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In due time the lad outgrew the Academy's instruction, but from boy to-man he never outgrew Master Cory's affection, nor his own for the dear home scenes on the shores of the "Haunted Lake," which he was so soon to leave for his first important schooling.

Three years ago she made them all a complete outfit, but the "rheumatiz" has been getting all the spare money since then, so there has been nothing to sew. A peddler sold them a piece of gingham which they made up for Cora Belle. It was broad pink and white stripes, and they wanted some style to "Cory's" clothes, so they cut a gored skirt.

Adding three to the ordinary winds from the four directions. For the explanation of the term used in the original kirbish see Delitzsch's excellent remarks, Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos. pp. 132-134. Lit., 'storm, perhaps the thunderbolt, as Delitzsch suggests. Marduk. She lost her reason. Gasping, as it were, for breath. Cory's Ancient Fragments, p. 49.

Nashville Cory's his name he kind o' coaxed me into it, and he's right comical when he's with ladies, and he's good company and he says, 'Claudine, we'll dance the light fantastic, he says, and I kind o' wanted something cheerful I'd be'n workin' steady quite a spell, and it looked like he wanted to show me a good time, so I went, and that's what started it."

MacFarlane's to-day, and said you were not well, and so I thought I'd walk home with you." "Oh, thank you, old man, but I'm all right. Corinne's nervous; you mustn't mind her. I've been up against it for two or three weeks now, lot of work of all kinds, and that's kept me a good deal from home. I don't wonder Cory's worried, but I can't help it not yet."

When put up and adjusted, a rehearsal of country dances, reels, and more serious music came floating through the broad door and ample windows of Otsego Hall into Master Cory's domain, the Academy, which stood in the adjoining street.

One autumn day, while still a pupil under Master Cory's charge, the future author of "The Pioneers" was at play in his father's garden, when suddenly he was surprised by a deer which came leaping over the fence from the street, almost brushing his face as it bounded away into the pine woods at the back of the house. This incident he often related to his children.

For a different interpretation of the phrase, see Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 273, 274. See p. 107. Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 94. Cory's Ancient Fragments, p. 58. An epithet descriptive of Tiâmat. "Ummu" is "mother" and "khubur" signifies "hollow"; "mother of the hollow" would be a poetic expression for "source of the deep," and an appropriate term to apply to Tiâmat.

The inverted form, Khasis-adra, was distorted into Xisusthros, which appears in the writers dependent upon Berosus as the name of the hero of the Babylonian deluge. See, e.g., Cory's Ancient Fragments, pp. 52, 54, 60, etc. I.e., mortal. I.e., immortal. Cf. Gen. iii. 22. The Hebrew account, it must be remembered, consists of two narratives dovetailed into one another.

"He come right up to us, where I was tryin' to git away from Cory's arm it was the left one he had around me, and the other behind his back and neither of 'em said a word. Cory kept on laughin' loud as he could, and Mr. Fear struck him in the mouth. He's little, but he can hit awful hard, and Mr. Cory let out a screech, and I see his gun go off right in Mr.