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"Do my brothers see the gleam of the water yonder?" asked Deerfoot, pointing to a winding stream, large enough to be called a river, though it was half hidden by the woods. Its course was in the main at right angles to the trail which the boys had been following, though, at times it seemed to run straight toward and then away from them.

"For the Lodge?" he grunted. "Yes I suppose so. Yes, the Lodge." "Up yonder." Then he turned to the freight. Once she was on the Green, Priscilla paused and looked about. "For which?" Then she smiled a ghost of her bright, sunny smile. "My father's doors are shut to me," she sighed; "I cannot go to the Lodge, yet! I must go to " Something touched her hand, and she looked down.

Ned Vaughan led his prisoner, in bright new uniform of blue, up to the Colonel and reported. "A prisoner of war, sir!" The Colonel took off his hat and gazed at the pair: "Aren't you the boy who held my horse?" Ned saluted: "Yes, sir." "Then in the name of Almighty God, where did you get that man?" Ned pointed excitedly to the hilltop: "Right yonder, sir, there's plenty more of 'em up there!"

Would you, at this instant, change places with that ploughman yonder, who is whistling as he goes for want of thought? or, would you choose to go a step higher in the bliss of ignorance, and turn savage?" Mr.

"And who's Diana?" asked the children, beginning to forget their own troubles in curiosity. "Her as he roared out at so yonder when you was up at the top o' the wall. She's a deal better than him and the missus is Diana. But listen, master and missy. He'll be back in a minute, and " "Oh let us run away before he comes! oh do help us to run away!" they exclaimed, all their terrors returning.

So when I lift my eyes to look on yonder level ocean-floor, the fitful sunshine now glimmers white on one far-off sail, now on another; and yet I know that all canvas looks snowy while those casual rays are on it, and that the best vessel is that which, sunlit or shaded, best accomplishes its destined course.

When we'd eaten everything there was, Alice whispered 'I see the white witch bear yonder among the trees! Let's track it and slay it in its lair. 'I am the bear, said Noel; so he crept away, and we followed him among the trees. Often the witch bear was out of sight, and then you didn't know where it would jump out from; but sometimes we saw it, and just followed.

'There's not a man here, said the host, 'who would have him for a spokesman. 'Like enough, Sir Joseph. I believe it. Not the less true, perhaps, is what I say. Perhaps that's a proof on it. Gentlefolks, I've lived many a year in this place. You may see the cottage from the sunk fence over yonder. I've seen the ladies draw it in their books, a hundred times.

"Yes, sir, that is Beechey Island; only you must let us get further north the coast is more easy of access." "But where are the habitations and the magazines?" said Hatteras. "Oh, you can't see them till you land; they are sheltered behind those little hills you see yonder." "And is that where you transported a considerable quantity of provisions?"

I have squared the men in their pay; they will make a muddle of it. A couple of city men yonder have taken a hundred tickets apiece to secure a triumph for Florine and Coralie, and given them to acquaintances able and ready to act as chuckers out. The fellows, having been paid twice, will go quietly, and a scene of that sort always makes a good impression on the house." "Two hundred tickets!