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"Mag Robertson has flung hersel' doon the shank!" and immediately all was consternation. The engine keeper had just been in the act of signaling down to Walker, who was ready to ascend when he saw the flying figure dart forward and fling herself into the yawning abyss.

"If 'twere done, 'twere better it'd be done quickly," I said Macbethically. He looked at me. Sitting there on his desk, his clenched fist on his knee, he looked for a moment as though he was about to fly at me. Then all of a sudden he slipped into his chair, leaned back and laughed. It wasn't a pleasant laugh, Mag. No wait. Let me tell you the rest. "You are so shrewd, Olden, so awfully shrewd!

It requires warm greenhouse treatment, and plenty of water during the summer, care being taken that the soil it is planted in is perfectly drained. Mag. 4184. This species has many characters in common with E. hexaedrophorus and E. gibbosus, the stem being no larger than a small orange, with plump globose tubercles, bearing star-shaped clusters of short brown spines.

This lady lived all her life in her native county, and died at a great age at a house on the Tweed, named Springhill, in 1876. Ante, vol. i. p. 253. The Murder Hole, a story founded on the tradition and under this name, was printed in Blackwood's Mag., vol. xxv. p. 189: 1829. Written by Gerald Griffin St. Valentine's Eve, or The Fair Maid of Perth. Coriolanus, Act VI. Sc. 6. Ante, p. 40.

Mag., III., 185; Irving, Astoria; Ross, The Fur Hunters of the Far West; Harmon, Journal; Report on the Canadian Archives, 1881, p. 61 et seq. This fur-trading life still goes on in the more remote regions of British America. Hist. Harmon, Journal, 36.

On Saturdays Rhinegold's paper-box factory closed at 3 P. M. On one such afternoon Anna and Maggie walked homeward together. At Maggie's door Anna said, as usual: "Be ready at seven, sharp, Mag; and Jimmy and me'll come by for you." But what was this?

The priests of Belus kept much within their temple, and whenever they appeared in public, it was with far greater modesty and much less arrogance. They were fast losing the confidence of the populace, and the worship of the gods was greatly disregarded. The great Rab Mag was universally admired, and his three companions stood above reproach.

I mean to bring her up as well as I know how; but what are you going to do with a girl that can't sense the ten commandments?" "What indeed!" laughed Mr. Dunlee. "You see she's naturally light-fingered. Yes, you are, Mag, you needn't deny it. Those red claws of yours are just pickers and stealers." Here Edith called attention to Mag's nest on the wall, and they all admired it; and Mrs.

It was introduced in 1837 by the gentleman whose name it bears, and who, at that time, possessed a famous collection of Cacti. Like the rest of the Chilian kinds, it should be cultivated in a cool greenhouse in full sunshine, where it will produce its flowers in summer. Mag. 3558. This is another small, tubercled species, which, like the preceding, is a native of Chili.

If they had gone that far, if she were dead, they must have discovered that under the cloak and the gray, straggling hair of Silver Mag was Marie LaSalle. He forced a grip of iron upon himself, fighting mentally like a madman with himself for his self-control.