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"There's Cinderella; an' there's Ally Babby or the fifty thieves if it wasn't forty I'm not rightly sure which, but it don't much matter; an' there's Jack the Giant-killer, an' Jack and the Pea-stalk no; let me see; it was a beanstalk, I think anyhow, it was the stalk of a vegetable o' some sort. Why, I wonder it never struck me before to tell you all about them tales."

That will help you remember 'When I know, Your neck'll go Like so'" He gave a sharp little twist of his hand upon my Adam's apple. I was terrified. I don't know what I said; my tongue seemed to wither on its stalk. The Captain walked to his horse, and remounted. "Come along, boys," he said. The line of horses started off again. A hand fell upon my shoulder, and a voice spoke kindly to me.

"And I've often thought what was it that makes part of them stalk and leaves, and then all at once end in a flower," said Ethelwyn. Then, after a moment's silence, she proposed, "Let's have another game." "Yes, mother, you think of one." "I was thinking of one this morning," said mother, "for I thought likely you would be asking me to make up one, though it isn't my turn."

Again, the Somali pony, though wonderfully hardy and enduring, is not swift; therefore, to accommodate existing power to knowledge of these various weaknesses, the Somali provides himself with a pony, and provisions for two or three days, and begins his hunt by showing himself at such a considerable distance from the birds he has formed his design upon, that they quietly stalk off, and he, at the same rate, follows after, but never draws near enough to scare them out of sight of him.

They say the gipsies call it the Queen's great hairy dog-flower a number of words to one stalk; and so, to get a colour to it, you may call it the yellow-gold-orange plant. In the winter, on the black mud under a dark, dripping tree, I found a piece of orange peel, lately dropped a bright red orange speck in the middle of the blackness.

Of his state of mind the following is an instance. On one occasion I left my pony on the side of a hill just outside the forest, and went for a stalk over the mountain above. I could see nothing, and thought it would be well to take a seat and wait in case any game might turn up.

To stalk and kill one of the ferocious little animals entailed a great deal of danger to the inexperienced hunter, but Suma feared them not.

Its leaves form a close, flat rosette upon the ground, from which a slender stalk rises, with a a single crimson flower. When we reached the final descent to the town, we caught the full force of the cold, mist-laden wind, which struck our faces and made us shiver.

The princess will find some way of escape; some one will come to help her. If it had been you or I, or one of our people, it would certainly have been all over with us." "But I shall go and look every day to see if anything happens," said stork-papa. And he was as good as his word. A long time had passed, when at last he saw a green stalk shooting up out of the deep moor-ground.

Again, the Moors ascribe great magical efficacy to what they call "the sultan of the oleander," which is a stalk of oleander with a cluster of four pairs of leaves springing from it. They think that the magical virtue is greatest if the stalk has been cut immediately before midsummer.