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'What was her name? 'The Airdale, he replied glibly. 'Belonga to Liverpool fine biga ship. We bound to Pam in New Caledonia to load chroma ore, and run ashore on dark night. Ship break up very quick' and then he spun off the rest of his yarn, and a very plausible one it was, too.

"You did, sir?" echoed the Antiquary, in answer to his concise information. "And pray, what may be your business with a post-chaise? Is this splendid equipage this biga, as I may call it to serve for an introduction to a quadriga or a curriculum?" "Really, sir," replied the young soldier, "if it be necessary to give you such a specific explanation, I am going to Fairport on a little business."

You come effery day. Gooda place, ha, Samp?" "A very good place, Bat," quietly answered Sampey, who tried hard to appear indifferent as he fumbled nervously in his pocket. "Signor Castellani, he biga mon, reecha mon, gooda mon. You like 'im?" "Very much." Sampey was acting strangely. Bat's eyes twinkled a little dangerously. "You lika da gal, too, ha, Samp?" "The ah the tattooed woman?

Some among them are of much merit. Then comes the gallery of the bronzes. In this department the late finds have been very numerous and extremely interesting. Among the objects which will immediately attract the visitor's eye as he enters the principal room are a litter and a biga or chariot.

Now and then a biga would be overturned, or a driver, unable to control his fiery steeds, would be thrown to the ground, and, not quick enough to cut the reins that encircled him with the bill-hook that he carried for the purpose, would be dragged to his death.

The picture-gallery contains many works of the great masters, as does also the gallery of vases and candelabra. The Biga chamber. The biga is an antique carriage of white marble, drawn by two horses. In the gallery of statues the figure representing Nero as Apollo playing on the lyre is the finest. In the gallery of busts those of Menelaus and Jupiter pre-eminently attract attention.

"I didn't tell everyt'ing. Besides disa man Hennessy he say cuta da wage, an' send for odders take your job, he tella da biga boss you no worka good, so da biga boss he no pay you for all da last mont'!" The ignorantly credulous Poles uttered a shout of rage. Several cried: "Keel him! Keel him!" Alex, in the loft, drew back in terror. "No! Dere bettera way dan dat," said Tony.

"You did, sir?" echoed the Antiquary, in answer to his concise information. "And pray, what may be your business with a post-chaise? Is this splendid equipage this biga, as I may call it to serve for an introduction to a quadriga or a curriculum?" "Really, sir," replied the young soldier, "if it be necessary to give you such a specific explanation, I am going to Fairport on a little business."

Egyptians, Syrians, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans none of them improved on the form of the conquering biga, till it was given up by a race who preferred a pair of shafts to their carts, and who had learnt to ride instead of drive.

At the opposite end of the tomb is a biga drawn by two horses, and containing two persons, the charioteer and the owner, who is represented as bearded, and rests his hand upon the chariot-rim. The horse on the right hand, which can alone be distinctly seen, is well proportioned and spirited. He is impatient and is held in by the driver, and prevented from proceeding at more than a foot's pace.