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One has on its rim, in Lombardic capitals, the inscription, Benedicamus Patrem et Filium cum Sancto Spiritu, and the other, the same except for the curious contraction, Sper., for the last word. There is also a cover of silver gilt, which was made at London in 1532-33. Its button handle has four supports, moulded like cords, and it is itself decorated in repoussé.

"Oh " cried Mrs. Lathrop, impulsively. "I don't know why not," said Susan, "my own opinion is as he's a idiot " "Mr. Sper " "No, Henry Ward Beecher. It's always struck me as a very strange thing as we had n't got one single idiot in this community an' I guess the real truth is as we've had one all the time an' did n't know him by sight.

"Guess I be, guess I be," he said briskly. "Anyhow, I'm lookin' for a boy name of name of My soul to heavens, I've forgot it again, I do believe! What did you say your name was?" "Speranza. Albert Speranza." "Sartin, sartin! Sper er um yes, yes. Knew it just as well as I did my own. Well, well, well! Ye-es, yes, yes. Get right aboard, Alfred. Let me take your satchel." He picked up the suitcase.

At Ferrara, for instance, he engaged in a violent controversy with the Bavarian agent, Sper, about the Passau question, as well as that of the bishopric of Salzburg, which the Bavarians were supposed to covet.