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Yer see, I went back fust whar I'd lef Berry, an' we tuk an' druv de mule an' carry-all inter a big pine thicket, down by de ribber, an' dar we stays all day mighty close; only once, when I went out by de road an' sees Miss Mollie ridin' by. I calls out to her jest ez loudez I dared to; but, la sakes! she didn't h'year me."

What this term species means, or should mean, in natural history, what the limits of species, inter se or chronologically, or in geographical distribution, their modifications, actual or probable, their origin, and their destiny these are questions which surge up from time to time; and now and then in the progress of science they come to assume a new and hopeful interest.

Elgar notwithstanding that he had taken leave of us on Saturday, with the information that he was about to return to you at Amalfi, and there devote himself to literary work of some indefinite kind. Perhaps you have in the meantime heard from him. This morning Cecily received a letter, in which he made peremptory request for an inter view; she showed this to me. My duty was plain.

"I went about in fear of my life for days, but they did nothin'; though if they'd known that I quite innocent o' mischief, yeh understand had put a dozen grains or so of rice inter every bottle o' stout amazin' stuff rice for causin' fermentation in hot climates they wouldn't have stopped short at mere profanity. My life wouldn't have been worth a moment's purchase." A Tale of Peasant Life

Fur if we keep a sendin men tu Washington, that is friendly tu that air sarpent with many heads, it will git so big that it will sartin bust every thing to flinters. It's leetle young ones are a crawlin everywhere now. They lay coiled on the hearth of the rich man and the poor man, and woe to the infatuated pussen who gits inter their slimy folds.

"The rest o' that ar party done gone up-stairs to roost," said the minister. "I reckon my dog'll keep 'em thar. We better jest tote these men inter the house an' have a prayin' bee. I've got a right smart good chanct, now, to whop ol' Satan." They moved the raiders' horses. Then the party save Harry Needles, who stayed in the grove to keep watch took its captives into the cabin.

'Dionysius, said Father Finnerty, addressing me, which shows, at all events, that I am not so unimportant as some of my friends would suppose 'Dionysius, said he 'inter nos between you and me, I believe I have it in my power to send up a candidate to Maynooth.

He should not, for his other subject, be mainly concerned with gymnastics or athletics; he should not, for his own good and the consequent good of his work, be wholly taken up merely with the teaching of technical form in speaking. He should not be merely if at all a coach in inter- collegiate contests; nor should his service to an institution be adjudged mainly by the results of such contests.

"I hain't told nothing about ye," retorted Tip stolidly. He took me up inter yer father's office, an' asked me whether I'd let him explore my clothes, or whether I'd rather have a policeman called in. He 'splained that, if he had to call the poor man's cop, I'd have to be arrested for fair. So I let him go through my clothes.

Gee! it's pretty fierce, boss, dis! What youse goin' to do?" "Where did you see them, Pugsy?" "On the street just outside. Dere was a bunch of dem spielin' togedder, and I hears dem say you was in here. Dere ain't no ways out but de front, so dey ain't hurryin'. Dey just reckon to pike along upstairs, peekin' inter each room till dey find you.