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While this picture was being rolled away the band played and the children sang with great enthusiasm: 'Rule, Brittania, Brittania rules the waves! Britons, never, never, never shall be slaves! 'Our next picture is called "An Englishman's Home". 'Ere we see the inside of another room in Slumtown, with the father and mother and four children sitting down to dinner bread and drippin' and tea.

The vetturino grasped it, his colour went and came, he looked down at his whip, then felt in his vest for his pipe, As he saw Delme turn towards the poop, and as Thompson warned him it was time to leave the vessel, his feelings fairly gave way. He threw his arms round the Englishman's neck and blubbered like a child. We have elsewhere detailed the luckless end of the vetturino.

There was, however, but little sympathy felt in that day for Philip or any of his confederates. The truly learned and pious but pedantic Cotton Mather, allowing his spirit to be envenomed by the horrid atrocities of Indian warfare, thus records the tragic end of Pometacom: "The Englishman's piece would not go off, but the Indians presently shot him through his venomous and murderous heart.

The moment they entered the village they were surrounded by natives, who eagerly inquired when Krause was returning had he driven Tematau out of the Englishman's house? etc., etc. Both Niâbon and her companion expressed surprise neither they nor any one else in Utiroa had seen Krause, they said, and Tematau had come with her to ask Mrs.

He seemed to like the cheese; and G., when he came in with the coffee, was more than ever pleased with our appreciation of the good things provided for us. "Rosbif and chiss ha!" he said, breaking forth into English, and smiling knowingly upon us. He felt he had probed the profoundest depths of the Englishman's gastronomical weakness.

Selamlik Pasha knew well the object of this meeting. He had accurately interpreted the message brought by Mahommed Yeleb. He knew his power; he knew that the Englishman's life was in his hands to do with what he chose, for the law of the harem which defies all outside law was on his side.

The Englishman's reserve melts, the American forgets his coupons, the German puts his arm around the robust waist of his frau or fräulein. Again, between the terrace ledge and the forest lies a square of velvet green, abounding in four-leaf clover. Buona fortuna! In the center there is a fountain. The water tinkles in drops. One hears its soft music at all times.

But he would admit of no explanation. "Oh yes, quite parvarted; not a word of truth in it; there never is when England is consarned. There is no beam in an Englishman's eye; no not a smell of one; he has pulled it out long ago; that's the reason he can see the mote in other folks's so plain. Oh, of course it ain't true; it's a Yankee invention; it's a hickory ham and a wooden nutmeg.

In Coryat's "Crudities," 1611, we have an Englishman's contrast of the dress of the Venetians and the English.

Somewhere in the house down below, an old-fashioned clock had just struck two. Clyffurde looked up from his absorbing task. "It is late," he remarked casually; "shall we say good-night, M. de St. Genis?" The sound of the Englishman's voice seemed to startle Maurice out of his reverie.