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The fire-place is unique, and not unlike that of a smithy. There is a cap for sparks; and about three feet above the floor stands a stone sole, in which holes are cut for the fornelli, which are square cast-iron grated boxes for holding the wood char, upon which the culinary utensils are placed. These are but ill adapted for preparing a roast.

This peculiarity in the hatching out of the char has also been observed by Mr. J. J. Armistead, and I have been able to verify it personally. The mortality which occurs in the actual hatching out of the alevins does not, however, by any means end the trouble which the fish culturist has to encounter in the rearing of char.

CHR. Then Christian wept, and said, O how willingly would I have done it! but they were all of them utterly averse to my going on pilgrimage. CHAR. But you should have talked to them, and have endeavoured to have shown them the danger of being behind. CHAR. And did you pray to God that He would bless your counsel to them?

"He went to see Sir Henry, and had so cold a reception that he thinks 't is certain he is to lose his place, let alone the report that General Clinton was heard to say Sir William's friends were to be got rid of. What can we do?" "But Char Brereton assured me he had spoked the fellow's wheel by securing the aid of "

She am receiving in the libr'y. Rest your umbril' on the table, ma'am, and take a char. I'll go and 'nounce you to Miss Ann." Left alone, Marcia did not know whether she wanted to laugh or cry. The brave attempt at grand manner in the half-ruined house was pitiful as well as amusing. "This way, ma'am. My mistress done say she'll receive you in the libr'y."

The apparent wonder was, however, afterwards explained, when our travellers began to ascend the mountain on the other side of the valley that afternoon to go up to the Wengern Alp. The guide drove the char

Shortly after we first left Couvet, a gaunt elderly female, with a one-bullock char, had joined our party, and tried to bully us into giving up the cave and going instead to a neighbouring summit, whence she promised us a view of unrivalled extent and beauty. She told us that there was nothing to be seen in the glacière, and that it was a place where people lost their lives.

The poor family warmly thanked the physician, and the king's minister, who then took leave, the latter promising to provide means for the proposed journey. As soon as summer had arrived, the minister sent a comfortable char-

"I feel fine since breakfast took two cups of strong coffee." Again Crawford's eyes traveled over his ally. They saw a ragged, red-eyed tramp, face and hands and arms blackened with char and grimed with smoke. Outside, he was such a specimen of humanity as the police would have arrested promptly on suspicion.

Chapman, Dr., on stridulation in Scolytus. Chapuis, Dr., on the transmission of sexual peculiarities in pigeons; on streaked Belgian pigeons. Char, male, colouring of, during the breeding season. Characters, male, developed in females; secondary sexual, transmitted through both sexes; natural, artificial, exaggeration of, by man. Charadrus hiaticula and pluvialis, sexes and young of.