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In Professor Stubbs's admirable collection of charters and documents illustrative of English history, we read that "on the 6th of July the whole force of the country was summoned to London for the 3d of August, to resist the army which was coming from France under the queen and her son Edmund.

"Those are apes," said our uncle, pointing them out. "I have one in my collection which I will show you. It is the Siamang syndactyla." It was moving much slower than the monkeys, keeping lower down in the underwood, but still it moved rapidly by means of its long arms.

So he must have sat just in that attitude, with that thick covering stifling him, all through the fiery heat of that long day. As Shere Ali looked, he saw a poor bent man in rags, with yellow caste marks on his forehead, add a copper pi to the collection in the bowl. Shere Ali stopped the giver. "Who is he?" he asked, pointing to the draped figure.

She has got the most wonderful collection of Egyptian curiosities up at the house there, too, though why she keeps them here instead of in England, I am sure I don't know. Her husband began the collection when he was a young man, and collected all his life, and she has gone on with it since." "I wonder that she has not married again."

A French translation of it was given by Thevenot, in the 4th part of his collection, published at Paris, 1673, an abridgement of which was inserted in Harris's collection.

The house at X indeed was fantastic enough. I feel that I am in danger of giving too many descriptions of our various halting-places. For the most part they largely resembled one another, large deserted country houses with broken windows, bare walls and floors, a tangled garden and a tattered collection of books in the Polish language. But this building at X was like no other of our asylums.

After one of these dinners people always asked to be allowed to look over Miss Catherwaight's collection, of which almost everybody had heard. It consisted of over a hundred medals and decorations which Miss Catherwaight had purchased while on the long tours she made with her father in all parts of the world.

The reader who expects this book to contain a collection of patriotic prophecies will be disappointed. I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

He followed it further; if one such letter was valuable, how much more valuable would be a hundred! If General Garfield answered him, would not other famous men? Why not begin a collection of autograph letters? Everybody collected something. Edward had collected postage-stamps, and the hobby had, incidentally, helped him wonderfully in his study of geography.

Just at that moment Abe shouted out, "Bless the Lord, I've made th' collection speech to-noight." At one of the meetings where "Little Abe" was a speaker, he was exhorting the people to give freely to the Lord's cause.