As soon as we were espied by the inhabitants, we were surrounded by a troop of little boys, as well as all the idle and inquisitive near us.

I was a mere boy then, and was in company with my father and three other gentlemen, who owned a township of land not far from Cincinnati; that is not far now, considering the difference in the mode of travelling between then and now, and we were on our way to explore that township.

For a long time after he got there he had little to live on but dry bread, as the elder boys had a habit of taking the little boys' meat; but so far from this hurting him he said, in after life, that he thought it was good for his health!

He called up his stable boy over the telephone, and when Jim brought round Roan Sultan saddled there was a pause, as of custom, for conversation.

It was delivered almost as soon as I was out of bed by a negro boy who had ridden over at daybreak.

Eating a Christmas Pie: He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a brave boy am I." In Canto I, I have shown the varied emotions which seized the tender soul of Old Mother HUBBARD'S Dog.

That colored boy was your own first cousin, and he was killed for doing exactly what his father had done.

Laura's brother, Theodore, known to his intimates as Teddy, was a handsome boy, as full of wild spirits as Billie herself.

"Allow yourself to be reproved like a naughty boy by this hero who knows only how to retreat.

He was a particularly pretty boy, and she was justified in thinking him rather unusual.

How proud and glad and manly they felt, these bright-eyed boysfor boys they mostly were; not a hundred in the regiment had seen their five-and-twentieth year.

We" "A little yellow-haired boy like him thatthat can't support you, baby, unless you live right there in his mother's and father's hotel awayaway from me!" "Ma!" "Ruby, a smart girl like you.

The girl wife put her arms around his neck and kissed him softly, "You foolish boy!"

He is the sweetest tempered child I ever knew, but he knew when to fight, and thrashed a boy a head taller than himself; and the trustees turned him out.

And what Willie and Sandy can do by themselveshe's a clever boy Sandy; but he's a genius Williewhat they can do by themselves, and that's not a little, is nothing to me.

"What's the matter ?" cried Diggory; "what did she say?" "Why, this!" answered the other, in a voice trembling with suppressed emotion: "she said I was a silly boy, andandgave me a lump of cake!"

When near the corner of West Street I turned around just in time to see a ragged boy pick up a pocket-book.

He no longer laughed, sang, or rollicked about the house as of old; he had tasted of the fruit of the awful Tree of Life which from the beginning had tempted all mankind, and which had changed Arthur Pendennis the light-hearted boy into a man.

Sir Charles isn't here; he's such a sweet boy.

Not a bit of sentiment in him; but just like a great big, simple, honest boy, with a man's strength.

According to Abdulla the only spirit which occasionally attacks him is a spirit of mischief not unknown to the parents of healthy little boys. VIII.

" Mary took some native boys whom she had trained.

Miss Payne is careful to give the children full opportunity for suggestionsone dull little boy puzzled his mother by telling her "I made a very good 'gestion' to-day"so though she had not contemplated the renewed appearance of Mr. Bird she said, "What do you want him to do?" "Let him go out and shoot bears," cried an embryo sportsman.

Yet once an earlier David took Smooth pebbles from the brook: Out between the lines he went To that one-sided tournament, A shepherd boy who stood out fine And young to fight a Philistine Clad all in brazen mail.

There was a clay bank above it and on it small naked boys stood and daubed themselves.