ......................................................... ................................................................. 323 A FAITH ON TRIAL ..................................................................... ...And heard a thousand briny songs. 21 Her mission with her manly crew, Her flag unfurl’d, her title told, She took the Old World to the New, And broug... ...g over sunset snows, Half twilight violet shade, half crimson sheen. T win-born are both in beauteousness, most fair In all that glads the eye and cha... ...wakes emotions in the mind And sows sweet sympathies for human kind. T win-born, albeit their seasons are apart, They bloom together in the thoughtful... ...Forever painting to our museful sight, How lowlihead and loveliness unite. Born from the first blind yearning of the earth T o be a mother and give ha... ...black to white, Like parson into lawny bishop. IX The elms and yellow reed-flags in the sun, Look on quite grave:—the sunlight flecks his side; And li... ... entered it Serjeant-Major,”—and now he commands a salute, And carries the flag of old England! Heigh! see him lift foes on his foot! XIII ‘—An offic...