"Aye, aye, sir.

unstable; And we are all too prone to clutch them fast, Though false, aye, falser than the veriest fable, To which a "thread of gossamer is cable" They cannotcannot last!

Thou mark'st her not, blind, blind, but pipest aye Thy wood-notes.

It is likewise all-necessary to beware, as Thomson sings, "The whisper'd tale, That, like the fabling Nile, no fountain knows; Fair-laced Deceit, whose wily, conscious aye Ne'er looks direct; the tongue that licks the dust

" Roller gave the customary "Aye, aye, sir"; the boat shoved off; as soon as from under the lee of the ship the lugs were set, and half an hour later the night had swallowed up her form.

" "Ye're aye cute, dame," I cried, thrawing the bit gy abune, and in a gliffing, doun jumpit the chiel, and a braw chiel he was sure enough, siccan my auld e'en sall ne'er see again, wi' his brent brow and buirdly bowk wrappit in a tartan plaid, wi' a Highland kilt.

The holy homes of gods are rich therewith; Theirs are the firstfruits, earnest aye of more.

" "And Mr. Bertram's child," said the stranger, "what is all this to him?" "Ou, sir, the bairn aye held an unca wark wi' the supervisor, and it was generally thought he went on board the vessel with him.

'Fore God, she dies high-hearted, aye, and

Pleasant and gentlemanly in his manners, he was no less firm in his duties on shipboard, and his stern word of command was received by his men with the same hearty "aye, aye," as when he cracked a joke with them over the club-room fire.

So farewell, Adonis, and be housed 'mid welfare aye! IDYLL XVI.

With sloping masts and dipping prow, 45 As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.

Like hills and mountains high, Whose masses touch the sky; Like streams aye surging by; Thine increase swell!

It is likewise all-necessary to beware, as Thomson sings, "The whisper'd tale, That, like the fabling Nile, no fountain knows; Fair-laced Deceit, whose wily, conscious aye Ne'er looks direct; the tongue that licks the dust