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A friend of mine an ironical fellow nudged me, and said, "Sunday-school for young Christians!" and made a hideous face, very comical. It was a bayonet-school of instruction, and "O. C. Bayonets" Col. Ronald Campbell was giving a little demonstration. It was a curiously interesting form of exercise.

Donald never laid the blame of such calamities on the preacher, but accepted them as a just judgment on his blindness of heart. "We hef had the open vision," Donald explained to his friend Lachlan Campbell, who distributed the responsibility in another fashion, "and we would not see so the veil hass fallen."

Douglas Campbell's kindness to us must make us feel for any misfortune which may happen to him, and to rejoice in any blessing which may be bestowed upon him." "It must have been a serious disappointment," said Mrs. Campbell; "but one which, if it pleases God, may be replaced; and we may hope that their expectations, though blighted for the present, may be realized on some future occasion."

Melanctha was liking Jefferson Campbell better every day, and Jefferson was beginning to know that Melanctha certainly had a good mind, and he was beginning to feel a little her real sweetness.

Among the dead was Captain Campbell, who commanded the cavalry, and Lieutenant Towles of the infantry, both of whom fell in the first charge. General Wayne bestowed great and well merited praise on the courage and alacrity displayed by every part of the army.

None of the great collections of Folk-tales, due to the industry of a Cosquin, a Hartland, or a Campbell, has preserved specimens of such a type; it is not such a story as, e.g., The Three Days Tournament, examples of which are found all over the world.

You've got a letter, too, Hosy. Who is it from?" "From Campbell," I answered, wearily. "He wants to know how the novel is getting on, of course." "Humph! Well, you write him that it's gettin' on the way a squid gets ahead by goin' backwards. Don't let him pester you one bit, Hosy. You write that novel just as fast or slow as you feel like. He told you to take a vacation, anyway." I smiled.

Thomas Goodwin was always telling the theological students of Oxford in those days to thicken their too thin homilies with more doctrine: Rutherford's very thinnest books are almost too thick, both with theology and with thought. How ever a woman like Jane Campbell came to marry a man like John Gordon will remain a mystery.

He was a guide to the English army before the surrender of Quebec; General Wolfe had a high opinion of him, and his services were so good that he was allowed that tract of 150 acres." "I now remember him," replied the Governor, "but as I have not seen him for so many years, he had escaped my recollection." "It will be a great advantage to you, Mr. Campbell, having this man as a neighbor."

He put his carbine and revolver under a log, out of the rain that was coming on, saw to his handcuffs, and then spurred his horse into the water. Bogan lit his pipe with a stick from his camp-fire so Campbell said afterwards and sat down on his heels and puffed away, and waited for him.