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%578%. When the time came to prepare for the election of a President and Vice President, eleven conventions were held, as many platforms were framed, and eight pairs of candidates were nominated.

The office boy was greatly puzzled the next morning, when he found all the new pairs of shoes ranged intact in the adjoining cupboard. The old ones were missing. Littimer had gone away in them, furtively. He was ashamed of his own impulse. This time he resolutely remained afoot instead of hiring a carriage.

On all sides men were dropping singly, in pairs, in tens and in hundreds. Since early morning, when an advance guard of Germans had approached the British line, the struggle had continued without a minute's breathing space.

This was the court of the prince, the son of Baatu-Khan; he had six wives, each of whom possessed a palace of her own, some houses, and a great number of chariots, some of them very large, being drawn by a team of twenty-two oxen harnessed in pairs. Sartach received the envoys of the King of France very graciously, and seeing their poverty, he supplied them with all that they required.

Hunters, alone or in pairs, now ventured to extend their range into the skirts of the wilderness, thus gradually enlarging the sphere of definite conceptions, respecting the country beyond it. In 1767, a backwoodsman of the name of Finley, of North Carolina, in company with a few kindred spirits resembling him in character, advanced still farther into the interior of the land of promise.

It was there his voice belied the jest in his words, and he left us with precipitation. My feet were thrust into two pairs of heavy woollen stockings, and Dorothy bound her own silk kerchief at my throat, whispering anxious questions the while. And when her mother and mammy went from the room, her arms flew around my neck in a passion of solicitude.

All appeared to enjoy themselves, especially the children, dancing on the esplanades, or rolling down the slopes of the hills; and the loving pairs, whom it was rather embarrassing to come upon unexpectedly, sitting together on the stone seat of an arbor, with clasped hands, a passionate solemnity in the young man's face, and a downcast pleasure in the lady's.

"Poker isn't so difficult!" she laughed. "If you'd stop betting your head off on two pairs, Mr. North, you wouldn't find it so expensive." "Oh, you know I don't mean that! I was thinking of your adventures.

Presents of 'catt skin counterpanes for his bedd, 'pairs of beaver stockings for ye King. 'gold in a faire embroidered purse, 'silver tankards, 'a hogshead of claret, were presented to courtiers and friends who did the Company a good turn. Servants were treated with a paternal care.

"And it's my belieft He's been savin of em up this ten year past agin this day to put the strength of em into your'n, Jack Knapp. May you make good use o both pairs your own o the flesh, and mine o the sperrit! that's my best prayer for you." The little rifleman, as simple as the old sailor, was profoundly touched. "I'll do me best, Mr. Piper, struth I will!" he sniffed.