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After the fort had been provisioned, the ill-fated prince returned to his camp, where some of his Turks, having stripped a poor foot-soldier of his arms, brought them to Kherboga to make sport of us. The sword was filthy with rust, the bow was black as soot, the dull lance was covered with the smoke of many years.

In old boilers, however, already incrusted with scale, the use of muriate of ammonia may sometimes be advantageous. Q. Are not the tubes of tubular boilers liable to be choked up by deposits of soot?

Five, ten seconds of awful suspense, and then, bending lower still, his loose clothing afire, his hair and eyebrows singed, his face black with soot and smoke and seared by flame, the young officer came plunging forth, dragging by the legs a prostrate, howling man, and after them, blind and staggering, came Connelly.

He listened to all I had to say, and then putting me down, "A strange story," he thoughtfully remarks, "and not learnt out of the storybooks either, or I sorely err. You have not a Lying Face, my man. Wait a while, and you'll wear a Mask thicker than all that screen of soot you have upon you now."

One winter day, in a large city all streaked with the soot that falls from black chimneys of factories and of those horrible houses in the suburbs, I attended a funeral. "We followed the hearse in the mud. The church was new, damp and poor. Those who went as far as the cemetery were those who did not find an excuse.

As soon as the cloud of soot was removed the sun shone forth; and the Prince, recognising her, pressed her to his heart and acknowledged her for his wife. Then he had her sisters thrown into an oven, thus proving the truth of the old saying "No evil ever went without punishment."

"Well, just a minute," came the grudging answer. A bare-footed peasant in red drawers came out holding a lighted splinter over his head and looking round. "Ah!" he exclaimed, "it is you, Prince! So you were too wise to stay, were you? Well, come in." An immense quantity of straw was spread over the floor. A cricket was chirruping, and there was a smell of soot and dung.

Now that it has been discovered that smoke can be utilized and the atmosphere cleared, it is astonishing that the authorities do not avail themselves of the discovery, and thus bring light and joy and sunshine into that city, and then clean the soot of centuries from their blackened buildings. On my return to England I spent a day with Miss Emily Lord, at her kindergarten establishment.

"A fair maiden soon gets wed." Ingratitude is a nail, which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither. It is a broken channel by which the foundations of affection are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and savour as is seen in daily instances, and, amongst others, in the story which I will now tell you.

It was of an odd size, and Agnes was not sure whether it would take half-an-hour or three-quarters to cook. Evelyn studied the white bird, felt the cold, clammy flesh, and inclined to forty minutes. Agnes thought that would be enough if she could get her oven hot enough. She began by raking out the flues, and Evelyn had to stand back to avoid the soot.